...And They Lived Happily Ever After!!

All the new ephemera products that are available have me excited to look for fun and innovative ways to use them.  Even though I had a layout already begun that I thought might work well with the circle piece from the Glitz Laced With Grace Collection used above, I took a break from my work desk and started poking around on the internet when I noticed Mojo Monday's new sketch challenge.  How fun!

I decided to use the "Whatnot"  for this card instead.

PAPER: Bazzill Cardstock
OTHER: Glitz Laced With Grace Whatnots, My Mind's Eye Brad, a few flowers and Basic Grey ribbon.
TOOLS: Spellbinders Grand Calliber and Grand Scalloped Circles Nestabilities, Creative Memories Circle Cutting System, scissors.
TECHNIQUES: inking with copics, die cutting on a fold, hand cutting.

Have a lovely day!

Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic Laced With Grace



Using three different clustered items which were put together to create this page,  (flowers, photographs and journaling), I have a terrific memory to reflect upon with some of my choice scrapbooking pieces.

Laced With Grace just might be my favorite Spring 2011 release. As much as I am trying to use my wonderful remaining collection of scrapbbooking supplies that I cannot bear to prune, I could not resist to pick up a few pieces of this line, (amongest a few other favorites). Since the Glitz blog is running a challenge to cluster on a project, I thought I would create a page with my new items!

The flowers are obviously clustered; but, I thought that it might be fun to cluster a couple other page items.  I layered the pictures a little and kept them "clustered" together, and overlapped my "clustered" journal strips, as well:

I hope that you enjoy this page!  Have a marvelous and blessed day!!

 

Today's Card

...was made mostly with Jillibean products. The flowers made from Jillibean sprouts last December were rubbed with red ink and sprayed with mist.

STAMPS: Bo Bunny Olivia (leaves)
INK: CTMH Cranberry, Memento Bamboo Leaves
PAPER: Jillibean Soup: Fresh Cherries(2008) and Romano Cheese
OTHER: Jillibean Soup Journaling Sprouts and twine, My Mind's Eye brads, Copics YG93, YG95 & YG97, AC red vinyl thickers, Tattered Angels Bronze Glimmer Mist, white cardstock
TECHNIQUES: stamping, copics coloring, misting, fancy cutting, manipulating twine and flower-making.

Never Give Up Hope

Things don't always turn out the way that you want them to; but, they will turn out for the best. If you can trust in the eternal purposes, you can find the joy that surpasses understanding.
Romans 8:28
Proverbs 3:5
and inside this card:

STAMPS: Papertrey Ink Everyday Blessings, Our Daily Bread Scripture Collection 3
INK: My Mind's Eye Laundry Line Natural Ink Pad (I *heart* this and use it all the time!!)
PAPER: Stella and Rose Gertie, Off-white Cardstock
OTHER: My Mind's Eye "Hope" Wild Asparagus die cut, Prima Butterflies Papillon, Crate Restoration chipboard
TECHNIQUE: Tattered Angels Honey Dew misting, stamping, layering

I started this card with My Mind's Eye Card Challenge #23. However, I strayed quite a bit and I'm not sure if it is quite 80% MME Product, so I'm not going to link it. However, since it was inspired by their sketch, I thought that I ought to cite the appropriate credit.

I have another card planned for tomorrow. I hope that you come back. Blessings to you!

Journaling

I never want to journal during the creative process. Usually, the story is told much later, on 8&1/2x11 paper attached to the back of my layouts. However, this has been part of my overwhelming project to catch up. I have 4 heaping piles of layouts to journal and put into my albums.

So, when I saw a fabulous sketch from Once Upon A .....Sketch, I hesitated. Their focus is on the journaling. As I pondered how I could complete this sketch with their requirements on the journaling, I considered my word strips from My Mind's Eye's Stella & Rose Gertie collection. The beginning of this page started forming in my mind.

I'm so glad the ideas kept flowing. This page was a delight to complete. I hope that you like it too!

Have a marvelous rest of the Sunday. I am hoping to finish up a few cards to post tomorrow afternoon. Blessings!!

Friends For Like Forever

I am so very grateful for my friend, Sandy. She grew up two doors down from me. I moved away my Freshman year in High School and went through some very different experiences than her; but, we managed to stay connected at various stages and times in our lives. We've shared fun, adventures, brokeness, and lots of mending and forgiving. I am so grateful to have a forever friend! We even got to share motherhood dramas together as our youngest are two months apart.

I am connecting this to My Mind's Eye blog as I used Layout Challenge #23 to complete the layout with some items from their Stella and Rose, Gertie line. The ribbon pennant/badge is from Making Memories and is called a Bravissimo.

This was a fairly basic layout, not much technique-y stuff. I did cut the "friends forever" die cut in half and added a couple words in between with a decorative brad with die cut. The words were hand drawn to mimic the style on the letters of "Friends Forever".

I used Stella and Rose trim around a picture for some more visual interest, (and to help distract your eye from the bad flash reflection on the picture....did it help at all?)

Thanks for popping by! Have a great weekend!

Celebrating 11 Years of Marriage

Thought I'd commememorate the occasion with a card using Jillibean Soup's Atomic Soup. I found the beaker icon from a google image search. I embellished it with Flower Soft, (Meadow).

Stamp and Sew Technique

Hello friends! The layout above uses a simple technique of stamping an image and sewing the outline of the image. I used a contrasting color. But, a tone-on-tone would also work fabulously. Here is a close-up of the stars:

The page design was made by utilizing one of Liz Chidester's sketches, (Sketch 118), found on her blog, The Scrappiest. The papers are mostly Jillibean. My journaling usually goes on the back. My Disney journey began in 1974, when my father took my brother and I to Disney World. This photograph is one of the few mementos that I have from the occasion.

I have included a link tool. If you are inspired to create anything using this layout, including the stamp and sew technique, and you leave a link, I will be sure to visit your creation and leave lovely comments. Please be sure to leave a thumbnail of your project.
I'm sorry that I've been gone so long. I have missed you as I have been on somewhat of a scrapbooking hiatus. All of the things distracting me are numorous and will probably be of little interest to most of my readers as they have more to do with mundane responsibilities, than anything fun and exciting. Other than my Disney trip that is. If you enjoy trip reports and/or you would like to know more about our vacation, I am writing a full report at Our Wonderful World of Disney Spring 2011 Vacation blogspot. It will be a long work in progress. Please feel free to check back at your liesure as I update the sight over time.