What I got done at the crop today 082809 part 2

Here is the rest of the pages I completed today. We did a second speed scrap tonight at the online crop. Here are the directions:

Step 1~ Pick 3 pictures
Step2~ pick 3 papers any combo of patterned and plain is fine
Step 3~ Put one paper as your background and cut the other 2 into long strips one each
Step 4~ Mat your pictures.
Step 5~ Place your pictures going down the middle of your LO. Doesn't have to be directly centered, but they need to go down vertically. Pictures can be different sizes if you want and you can tilt them if you want
Step 6~ Place your strips, one ribbon(sting, ric rac etc) some buttons and flowers clustered under your pictures
Step 7~ Add a title, some journaling and any other elements you think your LO needs.

After much trial, frustration, tears, sweat, and pain (okay not really--well the trial and frustration is true! lol), this is what I came up with. I originally wanted the photos to be sephia. I couldn't find my notes on how to do it so I tried to find a tutorial, couldn't find one that would work. Finally figured it out (after about an HOUR!!!), got it all put together and THEN decided the sephia looked horrible with the kit I chose! UGH!!!!!!!!!!! So I changed them to black and white and it was fine, but I wasted at least an hour doing the dumb sephia that I didn't even end up using! ARGH!!! lol So here it is.

MonAmie collab by A Work in Progress (Vicki) and Stacey Towers

"L" Just Because alpha by ShelBelleScraps

I also completed this page today at the crop. It is from our Day Out with Thomas. I will work on and post more pages from that day later. Boy I realized several things, that my little boy was REALLY little and I was REALLY big!!! lol Not that you can see it in this LO (since we aren't in the pics), but you will when you see more LOs from this day! lol

Thomas and Friends kit by KylieMDesigns

Fantasia kit by Bits and Bobs

Bits N Bobs has a new kit called Fantasia out! Look how fun it is!!! So many neat elements!

Here is the first LO I did with this kit today.
Here is the second LO I created with the kit. I don't think I do a great job of extracting pictures but I think I did okay and I like how the page turned out.

This is my favorite page I created and the quickest page I think I have ever done in my whole life. lol I couldn't find any more of my pics that I thought would work well with this kit so I asked my online friend Alicia if she had a pic I could use. She sent me this one. I was worried because there weren't really any colors from the kit in the pic, but then I turned the pic black and white and went for it. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out!!!! I think both her and her daughter really liked it too.

So if you want to take advantage of this kit, go to Bits and Bobs blog and see how to get it!

What I got done at the Crop today 082809

Here is my speed scrap page (same directions as SS#54 below two posts):

Uptown Girl kit by Mel Haines and Vicki (A Work in Progress)

Ric Rac from Bloomin Beautiful by Mel Haines

Staple from Fairy Tale Weddings by DDBN

Alpha "I"--Bop by The Gifted Goose

STS Speed Scrap #55

So yay, I am actually getting some current pages done! WOOHOO go me! lol And yes this is the second Speed Scrap I have participated in in the last two days! lol (And there should be another one tomorrow night! lol)

Here are the instructions:
Step 1) Get out three pictures of the same event. A series type of pictures will work well! If your photo editor or program allows, make any photo fixes you like and up the saturation on the images by +5 to +10. (Really makes those pictures pop just a touch!)
Step 2) Get out three papers – one solid, one patterned, one of your choice. Use the pattern paper as your background, and layer the solid paper over the top – slightly smaller, but still roughly square. (Keep your 3rd paper in reserve for now.)
Step 3) Arrange your photos vertically with each being approximately 2.5in x 2.5in. Mat or frame your pictures using the third paper you chose.
Step 4) Use at least 3 different elements (you may have more or repeat them as desired) and place them behind and around the photos. Do not use fasteners! Those come later. Sort of like creating a big cluster around and behind your photo series.
Step 5) Create a cluster in one corner of at least 3 different elements. (You can use elements from the previous step, but three different elements in the cluster.)
Step 6) Get out two fastener type elements. (staple, tape, button, etc.) Attach your photos and mat/frame by repeating one fastener element 2-3 times (scatter as desired) and use the other fastener only once.
Step 7) Add a vertical title PLUS a date and/or journaling. Add your shadows, finishing touches, etc. and upload!

Makin Tracks by NitWit

So what do you think? I really like it. I think the button cluster behind the pics is a little much, but not going to change it! lol I still think it turned out cute anyway.

STS Speed Scrap #54

Yep, I participated in another Speed Scrap. I only found out it was going on 10 mins before it started! lol But I was all over it. It was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be, but I managed I think to make it turn out great.

Here is the instructions:
STEP 1: Find 6 papers - two solids and 4 patterned
STEP 2: Pick one picture- this picture must have only one person it it.
STEP 3: Use a solid paper for your background. Take one of your prints and make it slightly smaller. Place this paper in one of the corners so you only have a border showing on two sides. Crop your picture into a square. Take 4 of your papers and matte your pictures with those papers using the one remaining solid which should be directly behind the picture.
Step 4: Place your picture (with the mattes) on the lower half of your page partially hanging off the paper. Create some type of cluster that goes along the bottom of your picture. Mine is a vine with flowers.
STEP 5: Find one ribbon, one ric rac, one string, and one other element (button, flower, mine is a bird, etc....) and place them opposite corner on the top of the page from your picture about 1" in kind of overlapping and so they hang down a couple of inches.
STEP 6: Use an Alpha and place the first initial of the person in the picture and attach it somehow to the upper corner of your picture. Mine is connected with a bow.
STEP 7: In a bigger handwritten font, type the persons name somewhere on your layout with the date under it (smaller font). Mine is just the year, not the whole date.

It's a Boy Thing collab kit. I used pieces from Rustic Charms' portion, Here a Scrap, There a Scrap's portion, and Kat's Creations' portion.

2 Speed Scraps and S2L Challenge 8/17-8/23

YAY I have gotten several pages done this week. 2 are from my Weight Loss album, so as you know, I will not post those.

This week I participated in a speed scrap again. Here are the directions:
step 1: Pick 3 papers – 2 solid, 1 patterned. Use one of the solids as your background. Cut the other two so that they are about 8x10. Mat the patterned paper with the solid paper and place them onto your background paper. (So…your 2nd solid paper will need to be cut a bit bigger than the patterned). Also, place them off-centered from the background!
Step 2: Pick 3 pics and place them on your layout so that they are all touching each other
Step 3. Pick one ribbon and place it somewhere along the bottom of your layout (horizontal). (Can create ribbon with paper strips if needed)
Step 4. Pick a tag or journaling mat and place it on your layout by your pictures…but not touching them.
Step 5. Pick 2 different types of fasteners and use them anywhere on your layout.
Step 6. Pick at least 3 other elements and make a small cluster and place somewhere on your layout.
Step 7. Add journaling, drop shadows and finishing touches.

And my results:

Princess Kit by Jayden's Mamma, Pink paper from Bring on Spring by Vicki Parker, bling brads from Breakfast At Tiffany add on by Sweet Blossom Designs

Then tonight at my online crop everyone said they wanted to do a speed scrap so I found another one we could do. Here are those directions:
Step 1: Choose 1 photo where the subject is not looking at the camera, but is focused on an object/person/thing that is also in the picture.
Step 2: Choose 5 papers - at least one patterned to be used as your background, I will tell you what to do with the other's in the next step.
Step 3. Resize your remaining papers to 10-11 inches and cut a strip from each. 2 skinny strips and 2 slightly thicker
Step 4. Layer the strips behind your photo and frame your picture.
Step 5. Toss in a ribbon of some sort, as well as a staple. I'd also like a button and a tag of some kind
Step 6. Add a title, at least one word of the title needs to refer to the item/person/thing that the subject of your photo is looking at.
Step 7. Add a date, journaling if you'd like and any other embellishments

Here is my result!

Make Believe kit collab by Mel Hains, Color with Caryn, and Scrappyweiss Designs

Then also today I completed this for this week's S2L Challenge. Which was to use Stripes, or to use gray or to scrap 6 pics that were over 2 years old. I decided to use the gray one.

Interludes by Bon Scrapatit and Snowmoon's Designs

My very own blinkie!

So one of my CT is asking to have a blinkie. Well I didn't have the first CLUE how to do it. Luckily she directed me to one of the people I LOVE to follow so it was easy for me to read! lol The directions are from Cen's Loft (June). Here is the link if you want to make one yourself

Here is what I came up with. Hope it works! lol



So what do you think??? Do you think I should change it?

Family Ties kit by ShelBelleScraps and Digi-Designs by Nicole

ShelBelleScraps has teamed up with Digi-Designs by Nicole to create an awesome collab kit called Family Ties! It will be offered this week for free on their blogs. Here are the full previews. You will have to go to both of their blogs to get the entire kit. :-)

As a member of Shel's CT I was able to get the kit early and play with it! Let me tell you there are some great elements in this kit!! I was soooo excited to see some of them because with the colors I knew exactly which pic I wanted to scrap. Luckily the kit had a tree in it for me to use!! This is last summer when we went home to visit family. We got all of the cousins together and went to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden, UT. It is a super fun children's museum with lots of things for the kids to do. This was the whole group!

So don't forget to run over to their blogs starting today to grab the kit!

Oh and don't forget to read down a couple of posts as I have posted several new pages I have created in the last couple of weeks! :-)

What I got done at the crop yesterday 081409

Yesterday was my Friday all day crop and I am really trying to get some serious scrapping done. I am afraid that I am not getting more pages done than I am. The last two weeks I have only gotten 4 pages done each day. I would like to get 8-10 pages done, so I really need to step it up!! lol

Anyway, what I got done yesterday was Month in Review pages for July. We did so many things last month that it took me 4 pages again to get all the pictures to fit and not be only 1/2 an inch wide!!! lol So here they are

So Happy Together by Stacey Towers

So now I only need to complete the ones for April and May and then I will be caught up with this year's month in review pages. lol I still have about 3 months from 2008 to complete also, so I really need to work on this this week and at this week's Friday crop.

Also come back tomorrow to see a new kit that Shel is doing as a collab with Digi Designs by Nicole (the one I actually met while I was in Utah!). It is called Family Ties, a great kit you will definitely want!

Oops one more

Dang, I thought I was all caught up posting and then noticed I had not posted these ones. I have been a busy bee these last two weeks and have gotten 11 pages done (that's as many as I got done the whole month of July! lol) And today is Friday which means it is my scrapping day so there will be more posts over the next two days! So don't forget to come back!

Wee Willie Winkie kit by June at Cen's Loft

Don't forget to look at the post below to see the majority of the pages I have completed the last two weeks!

Summer Spritzer by Bits N Bobs and other pages recently completed

Bits N Bobs has another fun kit out! I love the yellow and orange and pinks in this kit. I thought that even though I loved the colors it would be hard for me to complete pages with this kit. Luckily the elements helped me and I was able to make BOY pages with this kit! lol Here is the entire kit and it can be purchased at Exquisite Scraps.

Here is one of the pages I completed.....I sooooo wanted to use that frame, but I could NOT get the page to work, took me a whole day last week changing out pics and sizes and everything else, but I think I got it to work out great!

These pages were easy to do. As soon as I saw the bubbles I KNEW which pics would go with it! And the colors worked great because of the color of my nephew's shirt. I LOVE how I did the reflection/mini faces inside the bubbles on the second page! I have seen other people do it and I wanted to try it out. I think it turned out great!

I was on a roll with the bubble pics and wanted to have all the pages completed for this event so I went on scrapping them. I love my son's face (the one in the orange in the background of the large pic on this first page). I wish I would have caught it more than my nephew but you wouldn't have known what he was so excited about if I hadn't caught it this way! lol

George and the Dragon Collab kit

by Vicki at a Work in Progress
and LouCee Creations

On this one I followed the directions from a Speed Scrap, but since it was one in the past I didn't actually do it during the speed scrap. But I love using them as it makes me think outside the box. I would have NEVER put the three pieces of paper on the page like that. lol

Backyard BBQ by Maurine at Let Me Scrapbook!

Word Art Title by Karen at Word Art Fun

Now I think I am all caught up with posting all my pages that I have completed to date. lol

STS Speed Scrap #50

Yep another speed scrap! Woohoo two in less than a week!!

Okay so this one was REALLY hard for me. I fought almost every step along the way!!! lol Here are the instructions:

STEP 1: CHOOSE 5 SOLID PAPERS-USE ONE FOR YOUR BACKGROUND
STEP 2: TAKE 3 OF THE PAPERS AND CUT INTO 3 DIFFERENT BASIC SHAPES (SHAPES-CIRCLE, SQUARE, TRIANGLE, RECTANGLE) OR SIZES- LAYER THEM IN THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF YOUR LO
STEP 3: CHOOSE YOUR PHOTO-CUT IT INTO A BASIC SHAPE DIFF. FROM YOUR PAPER SHAPES. USE THE LAST OF YOUR SOLID PAPERS TO MATT YOUR PHOTO.
STEP 4: CHOOSE A FRAME AND FRAME YOUR MATTED PICTURE IN AN 'UNUSUAL' WAY.
STEP 5: CHOOSE 2-4 DIFF. FLOWERS AND 2-3 OTHER ELEMENTS. DUPLICATE THE FLOWERS AS NEEDED TO MAKE A CLUSTER ALL THE WAY ALONG THE BOTTOM OF YOUR LO. ADD IN YOUR OTHER ELEMENTS AS YOU'D LIKE.
STEP 6: ADD YOUR TITLE TO THE LEFT OF YOUR PHOTO. USE AN ELEMENT TO MAKE THE 1ST LETTER OF ONE WORD. (OR) USE AN ALPHA/FONT MIX ON YOUR TITLE.
STEP 7: ADD YOUR FINISHING TOUCHES: DROP SHADOWS, DATE, JOURNALING...

And here is my result. I think in the end it turned out good. I really love the cool frame and I love the flower border with the ribbon and the city and date on the ribbon at the bottom. I am still not totally wild about the circles, but OH WELL. The LO is done and I am not doing it again!

Color Basic Kit by June @ Cen's Loft

So what do you think???

A new Speed Scrap

Today when I got home from work I was doing a few things and then remembered that there was a speed scrap that started at 2pm. Well it was 3pm at this time and I thought, well heck I will TRY to get it done in the hour that remains. So I started going for it.

Here are the instructions:
Step 1:Choose 1 photo. Use a mask or photo split on it. Make sure the photo nearly fills your page.
Step 2:Choose a solid or lightly patterned paper for your background.
Choose 1-3 other papers and create paper strips behind your photo.
If your photo is vertical, place the strips horizontal.
If your photo is horizontal, place the strips vertical.
Don't forget to save your page!
Step 3: Attach your photo to the page. I used screws, you could use staples or brads, like that.
Step 4: Place 1 large “see thru” element behind your photo, but in front of your papers. I used chicken wire, you could use mesh, something along those lines.
Step 5: Make a small cluster of at least 3 items in one corner of your page. Did you save lately?
Step 6: Date your page, journal if you wish - in a different corner than your cluster.
Step 7: Title in 2 different fonts or 1 font and an alpha. Don't forget your shadows.

And here is my take on the directions! I LOVE how it turned out!!! Of course I love the pic to begin with and then the page just makes it even better!

Floral Fusion Collab Kit by Digi Designs by Nicole and Stolen Moments

Fixed page

Amy made this suggestion to add the butterflies. Does it look better/okay now? (The original one is in the post below what I completed at the Retreat.)

Pages I completed at my weekend scrapbook retreat in PA 06/26-6/28

As many of you know the end of June I went to a weekend scrapbook retreat with many of my friends from my weight loss website SparkPeople. We have been planning this retreat for almost a year. We even formed our own private team called Sisterhood of the Traveling Crops (yes based off the movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants). We are planning on doing this every year!!!

So in the day and a half we have of scrapbooking this is what I completed!

Kit is Celebrate by Andrea--Here a Scrap, There a Scrap

Get Fresh kit by Blue Dream Designs

Elephant from the Circle of Life kit by Stacy Towers

Miaaow! kit by Mel Hains

Mouse from Raining Cats and Dogs kit by Mel Hains

My Life kit by Amber--Stolen Moments

Raining Cats and Dogs Collab by Vicki Parker-A Work in Progress

and Mel Hains

Flourishes from Miaaow! kit by Mel Hains

Child Cancer Collab by Baby Cakes Scraps

I am not sure if I like this last one. I feel like it is a little barren. Any help would be welcome.