Make a Wish

The other day I was walking through A Walk Down Memory Lane, and some wood chevrons from Studio Calico caught my eye.  I decided I needed to use them to create this Make a Wish birthday card.

I paired the chevrons with some orange, teal, and gray paper from Lily Bee. 

 I also picked up some matching label and chit chat stickers. Layering them up with some Pop Up Glue Dots® adds some dimension to the card.

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First Stitiches

Well, mid way through December it finally happened; one of my kids needed stitches. My oldest fell and got a cut deep enough to warrant at trip to the ER. Since I'm one of those moms who scrapbooks, my poor son not only had to get stitches,  but also had to put up with me taking photos of it to scrap. He was quite the trooper though!

I ended up using Christmas paper for this layout. I love that, unless you're familiar with the line, you really can't tell it's Christmas paper. I chose it because it goes really well with the PJ shirt my son is wearing in the photo...and really who doesn't want to get more mileage out of the awesome Christmas collections that were released this year? This line was Christmas Cheer from Lily Bee.  Oh, and in case you're wondering, the stitches have been out for a while now, and his scar is healing nicely.

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A Felt Ornament, 2 Hats, and a Layout

As the title suggests, today's post is filled with 4 random projects.

I like making ornaments from my scrappy supplies for my Christmas tree.  I thought it might be fun to make an ornament out of Stamp School felt. I used my Silhouette to cut my felt, but you could easily just print a pattern from paper and cut the felt by hand. I sewed 2 pieces of brown felt together and stuffed a little batting inside.The heart (also felt) is sewn on over where we live. These would be a fun keepsake ornament for someone who travels a lot or someone who just moved to a new state.

I've also been knitting a bit lately. I finished up a headband/neck warmer for myself and a hat for my son.

I found the pattern for my son's hat here. I forgot to get a picture of the top of the hat, but it has a square decrease pattern on top that is really professional looking and easy to make. It's knit in the round, and very easy to customize the stripes to your choosing. My son was especially excited to pick out the colors for his hat.  Both of our hats are made from a washable wool.You can find the pattern I used for my headband here.

Finally, my last picture is a layout, lest you think I abandoned paper crafting all together.

I recently took this photo out of a frame and decided to get it straight onto a scrapbook page. The paper and journaling tag are from Lily Bee's Persnickety collection. I love Lily Bee, but I always wish they'd do matching embellishments like layered stickers and fancy buttons. Alas, that is not to be, but the next best thing is that the embellishments from My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing collection go very well with Persnickety. While it's not a perfect match they did work out very well for me since I already had them on hand. Thanks for stopping by!

Glue Dots DT Call and a Fiskars' Fuse Project

Just a quick announcement and then on to my mini album. Many of you know that I am a Glue Dots®  Dottess (this is what they call their design team members). I have been a Dottess for 2 years now and thoroughly enjoy it. It's time again for a new design team. You can find all of the call details here on the Glue Dots® blog.  If you love using Glue Dots® and like being the first to play with new products (the Dottesses got to play with the Micro, XL, and XXL Dots before they were released!) I encourage you to try out. It's a great group of people to work with.

Okay, on to my mini album. Have you heard all the talk about Fiskar's new Fuse system? Fiskars is holding a contest where you can actually win a Fuse (and who wouldn't want to win a Fuse, right?). You can check out all the details of the contest here, there's still a lot of time to enter. I created this circle mini album using the circle Fuse pieces from the contest.

This mini album tells the story of the Baptism gown that my aunt (my sister's Godmother) sewed for her Baptism. I then also wore the gown, and just a few months ago, my aunt's first granddaughter wore it at her Baptism. I sandwiched chipboard between all of the patterned paper to make the album nice and durable.

Here's what the front side looks like:

And how about some close ups since that picture is teeny tiny:

Here's the back side:

and some close ups of the back side:

The patterned paper I used was from Lily Bee's Victoria Park Collection. The felt is from Stamp School, and the Baptism themed stickers are from Reminisce.

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Using Girlier Papers to Scrap Boy Photos

I wanted to take a moment today to show you all what I do when I see a line that I love, that happens to be a bit too girly for scrappy my 2 little boys.  For example, I fell in love with Pink Paislee’s Indigo Bleu:

The main, front sides, have lots and lots of floral….but….. if you flip them over, the back sides are full of great geometric patterns in blues, creams, and sand. Using all back sides from Indigo Bleu, I came up with this boy layout:

Since the Indigo Bleu accessories are also girlie, I pulled stickers from Echo Park’s Boys collection, journaling cards from Lily Bee’s Double Dutch line, and a Smash Tiny Flag Clip.

So for those of you who scrap boys and men much more often than girls, don’t write off those pretty, girlie collections all together. Mix, match, and don’t forget to check the back sides!

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Lovely Pumpkins

These are photos from way back at the end of September. We had a gorgeous, warm fall day out at the pumpkin patch. This layout focuses on my oldest son's choice of pumpkin. I have to admit, fall is definitely one of may favorite seasons for taking photos.

I fell in love with this paper from Lily Bee when it came into A Walk Down Memory Lane. Since I have a lot of pumpkin patch photos this year and I've already created fall layouts with the fall lines from Jillibean, Bella Blvd, and Bo Bunny, I thought Id try my hand at turning this somewhat frilly line into a boyish pumpkin patch layout.

After a bit of paper layering, some of my favorite border punches, and a few buttons and brads, I came up with a layout I'm pretty happy with.

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Supplies
Paper: Lily Bee Lovely (Charm, Whimsy, Parasol, Trinket)
Accessories: Jillibean Soup Apple Cheddar Card Stock Stickers, MME Lush 2 Brads, Jenni Bowlin Brads (Delicate), Bo Bunny Forever Fall Buttons
Tools: EK Success Deep Edge Punch Circles, Fiskars Give It A Swirl Border Punch