Fall Fun Part 2

As promised, here is layout number 2 from our fun at Pumpkinland this fall:
To get so many photos in different sizes, I just picked the photos I wanted, and put them into a random collage function on my photo editing software. I set the overall size as 8x10, and just let the program work its magic. After I printed the 8x10 photo, I cut the photos making up the 8 x 10 apart. The papers, twine and corrugated alphas are all from Jillibean Soup again today.
I finished up the layout by adding a few stickers and overlays from Little Yellow Bicycle. Boy does it feel good to have all those photos off my desk and onto a few pages!

Fall Fun Part 1

At the beginning of October we headed out to the local pumpkin farm. That same afternoon I printed out photos from the outing and headed to AWDML. I dicided Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli paper would be perfect to scrap those photos, so I grabbed a bunch of it. Needless to say, I got busy and it all sat on my desk until last week. Finally, I got them all finished. I ended up with 2 fun 2-page spreads. Here's the first one: I used twill ribbon to create the striped strip, and twine from Jillibean Soup to create the brown vine like detail connecting the leaves.
The leaves, titles, and pumpkins are stickers and overlays from Little Yellow Bicycle. I used mini Glue Dots® to invisibly adhere the overlays to the paper.
Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back later this week with layout #2 from this fun day.

Lessons in Being Silly

My Mind's Eye is having a sketch challenge on their blog again. There's still plenty of time to play along if you'd like to! The theme this month is lessons' learned. I decided to scrap about my boys and the lesson they've taught me in being silly. Here's the sketch:

Here's my take:
The papers are from MME's Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue line. I spun the sketch 180 degrees. Instead of using 2 photos, I used 1 and used a large journaling tag in the place of the second photo. There were no lines on the journaling tag, so for an extra detail, I hand stitched lines in before journaling.

I made the leaf accents from MME Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue. I just cut them out to the approximate size I wanted and then stitched a border on them. The white pearls are Imaginisce I-rock pearls. The title letters are Prima Flocked Alphas. The started out cream, so to achieve the multi-colored look I used a light green marker to trace around the edges of the alphas. Once they were adhered to the paper, I used a brown marker to outline them one more time.

I was playing around with different ways to use stitching while making this layout. The journaling lines were one way. You can see another way in the picture above. Instead of one continuous line around the bracketed piece of background paper, I staggered my lines inside and outside of the paper. Thanks for stopping by!

Gearing up for Chirstmas

I know Thanksgiving is the next holiday on the list, and believe me I won't skip over that celebration (I adhere very strictly to my rule that Christmas decorations do not get put up until the day after Thanksgiving), but if you're in the Northwest Iowa area you can get a jump start on your Christmas Cards this weekend. Here's the official description:
Get ready for Christmas with this great class from Samantha. Build you stash of Christmas cards by making 20 cards (5 each of 4 different designs) in one class. All you need is your own adhesive. Everything will be cut and waiting for you to stamp and assemble.
Cost: $25
November 13 from 10:15 am - 1 pm
You can reserve your spot by calling A Walk Down Memory Lane at (712)476-3443. Hope to see you there!

Christmas Wedding

This past week I've been having a blast playing with The Girls' Paperie Tinsel and Twig collection. Some how this line manages to soft and elegant, yet still bright and fun. I don't know how they did it, but I LOVE it. I especially love those great snowflakes (they come layered with the tissue, tinsel, and buttons) and their matching stickers (which they call the Tinsel & Twig Sticker Market). 1 sticker book contains tons of alphas, journaling stickers, border stickers, word stickers and much much more. The photo itself is a picture of my oldest son with his great grandparents at my sister's wedding, 2 days before Christmas.

Advent Calendar

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Supplies

• Karen Foster DIY Countdown Calendar
• Little Yellow Bicycle Making Merry Countdown 
  

Glue Dots® challenged it's Dottesses to make a holiday decor project. As you can see, I decided to make an advent calendar. Here's a step-by-step on how to make your own.

1. Gather the basics: An advent calendar (I used a Karen Foster Count Down Calendar, but Kaiser Craft also makes a great calendar as well), Christmas paper (I used The Girls' Paperie Tinsel and Twig paper and the Tinsel and Twig Sticker Market), Glue Dots® Mini, and miscellaneous embellishments.

2. Cut 13 red 1 1/2" x 1 7/16" squares and 12 green 1 1/2" x 1 7/16" green squares. The drawers slide better if you cut the squares of paper so they are just slightly shorter than they are wide.

3. Add the Girls' Paperie Tinsel and Twig Sticker Market square number stickers to the red and green squares. I alternated colored squares and numbers (i.e. 1st was layered on red, 2nd layered on green, 3rd layered on red again... all the way to 25 which will be layered on red).

4. Cut the finger notch from the squares. I did this by holding the paper up to the drawer, tracing with pencil, and then punching out with a 1/2" circle punch. You can also cut it out with a scissors. Once I had one paper notched properly, I used that piece as a template for the rest of the squares. 5. Embellish the squares with rhinestones, pearls, brads, etc. (I used Imaginisce's I-rock, Prima Flower centers, My Mind's Eye Red Lush Brads, Green Kaiser Craft Rhine Stones, and words from The Girls' Paperie Tinsel & Twig Sticker Market)

6. Attach the embellished squares to the drawers of the calendar using Mini Glue Dots®.

7. Have fun hunting for little treasures to fill up your boxes!

I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team.

Wander

Wow, where has the week gone? I woke up this morning and realized I haven't posted anything here since last week! Here are 2 layouts I made a while back for A Walk Down Memory Lane. They both feature one of my favorite releases from Summer CHA; Basic Grey's Wander.

Happy Halloween!