Keeping Up

Alright, I'm doing a pretty good job keeping up with crafty stuff. My "to craft" list may not be shrinking, but it's not growing either. However, I'm not doing a good job keeping up with getting the stuff on here. Here's a layout I finished over a week ago. It's my oldest with his first fish.



I've already professed my love of Simple Stories. This layout was created with their birthday line (Happy Day). I just picked the papers that had patterns without a birthday theme. I threw in some stickers from Jillibean Soup Dutch Mustard Soup. I did a lot of inking of edges and roughing them up. It just seemed to go with the outdoor theme. I've got my fingers crossed that I'll get around to posting another project tomorrow.

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Fabulous Felt

Moxie Fab World is having a Fabulous Felt challenge. I ended up with 2 cards for this challenge. When the felt challenge was announced, I immediately thought of making a mustache card with a felt mustache. The card came together quite easily, the hardest part was finding the right greeting. I've seen "I mustache you a question" and "I hate to leave, but I mustache", so I was trying to come up with something else. I finally landed on "mustache-ulations".


This second card came about when I was pricing some new arrivals at A Walk Down Memory Lane this past Saturday, and came across the coolest felt embellishments from Basic Grey. They come in a 6 pack of multiple colors. For some reason my mind decided this yellow and purple one would look really pretty with grey as an accent color. It's a different color combo, but I like how it turned out.


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Little Feet

I worked in a little time today to play along with My Mind's Eye Sketch Challenge #26.

I pulled out the sketch, and immediately had an idea on how to build the background, so off I went to find the right photo to pair with the idea forming in my head and my Lime Twist paper.


I switched the direction of the photo, but chose not to flip the direction of the sketch. I'm not sure how well you can tell from the photo, but the edges of the layout are inked with a subtle bit of blue ink. It helps give a soft, sweet feel to the layout. The "Little" sticker and "I LOVE YOU" sticker are from SRM. I use a fair number of card stock stickers on layouts, but rarely use clear (SRM) stickers on layouts. Recently, however, I've been inspired by a number of fabulous layouts I've seen on the SRM facebook page, so I decided to give it a try. I've got to say I'm pretty happy with the way it all turned out.

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School Days

It's that time of year again; school's starting which means there are lots of new yummy school lines coming out on the scrap market. One of my favorites is Elementary by Simple Stories. At this point, I seem to love just about every line Simple Stories is putting out. The color palette they use is rich and beautiful, and while most of their lines carry a theme (birthday, school, travel, etc.) many of the papers are just beautiful colors in great patterns so they can be used outside the designated theme. Today I'm showing you a school layout I made using their Elementary collection, but I'm also working on a new bike layout using Elementary, and I'll show you a fishing layout in a few days that I made using Simple Stories birthday line (Happy Day).



This was my son's preschool class at the end of last year with their classroom "grandma". Please forgive the blurred out faces, it was much easier to blur out the faces of any kid who wasn't mine then to try and get permission to put their faces on my blog.

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Gnome Love

I've been on a bit of a card kick lately. A while back I gave almost my complete stash of cards to Operation Write Home. Not only is it a great cause, it gave me more opportunity to make more cards. I can no longer just go to my card rack (yeah, I actually have a spinning card rack in my craft room :-) and grab an appropriate card. I don't know why, but I just really, really think the Apple Cheddar Soup stamp set from Unity/Jillibean Soup is ridiculously cute. The trees in the set are great, but what really drew me in is that ridiculously cute gnome. This is the first card I made with the set.


I think the gnome pairs perfectly with Dutch Mustard Soup. What do you think?

Geek is Chic

Last week I picked up some Geek is Chic by Imaginisce at A Walk Down Memory Lane. I still have some photos from my oldest's first year of school last year, and Geek is Chic is a great line for school photos. However, the colors and patterns in this line are so fun, I didn't want to limit myself to just school photos, so I also made this layout:


The layout is based off Imaginisce's sketch for their August sketch challenge.

I just rotated the sketch 90 degrees. Most of the paper is from Geek is Chic, however I did cut my fish and fish hooks with my Silhouette from paper from Imaginisce's Happy Camper, and the circle under the arrow is from Imaginisce's Animal Cracker line.


In case you were wondering, here's the classic school layout with Geek is Chic:



My husband and think this is just the funniest preschool picture. Our son looks utterly perplexed as to why someone would be taking his picture like this. Everything on the layout is trimmed from Geek is Chic paper or card stock stickers except for the "my name is:" piece. That was actually on his desk at school. I always think it's fun to preserve a memento or two on a layout.


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Tuesday Trigger

It's been a while since I've played a long with a Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger. I often see the trigger and think, "Wow, that's gorgeous!", but I always seem to find myself running out of time to play along. Well, not this week! I saw this trigger and I made time to play along.

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My first impulse was to create a dress card and just lift the picture as is. I'm sure it would have been cool, but I decided to try to push my creative juices a little further. Well...even though it's only August, I had this crazy idea that that pattern would make a lovely Christmas Tree.


I not only was inspired by the shape of the layers, but the mix of colors and patterns on the dress. I also loved that the whole dress seemed to be tied together into a cohesive unit by burgundy edging, so I tried to mirror that in my card as well. For my patterned paper, I used Fancy Pants' Tradition Collection. The trunk of the tree is an SRM sticker from Fancy Sticker Sentiments Christmas. I found it easiest to use a bunch of Mini Glue Dots®to adhere all my layers together. If you want to see what other people did with this cool Trigger, you can check out the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger here.

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