Bird Feeders Layout

I'm over on the Moxxie blog today with a fun spring bird feeders layout.

Head over there to check it out!

Gold Layout

I've love the pops of gold we're seeing everywhere. It's been fun to mix and match the different gold papers and embellishments to create something fun. Today I have a gold layout. The only downside to gold? Its awfully tough to photograph to show its real beauty.

I know I've mentioned that I love any paper that has a heart (or hearts) on it that isn't pink, so I fell in love with this great striped paper from Simple Stories I Am with the gold heart on it.

I actually the blue dot is also from I Am. I thought blue and gold would look lovely with the black and gold dot paper from American Crafts. I added some more gold touches by doing my journaling in gold on a chalkboard label. I also created my Silly Fun title with some gold chipboard Thickers.

Do you like working with gold? Do you keep it in small amounts or use lots of it?

Thanks for stopping by!

Spring Birthday Card

Happy April! It's time for Moxxie's April blog hop and the theme is wonderful, lovely spring. For my project I created a spring birthday card.

I paired Moxxie's Springtime with a box card cutting file from Silhouette. These box cards are super fun (and easy) to put together. The best part is that they fold flat so you can even mail them in a regular A2 envelope.

 The bright colors of Springtime was perfect for a bright flower garden birthday card. I added a birthday greeting from Stamp School's Birthday Icons stamp set and a few enamel dots for flower centers.

Thanks for stopping by today. Here is our line up of inspiration for the rest of the hop:

(remember to comment along the way for more chances to WIN!)

Samantha Taylor (you are here)

Jen Taylor

Leslie Mitchell

Wendi Robinson

Julie McGowan

Amy Allred

Joan Liddle

Amelia Harris

Renee Robbins

Rebecca Price

Ange Weisbeck

Moxxie

All of the ways you can enter to WIN!: 

 Comment on the Moxxie blog.
(US addresses only please)

Extra chances to win include:
  Comment- on any (or all) of the designers blogs (1 entry per comment per blog)
  Facebook- share the blog hop post or one of the challenge posts (let us know by leaving a link on the Moxxie blog)
  Pinterest- pin any (or all) of these wonderful projects (leave a link for each pin on the Moxxie blog)
  Challenge- Enter your paper-made take on our SPRING challenge using the link up on the Moxxie challenge post. 3 extra entries if you use MOXXIE
 product! Link directly to your project or project post. (If it doesn't
link directly to the page containing your project, it will be removed)

Commenting and Challenge end April 30th.
Winner announced Fri. May 1st.

This is the Day Printable

Now that it's spring, it's time to switch out my my seasonal printable frame (you can find Valentine's Day here, winter here, fall here, and Christmas here).  For spring I created a This is the Day printable.

Did I also mention that I got a new toy to play with, too!?! I picked up this laminator and a lot of different colored Therm O Web Deco foil from A Walk Down Memory Lane. Here's a picture of how the whole frame works.

I printed the Psalm 118:24 picture in black on white card stock. To get this to work with the Therm O Web it needs to be printed in toner (so printed from a laser printer or run through a toner copy machine, a regular ink jet printer won't work).

 Then, I ran the printable through my new laminator with Therm O Web's Gold Deco Foil (I'll make a video of this process soon, but it's really easy). The only small change I made was to run the foil through on the low temperature. To get a smooth, perfect transfer, I use the high temperature setting. I wanted to see what would happen if I used the lower temperature setting. What I got was an imperfect transfer that looks like cool, vintage gold leaf. The black is peaking through in places, and I love it, so I decided to use the imperfect transfer instead of the perfect one.

Want to print this out for yourself?

You can click here to download the PDF file for this printable. It fits in an 8 1/2" x 11" frame.

St. Patty's Day

We usually have lots and lots of kid friendly fun on St. Patty's Day at our house. I'm usually so busy cooking and playing with the kids that I forget to take any photos of what we're doing. This year I at least remembered to take a few photos, and then I could scrap the photos and journal about the things I didn't photograph.

Authentique has a pretty fun Irish/St. Patty's Day themed collection called Lucky. Since my pictures weren't all that great, I made them into a photo collage, so you look at the photos as a group instead of putting too much focus on any one photo.

Adding embellishments to the photos helps pretty up the photos a bit, too. Since the kids are showing off the loot from their leprechaun hunt in their photos, the sticker works well!

Do you do anything special for St. Patty's day. Are you good about taking pictures, or are you like me and tend to get busy and forget?

Thanks for stopping by!

Fun Day Together

I have another layout from our fun day together at the science museum. The best part about having a decent camera on my phone is that I actually end up being in some of the pictures with my kids!

I am a sucker for any paper that has a heart on it and isn't pink, so I scooped up the blue sheet with the big red heart on it from Simple Stories Say Cheese 2. I paired it with a classic polka dot (also from Say Cheese 2).

I had a strip of black and cream striped paper from Simple Stories I Am sitting on my desk from another layout I had just finished. It was the perfect piece to slip behind my blue stripe to ground the layers a bit more.

The alphas on this layout needed to be just right, and I happened to have these fun black and white ones in my stash! The "You are my Happy" journaling card was also in my stash, and is part of Pebbles Home + Made collection.

 With a few layers (new and leftover!), I was able to finish up another layout about our fun day together. Though, honestly, any day out with these 2 is a fun day!
Thanks for stopping by!

Rad Science

My kiddos had a day off of school a little over a week ago. One of our favorite day trips is to a science museum that is about an hour away from our house. There's even a special exhibit going on right now called Rad Science that's all about the physics behind skateboarding. It was really cool, and provided lots of opportunities for fun.

I try really hard to balance my love of capturing memories with being able to put my camera away and lose myself in having fun with my kids. I want my kids to remember the fun we have, not that mom took pictures of the fun that we had. So...for days like this, I leave my big "nice" camera at home, and only pull out my my camera phone here and there. In fact, I forget to take pictures of some things all together! Are my pictures as nice? Nope, but it's a great way to have some photos of the fun and make sure I'm still involved in it.

For this layout I started with some papers from Crate Paper's Boys Rule. The slightly muted colors of this collection seemed just right for skate park science.

I used some Basic Grey Hipster Brads to embellish my layout and to create my title. There is actually a brad that says "RAD" in the pack, so I used it paired with some alphas to make my "Rad Science" title.

I never seem to have enough (or just the right) journaling tags. One of my favorite ways to create space for journaling is to add paper behind some chipboard photo frames and journal inside. If one isn't enough just add a second one, like I did on this layout!

 I almost had as much fun scrapping this layout as I did playing with my kids at the Rad Science exhibit...almost!
Thanks for stopping by!