Sweet Peach April Sweet and Anniversary Kits - mini book

 All the school/golden-book looking papers in the newest Crate lines (Emma's Shoppe and Toy Box) inspired me to create a school-themed mini-book for my son's teacher. She has been fabulous and oh-so-patient. I used a chipboard base from TLC  that has been in my stash for forever. The book was white so I heavily inked/distressed it as well as the papers I decorated it with.  I used the Studio Calico rub-ons and tags from the 2 kits ( as well as a few other embellies) and added primas, brads, May arts ribbon and MM buttons from my stash. I kept the pages pretty simple as I don't know what pics might go in here yet. I have asked the room mom for more pics but  might end up giving it to Mrs R with a few empty picture-less pages. I really like how it came out and am pretty proud of it for my second ever mini-book (not including class projects)

Sweet Peach April Sweet Kit

 This is another LO I did with the SPCs Sweet April kit as well as the embellie add-on. I added a JB stick pin and  a couple buttons and rhinestones from my stash (chatterbox and unknown) I did some faux stitching and inking. TFL

Sweet Peach April Sweet Kit and Anniversary Sketch #1

 This is a layout I did with the Sweet Peach Crop Shop Anniversary Sweet kit and the week #1 sketch for the month. I love all the Emma's Shoppe and Studio Calico papers in this kit but I have all boys so I had to dig out one of my too few pics of my favorite girls (my nieces). I also used packaging which was one of the anniversary month challenges :P Anyway, in addition to embellies and papers from the kit, I used 1 paper from LYB Twig, K&Co fabric brad and paper clip, Jilly Bean pin, random button, prima lace flower, the sticker from the kit's packaging, and mesh which I used as a stencil and then added to the page. I also did a bunch of distressing, inking and glimmer misting on this LO. It has a ton of texture in real life and I lurve it :)

Sketchy Thursdays - 4.7 Challenge

I went to Archiver's Friday with a few girlfriends. I did  not get more than a couple layouts done but I really like the 2 I did.

Here is my take on the Sketchy Thursdays challenge for this week. I used Sweet Peach Crop Shop's anniversary kit (Crate papers, SC wood veneers, tags and Petaloo heart) plus lots of embellies from my stash (Bazzill Boshers, MR pins and postage stamp brad, WRMK grommets, MM brad, YoYo from Joanns online, K& Co adhesive border). I hand cut the title from a coffee cup sleeve. I also used both glimmer mists and chalk inks to alter the petaloo heart, and all the corrugated embellies as well as the TH tiny attacher to attach the layered hearts.

You can click any pic to see it larger. TFL!!

Sweet Peach Crop Shop - Try It Thursday - 3 Ribbons

This is my final carnival LO... thinking I should have done one LO and a mini-book :P  Anyway, this LO had 3 ribbons on it as per the Try It challenge at SPCS. The ribbons are from Joann's, Michael's, and unknown from scrapbook Expo. CS is from Archives; papers are EP. Buttons and flowers are Sassafras and letters are CM alpha sticker, EP stickers, and Karen foster epoxy. Also used Making memories adhesive labels

Sketchy Thursdays - 3.31 Challenge

 Here is my take on Sketchy Thursday's latest sketch- albeit flipped and rotated :P  I used EP papers & letter stickers, lots of EK Success and MS punches, Twinery twine, Sassafras flower buttons, buttons and hand-dyed "skittles" from my stash, home-made resin star also from my stash, Tim Holtz trinket pin, Queen and Co word dangle, and a alphabet button. Also used MM paint

Sketchy Thursdays - 3.17 Challenge

Here is my take on Sketchy Thursday's 3.17 challenge. I haven't done ST in a couple weeks and am glad to have gotten a chance to finally join in again. I'd been trying to figure out what to do with these random pics of my husband and son sleeping and finally came up with this idea. The journaling talks about their similar personalities and their shared propensity for falling asleep at the drop of a hat *LOL*

For this I used a bunch of paper scraps: Kaiser Craft and some other unknown PP; Bazzill cardstock, cheap CS from HL,  white uniball gel pen, Pine Needle Distress Ink (Ranger), McGill botanical bird punch, Sizzix (Tim Holtz) wood grain embossing folder, ColorBox chalk ink (chestnut roan), and AC Thickers

Echo Park Springtime

 Have I mentioned loving Echo Park's lines? Probably- 'cause I do :P  Anyway, this LO fits the bill for the design team April challenge at Cropchocolate.com (spring theme) and fit in with my typically chrono scrapping. I used Paper Company CS from Archivers, EP papers and journaling card, MM letters, MM flutter ribbon and random Easter/spring stickers that have been in my stash for ages and ages

Carnival- Walk in the Park - Again!!

I can't seem to get past using Echo Park's Walk in the Park line with all our carnival photos- the colors just seem to work really well and I really love the papers. They are just so versatile and they seem so easy to use for mixing patterns- something I normally have trouble with. Anyway, I used a few papers from the line; the alphas , banners, and ticket are from the line's coordinating sticker sheets. I also used CS by Bazzill and my new twine from The Twinery

Cosmo Cricket Togetherness

After J's cousin's wedding, we spent time visiting family. While we were inside with his aunt and uncle, the boys were outside with K, their second cousin of the flaming red hair. I used all CC Togetherness for this LO except the homemade paper flowers which were made with scraps of  BG - maybe June Bug line? I did some fussy cutting - though not nearly as "fussy" as it could be - and used one of the handy-dandy word strips for a "title". I still need to journal of course. And I kind of feel like his one is missing something. It's not my fav LO ever but I am done trying to fix it- not every layout is gonna be my version of a personal masterpiece or even a favorite :P