Dear Lizzy - Scraptastic Friends

I have made a lot of friends trough this hobby of ours.... a couple of meetup groups have come and gone but some of the people I met thru those groups are my souvenirs :P We try to go on retreats a couple times a year and these pics are from one fo those weekends. There were 4 of us besides those pictured; but, apparently, we didn't bother with cameras a whole lot *LOL*

Anyway, I enjoyed making a "girly" page for once

Supplies: AC DL PP, alpha stickers, image stickers; MM buttons and PP; Sassafras buttons; MME ribbon; Marcella by K paper clips; zig marker; OA sprinklers

MME - I Absolutely Adore You

 I did this LO using a starting point from Shimelle Laine . I absolutely adore this Rhonna Farrer collection from MME and have been dying to use it so I made myself find a photo and actually cut into its yumminess :P


Supplies: Bazzill CS; Archivers CS; WRMK ink; MME PP, pins, brad; Avery tag; TA glimmered mists; Sakura stardust pens; BG and Maya Road ribbons; Hambly washi tape; MS doily; OA Sprinkler; Melody Ross transparent die-cut; sharpies; CM hexagon punch

MME- Fernbank

This layout was also for Shimelle's class at 2 Peas but this "Starting Point"  is really one I have used a lot- a base of 2 8x12 or so of PP across a 2 page LO (The color is way off on the starting point pic- sorry)

The pics are from a natural history museum here in the ATL. My mom and I took the boys when I had several weeks off between jobs.

Supplies: Bazzill CS, MME patterned papers and twine, Sassafras buttons, Making Memories paper and magnetic stamps, OA sprinklers, Jenni Bowlin ink, WRMK ink

Echo Park - Bat Boy

I had these cute pics off a friend's camera phone of my youngest being goofy and generally showing off for my friends :P

I used a Starting Point from Shimelle Laine's Hitchhiker's Guide class at 2 Peas. I picked out papers and stickers from Echo Park's Sweet Summertime which I still adore. I added in washi tapes and thickers from AC, washi from Pink Paislee and I used my  MS bat border punch

WOYWW

 I've seen a lot of posts for the "What's on your workspace Wednesday" I have no idea who started these but thought it would be fun to participate once. So, this is the hot mess that is my desk. It is actually pretty organized but I have a lot of stuff crowded on my desk in an effort to have a lot of stuff close to hand- both for ease and to help me remember to use it :P

My MM carousel has lots of pens, scissors, adhesives, and corner chompers. My MM desk thingy holds lots of labels and smaller alpha stickers and the wine crate has separators and holds a ton of journaling  books/blocks. There are some bozes of embellies in the hutch as well as photos and some miscellaneous tools. That pile in front of the wine crate is actually a binder ring of all my page map sketch cards (in the hopes that I will use them once in a while)

The LO in this pic is now completed- will post it soon :)

Anyway, here is a pic of all the women who attended Teresa Collins' class on Saturday. I grabbed the pic off TC's blog since I didn't get one on my camera :)

Just a quick note

Just popping in - I don't have any new projects at the moment and have to unload photos off my camera but popping in here to say I haven't fallen off the planet yet :P

We had crazy storms here Friday night - spent the night in the basement with the kids "camped" out in my craft room. Saturday, I drove an hour away to take 2 classes with Teresa Collins who is just as sweet and genuine as can be. I love her new Fabrications and Everyday Moments collections- they are my favs of anything she has ever done in fact- so was thrilled to take these 2 classes with her. The books are not done- just the base pages- as I like to embellish after photos are in but they are 10x10 and 8x8 "minis" which I think are great sizes. I need to figure out what I want to put in them so I can finish them up :)


So, after all that, Saturday night and Sunday were devoted to family time and laundry *LOL*

My google reader list is 100+ posts long- need to catch up after work tonight  :)

Hopefully, I'll make it back into the scraptastic craft cave soon

MME - I *heart* u

I made this LO Tues night but had to commute to work for the last 2 days (I normally work from home) and never had a chance to take a pic in decent light. Of course, today is overcast and getting ready to rain so this is only a slight improvement :P The stamped hearts are less orangey in person and the stickles on the heart details read as blue- not orange- in person.

I love this MME Valentine's line - and I love that I can use it for anything love. My youngest went thru a phase where he "didn't need naps" but would go like the energizer bunny until he would just suddenly fall asleep in the oddest places or positions :P No temper tantrums or fussing- he would just drop. The left pic is him sitting in a kid's folding chair but he just leaned his head over onto the ottoman and went to sleep like that *LOL*

Anyway, I had fun playing with stash and techniques I am often too lazy to use or that is home when I usually scrap at crops. Lots of stamping, liquid pearls and stickles on top of my normal border punching and misting. The bottom XO strip is actually the result of using it as a stencil to color the vanilla cardstock for the love border directly above. I ended up liking my stencil enough to use it too :) The heart in the title is actually 2 negatives of die-cuts from the MME collection pack. I cut them out, layered them and then traced around them with my pen.

Supplies: Bazzill CS; MME papers and die-cuts; AC knock out punches and thickers; TA glimmer mist; SC Mr Huey mist; Ranger Liquid Pearls, Distress Ink, and Stickles; Fancy Pants stamps; Smash date stamp; CM corner rounder and pen; MS for Avery office label; Cloud 9 Design stickers

MME, AC - Funny

I stole some time to scrapbook last night. I had just bought a 1.8 F-stop lens when I was visiting my grandparents for his 90th birthday. So, I took a ton of picture when everyone was just sitting around visiting. i am so, so glad I did because I got some good pics but also because it was the last time I would see my grandfather healthy. He went into the ICU after a bleedout a week before I was bringing the kids to see them and he finally left the hospital a month later to go home under the care of hospice. He passed away less than 36 hours later- he was just waiting to go home (and for my grandma to let him go).

He was a character until the bitter end. He was sharp as a tack and had a great sense of humor. When I saw him in ICU, he was on a vent and pretty sedated. But, not so sedated that he couldn't thumb his nose at the nurse when she irritated him *LOL* Or let his opinion (agreement) be known when my mom made a snarky remark :P He even managed to steal a kiss or 2 from grandma when he was a little more awake :)

Anyway, these 2 faces were oh so typical and I am so glad I have these photos. I picked out some MME Lime Twist for this LO and then realized that the AC Chap scraps on my desk mixed with them pretty well. So, I punched out circles in a few sizes and then cut the smaller ones into heart shapes and layered them. They are only glued in the middle so I could fold them up for dimension a bit.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Supplies: MME patterned paper and journaling card; AC Thickers, PP, and mixed tape (Amy Tangerine); EK Success, MS and CM punches; Sassafras button; OA Sprinklers; Colorbox pigment ink; Sakura for CM pens

MME Lush - Love blooms and grows

I had this really old photo sitting in my photo pile and pulled out my MME Lush in red to use with it. Came across this flocked flower paper and the whole LO just flowed out of that. I colored in the white flowers with my FC Design Memorycraft markers and then added my photo matted on the leftover OA paper from my last LO. I inked the edges of the base and mat with colorbox chalk ink, jourbaled along the flower stems with my sakura for CM pen, and added my title with AC thickers and CC Tiny Type. Added some rhinestone brads and I was done.

The journaling just talks about how our lives and marriage have not always been easy peasy in the past 11+ years since this pic was taken; but, that somehow, some way, we still love each other and work to keep it that way :) 

October Afternoon Silly

I did this LO for the first challenge in the New 'Hitchhikers Guide to Scrapbooking' class from Two Peas and Shimelle Laine. I picked out a bunch of stuff from the older October Afternoon Nightlight line. I ended up using what I picked for the most part- but sometimes it was because I switched sides of the paper. And I originally had a dark blue paper mat but wasn't liking it that well and got the bright idea to get out the masks and glimmer mists to make a fake mat instead.

I really like how this LO came out and I am pretty pleased at using some older stash I'd been hoarding :P

Supplies: OA PP, diecuts, stickers, sprinklers; Doodlebug buttons; Pink Paislee mask; TA Glimmer Mists; Bazzill CS; AC knockouts, thickers; EK Success punch; WRMK ink; CM pen