Scrapbook Inspiration

I came across a website recently kind of by accident and am now totally addicted to it!!  It is called Design Seeds and takes some stunning photos and breaks them down into their most simple color palette.  I cannot wait to use some of these as inspiration for my future layouts!  Here is a small sample of some of my favorites...

Bo Bunny Et Cetera Collection

Okay, so we got the new Bo Bunny Et Cetera collection in the store today and my mind literally started churning!! I could not wait to get my hands on this stuff! I decided to use it to highlight one of my favorite photos of my son on his last day of third grade.

I decided to use a Glitz rub on that has been laying around awhile....big mistake! I don't know if it was because it was old or just a bad lot but I have never had this much difficulty getting a rub on to simply come off of the backing.

At this point, I simply gave up and decided that I could work with what I had already put on the page... my arm is killing me, by the way. :/

I used the coordinating sticker sheet to add the date in the upper left corner.

In the upper right corner (where the rub on is) I layered a swirl sticker from the Et Cetera sticker sheet and added bling to it. Some paper flowers and a metal bird from Tim Holtz rounded out this part.

In the bottom left corner, I used the smaller swirl sticker, a few more flowers, and couple more metal pieces from Tim Holtz to go with the grouping of Et Cetera embellishments I used as my title.

Below the photo, I layered a couple of the border stickers just to give it more interest.

I really love how the colors compliment the photo and are not the typical ones that I use. Can't wait to play with this collection even more!!

New Layout....FINALLY!

Sorry about the long delay in posting. It's been a BUSY summer so far. Vacations, moving people from Colorado to Oklahoma, shopping.... :)

I created this layout a while back for some pics that I took of my son and a friend playing at the local splashpad. Despite having the layout ready, it took me forever to actually edit and order the prints. Oh well, I finally got them ordered and after spending a day cropping with my SIL, I even got them scrapped!!

I love the vivid color of the pics so much that I decided to go super simple and put them on a white background and matted each photo in black. I have been saving my Bo Bunny Sunkissed papers for just the right layout and finally decided this was it. I also used the coordinating Bo Bunny double dot cardstock in a rainbow of colors for the title. Enjoy!

Monogram

Here is the second monogram piece that I made for the second wedding of the summer. I'm even happier with the way this one came out. I used the new Daily Junque line from Pink Paislee as well as more chipboard letters.

Here is a close up of the top right corner where I layered pieces of the papers cut like banners with a small Zva pearl swirl and some paper flowers. I used some of my vintage buttons for flower centers.

Again in the bottom right corner I layered paper pieces with flowers, pearls, and a ribbon bow.

In the top right corner I layered several pieces from the Daily Junque Ephemera kit and used a banner sticker I had to write out the date of the wedding. I love how the journaling card fit the occasion perfectly!!

I can't wait to start on the third monogram!! Hope you enjoy looking!

This summer I have the privilege of attending three wedding for some very dear friends. Along with this comes a dilemma, though. I really want to make something special for each of them and yet I have been drawing a total blank on what that special something should be...until the other night, when my completely stopped up (and yet at the same time, running like a faucet) nose was preventing me from sleeping. I'm not exactly sure where the idea came from but it ran somewhere along the lines of making a monogram/family crest kind of thing for each of the couples. This is how the first one turned out.

I used some older Crate Paper papers that I had on hand and a random sheet of scalloped paper that I had laying around.

I used thick chipboard letters that I Mod Podged the paper onto and then popped up the two side letters to add some visual interest.

I then added some ribbon and vintage looking lace across the bottom half and some coordinating dew drops around the scalloped edge. I also chalked all the edges with Chestnut Roan Catseye chalk ink.

Lastly, I added a few vintage K & Company rub-ons where I then carefully wrote in the year of the couple's uniting. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and now I can't wait to get to work on the other two.

New Layout

Here is a new layout that I came up with for some pictures I took of my sister's kids. I can't wait to get the prints so I can do this one!!!

Ms. Red

Since my last post was so sad I thought I'd post something on a happier note. My 11 year old cat, Red has been getting decidedly brave lately. She was a tiny kitten we rescued from a neighbor's back yard and has NEVER wanted to go back outside again. Last year we moved out of town a short ways and onto a lot with two acres. I guess she has decided that she likes it. She now follows us out of the garage and into the driveway, where she flops down and begins to knead the air. She is rapidly becoming an outside convert. :)