Hey guys, I hope your first week of the New Year has been good so far! I know these last few weeks were tough to do any kind of scrapbooking or card making so now that the Holidays are over it's time to get those stamps, glitter and Shimmerz out and start your new challenges and layouts for the year!
Today I worked on a Selfie Sunday challenge that our Facebook Page, Scrapbooking For Newbies is having this week. The challenge was for, well you guessed it...a selfie! Why? Because we are always scrapbooking others aren't we, but do we ever scrapbook just ourselves?
The Challenge was pretty simple, a selfie, using any type of layout (mixed media, paints, shimmerz, stickers, embellishments...what ever get's your creative juices flowing and then using the title STOP, IT'S SELFIE TIME! (ok, might be showing my age using a throwback title to It's Hammer Time).
I took this selfie when we were at Panama City Beach this summer. Everyone else was out to breakfast and I stayed behind, had a coffee and headed out to the balcony...it was an amazing view! But before I got to the balcony I snapped this photo in front of the huge wall to wall mirror (that I may or may not have walked into a couple of times). Coffee in hand, black summer dress and those beach colors on the wall, I just had to!
I kept the layout pretty simple by starting out with a new favorite paper collection by Echo Park called COFFEE COLLECTION that I purchased from A Cherry on Top over the holidays. I used the Teal/Pink and the Light Blue and used the tear technique, separating the colors.
I have to tell you, when I ordered this paper I also ordered these self closing tweezers and if you don't have them I highly suggest you get them! They are so much easier than regular tweezers, especially if you have issues with your fingers/hands, like arthritis.
Over the Holidays there were a lot of sales and I lost my mind and bought a LOT of stuff this year! I mean who can resist a S-A-L-E, right? One place that was having an awesome Cyber Monday sale was the Hip Kit Club . Prior to the holidays I had just discovered them and fell in love with their stuff! So I did a lot of ordering and I used quite a bit from that order on this layout. I used Pink Paislee's TURN THE PAGE card making paper to back my photo. The JUNE Hip Kit Club Project Life cards, lots of Pink Fresh Studios - INDIGO HILLS 2 ephemera and some Pink Fresh Studios exclusive to the Hip Kit Club ephemera pack that had lots of shiny gold tones to it. I love me some sparkle what can I say. I also used Pink Fresh Studios' - BE YOU pack. The Kit I ordered was packed full of awesomeness!
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One reason? She is a small business owner that takes pride in her work, does amazing work and has great customer service! I mean who doesn't like to support small businesses! Her shop on Etsy is packed full of awesome Epoxy Flairs with the cutest sayings and colors to special holidays! The other reason I love her shop? SHE DOES CUSTOM ORDERS!! (I will be posting the pic of the custom order that I placed with her on my IG feed when I get it done). On this layout, I used her epoxy flair called OH SNAP ( love it)!
As far as mixed media goes, the only think I used was Ranger's Perfect Pearls Mists (sunflower sparkle). I am OBSESSED with this color mist! The shimmery sparkle is to die for and it dries quick and goes with just about everything! I covered up my photo and ephemera and spritzed on the empty space prior to putting down my title.
I added some Washi tape and lastly,I used Dear Lizzy Thickers (151) for the title.
These are so funky and I love the gold tones to it!
It went perfect with this layout!
I always like to throw in a Selfie Sunday Challenge a couple of times a month, along with some other challenges so come on over and join our FB group or follow us on IG (this group is not just for Newbies, we welcome everyone, hoping that the more advanced scrapbookers and card makers can give us some pro tips and challenge us as well). I started the FB group so that anyone can join and post your creations no matter what product(s) you use.
Thanks for following my blog and hope to see you join in on some of the fun we have and learn new stuff!
Happy Scraping!
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