Squeeze the Day Card

Hey guys I'm up on my blog doing another challenge for the Double Trouble Paper Crafting gals.  Here is a link to their fun blog so you can join in too!

This week's challenge is #183, SAY CHEESE & SMILE.  Here are the parameters of the challenge:

3 images of your choice, 2 pattern papers, 1 sentiment that makes you smile.

Today I am doing a card I made with the YOU'RE THE ZEST stamp set from Lawn Fawn.  The sentiment Squeeze the Day always makes me smile!  It includes this cute lemon with different smiley faces...I mean too cute right?

I started off with an A2 size lime green card stock to match the bright colors of the Doodlebug pattern paper I used.  I mean how cute is that paper!?  I cut that slightly smaller than the lime green and adhered it down.  

I went into my nesting dies of tags and cut 2 different size and style tags in coordinating colors and addend twine.  I also went into my stitched circles and found the perfect size, cut that and inked it in SQUEEZED LEMONADE just to give it a little color. 

I found these cute little leaves in a die pack and cut them using the same color card stock as the card.  I grabbed one other stitched die to use on the sentiment and adhered it down and BAM! Done.  

This card came together super fast and ticked all the boxes on the challenge so I am super happy with it.
Kimberly

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Tag You're It Day - 1

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I started out with some PinkFresh Studio Pattern paper from the Let's Stay Home Collection called, Better Days Ahead.  I just L-O-V-E this grid style paper!  This is the stash I pulled, including some Tags cut-a-parts from Paige Evans, paper #20, I purchased from Piece Craft Love.  If you haven't checked out their store, you really should!  She has the best crafting stuff!  Plus use code KIMSCRAFTYCREW10 to get 10% off your ENTIRE order!

If you want to see how it all came together, check out my YT channel below!

Here is a list of everything I used:

PinkFresh Studio grid pattern paper - Let's Stay Home Collection - Better Days Ahead

Paige Evans Tag Cut-A-Parts, paper #20

Echo Park Puffy Stickers - Dive into summer

Doodle Bug Design - mini icons, Sweet Summer 

The Paper Studio - Dimensional Wood Stickers

Kaiser craft - Wood Veneer - Magenta

Doodlebug Design - This & That, Sweet Summer Series, sticker sheet

Doodlebug Design - Ephemera Pack, Sweet Summer Series

Echo Park - Summer Bliss sticker sheet

Photo Play - Those summer Days sticker sheet

Echo Park - Let's Be Mermaids sticker sheet

Echo Park - I Love Summer sticker sheet

PinkFresh Studio- Let's Stay Home puffy stickers

Heidi Swapp - puffy stickers

Maggie Holmes - Sweet Story puffy stickers

The Finished Product

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Have a scrapy day!

Kimberly

It's a Good Day - Layout #11 of the 365 scrapbook challenge and what lessons I learned with this layout

Hey Newbies,
I'm here working on my 365 Page Layout Challenge.  I will try to list everything I used below and try to link up to where you can purchase them if you happen to like any of them.

This was a special day in more ways than one.  It was my birthday (and brother-in-laws, sister's and mom's husband) are all in September, so we try to get together at my mom's in Florida for a few days to celebrate.  
For my birthdays, my sister gave me a very special key chain with the MS logo on it.  She knows how hard I struggle with this disease.  No matter what her struggles are (and she has a few with an autistic son), she sees mine and that meant a lot!  We had such a great time together this year!
I started out with this amazing paper that I have had for a while.  It's a 12 x 12 paper pad I got from Michaels (Hot Buy!!!) called WRITE YOUR HEART by Craft Smith.  It has such amazing papers in it.  There wasn't much for me to add to this layout.

I started by backing the photo with green card stock paper and with a card that came in the paper pad...and here it is; LESSON #1 - adhering your picture should probably be the very last thing you do.  For me, personally, it will be for now on.  I have ruined 3 photos (luckily they were not my "throw back" photos from way back when.  You know, the ones that you only have the original copy because there were no such thing as camera phones back in my day, so there is no reprinting it.  I have managed to get shimmers, glitter and glue on my photos by not watching what I am doing.  Even when I don't think I have anything on my hand/arm, somehow glue manages to get on the photo.  So this girl will be mounting her picture last from now on.  

I did some splatters using my new Shimmerz Vibes in GLORIOUS DAY on the background (I struggled on whether to use a white or the Glorious Day and I picked the Glorious Day but as it dried and with the embellishments I think I should have went with the White - - and here comes LESSON #2; use a test paper of the same color/design.  Don't be in such a hurry that you don't have time to wait until it is completely dry before making the decision- - just sayin.

Recently I purchased some nestling dies from  Spellbinders and cut circles with my Big Shot die cut machine as well as using my 3" circle punch for one of them.  

Side note: Here is a pic of my new Big Shot...Can I tell you how much I L-O-V-E the Big Shot!  So well worth the money!!!  

The paper that I cut the circles out came from the same paper pad (I told you, I didn't use much with this layout).

I did some hidden journaling by printing on another card from, you guessed it, the same paper pad!  I fussy cut the card out from one of the pages and I cut it in half and then put tape to a piece of 81/2 x 11 paper and ran it through the printer.  I put parchment paper over it to semi-hide the journaling and secured it with a pink brad.  I also found the border from the same pack of paper - I'm telling you guys, if you can find this pack you should purchase it!  It is so versatile!  

I used a pink heart flair from one of my all time fav flair shops...Scrappin Happy Studios, check out her Etsy store, she has new lines coming out all the time and they are amazing and she does special orders!  

 The  puffy stickers "YOU CAN DO THIS", was from Bella Blvd (MAKE YOUR MARK collection); "THIS IS REAL" & "HAPPY MOMENTS" puffy sticker from PinkFresh Studio (BE YOU collection), glitter sprinkles (pink) dots from Doodlebug Designs.  The "CELEBRATE: pink and gold sticker was from The Paper Studio, (AGENDA 52 collection, purchased at Hobby Lobby) and the gold hearts from Crate Paper - OASIS collection

Like I said this layout was pretty simple with this awesome pad of 12 x 12 paper!  I hope this inspired you to get up and get scrapping!  Super quick and easy and only a few embellishments and still have a great layout!

I linked up all of the items I used above in the article, so if something gets you excited, you will be able to find it!

Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!

Please join our FB page for more challenges and to share your layouts with the group or come follow me on IG!  

Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly

Day at the Beach - #10 on my 365 page layout challenge for 2019

Hey there Newbies, 

I'm here working on my 365 Page Layout Challenge.  I will try to list everything I used below and try to link up to where you can purchase them if you happen to like any of them.

This layout started out awesome...in my head.

Starting out it was, well, kinda disastrous

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I LOVE the Ink Road Stamps collection SALTY AF!  The little mermaid is to die for and the sayings are awesome!  I had this vision of what it would look like but the beginning stages didn't look like what was in my head...at all!
                  

I saw a YOUTUBE video (by NancyStamps) the other day and it showed some unique stuff you could do with Versamark.  I have several Versamark containers in my box of inks and stamps...AND here comes lesson #1 - Versamark makes more than just one kind of stamping pad as in for embossing, WHITE, etc, make sure you know which one you are suppose to be using BEFORE stamping your layout.  I pulled one out not paying attention to the word ULTIMATE WHITE PIGMENT on it.

The look I WAS going for was a watermark.  Which from what I hear, that is what Versamark was originally designed for.  So the technique was to put down the stamp with regular Versamark and eventually in an hour or so it would dry darker leaving a "watermark" effect on the paper.  After stamping the entire page I realized this was not going to get darker, but I kinda liked it so I went with it.

After I let it dry I started adding Glass Bead texture with a circle stencil I had.  It reminded me of bubbles and what better way to have a mermaid underwater than with bubbles!  But the more I did the less I liked.  It does take quite a while to dry so you can't be in  a hurry for this type of layout. It did take me several times of coming back and stenciling the glass beads only because my stencil was a 4x6 square and I didn't want it to look like a box of bubbles. 

I left it over night to dry, mean while I pulled all my stash out and went through everything I thought I might want to use.  I fixated on this coral color and couldn't get enough of it!  I even painted the LOVE THIS words and the flamingo with a water marker to match.  I had a lot of this color in my stash so I was super excited!

After I let it set over night,  I started to work on my layout with the stash I pulled.  I put the photo at the top and backed it with parchment paper, a coral stock paper and a foam backing to make give it some dimension since most of the embellishments have dimension to them I didn't want the picture to look flat.   I also put a sticker on it with a beach saying (I've had that in my stash for a long time and have no idea where I got it, except that it was in Florida somewhere).

This was only the second time using the glass bead technique that I saw Missy Whidden do on her YouTube channel.  I'm not going to lie, it takes a bit to get this technique down but it is pretty awesome!  I'm still have issues working with it but I do love the effect!  This is my finished layout.  I hope you like it!  Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think.

ITEMS USED:

1. Epoxy Flairs - Scrapping Happy Studio
2. "Love This" foam writing - Amy Tangerine (love, love, love these.  They come white but you can color them any color you want to go with your layout!
3. Salty AF Mermaid Stamp collection - Ink Road Studio
4. Versa Color - Ultimate White Pigment 80
5. "Positive Mind" chip board sticker - American Craft Thickers "ESCAPE THE ORDINARY" collection
6. Parchment paper/coral stock paper/adhesive foam - to back photo
7. Foam dots for the Flairs and heart
8. "Living It" puffy sticker - PinkFresh Studios "BE YOU" collection
9. "My Favorite" puffy sticker - Bella Blvd "MAKE YOUR MARK" collection
10. Pink Flamingo Brad - Bo Bunny (Hobby Lobby)
11. Day at the Beach, rub on - American Crafts Mini Marks "CURL PHRASES" collection (HL)
12. Coral/pink glitter dots - Doodlebug Design "GLITTER SPRINKLES" collection
13. Camera and paper heart - PinkFresh Studio
14. "Lasting Memories" and " Right here right now" sticker - Dear Lizzy "ACCENT & PHRASES (61) collection
15. Bubbles - Glass Gel by Galeria (Amazon.com)

Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge 2019 that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!

Please join our FB page for more challenges and to share your layouts with the group or come follow me on IG!  

Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly

Lessons on Layouts - Going from stash to Sas!

Hi there Newbies!  Today I wanted to blog about creating layouts using your stash (and...we are already at lesson 1). Lesson 1 being, when buying a kit, from say The Hip Kit Club, you get so excited when they arrive (or at least I do).   I mean the pages and embellishments match up so perfectly, you want to see it all!  So you take it all out of the package and  if that's what you want to do to see all of the goodies in their awesomeness of match-e-ness (here is where the lesson comes in) go for it!  Just make sure it's the only thing on your table when you do or, like me, you will be putting it ALL away after ogling it and then it will hit you.  The KIT you just purchased that matched so perfectly together is now all in separate bins/boxes/drawers and you have no idea what was what!  Yes, that is what I did with my very first Kit, key word being...KIT🤦🏻‍♀️

So let's move on from lesson one, shall we?  I have this beautiful grand daughter and she has my heart!  I have done a couple of layouts with her and want to share this one.  When I saw this picture that my daughter-in-law took I just knew right then in there I would be scraping it!  My mind started going crazy with ideas.  

So now that I have this new stash (since I broke my one and only kit up, it's all stash). I went through every drawer, paper boxes, sequence bins, inks and stencils!  I usually only have a few things that a pull but everything I touched went with the colors in my head that I wanted to do for this layout.  The more I pulled the more that came out!  So I started with this huge pile of stickers, washi tape, embellishments, phrases, flairs...you name it I had it on the table!

I knew I wanted to use a stencil heart on this layout (and here comes lesson number 2); lesson 2 being, when buying stencils, stamps, inks and even paper...DON'T BE A CHEAP AS*!  

I saw a YouTube video with Heatherscraftylife using this "Puffy Heart Stencil" from PinkandMain - side note:  I love her layouts! I have learned so much from her, she is definitely one of the scrapping ladies you need to be following - especially on YouTube if you want to learn a few things.

I went on line and saw the price of their heart stencil (which really wasn't that much) but had to order some stuff from Amazon and while on Amazon I saw an entire set of stencils including a similar heart stencil for half the price...an ENTIRE set! So I said to myself, self, this is an amazing deal go for it.  Well...that amazing deal turned out to be crap!  The stencils were cheap, one has already torn and trust me, the heart one was NOT the same!  Soooo, I went back and bought the PinkandMain heart stencil.  It worked beautifully!  The difference was night and day (although, I am a Newbie to using stencils...so it took me a couple of times to get it down...ok, a few times, stenciling is tricky ya'll).  

On this particular layout I started out with stenciling going across the page, white space in the middle and then a row at the bottom.  It started out beautifully but went South pretty quick!  I thought I would add some heat embossing and stamped the embossing stamp all over the page (not using the stencil) which is NOT the way to emboss hearts people...it was a big fat mess (and kinda comical after I thought about it).  So I trashed it and started again (I told ya'll stenciling was tricky). 

Starting from scratch, I decided to do a row of hearts diagonally this time, leaving white space in the middle and then a small diagonal row at the bottom.  I also did some going in a different direction at the top corner because that's just how I am.  That's the way a lot of layouts go, you have something in mind, start out and it ends up a little (or a lot) different than what you pictured it in your head.  But it ends up looking amazing! 

After I had my background done I started pulling from my stash pile (or mountain of stash).  I knew I wanted to keep it mostly pink (because that jacket tho😱) and wanted a little bit of black to pull some of the color of her pants and boots but wanted a little color in it as well.  

I started by backing the photo with some Pink Paislee 6 x 6 pad called TURN THE PAGE.  I found a pink background and a gorgeous flower pattern that had a bit of light teal in it.  I had so many embellishments with that color I knew it would be perfect!

I used some Dear Lizzy (61) Accent and Phrases stickers, the camera, heart and "captured" flairs are all from Scrappin Happy Studios (her Etsy shop is amazing)!  I had some clear stickers from The Paper Studio called CHILDREN PHRASES.  I love these phrases and used them on other layouts but  I didn't like the look of it on the page.  You could still see the clear square edges of the sticker so I had some cute pink polkadot washi tape in my stash that was see-through enough to cover up the sticker and still see it!   

The title I fell in love with!  Not only was it perfect for this picture, I love the script of it and...it's kind of rubbery.  I've never come across it before but will be ordering more of it!  It's from American Crafters Thickers "SKYLER" pack.  

I added a lot of other stickers and chipboards and other stuff I will list below in case you are interested in any of them.  I finished it up with some sequence from Ink Road Stamps (I love Lara's stamps!  She is always working on new lines and her stamps are very well made and worth the price - see lesson 2 above if you are thinking differently).  

I hope you enjoyed seeing this layout and the lessons I learned from it.  For more tips, tricks and challenges come over to our facebook group (follow the link and ask to join, we keep it private because a lot of us are working on layouts as gifts and don't want the friends and family who follow us on FB to see them before we give them) or join us on IG to catch up!  And if you like the blog please follow me!

Happy Scrapping!

1. Heart Stencil - PinkFresh Studios
2. Photo backing - Pink Paislee - TURN THE PAGE
3. The pink heart with "Love", The "Carefree" - American Crafters- FIELD NOTES PHRASES FOIL CHIPBOARD THICKERS
4. Stickers - Dear Lizzy Accent and Phrases (61)
5. Epoxy Flairs - SCRAPPIN HAPPY STUDIO
6. Clear Sticker Phrases - The Paper Studio - CHILDREN PRASES STICKER PACK (Hobby Lobby)
7. Title - American Crafters - PEBBLES GIRL SQUAD PHRASE FOAM THICKERS
8. Be You puffy stickers - PinkFresh Studio
9. Make Your Mark sticker - Bella Blvd Stickers
10. Awesome Smile sticky pix - Paper House Puffy Stickers - Ebay
11. Tiny Hearts - Doodlebug - SHAPE SPRINKLES TINY HEARTS
12. "This is Your Life" sticker - The paper Studio - AGENDA 52 (bought at Hobby Lobby)
13. Escape the Ordinary, chipboard stickers - AMERICAN CRAFTS
14. Find your joy, puffy stickers - Bella Blvd - MAKE YOUR MARK ICONS
15. Pink Sequence - Ink Road Stamps
16. The "Diva", "Fabulous", "this photo" and tags were all miscellaneous stash pile