Christmas Cards

I've seen some questions float around about what to do with your holiday cards. Put them all in a big box, throw them away, how would you scrapbook them? Well this is what I do with them :) Of course I scrapbook them. But cards can be puffy and if you have a lot take up space in your album. I got this idea from Ali Edwards, she's awesome! Your page will vary depending on how many cards you have and what you cut out from each card. Make sure you look at all your cards before you decide what to cut :) Here are my pages for last years cards. All the paper/stickers is from SEI and the tag title is from Ek Success :) I created some cards too with the scraps! Enjoy!!

You Make It Challenge

Oppies this saved as a draft instead of posting ... im so sorry :P 

YAY its February already! I can't believe how fast the year is going by already. Well this month besides the fabulous sketch-a-thon that is going on at My Sketch World, I get to host a challenge (yay again).  So my challenge is called "you make it". Have you ever had a moment where you are at a scrappy store and you see something really cute and go "ohh I can make that", well now is your chance! 

Click here ---> YOU MAKE IT CHALLENGE 

Ok the details ... scallop paper is from Bazzill (medium square green tea). scrunched fabric, is actually book binding tape from Making Memories, its an oldie but goodie! They also make the pins that are the flag post and some of the brads. Some of the knick knacks on the edge of the frame are just from my treasure chest in my art room, including the real lacoste shirt label :) The little green luggage is from Junkitz. The little glitter letters are from Creative Imaginations. The big foam letters are from American Crafts, who doesn't love thickers! Bo Bunny found its way to the page too, its the photo mat (:

Flags/Pendants ... so I'm thinking of posting a video and a template so you all can make your own ... what do you think? HINT: if your going to scraplift this page, I cut a line closer to the bottom and put the flagpole (pins) in there, so they are actually behind the layout, I also tucked in the patterened paper, this is a good trip so you don't have to worry about hiding or covering up the ends of the flagpoles :)

Time with the Girls

I made this last month and I'm not sure why it didn't get posted, but here it is yay! :) this layout was really tough at first, having such non girly photos and of course the range colors never mesh well so printing them in black n white leaves more room for play with the paper. I picked this paper cause I liked the soft tones in it. This layout was really fun to make, plus I got to go through my treasure box (a draw with lots of random goodies!) and put lots of fun stuff on the page. I used the December Sketch from My Sketch World, go check it out and be inspired!

Well of course this page has my favorite cardstock, PRISM! The patterned paper and large journaling cards are from Fancy Pants. The tags, little green journal ticket, silver metal strip, paper clip and the ceramic white little flowers are from Making Memories (Travel). The white puffy wings are actually from a Hello Kitty wallet, they fell off and they were too cute to just throw away so I put them treasure box for a special day to put them on a project. The large scallop was die cutted with this Die from Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts. The twine was so much fun, I glued down to the edges of the insider large pieces of paper. A simple technique that adds some exciting texture! Enjoy xo -Kat

Dog Days of Winter

Hello Hello
I know I've been MIA, but I'm excited for the new year and its starting out great :) I had a super duper vacation and ready for work and school to start up again, sorta (:

Here is one of recent creations, I used the January Sketch from My Sketch World. I have to say this sketch rocks, I am definitely going to use it again!!!!!

The patterned background paper is from Die Cut with a View, the colors were perfect and I had lots of other goodies in my pet draw that matched so I was excited to be using my goodies :) I think we all know who the cardstock is from, my favorite PRISM! The solid rick rack and twill ribbon is just from my ribbon jars, the paw print ribbon is from Boxer (I just went to there website and saw they are closing so sad, they had some awesome goodies!) The chipboard sticker is from Bazzill an the chipboard icons are from Ki Memories. This layout was super fun to make and hope you can use it to inspire you :)

November Sketch

As soon as I saw this sketch, I feel in love with it. I am excited to say I am coming up to the end of scrapbooking the year 2008, can you believe it? So go check out the sketch and see if it can help get your creative juices flowing (it sure did for me)!!! They rock over at My Sketch World :)

This layout is of my little fluffy cupcake, she passed away last year and its still been tough, but here she is Christmas tree shopping :-) She even had her pearls on too! The paper is from SEI, most of it was just from my holiday scraps. Inque Boutique made the stamp, still miss them, love the rubber cling stamps, they are awesome! The lights are from Jolee's, I have to admit they have really changed since I first started scrapbooking and I love it. Of course the letters are from American Crafts, the green ones are HERE. Ohh I almost forgot about the border punch, its from Martha Stewart, its one thats half punch and half emboss, I sanded the edges so you can see the flakes on the punch more.

October Sketch

Holy cow the time always seems to fly by even faster towards the end of the year. Well with a new month upon us its time for a new sketch at My Sketch World! You can check out the October Sketch and all the great pages the design team has come up with. Below is my take on the sketch (:

I created a criss cross weave pattern with the paper and then placed it on the page at an angle. I also flipped the sketch and instead of 1 large picture I used 2 smaller pictures :) The journaling is behind the title which is on a envelope! The paper, tags and border is from Crate Paper, this collection is my favorite, I just love the color tones in it. Of course the title is from American Crafts, I'm a thicker addict!

Layout Challenge

I am so excited to be hosting a Layout Challenge at My Sketch World (yay)!!!!!!!!!

My challenge is called "LLL" ... ohhh ahhh!

You need to try and use these 3 L things on your layout, so who's up for the challenge and ready to get some scrapping done :)

drum roll......

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Ta da!

LACE, LETTERS AND LOVE!!!

Here is my example:

I used LACE cardstock, chipoard LETTERS and this page is about my goddaughters birth so its filled with LOVE!

These are some close up's :-)

Cardstock is of course my favorite Prism! The lace cardstock is from Ki Memories, I love love this stuff it just rocks!!! The flower ribbon is from American Crafts, I love the white because if you want to you can dye it to match whatever project your working on. Chipboard letters are from Maya Road and sprayed with Glimmer Mist. The banner paper is from Basic Grey and stamps Hero Arts, the best banner set you can buy! Making Memories makes the small abc stickers, they are my go to letters (: The butterfly transparency is from My Minds Eye. Another favorite of mine is the flat scallop cards from Paper Source, whenever I'm near one I always have to go in and grab at least one stack of these :-)

Go check My Sketch World for more information :-)

One Hour Sketch Challenge!

Tonight at My Sketch World, my friend Ginni, was hosting the One Hour Sketch Challege (OHSC)! Whoa an hour to create a layout, it may sound like a challenge, but it really was a lot of fun. You do get some hints before the night of the OHSC to help you prepare, but I didn't have much ready hehe :) I really liked how my page came out and my mom even played too! The next OHSC is Oct 15, hope you can join in (:

I was so excited to be able to use some Bella Blvd. The paper, cut outs and word cut out is from them. The banner is from a marvy tree punch that is supposed to be a tree :) The circle I cut out with the new giant Creative Memories circle cutter, I love there cutters and this big circle was a great investment, no more plate tracing for me. The transparency and foam letters are from Creative Imaginations and of course the cardstock is Prism! 

September begins ....

Whoa, I can't believe September is here already! Things are in full swing here: school, work and my start as a Layout Designer with My Sketch World. I am so excited to be a part of this sweet sketch site. You can check out the September Sketch ! Below is my take on the sketch, I flipped it to the side :)

The shape paper is from Bazzill and the cardstock is from Prism ( I really miss them!). I love American Crafts and there thickers, I used them for the title. The paint splats are from Sizzix, its one of the original dies (yes I have alot of stuff), I cut chipboard and cardstock with it to give the shapes some more dimension. I traced and cut out the journal shape from another journal card :). This layout is when I painted the "potty", it was pink all over but I thought it needed a change so I painted the walls brown, so the potty would have a color combo of pink and brown (my fav!).

Some people have asked me where do I get the color combo's for the layouts, well I have this handy dandy book! Its the best ever!!!! Its called the Color Scheme Bible. It has all these colors you can just flip through it and tada! First I look at the colors in the picture and see what I think will look best with it, flip through the color bible to find the colors! :) Its super easy and so helpful. Here is a picture of the book below! I orginialy purchased it from Barnes and Noble, but I'm sure you can find it at any bookstore.

Bye Bye ....

So when I get in a rut, I have this jar in my scrapbook room that has lots of little ideas on strips of paper. Yesterday I was in a rut so I got the jar and pulled out a couple of ideas for me to play with on my page.

Here are the ideas I got: Corner Rounder (I did some of the paper and the entire page), Tear Paper (this was fun an oldie but goodie technique), Chalk (I had to do some digging for that), Patterened Paper (easy enough I have tons of that) and Brads (I used ribbon slotted brads).

Patterened Paper: October Afternoon. Ribbon & Cb Shape: Unknown. Brads: Bazzill. Mist: Tattered Angels. Journaling Spot: Heidi Swapp. Chalk, Pen, ABC, Corner Rounder: Ek Success.

I had lots of fun making this layout, even though I got stuck in the beginning. Its all about me and starting the process of getting my braces, so bye bye went the wisdom teeth. Hope everyone had an awesome weekend! xoxo - Kat

Quickie on Christmas

PP, Cardstock Stickers, Journal Stickers: Jenni Bowlin. Bling: KaiserKraft. Pen: American Crafts.


On Christmas I had about an ounce of spare time to make this quick page. I had fun trying to start and complete a page in less than an hour. It was nice to get back into the scrapbook room. So excited for the new year, hope everyone had a nice holiday too!

Half way there ...

I wanted to get into my art room but was in a little bit of a rut, I had these half made pages from a class at CHA by Imaginisce. The pages have been in my room for a quite some time, but they were perfect for these non-girly photos :-) and to get me in a rolling start in my art room.
Enjoy Kat <3

Everything is from Imaginisce minus the chipboard letters (american crafts/shoebox), cardstock (bazzill), Stamp (unknown) and embossing powder (ranger/puffs).

Vote

I made this layout way in the middle of the night during a late night scrappin adventure with my friend. This was for the 2008 election :-) It was again inspired by the challenge jar :D Unfortunately I must have put the slips back in the jar and I have no idea what they were lol I do remember one was use a sketch which is exactly what I did. It was altered a little because I only had 1 photo for this layout. :0)

The cardstock is from prism (yay prism). The patterened papers are from rusty pickle, I don't know why I don't have more of this collections its awsome and the only 2 sheets I had :-P. Bling is unknown. The stamps are from gel-a-tins, lovin the stars, I had to lighten the layout so you can see the images stamped on the dark blue cardstock. I used Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink, the best one out there in my opinion.

Enjoy <3 Kat

rainy

This layout took a little bitt to do and had a rough start. So I grabbed the challenge jar and picked 3 things: die cuts, ink & highlight words in journaling. Below is the result :-)

The cardstock is shimmery from Prism, they made the best cardstock! The raindrops I embossed on the layout. Pink Paislee made the sticker letters, love the font! The cloud stamps are from Love Elsie/Ki Memories. The ink is from Tsukineko its Versafine in black, its the best out there! The die cut small tag is cut with the cricut. I am not sure who makes the beads, wire & the large tags. To highlight the words in the journaling I used chalk.

Just a Jar

So the other day I was playing in the art room and trying to figure out what to do with some photos I had. Well on my desk is a little friend that is there to help me out when I am having a duh moment. His name: Challenge Jar!There are strips of paper in there with different ideas. To help me out I pulled out 3 strips which read .... chipboard, art medium, transparency. This is what I came up with :0)

In a flash....

I made this layout the other day, just a quickie to get the juices flowing :-)

If your like me you probably have tons of scrapbook stuff, so I picked my minds eye and wanted to use there awsome goodies :D

Happy NSD ....

YAY got to make a layout today :-) My hand is doing better with the new brace and I'll try to get back into my room later tonight!!!! I made this layout for the ki challenge! Hope everyone is having an awsome day. -Enjoy Kat

 

Layout Challenge Friday by Bo Bunny

So every friday on the bo bunny blog they post a super cool sketch for you to try out, so I decided to play along with this past friday's sketch :-) Here is what I came up with Enjoy!!!!

This was my first time making a flower embellishment for my page and a banner too, it was so much fun. Ohh yeah and the paper folding technique too :)

 

Aunt Cousin Faffy

 

 A layout for a silly girls family scrapbook :) . Lots of stuff going. Today I had physical therapy for my arm/wrist, it went well. Nothing too exciting today, just trying to relax and move forward. Hope everyone has a nice day.

rainy days

Well we haven't had much rainy days here its been pretty sunny but I made a layout about one horrible rainy couple of days we had back in 2008! The park where I go running at has a lake in the middle and it rained so much you could barely read the warning sign about not going in the lake hehe. American Crafts rain drop paper worked perfectly for this layout. :-) enjoy. I was filled with creativity to do this layout from the Inspired Blueprints Blog! A great sketch blog, I added there link to my inspiring blogs link to the right --->