Sunday, April 14, 2013

March Project 12

I waited until the last minute to get this posted.  Hello, my name is Erica, and I'm a procrastinator.  :)

Anyway, when I started my layout this month, I had no idea what paper or embellishments I wanted to use.  None.  I spent probably an hour looking through the tons of paper I have and getting "kits" together. Then another hour trying to decide which kit to use.  I almost gave up.  I went back and forth so many times my brain got whiplash.  Finally, I decided that I wanted to use a cute Dear Lizzy paper from her 1st line with little Easter eggs all over it.  I based my color scheme off that paper and just went with it. 
 

Now, you may ask, all of this based on that one little strip of egg paper?  But, there will be an 8x8 insert about Easter that will have quite a bit more of that paper.  Well, it will when I get it done.  :)   

My layout turned out a little greener than I thought it would, but since it's March, I was okay with that.  



I hadn't really planned on doing the confetti pocket behind the title, but once I started stitching the vellum down, I thought it'd be fun.  I like how it turned out, but I didn't like all the punching.  My hand started to hurt after a bit.  

Once that was done, I started trying to decided what letters to use for a title.  And what goes better with green then gold?  So I finally got to use my gold glitter thickers! I love, love, love these!

In the other pockets I scrapped about St. Pat's Day, going to my nieces birthday and Becca's first solo attempt at spaghetti.  She loved it btw.  


The top pics are from the last storm Indiana threw at us.  It's almost spring and we get 8", the most we've had all winter, dumped on us in a day.  Of course we had a snow day, which the kiddos loved.  Even Jon got a snow day, so they had some fun outside.  

Our Spring Break was this month.  We try to hit the zoo every spring break.  It was really cold this year, but the kids didn't care and Becca had a blast!  

The last pic is what the kids came down to Easter morning.  I used a pre-lined card for my journaling and am now seeing that the lines were a bit close together.  I got all my journaling in this block, but it's not so easy to read.  I might have to redo that one...we'll see.

I will post the little insert when I finish it and show how it looks all together.  

Thanks for stopping by  :)

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Done with March

The month and the kits :) 


I got two more pages done with the Gossamer Blue kit this month bringing the total for this kit to 6!!  This month's kit was so fun with all the bright colors.  I had a blast using it!

Page 5


I meant to journal all this before I actually took the pictures, but got a little ahead of myself.  It will basically say that we stopped for a bite to eat on our way out for my birthday and got silly.  That tends to happen a lot with us.  Love it.

The only thing I added to this were the red letter stickers and the glitter Thickers.  The rest all came from the kit.  :)




Page 6


 

So, I know Lent is over, but I wanted to do a page about one of the things I gave up.  I had this pic from a get together (we always have too much candy) and knew it would work great with the bright colors from the kit.  The design came from a Marcy Penner sketch I'd seen awhile ago.  Not sure when, I just know it was hers.  Once I'd decided to split the page like she did, I knew I wanted to add in the ruffle using the tissue paper packaged with the kit.  I think this might be a thing I do...try to include a ruffle on one of my pages every month.  I love ruffles and I might as well reuse the tissue paper.  Lord knows I have enough here already and don't want to just throw it away.

So, there you go.  I can't believe how many pages I got done this month!  And I thought I did good last month.  I wanted to show off to my family, so I hung them all in the dining room.  Maybe that should be another monthly tradition.  :)



It's really a lot of pages.  Happy, happy me!!

Thanks for stopping by :)





Sunday, April 7, 2013

Neverland was a hit kit!

I have done three more pages and a card with the Studio Calico kit.  Giving me a grand total of 7 projects!!!  WooHoo!!!  This kit just kept giving me ideas and inspiration.  It didn't hurt that I am in love with all the Dear Lizzy and Amy Tangerine lines and the SC paper was super cute, too.  Enough chit chat, onto the pages.

#1


I know I've talked about this before, but I added in several things to all the pages from my mountain of supplies in the basement.  What's the point of it being there if it's not going to get used??  On this page, I used the fun Amy Tangerine rub-ons.  I added them to pattern paper and onto plain cardstock which I then painted with watercolors to match the page.  I also used my watercolors on the camera at the top.  It was previously a light gray camera, but now has a lovely pink outlook on life.  I used the mask again on this page.  I thought I would have trouble using it, but it went ok.  Then I added in some sanded cardstock triangles, some washi tape and some gems and enamel dots.  I'm glad I finally got this cute, cute picture scrapped!


NUMERO DOS


The subject of this page is one I'm sure you'll see lots of, my favoritest bridge in the whole world (with the Golden Gate a close second, we share a birthday :) ), the Mackinac Bridge.  Every time we are in the vicinity of Mackinac, we HAVE to stop and get pictures.  I've had this 5x7 sitting in my photo box for years thinking I was going to frame it, but this is a more fitting home, I think.  I really wanted to use that skyline paper from  the Amy Tangerine Yes, Please line, but couldn't think of any city pics off the top of my head.  So, since the buildings are something awesome and man made and the bridge is too, I though it would work well together. Hence the title, Modern Marvel.  And then because I'm me and my page just felt too linear, I sewed on some ribbon ruffles.


LAST BUT NOT LEAST


This was my page and card combo.  This Seeing Double Two Peas challenge really made me think about how I was creating visual triangles.  This concept was in the back of my mind, but I didn't always pay too much attention to it.  I used color and shapes to make the triangles.  You'll  notice I paid close attention to this on all three of these pages.  Also, using the scraps from a page to make a card always makes me happy. This was a win win challenge!
I had to add a little pocket on the back of the page for the journaling.  I wanted to write it directly on the layout, but once I had penciled it in, it just didn't feel right.    

This was the last page I used the mask on.  I sprayed some cardstock with different color mists.  I cut out a few of the arrow shapes and sewed through the middle of them.  For the card, I mirrored those shapes with stickers and hand cut pattern paper arrows.


Now, I just have a couple more pages to make with my Gossamer Blue kit before I can open up my new kits.  Well, I'll confess that I did already open the Spencer kit from SC.  It came the other day and I just wanted to drool for a second or two :)

Thanks for stopping by!


Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Two more...sorta

So when I was venting (whining) about my time frustration before, I had completely forgotten about a page I'd already done for Gossamer Blue.  Silly me.  So I'd actually done 3 from Gossamer Blue and two from Studio Calico.  No need to get all crazy at all, huh?

Here is the one I didn't post:

 

I had fun using my watercolors on this page.  Lately, I want to use them on every page!!  This was the sketch challenge for March and one of the other Gossamer Blue members used mine for her scraplift for March, too.  :)  Thanks Heather!!  Check out her awesome blog here!



And here is another one from the Studio Calico kit. 


 This page went pretty quick for me until I had the main block done.  Then I just thought something was off.  And I sat and stared at it for almost an hour.  *ugh*  Finally, I decided that it needed a border and my sewing machine came to the rescue.  I didn't want to cover any of the beautiful paper up, so the stitching added just enough of a border that your eye stays where it's supposed to and not wander off the page.

Can I just say, by the way, how unbelievably happy I am that I can now use my sewing machine.  I don't do it on every page, but if I want to now, I can.  I don't have to rely on my craftier friends.  Only the slightest bit of anxiety remains when I start the machine.  Yay me!!  Let's hear it for overcoming weird fears!!




That's it for now.  Until next time :)

Monday, April 1, 2013

Pages noticed!

Hey!!  I have some cool news to share with you.

One, a page I did for All Ready Memories was featured on the My Scrapbook Art blog!!


So excited to get that message.  They will search the Two Peas gallery for inspiration pieces.  The post is all about mason jars and I had used some on my page.  The other projects are super cute, too!!


And two, one of the pages I submitted for the Glitz Guest designer contest was featured as a cute entry.  



I didn't win the spot, but they liked it enough to put it on the blog.

Then, some awesome friends of mine pinned it.  I was surprised to see it when I logged onto Pinterest. Made me smile all over my face :)











Oh, oh...then I went along for the Glitz Uncharted Waters blog hop and randomly won an Uncharted Waters prize pack.  EEEEE!  I was so excited for that!  I started jumping up and down and the kids thought I'd lost it.  So, my time spent has paid off.  I think I will not be whining for awhile.  :)

Thanks for stopping by :)