December daily

This is something fairly new to me... i tried a couple years ago to do a daily in September, and i partly succeeded, but THIS YEAR i'm convinced i'm going to succeed!!! i HAVE to. That's all there is to it.

The idea of the album is that you record the events of a day, and feature a photograph to represent the day. I have done the first 5days and have been journaling the other ones while i wait for the pictures. Anyway, here's some pictures of what i've been making. Keep in mind that sometimes the pages show peeks into past or future pages since they are all different sizes, some as big as 6x12 some as small as 4x6.

here's what i did.... and keep in mind, i borrowed much of this from a gal on willow traders so i'm not the genius :-)

1. took a KI memories sheer delights and cut it in half to make the covers mine is the scalloped polka dot (that I won in one of the challenges AGES ago, thank you Kristen!!) seen here, scroll down http://kimemories.typepad.com/celebrate ... ights.html

2. then i took a maya road album that i'd not used yet that was made with tabbed chipboard and 5 binder rings and scavenged the rings off it. I'll replace them later, i just didn't want to have to buy anything to make this since i don't have any money.

3. so i used the chipboard cover as a template for punching holes in the front and back cover of the sheer delight. Then i put in some white heart shaped eyelets- the only big size eyelets in a matching color that i had, to support the holes in the cover better.

4. then i cut papers down to various shapes, sizes, scallops, circles, brackets, plus used tags, envelopes etc, as pages. i left it a few days short because i plan on inserting memorabilia to act as half the day page for like the kids Christmas programs etc.

Here's a pic of one of the inside spreads. I'm going to add pics, journaling and embellies, of course



here's the pages, in order... hopefully! i'm in a hurry and need to get off the computer!

A few notes- i used a bunch of leftovers from various kits, most are from a Scenic route kit from over a year ago from Transparent touches and tags, but its a pretty big assortment. I really enjoyed using glimmer mist. I primarily used it to cover the backsides of some of the patterned paper, like the first page spread, but it was so much fun i did some other parts too. i love the cool airbrushed look of it.

Apronstrings 25 days of sketches!

Ok, so this is just too much fun, i had to post about it! The fabulous Apron Strings blog is going to feature a new sketch every day! wooohoo! its my goal to do them all. I'll be posting them here.

You can find the awesome sketches here

and i'm going to post each day's sketch here as i get it scrapped, photographed and uploaded!

I'm going to post these backwards...

Day 8- This baby will earn me 2 extra draws in the contest since it is both a double page and is using an Apron Strings Kit, woohoo!



day 7


day 6- using an AS kit



day 5- using an AS kit


day 4- using a super cute AS kit :-0)


Day 3-


Day 2-

Day 1-

sharing some more.

Its been a really productive scrappy time for me! just thought i'd update with my latest creations.

scrappiness!

wow... its been a fantastically productive last couple weeks scrappywise! thought i'd share a few of my favorites.

This one i like how it turned out, and i love any layout that has the MIRACLE of a flattering picture of me! this has a couple so it automatically hits favorite status


Speaking of flattering pictures of me, this is my favorite picture ever, so this one will count too. And i also love the picture of elliott, where i had accidentally flung a tiny bit of icecream on his head and he made the most hillarious face! heheeh.. and the tree down in the left hand side, is symbolic- the top branch has 2 gems for me and andy, and the rest have 1 gem, except for one of the bottom ones that has 2 for the twins :-)

Ok, so this one was totally one of my new favorites.. and i really need to retake the picture on something OTHER than one of my babies' loud puppy dog blankets :-) but you get the idea..



this one was not even close to one of my favorites... actually it drove me bonkers trying to get the flowers to not pop off the page. i settled on ATG adhesive, and a pop dot in the middle of the flower and then stapled the heck out of the center. This was an idea posted to serendipity by my BFF Teresa about how to make them so that's why i'm posting this one :-)


Cards- thinking of making some sets to etsy to raise some extra funds... whatcha think??


and here's a few more that i like but don't have any comments about.

Featured on a really cool blog!

Check it out! my latest "scrap-therapy" layout was featured on this really neat blog i just discovered! They have some fantastic journaling prompts. GOOD stuff!
http://forwardprogressnow.blogspot.com/

I got started on my Scrapperie guest design kit, the LOVELY Country Club. This is a beautiful rich LOADED kit, filled with gorgeous rich blues, browns, oranges... ahh... its heavenly. i have both the original kit, $30, and the first additional kit, $20, and its going to last me forever i think! Yet, there's so much variety within that i won't have a problem using it up... eventually.... :-) So here's what i made.

First is this one. The title is in reference to what my oldest calls one of his twin brothers. "his pet" He always brags, "I prayed for twins and God gave them to me, and Asher is my pet!" I wanted this to have a quilty homey feel so i pieced the 4 center pieces of patterned paper together and sanded the outside edges. i added the flowers and buttons, and then the rick rack for a sort of cloth-like feel.



This is just a simple address book. I'm getting ready for the Christmas holiday and needed one so i took a spare composition book and covered the front and back with patterned paper. I kept it simple because i know from experience that all the embellishments are going to either fall off or look really bad anyway!



I am WAY behind on my month in review books! so expect to be seeing more of these! This one i took the one patterned paper with the big circle design and it screamed DISHWATER to me. (LOL) so i created more bubbles, centered the paper on the dual cardstock layout and added embellies and pics and journaling around the design.



This one i had a lot of fun with. I covered the argyle like chipboard with patterned paper and the negative space i was left with I used on the lower part of the layout to mimic the design of the chipboard. I added the alpha letters to make the chipboard piece "POP"



ISn't my little sweetie precious?!? He's such a gorgeous little grump (though he's starting to cheer up and smile a lot more recently!!) i wanted the pics to steal the show on this one though i did take care to mimic the circle design. This was inspired by a sketch from the AMAZING Jana Eubank! find it here http://scrapperie.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13118&hl=



I don't know... i'm weird i guess but the first thing i thought of when i saw that stripey paper is, "this has got to be a heart!" Like i said, weird. I know that's not a logical reaction to stripey paper! Anyhoo.. i also used ink to make a variegated color on the chipboard buttons. I started by inking the whole button one color, then i took a complimentary color and blended it into only one side of the button. then i took another color and did the same to the other side. It makes for a subtle or dramatic variegation, depending on the colors you choose. I was shooting for subtle.


So, that's all i have so far, but i will be uploading more as i make more! fun fun stuff. I don't know if there's any kits left, but if there is, you aught to snatch those babies up! WELL worth the money.
Scrapperie Country Club Kit
Also check out October's kit.. its LUSCIOUS!!

SUPER exciting news!!

I got word last night that i won the September guest designer contest at http://www.scrapbookdreamer.com/
how exciting is that!? I'm looking forward to November where i get to guest design on their message boards, post challenges etc. And i'm hoping to be a blessing and get to know new people etc. And how exciting to get chosen!! I won with this layout


I will post some more of my recent creations, IF There's time as well as posting for sure my layouts created with my current guest design team position at scrapperie on the 7th which is reveal day :-)