I was featured! Woohoo

Heather from Cut Mania featured my 2 LO. The ones I made using her cut files!! WOW, what a surprise.
Here are the two LOs

Thanks so much Heather.

Cut Mania Cut Files & Paper Issue's (P)inspire Me Challenge

I stumbled upon Heather's blog because of a LO she posted at the Stuck?! sketch challenge. I was very excited when I realized she had an Etsy store and was selling her cut files!! I bought 5 I think, and could not wait to play with them. 

I used 2 on the 2 LOs I made today and I don't think I did them justice. I struggled with my dull blade and unsticky mat for way to long. I order a new blade and mat so I will play with them again when they arrive.

I did both LO with the Paper Issue Mood board in mind.

I love things in rainbow order, so how could I not be inspired by this mood board.

I used Cut Mania's Heartbeat cut file on LO 1. I backed it with washi tape in a rainbow order. I skipped embellishments and let the heartbeats shine. 

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I made the mistake of putting ATG adhesive on the whole back, thinking I could readjust as needed but I think I used to much and the sections stuck very quickly and were not easy to move without damaging the thin backing paper. So it has a few wrinkles but over all this is a favorite of mine.

I journaled above a few of the heartbeats. I tried to match the colors of Thickers and letter stickers to the heartbeats to further the rainbow effect.

For LO 2 I used Heart Rainbow cut file. I love to use cut files, they can be alter slightly to better meet your needs pretty easily. I wanted the rainbow to be more like a target shape so I cut 2, one flipped. With all the issues I had with my blade and mat, I cut this one 3 times. The last time I took 2 of the rings out, it helped my dull blade to limp through and not rip the smaller spaces. 

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Again I used little embellishments, I wanted the contrast from the colors to pop. The original paper I cut was black with white text. I sadly only had 1 of those sheets of paper and it did not cut all the way through. I luckily had 2 of the the white with black text sheets. I think the cut outs will be great to use on another LO. Text printed hearts... swoon! 

I look forward to new upcoming releases from Cut Mania.

Stuck?! March sketch challenge

The Stuck?! March Sketch was a bit of a challenge for me, but I guess that is why they call it a challenge, right?

Here is the sketch. I think it is the flowers that made it difficult for me but I think I figured it out.

I used a cut file from The cut Shoppe for the center circle element, it also took care of my title.  I used the Echo Park Creative Agenda line, it was on my desk still from the last LO and I felt it fit my subject.

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I took the sticky note she was writing on in the pictures and included it in pocket I created in the top left corner by the journaling. I used a clear Zig Wink of Stella marker on the title, it  is hard to see in the pictures but it adds a touch of glitter.

 I love the results and so glad I stuck it out to finished this LO.

Thank you for taking a look.

Let's get Sketchy 5th week Challenge

Let's get Sketchy 5th week Challenge is a sketch and a mood board challenge.

This is the mood board I loved the yummy colors and polka dots. It reminded me of Echo Parks Creative Agenda Line

Here is the sketch.

And my take on it:

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 I left the sketch main parts where they were but did rotate the picture. I added a tag for my Hubby to journal his feelings about his last trip to Hershey, PA. I did leave off the pink to go with a more manly page.

I added a subtitle on the bottom and stitch it down.

Thank you for taking a look.

The Studio Challenges February Sketch

Today I had the urge to play in my scraproom. I used a sketch from the Studio Challenge blog.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my take:

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I used the February Jo-Ann coupon calendar for the background. I thought it would make a great background from the first glance at it in December  when I purchased the calendar.  

Here are the close ups.

Thanks for taking a look.

LOAD216 The wrap up

58 LOs in 29 days!! I filled 2 temporary albums.

Here are the LO in numbers:

4 about Jake

4 about Meg

7 about Chloe

5 about Syd

9 about siblings

7 about Darby (our dog)

1 about Hubby

5 about me

3 about our love story

3 about people we love (non immediate family)

5 about places we go local and far

4 about holidays

1 about things we do

I loosely use Stacy Julian's Library of Memories method of scrapbook albums 

Please ignore the pile under the shelf, this angle is not one I see everyday. 

From Left to right:

Aqua Project life albums from Jan-Oct 2015 the current PL album sits on my table as I fill it each week.

Brown My latest LO album - it is currently empty as I put away all the LO from 2016 into their albums.

Gold striped album is for Our Fur Babies-  was just created today as too many were in the people we love album

1st red is all about me- It needs to be 2 albums and will soon be.

2nd red is all about Hubby- It needs to be 2 albums and will soon be.

3rd red is Our Love Story- Just created today as it was love and parent/child relationships, the parent/child relationship got moved into mine and Hubby's albums 

Brown album is Holidays & Everyday family life - not many are everyday life as PL takes care of those stories.

Light blue is Place & People we love - It will soon need to be separated and it is full.

Aqua album is the new Siblings album (all about the kids relationship with each other.)

1st green  the younger girl's relationship with each other. 

The next 8 are  2 albums for each child they need to be organized a bit but are working.

As you can see I have filled the lowest shelf to capacity with these albums. The self above is only slightly shorter in depth and the albums would hang off about a 1/2 inch. That would not bother me but the printers would also have to be shifted up which might be more problematic. 

I have briefly considered going to 8.5x11 for the smaller album sizes, it is not what I want to do but I will revisit that again. It would create much more scraps and I would have to be careful of the real estate on each page I would lose.

I could store some of them in the basement scraproom, I have the shelf space there but this would take them out of sight out of mind. The kids love to go through them often. 

So there it is as I scrapbook more I run into a space problem that many face. One day I will hand these over to my kids to deal with but until then I will need to find a solution. When I do I will share but for now I am taking it LO by LO.

Paper Issues Featured LO

I had a LO featured on Paper Issues. It was based on the February sketch.

Here is a look at is again. 

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I am always excited to see my LO on others blogs of Pinterest board. Thanks Paper Issues.