okay - so will I find time to scrapbook this month???

read previous post!!! We are opening a new store, moving into it and there is LOTS to do!! Oh yeah and there is the Fall Creative Gathering to prep for...oh and maybe something else in the works I cannot share with you yet...but soon:-) I am seriously a little cookoo!!  But I know you will all put up with me, and irregular blog posts and everything else, and I will need LOTS of coffee to get through, so I take my coffee with 2 cream, thank you very much:-)
Anyways.... here are some fun summer pages I did recently in a Class in Red Lake, both layouts were using sketches that I got off of this website  Inspired Blueprints  which I found out about from the lovely Tanya Dery:-)

 This layout is working off a sketch that Tanya did a class on at our last Creative Gathering - I used the fun "Sew Easy" tool to create the stitched banner on the side of the page:-)  Paper is from Hey Sunshine by My Mind's Eye.

Using the leftover diecuts from the above layout, and a little more paper from the same line, and another awesome sketch from the site above, I came up with this layout too!

I encourage you to visit the site if you are just looking for a little inspiration to get you going!

S

Loving that Sunshine!!

time to capture it!  Check out these projects that I made with the Little Yellow Bicycle "Lemonade" line.

First up- this mini book!  The Paper envelopes and inserts, binder rings, grommets and String all come in this adorable kit for $9.49.

first I inked the grommets with my Old Olive distress ink pad & then put together the envelopes according to the easy instructions inside the packaging of the album **you will need a Crop-a-dile or an eyelet setter of some kind to attach the grommets and string. Next - I added a few "word" & "Image" stickers from the same line...as well as some chipboard & journal cards from the matching accents!  The chipboard and image stickers even have glitter on them (hard to see in the photo - but sooo great up close!)

I printed a bunch of 3x4 photos from a Sunday adventure at the beach and there you go...Sunshine in a mini-book:-)
Then because I was still having fun - and had to use up the great leftover embellishments, here are a couple of layouts!

the edge of the paper is the Bracket border punch from Fiskars, and then the zig zig border is a Canvas border sticker from the same lemonade line.  They are self-adhesive so they just stick on, soo easy - as well the pennant banner in a photo above is from the same package:-)

check out that distressed edge! I used the Zutter Distezz-it machine on my cardstock for this layout...and I am in LOVE!! It's noisy, but soo great the way it just messes up the paper.... I think I will be adding a new toy to my collection shortly!

I hope you collect a little sunshine for your layouts & projects today and feel inspired:-)

S

Salt Air - Cosmo Cricket

Just a few pages with this fun summer line!

see that "hint" of sun?  I used a My Little Bicycle die cut paper as my mask and sprayed over it with "Sunshine" glimmer mist.  I used the Martha Stewart "Seashell border" punch for the bottom border. The patterned paper & the little doilies are fr Cosmo Cricket.


Here is a layout of my adorable niece and daughter wanting to be mermaids in the sand at the beach!

I used Ali Edwards stamps, Salt Air paper, chipboard & stickers, Plain "Sunrise" chipboard thickers which I altered with Glimmer Glam and Glaze.

We still have Salt Air in the store and online!

I hope you feel inspired today!

S

scrapping those beach pages...

well I don't know about you, but I have a little "Beach babe" in my house, she's 4, she's cute as a buttton, and give her a sandpail, shovel and water and she is good to go:-)  Using the Whole Fancy Pants Beach Babe line, all the patterned paper, the buttons, the chipboard & flowers and brads. I scrapped all these 12x12 layouts about some of our days at the beach (well one layout is at the pool - but who's counting!)

There you go - lots of ideas for your beach/summer pages today.  Now all you got to do is get into the store and pick up some of the beautiful paper and fun stuff!!
(P.S.- not quite sure what Fancy Pants was thinking with the 1 red patterned paper in amongst all the bring teals, greens and pinks...but oh well I still made it work:-)
This is the way I like to scrap when I have a large project, With a complete paper line, all the matching paper and accents, the ideas just flow, you use up every last piece of product for your project and then you can say "Loved using you, see you later!" and then grab another paper line and accents for another project :-)

I hope you feel inspired!

S