Summer Crush

I am sure we have all had a summer crush at some time in our life and this summer I am totally crushing on Andrea Bethke. For my second Summer Camp challenge I am challengein you to tell me about your summer crush, who is inspiring you right now.

I took Andrea's One Magical Mini class on Big Picture Classes and fell in love. Like me she loves Disneyland and mini albums. I was inspired to finally get started on my Disneyland Midori. You can see how I made these pages on my video here 

I made a cute shaker pocket for the cover of my first notebook.

I used the Minc foiling technique from the class to make this fun gold castle for the inside page.

Our first stop was a Breakfast with Minnie in the park where we met Minnie and a bunch of other characters.

The food was amazing and I loved the cute Mickey Waffles.

I hope you stop by in a few weeks to see part 2 of my Disney Midori.

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Friday Inspiration with Joy

This week is another Inspiration Friday with Joy. This month we are taking our inspiration from Ashley Horton a fellow scrapbooker and owner of The Cut Shoppe on Etsy.

I decided to use the free Summer cut file from Scrapbook Nerd for my layout. You can see how it came together on my channel here:

I am using the lovely Maggie Holmes Bloom collection for this layout and I love it.

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Layout Tag

I participated in a game of layout tag over at Scrapbook Nerd, I love playing these they are so fun! Here's the video of the process:

I did one of my favorite things for this layout - fussy cutting. I cut all the pretty flowers from an Amy Tangerine patterned paper and layered them in a circle.

Then I added some of the fun rubber embellies in this collection - I really love these.

The photos are from the day we took my youngest son's grad photos so we stopped at some scenic places and took a bunch of photos. I really love how they turned out.

If you want to check out all the layouts and how they changed over the course of the game head on over to ScrapbookkNerd.com.

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Scrapbook Nerd Summer Camp

It feels so good to be scrapping again, its been so busy these past few months I haven't had time to do anything. I decided to play along with the Scrapbook Nerd Summer Challenge which is a sketch and used the Amy Tangerine Better Together collection.

I had some fun pictures of my youngest using the SnapChat filters and had to scrap them. I try and stay in touch with the stuff the kids use to socialize so I can keep in touch with my boys. SnapChat is a lot of fun!

I added a pocket and some tags to hid my journaling.

Head on over to ScrapbookNerd.com to play along with the fun summer challenges and games and maybe even win a prize :)

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Scrapbook Nerd Summer Camp

Hi all, I was missing all the amazing ladies at Scrapbook Nerd so I asked if I could be a guest designer for their 4th annual Summer Camp. For my first challenge "Campfire Songs" I am challenging you to use lyrics on tour layout.

I used this photo of my son's grade 7 class and the song I chose for their year end video from Owl City called Verge. The lyrics are perfect for grad and my favorite line was "out on the verge of the rest of our lives".

I am using the Amy Tangerine Better Together collection from Scrapbook Nerd which is a really fun collection and has some fun journaling tags.

I used them as layers and also made a pocket to add some journaling cards.

I added some cards in the pocket and used the Our Playlist to write the songs that Linden is listening to right now and also used the Good Friends tag to write down his friends and teacher and other details.

Head on over to ScrapbookNerd.com to play along with some awesome challenges, games and prizes.

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Love this kid

I used up my left over Hello Love collection from Crate Paper to make this layout about my oldest son. He helped my husband at Gottacon last year and it was so fun to watch him.

I added some fun watercolor and ink splatters to complete the layout. I am so proud of this kid.

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Happy Valentine's Day

Here is a fun little project I made for my sweetie. I used the Crate Paper wood veneer frames to make a fun shaker wall hanging for him.

I also used the sequins and journaling tag from the Crate Paper Hello Love collection.

It was so easy to turn these into a shaker to see how I did watch the video below.

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Layered Tags

I love making layered tags, they are so fun to make and can be used for lots of different projects like a scrapbook layout or a card.

I used the Crate Paper Hello Love collection and layered die cuts and the cute gold hearts to make these.

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Valentine's Treat Box and Bags

I love making pretty packages and for Valentine's Day I made some treat bags and boxes for teachers and coaches. For the treat box I recycled an old ribbon box and turned into this yummy treat box.

I added the frame and the decoration from the Crate Paper Hello Love collection.

Filled the box with treats and it was all done.

I also made some cute bags using the same decorations. These are so fast and easy to make.

I just hope I don't eat all the treats before Valentine's Day.

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Let them eat cake

It's Scrapbook Nerd's 3rd birthday and we are celebrating over at Scrapbook Nerd with some fun challenges.  My first challenge is Let them Eat Cake...

Add some fun cake elements to your project like this pretty chipboard cake from an old Maggie Holmes collection by Crate Paper.

Hope you can join us and join in on the birthday celebrations.

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Planning for December Daily

Hi all I shared a quick video on my channel today showing my prep for December Daily this year, I am so excited to get this project going.

I hope you enjoy it.  Are you planning on doing December Daily this year?

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Christmas Part 1

I love Christmas it's such a happy time of year and I love creating gifts and cards for friends and family. I always seem to struggle with Christmas layouts so this year I made myself a promise that I would do at least two Christmas layouts and guess what...I did it.

First up I did a quick layout about sweaters, the boys always get a new sweater every winter for our Christmas photo and I wanted to document that.

For my second layout I made a rolled paper Christmas Tree to add to the layout.  I love all the fun dimension it gives it.

Do you struggle with Christmas layouts?

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Special Kitty

I love our cat Buttons, she is so funny. She likes to go for walks with us, is a great hunter, loves to cuddle with all of us and makes us all laugh.  I love coming into a room and seeing her snuggling with one of the boys, makes my heart melt.

Of course they are busy playing video games but she sneaks her way in there anyway lol.

I used the burlap bag to hide my journalling.

So cute!

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Halloween Wrap UP

We had a great Halloween and I even managed to get some Halloween layouts done - yay me :).

First up I scrapped this photo of some pumpkins, I love this time of year for photos, there are always so many colors and beautiful fall icons to snap.

I used the Crate Paper After Dark Collection which is so much fun, love it.

I also scrapped these yummy treats from Krispy Kreme, they are so good!

I also made some fun treat bags for the teachers/instructors.

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Scrapbook Nerd October projects

I made a quick video of my October Scrapbook Nerd projects - Enjoy :)

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Happy

Yes he makes me happy but he also drives me crazy I just choose to dwell on the good parts lol

I love these dip dyed tags from Pink Fresh Studios and they worked perfectly on this layout.

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