make the most of it!!

sometimes you have to pack light,, going to a crop is fun, but sometimes very stressful for me.I want to take everything in my room!Yes I know that is not feasable, nor realistic, although I have tried a few times!(no kidding!)
Anyway, my point is that sometimes u have to grab just a few things, and make the most of it. So one saturday at 8am, my friend calls and says, "I can scrap today, but I only have a few hours,so how soon can you be here?" Well this sets of the panic button in my head ...........WHAT DO I TAKE?.........OMG!I CANT BE READY TO GO CROP IN 10 MINUES!!...........IT TAKES ME DAYS OF PREP TO GO TO A CROP!!!............
So I go into my craft room and after several minutes of hyperventilating I gather these supplies,

Some lovely papers by lillybee,pennylane, and some bazzil cardstock(my staple supply)some matching ribbbon and fibers,thickers for titles and some matching buttons.
and I was able to make six layouts and one card from these few supplies! I was pretty proud of myself,, it can sometimes take me hours,to complete one layout, and days to prepare for a crop!
so here are the layouts that I made,, what do you think??

So Special

I hear a lot of people saying that they never scrap anything about themselves, or they are never in any photos because they are always the ones taking the pictures. I am no exception to this and even though I don't like to see myself in photos, I do believe that I need to be true to this art form and allow myself to be in more pages of my scrapbooks. So...with the theme this month of being "Love is in the Air" I thought I would do a special page of one of my greatest loves - my little boy Owen. This photo was taken Mother's Day last year at my sister-in-laws house.

For this page I used the Together line from Chatterbox. If you haven't taken a look at this line before you defiantly should, because it if full of fun and unique designs. And to be totally honest I am a sucker for adorable embellishments and who doesn't love felt? The stitched felt embellishments are so easy to use and they add so much to your page.

Love Tag

I am stopping by to share a quick and easy tag that can be attached to a gift, a package of candies you've made for your sweetie, even add it to the front of a card. When I have scraps left over from other projects I try to make a tag or small card. To attach the tab on the top of this tag I secured with a brad. You could easily attach this tag to the front of a gift bag.

Mojo Monday #6

Happy Monday everyone!  I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, which in our house consisted of Football, Football and you guessed it...MORE FOOTBALL.  It's a good thing that I have come to appreciate and actually enjoy Football. 

Today our Mojo challenge is to add TEXTURE to your scrapbooking pages. 
     texture (ˈtɛkstʃə) — n
          1. the surface of a material, esp as perceived by the sense of touch

In the world of scrapbooking there are so many kinds of texture. Texture can be created with paper, ribbon, stickers, pop-dots,embellishments, etc.  Have fun with this and think out of the box.  Anything that adds dimension can be used to enhance your story.

Here is my TEXTURE inspiration.  I used tuelle, ribbon, chipboard and pop-dots to add different degrees of texture to my layout.

Have a great week!

{{Hugs}}

some more jilliebean

Well hello there all our lovlies,,I decided to shre wih you a little layout I made from an older Jilliebean soup line of papers. Jilliebean is always so cute, and you can do so many things with it..
Some times I like to scrap things that are random, things other than my family and friends.So this time I decided to scrap this awesome tree that we found while visiting Charlestown SC. I LOVE this tree it is beautiful, and has so much character.
So I used the beautiful Jilliebean papers to highlight it. I used some felt thickers and some ribbon to bring it all together.
well here it is, have a peek......

Silly in the Snow

Considering the amount of snow that everyone has had lately I thought that this layout would be appropriate for today's post. I have had this adorable photo of my son's daycare friends for about a year now, and I wasn't sure how I wanted to scrapbook it. However, after going through some of my paper stash I found this adorable paper which is Frosted by Fancy Pants. The snowflakes are so playful looking and I thought what a perfect line for this fun photo.

I used a Bazzill chip snowflake, inked it with blue ink, embossed it with clear embossing powder, and then I inked the edges again with brown ink. I wanted to use the embossing powder that I had purchased so I went for it and I am happy with how it turned out.

Bee My Valentine

Happy February everyone! I am here to kick of this month's theme of "Love is in the Air" here at That Scrappy Girl. I will admit it. I'm a bit of a dork and love the clever puns that are often on cards. I am also a girl that loves her pearls and jewels as you can see on my projects.

My favorite part of Valentine's Day?? Helping the kids with their valentines. Of course this Mom is always a bit behind and of course nothing has been bought yet. Their parties aren't for 10 days...so I have a little time! Mine only have a few years left before it stops being cool to give Valentines and I'll miss helping :-(