It Feels Good to Scrap Again!

It's been about two months since I've scrapped, and I've missed it so! This weekend, I had the perfect opportunity to scrap. My friend Tracee celebrated her birthday this weekend, and we had a virtual birthday party through Skype. Fi, Tracee, and I all made party hats. They made quite elaborate hats. Mine was cheesy, but festive and fun.

So part of the festivities involved scrapping, and Fi had set up some challenges for us. One was to use the current sketch up at Sketchabilities but to use black and white with one extra color, transparencies, and a stamp. Here's the sketch we used:

I was kind of grumpy because I thought the sketch was going to be so difficult to fit six pictures onto an 8 x 8 page and I wasn't happy being limited in my colors. I like colorful pages. But as it turned out, I was happy with the way the black and white looked with one color and I managed to find a set of pictures that I was able to crop into squares from a trip to Rhode Island many years ago. I had a little trouble photographing my page at night in my basement scrap room, but here it is:

Here are a few details. For Fi's transparency part of the challenge, I used these clocks from Teresa Collins. The brads and rub-ons, as well as the background paper, are by BasicGrey.

The flourishy designs were cut from an old Foofala paper. The leaf stamp is by Autumn Leaves--it's also pretty old--and I used Zing embossing powder. The other black and white papers are My Mind's Eye Lush. I thought they sort of looked like lattice, perfect for a garden page.

Here's another reason for my grumpiness. When I moved, something killed my printer, so I didn't have it to print photos or journaling. I hate the way my handwriting looks on my pages, and I almost didn't journal, but then I'd feel like something was missing, so I just went for it, and I didn't end up hating it this time. There are some more of the Teresa Collins clocks, which I used for the circles in the sketch. The butterfly was something I had printed off a while back. I got the image from the internet.

Happy Birthday, Tracee! So happy that I got to scrap with you this weekend. It sure felt good to scrap again.

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Scrap-It-Lah

Holy cow! Has it been a whole month since I've blogged? It's been over a month since I've scrapped, and believe me, I've been going through major withdrawals!

But I'm all moved into my new house, and I finally have internet (I tell you, two weeks without the internet made me a very grouchy girl), and my scrap room is almost set up, so hopefully I'll be getting in there real soon to make something.

In the meantime, I'd like to share a layout I made a couple of months ago when Helen Tilbury, a scrappy friend from CCG, asked me to be the November guest designer for Scrap-It-Lah, Malaysia's first non-profit challenge blog. The girls over at that challenge are so creative and sweet, so if you haven't had a chance to play, you must go take a peek at their blog. Not to mention their challenges are fun and they have a wonderful RAK up for grabs this month--a Studio Calico kit.

Here are the details of the challenge I had to follow:

 

All layouts must please incorporate the following

{thereafter any extras may be added}

 1. Layers - at least 6

2.  Stamping and/or embossing

3. Tags or journaling cards incorporated into your design

(not necessarily used to journal on but can be if you choose)
And here's what I made:

Lately, I've been on a mission to use up some of my older stash, and that's only been intensified as I realized how dang much I truly had when it went from drawers and paper carts and baskets into boxes as I was packing.  The layers part of the challenge was perfect for using a bunch of older stash. I've had that Narratives die-cut paper in my stash forever. I had to trim it down for my 8 x 8 page. The red paper between the blue and yellow is the B side of an old Fancy Pants paper. All the flowery paper is cut out of some K&Co paper I snagged on sale a while back. The yellow damask is Echo Park, and the red polka dot paper is by The Girls Paperie.

I decided to try one of The Color Room's palettes for this page, and since I knew it wouldn't be shared for a couple of months, I went with an older palette. I added green, from the leaves, but I loved the pink and red along with the blue and yellow.

My camera was having issues, so I only got a couple of close-ups that weren't blurry. I'd take more pictures, but my layout is packed somewhere and hiding. How I love those K&Co. fabric brads. I hoard them! You can see one of my layers is an old My Mind's Eye transparent frame. The bees are Pink Paislee stamps. I used embossing powder to make them nice and bold, and I mounted them with pop dots.

There's my favorite Cats Life Press stamp (Random Memories), which was made at my request. Such a great company! I used some old "vintage" Primas and a super-old sticker (#1 Mom washer word). I think the journaling spots are by Elle's Studio.

I'd like to thank Helen and the Scrap-It-Lah ladies for having me join them this month. Such a fun challenge and a great excuse to pile on the layers and pull out the stamps! I hope you'll take a look at what the design team made and join in the fun!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and reading about my page today!