Something New

I was looking through a scrap magazine and came across stitching (by hand) on scrap paper. So I thought I would give it a try. I took a piece of paper that I didn't really like the color of...but now that I've put the work into it, I think I'm going to try to use this paper! It was fun!

I drew an outline with pen, so you can see that some. This was my first, experimental flower.

My Paper

It's been a while since I've posted anything on this blog. I just ordered a bunch of pictures (since I ran out) and just today I bought all this paper. I think differently now when I buy paper. I'm trying to change things and have been enjoying it. I no longer look at a page and think that's the only paper for a page layout. It makes me more aware of what's out there and paper I would have otherwise passed by. It's fun trying new things and thinking out of the box!

Oatmeal

I painted the brown paper with light blue. The letters were something I traced and cut out. I didn't have a lower case "t", so I drew it while trying to stick to the style of the other letters. I really like painting the background of plain paper. It adds a lot to a page.

Bath

The background page is not painted, however I did paint around the pictures and quote card. All of the circle paper was some kind of polka dot paper. I've really been liking that lately.

Cherries and Tomatoes

I cut out the cherries and painted the stem.

For the font used for both pages, here is the link
http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/2Peas_Arizona.htm .

3 Pages

Papa & Leah

SCC and Garden Buds

First Paint Page

As you can see, I used white paint for the base border and then thin stripes of pink and black. For the journal card, I painted on the paper and then printed over it. It worked pretty good. It was fun playing around with the paint. There is a lot you could do! Oh the possibilities!

$3.69 AMAZING Deal!

I've seen people use paint in different scrapping magazines and have been wanting to try it. I saw that JoAnn's had some on sale for $1.39 a bottle so I set out to go there and stop at Michael's. Well...I couldn't find JoAnn's (still finding my way around GR) and ended up going to Micheal's before it would close. To my amazement, the had paints on sale 3 / $1.00!! I called Christina to make sure this was ok to buy, and with her approval (HAHA!), I bought these! I could buy 4 at Micheal's for the price of 1 at JoAnn's. They are normally only 50 cents, so that's good to know for the future. The little foam "brushes" were only 6 cents. Ha! They are normally 39 cents. The regular brush was 39 cents. So for 9 paints and 3 brushes, I only spent $3.69!! AMAZING!

Titus and Leah

I love this quote!

This was fun to do with cutting out the flowers and mixing the two different polka dots.

More Pages

Before

After

Pages of Leah

Sorry, this picture was taken a little on an angle.

Tuesday...so far

Uhhh...this page may get changed...

Monday Products

I saw an idea similar to this in a magazine and wanted to try it. I spent over an hour on Saturday trying to create something with the circle paper and these pictures and nothing was working! So I put everything away and started fresh today.

Before: This page just wasn't "doing it" for me. I tried various things with it but kept having problems. My main problem was finding paper to go with Brandon's shirt, and it wasn't easy!

After: The page above was just really bothering me so I took it all apart and went with something simple.

I didn't have to do much with this page since the paper is really fun and busy. I'm just not sure if the flowers go...

Saturday Page #2

I REALLY like the heart brads I used. It was the first time using them.

Saturday Page

I tried a couple of new things.

#1: Using index prints. I wanted to use more pictures from this day and this was my way of doing it.
#2: If you look closely, I cut out three circle in the patterned paper strip and used the holes for journals. I thought that was a pretty neat idea. Haha!

Oh yeah, in order to see the index prints or anything else on the page, as always, just click on the picture and you'll see everything better.

Guest Book Idea

I saw this in a Creating Keepsakes magazine and thought it was a really cool idea for a guest book. It's just an 8x8 book with a picture of their house.

Here are what the pages look like or could look like depending on what your style is. I like how there are different questions asked and that there is a picture taken of the guests. I think it would be a lot of fun looking back on years later and seeing how people changed.