Layout Love Linky ~~ The Halloween Mini Edition

I love me some Layout Love Linky!

Ashli at The Purple Mailbox hosts this terrific linky each month.

Please visit her right here and lay some love on her will ya?

She is just the best of scrapbookers!

So for this edition I wanted to show you my Halloween mini.

I started making Sir Cuteness a Halloween mini last year,

and he just loves it!

So this year I wanted to carry on the tradition.

He loves for me to dress up with him,

and so I, of course, obliged my sweet gbabe!

Here is my cover page all decked out with some confetti love.....

This book pretty much, like last year, centers around the library party.

Sir Cuteness and I, 

or should I say Tom and Jerry,

all painted up and ready to go =)

The journaling stamp I won on another blog over the summer,

and I love it!!

Also the houndstooth tissue is the signature

tissue from Paper Issues.

I love that etsy store.

Love.

I love this boy so!!

A little Tim Holtz love on this one.....

I do love me some details.....

This page was so fun.....

I know you can't see it,

but I heat embossed the spider on this page with the tags.

And another journal stamp on the center tag.

I love this boy so!!!

I love the expression on his face.

He'd just made the pumpkin match =)

Thank you for visiting my little part of LLL 

and thank you Ashli for hosting.

You are a joy!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty kind of day ~~

CKC November Project & Glitter Girl Adventure

So this is a little different November Kit Project.

Let me explain.....

Over at Two Peas, Glitter Girl has a challenge this week

to make a Christmas page without using any Christmas collection papers.

What a GREAT Challenge!!!

So what's a girl to do?

Well first, pick your picture,

and what a special memory picture this is.

Then a girl should go to her CKC ,kit for November and see what she can make work.

So I went to my Simple Stories Harvest Lane papers and looked to see if maybe 

I had a "B" side of something that would work,

and lo and behold,

there is a deep red, like a brick red polka dot on the back of the floral print,

and so it came out on my desk.

Then I grabbed a green cardstock from my kit, and started there.

I took my cardstock and got messy.

I used some Jenny Bowlin paint and my Mr. Huey's Mask

and took to maskin'

I loved that result,

so I added some Mr. Huey's Calico White,

and then started layering and adding all kinds of goodies.

I did pull out a couple of papers not in my kit,

but would work well on this page.

Then title and even part of it is from Simple Stories Harvest Lane,

and then added some white letters as well.

Then added twine and there we go.

I have some very fun pages coming (not Christmas =).

This kit has been my most fun and productive yet.

I am just loving this productivity!!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty kind of Day ~~ 

CKC November LO's

I am LOVIN' this November kit!!

I love all the colors of Fall,

and this kit really shows off those colors.

YAY!!!

So this first page is a page I misted using my new Mister

Huey's mask.  

I have never used one like this, so this was fun.

Not perfect.

Have some practicing to be doing,

but I do love the way it turned out on this page.

The title says "Wearing the Chair"

made with Thickers I got on clearance because they were coming off of the package.

Easy peasy.....just add a little adhesive to the back as you put them on the page...

cheap and easy!

The washi you see in the corner and on this tag,

I designed completely out of the washi,

is actually washi that malfunctioned.

It stopped sticking.  

Weird eh?

So I just add adhesive to the back and keep going.

I love this tape!

And the tag turned out so cute.

Loved it!

And the pictures of my gbabe = PRICELESS!!!

What a fun page this is.....

Sir Cuteness and I were playing with his Waldo glasses from his Wendy's Kid's Meal =)

As I am looking at this page,

I am realizing there is no title.

Funny thing, I kept wondering what it was missing =)

I shall fix that!

OOOO pretty!!

I love this page!!!

This is a page made about our "Designed for Life" Women's Conference

at church this year.

It was life changing and a beautiful time with the LORD!!!

Priscilla Shirer brought it DOWN!!

Things I love about this page:

the vellum strip down the middle.

The flowers feel velveety.  

Love that.

The flowers:  O the flowers.

These were cut with my THoltz die using a pretty paper scrap (really old)

and corrugated cardboard.

Love.

Yep and lots of washi to frame the journaling.

I love these boys so!!!

My sweet man, Mr. Winslow,

and our beautiful, exciting gbabe Sir Cuteness.

It just doesn't get ANY better than this!!

This was such a fun evening.  

It was the first time that Sir Cuteness had shot his new bow.

SO FUN!!

I love details.  It is the way I scrapbook.

This page has lots of little details.

And on this one, I used the wording on the border strip

at the bottom as my title.

So there we are for now.

I have some more to show soon =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty Kind of day ~~

YAY!!! YAY!!!! YAY!!!!! November CKC!!!

Note:  I have a question at the end of this picture heavy post,

so please read the end as well and help a sista' out =)

Thanks ever so much.....

Now on the the challenge =)

I am SO excited for this month's challenge!!

I must say, I didn't even really care what it was,

I WAS IN!

I have been absent from CKC for the past couple months

because of such a busy schedule,

but I am so pumped to be back!

And with such a great kit!!

Lots to choose from this month,

I picked Simple Stories Harvest Lane

to counterfeit this month.

I already had some papers and elements for it,

and have SO many fun fall pages to get to scrappin'

that I knew this would just be the perfect one for me this month.

So without further ado....

My papers are:

3 Simple Stories Harvest Lane 

4 Fancy Pants Summer's End

5 Sheets Cardstock:

2 Brown

2 Green 

1 White

1 Hambly Screen Prints Transparency

Bo Bunny Forever Fall 

Simple Stories Harvest Lane Alphas

Simple Stories Sticker Sheet

Summer's End Border Strip

Some Scraps from the Stash =)

Yummy DIY Tags + Lovely Etsy Tags =)

Die Cut Hearts

DIY Journaling Spots

Punched Out Butterflys

Negative Die Cut Flower

with a green background (that I will straighten up & glue down =)

I won this journaling stamp set back in the summer,

so I'm definitely putting this to use this month. 

Here is said journaling stamp in action.

Stamped, even some embossing,

and  the one on the bottom right 

I messed up on, but I'm still gonna try to use it.

We shall see =)

Misc. die cuts, borders, journaling spots and all around loveliness.....

More journaling spots and an etsy find that I've had in my stash

for ever so long.  I took apart the mini and am using it in this month's kit.

So there you have it.....

my CKC for November.

Now a question:

Do y'all do Daily December or Journal Your Christmas

or a combo of the two or something completely different?

And do you put together a kit?

I want to get the basics done this month, but need a little direction.

Thanks so much!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty Kinda Day ~~

Layout Love Linky

It's been such a busy couple months.

I feel like I have been out of the scrapbook loop for weeks.

But I am back!!!

And let's have some Layout Linky Love.

This collage I have had for some time,

and decided this week to get it onto a LO.

I have started making embellies off the page per Shimelle

and adding them to the page later.

I LOVE this idea!!  

It has increased my creativity.

Love this boy so and the elements on this page =)

All of the LO's in this Linky except for the last one,
were made from a Kit I made for the
Kitastic class.
What an appropriate name for this class.
Loved it!

Hahahaha!!!
And this is the first page I have used sewquins on,
and I love it,
and this funny, funny boy!

This page was so fun!!
Lots of techniques I've learned on this one.

And this last one,
is a LO for a class I'm doing right now at BPC.

So there ya have it.....

Layout Love Linky.

Thanks Ashli for hosting this.

So fun ~~

Have a Blessed and Beautiful

Crafty Kind of Day ~~ 

Wonderful Linky August Love

My goodness,

it has been almost a month since I have posted.

August is such a busy month for us.

Many birthdays and lots of family fun!

Well I participated in a BPC Class,

28 Days of Sketches,

but I didn't get the chance to post many of them

and still working on 'em,

but Linky Love is a perfect opportunity to share some of the LO's.

This was Mother's Day 2010.

Dak took me to Old Chicago.

And WOW did we eat Cake.....

CHEESECAKE AS BIG AS MY HEAD!!!

And of course, I LOVE the details!

Here is a tag that I made during May's Camp Scrap.

This was such an interesting foil technique.

I made this tag, but didn't post it,

because I wasn't to sure how I liked it,

but WOW on this LO, I LOVE IT!!

I LOVE to mix and match my letters for titles.

It gives my page interest and well.....

detail =)

This paper is so very old on this one, and it felt really good to get it out and use it.

I'm trying to work through some of my older papers,

mixing them with newer ones.

Oh sweet doodle twine,

how I love thee!

I love your versatility and how you stretch my 

creativity.  

I so indeed love when I have a ribbon epiphany.

It makes me happy.....

giddy really.

=)

This LO looks so simple, 

but was one took some time.

I cut out the chevron and pop dotted every other row

for texture. 

Love it!

Ahhh sweet stickles, 

you get me every time =)

This page was such a joy to work on.

I'm really starting to see a style developing.

YAY!!!

The details on this page

make my heart go pitter-patter.

I found this unused stamp in my stash and put it to use.

YAY!!!

I stamped and then colored with Distress Markers 

and added some bling for tires.

And then the letters for the title are the same style just different colors,

but Oh the detail.

I did pen work around the letters but not all the way around.....

So fun!!!

Love the whimsy this brings to my page.

About a month ago, I won a set of journaling stamps.

What a Blessing!!!

This is one of my favs!!

I used to be so bad at journaling, 

but now I absolutely LOVE telling the stories of my pages.

This g-babe brings us such joy,

that telling the story is the highlight of the page along with the pics.

Yep, I'm loving this!!!!!

These last 2 are not LO's but tags.

This one I did in about 15 mins or so.

I didn't have long and so wanted to do a little crafty fun, 

but didn't have a LO started,

so decided to do a tag.

So pretty!!

And then this is one I made for a LO page,

but it didn't work out,

so I was left with a tag with no page to go on,

but I want to remember this technique,

so it will probably go in my art journal.

I heat embossed lines for journaling,

and LOVE the result!!!

Want to remember this gem.

So I know these were a lot of pics, 

but when I am a slacker for almost a month,

that is what happens at linky time =)

Thank you Ashli for hosting this.

You are the hostess with the mostess!!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Crafty Kind of Day ~~

~~ Sentimentally Speaking ~~

This is the first time I am linking up with SimonSaysStamp Challenge.

This week's challenge was to make something with a sentiment,

so I decided to take my add on CKC card kit and make a couple of cards.  

I found a card on Pinterest that I liked,

so I decided to do a little scrap lifting and

Voila'!!!

Lovely card!!

A close up

detailing the details =)

I actually made this card first.....

Love the colors.....

and the vintage page in the middle.

Let's detail it, shall we?

This was SO fun!!

Have a Beautiful Blessed and Lovely, Crafty Kind-of-Day ~~