Destashing

I am always trying to destash and us as much as possible on layouts. I find that when I start to cut papers and am left with scraps, I create more of a mess because I can't seem to get the small pieces to fit onto my paper racks and they eventually get ruined. So yesterday I hit the scrap room with the intentions of using whole sheets that have been hiding out on the bottom of piles in the racks.

I have been in sort of a transparency overlay state of mind which lead me to this layout.

I used Sandy Lion paper and a Best Creations overlay I have been hoarding for a few years. A couple of flowers, butterflies and Prima e-line pearls. Once I had everything in place I used Crate Paper rubons in the corners of the frame and spritzed the entire sheet with Glimmer Mist. Once the Glimmer Mist dried on the overlay, I took a damp paper towel and wiped away the drops of mist across my face.

Here is a Prima die cut sheet. I love the $1 scrapbooking booth which carries a lot of Creative Imaginations embellishments at the Scrapbook Expo. You probably wonder sometimes how I can stick so much onto one page. Well that is it. I have no love lost when I get a product for $1 vs. $6 in the store. If you ever want me to help you pick up stuff. . . early March and I think August or September are the shows. I can text you photos while at the booth. It's actually kind of crazy where you enter one side of the booth to look but have to stand in line to do so and it's the same line you stay in for check out. Boy do those women get catty if someone doesn't go with the flow. Ok so either I get the products wholesale (like the Prima flowers that are the same ones I always use in different colors) or the $1 booth. So I loaded up on CI's road trip embellishments. Nothing fancy and used a bit of ribbon to soften up a boy's line of paper and colors I don't tend to use very often.

I admit that I recently picked up this Prima sheet. but I used Diamond Glaze (it was so old the bottle cracked and I have it in a Frappuchino bottle) and applied it to all the water spots and puddles. I also hit the Stickles and applied Diamond Glaze over the rainbow once dry. Die cut some Prima pearlescent cardstock and  found some epoxy Mickey heads at the bottom of the closet. Riley is totally into hidden Mickeys plus they went along with the water theme. The orange parasol umbrellas were from Meri Meri (the hand made card company) where I pick up embellishments really cheap. . . think I mentioned that before. If you are local and interested in when they have a sale, hit me up.

I can't really tell you how long I have had this sheet. Maybe two weeks. . . haha who knows. But the Prima felt diecut and red K&Co. glitter letters and flourishes. . . many years. The black, glitter letters are Making Memories and the white flowers are Prima that I inked with distress inks. Queen and Co. music note brads.

Well I think I may have over baked my banana bread muffins in the over. Let me tell you that I tend to underbake by a minute or two. So this should make my mom happy that I have these babies over done. (Wonder if she's reading this.)

Little more Glimmer Mist fun

Since I came across these cute We R Memory Keepers stickers in my stash (most likely from the Memory Works retreat) I had to use them up. I knew I had some of the paper from Valentine's Day either a year or two ago. So I pulled it out and decided to make a masked heart with Glimmer Mist. Honestly I think my valves are clogged from the bottles getting shifted around in an over stuffed drawer because they are definitely difficult to spray and I get large droplets but that's ok. Nothing a bit of Kleenex can't fix since I like the texture effect that provides vs. paper towel. I cut a bunch of hearts on the Pazzles and then folded them in half. At that point, I layered three smaller ones inside to give them pop. I had an old jean pocket fall out when I pulled the paper out so I went with it. Easier to use it than put it back so I used red distress ink on the seams. I layered a bunch of the stickers with some fabric stickers I had from Oriental Trading. I didn't look too hard for a photo but I knew I hadn't used photos of Riley in her Rosetta costume. So I trimmed her out and stuffed her into the pocket too. The photo of the layout was over exposed but I only had seven minutes to try to fix it and upload to Shimelle.com before my laptop battery died.

Webster's Pages layout

I found one Webster's Pages sheet next to my bed that probably has been there for about two years. It was wrinkled but that's ok. Maybe any other line I would have been tempted to toss it but I went with the flow since there aren't so many LSS that carry the line around here. Anyhow, I did this for my class at Shimelle.com. It's basically using stickers. I went with a less obvious sticker look. I used Sassafras Lass felties and Queen & Co. Oh and I made my own little screen and used a Glimmer Mist watercolor technique (all over the page but the masked image is right behind the photos). I put in Dew Drops to add dimension to the other flowers. I had to distress the felt with ink to match the feel.

I did this muslin mini a while ago but hadn't posted it. I'll probably teach the techniques and construction with the decorative stitching at Asobi Arts in San Francisco. My next class there is this Spring album. I think I'll do this some time in April after I get taxes done.

Let's use up the brad and eyelet stash!

I am taking the Something for Almost Nothing class which started yesterday at Shimelle.com in an attempt to use up that old stash that keeps getting buried underneath all the new stuff. So the prompt yesterday was to use metal in a layout. I think I do best when there's some sort of challenge issued to me (like at work) than to just pull something out of the air. 

For this I stitched on a piece of wide ribbon (should have been longer) but we all know I don't measure anything. Then I used one sheet of Sassafras Bungle Jungle and a scrap of K&Co.  from the Valentine's collection I had laying on my table from making those little mailboxes. Then from there I used brads from BoBunny and eyelets from Oriental Trading and Making Memories. The metal letters are from We R Memory Keepers and the little "chick" is Meri Meri accents.

As for the SEI challenge this month, so far I made a simple bracelet out of twill and an acrylic heart from Prima. The line from SEI is Doodle Girl and I used Zip Dry glue and the iron ons from SEI as well that belong to the same collection.

And now for giant cupcakes. . . my favorite gluten free HoHos with lots of butter! Secret to my taking over the world, is that I feed them one cupcake but it's actually the size of two! Bwhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!