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.)

Back to scrapping!

Yeh! Now that the puppy is getting use to us and we're getting used to him, I've found out that he leaves my scrapbook supplies alone. So now I can have him lay in his bed I made him in the room and get back to what I love doing.

So to get back into the swing of things I did some quick layouts. I found this photo of Riley from when she was about 20 months old. I used Making Memories paper (got 25 sheets for $2 at the sale so I need to use a lot of it) and various embellishments from Colorbok, Oriental Trading and of course Distress Inks.

Here's a layout I did really about my stepping on these Littlest Pet Shoppe toys. We R Memory Keepers, Basic Grey, Maya Road and Sandy Lion.

And an ode to Buster. . . This I think is Prima, Making Memories, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, and Creative Imaginations. He's had a hard week whether he knows it or not. We've contemplated keeping him and well think we've worked through Riley not being the only one getting attention in the house. So for now, he's here to stay. Don't worry though. . . if he goes, he will go to a friend with all the stuff we've spoiled him with. He went from living in dirt (although he still likes laying in it in the backyard) to being inside on his fluffy beds and sleeping bags.

We R Memory Keeper mini album

Like the sheet of Webster's Pages I had done a layout on yesterday, there say an unfinished mini album I had started. So last night I finally committed myself to complete this baby with photos and embellishments. I used various stickers (since the theme for my prompts was stickers).  There was a bit of Sassafras Lass with their cardstock blossoms with the button centers, old school Around the Block acrylic, We R Memory Keepers chipboard and cardstock, puffy stickers (the cherry blossoms), Sandy Lion, felt, glittered, paper lace, Heidi Grace, and epoxy stickers. i probably would have went overboard if I could have gotten my hand into the drawer to pull the stickers out. Gees I tell you for someone who isn't fond of stickers, I sure have a lot of them!

Disney altered book

I did a Disneyland book this afternoon for my mom's friend who lives in SoCal. We met her (and her daughter and grandson) on the last day at the park. I used Sandy Lion and Pinecone Press paper. Chipboard is also Sandy Lion. There's Stickles, Maya Road Ribbon, K & Company glitter chipboard, 7Gypsies knob, The Cat's Pajamas dew drops, Heidi Swapp stamps, Momento inks, and Lil' Davis chipboard. I used star Christmas tree trim I picked up years ago at Big Lots as well.

I didn't want to fill up the book with photos but put a few inside. Because I won't be completing the book, I didn't want to print up or adhere the photos to a mini album (contained inside the drawer) because you never know how much paper would be needed.

One thing I've learned is that I really need to practice making things for boys or not to want to use flowers. I didn't want to use bling or glitter but I couldn't resist the glitter. Michael says boys don't want to look at this type of stuff but Tony has a sister too. They can share.

Mix and Match layout

I am horrible at mixing and matching papers and manufacturers. I don't think it's a matter of patterns but a need to feel a little OCD about it. The prompt for Day 19 of LOAD was to create a list of what you wouldn't do. Well, I don't do lists for one. Seriously it gets me nowhere.

As I was cleaning up my stuff yesterday and feeling a bit behind on the layouts (it is Day 21 you know) I went and grabbed a bunch of stuff that was all the same color. Scenic Route was all about left overs from last year's Memory Works Retreat. I got a ton of stuff there. In the end I used. . .
Sandy Lion paper, Scenic Route diecuts, CTMH, bling, popsicle sticks, SEI stickers, DCWV, Fiskars chipboard, and Oriental Trading chipboard. So this lead me to my "I won't. . . " topic for the day.