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.)

Hybrid layout

Here's a hybrid I did last night while sitting in bed. The page curled (of course) after shooting it with a dose of Glimmer Mist. I also added Prima flowers, Stickles and the Glimmer chip (which came from the Glimmer Mist 201 class). Don't spray Glimmer Mist on your layout if you are doing a hybrid unless you know for sure your printer ink is waterproof.

St. Patrick's day teacher gifts

Since Riley has a pinch of Irish (it could be a dash, smidgen, tablespoon, cup. . . .) in her, we make St. Patick's day gifts. Actually this is the first time I'm doing it. These look way cuter in person. I kind of regret at this point putting on the Studio G glitter glue though. Here's why. It was only $1 for the bottle. I thought that it would be better than using up the precious Stickles. But the bottle is too hard to squeeze. And there's too much slime like stuff in the glue. I swear for only eight, four leaf clovers my hand cramped up about 9 times. And that's even using two hands to get it out of the bottle. It's in a weird drying stage now. Again, kind of slimey.

In my photo it doesn't even look like the penny is shiney. It is though. Inside I sewed three bars of Jolly Ranchers Apple sticks. The stamp was also Studio G by HamptonArt. If you need a template, please let me know.

I stitched about it all closed except for 1/2 of the last clover. With the needle down, I stuck in the three apple sticks.  It's kind of hard to stitch the rest closed but it does it. The ribbon covers the fact that I didn't close it up all the way. I wanted to stitch down the stem but I'm not that good. Oh by the way, the cardstock is BoBunny. I know. . . .all that good stuff and they'll just rip it open and throw it away.

SEI Granny's Kitchen cupcake magnet

I made another magnet for SEI's challenge. I decided since the line was called Granny's Kitchen I would make a cupcake. I used the Pazzles to cut the cupcake. Two layers of Diamond Glaze on top of the "cherry." The calendar was done digitally. I added Stickles and Distress Ink. The chipboard is Maya Road and for that I used Broken China Distress Ink and then added Interference Blue UTEE. The small clip is most likely Making Memories.

First layout in what feels like a year

I feel so out of things. Just got off the phone with insurance and the claim should be completely settled next week. I took a picture of my layout and it wasn't the same without the trusty Mark II but rest assured (for my own sanity) I will have a new one shortly.

Our back door will be replaced and it's kind of a weird feeling. But everything should be all right.

I took and desaturated Riley's hula picture and gave it a hand tinted feeling. DCWV amazingly was the only sheet of cardstock used. I am not a one sheeter. Picked up some Fancy Pants stamps at the Scrapbook Expo on Friday and wanted to use them. I just started stamping and went with whatever was happening. Used Heidi Swapp, SEI, Stickles, Autumn Leaves inks. Oh the saying means I love you.

Day 27 LOAD

One more day of LOAD postings after this. . . sad to say it's over. I actually thought it would be more of a challenge such as use at least three patterned papers, lace, and a clear element more so than just a simple topic. Oh well it was fun and only $6. No biggie. Today's layout prompt was to layer. I have been I think at least for the entire time. I feel I've become more of a random (look at least) layer-er over the past month. With a bit of thought I have attributed this new style to my digital scrapbooking. I've seen so much more potential and freedom away from blocky sketches (not that I've used them really). I really do have a hard time picturing things to do with sketches. Ok so much for my issues. Here's the layout.

You recognize the paper? It's the rest of the We R Memory Keepers Nonsense paper I used to make the interactive mini album in January. I put a scrap of Pink Paislee and used Stickles and Dew Drops. I wanted to do something different so I desaturated the photo so it wouldn't compete so much with the wild papers. Enjoy.