Pocket Scrapping - Week 1

You might remember last week when I said I accomplished a Pocket Page Scrapbook well I did it again! If I play my cards right...(my PML* cards that is) I will be sharing these pages with you all year long! Do you think I can do it?

We shall see. Here is week two. I had a pretty busy week full of pajama days...last few days of Christmas vacation. A road trip to take my little soldier girl back to her AIT (Advanced Individual Training) and a nice overnight visit with my grandmother, whom is 97 and still lives independently.

The first thing I did was go through my photos and decide which ones I wanted to print.

Side note: when I decided i wanted to try Pocket Scrapbooking again I ran across a few good tips. Go through and edit or delete my photos every night. Make up collages and print them in 4 x 6 format at your favorite printer. Take notes if you can. Don't stress about it.

Ok so back to my page. I decided what photos I wanted and sent them to my local 1 hour photo lab and then I started working on my page. This week turned out to be all about the stories and less about the pockets. I added a few tabs and a few other little embellishments and "didn't stress about it" and called it complete. I love how it turned out!

One thing that I often get stuck on when I scrapbook is the story. I know this and so I have taken classes and bought books but I still cannot figure out how to make my story the way I want. I think that is why I ended up loving this page. I just talked about why I selected these photos (out of about 50) or what was going on in the photos. Now I didn't end up scrapbooking a few of the photos that I took but I just set them aside for now and I can use them in other pages or in a mini album or something. 

*Picture My Life

Supplies from CTMH unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock: Pomegranate, Seaglass 

Pattern Paper -  Sugar Rush

Embellishments - Sugar Rush Complements, Sugar Rush Dots

Other - Sugar  Rush Washi Tape

Consider it Cased - Flowers

A little just wanted to share a card today. I have been working hard in the studio playing with all sorts of new goodies.

I saw this adorable card on Pinterest and just fell in love!! I had been on there grabbing some inspiration for my new Close to my Heart cartridge Flower Market.

This card came together quickly and I will for sure be making some more awesome projects with my newest Cricut cartridge. 

All Supplies from CTMH unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock: Poppy, Fern, White Daisy 

Stamps: Flower Market Collection

Ink: Poppy

Pattern Paper -  Enchantment Fundamentals

Embellishments - Black Shimmer Trim , Clear Sparkles

Other - Flower Market Cartridge, Stitch Guide, Piercing Tool, Bone Folder

Throwback Thursday - You're a doll

Do you have old supplies? I sure do and I try to use them. Sometimes though I come across something I just had to have. I could simply do so much with it and just use it for this and that and this...and then I get it and it sits.

and sits

and sits

and then you come across it when you are organizing your supplies and the guilt sets in. I recently went through all of my supplies and found several such items.

I thought I would bring back a series on my blog here called Throwback Thursday only it won't be with awesome photos from my childhood (and they are awesome) but with old supplies or some weeks it might just be an old project that I loved.

So here is the first installment I hope you enjoy it

I mixed the old with the new here. This russian doll is an old stamp of the month that I have had for about 3 years and the blue paper is from the Enchantment Fundamentals pack from CTMH. 

Life is Sweet

So is this little card. I needed a couple of birthday cards this month and here is one of them.

I was playing along over at Sketch N Scrap and this is what I came up with. How about you do you like sketches? How do you typically make cards?

Card Sketch #90

I also played along for Card Sketch #89 

I made that one for my sweetie. I probably should have saved it for Valentines Day but I just wanted to make his day extra special and a card is a great way to make that happen.

Supplies from CTMH unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock: Palmagranate, White Daisy

Pattern Paper -  Sugar Rush

Embellishments - Sugar Rush Complements

Other - Sugar  Rush Washi Tape

This is the year - Pocket Scrapping

For the last several years I have said I think I will try Pocket Scrapbooking. Every year I sit down plan what to scrap my first week order photos and stare blankly at the page and set it aside and go back to the traditional way I scrapbook.

This year it is a little different.

I have been trying to be more active in my scrappy groups on FB and less active in the other things you find on FB. This has been amazing! I have been scrapping more, organizing more, interacting more. I love it! So I mentioned how I had been organizing more, well I discovered I have a TON of pocket page protectors...and I am not kidding! I have like 90. That is a whole album and then some. So again this year I vowed to start pocket scrapbooking.

Here is what happened.

I did it! It went pretty smooth. I did have to figure things out and I swapped stuff around and changed out my photos a few times but I did it and I love how it came together.

I shared this on Facebook and had a lot of questions about that page protector. It says Stampin' Up! on the side so it must be from one of their value packs or something as I have only this one. I will list out the other supplies below they are from Close to my Heart.

Have you tried Pocket Scrapbooking?

Supplies from CTMH:

Cardstock: Pomegranate, Seaglass 
Pattern Paper -  Sugar Rush
Embellishments - Sugar Rush Complements
Other - Sugar  Rush Washi Tape

A little tour of my Studio

Hello everyone it has been a while. Life has been well simple and hectic all at the same time. I have been working on getting my studio back in order for a couple of months and I think it is finished for now. I still want to get some craft cubes and I think I have some more stuff in the basement to go through and find a home for. I thought it might be nice to show you around while it is still picked up and looking all fresh and bright!

Here is my main space I am standing at the doorway taking this photo.

A close up of my side table. I was so happy when I saw that my cricut carts fit here as before I would just shuffle them around. I also just finished organizing my pocket cards. I still need to sort them into portrait, landscape, and journaling. For right now they are sorted by color and I think I will be able to use them a lot more now. I plan on trying to do some pocket scrapbooking in the near future since that is packed full.

Here it is open I just have some planner supplies there as well as extra cuts from when I use the cricut or die cut machine. You can also see I have embellishments in the first and last drawer and washi tape in the middle. I still am not sure how I ended up with so much washi...I never buy it somehow it just appears.

Here is what I keep my cricut on. I love it because I can move it around and the paper just comes out the back and back through the front and it doesn't need a lot of room. I also have gems and tools in the handy little rolling card it sits on.

 Here is the file cabinet on the other side of my desk I keep my sticker packs, accessories, and chipboard letters in this. On the bottom I just have files with ideas and sketches.

Here is my handy expedite I have some albums, unfinished pages, my December Daily from last year, some wedding stuff, books and tools inside. Up above I have all of my colors as well as my ribbons, brads and buttons. 

 Here is a close up of the rainbow goodies.

Oh and here is the "mess" all the other stuff I need but don't need out. Lots of stamps and all of the things I plan on putting in the cubes i mentioned up above. I also have a whole bunch of color pencils, watercolors, and chalk in the dresser that my binge TV sits on. I also have unused albums and unused page protectors in there.

Well there you have it my latest studio tour. It will be a while before I get all the cubes that I want to but once that happens I will give you an updated tour. Have a great day and look for some art work soon. Now that I have the playhouse all clean and organized I have been spending some quality time in here.

Happy Times...or something like it- BTF Challenge 21A

Hello everyone

Our Challenge for the next two weeks is using Close To My Heart's Happy Times Paper Packet or its Colour Palette which includes the following Close To My Heart colours: Fern, Juniper, Glacier, Cotton Candy, Hollyhock, Canary, Goldrush, White Daisy & Gold.

We are featuring a beautiful paper pack from CTMH that features Canary, Fern, White Daisy, Pink, Magenta, Mint & Gold. This paper was exclusive to consultants in April and to customers starting in May but since I am just a customer I tried to get a feel for this paper pack using what I had on hand. I hope you like it, I hope you will try and play along as well.