a little bit of me.

{Studio Calico's June Kit Revealed}

Studio Calico's June Kit - 35mm - is now available!  This is what I made with JUST THE MAIN 35mm KIT...

LOVED how warm & sunny the main kit was this month - perfect for this sunset pic from our vacay earlier in the month.

I also picked up Addons #1 Santa Monica, #3 Malibu, & #4 Venice Beach this month, as well as MORE SC Paper.  My general process when creating my SC kit projects is to look through everything when it arrives - being CAREFUL to keep it all seperate in case I'm needed to create a sneak page that month - then decide what colors or papers are calling my name - match them up with the pics and/or stories that jump out from recent weeks - resize photos and have them printed - and then scrap my MAIN ONLY page first (so that I can ensure it actually IS main only!).

THEN I MIX EVERYTHING (!!!) into one big pile of papers and embellies and letters and go for it with the rest of my projects.  SO that's probably why I'm not always sure where something on my page came from - regardless, JUNE was a fabulous month - so much so that I needed three of the addons.  ;)

Evan's first T-ball season is now over, but he had a blast playing this spring, and this page is about just that - we are so proud of the effort & enthusiasm he's had for sports this year.  :)

23 Months is another page for Noah's everymonth album.  Need to get the whole album out and figure out what month's I'm missing and then go back and scrap those!

Remember How Sweet is more pics from our vacay.  (even though it was short, we needed that vacay!  The title is word art that I created myself in silhouette studio.

How fabulous is the YOU ARE FABULOUS stamp in Addon #2 Newport?!  I didn't get that addon but was lucky enough to snap the stamp.  It's a good one.

My Thank You hexie card is made with the stamp set in Addon #3 Malibu.  The stamp set breaks apart so that you can use just the varying sized hexie outlines like i did here.

Hello!!!!!  this is my favorite stamp of the month (I think?!) - this month's stamps were the best compilation of stamps in a LONG TIME in my opinion.  Amazingly fab.  This Hello stamp comes from the set in Addon #1 Santa Monica.  The HEY GIRL is part of the 35mm main kit.

And that was June!

:)

{National Scrapbook Day - The Blog Hop!}

ETA: Winner Info!!!  Congrats Kimberly - please email me your mailing address!

The light in all of your layouts is more than just the bright colors you use, but the love behind your photos! Always a fan!

Posted by: Kimberly L.C. | May 05, 2012 at 09:51 PM

*****************

Hippity Hop, Happy NSD 2012!

Studio Calico is sponsoring lots of National Scrapbook Day fun this year.  Starting with a blog hop - and even MORE inspiration from the May 35mm Main Kit - this was created entirely with the 35mm Main Kit (except for a few veneer birds I couldn't resist throwing on at the last minute!)...

This was without a doubt one of my favorite "main" kits in a long time.  The Hexies had me at hello.  :)

And since 35mm is sold out, we're giving away one of it's addon friends!!!  Just comment here on my post for a chance to win the "Brownie AddOn" from May.

Then, be sure to hop on back to the SC blog & link to all the other stops on the hop.  ;)

**************

I'm also hosting a NSD challenge at Studio Calico - use 5 or more photos on a page.  Here's my take on my challenge...

...One of my favorite little snaps (& story) of Ev from last month.  And my new favorite chevron paper.  ;)

If you decide to take on the challenge be sure to post it in the SC Gallery and then link your gallery post up to the SC Challenge Blog Post Here for a chance to win a prize from SC!

Happy Scrapping.  ;)

Products Used on Projects here:

InLinkz.com

{Studio Calico's May Kit: 35mm}

Studio Calico's May Kit - 35mm - is LIVE & still available! - and this is what I made with it... :)

...Hello There is my "Main Kit Only" layout this month - made completely with the 35mm Main Kit.  Love this little pic of Noah hanging on to me, snapped by my sister during our family session last month!  The hexies were created with the Hexie stamp in the main - stamped onto patterned paper, trimmed and pieced on the Studio Calico exclusive Hexie background paper.

...123FOUR includes a hold it out and snap style pic of the four of us from Easter.  Love these colors together - especially the way they pair with b&w photos!  I used the dotted ring stamps in BROWNIE to stamp around my circle design on this page.

...my DISNEY layout was my way of including LOTS of favorites from our trip last month on one single page.  I described how I put together the photo collage HERE.

...22 Months is another page for N's every month book.  Can not believe that we are THIS CLOSE to two.  YIKES!  ;)

And then I went on a mega-scrap-spree with card making this month....  WAHOOO (as Evan would say!).  Here we gooooo....

..."Hello There" is quite possibly my favorite stamp in a LONG time - included in the BROWNIE addon, and has already been stamped all over the Project Life weeks that I'm currently working on.... ;)

...

...

...(couldn't resist using this stamp again!)

...

...This HELLO card (above) also has a tag hidden that pulls out to say "& thank you!".

And THAT was May.

:)

{Basic Grey}

Happy Monday everyone.  ;)

Wanted to share a few recent projects this morning --- I was super excited to have a chance to work with some of the newest collections from Basic Grey, as their guest designer this month.

My favorites from their most recent release are the what's up and pb&j collections - and so naturally I pulled those two collection packs out and went to work on these projects...

My raindrops page will go into the album that I keep for my nieces - love this pic that my sister snapped of Ellie!

I used this print from the What's Up collection as my background for the page and highlighted the burst pattern with machine stitching and an aqua thread.

My second project is a big collage of all of my favorite blues, greens, and grey prints AND a pic of my now almost-2-year-old, taken a year ago at ONE.

Used my stampin up heart punch to punch the background hearts, then machine stitched through.

A BIG Thank you to Basic Grey for letting me play with all of your pretty, pretty papers this month!

Products used on these projects:

InLinkz.com

{SC Blog Hop!}

ETA - winner info: congrats AMBER!  email me with your info asap.  :)

Love this layout, I just love how you are using the die cuts! Thanks for the chance to win that lovely pack.

Posted by: Amber Lee | April 09, 2012 at 10:59 PM

***************

Hippity Hop and welcome to my little stop on the SC Blog Hop!

For our little "blitz" today, I made this...

...with one of my very favorite photos of the boys (taken a few weeks ago).

I'm currently a bit wrapped up in the new tags & badges.  LOVE them!

Please leave me a comment by the end of Thursday night - I'll draw a winner to receive the COLLECTION PACK OF CLASSIC CALICO 2 - i ADORE these papers (love how easy they work into my Project Life spreads, too!).

Good luck!

:)

ps - be sure to hop on over to TINA's blog next!

Products used on my "Beachdays" Project:

InLinkz.com

{Bella Blvd}

I have even MORE projects to share on the blog today.  ;)

but since I don't want anyone to think that's all I've got lately - I'll also post a pic of Mr-newly-turned-22-Months-Noahpants from sunday night.

He LOVES the beach SO VERY MUCH right now (which is good bc we are there a lot!) and always wants to run straight into the water.  Could not be further from how Evan was around this age (he used to scream that the sand and shells hurt his feet and also refused to go near the water for a good while!).

And now back to the crafting.  :)  I was thrilled to be asked to guest design for Bella Blvd this month.  I have always ADORED their papers and embellies.  THEY ARE TOTALLY ME & MY SCRAP STYLE!  :)

This is what I made with the very generous assortment of product that they sent my way...

...Hello Sweetpea is collection of photos from Noah's "6 month" half birthday.  "6 Months" for him fell at the beginning of the month of December - and while i took a TON of photos, I think I've processed all of two.  :)  ha.  (STORY OF MY LIFE!)  So when I knew that I wanted to use Bella's Baby Boy line as much as humanly possible on these projects (bc I adore it THAT much!), I immediately went back to his 6 Months photo files and found a few shots I loved to process and scrap.

 

The faux "photostrip" was created by sizing three pics to 2.5 square at 300dpi then arraning on a white background (also at 300dpi) and printing on excess space on one of my 12x18 prints at costo (make sure to leave white around the edge too, so that you can trim like a photostrip.

This "Baby Moments" page is a mix of the Baby Boy line and the Spring Collection.  LOTS of little favorite b&w snaps of Noah.  The title was cut with Bebas Neue & Japan (fonts) from my silhouette.  I just ADORE this little border strip print paper - so many possibilities and the alligator is my FAVE (no surprise!).  ;)

...I mixed in the baby boy chipboard embellies here & the baby boy stickers.

 

...I can't believe my "baby" is almost two!!! :)

And I cleaned up my project mess by creating this card with the scraps!  I'm hoarding that cloud print paper and have already cut up my scraps as 3x4 pieces and stuck them in my Project Life stash.

:)

Hope everyone is having a great week - we are enjoying lots of spring break fun here!!!

 

Products used on Bella Blvd Projects:

InLinkz.com

{Studio Calico CHA Projects!!!}

Way back when... (all the way in January! ha!) I was lucky enough to work with Studio Calico's newest lines - Abroad & Classic Calico 2 - to create a bunch of pages for display in their booth at the CHA Winter show...

And partly due to the craziness of that time for me (and the amount of work that I was balancing on my plate), I never got around to sharing them on the blog.  So what better time than now.  :)

The collections (along with Take Note!) JUST ARRIVED in stores, and are sure to sell quickly - I grabbed extras of my favorites already.  ;)

Here they are...

...Click Click is lots and LOTS of new Abroad.  The background aqua building print paper is the B-Side of the Locals Paper from the line - my personal FAVORITE.  The pic (that my sister took of her cutie daughter, Ellie) was perfect with the new wood veneer cameras - which should be avail soon!

And the "click" title was cut with my silhouette (using the font "Japan") from the Frequency paper in the Classic Calico 2 line.

...Happy Girl - another cutie Ellie pic (I used her a LOT for these projects!!!).  The bold background print is the B-side of the Destination Paper.  I cut lots of little scrap strips from the papers with banner tails at the end and then tucked them under my photo & machine stitched wiht a zigzag stitch. 

The woodgrain butterfly stickers were the perfect accent here (layered on top of both punched & chipboard butterflys), and the aqua polka at the bottom is the B-side of Departure, also another fave from the line!

...Hello Sunshine (yep, Ellie AGAIN!). ;)  I just LOVE this pic.  It's one of my favorites ever of her.  So I made it BIG.  ;)  And added a strip of my VERY VERY FAVORITE NUMBER PAPER above the photo - You may have noticed this paper has popped up already in my Project Life spreads - and it no doubt will MANY more times, bc i love it that much.  :)  ha. 

More woodgrain butterfly stickers and also the Wag Print from the Classic Calico 2 line used as the background here.

...You Shine.  The background "burst-of-rays" paper here that the design was inspired by, is the Frequency paper from Classic Calico 2.  I cut my photo into a circle and then added "rays" of other prints from the Classic Calico 2 line to follow the "rays" already on the background paper. 

Punched stars and wood veneer stars "shine" along my rays...  and I mixed in an aqua colored thread when I did some machine stitching on this page - usually forget to swap out my thread color, and always end up liking the look when I do!  :)

...(and finally!) Sail Away - a favorite pic from Eric & my "no-kids" vacay last summer to St John!  We didn't really "sail away", we definitely "flew away", but I couldn't get that song out of my head for some reason (?!) while I was making this, so I just ran with it!  ;) 

The Map Print Thickers from the Abroad line were perfect here, and I also mixed in a little Abroad Flair.   Background paper print is the B-side of the Wag Print from the Classic Calico 2.

New Studio Calico Brand Products Used on Projects...

InLinkz.com

{SC's April Kit - Revealed!}

Studio Calico's April kit - City of Lights - was one of my favorites in a WHILE.  I got it, along with addons Sorbonne and Montmarte, & Addon Patterned Paper - and made this...

...Almost 5 - this is a photo of my niece, Paige - taken by my amazing sister - Kristi - and as soon as i saw it on her facebook page, i KNEW that i needed to scrap it with this kit.  ;)  Loved how well it worked with the soft spring colors in the main (and that bike paper! - and SC exclusive) - and this was made ENTIRELY with the main kit - City of Lights.

...Ellie - this is another set of photos that i borrowed from my sister to scrap for the book that i keep for her girls (its a book made up of pages with gorgeous photos and lots of GIRLY embellies that I let myself indulge in when I'm in the mood to do GIRLY!  ha!).  The ruler paper at the bottom is one of my favorite prints ever - the colors are SO fab!!!  & the BIG butterfly embellishment was die cut on my silhouette - love how vellum looks die cut like this and layered!

...Just Another Tuesday - Tuesdays are MY FAVE around here - there is no set agenda for Noah and me - and we usually end up doing something FUN - like this beach outting a few weeks ago.  Lots of little pics (a random beach walker wanted to take a pic of Noah and me - so i let her - and I'm so glad i did, bc i LOVE that shot...), and embellies and AQUA + KRAFT (which we all know is my fave!).  ;)

...You Right Now - this was made ENTIRELY with Sorbonne - addon #1 - and I "wrote" the journaling with alpha stickers in the kit.  Pics of Evan from a few weeks ago and lots of little tidbits about him RIGHT NOW.  I kind of want to hang on to this age for a bit longer.  I'm so NOT ready for five (this summer...).

...LOVE YOU MORE card - this stamp was included in Montmarte - love it!  ;)

...Thank You Card - isn't that bike paper from the SC prints this month SO FUN?!  :)

...Thank You (with butterflies!) Card - love to punch A LOT at once when i love the patterns in a kit so much!!!

...You are my Favorite Card - More layered vellum butterflies - and stamps from Louvre.

And that is what I made...  that's enough, right?!

:)

{SC: Story Hour Revealed}

Studio Calico's Story Hour was revealed late last night.  I was able to work with the Main kit (story hour) and addons #2 & #3, Encyclopedia & Atlas. I also used my Maggie's Happy Little Moments kit (now sold out) - but you can still play along with the class she's using the kit for and your own supplies.

This is what I made with them...!

...20 Months - another page for Noah's every month album.  still have a few months that need to be filled in (soon).  :)

...Our Everydays.  I found this photo in my files at the end of the month last month (when i was organizing images) and realized that i had left it out of Project Life for that week, and was SO MAD at myself.  ;)  loved it so i just printed it big and made it into its own page.  lots of little details about our "everdays" in the journaling.

...Hello Silly.  simple and colorful.  the fonts used for my title (with my silhouette) are chunk 5 and japan.

...Hello.  This was my "main only" project for the month.  LOVED the main so much, unfortunately alot of the product was so new that we didn't get it in time to work with - can't wait to see it when it arrives next month, though.  ;)

...Celebrate.  Was "pinterest-inspired" by this pin.

...Happy Birthday.  My monthly use for all the pink that i love in the kit!

...And Thank You.  the colors that i adored in this kit!

Catching up on lots of Project Life this week and just life in general.  ha.  ;)  Can't wait to share!

{Happy Friday}

I don't know if I've mentioned it thus far on the blog - but I've pretty much abandoned my "office" for all creative endeavors.  ;)  Its just way too far back in one of the furthest corner of my house to really be somewhere that I can get things done.  Instead I've taken over a little side counter in my kitchen as my un-official scrap nook.  It's been perfect for working on bits of this and that while the boys play next to me run circles around me in our great room.  (I will try to post a pic of the space soon!)  And now my "office" has become like the basement that I still wish I had.  ha.  ;)  --->  need to do something about the mess that has taken over in there soon!!!

The new Dear Lizzy neopolitan line has been sitting out in my new kitchen "nook" for the past week - begging me to do something with it.  I absolutely ADORE this line.  >>> So I pulled out a few b&w newbown Noah pics that I love...

(along with leftovers from my SC Feb kit)... and made a quick page.

...the soft colors & fun patterns just make me happy.  :)  I might also have a slight obsession with THIS paper.  ;)))  The "filmstrip" style strip print at the bottom waws created on a simple white background 4x6 print.  Just size your photos all to the same square size (@ the same DPI) and arrange on a 4x6 backer (same DPI), print, and trim.

There's a bit of the new Studio Calico line mixed in here as well - the background aqua polka dot is from SC's Abroad collection (as is the herringbone print strip at the top of my stack), and the silhouette-cut butterfly is from the SC Calico 2 collection.

While I was at it, I also created a card from scraps that were lying about...

Using LOTS of new SC print papers and some favorite SC Calico chipboard butterflies...

Happy Friday Everyone.

hope you ALL get to squeeze something creative into the upcoming weekend...!

:)

Products used on Projects in this Post:

 

InLinkz.com