Latest Round of Layouts

Well, once again, my scrap moments are few and far between lately. Here's a collection of the one's I've completed over the last couple of months. However, my goal lately has been to complete layouts that I started and never finished (I am famous for doing that). So here goes...

Christmas '08 (yes, 2008) :o(

PP: Basic Gray (Figgy Pudding); Stamps (around title) - Stampin' Up!; Glitter letters - Making Memories; Sticker accents - K&Co.

This next one is one of those that I had stashed away for a long time, and I finally got around to finishing it!

PP: Basic Gray (Lime Rickey); Letters - AC Thickers

Another one that was on the back-burner for awhile - July '08!:

PP: Basic Gray (Boxer); Stamps/Ink - Stampin' Up!; Cricut cart (title) - Gypsy Font; Letter Stickers - Cosmo Cricut.

And here is Halloween 2008:

PP - Recollections; Edge punches - Martha Stewart; Letters - AC Thickers.

This is probably the oldest one of all - I am so happy to have finished it, and I love how it turned out! I punched the hearts out and used them as a mask on the background and sprayed glimmer mist on top. Then I removed them and doodled lines around them. The photos were printed on vellum and punched out with my circle punches.

PP: Basic Gray (Sugar Rush); Glimmer Mist; Punches - Stampin' Up!; Letters - AV Thickers & Gypsy Font (Cricut Cart)

This is a straight-up lift from Kelly Goree. I love everything she does with Basic Gray!

PP: Basic Gray (Bittersweet); Martha Stewart edge punch; Storybook Cricut Cart.

And yet ANOTHER LO that has been in the works for a while... I went crazy with all the handstitching and would work on it here and there - I finally hunkered down and finished it!!! (BTW - I have another LO sitting around that I started to stitch, and I wonder how long it will take me to get that one finished):

PP: Basic Gray (Marrakech); Tim Holtz Metal Embellishments.

This is one that I basically gave up on Plan A and went to Plan B. I prefer Plan B much better:

PP: DCWV (Mod-Retro, I think)

Another 100% lift from Kelly Goree (LOVE this paper!):

All supplies used are from Basic Grey (Wisteria).

I was surprised this one turned out as good as it did. It wasn't going that well at first:

PP: We R Memory Keepers (MVP); Star Punches - Stampin' Up!

Thanks for Lookin'!!! :o)

Latest round of layouts

Yay! For scrapping time! These are some of the layouts I've been able to work on during the last month or so.

PP: Fancy Pants "About a Boy"; Letters: AC Thickers & Cosmo Cricket

PP: Bo Bunny; Journal Label: Fancy Pants; Letters: AC Thickers; Various Snowflake punches

Here's a close-up of the journaling!

PP: DCWV "Mi Casa"; Journaling block: MM; Letters: My Little Shoebox & "Zoobaloo" Cricut Cart; Ribbon: Fancy Pants

PP: My Minds Eye & DCWV "At Home"; Letters: My Little Showbox & Paper Studio Chipboard inked with Cateye Chalk; Diecuts from "New Arrival" Cricut Cart.

PP: SEI "Moravia"; Most Embellishments from MM "Vintage" collection & K&Co.

PP: Basic Grey "Origins"; Letters: AC Thickers & "Old West" Cricut Cart.

TFL! :o)
~ Vicky Jo

Getting back into "scrap" shape...

Ugh! All I can say is, It's been a while! One of my New Years Resolutions:

Scrap at least once a week!!!

I'm a little rusty, so these are not my favorites... but it sure feels good to just get a couple done!

PP: DCWV "Saffron" and "Indian Summer"

PP: Crate Paper "Little Sprout"

"MOM" Word Album

Okay! Getting ready to post all my Mother's Day projects!

Here's my first one that I made for my mom. I know, not your standard frilly, flowery m-day project... lol. I did frilly and pretty for her birthday a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to go different on this one. She loves "skullies" - so it was a hit. :o)

I used a Bo-Bunny album and covered it in DCWV "Rockstar" paper. All the Skully stuff is from Creative Imaginations.

I got my Mojo back!

YAY! I'm out of the scrap slump!!! I'm sure it's all due to the CK conference in Phoenix (I'll post pics of the trip soon). Michelle & I had a blast! We took our scrap gear with us and scrapped in our hotel room each night. Here's a few from the trip as well as some I started and finally got the willpower to finish!:

I know he will kill me one day... but I just couldn't resist this one. :o) PP is K&Co "Actopus to Zelephant"

I really like this one... I used:

1. Basic Gray "Sugared" PP
2. Cuttlebug "Red Tag Sale" letter dies to cut the felt letters on my Big Shot
3. Heidi Swap Ghost letters lined in white MM paint
4. Bo Bunny "Write On" stamp set (in Yellow)
5. Journal tag is from Fancy Pants "Delight" collection.

Lifted this from a CK mag. PP is from My Minds Eye. Ribbon used is from S.E.I. (Dill blossom), Basic Gray and Martha Stuart.

I love doing LOs with me in them - it allows me to get some girly stuff on the page that would otherwise never be used. :o) Here's the list:

1. PP - Prima "Nursey Tales" Collection
2. Flowers - Prima
3. Brads - Paper Studio & Creative Imaginations
4. Leaves were cut from Storybook Cart
5. Metal Embellishments - Tim Holtz
6. Glitter Letters - MM (aqua) & K&Co (pink)

This one was a lot of fun - PP is Crate Paper "Static" collection. Chipboard letters are from Creative Imaginations.

PP on this one is from KI Memories - it's from an Elise collection. I cut the letters with the Stamped cart and filled the inner letter with red stickles.

I love how this one turned out! PP is from the DCWV "Grade School" stack. Yellow letters are vinyl thickers (American Crafts) and the remainign chipboard letters are from the Tim Holts grungeboard line painted with white MM paint and then outlined in my Stampin Up markers.

A few more LOs...

Here’s a few more! They don’t count towards my Scrappin’ Mama’s April Goal, cuz I did them last month… just forgot to post them in the “mad rush” I did a while back…

I really like this first one... "Our Day with Fay." It is about the day hurricane Fay made her way up to El Paso and just parked on top of us for the whole day! I think pretty much all the PP and elements are from the MM "Chloe's Closet" line. My favorite aspect is the clouds - which I cut from the Going Places Cart and then I added "raindrops" coming down from them by using diamond glaze... If you click on the pic and look really close, I think you can see it! :o)

Here's a quickie I did about William opening his birthday presents. The horseshoe is supposed to be a "U", so that it says, "Lucky U" - but I'm not too sure it comes off that way. The background PP is Stampin Up!, the horseshoe paper (which I hand-cut the larger horseshoe out of) is from the DCWV "All About Boys" stack. "Lucky" is from a 7 gypsies stamp set:

Here's one I lifted from a mag about William getting into the Tupperware cabinet. To this day, he still loves to play in there! PP is Basic Gray "Offbeat" (orange, multi & Blue) and K&Co (beige & Black background paper). There's some rub-ons from American Crafts on there as well as Martha Stewart labels and AC Thickers (chit chat):

A few more LOs...

Here's a few LOs I got completed before the big work rush...

This one was using the new Animal Crackers stack from DCWV, and the cute little monkey from the ZooBaloo Cart!

Super easy 2 pager lifted from a mag about our move to the new house. I honestly can't remember the paper right now... but I used velvet thickers and some cool foil chipboard letters from making memories. Niether stuck very well to the paper, so I had to break out the zip dry!

I did this next one right after getting the DCWV Green Stack. The paper worked perfectly! A fun little tidbit of info... I wanted to use this particular paper, but my bathing suit and the towel just didn't match... they were the completely wrong shade of blue. So off to photoshop I went to play, did a "Replace Selective Color" and a few minutes later I had the perfect matching picture!