Lost and Found

This is the second layout I competed for this challenge at Sarahs Cards! Another instagram picture I scrapped. I found these silver bracelets I forgot I had and now I can't live without them!
I stamped a background of hearts and embossed them. THen just added bits here and there

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You at 2,5

I love the challenges over at Sarahs Cards. I think this is my all time favourite! I am really really really in love with this sketch! It is a perfect sketch I think for my instagram pictures! I was having trouble scrapping them but since I have found this sketch I have enjoyed scrapping them with it!

I enjoyed this so much that for the first time ever I completed 2 layouts with it! I am not sure if both my layouts are eligible for the prize? I looked for some regulations on the challenges like if one was allowed to submit 2 entries? But I did not find anywhere? So I will go ahead and submit 2!

This is the first one of my daughter at the park. I am loving her age right now and wanted to document a few little snippets of her life as a 2,5 year old. I layered some Dear Lizzy vellum and attached it with a washi tape border.

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My Every Day

I managed to get this one done a few minutes ago just in time to enter into the Merly Impressions challenge this month! It was very late in the evening when I took this picture so please excuse the overall quality!
I love the challenges over in their blog which is found here
http://www.merlyimpressions.co.uk/blog/category/challenge/

Last month they were kind enough to choose me and I received this awesome collection pack of Kaisercraft goodies! I was very excited when they arrived in the post!!!!

This month the challenge was a recipe of which one could choose 3 items in a diagonal or vertical line! I have never seen a challenge like this so I needed to get one done this month.
I chose to use paint, layers and flowers.

I started by splattering Mr Hueys on the woodgrain background. I also painted the number 5 as there are 5 members in my family. I also painted 5 little Maya road chipboard clothes in paint and then once that was covered I used Stickles to paint on top. Since this layout is about how much laundry I do I wanted to use Stickles on the chipboard to kind of look like fresh laundry - like clean clothes. Does that make sense? The little dress is for my 4 year old, the onesie is for my baby, the overalls are for my 2 year old and the pants are for my husband and I chose the nice dress for me (although I can be found most of the time in yoga pants....but for the sake of this layout I aspired to wear dresses more often!)
I layered the chipboard on two different sized tags. I also layered the number five on a house die cut and added 2  Kairsercraft crouched flowers ( I love these!)
I kept my title small this time deliberately. I always have large titles on my pages and I quite like the look of a small title. Just to change things up a bit!!!
I tried to keep my choices of embellishments, papers and feel very homey and cosy. I seem to be always always doing laundry now that we are a family of 5 so it was important for me to document this phase of my life!
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Welcome

Scrap Playground - Brincadeira  10

Adorei a brincadeira este mes que e usar um ditado, frase, proverbio etc....

Eu preciso fazer mais layouts para o meu bebezinho! Eu fico fazendo um monte para as meninas porque eu prefiro usar flores, rosa, coracoes etc..... 

Eu tirei esta foto dele usando Instagram quando ele tinha 4 dias. Ele parecia uma anjinho super em paz. Quando eu impremi esta foto eu me lembrei desde ditado abaixo:

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

Que mais ou menos se traduzi como: " A decisao de ter um filho e unico. E a decisao que para sempre o seu coracao andara por fora de seu corpo"

Adoro esta frase!

Usei vellum paper Dear Lizzy, Pink Paislee e wood veneers do Studio Calico.

Coloquei um para cada membro de nossa familia em cima de um ingresso/ ticket.

I did this layout for a challenge over at a Brazlian blog I love which called this month to use a saying or quote. I love this quote:

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

When I took this picture of my 4 day old baby sleeping I was reminded of this and knew when it came time to scrap I would want to use this here.

I embossed some wood veneer shapes which signify each member of our family, sort of like welcoming our baby to the family. I love tone on tone layering

I placed the wood veneers on top of a ticket and placed a string with the date on the picture

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Zest for Life

This layout I made for the June challenge over at Sarah's Cards blog. I find keeping different parts of the page separate with white space in the middle very difficult to work with. So for this sketch I kept the basic design but I just pushed it together so that all the elements from the sketch form a cluster in the middle of the page. From then I was able to create I page which I was able to work with!

I used vellum from Dear Lizzy and attached it to the card stock using washi tape. I love this technique! I then just kept layering and adding things here and there. I used a SC mask which I bought at the shop to create a home for my title. I tried to keep with a circular, polka dot theme throughout in line with my photo of my daughter have a ball in a ball pit!!! I also chose stars and repeated them throughout my layout. I added some sparkle elements as well: a heart, the word zest and a sparkle paperclip (which I also bought at the shop!). I then finished off with some Basic Grey flowers. I kept the journalling inside a pocket as I had quite a lot to say.

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Let's Draw!

I am subscribing to this great scrappy magazine Scrap365 a new Uk scrappy magazine. At a time when scrappy magazines and companies are closing down I felt relieved and excited to see a new magazine being published in the UK! We needed it!!!!
I love the layouts published and they have a great online competition
Last month I did one but did not submit it in time
This month I am submitting one in the last day before closing!!

For this I used bits from one of my Studio Calico kits but most came from my stash. I also used some really really old Crate Paper here (the orange one). I feel so much better when I make use of papers which have been feeling unloved in my stash for years. As the paper supply is never ending, I really enjoy mixing in older papers sometimes.

The challenge called for 4 pictures, however; I used a SMASH pocket and a little drawing my daughter did of a mommy pig and  a baby pig. She loves to draw so I wanted to include a pocket with some of her drawings and this one of the little piggies as I love it.  I did a confetti style rainbow at the top since my daughters favourite thing to draw are rainbows. I used a mix of brads, sequins and pearls. I love playing with this sketch! I found it a really fun sketch so I will most likely be using it again

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Thank you

I am loving the new blog over at Merly Impressions. THey are a great super shop and the customer service is amazing and super super fast! Whenever I buy stuff from there it arrives really quickly! The best purchase I made was the 12x12 Kaisercraft paper holders! I have 4 of them and I think when I move I will need to buy some more!

I saw this challenge over at their blog and at first I was really not sure I was going to like this sketch! I never put pictures at the top and also I never really leave a lot of space at the bottom.  However, one of the reasons I like challenges is that they do push your creativity and make you think out of the box

I then decided to give this sketch a go and I am so pleased I did as I love the dreamy effect created by putting a picture at the top. I am definitely going to try this sketch again. I chose this picture of my daughter and I which was taken last week.  I hardly ever scrap current pictures because by the time I print them and file them it's like 2-3 months down the line. However, I am so loving instagram and with that application printing is a breeze.

The challenge can be found here:  http://www.merlyimpressions.co.uk/blog/category/challenge/

Since I don't tend to leave a lot of white space as to me it feels trapped somehow I punched a few bits and added bits here and there. I added some stickers, Hero Arts pearls, some Websters embellishments and also some Studio Calico stickers and wood shapes.

1 2 3 Chop

I love punches and I have a rather unhealthy obsession with them!! When I saw this challenge over at Frosted Designs on using punches I thought that is one for me!!!
For awhile I have had these pictures of my daughter that I wanted to scrap
I used an EK Success punch which is actually supposed to be used to make a 3D flower to make this

It is from my daughters first haircut at a salon!
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Cute

I love misting!! I love that it adds colour and dimension all at once!!! I had these pictures of my baby taken for his first passport. These were the leftovers. I loved them so much I want to scrap them all!!!

For this challenge I first used my Martha Stewart anywhere punch to punch out hearts from card stock. I then misted the hearts in different colours using a combination of Glimmer Mists, Mr. Hueys and October Afternoon. I had to carefully cover the hearts that were not being sprayed to avoid mixing the colours. It was a fun layout to make and different too! I then mated his pictures using a few different materials and textures. This was for  a challenge over at ScrapFit!

My Favourite Photo

I love using doilies on my layouts. I love the work from Stephanie Howell and she often uses doilies and inspires me to use them in new and innovative ways. I saw a layout she did recently where she misted a doily which i wanted to try. When I saw the challenge over at Scrap Fit I thought it was the perfect opportunity!
For this layout I misted a few doilies and tucked them under for a different look. I wanted to go for a homespun feel following the ruffles and colours in my daughters dress

The More that you Read

I love Dr. Seuss quotes. I have a book filled with them just waiting for the right pictures and papers to show up. This one just came together very easily. I followed the challenge Get Picky over at Punky Scraps and added something brown, 5 patterned papers and splashes of paint. My daughters love to read so I needed to document this on a layout!

Talking of paints.....Big task tonight....I am finally going to organise my mists and paints (or at least that is what I think I am going to do...hoping my teething baby won't wake up too much!). It is a job long overdue. I know I am going to appreciate it when it is finished! I have such trouble finding the right colour amongst all of them so I need to get myself organised!!!

10 Years

Here is a layout I completed for the April challenge over at Sarah's Cards. I love their challenges
This month it was a sketch challenge which was great as I have been averaging 4-5 hours sleep per night so I needed a sketch challenge! I used my Elle's Studio February kit plus some older Basic Grey paper. I have been meaning to use this old bird paper for ages! Not to feel bad I am having a bit of  a policy of using at least a little bit of old paper mixed in with the newer products. I have so much paper I need to use it!  This layout is about our 10th anniversary. We are coming up to our 12th anniversary now so I thought this needed doing before it was even more late!

Scrap Room Organizing - Part 5

So here is to more organising!!!!

I have a bit of a punch addiction...... At the moment I have this in the hallway. They are baskets intended for toys and I have taken over 7 of them for my punches. They are organised in brands for the edgers like Martha St and EK Success . Then for shape punches, butterflies/hearts, tags, around the edge punches, flowers/leaves etc.... The other baskets in our hallway hold what we originally bought it for - shoes/ hats, scarves etc....!

And since I have so many punches I keep a folder of all of them. Not really for when I need them for a project but rather for when I am buying a new punch. I have several times bought punches I did not think I had only to find out I had bought it already! So since then I decided to organise them this way!

I also organized recently my journal cards (some of them) ATC cards and other bits in this folder. I am not sure this is working for me though. I never seem to reach out for this folder so I think I might just jumble them all together again. Sometimes things can be a bit too organised for me!

A Granny's Kiss

I love the challenge blog The Creative Type. They have had some really cool layouts and really cool designers recently- Tina Azmus and Rahel Menign are two scrappers I follow. The challenge this months is really cool. Its to scrap a layout inspired by one of your favourite designers. There are soooo many talented people out there it is so difficult to pick one person only. I could spend all the day looking at peoples blogs and it would still not be enough!

However, I do love Stephanie Howell not only because I love her style but also because I love her blog. It is really exciting that now she works for My Minds Eye and is their blog coordinator. Check it out! She is super fun! Anyway, her signature product is a dollie! She loves them and she originally inspired me to use them. I also have a huge tendency to scrap with either a cream, white or kraft background (I guess that is my style). She loves to use a flowery and girly (she has 4 girls herself) background paper. When I saw this beautiful paper by October Afternoon I bought two. One I chopped up and used the flowers. The other one I did something daring.....I used it as a background paper! It is really daring for me because it is not only not white but its also a busy paper. To break that up I used tissue paper which softened it a bit and also a dollie. Since the layout is about my mom's relationship with my daughter I felt I wanted to add a homespun feel to the layout which I did through the paper and dollie. The picture was taken on an October afternoon so I used the manufacturers branding from the bottom.

The rest I kept very simple and I did a first as well - I put my journalling at the back of the layout!

Campbells est 2008

I created this layout for a challenge over at Sarahs Cards. The challenge is to scrap your work or work space - something work related. However, as a SAHM I feel my work space is either my home or my buggy. I did consider scrapping my buggy but then I thought about it for longer and although I will eventually scrap my beloved buggy (Bugaboo Donkey -it holds 3 kids!) I also thought that for the past 4 years I have been on a roller coaster of 3 pregnancies and breastfeeding. I feel that is my job now! Being pregnant and breastfeeding!

I thought about scrapping the details of my 3 labours like: Estimated due date, length of labour, cravings, location of birth, length of pregnancy, others (like I had a shoulder dystocia and one back to back) etc.... I bought a Studio Elle Kit in February and I loved it! It is every 2 months and it came full of exclusive goodies like exclusive stamps and tags. I highly recommend their kits! So I used loads of bits from that kit. I also used some Amy Tangerine and Crate brads to illustrate that I had 2 girls and a boy. I also luckily found the number sticker at the bottom. I love the touch it gives. I added it up to 9 months and added a Studio Elle tag saying "love this" because I love being pregnant. I will miss it now that our Campbell family is complete! At the bottom of each picture I put some more exclusive Studio Elle tags with the names of each child in order of their birth. I also added one red, one pink and one blue pin at the side as a little embellishment also to symbolise their genders.

I am happy how this layout came about and thanks Sarahs Cards for the great inspiration! Funny how a little inspiration can mean so many different things to different people!

Scrap Room Organizing - Part 4

So here I am again with another organisation post! I love to look at other people's scrap space! I am hoping that when I move I will have a better studio - maybe with pink walls? who knows? This is really how I keep my kits - be it themed products, kits from manufacturers and kits from companies. I subscribe to 4 kits now: Sarahs Cards, Gogo, Studio Calico and Jenni Bowlin. I keep these in either Papermania 12x12 folders (when they are not so large) or Crop Hopper 12x12 folders (for when they are very bulky).

The above are some fab 12z12 storage cases which I got on sale from Storage 4 Crafts. Originally they were supposed to be £25 but I got them for £10 so I keep themed products in them. So for themes which I have a lot of products for like easter, halloween, baby, school, travel, Christmas (I have 5 for Christmas!) etc... I keep them in the large folders - the ones at the top on the left. For smaller themes like pregnancy, oriental, water, home, pets, wedding etc... I keep them in 12x12 Cropper Hopper folders. The shelves at the bottom of the top one are for the family crafts so stuff for my kids really like playdoh and paints
I keep my Studio Calico and Jenni Bowlin kits separately as I try and use them straightaway. I keep these in 12x12 Cropper Hopper folders. Add ons I keep in 12x12 bags. These are kept next to my 12x12 Kaisercraft shelves. I am loving these 12x12 Kaisercraft shelves! Here I keep the papers I have leftover and I keep them sorted by colour
A few more folders here which are themed. THese hold Halloween, Cooking, Garden/Spring/Easter and Birthday. I put everything which has to do with those themes in there like ribbon, papers, embellishments etc....
This shelf holds the kits which are mainly from Manufacturers so like I usually by the whole collection of certain companies that I love like Crate Paper, MME and October Afternoon. These are kept in these 12x12 folders.

Scrap Room Organizing - Part 3

This is how I now store my stamps. THey were all in a big jumble and I could never find them at all. I then decided to sort them out by theme like - journalling, alphas, numbers, cutesy, food, people, animals, flora, fauna etc.... Each bit has a drawer. Then I also subscribe to stamps from Unity. THey have a kit stamp club which is great! i love it! you get loads of benefits as a subscriber and the kits of the month are always amazing and jam packed! They are a challenge to store but I found a good way to store them in these A4 page envelopes in a A4 binder. It works for me now. I am so using my stamps more since they are organised more!

And the Oscar goes to....

Desde crianca sonhava em um dia visitar Los Angeles na epoca do Oscar. Queria ser uma daquelas pessoas que fica do lado de fora do teatro dias antes da festa para garantir o lugar como bystander. Antes de morrer eu quero fazer isso! Acho que vai ser o maximo. Foi super coincidencia que eu fiz este layout na epoca do Oscar! Neste layout usei o meu Cuttlebug para cortar o film strip e coloquei o Oscar dentro dele. Cortei umas estrelas e coloquei glitter. Usei material para simbolizar o carpet vermelho. E coloquei umas estrelas do Maya Road em cima

O layout e super differente do meu estilo normal mas porque o OScar e uma cerimonia formal resolvi que o layout iria seguir a mesma regra com linhas retas e mais estrutura do que e o meu normal

SInce I was a young child I have always wanted to go to LA during Oscar time. Then when a challenge came over at Scrap Playground to scrap something you want to do before you die I knew I had to do this. It was pure coincidence that it happened during Oscar season! I drifted away from my style to do this one as I kept it in line with Oscar's formality. I kept my layout quite structured and linear. I put some felt material to symbolise the red carpet, Maya road stars, embossed stars and I used my Cuttlebug to cut the film strip

Scrap Room Organizing - Part 2

So here is Part 2 of my Scrap Room Organizing!!! Starting with these drawers I got from Lakeland. I was able to put all my embossing stuff and glitter in one spot. I have all this embossing powder but I have only ever embossed once. Need to more!!
I am sooooo in love with these 12x12 Kaiserkraft paper holders. Eventually I will customise them but for now they are as is. This is where the papers which are neither themed or in kits go. They are sorted out by colour. Having said that the last 2 trays hold Websters Pages and Prima (as I find that their papers don't really go with most other papers) and October Afternoon (just because they are my favourite manufacturer! At the side there are all my Studio Calico kits and the Add ons. I have also recently started subscribing to Jenni Bowlin's kits (since my favourite kit club Magpie Club shut down for awhile) So these kits I keep separate.

At the top of there are loads of paper stacks from DCWV..... What happened was when we went to FLorida last year they were having a sale at Michaels and all Paper Stacks were 7 dollars! I got a bit over excited and bought all of them. I think there were like 7. However, I am not really a stack person so now I don't know what to do with them. For now, they sit there waiting for some love one day!

This is how I store my pens. I find that keeping them horizontal is best for me
My stickles and Perfect Pearls are kept like this. For now my Mr Hueys and Glimmer Mists are kept like this. I don't really like this way of organising as I find it difficult to find the colours I need. I must get around to categorising them
This is how I keep my buttons and threads! I got these boxes from Cath Kidston. I labeled them by colour. The threads are kept in the green ones. This is not ideal as they usually come with large packaging which takes up space in the box. Again it is trial and error! I bought the box of Stampin UP markers last year. It cost me a bomb but was well worth it to make spalleters with the little pump device they sell separately.

You will be in my Heart

This one is over for the challenge at Bird is the Word. Not my typical style but I went for it as I wanted to document the song and lyrics from Phi Collins' "You'll be in my heart" as when I was taking the pregnancy test this song was playing so I will forever associate this song with my first born.