Fall Pumpkins!

I love Fall! I love Pumpkins! I love crafts! I was looking at the Graphic Fairy page searching for fall graphics and saw this pumpkin she made recently. I am going to make this! Easy! Cheap! and so cute!

Here is the link to the project! Hopefully I can make this SOON with all my spare time...........

.The Graphics Fairy Book Page Pumpkin

More Art Journaling

I should admit..... I do a lot of my journaling in the car! I ink up my pages and bring my stamps and inks in my Tim Holtz watercolor pens and off I go! It makes the time go a lot faster! ....... and I've had a lot of road trips lately!

Dyan's Art Journal

I admit it. I am addicted to Dyan Reavely's art journaling. I wasn't sure it would be my "style", but when she came to visit         , I fell in love!

It's actually really relaxing and helps me get more creative! There's nothing I have to DO or MAKE. I just create! I just pull stamps, backgrounds, inks and throw stuff on the paper!

Here's a few of my recent favorites!

FUN!!

The Scrapbooking Studio Design Team!

I am so happy to say I'm on The Scrapbooking Studio Design Team again!

 Stacy Rodriguez DT Coordinator  is doing the design team very differently this year.

Congratulations to everyone!
Here are the other designers and their blogs. Check them out for some great ideas!

Shelly Maxwell
Janet Bell
Sesil Cratin

Ashley Klewin

Cathy Harper

Christine Meyer

Peg Robinson

Tamara Batista

Chelsea Schroeder

Stacy Rodriguez DT Coordinator

The Scrapbooking Studio Blog

School Days

This is the Simple Stories “Smarty Pants” collection. I made a layout for The Scrapbooking Studio  showing all the other things that my kids do at school besides just “schoolwork”.

I picked pictures showing each of my kids favorite school activities and tried to show a nice variety of all the activities my kids have done.

I made the basic background, matted my photos, and then really had fun adding embellishments from the collection to really make it pop.

Amy from The Scrapbooking Studio  had shown me a picture of a backpack album. When I saw this Simple Stories “Smarty Pants” paper, I immediately remembered this.

I drew the front of the backpack freehand. I cut black cardstock and some cardboard for the pages in the shape of the backpack.

I decorated the front to look like the backpack with a front pocket and flap. The pocket and flap are cut out of cardboard also.

Did you notice the “papers” sticking out of the top of the backpack? I designed each page to have a couple of papers attached to the top so it looks like school papers sticking out of the backpack.

I planned the inside to be an album remembering a year of school. I used the papers included in the collection to plan the pages. 

I used the brad and sticker embellishments included in the collection on several pages. I also inked the edges of all the pages and details in  Tim Holtz's   Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink Pad.

On the back I attached a thick black grosgrain ribbon to the rings of the album, so it would look like a strap.

Love it!

Back to school!

Here is one of the cards I made for the design team at The Scrapbooking Studio.  I used the brand new Simple Stories "Smarty Pants". So cute!

I was thinking of giving a card to the teacher for this one! (disclaimer: I am a teacher!) I was thinking of a thank you card and wasn't sure how I wanted it to look. 

I started playing with the scraps and found the cute apple card, a math card and a piece of a map. I attached all this to a piece of the paper that looks like a cork board. I added the "hi" brad and the "Ss" stamp sticker. I used Tim Holtz Simple Sayings stamp to put Thank you on the front. 

I love the final look!

This card started with the saying.  “Life is about using the whole box of crayons”. I loved this saying on so many levels!

…..living life to the full

….living an art-filled life

…..encouragement to go out and LIVE!

I used some black paper I had for the background. I added the chevron colors down the middle with a black skinny stripe through it. I added the clock brad and fussy cut the box of crayons out. I popped up the crayon box and was done!