Scrapstuffz Haul - October 2014

October SSIB Reveal - Football and Pocket Page Layouts

Hi everyone - welcome to Lyne's October reveal.  I was blessed to be inspired by both of our photos this month.  The first photo reminded me of Thanksgiving/Fall.  

Every Thanksgiving our local high school football team (where I attended) plays a game against the team across the river (where my husband attended).  We go every year Thanksgiving morning and these photos are from the first year we took our son.  He was a year old here.  We wanted to take him from the time he was born, but he was five days old and it was snowing the first year...not a good combo.  I don't know why the bottom comes across cream.  The whole page is white, but in every photo I took it came out cream :-(  I used a sketch from Queen & Co. to get me started on this layout.  

Challenge:

Paper Issues - Fall

The second photo had several different blocks to choose inspiration from.  

 The blocks inspired me to try a pocket page.   I used cards from Fancy Pants Be Different collection to make a page about our son getting all his baby curls cut off.  This is my first time photographing a pocket page, and boy was the glare awful...haha.  I also have to dig out the exact date to fill in the right pocket card.

Thanks for joining us and can't wait to see what you create!

September SSIB Layouts

     Dropping in with a really quick post showing what I completed with the inspiration photos from ScrapStuffz Inspired By.  This month we had two awesome inspiration photos to work with.  

Inspiration one:







     
     The office supplies reminded me of back to school.  This inspired me to scrap our son's pre-school picture. I used Authentique's Accomplished collection as I felt the black, white and craft would balance the loud, busy background of the photo.

Inspiration Two:

     
     The ferris wheel photo inspired me to scrap pictures from when we went to the Clearfield County Fair with my Brother, SIL and Nephew. I used a star cut file from the Silhouette store and an Echo Park boy collection, but the name escapes me at the moment. I stitched on my layout for the first time and while I like the effect I had trouble keeping the sew easy tool straight.

    I hope one of the photos inspires you to come and join us.  I'd love to see what you create.  Even if you don't get to the challenge leave me a comment with how this inspires you and I'll be sure to come visit.  Until next time...Keep Scrapping!

Challenges:

Crafting From The Heart

Crafty Girls Challenges

Chid's Play Challenge - Cat In The Hat

Welcome to another fun reveal for Child's Play Challenge.  We were asked this time to create layouts with the book Cat In The Hat as inspiration.
     We don't read a lot of Dr. Suess around here for some reason so it took me a while to find my inspiration.  It was only after I realized the my nephew A's favorite movie was The Lorax that it came together for me.  After that this layout only took about an hour to complete.
     I used the Hey Baby collection by Simple Stories for all the paper since they matched A's shirt so well, but kept the look soft.
     The layout of the photo and embellishments was inspired by one of Stacia Brandt's Queen & Co guest layouts.  She used circles, but otherwise the placement is very similar.
     I love how this came out and I placed it in a memory tray for my SIL to hang in her office.  I hope she love it too.  Come over and join our challenge with how this theme inspires you.  Until next...Keep Scrapping!

Scrapstuffz Haul

Sesame Place Layout for SSIB

Welcome to my August reveal for SSIB.  We changed things up with month and are using a sketch with the twist of homemade die cuts.  Our die cuts were graciously provided by our blog owner Stacia, and are wonderfully done.

     I pulled out DoodleBug Design Hip Hip Hooray collection and got to punching.  I love how the bright happy colors of the collection worked so well with the Sesame colors.    I used all B side papers in order to avoid the birthday items and I'm very pleased how well everything ties in together.  I didn't buy the enamel dots when I purchased this collection and really wish I had for this layout.  

     This is also one of the few times I've used white card stock as my background, and it was a pain to photograph.  I really think this is one layout that has much more pop in person that the photo.

     I hope you take a look at our sketch, get your die cuts out, and join us!  Until next time...Keep Scrapping!

Sketch

Studio Calico Layout For SSIB

It's my reveal day over at ScrapStuffz "Inspired By", and I have a fun one today.  This was my first time using modeling paste.  I've used it on several layouts since as I've had this one done for awhile.  

I also used my Studio Calico kit Bluegrass Farms as the blue went perfectly with out inspiration photo.  The wave my photos are anchored on is a card set from Kiwi Lane that I just traced and them placed where I like it to continue and traced again to make one continuous piece.    My photo layout came from the size and placement of the birds versus the feeder.  Loads of inspiration all around in the photo.

Will you be joining us this month...I'd love to see what inspired you.  Until next time...Keep scrappin!

Inspiration Photo

Challenges:

Crafty Girls Challenge

Crafting From The Heart

Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge

ScrapStuffz Inspired By Summer

Hi everyone - I'm here today with another Scrapstuffz Inspired By reveal to inspire you to enter our June challenge.  When I saw the inspiration photo I knew exactly what I wanted to do.   I used a sketch from my stash, but have learned that I need to start writing down where I got them since I blog now and want to give proper credit where due.  I used the photos of our favorite summer spot, and the Echo Park Paradise Beach Collection.  I have gotten many many layouts out of that collection, and it's probably one of my favorite summer ones. 

Oh - sorry for the bad picture - it's past my bed time and we have to be up early for a trip tomorrow. Until next time - keep scrapping!

Photo Inspiration:

Supplies by ScrapStuffz Haul for ScrapStuffz Inspired By Challenge

Scrapstuffz April Sands of Time Reveal

     Scrapstuffz is teaming with Child's Play Challenge this month, and we're doing a sketch (by Laura Whitaker) and a picture challenge.  
     It took me a really long time to get my mojo on the sand art picture from Child's Play Challenge.  I thought of beach right away, but just finished our beach pictures last month.  Then I thought about doing just the colors, but I really wanted more than that. As I thought and thought on it I kept coming back to the sand of time as a page theme. It finally hit me to do something of my hubby and I now (11 years later) than all the old pictures I tend to work on.  We've stuck together through the sands of time.
     I also used the sand thought to create layers like the different color sands.  Each paper layer is on pop dots so there is a lot of height to the layout. 
     I also used my favorite color (green) on this layout in order to enter Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog.  Not only did it meet the challenge, but since the picture was taken outside green worked in that regard as well.
     I'm also still undecided on if I need a title or if I'll leave it as is. Thoughts on that?
     I hope you'll join us.  Since it's a collaborative month one layout gets you an entry to both challenges!

Sketch

Picture

  

March SSIB Reveal: Love Layout

     Happy Friday everyone.  Quite a busy weekend ahead here so I'm sharing my SSIB layout with you today. We we're given this awesome photo as our inspiration.

     I was instantly inspired by the heart to create a layout of my sister and son.  He just loves her to death!  I used all Doodlebug papers, and some of their brads and punch outs as well.  I loved my new Janna Werner flair from Scrapbook and More that I used a piece of that well.  

   I also was late enough in getting this done, something that's not usually like me, that I was able to use the Child's Play Challenge pipe cleaner as inspiration too.  I used a pink pipe cleaner to create the heart in the bottom corner. Let me tell you though...the picture just doesn't do this layout justice.

     I will be giving this layout to my sister before she returns to college from spring break.  Hope you enjoyed my reveal, and that we inspire you to join some new challenges! Have a great weekend.
   I am also submitting this for Sketch~N~Scrap's inspire us challenge.