The Look + A Winner

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week!

I wanted to pop on and share a project and announce the winner of the Altenew July Release blog hop.

First, a while back, I did a layout for Paper Smooches:

I have to start out by saying, I'm not much of a scrapbooker, but I'm starting to see the importance of memory keeping. My dad was into photography when I was growing up, and we had a darkroom for color photography in our house. I still remember the distinctive smell of the photo processing. ha ha It's so much easier now with a camera on my phone, and I've been enjoying trying to take at least one photo every day to document the everyday.

Anyhoo, a few months ago, I made this 6" x 8" layout using the Paper Smooches Fancy Frames stamps. The set is so cute, and now there are matching Fancy Frames Icons dies, too (I fussy cut the images here). I stamped the frames in the same colors as the Crate Paper Boys Rule collection.




I used a few of the Boys Rule stickers and chipboard and the "so you" die-cut is from October Afternoon's All Boy line. I added a few embellishments from Freckled Fawn, too--the cute emoticon and the acrylic arrow. After making this page, I decided I need an old manual typewriter. I think I may have to get one for my birthday. ;)

For the Altenew July Release Blog Hop winner, congrats to:

Brandi R.!

Congrats on the $30 gift certificate! Thanks everyone for the sweet comments!! <3 you all!!

Have a great day!

You Are Here Mini Album

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! We are still on Spring Break until tomorrow, and today, we're finally having a thaw. Woo hoo! I cannot WAIT for spring!

This week on the Glitz blog, we're sharing daily life projects. I have been wanting to make a mini album with some photos I took one day last September, and I decided this week's theme worked well for a mini. As a warning, this is a photo-heavy post!

Here's the cover:

I'm not sure what I was thinking...a hybrid mini was a ridiculous amount of work. ha ha I love how it turned out, though! I mostly used the Finnley digital collection, although I also used elements from the Color Me Happy, the new Black and White, and the Wild and Free collections. Most of the papers and elements were altered, such as the geotag on the cover (I removed the background on the Color Me Happy journaling card and layered it over a Finnley patterned paper before printing). 

Here's a close-up:

I die-cut the tags on my Cameo, embossed them, and arranged them so the album would read vertically. I'm showing you the side-by-sides, although they are really top and bottom.

Here are the first pages:

I went a little more masculine on the pages with my little guy. The calendar and alphabet journaling cards are from the Finnley collection.

Here's a close-up:

Here are the next pages:

For these pages, I obviously went more girly. The "you will always be my sunshine" is a journaling card from Color Me Happy. I traced it in the Silhouette program and die-cut it on Finnley paper. The gorgeous flowers are from Finnley, and the cool scribble paper is from the new Black and White papers.

Here's a close-up:

Here are the next pages:

I struggled with these pages and ended up redoing them completely. I removed the background of the Wild and Free "gotcha" journaling card and layering it over Finnley papers. I also die-cut the circles and used the negative to make a banner.

Here's a close-up:

Here are my last pages:

I took a pocket protector and made a shaker card out of it with punched stars. For the "you are loved" strip, I again removed the background and layered it over Finnley paper. 

Here's the pocket:

I used a journaling card and fussy cut some flowers to pop up over the photo. The flowers don't line up exactly (they are two different elements), but I kind of liked that look. I layered the photo over tissue paper to lessen the journaling lines...I'm addicted to tissue paper lately. ;) 

Here's a close-up:

Phew! Still with me?

I wanted to pass along that Glitz is having a month-long challenge where you play along with our weekly themes. The prizes are awesome! It's a great way to win the new collections. You can find the details HERE. You can also enter to win a full Black and White digital collection HERE. 

Thanks for looking! Have a great week!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) PTI

Digital elements: (Finnley collection, Black and White paper pack 2, Black and White element pack 2, Color Me Happy element pack 1, Color Me Happy element pack 2, Wild and Free element pack 1, Wild and Free element pack 2) Glitz Design

Fibers: (twine) May Arts

Embellishments: (wood veneer) Studio Calico; (resin flower, arrow wood veneer) Freckled Fawn; (flower sequin) Lawn Fawn; (red sequin) Neat & Tangled; (stick pin) BasicGrey; (doily) Wilton; (flair) Two Peas in a Bucket; (pocket protector) Simple Stories

Stamp: (date stamp) American Crafts

Dies: (tags) Silhouette America; (heart) Simon Says Stamp); (Circles Die Cover Plate) Papertrey Ink

Punch: (star Punch Around the Page) Martha Stewart