Tea for two inspiration and then my neighbors laughed at me

Today I am inspired by:
Ruche look books. I mean seriously-come on. This is beautiful!
Tea For Two LookBook

In other news-last night while snapping some photos of a layout out on my front porch I was pointed at and laughed at. The car slowed down, the lady raised her glasses off her eyes, pointed and then laughed at me to her friend. Maybe she thought I was taking pictures of my toes, but it made me self-consciously revert to a 3rd grader and I wanted to yell at her "It's a scrapbook page....and I have a blog" So now my neighbors think I'm weird! Have you ever done anything crazy in the name of papercrafting? (Besides dressing your kids to match a patterned paper you want to use. That's a given, of course)

maggie holmes photo filters and a little fondue

I fell in love with the Maggie Holmes Crate Paper line at CHA and was finally able to get some of these cool Instagram looking filters. They are clear acetate with shading and water marks. I used one to layer my title onto, but they look so cool over photos too. Though I felt like hoarding these until the end of time because I love them so much, I went ahead and used one.

 

I created this page with a Pagemaps sketch and followed along with the coloursuite color scheme of yellow, green, pink and navy for the Pagemaps colorsuite challenge.

 

We have a little valentine's day tradition at our house. The restaurants are always packed on the actual holiday so Mike and I wait until the weekend to go out. On the actual holiday we have fondue for dinner-cheese fondue. We generally eat our fill of apples and bread dipped in smoky cheese sauce before we even get to the chicken or veggies. The kids love this tradition!

 

Supplies:

Crate Paper {Maggie Holmes}

Crate Paper Washi Sheets

American Crafts Thickers

Pazzles Inspiration

 

Linking up to the Pagemaps Coloursuite Challenge and the Use it Up Tuesday Challenge #55!

trendy gold

You know when a trend is new and you look at it and think-"yeah, not for me!" Think skinny jeans and neon. Hated them at first, now I'm warming up to them. But I digress...

I have never been a fan of gold. I'm a sterling silver girl. I don't own any gold jewelry except for my wedding ring and I have hinted to my hubby a few times that I'd really like to get it dipped in white gold. Both times the look on his face caused me to say Just Kidding but I'll let you in on a little secret-I'm not kidding. I like silver. Again-I digress...

 

 Here is my card and I used gold on it even though I am not a big fan because gold is trendy. But I like how it turned out. This card was created for the Moxie Fab World gift card holder challenge. I used one of the adorable Glitz {Unchartered Waters}Whatnot cards for my sentiment. The inside of the card has a little pocket to hold a gift card or a love note.

What trend have you been slow to warm up to?

 

Supplies:

Glitz {Unchartered Waters}

Making Memories Gold Book Plates

Pebbles Inc. Button

Gold Cording

Seam Tape

unchartered waters

 

I was a guest blogger this week at Craft Warehouse and wanted to share the layout I created for them using Glitz {Unchartered Waters}. These photos are from last spring when the kids hatched butterflies and then released them. The butterflies stood on their fingers for a bit before flying off and it was magical to watch!

 

Supplies:

Glitz Uncharterd Waters

Pazzles Inspiration Creative Cutter

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Queen & Co Pearls

Color Shine Pocket Card

Have I mentioned that I love Heidi Swapp's Color Shine Mists. Because I do! No picture you ever see could do them justice to how gorgeous they are in real life. They truly do shimmer and shine. I've been spraying anything that holds still as evidenced by this pocket card.

The pocket paper is HS Color Magic papers sprayed with Mustard spray. The papers actually have a resist pattern to them. I also sprayed some of the color magic flowers with mustard.

The flowers come white and you can customize them with any color spray. The seam binding started off white as well, but was quickly changed with some teal Color Shine. See-it's cool stuff! I added a few embellishments to the front of the pocket and tucked some tags inside. One holds a gift card, and one will hold a message for the recipient. Linking this up to the Moxie Fab World Gift Tag Challenge.

Supplies:

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Heidi Swapp Color Magic

Divine Twine

Hug Snug Seam Binding

 

national scrapbook day

In case you didn't know-today is a major holiday! It's national scrapbook day and I'll be celebrating over at the Pazzles website with an online crop. We'll have free SVG cutting files every hour and challenges with prizes. Come play!

{an oldie but goodie}

i just wanna make stuff

Even though I spend everyday making stuff at work I get to the weekend and I just wanna make stuff-my stuff-stuff for me! You know what I mean? I always have a list of things I want to make and by the time I actually sit down to make them I have a new list of things. Here is my current list~

i wanna make....

*this skirt! It's gorgeous. I am having the hardest time finding skirts lately. Is it just me? I am freakishly tall so that just adds to the problem. I wore this skirt to church today and I remembered how great it is to have something just right. It made me want to make a hundred more skirts, But I'll start with this one.

 

*these owls. Adorable. I'll sew a few and make a few out of paper and my life will be complete. I love owls right now!

 

*this infinity scarf made of vintage hankies. I have a stash of vintage fabrics just waiting for this project.

 

*this wall of photos and monograms.

 

*all of the 101 ideas projects by Heidi Swapp. True gorgeousness!

But instead I took the kids swimming at the YMCA Friday night, got up early Saturday and took the kids to a fun run, stopped at the store and got a present for a b-day party, went to a soccer game, ran kid to meet up for b-day party, took other kid to a practice for school talent show, ran to grocery store, picked kid up from practice, made dinner, folded 4 loads of laundry, picked up 5000+ Legos and then sat down at my craft desk. I hear from the other room-"Mom, will you come watch this movie with me?" I had patterned paper on my desk and my ink pad was open and I replied "No Thanks!" But two seconds later I was on the couch watching  Shark Boy and Lava Girl for the 1 millionth time because mom guilt got the best of me. Why are we so good at the over analyzing and second guessing as a mother? I really can't imagine Anna in therapy some day because she had to watch Shark Boy and Lava Girl BY HERSELF! But it's the way it goes. You give birth to them and then try really hard for the next 20 years to do everything right. And someday I can make everything on my list with no interruptions, but I'm sure by then I'll really be missing the little people hanging around making messes and calling for me from all over the house.

 

But next week dang it-I'm making something!