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Instant Photo Scrapbooking

Good Morning, Friends! Today I have a scrappy project for you -- I know it's been a while, but the new Instant Photo Frames die set by Julie Ebersole for Essentials by Ellen was a wonderful inspiration to scrap a favorite photo! Ahhh ... my blood pressure lowers about 100 points when I see this view! :D I thought both of the great sentiments included in the Instant Photo Frames die set were appropriate, so I used them both! The "Good Times" was cut out of both white and Bazzill Lollipop cardstock. I placed the Lollipop die cut letters into the white negative die cut cardstock, and placed that behind the smallest Instant Photo Frame which was stamped with Painted Stripes in black ink. The other "Best Day Ever" sentiment was die cut from a Lollipop Folk Heart die cut. White cardstock was placed behind the "Ever" word, then the heart was accented with the arrow die, also stamped with Painted Stripes in black ink. The photo was mounted to a 6-inch square piece of Bazzill Gumball cardstock, with a finishing touch of the "St John" sentiment die cut with Essentials by Ellen Letterboard Larger Alpha. I also have a... Read more →

Pineapple of My Eye!

Hello, friends! I'm back today with another beachy pineappley project for you! Can you tell I slightly LOVE just about anything tropical and beachy?!! I'm desperately trying to hold on to the last bit of Summer (before school starts next week), by scrapping one of my favorite photos from our vacation a few short weeks ago (I am SO ready to go back)! I hope you'll join me today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom for all the details on how I created this page. As promised, I've included detailed photo instructions on how to create the stamped watercolor pineapple I used here and on my pina colada card in the post below this one. I look forward to seeing you there! Read more →

Life is a Journey

I hope you all have had the chance to try out Taylored Expressions’ beautiful new ink pads -- I’ve used them two different ways on this 8-inch scrapbook page -- for watercoloring the background and selectively inking the sentiment title! This page is about a wonderful milestone in our family … our oldest daughter received her driving permit this past Fall {sniff!} so, of course, it HAD to be documented! That great "Memories" frame I used is part of the Retirement Sale currently going on at Taylored Expressions so if you like it, you better scoop it up quickly! You can shop the Retirement Sale HERE. I hope you'll join me today over on the Taylored Expressions blog for all the details about this scrapbook page! SUPPLIES: Go Beep On the Road - Beetle Build a Scene - On the Road Pockets & Pages - Fab Frames - Summer Label Stacklets 3 Premium Watercolor Cardstock Premium Cardstock - Cookie Monster Premium Cardstock - Oreo Premium Cardstock - Metallic Neutrals TE Ink Bundle - Mini Size Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster Mini Pad Taylored Expressions Granny Smith Mini Pad Taylored Expressions Peapod Mini Pad Taylored Expressions Cherry Pop Mini Pad Taylored Expressions... Read more →

Postage Organizer

Class is back in session! Today over in the CLASSroom I have a tutorial on how to create this sweet little mini album (measures approx. 4.50" x 5") that I will use to organize and keep my postage in. Or you can use if for 4" Instagram-sized photos if you'd like . . . I hope you'll join me there for all the details! Happy Labor Day holiday weekend to you all! Read more →

Scrapbook in a Jar

Hello and happy Friday, friends! I finally took the time to finish a scrappy project I had in mind from our summer vacation this year and this is what I came up with: A scrapbook in a mini mason jar (or several jars)! I hope you'll join me today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom for all the details on this project! Happy weekend! Read more →

At the Beach Scrap Page & Giveaway!

Hello and happy Friday! My family loves tropical island/beach destination vacations and last month we had the opportunity to visit a few. Here is one of my favorite photos from that trip, on this fun, colorful flip flop 11" x 8.50" page: And anyone who knows me well knows I LOVE my flip flops and wear them everywhere, any time ... as long as it is above about 50 degrees! Thank goodness I live in a relatively warm climate with that type of weather about 9+ months out of the year! :) So it's no wonder I HAD to have this fabulous, huge new Taylored Expressions Flip Flop Garland die set which has four different sizes of flip flops! A few quick page details to go along with those fabulous flip flops: Trendy gold metallic cardstock die cut words, with Gold Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen accents and journaling: GIVEAWAY You can find full details about this page today over on the Taylored Expressions blog, along with a giveaway of the Flip Flop Garland die set I used AND a copy of the newest issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine!! I hope you'll join me there and be sure... Read more →

Essentials by Ellen Spring 2015 Release & Giveaway!

Hello, and welcome to the Spring 2015 Essentials by Ellen Release Hop ... I’ll be showcasing some of the new stamp sets and dies In my post today! I also get to give away this gorgeous new floral stamp set, called Bohemian Garden to a lucky someone! Please leave a comment here on this blog post to enter my giveaway. The fun begins in the CLASSroom, where there is also a Grand Giveaway! To enter, be sure to leave a comment there, and at every stop along the hop by May 5th! Winners will be announced May 8th. Here's an 8-inch scrapbook page of my youngest daughter that I made with the Bohemian Garden stamp set, along with the very cool Be-YOU-Tiful die, Amazing Women stamp set and Mondo Magnolia stamp set and coordinating Mondo Magnolia die (all bold products are linked below in the supply section): (Click on any photo for a larger view) 1. I started this page by gold and silver heat embossing the pretty Bohemian Garden flowers onto an 8-inch piece of Neenah Desert Storm cardstock. These stamps stamp so VERY nicely and the outline size is perfect for either embossing or coloring and the variety... Read more →

Die-namics Design: Cover-Up Craze

My Favorite Things put a lot of thought into their products and their line of Cover-Ups Die-namics reflects their attention to detail when it comes to what works for YOU! Designed to layer beautifully on a standard A2 card size, Cover-Ups add dimension and texture. These designs are equally as beautiful tone-on-tone as they are with bright, contrasting pops of color. You’ll be amazed at the creative ways the MFT design team has featured Cover-Ups in their projects this month! I also love using Cover-Ups on my scrapbook pages ... here's an example: I love how easy it is to get perfect, bold accents with Cover-Ups! Here, I used one of my favorites, the Floral Fusion, cut from this month's new Tickled Pink cardstock, and layered it behind my girls' photo booth strip of photos. The Happy Die-namics was cut from Tickled Pink, and Cranberry Cocktail cardstock, then layered together across the top of the page. An additional Happy Trio (this month's Free with $60) die cut (from Blue Breeze cardstock) was added to the title line. On the left side of the page I placed a leftover strip (from a previous project) of all the new March colors of... Read more →

MFT March 2015 New Product Launch!

Welcome to the March New Product Launch from My Favorite Things! This is the design team's chance to highlight and share more of the new release products that are NOW AVAILABLE for purchase at the MFT Store! Be sure to leave a comment here on my blog post, to be entered for your chance at winning a $100 gift voucher (see last paragraph below for details)! Tonight I'm focusing on MFT's fun new Small Brick Background stamp and Window Die-namics ... (all bold products are linked below in the supply section)! My first project is an 8-inch scrap page of a gorgeous lunch spot at the Hana Hotel in Maui, Hawaii, where my husband and I spent our honeymoon. This photo hasn't had a good permanent home for a while, so I wanted to scrap it before it got lost in another move! I stamped the Small Brick Background with Versamark onto this month's pretty new After Midnight cardstock -- it was a perfect compliment to the beautiful blues of the ocean! I intentionally partially inked the top right corner and lower left corners of the page, so the bricks would fade out. That's one thing I love about MFT's... Read more →

January 2015 MFT Release Countdown-Day 2

Welcome back to the My Favorite Things January Release Countdown -- The new products will be available on Tuesday night, January 6! Be sure to head over to the MFT Blog to see today’s full product reveals AND enter for your chance to win a $75 gift voucher on each of the 5 countdown day blog posts there! My 8-inch scrapbook page uses these products being featured/revealed today: Miss Tiina's I Love You More stamp set and Straight To My Heart Die-namics (all bold products are linked below in the supply section): My family just returned from a fabulous sunshine-filled vacation, so this fun new stamp set from Miss Tiina with two sun related sentiments was a perfect choice for this page! I stamped it in Black Licorice Hybrid Ink onto Smooth White cardstock and die cut it with Jumbo Cloud STAX. The sun in the sentiment was colored with Copic Y13, topped with MIX-ables Sheer Sparkle Glitter Glaze, and the cloud accented with tiny Ripe Raspberry hearts from Tag Builder Blueprints 3 Die-namics. The Sun Ray Cover-Up Die-namics was die cut from Vellum and the sun center was cut from the beautiful, soft new Lemon Chiffon Prestige cardstock. The... Read more →

MFT December New Product Launch!

The time has come . . . Welcome to the December New Product Launch from My Favorite Things! This is the design team's chance to highlight and share more of the new release products that are NOW AVAILABLE for purchase at the MFT Store! Be sure to leave a comment here on my blog post, to be entered for your chance at winning a $100 gift voucher (see last paragraph below for details)! Tonight I'm focusing on MFT's fabulous new Polaroid Cover-Up Die-namics (all bold products are linked at the end of post): I adore this new Cover-Up Die-namics -- it has TONS of versatility! I'll be sharing some more projects with it throughout this month! My first project is an 8-inch scrap page of my youngest daughter (on the right, making the goofy eyeballs!) and her BFF, in all of their Instagram selfie glory! The Photo Booth Props Die-namics and Photo Booth stamp set are PERFECT for 12-year olds . . . It speaks their language, LOL! ;-) I stamped some of the Photo Booth images in Berrylicious Premium Dye Ink onto the top half of the Berrylicious background, then stamped the Zebra Background with Black Licorice Pigment Ink... Read more →

MFT November Release Rewind

Hello and welcome to My Favorite Things November Release Rewind! The design team hopes to inspire you with more ideas for those new November products you've purchased and are patiently awaiting to be delivered, or to help you finish up your shopping if you are still on the fence about anything! My project today uses a few of this release's products I didn't have a chance to use yet -- Laina Lamb's absolutely adorable All-Star High Top Die-namics and coordinating stamp set, Be Original, along with the new Arrows Abound stencil and this month's Free with $60 Die-namics, Stitched Scallop Edges: My silly girls were trying their best to not give me a good photo op -- one trying NOT to smile and the other sticking her tongue out at me ... until they both cracked up! They really are the best of friends (thank goodness!), so these stamp set sentiments were perfect on a page about them. I used the Arrows Abound stencil with pearlescent embossing paste on Pink Lemonade cardstock for the top half of the page -- it's gorgeous in person but a little difficult to get a good photo. Here's another view: That fabulous sentiment was... Read more →

Scrappy Fall Page

Hello and happy weekend! I wanted to let you know I have a scrapbook page tutorial over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom today. It uses Julie Ebersole's fabulous new Autumn Acorns stamp set. I hope you'll join me there to find out all the details! Read more →

Grateful Mini Album and Copic Video Tutorial

Hello and welcome to My Favorite Things September Release Rewind! The design team hopes to inspire you with more ideas for those new September products you've purchased and are patiently waiting on to be delivered, or to help you finish up your shopping if you are still on the fence about anything! (I'm having a few computer problems at the moment, so all products used are linked at this bottom of the post). Since Fall is one of my favorite times of year, I couldn't get enough of the gorgeous new Falling Leaves Die-namics, Thankful Thoughts stamp set and coordinating Words of Gratitude Die-namics, and Burlap Background, so I created this 5.50" square Grateful mini album: This album cover idea came about when I was die cutting a bunch of the Falling Leaves from different colors of cardstock for another project. I had left the dies intact when I received them (didn't break them apart) and liked how the formation and spacing looked and wanted to use the leftover negative space from this piece of Chocolate Brown cardstock. So I stamped it with the Burlap Background in Whip Cream Pigment Ink. Next, I inlaid all but one of the leaves... Read more →

MFT Sept Release Countdown-Thankful Falling Leaves!

Welcome back to the 5th day of My Favorite Things September Release Countdown -- just ONE more day until the new products are available in the MFT Boutique tomorrow night -- Tues, Sept 16 at 9pm Central! Today's new September featured products are some gorgeous new Falling Leaves Die-namics, along with a wonderful Thankful Thoughts stamp set and coordinating Words of Gratitude Die-namics. I combined them all on this 8-1/2" x 11" photo mat frame / decor piece: I started with a white photo mat, sized 8-1/2" x 11" with a 4" x 6" opening and stamped it with the new Burlap Background in Natural Hybrid Ink ... I love all the texture this background creates! Note: When creating decor projects, or anything to do with photos, I prefer using Hybrid Ink, so I'm assured the ink won't run if it accidentally gets wet. Below is the last portion of the frame about to be stamped: The edges of the frame were sponged with Chocolate Brown Hybrid Ink. Above, you can see the fantastic embossed details of the Falling Leaves, especially on the tan metallic cardstock I used. Here's another close-up (click any photo for a larger view): The leaves... Read more →