Lil Bit

Well hello again!  This has been a busy posting past few days for me!  Funny how I can go two weeks or more with nothing to share, then, BAM! postingpalooza :D  Today I have a layout I made for another Swirlydoos Kit Club Challenge, "Tell Me A Story"  This challenge was prompted through the lamenting of how scrapbooking has traveled away from it's original meaning, which was documenting life's happenings through pics and journaling.  So many of us shy away from the who what where when and why of the picture we've honored in such a pretty way, and this was specifically to bring that back.  The host, Maggi, asked for fur-baby stories as a jumping point, but anything goes.  I chose to go with the fur-baby. I used November's kit "Beloved".  What a stunner! Packed with Kaisercraft and Bo Bunny goodness, a pleasure to create with. I also used a sketch from Page Drafts.  I love Em's sketches, she really makes creating a breeze. Please give her blog a click and see all her gorgeous work.  No doubt you'll find something to inspire you!  Here's the sketch, #36.4 -

Here are the pics -

This is my ZuZu.  She is a peanut of a doggie.  A funny little Yorkie no bigger than a small rabbit.  She reminds me of one too when she's running. She was laying in the laundry basket here when I snapped these pics.  She lays on everything you put down!  Plastic shopping bags, clothes, pocketbooks.  She doesn't care, lol.  My journaling is on the two tags up in the left hand corner.  They say -

ZuZu is a little bit of a thing but she has the personality of a Great Dane. She cracks us up with the things she does. If you have a bag, backpack, package or a basket of laundry she will lay on it if she can. I was doing laundry and she hopped into the basket with my curtains. She is too cute! She is also my protector. She watches over me and is always by my side. All this in a dog the size of a large guinea pig. ZuZu was a wonderful Christmas gift from hubby. A total surprise and I can say she is all mine. I love her even when she makes me crazy with her barking. She is a cuddle bug and loves to be carried like a baby. Don't let that fool you she's tough and gives our Bruno a run for his money. Dogs bring so much love to a home and family and she has.

I cut the tags on my cricut, the butterflies and the leafy branches too. The bottom piece I used my Martha punch to make the border. A quick cricut tip in case you have this issue, for ages my fine detail pieces just got chummed up if they were small in size. I found that cutting them at a very slow speed, either 2 or 3, and put the blade pressure at 4 for cardstock from the blade warehouse dial, and on the machine or if you use a Gypsy, make that pressure 4 as well, it cuts SO much better. Use your judgement for the different paper thicknesses. Some might be very thick, like Blue Fern and need the five setting, or thin like some DCWV stacks and only need the 3 pressure. Give it a try :) I glossy accented my letter stickers for a bit more pop there. Some stickles on the butterflies and the bottom sticker for some sparkle, cuz ya know, I spread a little sparkle wherever I go ;)

Product List (first 4 products from kit)
Kaisercraft Rustic Harmony - Tranquil, Peace, Sticker Sheet
Kaisercraft Pearls 
Brown Bow
Sea Foam Raffia
Martha Stuart Deep Edge Punch - Flower
Stickles - Lime Green, Cotton Candy
Invild Bolme Chalk Fluid Edgers - Olive Vine, Garden Grass
Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy, Black Soot
K and Co Stickers - Alphabet
Glossy Accents

I hope you liked it, thanks for visiting. If you have any ?'s, please leave me a comment.  I love hearing what my visitors have to say so even just a hi makes me happy :)  Have a great week,

Beautiful

TGIF friends!  Oh man I love the weekend.  It's a 4 day one for me since Santino has no school on the 10th as well as the 11th for Veterans Day :)  God Bless our soldiers and all they give for us.

Today I have my layout for Swirlydoo's Kit Club's Butterfly Challenge.  I love butterflies so I love making layouts with them.  Rarely does a layout of mine not have them.  Anyone can enter the challenge you don't have to be a kit subscriber.  Click on the Swirlydoo name to check out info on the kit if you'd like.  I used the beautiful Treasured Yesterdays kit. Packed with scrumptious goodness!  What a great selection of papers and embellies to make some beautiful creations.

Here's my layout.  Sorry for the crummy pics, my lighting was just terrible and I couldn't get it right no matter what!

This is my daughter Desirae and Sophia from 8 years ago.  Sophia was a peanut still!  I was taking pics of them all for our Christmas card and they climbed into a tree in our yard.

I did a bit of texture paste with my homemade mix and a brick wall stencil from Sa Crafters.  The clock is a stamp set from Heartfelt Creations that I had left over.  My washi tape was a prize from Maria Cole and tissue tape from Tim Holtz. Prima flowers and Blue Fern chippie along with the pretty Prima butterfly stick pin.  The small flowers are from I Am Roses and I sprayed them with Lindy's.  The butterflies are printables that I have saved on my puter.  The paper is called Montage.  Blue Fern is really making some awesome lines of paper.

Thanks for the visit!  Have a great weekend,

Halloween Lap Book

Hey folks!  How are you?  Amazingly it is now November!  I need to get my tookus in gear and start Christmas shopping.  My favorite thing about November is all the yummy food I prepare.  Yeah I know but I love to cook and I really love to eat lol!  Any who I digress from why I am here today :)  I made a neat album for my son's elementary school's annual fall festival.  I make things every year and donate them to be raffled off.  This year I went back to the album after making holiday banners last year.  I got the tutorial from Kathy Orta and I will share her link for the tut from start to finish.  Let me say this style of album rocks!  It's called a lapbook type and you can pack it to the nth degree for sure.  I took pics but did a video because there is simply no way pics alone do this puppy justice.

Friends, there are pockets galore in this album.  The possibilities are only tied to what you can think of.  I made one for my daughter's sis in law's baby shower in September and it was gorgeous.  I did tags instead of photo mats for that one.  For Christmas I'm making a travel one for my cousin who goes all over the place and has a gazzilion pics!  I'm excited about that one :)

Here's the video -



See? I wasn't kidding! I would've had to take 50 pics to try and get it all!  Again, if you can think it, you can make this album style work for you. For this album I used DCWV Bewitched stack from either last year or the year before. I only bought 3 packages of Jolene's Halloween embellies for it, which I have left for myself too. Here is Kathy's video, it is just the first of 7 and may I suggest you subscribe to her channel because the woman is just, well, a Phenomenon ;)



Thanks for visiting!  Enjoy the rest of your week.