My 3rd Grader

Good morning everyone! It's time for my September reveal for Scrapstuffz "Inspired By" Challenge . This month Stacia has challenged with two different inspirational photos to play with. Being a teacher, this is my busy time of year, so I only used one. I'll try and play with the other one later. 

When I saw the picture of school supplies, my son's school picture was the first thing that came to mind. I fell in love with this picture, and it was fun to finally get a chance to scrap it. 

Nothing says back to school like alphas. I've been waiting to use this alpha paper, and this was the perfect picture for it. I also loved the little notecard that looks like it was torn from a spiral bound notepad. So cute and appropriate.

Brads and a flair make this a nice little corner of embellishments. 

These Thickers have graph lines on them. They work perfect with the layout.

I used Sketch #89 from Let's Capture Our Memories for this layout.

Head in over to ScrapStuffz "Inspired By" Challenges to play along. You have until the end of the month. Don't forget to let us know what inspired in the photo. Thanks for letting me know your thoughts here.

Lego KidsFest

Good morning everyone! Today I'm revealing my layout for this month's challenge on ScrapStuffz "Inspired by" Challenges. 

This month we changed things up a bit and we have a wonderful sketch to work with.

Stacia also challenged the Design Team members to use one of her awesome cuts from her shop, ScrapStuffz. After looking through all her cuts I found this Lego KidsFest one she made and knew it would be perfect! Stacia makes these all herself, and can design just about anything you need. And, they are beautifully done. I was so excited when I got my piece to play with.

Look at all those Legos! We had so much fun playing at Lego KidsFest.

See how awesome the die cut is!?! I love it! Instead of the honeycomb in the sketch I used scraps of Lego paper I had in my stash. I cut out the individual bricks and used them around the layout. So much fun!

You still have a few days left to enter this challenge (enter by August 31st), so head on over and get started! The sketch us so much fun to play with. You will also need to include a die cut; either one of Stacia's or one that you create or have. It's time to pull out those cutting machines! 

Thanks for stopping by. Please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts on my layout.

Family

Welcome back everyone! Today I am revealing my layout for ScrapStuffz "Inspired By" Challenges . Here is this month's inspiration photo: 

The moment I saw this photo, back in early June, I thought of my grandmother. She has always loved blue glass, and I have so many memories of watching and feeding birds with her. Where ever she lived her space was always filled with blue. She's the reason I love the color so much. But, I didn't have any good photos of her, and I procrastinated on my layout for the challenge. Then, on July 12th, my grandmother passed away. She went peacefully in her sleep, as she always wanted, and I know she's happy to be in heaven. Strangely, one of the first things I thought of was this picture and how much she would have loved it. So, I knew I had to do my layout about her. My cousin shared a picture that she had taken of my grandmother and all four of her children. I knew I'd use the photo as soon as I saw it. So, here is my layout about my Grandma Phyllis using the inspiration photo:

I made this layout a bit country chic, which is out of my comfort zone, but it is just what my grandma would have loved. She was a musician from the time she was four (violin and piano), so I was thrilled to use the music paper with birds. All of the paper comes from Authentic. It's perfect!

The little bird had been in my stash for a very long time. It was plain acrylic, so used some Gelatos to color it. I love how it turned out! I also adore the little bluebird on the paper. (The lady in the picture is my mother.)

The little cage is also acrylic. I used two different paint dabbers to color it. I used an organza ribbon to soften the layout some more. 

Once again I used some acrylic birds. I used the Gelatos to color them too, but I smoothed them out to just give a hint of color.

To complete this layout I used a sketch from Scrap Our Stash Challenge Blog . 

I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I do. It's amazing where an inspiration photo can take you. Head over to ScrapStuffz "Inspired By" Challenges and take on this challenge yourself. Don't forget to tell us what inspired you. I can't wait to see what you create!

Last a Day of 3rd Grade

Good morning! Today I'm revealing my layout for ScrapStuffz Inspired By challenge. 

Nothing says summers to me like the end of school. Both my husband and me are teachers, so when our son has his last day, we know that summer is here!

I loved the colors in the inspiration photo. I also loved all the words. I knew I wanted a longer title with different colored alphas for my LO.

I loved all the bright colors in these papers. They reminded me of the inspiration photo as soon as I saw them. I used papers from this month's Noel Mignon kit. I also found the cute little rub ons in the kit as well.

All the patterns make me happy!

This big wooden "3" has been hanging around in my stash for awhile. I'm glad it finally found the perfect home on this LO.

I also used a sketch from Let's Capture Our Memories for this LO. 

Head on over to ScrapStuffz "Inspired By" Challenges to take on this challenge yourself. While you're there, check out our search for next month's Guest a Design member. We'd love for you to play along!