Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds

Lasting memories has another great challenge.... the great thing about challenges is they force you to do a page a week..... any push at all in getting the pages done is awesome! This week was perfect timing for my Comicon page, I went as Tippi Hedren from the Birds and it just so happens it was definitely a ONE PICTURE PAGE!!!

 In Calgary it's called Calgary Expo, either name means an awesome! fun! weekend!!!! 

 my attacked paper and birdy footprints....

birds on a wire..... just waiting....... 

Thanx for stopping by, have a Happy Scrappy Day :-)

MIss Empire

Hello fellow scrappers! Here is a page from the Kaiser Miss Empire line.

I love the rich colors of these papers. For this page I did a bit of fussy cutting. The frame where you see Maddie, is cut out of one of the papers. I fussy cut around the outside and the inside. When I first cut it out I left all the little pieces that stuck into the frame, the clock, stamp and tag. I was lucky that they fit around my picture, but if they had interfered I would have just cut them off. Nobody would be the wiser! There is a great cut apart paper where all the extra pieces came from. They are all inked with Rusty Hinge. 

Everything is layered a few times on this layout. The photo has a cardstock mat, and a larger flower frame. The little strip that goes under the green square, is actually the strip off the bottom of the paper where the price is!

The post card is the top scrap cut from the paper with the frame. Matted with orange, and a few more cut aparts added. A tear reveals a hidden tag, and a little rosette adds some dimension. 

Have a happy scrappy day, thanx for stopping by :-) 

Montana Bound

A couple of weekends ago, we had our family reunion in Montana, and as you can guess, there were allot!!! of pictures taken. Especially of the rope swing, and the tubing. I  just hit rapid fire on my camera, so that in 100 pictures I can capture the mid air and drop of doom moments! Because of this, it's very hard for me to not save every picture, But I would have 100's of pictures within seconds of each other, sometimes tho' expressions are priceless and I will print a few in the same time frame. So.... I thot this would be a great chance to try project life. I could get lots of pictures on a page, and break them up so it's not so obvious, and it's a time saver! So I had some fun, at the reunion, and scrappin' it afterwards!

First I'll show you the finished page

now a close up of each pocket. They don't have to have allot of stuff in them, otherwise it wouldn't be very fast any more. Many paper lines have cut apart papers that will fit the different size pockets with no need to add anything. 

a few chipboard letters so add some fun. and a wee bit of bling

that's my brave girl in that photo!

and not all pockets have to have photos...

see, simple...

a bit of washi tape.... and voila..... on complete page.

I also did a traditional 12x12 so you can see how you can add project life to any theme or book. The pages can easily be mixed and matched!

more washi tape....and thickers letters. I cut a few surf boards and used glossy accents for embellishing the corner.

I also added a few pop dots to some of the surfboards on the side so they have some dimension

more thickers, and YAY I have 2 pages done, with lots of pictures! Thanx for popping by, Have a Happy Scrappy day! Hop over to Scrapbooker's Paradise to see a shopping list. 

Washi Flowers

Hello all. Everyone seems to have Washi Tape on their projects lately so I took a journey thru you tube to find some ideas. I found a really cute flower made with the ever popular tape and thot I'd share.

First thing was to pick some washi tape. There are allot of choices!!!

Step 1 is to measure about 3" and fold the tape in half so there is no stickiness left.

then I rounded the ends so that my petals are flower like. Scrunch it in the middle and fold it 

I made 3 of them for each flower, and arranged them into the shape of a flower. Glued together...

then I added a bling center, and voila, washi flowers. 

I added them to my page, and I like that they aren't bulky.

Thanx for popping by, Have a Happy Scrappy Day. hop over to Scrapbookers Paradise to see a shopping list. 

I Heart Summer part 2

Hello all! Well, I got my binder ring insert that I was missing when I went to make this book the first time.... Now I have the finished product! 

well..... 99% done. I still need to print a few photos and when I do that and the book is full, then I will go back and add little bits and pieces from the chipboard and brad sets sets.

I added LOTS of pockets, some of the cut aparts from the 12x12 sheet were too cute to cover, so I just randomly stuck them into pockets among the journal and photo tags!

I loved the jar on this page, so I fussy cut part of it, reinforced the back so it doesn't tear beyond where I want. Now I can slip a journal tag behind the cuteness!

I'm going to decorate this little jar, but I was waiting for a photo, and then I will put something in the jar that matches the picture! 

I made as many pockets as I could.

I used mostly ribbon for the tag tops but I had fun with a few. Here I layered a flower and used a brad with a design on it.

Because I can make as many pages as I need in the book, I can make the pages fat with photos and flip pages, then If I have more space in the end, I will add another page. 

lots of secret flips! I love these papers for this! If I like the design on both sides, I make it a door!

again, the really cute images I wanted to keep, so, add a pocket, fill it with tags and I can still see the back page :-)

One of the last pockets I embossed, and then used the postcard as a pocket. Now off to the print store. Hope you enjoyed my little summer book. This cover be any theme you like. It's even kewl enuff to leave uncovered, it has a distressed look to it. Have fun! Thanx for popping by. Check out Scrapbookers Paradise for the shopping list, and.... Have a Happy Scrappy Day!

PPSC#3 Spiderman

Hello all, I know this is a pretty flat page, but my Comicon book is getting so fat, I'm trying to do thin pages. So it's not exactly the page I want to show you.... it's these kewl Tim Holtz Shattered papers....

Just a bit of layering....

but this is the kewl part, You can ink the shattered papers to match any color you want. I used my ink blending tool and covered the paper filling in all the cracks with fired brick distress ink! Such a great look!

I did my journalling on a tag made from the new Prima Sizzix die called Elisse.I'm telling you the name because it took me forever to find it.... tag is not on the title lol!

and one last close up, one of my favorite dies from Timmy, the picture wheel! It's filled with little tiny pictures of Spiderman comics.... 

Thanx for popping by. Check out Scrapbookers Paradise to see the other challenge pictures, and here is a shopping list. 

Sizzix dies - Picture Wheel, Elisse

Bo Bunny - Licorice jewels

Tim Holtz - Shattered Kraft Core 12x12 paper

Ranger - distress ink fired brick

Queen & Co. - film Strip Washi tape

Stan Lee - compliments of Marvel.... lol 

Have a Happy Scrappy Day! 

FSC#4

 Hello all. It's Challenge time at Scrapbooker's Paradise time again, and here is my sketch, and my page.

Hop over to Scrapbooker's Paradise to enter your own page, you could win a prize! Good Luck everyone, Have a Happy Scrappy Day!

Stampede page classmates

We always have such a great time at class, I decided to capture the moment. Here is our page layout on July 6, almost the whole crew is there..... we had one MIA mate... instead of photoshopping her in..... we'll just have to take more pictures!

Kelley, Carissa, Myrna, Gale, Gwynn, Lucie, Marcia, Kristina, 

me, Tina, Sarah

and Maria! Yahooooo

Stampede Page 2

I love Stampede time.... Main reason, of course it's a blast! Greatest outdoor show on earth even. But then after Stampede.... it's so FUN to scrapbook!! Bring on the metal, burlap, rope and distress, distress, distress!!!

Here is the completed page...

 Here is a close up of the burlap flowers. The Timmy Tattered florals of course!!  I had an extra flower, so I wrapped it around the page, just for fun :-) Buttons "hold" the papers together and the tags are sitting in a pocket behind the photo. I can reach them without pulling them out of the page protector. The pocket is halfway up so I don't lose the tags too deep behind.

 Close up of the bottom flower. I tucked a piece of rope to one side of a photo, cause you "need" rope on a cowboy page!

and my adorable tags! This was an old paper line from Creative Imaginations, and they make awesome tags!

Thanx for popping by, have a Happy Scrappy Day!

Thru the Mud

As some of you may know, Calgary has been under some muddy waters lately. ( To say the least ) We have been going to the Stampede look out and watching the progress (unbelievably quickly) coming together. This was a picture I took on a rainy day overlooking Stampede, it sorta explains the spirit of Calgary, we are in chaos, but even in the rain a cowboy will venture out and check the progress of his beloved city. Below is the hustle and bustle of hundreds of volunteers working hard at all hours, thru rain and shine to restore our Stampede Grounds... and as it turns out, "Come Hell or high Water" the Stampede will go on. 

My page shows what Calgary is like right now, the beauty shining thru the muck and chaos

There are many layers of pretty paper that are crumpled and crushed. The strips are rumpled, the lace inked and dirty looking, splashes of distress stains and scratched parts. 

A random selection of brads and eyelets, a little bit of chaos....

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