Sunday Scrappin'

I didn't get to any photo scrapbooking this week but did finish up some altered items. These first projects I had done for a while but had trouble gluing the letters together and while waiting to hang there were a few accidents that needed repair. Today I'll get some Command Picture Hanging Strips & we'll get the names up. I can't take full credit for this project. I was inspired by a name I saw that was done in varying fonts & sizes decorated & embellished.

Ta-da!:

There are three different fonts used on these letters (wooden, 3D cardboard & chipboard) found at Hobby Lobby. I let Lydia {with a little help from me} choose three embellishments to add, then I embellished those with fuzzy fibers & a rhinestone (on the flower). They are all covered in patterned paper, except the Y & D. The Y has solid paper on it then I used a roller stamp to decorate. The D is just painted.

Michael's name is done the same way - various fonts, covered in paper (L is painted, H has solid paper with stamps) and embellishments that he picked out {because they're types of transformers} and I embellished with some supplies from my scrappy stash {Italian paper clips, small gears & paperclips. I left his name in two pieces so it would be more sturdy.

This project was also inspired by a similar one that I saw somewhere. Lydia hasn't been too interested in bows until just recently. The trouble was our pup would find them left around on the floor & chew them to pieces. So I took a frame I wasn't using, removed the glass & covered the backing with patterned paper (would have left empty if we had painted walls and I may still remove the paper}and hot glued ribbons to the inside edge of the frame. Now her clips can hang above the dresser & I don't have to worry about the dog chewing them.

To-do:

• Hang names
• Do some baby shopping
• Stock fridge & pantry
• Have baby

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Scrap {& stuff}

It's time for Sunday Scrappin' again! I was reminded this morning that we've got one month of summer vacation done. Here that means halfway, wow! It goes too quickly. So far most of our summer activity has included the pool in the backyard, sunscreen and shade. Much of my time has been spent  cleaning, decorating and preparing for baby's arrival. As usual I have plenty more on my lists and a couple projects in limbo - almost done but not quite. I'll share those next week.

Ta-da!:

And I think my collage is finally done. I moved the ballet slippers, not sure if I'll move them again. I still need eggs for the nest {painted that purple so it pops more than the yellow} but I'm really happy with it. I finally got to the butterfly project I was waiting to do using an empty frame I wasn't using in the living room, painted it and put a piece of cardboard with a textured pattern paper and butterfly printouts that I cut. I love how it turned out but can't take credit, totally copied the idea from something I saw on Etsy but mine is slightly different. One sleepless night I found a cute bird image, printed it & mounted on a 'quilted' background {cut squares of two papers and arranged like a patchwork quilt} and painted the empty frame. Lastly I added a little canvas I found at Hobby Lobby for $1.50 - score on the clearance shelf! You can click the first picture to enlarge & see it - it's orange with a bird cage and says "live laugh love", just ignore that the lettering is completely crooked.

This project isn't exactly scrap but reminds me of a scrappy layout. Before my grandparents visited {a couple weeks ago} I finally got another project finished. I've had these boards painted for a while, they would move from the table to my bed between meals and laundry time. One night Shawn hung them and the next day I arranged frames & stuff on them. The idea is to have pictures of all of our immediate family members in these frames, some as you can see are still empty and others need to be updated. I'm happy with how it looks {minus the crookedness of the black frame, it refuses to stay straight} and like the pop of color in our  mostly neutral living room.

To-do: 

• Hang project in waiting & hope it doesn't fall apart.
• Order photos to finish Lydia's album.
• Finish Lydia's album {though with delivery of pictures that may not happen until after the baby comes}
• Journal family pages
• Organize scrappy stuff
• Work on baby bedding - finish baby's quilt!
• One more decorative project for baby.
• Go shopping for still needed baby supplies....oops!
• Clean & organize house 10 times - that just seems to be the way around here nowadays lol.
• Have baby - sooner than later so I can sleep again and be rid of heartburn. :)

Sunday Scrappin'

Woohoo!!! Sorry, I'm just a little excited. I've made progress with some things on my list this week and checking things off a list makes me a little giddy. Especially when that list is a page long and I'm working with a couple of deadlines - one unknown. The first is family visiting next weekend! That is very exciting for us, our first visitors in three years. :D The unkown deadline is baby's arrival. Tomorrow puts me at 5 weeks {or less} so there are some things I really want finished, and others that aren't such a big deal. I won't share my page long to do list with you because it's pretty boring to be honest. But I will share the fun projects that I get finished.

Ta-da!:

My favorite store to shop at {Hobby Lobby} had a fantabulous sale this week. My fabric choices for the baby's bedding were still 30% off {Yay!} and tons of scrappy stuff was 50% off! {albums, page protectors, some adhesives and all papers}. I really showed a lot of restraint only purchasing things I knew I would use right away...I had to stay away from the papers. The only item I bought that wouldn't be used right away was my click n stick adhesive but I know I will use it because it's my most favorite adhesive out there. I took advantage of the album & refills sale and Michael's first year albums are now in 3 ring binders. His others were falling apart and these look so much nicer on the shelf with the others.

My to-do list from last week:

• Journal Lydia's pages 
• Finish Lydia's pages {some need photos added, embellishments, titles} worked on this
• Finish Lydia's album to-do list {shouldn't be many pages left} selected photos needed
• Transfer Michael's pages to new albums
• Journal family pages 

It feels so good to make progress with things that have been hanging over my head for a while. 

Short Scrap

    

Sadly I don't have any finished work to share today. In fact I didn't sit down to scrap, journal, organize or finish anything in my albums this week. I did make two cards {identical} for Michael's teacher & teacher's aide. He finished up kindergarten and summer vacation began.

 Ta-da!:

These were a quick put together the morning before school. I wrote a note for each of them on top of the inside and Michael wrote a note of his own on the yellow. The front says "You're A Blast" and the inside says "to wonderful you from thankful me", Lydia added the little piece of yellow paper that was punched and I helped her write her name on it. She enjoyed days that we went to Michael's class and his class was very sweet to her. She cried on the last day and I managed to hold back the tears {until I hid out in the bathroom}. The paper I used is red but for some reason my camera thought it should be more of an orange.

Ta-do:

• Journal Lydia's pages
• Finish Lydia's pages {some need photos added, embellishments, titles}
• Finish Lydia's album to-do list {shouldn't be many pages left}
• Transfer Michael's pages to new albums
• Journal family pages

That's pretty much the same to-do list I've had for a few weeks now. Fingers crossed this week I get some of it done and by done I mean complete. Thanks for visiting! To share your own scrap or be inspired by other scrappers click the button at the top of this post.

Scrappy Decor

One of my favorite stores to shop at is Hobby Lobby. If you don't know the goodness of that store I am truly sorry. There was a time I didn't know it's goodness either. Luckily for you they now have an online shopping option {you can use their weekly coupon} but sadly they don't have everything in the store available online. Part of the fun for me is looking at all of their home decor items. Not everything is my style but there's a lot of items to "ooh & ahh" over, plenty of 'oh shiny!' moments lol. Lately I've been working on decorating my kids' rooms {you can read about that here, here, here & here if you're interested} and am happy to say there's been more progress made. Last Sunday we had {another} rainy day. On rainy days I'm usually in the mood to clean or craft - or just be completely lazy ;) and that day it was craft!

Ta-da!:

I finally did something with Michael's shadow box! It's been well over a year {at least} since I got the three shadow boxes - Lydia's was done and then done again...but I was having trouble finding something to put in Michael's box. Sunday morning I was looking at something on google images {no idea what now} and Michael asked to see something with Transformers. The wheels started turning. I came across an allspark cube printout - made one for him and the wheels kept turning. I ended up with the Transformers logos & an allspark cube on a black background - he was happy. Then he wanted to do something with the extra sheet of black paper and I found another printout, downloaded the Transformers font to my computer for the text and he added his own drawing of the allspark. I added some black & white ribbon to the back of the paper to hang it in his room. I think I'm just about finished with his room. :D

Then I started on a project I shopped for a week or so ago. When at Hobby Lobby I saw cute wall plaques with doorknobs - but they were nearly $10 and I knew I could make one for less and have it go with the decor for the girls' room. {Photo tutorial below} So I walked to the crafty aisles and gathered supplies. I love when I'm right.

I also was also inspired to paint bird houses. So I gathered the supplies and Sunday {it was a long day of ignoring housework} they were painted. I made them similar but different....and totally understand why my mom often did the same with my sister and I. Now it's up to the hubs to figure out how to hang them from the wall. I'm going to let Lydia choose her house and paint an 'L' above the hole, baby girl's initial will be added after she's born.


Last night I cleaned up picture frames that have been sitting on my bookshelf for months. I really want to get frames hung in the next week or two & order prints to fill/update those frames. I also chose two papers for shadow boxes I have, still need to decide what to put in them. I also chose some papers for a project I have lined up for the girls' room.

Turned out not to be a very productive scrappy week but I was checking things off one list!

Altered plaque tutorial:

I started out with this plain wooden plaque{$1} and covered it with Mod Podge {already had} then wrapped a piece of paper {about 50 cents} around the front, it folds over the back and lightly sanded the edges and some on the face.

Then I cut another piece of paper {about 50 cents} to slightly smaller than the face, mod podged it {yes, that's a verb} & sanded the edges, also lightly sanded the face. The doorknob {$2} wasn't fixed yet but for photo's sake I took off the hardware and set it up. Total cost is about $4 plus tax and took about 30 min time, and I still have some paper left for the scrapbook.

Ta-do:

• Complete unfinished pages in Lydia's album - journaling, embellishments, some pictures.
• Do the same for the family album.
• Thank you cards {friends have gifted us baby items}.
• Scrap!

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Sunday Scrappin

Time to share scrap again! It's been a few weeks since I've had something to share. I've been distracted busy obsessing over checking things off of my before baby comes list & crafting with my sewing machine. You can check out what I've been up to here {tutorialish} and here if you're interested. Still plenty of household projects to work on but they're mostly smaller projects so I should have more time to focus on my scrappy list again. Plus I need the hubby to put the crib together before I can start making her bedding. Less than 60 days until baby's estimated due date!

Ta-da!:

• So no picture to show for it but I caught up on some of my journaling this week - 16 layouts, sixteen!
• Again, no picture but two or three weeks ago Lydia's second album came in the mail and I got all of her pages into a page protector. Almost all of the pages are organized chronologically too!

To-do:

• Complete more journaling in Lydia's album.
• Make list of topics left to scrap for Lydia's album - I lost the list I had :( but with her albums organized it shouldn't be hard to figure out. My guess is there are less than half a dozen topics left.
• Start to catch up on journaling in family album - esp older pictures before I was blogging, this blog will pay off big time when I'm journaling events from 2 years ago!
• Scrap!

I did find a list of topics for Lydia's album I wrote up about 18 months ago. I can happily say that several are now crossed off my list. Even more happily I can say that I've done several more topics that aren't even listed - crawling, first steps, mommy and me (a few layouts), everyone loves lydia pages, first pony, swinging @ park, first smiles, pb&j, blue eyes, several hospital layouts....ahhh feels GOOD!

• 3 month photos (only professional ones taken TO DATE)
• 6 month photos
• 9 month photos (LOVED the ones I took but they've been in computer jail)
• 12 month photos (camera was on the FRITZ and I never scheduled that appt. - here's hoping!) and I don't have any '12 month' photos, just what was taken on & around her birthday...maybe I'll find some cute ones from the next month or two?
• 1st birthday{s}, I had a little celebration at home then a party at my dad's house
• first baby food/real food (I may not do both)
• baths in the sink (I have some that I just LOVE so I must - she was a sink baby for a LONG time)
• first Christmas (I have one Christmas event scrapped but nothing else)
• summer time/outdoor pics (I *think* I have pictures jailed up that I really liked) these may be done?
• pictures with Shawn in Class A's not sure...
• d-day pictures (she was 11 months when he deployed and I think we're in the Army for the long haul so it will hold some significance for her later) Not doing these, going to leave that for family album.
• Below are pages off hand I know will need to be done.
• Opening page
• Closing page
• Daddy love page(s) - I've done several with mom and daughter pics, those two definitely need their own.

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Since I don't have any scrappy photos I wanted to share a picture of my kids at the strawberry farm yesterday. They had fun, the strawberries are really good and I want to make strawberry jam today.

Sunday Scrappin

After too long a scrappy break, I'm back! I have less than 100 days left in this pregnancy and really want to get Lydia's first year album complete before baby arrives. Which means I need to get back to scrapping weekly. It also means I have a whole lot of other stuff to do but that's another post. Friday I got together with a couple of friends and scrapped! I was so happy to finally get back into it. Saturday I got some time to scrap again and have eight {nearly} finished pages total. =D

Tada!:

These are pictures from Lydia's first birthday celebration at home. It was a small party, Shawn left for deployment the month before. I still have some journaling to do.

The month after her birthday the kids & I took a trip to visit family in New Mexico and my step-mom wanted to throw a party to celebrate there as well. Even with just family we had a full house. I love the cake she made and Lydia loved the ribs. She actually had a meltdown when we took a rib away when it was time for cake. We gave it back and the rib didn't leave her sight until she was done eating.

Ta-do:

• Today after my usual cleaning I'd like to go through my almost finished pages and do whatever is needed to finish them - journaling, titles, embellishments or make note of pictures to print.
• Scrap at least once this week. I'm not sure how many topics I have left to finish Lydia's album but if I can make some time at least once a week and complete at least 4 pages I should be done with some time to spare.

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Scrap{ish}

I haven't been scrappy in three weeks, that's almost a month! I know that's not a very long break but it feels long. I think because I was on such a roll scrappin and making progress on Lydia's album. Then I lost inspiration and was distracted with things like cooking a freezer full of food and decorating the kids' rooms. And of course still baking the baby. Pregnancy is going quickly & dragging on slowly all at the same time. Most days I feel pretty good, but still can't seem to keep up with everything around the house. I really enjoy the spurts of nesting energy I get.

This week I still don't have scrap to share {sad!} but I do have altered items that I used scrapbook paper on. So that counts for something right? I'll just pretend you said yes and keep going.

Ta-da!:

This may look familiar. I posted these here last year but made some changes to the first and finally added some more critters to the second. Now they're just waiting for Shawn to hang in the girls' room along with the shelves. I also found an old window frame that I want to sand and possibly paint this week so I can start on the collage pictured in this post.

I ordered these decals from etsy.com and put them onto red & blue card stock, after consulting with my husband on which color would be best for the autobots and decepticons. They looked flat and plain. Today I decided to stamp 'em for some texture. So I pulled out an alphabet stamp that wasn't girly, some stars & a square stamp and red & blue inks for a tone on tone look. I stamped the names of the autobot & decepticon transformers. Michael thought it was a great idea. I'm happy with how they turned out.

I hope to have some scrap to share or creative projects of some kind. This week will be a busy one with menu planning, grocery shopping & freezer cooking to do again. It has been nice having a couple weeks "off" from that though. Have a great week, thanks for visiting!