Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop

Hello and welcome!  Today is the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop and the theme for the Hop is to either use the color green or "green" materials on your TE project.  Well I decided to use some of the pretty supplies from my TE Key Ingredients Kit for this month and the TE stamp set Discover Your Wings to create a scrapbook page for my daughter using the color green with brown.

I started out with a sheet of the 8 1/2" x 11" brown cardstock from the kit and stamped the silhouette of the flower image from the Discover Your Wings set along the bottom of the page.  Then I used pieces of the green cardstock and added them vertically down the right side of the page and stamped the flowers again in green on the bottom piece.  I took the green pattern 6"x 6" piece and adhered it an inch from the upper right corner, then cut out a scallop border using my TE Medium Scallop Border Die and adhered it to the bottom of the brown Lush My Mind's Eye designer paper that comes in the Kit and adhered that to the middle right section of my page.  Then came the fun part of adding the details like the ribbon, decorative brad with flower, butterflies, word tags and cool Lush brown chip board letters that are available as an add on to this month's TE Key Ingredients Kit (click below for a close up view).

To view more ideas using this months Taylored Expression Key Ingedients Kit you can click here or to subscribe and recieve a Kit each month for yourself or a friend you can click here.

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the Hop!

Clean & Simple

Today's post is another birthday card using last weeks sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers, it uses the same layout as the last card I posted except with different stamps and a green color scheme. I found some cute Stampendous frog stamps over this last weekend when I popped into the Scrapbook Zone and couldn't resist. The sentiment was altered because the stamp actually reads "Hoppin' over to say Hello", but I left out the Hello so that I could stamp happy birthday inside the card.

Supplies: Fergie Leap, Hoppin' Hello - Stampendous, Copics, Nestabilities, Doodlebug designer paper, Ribbon, Brads, Crystal Effects (for the eyes), Pop dots. Colors: Garden Green, Green Galore, Whisper White.

Next is a scrapbook page layout that I did for my son's first haircut, my sister-in-law Ann cut his hair on our back patio so stickers of barber polls and booster seats didn't work for this page. My style of scrapbooking is clean and simple which I hope keeps the focus on the pictures.

Connor was not a happy camper about getting his hair cut as you can see.

Supplies: Circle Scissors, Circut cartridges - All Mixed Up, Opposites Attract, Cinderella Disney (for scissors). Circle punch, Buttons, Silver metallic paper, Bazzil card stock.

Scrappy Sketch #24

These scrapbook pages are for Cyndi's Scrappy Sketch #24! My pages for today are rather simple, without having any baby stickers or accents, I tried to add to my pages using small details so the focus stays on the pictures. The look on my son Connor's face when we were trying to feed him fruit and cereal the first time is priceless, he looks like "what the heck are they giving me now".

Supplies: Bazzill card stock, Buttons, Ribbon, Provo Craft designer paper (sorry forgot the name), Piercer w/mat, Cricut with All Mixed Up, Basic George, Opposites Attract cartridges, Computer lettering, Paper clip, Twine.

Stop by and check out Cyndi's fabulous pages for this weekends sketch!

Why not give it a try yourself?

Scrappy Sketch #23

Its time for Cyndi's weekend Scrappy Sketch #23! This weekend I scrapped some of my oldest son Zachary's football pictures from last year, these pictures are from his first game. His team went undefeated all season and they worked very hard to make that happen.

One thing that I have to say is that I'm really proud of Zach for not being afraid to try out new sports and go for it, I think he's tried out just about every sport out there except for lacrosse and track. Right now the sport that he loves is baseball and he's getting really good at it and can't wait to sign up next season.

Hop on over to Cyndi and Libby's blogs to see their great take on this fun sketch!

Supplies: Reminisce Football designer paper, Karen Foster Touchdown stickers, Cricut with Opposites Attract cartridge, Card stock, Eyelets.

Scrappy Sketch #22

Its time for Cyndi's Weekend Scrappy Sketch #22! For today's scrapbook pages I used some older pictures of two of my kids when we lived at our first house, I love these pictures of them from the summer time and I think about what a fun time we all had around then.
I think its time for me to stock up on some new scrapbook supplies, because I created these summer scrapbook pages with only a single sheet of summer themed paper, no stickers, no die cuts, just the paper and my Cricut along with some embellishments. I'm happy with how they came out and again I used bright colors (I do really like bright happy colors). Stop over at Cyndi's blog and check out her fabulous pages she created for the sketch! Then hop on over to the newest member of the Scrappy Sketch Team, Libby and her blog Libby's Little Addiction to see her pretty cupcake pages! Welcome Libby :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: We R Memory Keepers Endless Summer designer paper, Think Happy Thoughts SU stamp set, Buttons, Card stock, Cricut with All Mixed Up and Mickey Font cartridges, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Coluzzle, Making Memories Summer, Black Zig Millennium pen.

Scrappy Sketch #21 - Glamor Girl

These scrapbook pages are for this weekends Scappy Sketch #21, I had these pages done last night and then this morning I woke up and looked at them, and guess what, the scrapbook fairy didn't come! I had the title letters cut out, but they looked to floaty, so I changed them and cut them into tags instead using my Cricut.

I'm loving my Cricut lately and I'm happy that I just invested in two more alphabets because I like all of the fun things you can cut out with it! The only frustrating thing about it is that I need a new mat (which is supposed to be sticky so your paper stays put) mine has lost all of its sticky, so lets just say I was doing a little hair pulling out trying to cut some of these flowers!

These pictures are of my daughter from her first manicure that Grandma treated her to for her birthday. I still need to add journaling under the title, were I left room.
On the close up of the flowers you can see that I used turquoise glitter paper on the large flower.

Don't forget to stop by and check out Cyndi's pages for this fun sketch!

Supplies: Doodlebug designer paper, Cricut cartrages - George and Basic Shapes (for flowers), All Mixed Up (for title), Scalloped scissors, SU flower punch and circle punch (for centers of flowers), Doodlebug sugared glitter paper. Colors: Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Green Galore - SU, Pink & Lavender.

Scrappy Sketch #20

Its time for Cyndi's weekend sketch and this weekends Scrappy Sketch #20 was a fun one! Even though these pages look like there for the fourth of July because of all the red white and blue there actually for my daughter's first summer cheerleading camp. I'm so far behind in my scrapbooking, these pictures are from two years ago and I probably have pages to do from way before that.
Instead of the circles on the sketch I used stars cut out of white sugar coated Doodlebug paper and used my Cricut to cut them out as well as the word Cheer. In the pictures these pages look so flat, but in real life the glitter paper is quite sparkly and the SU Classic Stars wheel that I rolled on the bottom section of the pages really shows up great. Pop on over and see Cyndi's knock out pages for this sketch.

Supplies: Classic Stars wheel SU, Large and small star punches SU, Cricut cartridges - Mickey font, Opposites Attract and Basic George (for the large stars), Star buttons, Red star elets, Striped ribbon SU, Doodlebug sugar coated paper, Karen Foster snap stamps for the words on red star. Colors: Brilliant Blue SU, Red & Blue Bazzill card stock.

Thanks for a fun sketch Cyndi!

I'm Back and Scrappy Sketch #19

Whew, I'm sooooo glad that our power finally came back on late last night, it wouldn't have been so bad not having power if it wasn't so darn hot! It was around 94 degrees yesterday and humid, so I packed the kids up and went to the mall during the day and when we got home our house was a hot box. I must be spoiled because I love our central air conditioning and wouldn't live with out it.

I had good intentions on posting these scrapbook pages for Cyndi's Scrappy Sketch #19 this last Saturday, but our weekend was super busy so I just thought I would post them on Sunday, yeah right, that would have happened if I had power. I guess the old saying is right, don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

These pages are from my son Connor's first birthday, I'm going to do another double page spread for pictures with family, but I just couldn't resist doing these pages of him with his birthday cupcake!

To check out Cyndi's pages for the sketch click here.

Supplies: Bazzill card stock, It's a party Elmo Jolee's stickers, Ribbon, Coluzzle, Yellow doodlebug glitter paper (for the ONE), Accucut letters for the ONE, Cricut Mickey font.

Scrappy Sketch #18

Its that time again, its time for Cyndi's weekend scrappy sketch! I'm a little late in getting my pages posted because I haven't had much time in the last few days to do any scrapping or stamping (insert sad face here). I actually had no intentions on doing Valentine pages when I saw this weekends sketch, even though it had hearts on it, so its weird that after digging through my pictures that I did end up doing Valentines after all. These pictures crack me up, its funny how looking at pictures some times takes you right back to that moment. I remember all of us having so much fun decorating (and eating) the heart shaped cookies we made on this Valentines Day (the more sprinkles the better, right!)

Take a peek here to see how great Cyndi's pages came out!

Supplies: Designs by Reminisce love collection designer paper, Bazzill card stock, Cricut laser cutter - Opposites Attract & George & Basic Shapes, Heart brad.

Scrappy Sketch #17

These are my pages for Cyndi's Scrappy Sketch #17, yes more baby pages, I will be scrapping other things/people but for now I'm really trying to get some pages completed for my son Connor's scrapbook. Looking at these pictures makes me see how fast hes growing and how much hes changed already, this last Thursday he turned 1 1/2. I like this sketch layout because of the different panels behind the pictures, it really helps anchor your photos on the pages. For more examples using this sketch be sure to check out Cyndi and Heather's pages.

Supplies: Bazzill card stock, Doodlebug baby boy designer paper, Big Deal alphabet stamps - Stampin' Up, Hero Arts alphabet letters & numbers, Circle punches, Square punch, Photo corner punch, Jolee's stickers, Buttons. Ink: Cool Caribbean and Gable Green.

EXCITING NEWS!

This last week I was asked by my blogging friend Cyndi if I would like to be a member of her sketch team. I didn't even have to think about it, my answer was yes of course I would!

I've been using Cyndi's sketches since I started back up with my scrapbooking several months ago and I've enjoyed having her sketches as inspiration and a starting point to create my pages. So I'm happy to announce that I will be joining Cyndi and Heather to hopefully give some inspiration and another idea for Cyndi's weekly Scrappy Sketch.

Be sure to check out Cyndi's blog, The Scrappy Chick and Heather's blog Stamp with Heather for some wonderful examples using Scrappy Sketch #16

Supplies: Bazzill card stock, Paperfever ring-a-ding designer paper, Cricut lazer cutter for butterfly circles and lettering, Buttons, Pop dots.

Rollin Rollin Rollin

Here is another page layout for my sons scrapbook using a sketch from Cyndi Bundy. On Cyndi's blog the Scrappy Chick she is offering blog candy to someone if you use her Scrappy Sketch #15 on a layout and post a comment with a link to your pages. So these are mine, I used Doodlebug paper and card stock stickers, the Cricut for the lettering and brackets, buttons with floss and hand sewed the little X's.