Been GONE soooo Long!

So clearly, I have been MIA for some time. What can I say .... Life. It is never my intention to neglect my blog responsibilities but there are so many other thing higher up on my priority list. I am sure you must understand. My Winter break is coming to an end and I will be back teaching next week. BooHoo!!!! Last week I found the time to make a video tutorial -- Check it out HERE. I have also posted some of the pages that I have created over the last few months. Hopefully, you can find a little inspiration in my pages.

More pages with the wonderful SC "Partly Sunny" kit

I love this kit. I don't usually rave over a kit and rarely do I scrap a just the kit as it comes in the box. This "Partly Sunny" kit is a real exception and I have had a complete blast playing with it. Anywho.......in the process of all my scrappin' I realized that lately I am totally obsessed with hidden journaling. For the longest time I really struggled to find a "place" for my journaling on the page. So often, it seemed like the journaling got in the way of the aesthetics of the layout. My journaling really suffered.  I always felt a little guilty when I didn't journal my heart out and write what was really on my heart and mind for fear of "messing up" the look of a layout. Recently, the solution became clear -- hide the journaling. You will notice on these two pages (and many others) that there is a little tab at the top of the page. That is my journaling card. I now create a little pocket on the back of the layout and stick a journaling card inside. This gives me the "freedom" to write whatever I want -- without any worries about placement.

So the question I have for you.....how do you journal?

Hugs and thanks for stopping by,
Wendi

Playing with Studio Calico's "Partly Sunny" Kit

My "Partly Sunny" kit arrived on Monday and I just had to play play play. Here are the 3 pages that I have created so far. Expect more to follow.........

Here is the Kit.

Here are my pages ......TFL!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have an amazing weekend!
Hugs,
Wendi

A few scrapbook pages.........

"Real Wood" mini book

Happy Friday to ya!
Today I decided to just do a little playing and experimenting in my craft room. The last few weeks I have used bits of Creative Imaginations "Real Wood" on several layouts and I love this new product. You can check out this vid here to see how versatile it is. Today's project is a little mini book that uses the "Real Wood" as a book cover. I also embossed and inked the wood to give it that special little touch. The final product is lovely (if I do say so myself) and I will use this little book to document the first weeks of summer with my little ds. He just finished pre-k and is off to kindergarten next year. The two of us are going to hang out for two weeks ALL ALONE before his big brother is out of school. As number two, I always feel like he gets cheated a little, so I am looking forward to the dedicated time. This little book will be a place for me to document our special time together.





Hugs,
W

Use your scraps to scrapbook

I know.....I know.......you are probably thinking DUH! But the reality is that many times I start a layout with new 12x12 sheets of paper and that only adds to my mound of scraps. To use up those scraps, I sometimes challenge myself to use ONLY scraps on a page. The two pages above use many of the same scraps and I had a lot of fun creating both of them. To give the edges of the scraps a little something special I cut them with my pinking shears.

Hope you have a great weekend,

W-

I've been scrapbooking lately.....here are a few of my layouts

Papertrunk goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Friday!!!!!

This is a quick post. I just wanted to share the two pages that I created today. I love lazy Friday afternoons when I have the chance to do a little scrappin'. I used my Papertrunk goodies and the flower technique that I shared last week. 

Hope you have a great weekend.

W-

A new page and another flower tutorial

Thought I would share a page that I recently created. I have also included a tutorial on how to create another paper flower. Yes, I know, another paper flower. Although in this case there is a lot of versatility with this technique. On the page above I used the flower as a sun and I have also seen it used as a snowflake. You may also notice that the layout in the vid is different than the one posted here on the blog. Well....UH.....UH......that's because after looking at it in the vid I decided it was not done. It needed a little more this and that. So I played with it some more while waiting for the vid to load. Have you ever done that? Worked on a layout and put it aside only to discover that it was not "done." Of course, "done" or "finished" is so relative and subjective. I think [I THINK] I am now satisfied with the layout and can put it away. It was fun to create and that is what counts.

View the TUTORIAL HERE<<<<<<<<<

Give this new technique a try and let me know how it goes. I really love reading your comments.

Hugs,
W-