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neon + french doors scrapbook page

I had mentioned a few weeks ago that some of the papers from my Love Notes collection with We R Memory Keepers were going to be featured in Clique Kits March kit titled J'ADORE. They sent me the kit and I created a few scrapbook pages with it -- this being one of them. (Others can be seen here & here & here.)

Again, like my 'Be Brave' page, I created this page in the middle of feeling broken over the whole thing with Tomas and losing an apartment (seen here) that I thought I really wanted. Needless to say, a lot of 'doors' felt like they were closing.

Since the making of this layout, I'm happy to report I feel a lot stronger and a lot more optimistic. I found and gotanother apartment that fits me so much better than that first one I thought I wanted did, and was presented with a new designing opportunity with me & my BIG ideas. Doors have opened since the making of this page, and proves the age old saying "If you scrap it, it will come."

The first thing I did to make this page was neon yellow highlight the white space in between all the doors. Next, I adhered three images of my backside walking toward the doors. From there I pooled water with a paintbrush at the bottoms of each of the images of myself, and then lifted and tilted the page so the puddles would all drip down to the left. Then, I absorbed some pink watercolor paint with my brush and dabbed it in the water drippings. I traced around the whole edge of the page with the pink paint and created a nice boarder.

Lastly, I stapled strips of the neon yellow transparency paper from We R Memory Keeper's Clearly Bold collection that came in the J'Adore kit in between my photos. I adhered my journalling to the middle transparency strip so that it could be lifted up to reveal just the imagery, if so desired.

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'Be Brave' scrapbook page

I had mentioned a few weeks ago that some of the papers from my Love Notes collection with We R Memory Keepers were going to be featured in Clique Kits March kit titled J'ADORE. They sent me the kit and I created a few scrapbook pages with it -- this being one of them. (Others can be seen here & here.)

I was still feeling a bit broken over the whole thing ('the whole thing' that I've yet to share on this space) and this scrapbook page about being brave resulted from it. The message 'Go Wild & Be Brave in happiness • friendship • love' is sooo what I know I need to do, but often substitute with taking a nap instead.

That 'BRAVE' shoulder tattoo in the photo is one of me & my BIG ideas Fancy Tats™ Metallic Tattoos. They are a lot of fun to play with, and I used them recently on this year's Easter eggs.

The supplies I used on this layout can be seen below. Clique Kits J'ADORE kit, me & my BIG ideas silver glitter alphas for the word 'BRAVE', Ombre Fence paper from my LOVE NOTES collection with We R Memory Keepers, and the pink transparency frame came from We R Memory Keepers CLEARLY BOLD collection.

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'gym time / back in shape' scrapbook page

I had mentioned a few weeks ago that some of the papers from my Love Notes collection with We R Memory Keepers were going to be featured in Clique Kits March kit titled J'ADORE. They sent me the kit and I created a few scrapbook pages with it -- this being one of them. (Another one can be seen here.)

This layout is busy. It most probably has too much going on, but I had so much fun putting this page together that I don't really care. I love memory keeping about something I'm in the middle of accomplishing. Right now, I'm trying to get back in shape and it's been hard, but exactly what I need in my life right now, and I'm getting stronger and seeing results and "no, I'm not going to miss the gym because it's a Friday night", and you know I'm back at it first thing Saturday morning, and did I mention the trainer is cute? ;)

Yeah, all that is wrapped up in this page. As busy as it is (breaking most design principals) it represents how gloriously busy my gym makes me each week, and my intense focus at the task at hand whether it be suspended rows, the medicine ball, battle ropes, or dumbbells. 

In talking supplies: I used my 'Secret Crush' paper as a base and layered my bold black & white painty stripe paper 'Wild Love' on top of it. My 'Tulip' paper on top of that, and a trimmed neon transparency paper from We R's Clearly Bold collection. All these came in the J'ADORE kit. The flair, the sexy black doily, the 1234 alphas, and the 'Right Now' and 'HARD' words were all from the kit as well.  I typed my tiny title 'gym time / back in shape' on my typewriter along with some phrases I adhered to the bottom of the page. I used a bright yellow highlighter over the title to make it stand out a bit.

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'Follow your heart' scrapbook page

I had mentioned a few weeks ago that some of the papers from my Love Notes collection with We R Memory Keeperswere going to be featured in Clique Kits March kit titled J'ADORE. They sent me the kit and I created a few scrapbook pages with it -- this being one of them. 

For this layout, I used the pretty mint watercolor wash paper (which is actually the back side of my beloved French Doors paper). I placed it on black card stock to create a dark border for contrast. Then, I leaked scalloped pieces of the sexy black doilies that came in the J'ADORE kit off the black border. Next, I cut up pieces of the cards that came in the kit. I got the 'OK' from a card that said 'WORK HARD' for example. I loved the grey tree silhouette card, and cutting it in half and layering it behind my photo gave the illusion of a tall tree. I cut out two teal origami birds from a transparency card, which gave tonal continuity with the mint paper base. To match my bright pink lips, I layered cutouts of the pink transparency and that fun pink ticket!

Another thing worth mentioning about this layout is I'm wearing a sequins sweatshirt that I bought from Nasty Gal in this photo. Wear something *sequins* is #25 on my 30 IN 30 list. Hooray for tackling my '30 IN 30' list one fun item at a time! ;)

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my LOVE NOTES collection popping up in February kits !!!

Happy Friday, all! I'm sitting here beaming because LOVE NOTES, my second collection with We R Memory Keepers (see above), has made it into two of Studio Calico's scrapbooking add-on kits for February and into a couple of Cocoa Daisy's kits as well.

Can you find my papers in Studio Calico's Flying Trapeze Add-On kit (above) and High Wire Add-On kit (below)? Also note below: the turquoise Sequins Sticker sheet (my product idea) and the black Alpha-Block stickers (also my product idea). Yay!

Cocoa Daisy's February 2015 kit called Journal Entry contains the paper you see below. I love that they included my 'Weekending' paper from the LOVE NOTES collection because I created that paper as a love note to myself. The whole paper is made up of a bunch of phrases about taking it easy, and taking time for yourself. You can see an awesome project using it HERE.

Visit my IT FACTOR & LOVE NOTES Pinterest page to see projects from around the web using my paper collections. // See projects using my IT FACTOR line. // Read about my inspiration for the two paper collections.

Awkward Family Photo

Oh, that silly photo! Olya (@paintpaperstudio), myself, Stephanie, and Ali were walking around CHA 2015 when we stopped and all purposefully looked at the same point in the sky. We were poking fun a couple of hours before this photo about how that sometimes happens, and so here we are, making sure it did. ;)

I've been in the me & my BIG ideas office the past few days getting work done and drooling over new product ( did you see this video?) and talking about updating the mambi blog, and I squeezed some time to create this layout.

It will work perfectly for the new Instagram Challenge that mambi launched with the hashtag #mambiREDandPINK. You can head to their blog to read about it, but basically if you create art with any red and/or pink mambi product and post it to instgram with that hashtag, your work could be featured on the blog the day before Valentine's Day. Sounds simple and fun enough, especially if you do that anyway.

Here's to crafting! ...and instagram! ...and color challenges! ...and Fridays! Always Fridays. ♥ ♥ ♥

bundled bffs

Believe it or not, Christmas is in one month from today! I'm sure you can believe it because all these weeks since Halloween ended, Christmas has been shoved down our throats.  I try to make it a point to not let it really sink in until now -- until the final countdown begins, which for me begins on the 11/25, with a month left to go. So with the holiday season "here" I made this layout of what I'm looking forward to.

Not yet having a family of my own, the few holiday traditions I have made over the past few years have been with friends. Every year for the past three or four years, myself, Elisa, and Natalie (as seen on this card) take a bundled up trip to New York City to see the Rockafeller Christmas Tree, and then get dinner and drinks.

I created this layout using papers, stickers, and gold glitter letters from a new me & my BIG ideas Christmas kit called 'All that Glitter'.

Next to the photo on my layout, I adhered a trimmed-to-size transparency sheet and placed various clear stickers from mambi's two new holiday clear stickers packs in white and red & green. You can pick up both at your local Hobby Lobby.

I added journalling with a dark green Sharpie marker, and my layout was finished.

Thanks for visiting and let me share. Get ready for a lot more holiday posts on here, including my Christmas cards, a cute holiday craft for couples, and a Starbucks red cup DIY coming tomorrow! :)

projects using my IT FACTOR line for We R Memory Keepers

 a Project Life spread found here using It Factor Journaling Cards

a card found here using It Factor paper & Alpha Block Stickers 

a mini book found here using It Factor paper & Wood Stickers 

scrapbook page found here about my friend Danielle's 29th birthday
using It Factor paper, Wood Stickers, & Journaling Cards 

scrapbook page found here

scrapbook page found here

two birthday cards found here 

50th Birthday card found here 

paper bow gift tags from here 

'New Specs' scrapbook page from here 

Project Life page with my pineapple wood sticker from here 

Project Life page with my speech bubbles journaling card from here 

DIY Pocketed Organizer from here

I felt a definite rush when the designs I worked on for weeks were delivered to me in the mail.  It completely blew my mind as I pulled each piece from the delivery box and realized that all of my designs were not just computer files, but actual real-life scrapbook products. Even more thrilling was getting to create pocket pages and scrapbook layouts and mini books and cards with my designed products of my very own, with my mark and my weirdo aesthetic.

All this was great, without doubt, but words cannot express the dancing-in-the-living-room excitement that comes from seeing how other people are expressing themselves with your designs. That is pretty darn amazing.

So thank you, those who are responding positively to my first designed paper line: It Factor. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for the release of my second line: Love Notes. I'm proud of myself for how they both came out, but feel I have so much more to contribute to the scrapbooking community, and It Factor is just the tip of the iceberg. :)

To read about my inspiration behind It Factor and Love Notes, go here. ♥ Have a a great day!

raise a glass

Last weekend I had a fun night with some new friends, and the next morning when I was scanning through the photos I had taken, this particular photo made me stop, and that jumbo 'raise a glass' sticker found in this mambiSTICKS pack flashed before my eyes.

Right then, I knew: this photo and that sticker were going in a layout.

I fashioned the color scheme of the layout around the awesome minty green of the jumbo sticker, and used mambiSHEETS from two new mambiKIT album boxes to compliment it. 

My favorite element of the layout has to be the glitter shot glass stickers I placed right over the shot glass photos in the photo. They're kind of what I live for - the reason why stickers make the world a better place. ;)

Stickers rock. ♥ Have a happy Monday!

two kitty mugshots | WANTED

While traditional scrapbook pages/layouts are not my 'go to' paper craft, sometimes I get the urge to make one. Sometimes, no other type of project works for the idea you want to execute. The perfect example is this WANTED layout of my two kitties' mugshots:

Using a whole bunch of me & my BIG ideas supplies that you can read about HERE, I 'dressed up' my kitties in mugshot costumes. I wrote on the mambi blog that the right color scheme, design elements, and sticker selection can make any craft project look like it's dressed up in a costume.

The black and white striped paper from this paper pack was meant to mimic prision uniforms or prision bars.

The mambiSTICKS and embellishments on either side of the photos give the feel that my kitties are being 'accused.  Haa haa! Everything adds to the 'costume'.

The I created the mugshot signage in Photoshop by using the rectangle shape tool, filling it black, and adding the right white fonts to it.

I goal to do more traditional layouts in the future, as I am forever adding to this Pinterest board of mine and wishing I could create paper art just as beautiful.