My free time is cut short but....

....I've still found time to make a few pages.  :)

 

I signed up to get some kits from Embellish It! Inc (link HERE!).  Each kit has two 2-page layouts with instructions on putting them all together and there are usually quite a bit of leftover embellishments that can be used elsewhere.  These next three two-pagers are from those kits. 

 

 

(I cut "family" with my Cricut)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next layout had maybe four photos in the kit designer's example, but I had to modify that to accommodate all of my pix from this New Year's Eve celebration with my family way back when. Even though the layout is pre-thought out for you, they can all still be modified according to your needs.

 

 

(By the way, that's the 20 y/o version of me wearing a brown sweater and

VERY short hair on the bottom left-most picture.)

 

 

 

And, obviously, those are all much older photos.  I began scrapbooking in December 1998, about six months after I graduated from college, using mostly current photos at that time.  Now I'm getting to the photos *before* that graduation, which I have TONS of. 

Slowly but surely I'll work my way through.

 

Finally, this two-pager of my cutie before his very first school dance uses some old paper from a company called Junkitz.  I think the company doesn't exist anymore, and the kit club I got it from (ScrapGoods) doesn't either.  :(  Nevertheless, I'm using up some of that old stash once and for all.  I feel like this layout needs something else, something on all that brown space, but until I figure it out I'm calling it done anyway.  :-)

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and leaving love!

 

Blessings,

Martha

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. May you be blessed! 

Two more to share!

I had some time to craft yesterday and here's some of what I came up with. 

 

 

Blessings,
Martha

Layout share!

I've managed to make a few pages over the last week.   

 

This is an older CTMH kit called Victory, I believe.  I added a few things here and there, all CTMH though, save for the stickers, which are Echo Park.

 

 

 

Bo Bunny paper, chipboard star from my stash, Simple Stories stickers, SU! ribbon.

 

The background paper here is MME, I think, and the hearts are Cricut.  I found one heart, sized it differently about 20 times, and then welded them all together for one big cut out.  I kept the small inner hearts too and I'll use them somewhere else.  Those are Project Life cards peeking out from under the photo and CTMH embroidered flower and pins.  The pleated ribbon is also CTMH.



Now, the backside of the above patterned paper was just too nice not to use so I found a good set of pictures for it: 



Basic Grey embellies, CTMH ribbon and bottle cap.  I'm glad I got to use both sides of that paper.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving love.  Have a very happy Thanksgiving!

Blessings,
Martha

Layout share

Using up some old Basic Grey from the stash.  :)

 

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Blessings,

Martha

 

School layouts

...are very fun to make!   

 

Until next time!

 

Martha

Don't have the right embellishment? Make your own!

This is why I LOVE my Cricut so much.  And one day I hope to LOVE a Silhouette Cameo, too.  :)

I really wanted to document this day at Six Flags with my second cousin and his family when they visited SA a year and a half ago, but I didn't have roller-coaster-themed paper, and Six Flags is the Warner Bros brand but I didn't have any Bugs Bunny paper either (the ride is called Bugs Bunny White Water Rapids).... so I made my own stuff!  The actual roller coaster title is cut from the Summer Celebrations Cricut cartridge; the shield, which mimics the name of the coaster on the picture, is from the Create A Critter cartridge; and all the flourishes are from the Cindy Loo cartridge.  Thickers complete my title.

 

Also, I should mention that I cut the shield, flourishes, and background of the coaster title from WHITE, and the big 8x8 piece of paper is white too.  On the big 8x8 paper I used a CTMH background stamp so it would match my background PP (which is Little Yellow Bicycle), and I used inks to ink up the other pieces of white.  Finally, I added Stickles to the flourishes to make them appear wet as the ride we were on was also very wet!  OMGoodness it was such fun!  But Nick vowed that he will never.again. ride any roller coaster.  Bummer for him! 

 

Word stickers are Simple Stories. 

 

Next, I posted a week or so ago about Nick's baseball season coming to an end and how just one two-page layout was going to cover the whole season.  What's funny about that is I hadn't scrapped LAST YEAR'S baseball pictures.... I just found them buried in a to-do stack!  And my handy dandy Cricut came to the rescue again.  The baseball mitt, though easily available in a variety of stickers at any craft store, is also on my Sports Mania cartridge so I just got the right paper and cut!  The baseball itself is from a sticker pack I bought long ago.  The background brown behind all of my pictures is cut from the Art Philosophy (CTMH) cartridge.  Thickers, Simple Stories stickers, and some chipboard complete my layout. 

 

Oh and that's yet another Wal-Mart gift card that I used.  :D

Background PP is Bo Bunny. 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and leaving love!

 

Blessings,

Martha