Wednesday, June 5, 2013

We Can Fix It!


The main focus of my scrapbooking has been our trip to Disney World from 2011.  It's been a slow process but I'm plugging away at the album and have lots of layouts to share!  I have to get our 2011 album done before October of this year because we are heading back to Disney and then I'll really be drowning in Disney pictures - lol.  I figured I'd start with my most recent and probably one of my favorites - Handy Manny!  These pics are from a lunch with the Disney Junior gang at Hollywood Studios.  The background paper is from a stack from Hobby Lobby called "Boys and their Toys" and the little screw brads in the corners are from Hobby Lobby as well.  I used my son's Handy Manny tool set as a model to recreate all the tool characters.  Here they are...


 I used the tools from the Cricut Lite "Handy Man" cartridge as a base for the characters and layered the colors to match the characters.  The hammer, yellow screwdriver and wrench were cut at 5 inches.  The tape measure and pliers were cut at 2 1/2 inches.  The blue screwdriver and saw were cut at 4 inches.  I used circle punches in differing sizes to create the eyes and the mouths.

Thanks for stopping by!  I'm hoping that posting my layouts will inspire me to actually finish this album!!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Dipping my toe back in...

It's been about 3 and a half years since my last post - wow!!  And it was about Twilight to boot - yikes - that's a little outdated now, huh?  I'm dipping my proverbial toe back in the blogging pool in the hopes that someone is still out there - lol.  First, I'll start with the card I have to share.  It's a Riley card!!  I will say that stamping with Riley was like stamping with an old friend.  My 8 year old son and I busted into my old Riley stamps  from my design team days a few weeks ago and boy, did we have fun!!  Not only did we color a BUNCH of Riley images together but we got on the Riley and Company website to check out all the new images that came out since I've been out of things and - wow - there were SO many adorable stamps that we had to place an order - hence this Sophie and her seven Riley dwarves card was born...
The images are from Riley and Company - Snow White Sophie and Dwarf Riley - colored with copics and just basic masking with post it notes and repeating images to create the seven dwarves.  The sky was created using the Taylored Expression cloud border die and the grass was just sponged on with some olive colored ink.  The background papers are from a Die Cuts with a View stack - an outdoorsy themed one that I can't remember the name of.  The sentiment is from a My Favorite Things Pure Innocence set.


So what has changed in three and a half years for me??  Not much really - we added another person to our family :) - we were blessed in August 2010 with a beautiful healthy baby boy who has grown into quite the active toddler.  My oldest son is now in middle school (yikes!) and my middle son is now a 3rd grader.  How time flies!!!  Having our third child was really what took me out of the crafting world to begin with and now that he is an independent almost 3 year old, I'm hoping to have more time to dedicate to crafting and sharing.  I've really gotten back into scrapbooking as well which is why I changed the name of my blog because I want to make this blog about all the papercrafting I do - not just the stamping.  I hope you'll come back and visit and maybe even leave with a little inspiration every now and then! ;)

Here's a pic of my cuties to leave you with...