Scrapbook Challenge

Life Is Beautiful

Using A Circle Punch To Make Your Background

Hello everyone! This week I made a page with a few more photos taken at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles when my husband and I went to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour.

I used some pastel paper from the American Crafts Spring stack for my background. Using a circle punch, I created lots of circles from Pink Gold Drops paper by Recollections. To make the circles pop, I edged each one in gold paint using pearlescent watercolors by Yasutomo. I also splattered some of the gold over my background paper (partly to disguise the accidental drops I got on the paper while painting my circles.) There are some mixed media elements above and below my photos, made with some gold stencil butter and a grid stencil by The Crafter’s Workshop.

I had some leftover hexagons made with a Sizzix diecut that were in colors that matched the page. I added a few in clusters along with some frames by 49 and Market, some ice cream cones from Minty Papers, and some tags by Aall & Create. I added a few enamel dots by Simple Stories to finish.

I used Weekly Sketch 434 at A Cherry on Top Crafts. I replicated the circle pattern on the background and used mixed media stenciling as the shading behind the photos. Some large phrase stickers from the Amy Tangerine sticker book made up my title.

I found a new monthly challenge called Colorful Options and here is their beautiful mood board for April! All of their challenges are rainbow color themed and this month is specifically pastels. The speckled paper I used reminded me of the paint swatch image in the mood board. The tea cup has golden accents so I added gold into my layout too. I have lots of rainbow paper in my stash so I am looking forward to their challenges in the future!

That’s all for this week. If you are looking for a new challenge to participate in, check out the Taylor Swift themed one I host here. There’s still time to play for the month of April!

Scrapbook Challenge

Wild Adventure

Green Foliage

Hi scrappers! This week I created a page using a photo that was taken on a resort in Fiji. They had a big swing that looked out on the ocean so my husband and I snapped a photo while sitting on it. Since there was so much green in the picture, I paired it with lots of green on the page.

I used some plain white cardstock as my background and embellished the left side using 49 and Market rub-ons, a stamp by Penny Black, and a transparent fern sticker I cut in half so I could make the most of it. I also splattered some paint in addition to the paint splatter patterns in the rub-ons.

I had been meaning to use the foliage-print paper by Prima Marketing for a while but never found the right layout since I knew this paper would be really busy. So help with contrast, I matted a square of this paper and my photo with black cardstock to make them pop. I made three accent stripes using 49 and Market Moonlit Garden washi tape, Discover + Create washi tape and a thin paper scrap. The title was made using foam stickers, and I created an accent cluster using ephemera by Simple Stories and laser cuts and enamel dots by 49 and Market.

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This page was made for the April White…with 1 challenge. The one color this month was obviously green. I noticed a lot of the inspiration photos has black accents, so I incorporated that into my page. I incorporated a lot of foliage and woodsy items into my page as well.

This page was made using the left side of this sketch from the Lasting Memories April challenge. I liked the accent stripes and the background square which I knew I could create with the foliage paper I had on deck. Instead of stars, I used various leafy embellishments, but kept the long title over my photo.

That’s all for this week. Thank you for joining me and if you’re looking for a new paper craft challenge, check out the Taylor Swift themed one I host at A Cherry on Top Crafts here. See you next week!

Color Dare Design Team Challenge #648

As Long As We’re Together

Yellow And Peach

Hi everyone! I’m back again with Color Dare challenges, proudly representing their design team! The photos I used for this page are of me and my parents along with a couple of cats and as you can see, we didn’t quite fit in the frame when taking a selfie! These photos came out silly and goofy and I love them!

I used 2 pieces of cardstock from American Crafts, one from their Spring stack and one from a pack of basic white. I then raided my stash for scraps in tones of peach and yellow and was surprised by how many options I ended up with. I cut lots of 2 inch squares and arranged them in a grid, decorating some with various stickers cutouts and ephemera. I especially like the ice cream cones by Minty Papers, the peachy donut sticker, and the puffy sticker I used for my title by Thickers. I added in some enamel dots by Altenew and Simple Stories and some 3D plastic flowers from an Art C junk journal pack.

This page was made for Color Dare challenge 648 and I ended up pairing peach with yellow since my photos were taken at golden hour and looked peachy and warm. I was especially surprised to find a paper scrap that had a gingham design in peach and yellow! It ended up matching perfectly. Come show us your crafty creations. I can’t wait to see the colors you all chose to pair with yellow!

This page was made for the April Cherry Lift Challenge over at A Cherry on Top Crafts. I used the sketch above by joannie because I loved the grid design. Grid designs are so easy (assuming you cut your squares equally!) and are a great way to use up paper scraps and I always have tons of paper scraps, big and small, that need using! Plus this layout was easy to make my own by embellishing all the squares differently. Instead of a Disney birthday theme, I used soft botanicals, heartland food themed embellishments because they happened to match my color palette.

That’s all for now! Thank you for stopping by my corner of the internet. I also have accounts on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more paper crafting content!

Scrapbook Challenge

You Jelly?

Patterned Papers And Fish Stickers

Hi scrappers! This week I made a layout with some photos taken with my sister at the Seattle Aquarium in front of the jellyfish exhibit. Since the light behind the tank was a bright yellow color, I matched that with some yellows on my page.

The background is some mottled red paper from the Evergreen & Holly stack. I paired it with some yellow star-print paper from the Hey Little Girl 6 X 8 stack and some large dot print paper from the Vicki Boutin Kaleidoscope stack, both by American Crafts. I also had a random scrap of striped paper in the same colors so I used that whole scrap in the upper left corner.

To break up the red background, I used some yellow and turquoise acrylic paint and then used stencil butter in Gamboge and Turquoise along with a stencil by The Crafter’s Workshop layered on top to make a mixed media collage. Since all the patterned papers were already so busy, I didn’t add too many other elements besides the stickers for my title, a few tags made with a Marvy Uchida punch, some brads by Doodlebug, and some enamel dots. I didn’t have any jellyfish stickers, but I had some cute puffy stickers with other sea creatures that were in the right colors. I love the octopus most of all!

I used the sketch from the April Sketch with a Twist challenge at A Cherry on Top Crafts for this page. The twist was to use enamel dots which I did by scattering across the page. I used two larger photos instead of four small ones, and moved where my title was since it ended up being so large.

That’s all for now! Thank you for stopping by my page and I will be back soon! As always, you can find me on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more video content showing how I make my pages.

Scrapbook Challenge

Kitty Life

Chartreuse And Gray

Hi scrappers! This week’s layout features a bold color palette of bright yellow-green and charcoal gray. I used a picture of my cat Europa because one of her eyes is the same yellow green color.

I used some dark gray paper from the Midnight Garden stack by Prima Marketing as my background. It was a fairly neutral backdrop and dark enough to make the bright green really pop. Using a makeup sponge and some acrylic paint, I added some starburst designs and added some paw prints over the top with a Stamperia stencil and some Fern stencil butter by The Crafter’s Workshop.

I made a double mat for my photo using some paper by Reminisce along with some dark gray cardstock. I also used a mat from the 49 and Market Kaleidoscope Stacked Frames pack. I used a circle punch and paper scraps to make some large circles and added some washi stickers and sequins for some smaller circular embellishments.

The title is made with some Doodlebug alpha stickers and an acrylic sticker from the 49 and Market Vintage Artistry Essentials collection. Lastly, I added some big, bold fake flowers and painted some chipboard pieces by The Dusty Attic to match the color palette.

This page was made for the April Mood Board challenge at A Cherry on Top Crafts. The inspiration graphic is so pretty with an unexpected color palette. I especially like the photos that a mostly gray with a bright green pop so I tried to do that on my page as well. I was inspired by the following elements:

  • Hearts

  • Leaves

  • Circles

The sketch I used for this page comes from Stick It Down. I really liked the mandalas in the original sketch but didn’t have a stencil small enough so I used a paw print instead over the sunburst designs I painted. I also tilted my photo and added some circles, but embellished even more with flowers and sequins.

That’s all for now. Thank you for visiting my page and I will be back soon with an all new layout!

Color Dare Design Team Challenge #646

I Need Some Vitamin Sea

Pink, Teal And Lavender

Hi scrappers! I’m back with Color Dare for challenge 646. I used some photos taken at the beach and the pastel rainbow sweater I was wearing went really well with the tri-color palette provided.

I used some basic white cardstock from American Crafts as my background and then used some gold polka dot paper from a Recollections paper pad and cut it into 3 1/2 inch squares. Some pink and teal cardstock by DCWV made up the difference.

The stack of products I used on this page is absolutely huge including lots of ephemera and stickers. I added some seashell print washi by Little B around my photos but this washi wasn’t very sticky, so I tried to get creative with ways to get it to stick. I added some mixed media details using an Aall + Create stencil and stencil butter by The Crafter’s Workshop in key places to try and keep the washi adhered. Other products used are below:

This page was made using sketch 421 from A Cherry on Top Crafts. I only used 3 photos instead of 5 but kept the grid layout and decorated each square.

Join us at Color Dare for challenge 646. I used all three colors in the palette but you can make a project using any two of these colors as well. Come share what you create!

That’s all for this week. Thank you for joining me and if you’re looking for a new paper craft challenge, check out the Taylor Swift themed one I host at A Cherry on Top Crafts here. See you next week!

Scrapbook Challenge

Good Times Together

Hot Air Balloon Motif

Hi scrappers! This will probably be my last layout for March. How did the month go by so fast?? The photo I used for this page is of my sister and I making funny faces. We went to a pumpkin patch this day and were actually in a corn maze. I think moments after this photo was taken we saw a hot air balloon in the sky so even though it’s not in this picture, I included hot air balloons in several forms on this page.

For my background, I used some blue-gray paper with a filagree design by Maggie Holmes. Using three colors of acrylic paint, I added so paint splatters in the upper right and lower left corners.

I used a mix of washi tapes including one by Lawn Fawn and one by Vicki Boutin along with some paper scraps to create some horizontal stripes. I used a scrap of paper for my photo mat and then layered several pieces from the Kaleidoscope Stacked Frames assortment by 49 and Market behind it. After that, I added lots of circular ephemera, mostly by Simple Stories including their Carpe Diem, Retro Summer and Flea Market collections.

Lastly, I added in lots of stickers from the Dear Lizzy sticker book, some chipboard stickers by Carta Bella and a healthy scattering of Pinkfresh enamel dots.

This page was made for challenge 743 at Lasting Memories which was to use circular ephemera. I really liked this layout by their guest designer Rainny so I used the sketch as a starting point for my own page.

This page was also made for the 3 in a Row challenge at A Cherry on Top Crafts. I used the diagonal including any shade of gray, free space and weather element.

That’s all for this week. Thank you for joining me on my page and I will see you in April with an all new layout.

Scrapbook Challenge

Chopa Bean

Pastel Rainbow

Hello all! I haven’t been nearly as active this month but I was able to put together this layout with some photos of my kitty Europa. The title comes from my nickname for her. We started calling her Europa Chopa and then Europa Bean. The Pet Challenge this month at A Cherry on Top Crafts was to make a layout using our pet’s nickname. Here is mine!

I used some floral paper from the Heidi Swapp Wanderlust stack as my background and some left over peach cardstock from another project by 49 and Market on one side. I layered various paper scraps and some old striped paper I had along with some fabric tape by 49 and Market and tags by Aall & Create. I finished with some rainbow chipboard pieces from the New Day collection by Echo Park Paper, enamel dots by Waffle Flower, and created some little paw print details using a Stamperia stencil and Picket Fence Paper Glaze in Lime Soda.

I used throwback sketch #82 from Sketch N Scrap. There was an additional element to the challenge to add a rainbow or a rainbow-colored element. I added both chipboard rainbows and used rainbow fabric tape. The whole page came out super colorful!

Thank you for visiting my page! As always, you can find me on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more video content showing how I make my pages.

Color Dare Design Team Challenge #644

This Is Us

Orange, Pale Yellow And Blue

Hi scrappers! I’m back again with Color Dare for challenge 644. This week’s color combo is shades of orange, pale yellow and blue. I found some pretty mushroom paper in tones of orange and used that as the base for my page. I decided to scrap this particular photo of my husband and I because his orange shirt and the autumn leaves worked well with the chosen color palette.

I combined the P13 mushroom paper with some blue cardstock by The Paper Studio as well as some various paper scraps and some blue paper from the Echo Park Paper Creative Agenda 6 X 6 stack. I added some gilded washi tape from The Washi Tape Shop and additional stickers and ephemera from the P13 Into the Woods collection. I decorated a chipboard tag from 49 and Market with botanical shapes created with Tim Holtz Flower Jar diecuts and enamel dots by both Echo Park Paper and Simple Stories. A few golden stickers by Vicki Boutin and some mixed media accents with Marigold Stencil Butter by The Crafter’s Workshop finish the page.

I used this layout by StacyLee to create my page for the March Cherry Lift Challenge. I used paper scraps for two of the three panels behind my photos and then expanded upon the simple clusters in the original layout. I used washi for the horizontal strip across the photo and added it as an additional embellishment along the top so the image on the tape could be seen more clearly.

This page was created for Color Dare challenge 644. I used all four colors along with some gold accents. Head on over and share your project using these colors. We would love to see what you create!

That’s all for this week. Thank you for visiting and I will see you all soon!

Scrapbook Challenge

P Is For Pumpkins

Autumn Plaid

Hi scrappers! I took a little bit of a break but I am back with an autumn-themed layout. When I went to go visit my sister, we went to a pumpkin patch since it was the middle of fall. Where she lives, they have a big farm equipped with hayrides, corn mazes, apple cannons, cider donuts, and all the typical fun fall activities. Behind up is the giant pumpkin patch where you can pick you pumpkin right off the vine.


Both my background plaid paper and the green paper come from Echo Park Paper’s I love Halloween collection and I felt they worked well with my photos even though tis is not a halloween page. It was very difficult finding pumpkin in my stash that was not a Jack-o-lantern but I found a pack of Halloween chipboard that had the pumpkin I used here plus the “pumpkins” word detail. I hand painted the pumpkin since it was just plain chipboard but the word was already black.

I used a combo of a punch and a die cut to make my two tags from paper scraps and then decorated with circle and phrase stickers by P13 and some Plum Grove ephemera by 49 and Market.I added in a few enamel hearts, dragonflies and large dots from the Kaleidoscope collection by 49 and Market, and some mini tags by K & Company.

This page was made for the March Mood Board challenge at A Cherry on Top Crafts. The colors were perfect for a fall page and I was also inspired by the following elements:

  • Plaid (used in my background paper)

  • Furry Animals (used in the squirrel and mouse circular stickers)

  • Woodgrain (used in my large tag and the strip behind my photo.

This page was also made using sketch 314 at Sketch N Scrap. The challenge also included a recipe component and I used the following:

  • Color Green (paper, title letter, phrase stickers and other embellishments)

  • Something found in the sky (dragonfly stickers)

  • Polka dot paper (small pieces on either side of my photos)

  • A Tag (used 2 tags in lower right corner)

  • Something that symbolizes Spring (butterfly sticker)

Lastly, this page was made for the March Title challenge where the goal was to make a page with a title in the style of Cookie Monster’s favorite quote “C is for Cookie.”

That’s all for this month! If you are looking for an additional paper crafting challenge, check out the one I host at A Cherry on Top Crafts that is Taylor Swift themed. This month’s challenge is to create a project in shades of lavender!

Scrapbook Challenge

Toes & Tail

Black, Pink And Brown

Hi scrappers! I’m here with what will probably be my last creation for February. I used some photos of my cat Jupiter. She often will wrap her tail around her toes, especially when it’s cold and I think it’s really cute!

You may recognize the pink polka dot paper I used on the top half of the page. I used it on a previous page a few weeks back and had some leftover. I also used some sparkly heart paper from Craft Smith’s Summer Dream stack. I cracked open some black texture paste that also has some sparkles along with some fuchsia stencil butter and paired them with a stencil by The Crafter’s Workshop. I had a glittery pink frame by Heidi Swapp that was perfect for my title made from Doodlebug alphabet stickers. I added in a lone puffy cat sticker I had, some ephemera by My Mind’s Eye, pink enamel dots, sparkly hearts and some button stickers.

This page was made using sketch 416 from A Cherry on Top Crafts. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I had a stencil similar to those concentric circles and utilized it here! I used 2 larger photos instead of 3 small ones and added an embellishment cluster in the lower left corner.

This page was also made using this month’s mood board. Besides the black, pink and brown color palette, I was inspired by the kittens, hearts and the chocolate cake! The paper behind my cat photos is actually a photorealistic print of chocolate frosting. I wasn’t sure when I was ever going to use it but it ended up here!

That’s all for this week, and this month! Thank you for visiting and I will be back in March with more brand new layouts!

Scrapbook Challenge

Awesome

Retro Prints With Bold Colors

Hi everyone! This week I scrapped a selfie taken at a restaurant when I actually bothered to do my makeup! Fun fact: like many women in the late 2000s, I fell into a YouTube makeup tutorial wormhole and frequented Sephora on a monthly basis. I have more makeup than I will probably use in a lifetime and the irony is that post pandemic, I seldom wear it anymore! When I do wear it, I tend to go big, and will often use bright or unusual colors, at least in small amounts because a) it’s fun to be creative and b) I will never use up these colors if I don’t! This day I had played with a combo of purple, blue and gray, which happens to work well with my hazel eyes.

Although this photo was taken last year, I am an elder millennial whose childhood occurred before the invention of compact disks, and remember my parents having an extensive cassette collection. Amy Grant and Jimmy Buffet were road trip staples and the bold tones in this amazing paper worked well with the background colors in my photo.

I found this amazing Cedar House paper in my stash and used my usual trick of cutting it into two pieces so both the cassette and mottled teal designs would show. While the cassettes are really cool, I feel like they would be too busy and overwhelming as a background paper. Using this design as the base for my color palette, I pulled, red, orange, teal, gray and seafood green colored items to add to my page. Some tags from P13’s Free Spirit collection also fit really well because they retired retro technology with a similar color scheme. How perfect is that mic texture tag and we can practically hear the sound of our tape deck eating that cassette, right?? I suddenly having a recovered memory of using pencil to wind mangled tape back onto a cassette.

I used a couple of punches to make tiny heart and pennant shapes that I glued on my page and found a pack of vintage camera stickers by Navy Peony that included a Polaroid camera. That was a piece of retro tech that I personally never owned, but there’s several school photos teachers took in the early 90s as part of a bulletin board display that I then took home at the end of the year and kept in a photo album! Apparently waving the Polaroid doesn’t make it develop any faster but I don’t know anyone who didn’t do it!

I added some brads and baker’s twine along with a few circular stickers by The paper studio as finishing touches. The 6 X 6 paper behind my photo comes from the Dolled Up collection by My Mind’s Eye. Does anybody else have a dozen or so 6 X 6 stacks and forgets they exist? I actually used a page in its entirety this time!

This page was made for February challenge #1 at The Counterfeit Kit challenge. I love the concept for these challenges because I have acquired so much scrapbooking stuff over the years, I could probably approximate a dupe kit for just about any collection out there. This collection really caught my eye and if you look carefully, you may see a familiar paper. Yes, I already had a paper in my stash from the original kit! Talk about lucky!

Challenge #1 specified to add hearts in honor of Valentine’s Day, so I punched some small hearts from scrap pieces of paper in my stash and arranged them along my photo and the right side of the layout.

This page was also made for the My Mood challenge at A Cherry on Top Crafts which involved combining two elements from each layout above to create a new, custom layout. I had never made a layout like this before but was up for the challenge. I chose the following:

Sketch 1

  • strip of paper on left

  • single photo

Sketch 2

  • paper behind photo

  • circles

Sketch 3

  • pennants 

  • cluster of embellishments in corner 

Lastly, this page was made for challenge 738 at Lasting Memories. The ask was to use a 6 X 6 paper on a 12 X 12 layout!

Thank you for visiting my page! As always, you can find me on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more video content showing how I make my pages.

Color Dare Design Team Challenge #640

Dream

Brown And Green

Hi scrappers! I’m back with Color Dare for challenge #640. I hope you’ll join us and submit your own creation using shades of brown plus a color of your choice! Because of the lives in the foreground of my photo, I chose the color green.

I used some thick, good quality cardstock by Core’dinations and layered two pieces of woodgrain paper from the Dendrology stack by The Paper Studio. along with a scrap piece of kraft paper. I don’t usually tear the edges of my cardstock but I did this time for some extra texture and then created a frame for my photo using some Dylusions washi tape by Ranger. From there, I create a collage on the right with a film strip and ephemera from the 49 and Market Nature Study collection as well as ephemera from Simple Stories and P13. The title comes from a sheet of Momenta Mixed Media stickers and I hand-sewed some sequins and beads onto the page to add a little sparkle.

Join us at Color Dare this week and see all the awesome creations using shades of brown plus one additional color!

I used weekly sketch 415 from A Cherry on Top Crafts as inspiration for this page. I liked how it featured a 5 X 7 photo, which I don’t use very often. I kept the filmstrip but expanded on it by layering other ephemera elements and used botanical elements and woodgrain instead of hearts.

That’s all for now! For a gallery of recent pages I have created and links to some of the products used for each, you can visit my ACOT gallery here!

Scrapbook Challenge

In Our Lover Era

Hot Pink And Aqua Blue

Hi scrappers! I have so many photos I need to scrapbook and more waiting to be printed! I still have quite a few photos left over from when I saw the Taylor Swift Eras tour in 2023 so I decided to make a small dent by creating a page with some of those photos! These pictures were taken outside Sofi Stadium before the show!

I used some plain pink paper and some striped pink paper that I believe originally came from the same pack, but I don’t have the cover sheet anymore so I have no idea who the manufacturer is. I wouldn’t be surprised if they no longer exist! Since the paper is pretty thin, I glued my background onto some thicker cardstock. Using some hot pink and bright blue cardstock, I triple matted my photos, making sure a thick border of the striped paper showed.

I added top and bottom borders with some butterfly washi by London Gifties and some gilded arrow washi by an unknown brand. I bought a sticker off Etsy by K. Filson Art and since she is in one of her outfits for the Lover era of the show, I themed the page around it, using lots of hearts, pastel colors, and used the title referencing her album.

I had two different sized heart punches and combined them with stickers from the Dear Lizzy sticker book and some Momenta mixed media stickers. I also added a fun element to my page by using a decorative corner rounder on my photos so the blue paper would show through from below. A ticket by Simple Stories and some fuzzy brads by Doodlebug finish the look.

I made this page using sketch 313 from Sketch N Scrap. The challenge also had an additional 3 in a row component and I ended up completing both the center row and center column.

That’s all for this time. Thank you for joining me and if you are looking for a crafting challenge to participate in, I run a Taylor Swift themed one here. This month’s challenge is to create a project with a shaker in honor of her song Shake it Off!

Scrapbook Challenge

Explore

Mint, Teal, And Green

Hi everyone! This week I made a layout that was actually pretty simple to put together but packs a lot of visual impact. The photo I used was taken in Hawaii a few years back and I was inspired by the shades of green in the picture to build a layout in similar colors.

I used some basic white cardstock by American Crafts as my base paper and then pulled a bunch of paper scraps from my stash. I used papers in shades of teal, mint and green with one larger pink piece to use as a photo mat to make my photo pop. I cut some uniform rectangles and created a grid pattern on top of my white paper. After that, I embellished with items that were similar colors including some sparkly birds by K & Company, some butterflies by Tim Holtz, trees by Memory-Place, chipboard words by 49 and Market, and some tags by P13. I also used some watercolor stickers from albumlovehandmade and finished with some enamel hearts by 49 and Market.

This page was made for the first February challenge over at Lasting Memories which was to make a layout in a grid pattern. I really loved this layout by Sandy and decided to use it as a template for my own page. I usually don’t do too many organized grids layouts. A lot of my pages are more like controlled chaos! This layout also provided an opportunity to use up several paper scraps in my stash, a constant goal of mine. The only paper I used that wasn’t from my scrap stash was the white background cardstock!

That’s all for this week! Thank you for visiting and I I will be back soon as always with an all new page. Bye for now!

Scrapbook Challenge

Amazing Details

Yellow Fellow!

Hi scrappers! This week I scrapped a picture of of my husband standing in a field of wildflowers! This was taken out in the desert were most of the time everything is dry and brown, but every few years, there’s an explosion of flowers in the Spring! I decided to create a page all in yellow and white to match the flowers in my photo.

I started with some Tranquil Blossom paper from the Krafty Garden collection by 49 and Market. This paper offered a little bit of a challenge because there was already a perfect spot in the middle for a photo with lots of embellishments and details already printed on the paper. For beginning scrapper, this paper would be perfect to just add a photo and display as is, but I wanted to add more to it. Using foam tape, I popped up my photo and some of the tabs and tags around it to add dimension. I also popped up the big yellow moth, also by 49 and Market but from the Nature Study ephemera bits pack. I also added in some yellow elements from the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Life in Bloom ephemera and bits & pieces packs. The title is made from chipboard words and I also added a grid patterned rub-on that I cut up, both by 49 and Market. I scattered a few stickers from the Moonlight Magic sticker book by Crate Paper and added some enamel dots by Simple Stories. A few splatters of yellow paint all over finished the page.

This page was made for the White…with 1 February challenge where the challenge was to pick one color from the above mood board to pair with white. I chose yellow (obviously) from the middle square of the top row.

This page was also made for the February 3 in a Row challenge. I used the left column with journaling strips, any shade of yellow, and fiber (used in the tag near the top of the page).

Lastly, this page was made for this months Manufacturer with a Twist challenge where I had to use either a 49 and Market or a Pinkfresh Studio product along with at least one of the options from the grid. I chose Card or Ticket and actually used several pieces of ticket ephemera on this page.

Thank you for visiting my page! As always, you can find me on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more video content showing how I make my pages.

Color Dare Design Team Challenge #638

Today Your Story Begins…

Layered Ephemera

Hi scrappers! I’m here with my first page of February 2025 and another challenge from Color Dare. This week’s color palette is almost primary colors but not quite with red being subbed out for magenta. I used some photos taken at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Since I was wearing a blue sweatshirt that already matched the shade in my color palette, I thought they would work well.

Both the background paper and the pink patterned paper I used as a mat for my photos come from the Heidi Swapp Wanderlust 12 X 12 pad. This very old collection of papers features lots of bold geometric patterns and the pink and yellow tones matched my color palette nicely.

I think I used more different products on this page than any other in recent history. I used one sticker here, a tag there, and basically anything I could find that were in the correct colors. Here’s a list of a just some of the products used:

Here is the palette for Color Dare Challenge 638. Join us this week and share your project using these three colors.

I saw this layout by Keely Livings Lowe and immediately fell in love. I love how the entire layout is on an angle and the mix of ephemera she used. I scrap lifted this page and of course put my own spin on it and used a different color palette.

This page was also made for the Grab 5 challenge over at A Cherry on Top Crafts. Out of the list of items provided, I used the following 5:

  • Flowers

  • Ephemera

  • Buttons

  • Baker’s Twine

  • Ribbons

That’s all for this time. Thank you for joining me and if you are looking for a crafting challenge to participate in, I run a Taylor Swift themed on here. This month’s challenge is to create a project with a shaker in honor of her song Shake it Off!

Guest Designer with Sketches in Thyme

Tiny Gremlin

Cat Colors

Hi scrappers! This week I’m bringing a layout that I created as a guest designer for Sketches in Thyme. The original set uses an 8 X 10 photo which I didn’t have so I made due with 4 4 X 6 photos cut down. These were some photos of my cat Jupiter, taken with my husbands fancy camera (notice the artsy depth of field) and she made some truly silly faces while he was shooting. The title comes from a nickname I have for her since she truly acts like a weird little monster sometimes.

I used some basic white cardstock by American Crafts. It’s slightly textures and nice and thick. 10/10 would recommend! I opened up some washi tape by London Gifties. This one is called Round Cats and features both cat heads and weird little egg-shaped cats. They’re quirky and weird, but so it Jupiter! I also cut out two cat heads from the roll to put on my larger triangle embellishments. All paper except for my white background were all scraps out of my stash. How perfect are the dark gray tiger stripes with may cat’s coloring? The other embellishments used were ephemera by 49 and Market and Prima and some enamel dots by Simple Stories. The alpha stickers and pink and gold flowers come from a little sticker book by Crate Paper and the hexagon puffy stickers were purchased at Hobby Lobby a lifetime ago.

Here is the original sketch from Sketches in Thyme that I turned 90 degrees. I used washi for those strips framing the page and kept the triangle embellishments. I moved the title and changed the section for journaling into multiple strips of patterned papers. As usual, I got carried away with embellishment clusters.

That’s it for now. Thank you to Sketches in Thyme for having me as a guest designer this month. This sketch was a fun challenge that was definitely took me out of my comfort zone.

Scrapbook Challenge

This Moment

Using Rub-Ons And Cut Outs

Hi scrappers! This week I made a collage out of lots of paper scraps and placed some photos and ephemera on top. The pictures I used were taken in the fall a few years ago in the woods.

I started with some basic green cardstock from the Affinity stack by The Paper Studio. I layered lots of paper scraps including some thick yellow handmade paper with lots of little twigs and plant fibers in it. I then used some foliage laser cut elements and rub-ons by 49 and Market in the upper left and lower right corners. The jar ephemera and lace border are also by 49 and Market. From there, I added some dragonfly PET stickers and some foam stickers by Simple Stories as well as a few adhesive brads. I sprinkled everything with dark green paint to pull it all together.

This page was made using the sketch from the January 2025 Sketch with a Twist challenge. The twist was to use a border punch but since I didn’t have one, I used the lace cut out as my decorative edge.

This page was also made for case file 447 at Color, Stories, Inspiration. I used the color palette and the following inspiration while making my page:

  • polka dots

  • woodgrain

  • hearts

  • leaves

  • dragonfly

  • jar

  • labels

  • ink

  • circular things

  • metal

That’s all for this week and for the month of January! I will see you all soon in February with an all new page!

Color Dare Design Team Challenge #636

UFC Party

Neon Brights

Hi scrappers! I’m back again with Color Dare with challenge 636. The color palette this time around was especially bright, leading me to use some papers I wouldn’t normally utilize. The finished page is certainly bold and unexpected!

The photos I used are of my husband and our cat. He loves watching UFC and our cat joined him. She’s been known to watch TV and shows on our phone, so it was very cute seeing her cuddle while watching the fights.

I started with some neon green alpha print paper from the Rock Out Bro stack by Prima Marketing. I have had this stack for a very long time and I am sure I bought it because at the time I didn’t have anything in my stash like it. While the papers are unique, there’s many in the collection where I honestly don’t know when or how I will use them because they are a crazy color or print. This neon green paper was one of them but it ended up working as the background paper for this page. Since I knew the title would have ‘UFC’ in it, I liked how the paper had letters all over it.

I used some purple cardstock from the Splash stack by The Paper Studio. The purple matched the color of the sheets in my photos, tying the photos into the layout. I used a brand new stencil by Aall & Create with some Apricot stencil butter and added some texture all over the page. I ended up adding in several polka dot elements including two types of washi tape, some tags by K & Company, a triangular paper scrap and even some patterned enamel dots. Another fun element is a piece of holographic ephemera by Shimelle. The word ‘Snap’ appears over the camera only at certain angles but fortunately, it showed up in the photo!

Here is the color palette for Color Dare challenge 636. I used all four colors but you can choose any three for your own project. Come share what you made with us!

I used the top left sketch from Sketch N Scrap’s selection of throwback sketches. They had an additional challenge to use papers on my layout that were at least a year old. The neon background paper is probably closer to ten years old so I’m pretty sure that qualifies!

That’s all for this week. Thank you for joining me and I will be back soon with a whole new page. More ScrapAttack content can be found on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more video content showing how I make my pages.