GreenChicken31

  Happy Monday!  It seams that fall is in full force out in the Pacific Northwest.  I feel like all it does is rain and rain every single day.  And now with the time change, I feel like I never see the sun anymore.  But all the drizzle has made for great scrapbooking.  I made this page for the Memory Nest's Make it Monday .      I really enjoyed the fact that the sketch has some tilt to it.  My layouts often tend to be very straight.  Occasionally I'll tilt a photo, but not the entire thing.  This page felt very refreshing to me, or maybe it was just the fall leaves and the crisp air that is all around now. My background was made with gelatos and a little bit of mist.  I'm loving the blue with the normal fall orange and yellow hues.  I also stitched the title in an ombre color scheme.  I just love the extra texture it creates.

  I've totally been on a rainbow kick lately.  I made this page for the SWAT selfie challenge  and for Lasting Memories challenge .  Selfie challenges are everywhere!  It isn't very often I make a page for myself.  This time I got all messy with gelatos and mist.  I'm really glad I'm able to keep my sewing machine out all the time now at our new house.  It's nice to be able to quickly get a few stiches on a page.  I'm betting I'm going to have a lot more stitching on my pages now.  

  Here is my layout for the  July 30 Color with a twist challenge on the Memory Nest .  I really enjoy the colors on this layout.  I find them happy and soothing at the same time.  It's easy to spot the pop of red in the stitching and a little bit on the top of the page.  You can find chevron in the stamp I used and I found a cute cloud that had chevron on it too.  I just had to use it!  Oh, and I used the frame on that photo to hide a person that was in the background next to the rock.  It is such a sweet and simple photo of my husband and daughter, but I couldn't let it be distracted with a random person!     I really dig the colors and I was glad to find the wood paper that isn't brown!  It's from Echo Park's Here & Now collection.    I'm always glad to use random bits of scrap papers and ribbons from my stash.  The tag was just cut out from white cardstock and then I put some wash...

  We have had some nice warm weather out and I was in the mood to scrapbook some summer photos.  I found this fun color pallet challenge over on scrapfriends.  I was drawn to the yellows and the hint of blue.  Of course I did this page at night and didn't realize that my blue mist I used was very turquoise.  In the morning while going through my embellishment and papers I realized that I have almost nothing that shade.  I'm going to have to be on the lookout for more turquoise things.  It really is such a beautiful color.  To make up for the lack of turquoise, I had to bring in a lot more orange then I was planning.   I had fun adding some stamping to the background.  I also made a shaky thing that I always wanted to try and add onto a page.  It took a few tries to make it work because I was being impatient, but in the end it added a cute fun element to my page.

I was really loving this page and was loving how it was turning out until I tried to use perfect pearls mist and it all went wrong.  I tried using the mist on a scrap paper and it looked good so I thought I would put it on my page.  It started out looking ok, but I thought the one spot needed a little more.  So I added more and that is when it all went wrong.  It didn't dry well.  My page got all wrinkly and I kept trying to fix it and it got more and more wrinkly.  It's such a bummer because I really liked this page.  I'm not sure I'll use that mist again.  I've had this little kangaroo charm for a long time and was excited to finally be able to use it. The mist was looking good on this part of the page.  If only it would cooperate on the rest of the page.