GreenChicken31

  Wow it's Monday again!  Here is my page for the Memory Nest .  I normally don't get around to scraping pictures of events and moments that happened anywhere close to present day, but this one is an exception.  I really wanted to scrap these photos from our Oregon beach adventure last week.  We had such awful weather, but I got some darling photos despite the pouring rain.   As you can see, I altered the sketch a bit to fit three horizontal photos.  I tried to use paper layers to help play on the two vertical photo spots from the sketch.     I love the pink to purple to blue in this paper.  It pink reminds me of the hope we had for warm beach weather and the blue is the actual reality of cold rainy beach days.     I realized that I have so many wonderful and bright beach embellishments, but most didn't seem to fitting for my page.  I couldn't resist this popsicle though!   ...

  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.

  Happy Tuesday!  I'm just about to fly back to Seattle from Michigan.  My little family and I were in a wedding.  We had lots of fun, but also got a ton of mosquito bites!  I certainly do not miss those buggers!  Anyways, I wanted to share the layouts I made for the Memory Nest just before I flew around the country with the new to me Memories kit!      The hues are not normal colors I work with, but they have a beautiful soft charm.  They look fabulous with black and white photos.  And there is plenty of papers that you can cut into fun bits and pieces.  I love papers with lots of versatility.  I feel like I get lots of bang for my buck this way!     The paper with all the colorful squares was probably my favorite piece out of the bunch.  It was so easy to cut them out.  It made it super easy and quick to put embellishments in each one.  This definitely was my favori...

  When I noticed sketch challenge #20 over at ScrapFriends , I knew I wanted to play along.     I already had my little square photos, so I knew I wasn't going to make them into circles, but I thought I could add in the circle feel other ways.  I looked for circular wooden embellishments, circle stencils, and looped up twine.  I definitely used up a bit of my stash on this one.  I used up lots of odd and ends and a few new things too.  I can't decide if my favorite part is the polka dots I added to the background or the bouquet of blue glittery stars. This definitely makes for a fun page for my wedding scrapbook!  

  There is no lack of color on this page!  It's bright and colorful just like my daughter.  This page started when I saw this color challenge on paper lovers studio.  The rainbow colors immediately made me think of this paper and I knew I just had to use it.  I also used this sketch from scrap you story.   I was able to use up a few random things that I have had.  My favorite is the little cake stamp that I have been holding on to for a long time.  It came from a birthday card somebody mailed to me a while back.  Actually, I looked up the price of stamps and last time it cost 44 cents was back in 2009.

I'm not sure why, but this page did not want to photograph in the right colors.  The green really is a brighter green.... Anyways, I wanted to make a page that didn't scream fall but still had a fall feel.  So I stayed away from leaf paper and candy corn embellishments.  I thought the green, orange, and purple gave the feel I was going for.  There is a little brown and yellow on the page too.  I added a lot of little random embellishments so the page has almost a smash book feel to it. The stamp calender is my newest obsession.  I want to use it every layout. lol.

I've been busy scrapbooking.  I' have so many pages to do.  I don't know how I get so far behind sometimes.  I got to use some of my washi tape on this page.  The blue ruffle was made with it. I made some little flags with toothpicks.  The blue one uses some scrap paper and the orange one is with some washi tape.