Show Us Your Stuff in January. :)

This month I really enjoyed the challenge at Show Us Your Stuff! I've been enjoying a ton of scrapbooking lately, and feel like I'm getting my scrappy mojo back! ;) Here is the sketch:

Super inspiring!! And here is the page I created using the sketch:

This is a picture of my dad, who graduated from Lamar in December. (I also made a page for my Mom for a previous challenge, but missed the deadline. Oops!) I love this picture soooo much, and I'm really reallly happy about the way it turned out. I did alot of distressing and ink stamping on this page, plus some glitter detail I'm a little bit in love with. Here lately I can't seem to make a page without glitter on it!! I hope you like what I came up with! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Promise at Bird is the Word!

Bird is the Word's January first challenge word is "Promise". This is the sketch:

Such a great sketch!!! I modified it a little bit for my layout, but it was truly inspiring. :) So, without further ado, here is my page:

I have been saving this ocean-themed paper for a looong time for some of our Galveston pictures, and when I saw the sketch and the word at Bird is the Word, it just clicked! :) I cut the some of the waves just enough to slip the picture of me posing on a little wooden boat that was sitting outside of a resturant we ate at on our vacation into them as if the boat was really in the water, which I must admit made me feel like a scrapbooking genius. ;) Instead of using more photos in the top left-hand corner, I put my journaling there and made it yellow to mimic the yellow of sunlight. I cut the clouds from another sheet of paper and glued them at different levels of height for some 3D texture, and then went crazy with the glitter paint! I glittered the waves, the clouds, and the journaling tag layers. My title is "I promise... that I will always make time to be silly.", and the journaling says "As we grow older, it's easy to get wrapped up in the seriousness of life. But I think a little silliness is good for the soul!". I hope you enjoyed looking at this page as much as I enjoyed making it. Thanks for stopping by! :)

Lime in January at White With 1! :)

This month the challenge at White With 1 is White + Lime + Buttons. :) I was pretty excited because I've been waiting for the perfect challenge for the picture of my cousin Dan's college graduation, and this was it! His favorite color is lime green, so I thought, why not?! :D Here's the page I came up with:

I'm pretty thrilled with the outcome!!! The title says "Dan, Dan the graduation man!" because throughout his life we've always called him "Dan, Dan the ...whatever... man!" :) I used a plain white sheet cardstock, and then painted some bubble wrap with green paint and laid it on the paper!!!! I'm so excited! I don't have any scrapbooking mists or paints (they're on my wish-list, though), so I've been looking for ways to recreate texture without them. I think this worked out pretty well. :) I've been saving the program, and so I cut out the TVCC seal that was on the front, & the commencement title, & then cut his name out from where it appeared in the program and glued it over his picture with some lime rhinestones on the sides. I wish I could put up some close ups, but something's up with my uploader here on blogger. : / Anyways, I have four buttons on the page to fulfill the button requirement, which I threaded through with lime sewing floss and glued down to emphasize the corners of the page. :) So, I hope you liked it! Thanks for stopping by.

"Wonder" at Bird is the Word!

The challenge word for the December 15th challenge at Bird is the Word is "wonder". This is the sketch:

Because I took a bunch of pictures over the Christmas break, I've been looking for the perfect scrap inspiration, and boy did I find it in this challenge!!! This is the first page I've made in a while, so I really really enjoyed making it. So, here is the page I made:

I absolutely love this picture of me and my best friends. I chose it as the photo that matched "wonder" the most to me because as long as I live, I don't think I'll ever understand the way friendship works. It's magical the way people can go through so much together; can fight, cry, yell, laugh, be heartbroken, be blissful, and still enjoy being together. My friends are awesome, and I hope that this page shows how special my friends are to me. :) The journaling tag says:  "Me, Elizabeth, Kelsey, and Jaci have an amazing friendship. We've been there for each other through times of joy and sadness. We've dried each other's tears and listened to each other's dreams. I love you guys. ♥" I hope you like my page! Thanks again, Bird is the Word for the inspiration! :)

Time at Bird is the Word!

So the December challenge at Bird is the Word was the following sketch combined with the word time:

I was very excited when I saw this challenge, because I knew I had the perfect picture! :) I've been following Bird is the Word for a while now, and decided that this month I had enough spare time to play along with this awesome challenge! So, without any more chatting, here's my page.

For some reason my computer is fighting me tonight, lol. It won't let me rotate this picture or upload close ups. Since my computer is not cooperating with me this evening, so I'll have to upload close us and try to rotate this  later... I'll get it done ASAP, though. :) Anyway, this is a five generation picture taken in California several years ago when I was about twelve. It's very precious to me! Thanks for looking!

The Lollipop Ladies!

I'm pretty sure that this is the first time I've joined the challenge at Lollipop Ladies, even though I've been following for quite a while. When I saw that this month's challenge was Sour Worms + Sparkle, I knew I had to enter! :) Here's the page I came up with:

These pictures were taken when I went to visit my best friends in College Station recently, and we played Lasertag! It was a total blast!!! I asked them to give me their score cards for this page, and as you can see that's what the background is made of. I layered them all over a base piece of cardstock, and hot glued, hot glued, hot glued!! :) Here are some close ups:

The title letters are pre-punched from colored cardstock, so I just embellished them with some glitter paint. I used the same paint to stamp sparkly flowers all over the page. :)

For even more sparkle, I covered the journaling in glitter paint, put glitter over the tops of the paper clips, went around the edges of both photos with clear glitter paint, and added some to the flower embellies.

So that's my sparkly colorful page! I'm pretty crazy about it, because it's bright and fun, but also because it portrays an amazing evening spent with my best buddies. :)

White With 1 November. :)

This month's challenge at White With 1 is White + Brights + Flowers. I love this blog so much, because it gives such great inspiration and leaves a lot of creative space to be filled up. :) So this is the page I came up with:

Clearly, the bright color I chose was red, to go with the colors of my University. :) We're the Cardinals, so this was perfect! I haven't been scrapping lately, so this page was such a joy to make! Here are some close-ups. :)

I made the flower out of ribbon, and painted the edges and background of the photo with watercolor. I made the tiny little flower in the corner of the photo out of paper with glitter paint on top. :) I found these feathers at Hobby Lobby and have just been waiting for the perfect layout to use them on. This was it, apparently! lol.

This is the journaling, and I have to say, I'm sooo proud of that swirl on the bottom edge. I painted it with glitter paint, and then added some rhinestones and pearls to it. :)

I used a vehicle decal that they sell on campus and cut it out, then painted it with glitter paint. I'm kind of in love with it. ;)

So, that's my page! I really love it, and am thankful to WW1 for their awesome color inspiration and amazing DT pages that really get me in the mood to create. :)