Papercraft Haven and More

     Today, I am sharing a Design Team layout and card that I have made using the sketch above!  Make sure you go check out Simply52 blog  because she has a great challenge using this sketch!  For the card, I simply used the top part of the sketch - minus the title portion!  For the colors in the layout, I chose to use the pink and mint green shades that are showcased here in the sketch!  I added a bit of silver "bling" to make the layout pop!   Supplies:   1 sheet patterned paper for the background White cardstock for matting photo 2 sheets of patterned paper 1 sheet solid paper Flower w/brad Brads Alphabet "bling" Directions:   Step one:  Cut the pink piece to go under the photo.  Set aside on top of the background paper.   Step two:  Add the photo on white cardstock and then trim.  Add on pink paper and then the green.   Step three:  Trim 2 small 1/2" wide lengths of the same ...

     I am so happy to introduce a new design team I am on, Simply52 Designers Blog, formerly known as Pencil Lines!   Sketches are wonderful to use - and this sketch is no different!!!  You also are given possible colors to use along with your creation, to make it easier to do your own thing!  As I type this, I see a fun card I can do just by using the right side of the sketch only!  Looks like I will need to play a little bit this weekend it looks like!        For the sketch - you will also find this at Simply52 Designers Blog...(link to follow)...  Sketch #1, Simply 52 Designers Blog, formerly known as Pencil Lines      My creation came together and was a lot of fun to do once I got it started!  It was one of those pictures that I have wanted to scrapbook, but no inspiration to finish actually do it!  Once I put together the background paper, the rest really came together in no time!  I...

     I started scrapbooking around 13 years ago or so, my first project - was my 2nd wedding album!  My first stamping project was my almost 21 year old daughters' birth announcements - so I've been around a while now!  I decided to start Memories in Tyme to show people how easy it is to create.   I am now certified to teach through EK Success' Spotted Canary program, as well as now teaching at Michael' s Arts & Crafts at a local Denver area store!  I am excited to say the least, and can see all my hard work starting to pay off - especially since being here in Colorado!        Now - if you are expecting something from me in the mail - I am really behind right now!  Life has just thrown me some interesting curve balls, in which I am trying to figure out how to deal with them!  I am also in school full time, plus started a new job...Life for me is just nuts, and things that needed to get done has NOT been done! ...

    This layout represented a time in my life where I was truly happy - a place that I loved to live... my favorite you might say, thus the title.  There are times where, when I scrapbook, it starts with the title, or the picture, or the papers that I use first...before anything else.  Then the entire layout just comes out, as if by magic at times!!!  My projects are often-times designed in my head - thinking constantly about how I want the project to look, or writing down specific things in relation to the item I am working on.  Sometimes my projects take off in a direction I never thought about, but it turns out good anyway...        My favorite color is pink, this was my favorite time in my life (until recently anyway), and my daughter and her blessing dress that my mom made.   Your challenge for the weekend - is to find your favorite photo of yourself, and make a layout of it...  Life changes at the drop of a hat, where ...

Different.....      For this challenge, I want you to find a photo...it doesn't matter if the photo is older, or current - find a photo!  Then find a word that describes you - I chose "different" because I am different than most people are....I feel different and I am different...        I started with the 1 word title first - I added the definition of "different" and tags with journaling coming out the side of the layout.   Supply list:   1 sheet background paper (I used 12 x 12 Chatterbox paper to be able to use the extra's) Coordinating paper Alphabet template Brads Sizzix frames & tags Floss & ribbon for the tags Button Marker to match Directions:   Step one:  Cut your background paper to 8.5 x 11 (unless you do 12 x 12 albums) putting the extra aside for use later on.   Step two:  From the coordinating paper, die cut the Sizzix frames in both the wave and the square background.  A...

Life, left side  The other day, I posted this post...  including a challenge for you to create a layout with a quote, poem or saying that you like...  From that challenge, this is the layout spread that I have finished up...    Quote by Jeff Taylor, digital layout spread made with Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 software and page kits.   Life isn't about taking score...who did this, or who didn't do that...  It's not about he said this or she said that's...and it's really not about who was there and who wasn't...  It isn't about how rude you can be to another person, or who is "different" than you are...  A nd it certainly isn't about who can lie the best about things that shouldn't be lied about.     What life IS about... spending time with those you care about, being happy - even if things have went wrong in your life.   It's about standing up for something EVEN IF YOU ARE STANDING ALONE... It's about laughing ...

     One of my favorite albums I have done so far is my All about ME album... not because I like to concentrate on scrapbooking ME, but I think it is important to document  your thoughts, feelings, what made you YOU instead!  Life is hard enough, especially  when you are going through a hard time!  I used scrapbooking as a therapy tool,  though didn't realize it until later on down the line.        You All About ME album is just that - all about you in layouts that are attractive  and nice to  look at.  They can be about your birth, childhood, things you did right  or wrong, or just about  anything you would want from them.  Each week, I will be  giving you a layout and a topic to talk about...if you catch up this week, feel free to  go to this link  to get even more topics to scrapbook...this will keep you busy for quite  a while!    For this layout - pick ...

I was a dork in school...thick glasses because I am almost legally blind... real skinny, no boobs...you know the drill when you are younger!   As I look back on things now, I was one of the youngest kids in the Class of 82 - I was 17 when I graduated, the youngest of my mom's 5 kids.  After school was through - I didn't go on to college like most everyone else did.  I started working, and pretty much have worked since then - only to go back to school in 2009 for a Graphic Artist type of career.  Since then, being on Facebook, it has made it so I have found most of the people in my life that I wanted to, and a few more!   The original idea for the frame was included in an old Creating Keepsakes magazine, though who knows what issue...we are talking back in like 2004 or 2005 area.  I wanted this layout to be "different...being the youngest child - you don't have a lot of pictures that has been taken of you...so I had to compromise with what I wanted to docum...

I know...when you look at this layout you go...huh, why would this be one of my favorite's?  Well, this is my dad...dad died 3 days after my birthday on 8/5/04...which happened to be 5 years to the day after my 2nd husband committed suicide.   I miss my dad so much, he protected me, he loved me...he made me feel like I belonged.  Dad would stop and pick up pennies anytime he seen them; so after he died, it is fitting us kids would find pennies - always shiny pennies...these are the pennies I found over the years since he has died...kept in a clear envelope.   It is one of my favorite's because of the theme of the layout, why it was done in the first place.  Some of my favorite layouts are done without any specific theme, like this one.   My dad was not perfect, by any means...but you know, he was my dad.  He was a part of the Lions Organization...he had 5 beautiful children, and from there...he has had 14 grandchildren (with a few step-grandchildren...

Journaling... the written word on your scrapbook pages that reflect what the picture is all about .  This week we are going to talk about journaling...and show you a few ideas to kick your journaling up a bit!  The photos are the reason you are scrapbooking in the first place, but the journaling helps to bring the photos to light.  At times, you might have a simple name and date...other times, you might have half a page or more just talking about the photos themselves.  You can journal by hand, or by computer if your handwriting is less than perfect, but make sure you at least do one project with your handwriting on it so future generations can see  how your handwriting looks.  In the layout Honestly - the strips of paper have the journaling on them cut in sentences and added to the pink and brown color scheme.  I used one photo, and a one word title with the journaling added in the strips.  With Lifestyles of the frazzl...

When I first started scrapbooking, I didn't think about the words much...it was about sticking the photos on paper and placing stickers around the page.  After I learned a bit more about "scrapbooking", my talents really came out!  Your challenge for the day is to go out of your comfort zone and do something you have NEVER done before.  In this layout, there are a few things I had never done in a layout before.....the color scheme for me was certainly a first, using navy, wheat and cream...but I loved it a ton!  Another first was I also used rubber stamps for the title, and yet another first...in the bottom left corner, is a dried flower from my Grandma's funeral...each of us grandkids received a set of flowers, mine were dried in a book, and added to this layout many years later. I put it in a clear envelope that is designed to put things in, and matted to create visual interest...as well as a tag that has a bit of everything in it, with the fibers at the top i...

** Challenge**   Your challenge is this...find a song in which you want to focus on...maybe the words to your favorite love song, and a photo of you and your husband...or a fun song that reminds you of your children...you get the idea!   I didn't spend money on this layout, I used up what I had at home first, so try to do that as well!  For this layout, I used the same alphabet template from Coluzzle that was used in yesterdays example, only I did not matt this title, nor did I add the small punch pieces.  This title was plain, using just the template and my trimmer to complete the title itself - the trimmer for the top border part.  The patterned paper for the background was enough background for me...I used colors from the paper to soften it up, but focused on blues because of my parents' colors on their clothes!  The pink just added a bit of interest to it all...and besides it is my favorite color!  The ...

Adding jewelry to your layouts can be fun to do, espcecially items you were given from someone who is passed on.  This is my Grandma Tuckett...my mom's mom, my favorite grandma!  Whenever you went around her and Grandpa, you felt as if you were the most special thing in the world, no matter who was there, or how many was there.  This watch, was hers...it needed to be in a special layout, not just stuck in my jewelry box.  I miss my her so much, as does the rest of the family I am sure...  Times are different now, we don't see the "family" as often as we would like, the family reunions are gone - now that Grandma has passed on.  Plus when you don't live in the area anyway...it's hard to get together and establish relationships with people when you are so far away.  Side two of the layout was journaling about Grandma, her wearing only that watch - and her wedding ring, but not much more as far as jewelry was concerned....

There are times where you need to spark a bit of creativity in you...you just get stuck on something to "create".  For me, creating has been a wonderful outlet that truly has kept me alive from a childhood with problems in it that created an adult with issues.  I have learned through this "scrapbooking" that my problems needed therapy, but little miss stubborn me wouldn't hear of it!   Scrapbook challenges are ways to help you look at your scrapbooking in a different way.  If you take a look at this section of the blog , you will see challenges that are listed that I have. I haven't concentrated as much on the challenges lately but this month will be a bit different, I have found a lot of fun ad's that I want to do layouts on!   However, you will see All About Me challenges - this has been one of my favorite albums to make by far!  My main reason...I can use up all the extra stuff I have, my next reason...it's all about ME!  It's not about the ki...

Colors... this layout was done in my favorite colors, using the Sizzix circle die cut for the circles and tags.  I used various shades of pink from the Bazzil Basics paper to create the layout, as well as brown Bazzil cardstock with a bit of patterned paper in browns for an accent color.  For the title, I selected a rub on title that was "me"...and what I wanted the layout to portray.  I used just one picture which I really liked how I looked at the time, and used it to put little blurbs about myself on.   I used the brown as an accent color, with it as the main color for the background paper, as a little color on the buttons that I used on the frame, and as the striped brown paper under the picture!  I normally don't do this type of page, but for me, it was fun to put down in words some things that make up who  I am!   For the framed picture on the right, I used two circles with  smiley faces drawn on them.      Under the frown si...

                                          ONE..... Sometimes your layouts need to reflect who YOU are, this is the challenge for you this week...  I want you to choose just one photo of yourself...doesn't have to be the best photo in the world, look at this photo that I used!  Taken about 13 years ago.....heavier in weight, shorter hair, and a time in my life I'd much rather forget than deal with!    I also chose one word that describes me....and used hidden journaling to add a few things underneath the photo.  As you look at this, you can't see the journaling part underneath...that is how I like to design my words... hidden a bit, yet powerful if you read them.  You don't need to do anything "hidden" if you don't want....I wanted to frame the photo and add the journaling underneath.   For the colors I used, I stuck with pink as my favorit...

  Here is an easy layout idea using very little supplies, focusing more on the picture and the words written, instead of the embellishments.  Supplies used:  Brown/pink background paper White/pink cardstock 1 photo Alphabet stickers 2 different flower punches Chipboard frame For this layout, I used the chipboard frame and 2 different types of flower punches to finish up the look.  The background paper was enough "noise" so to speak, I wanted to focus on the reason of the layout and picture in the first place.  To recreate this layout, here are directions:  Step one:  Decide the photo you want to showcase for this layout.  Step two:  Choose the background paper that fits the photo, or the person you are creating the page for.  Step three:  Using alphabet stickers, create your title for the top border of the page. Matt it once with a color that matches your background paper.  Step four:  For your pho...