See Ya Soon

     I realize that this may give the impression that I have finally completed the daunting task of scrapbooking the 87 pictures from the Jellystone Park camping trip with the grandchildren. Yes these are the final pics from that trip. Huey is walking the kids to the RV, right before we take off for home. I have all of the pics in groups by topic and this is one of the packs of two . . .

. . . and I needed two pics for this wonderful sketch by Heather Hall at Sketch N Scrap. 
     This page came together so easily. I used one of the kids' orange wrist bands across the picture. I also cut the logo for Jellystone off of the vehicle access tag that hung on the rear-view mirror. The pic in the lower right corner is supposed to be very small so I cut away and into an odd shape to give the illusion of a smaller picture. 
     I used another page from the Yogi Bear Coloring Book that I got at the Jellystone Gift Shop. I colored with Prisma colored pencils and smoothed them out with gamsol. I just love the way the coloring turned out. 
     I used the Silhouette to form the title. I welded together the conversation bubble, Boo Boo and "Leaving". 
     So 9 pictures down and 78 to go.

Sketch #187 by Heather Hall

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Happy Days

     Cardstock: My Colors - Black Magic

                                      Aquatint

     Dies: We R Memory Keepers - Alphabet String

     Prisma Colored Pencils: Boo Boo - Light Umber

                                                       Copenhagen Blue

                                                       Poppy Red

                                                       Beige

     Punch: ek - 1 inch corner

     Silhouette - Font - Bubble and Brew

                       Font - Yellow Daisy

                       Layered Speech Bubbles

     Embellies - Logo from Car Tag

                      Park Wrist BAnd

     Page from Jellystone Park Coloring Book

Candy Bar BINGO

     I have a feeling you are going to be seeing a ton of layouts from our June trip to Jellystone Park in Burleston, Texas. We took two of our grandchildren up with us in the RV. We did so many activities and had so much fun. I have 87 scrapbookable pictures. I hope to get them all on to pages. 
     The first thing we did after setting up the RV was head over to the Bear's Den to play Candy Bar BINGO. As you can see, my grandchildren rock at BINGO. Lucas won first and they said he could have 5 candy bars. He took all of the Skittles. I won next and gave my BINGO card to Ellie so she could get some treats too. She won 3 candy bars and took all Cookies 'n Cream Hershey bars.
     Lucas purchased a Yogi Bear stuffy at the gift shop, so we took a pic of him posing with the BINGO cards.

     I am using Lisa Hidy's sketch from Sketch N Scrap. I had so much fun with this layout.

Sketch #182 by Lisa Hidy

     I went through all of my stash looking for some of those Tim Holtz BINGO pieces. I don't know if I have ever had any of those or not. If I did have them, I certainly don't have them any more. What I did find in my stash were some chipboard circles and stars.

     I used white acrylic paint on the chipboard shapes. I used the Silhouette to cut orange circles and letters, which added to the shapes made BINGO pieces. I laid out the BINGO markers, "Candy Bar" letters, and stars on the Silhouette and made a tan and a green mat to pop them on.

     Here you can see the 3 embellishments I made with the chipboard stars. I used chevron ribbon, smaller orange stars, and green flowers with clear gems in the centers.

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Echo Park - The Wild Life

                              (Forest Flora, Wildlife, Under the Stars)

     Cardstock: My Colors - Dark Molassees

                     Bazzill - Holly

                                 S-Mores

                                 Burning Ember

     Dies: Sizzix - Nesting Circles

     Silhouette - Font - Bubble and Brew

     Embellies - White acrylic paint

                      1 inch wood veneer circles

                      Green chevron ribbon

     

Easter Bunny

     These are the pictures from last Easter. I needed to get them in the book before taking new ones this year.

          I love this sketch. You have all month to try it out, post it to the Sketch N Scrap blog, and then be entered for a prize.

Sketch #148

     This page follows the sketch. I used Echo Park's "Easter" collection. The title is a new die cut from Stamps of Life. I purposely placed it above the word "bunny" on the word strip.

     The word strip is continued on to the second page as a connector between the 2 pages. I die cut the year "2017" with a Burniston die and added it below the word Easter.

     The bunny is "Lucky the Rabbit" - a die set from Burniston. I used some pink dotted swiss paper from the collection for the ears, nose and feet. The eggs on the layout are old dies from Echo park. I fussy cut mats for them.

 

     I need to stop making personal rules. I have a no sticker rule, but here I am using them. I used the tree, a flower, and a pink bunny on this layout. The shiny flowers are also from a sticker set. The grass (Burnistion die) grounds the rabbit and the tree.

This is a flap.

     I found this stamp - "The ears are the best part" at Hobby Lobby a week ago. It was on the clearance rack for 50 cents. It made me laugh, so I bought it. After stamping it I made a flap for it. I used a utility knife to slice a spot to pull the ears of a sticker bunny through. A fun place for one more pic was created. I placed 2 magnets - one behind the pic and one on the back of the bunny mat - to keep the flap closed.

Flap opened

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Easter

     Card Stock: My Colors - Expresso Bean

                                        Day Lily

                                        Pink Punch

                                        Lemon Sorbet

     Ink: Gina K - Dark Chocolate

     Stamps: Echo Park - Some Bunny Loves Me

                  Whimsies & Wishes - The Ears Are the Best Part

     Dies: Karen Burniston - Numbers

                                       Lucky the Rabbit

                                       Outdoor Edges

             SOL - Easter Statement

             Echo Park - Decorative Eggs

    Embellies: American Crafts - Flower Stickers

Challenges

Animal Friends Challenge - Easter - #11 - *

Brown Sugar Challenge - Easter/Spring - #35 - March 31

Crafty Friends - Springtime - #91 - *

Creative Shopping (Kreativeinkauf) - Happy Easter - #14 - *

You Are My Sunshine

     It is my Granddaughter, Brooklyn's, first birthday next week. The theme of her party is "You Are My Sunshine". The party is going to be a brunch next Saturday. I'm going to be pretty busy making a few things for the party. I said that I would make mini muffins and star-shaped Rice Krispie bars. I have a couple of paper craft items to finish this week as well. 

     This sweet birthday girl stamp was a freeby from Elizabeth Bell Designs a few weeks ago - excellent timing. I chose Echo Park's "Birthday Wishes" paper collection because it had the pink and yellow being used as party colors.

The Birthday Girl

     I offset the sun on the inside of the card, so there would be room to sign in the lower right corner.

Inside of Card

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Birthday Wishes - Girl Birthday Hats

                                                                          Girl Stripes

                                                                          Girl Birthday Party

     Card Stock: Bazzill - Stormy Medium

                                   White 

     Ink: Gina K - Moonlit Fog

     Stamps: Elizabeth Bell Designs - Party Pose

                  Gina K - All About You

                  Impression Obsession - On Your Birthday

     Silhouette File: Miss Kate's Cuttables - Sunshine

     Embellies: Really Reasonable Ribbon - Delicate Stitched Satin 5/8" (Pearl Pink)

                     Gems - 4mm pink

     Copics: Skin - E000, 04, 11, R20

                 Hair - E31, 33, 35

                 Dress/Hat - RV11, 13, 14, 17

                                   Y11, 13, 15

                 Shoes - C1, 3, 5

                 Ground - W1, 3, 5

                 Shadow - B000

    

Challenges

Brown Sugar Challenge - Birthday - #136 - *
Creative Knockouts - In Stitches - #12 - *
Send a Smile 4 Kids - Anything Goes - #3 - *

Southern Girls Challenge - Stitch Me Up - #34 - *
Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Pink*Ribbon*Square - #11 - Winner!!!

Vintage Cars

     I put this card together yesterday for a friend from our dinner group that is celebrating a birthday. 
     I started with one of Lili of the Valley's trio stamp sets. The car on the front flap is part of an older Lili of the Valley stamp called "Toot Toot". I colored the front of the card from that one and placed it on a vintage map mat.

Card and Envelope

     Previously, I have always made cube-shaped box cards and I have cut them on the trimmer and scored them myself. I purchased this box card die from Stamps of Life. I believe it is fairly new. I particularly liked working with it, because it makes larger mats on the front flap and back of card. There is also more room to spread out the goodies that are going in the box. Usually the side flaps (which are now smaller) are secondary anyway.

     Clocks and gears are always good filler for masculine cards so I added a few of those. I also used these on the side flaps.

Back of Card

     I always decorate the back of my box cards with scraps that are left on the table.

Envelope

     I die cut Tim Holtz's "Jalopy" for the envelope. The stamp giving it motion is a flourish from a floral stamp set. 

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Echo Park - For the Record (Borders & Fancy)

     Card Stock: Bazzill - Sugar Wafer

                                   White

                                   Black

                       Neenah - Metallic Gold

     Ink: Momento - Tuxedo Black

            Distress - Hickory Smoke

            Gina K - Moonlit Fog

     Copics: BG 72, 75, 78

                Y21, 23, 26, 28

                W1, 2, 3, 5, 7

                C1, 2, 3, 5, 6

     Punches: EK - 1/2" corner

                   Stampin Up - Word Window

     Stamps: Gina K - Dahlia

                  Lili of the Vally - Toot Toot

                                          Vintage Motor Trio

     Dies: Burniston - Clock and Gears

                               Snowman Twist Circle

             Tim Holtz - Jalopy

             Stamps of Life - Box Card

     Embellies: 2 Gold Brads

                     Acetate

    

Challenges

Alphabet Challenge - U is for Use 3 of something - #57 - *
Cute Card Thursday - Something New (Box Card Die) - #58 - *
Frilly and Funkie - 3 is Not a Crowd - #30 - *
Little Red Wagon - Boy Oh Boy - #26 - *
Paper Minutes - Vehicles - #9 - ?
Stamps & Fun - Use Stamps - #24 - ?
Vintage Journey - Think Inside of the Box - #4 - *

Eeyore's Kiss

     I am finally getting a chance to scrapbook some pics from my visit to Disney in Anaheim. My fave character is Eeyore who I met at breakfast. As you can see, he was pretty happy to meet me as well.

     I used this sketch from Sketch N Scrap. As usual there is a challenge on the blog and you are invited to participate. It is easy to link up your project and see if you are the lucky winner. Just try out the sketch below.

Layout Sketch #134

     The Eeyore Mickey is a purchase from Etsy. I altered the bottom of it a bit. In order to have the tail swing back and forth on a black brad, I made my own svg file of a donkey tail. 
     I think I'm going to call this font "My Eeyore Font" from now on. It fits perfectly on this banner. 
     I have to mention the mini Eeyore punch. My husband gave it to me years ago. He brought my lunch to my classroom one day and I found it in the bottom of the bag. Surprise!!! I punched a few and added them to A+ papers This is the first time I've used it in my paper crafting.
      I ended up making a complimentary page to extend it into a 2-page layout. 

      I added a fun tag to page 2. It goes behind the mat and is forced to stop when it meets the back strip. When you pull it, it is fun to see the yellow disappear. 

      I added a "Hidden Mickey" on the tag as well. You can't see it until you pull the tag. That makes 4 "Hidden Mickey's" on this 2-page layout. Can you find them all?

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Magical Adventure

     Solid Paper: Bazzil - Marshmallow Chick

                                       Nautical Blue - Medium

                                       Royalty

                          Paper Studio - Black and White

                          My Colors Cardstock: Wildflower

     Dies: Elizabeth Craft Designs - Tags & More 7 (with a Vine)

                                                        Banners

                                                        Cupcake (Bow & Small Flower)

              Darice - Nesting Wavy Squares

              Stamps of Life - Flower Power           

     Punches: Disney - Eeyore & Mickey                               

     Silhouette: 3 Blue Hearts Design -Eeyore Mickey Head

     Embellies: Blue Twine 

                       Lilac and Blue Gems

Challenges

Pixie's Crafty Workshop Challenge #291-2 - Snippets - #63 - *