Hello my friends! I’m back with a layout share. I don’t do shares often (not sure why), but I thought I would show you a few layouts I’ve worked on this month using the Scraptastic Club Drops of Jupiter Kit. Be sure to check out my YouTube Channel for process and kit share videos.
Here we go! Enjoy!
35th Birthday
This…Perfect Moment
Reading Buds
Sweet Girl
More layout shares to come! Thanks for stopping by!
I love taking pictures of my girl when she is sleeping. These moments are fleeting. The reality is, they eventually grow into young adults and those sweet baby faces fade away.
Capture these moments people!
I am trying to hold on…FOREVER!
(I might be a crazy mother.)
My sweet pea came home from school one day totally exhausted. She nestled on the couch and took a quick catnap. Our days are long and I often wonder if she is getting enough sleep at night. The girl can go and go and go until she crashes. I guess this is typical of little ones…boundless energy.
I should harness it and sell it! I’ll be RICH!
The Drops of Jupiter Kit from Scraptastic Kit Club is stunning: rich blues, deep oranges, yellows, and reds. A nice departure from some of the more popular color stories of today.
For the background, I used this beautiful constellation pattern paper called “Curiosity” from the Shimelle Star Shine Collection. I fussy cut the puffy clouds from another Shimelle pattern paper, “Rosetta” from the same collection. Making a “cutesy” page isn’t really my style, but when I saw the those awesome clouds, the idea just came to me!
I love when the happens!
I wanted to use the natural form of the circles on the background paper to serve as the anchor for my title. The font is called “Thick and Thin” by Thickers…LOVE! The design of the background paper and the clouds adds a lot of visual interest so I didn’t have to embellish much. I added a few enamel dots from We R Memory Keepers, stickers from Amy Tangerine, and die cuts from the Shimelle Star Shine Collection.
To complete the whimsical look of this layout, I used three Scraptastic exclusive acrylic stars and blue and white twine from American Crafts to create the illusion of stars falling from the sky. I think that I am pretty darn clever!
Here’s a complete list of the layout elements:
Check out the process video for this layout on the Victoria Marie YouTube Channel! Enjoy!
My little baby girl got her ears pierced…another rite of passage I suppose. We waited until she was old enough to make this decision on her own.
She is growing up way to fast!
Off we went to Claire’s, a retail jewelry store, where the staff is at least 10-12 years younger than me. While I was excited for my kiddo, I couldn’t help but feel a bit of fear; I mean for goodness sake, I was willingly allowing a total stranger to poke tiny holes in my sweet angel’s precious ears!!!!
Within in seconds it was done. My tiny-tiny tried as hard as she could to hold back the tears. Initially she was so excited, until she realized what was about to happen! Oh, poor girl! Alligator tears led to the acquisition of two lolly pops (thanks to the Claire’s sales clerk) and a brand new Beanie Boo (the latest stuff animal craze…think Beanie Babies…but ten times better and with bigger globe like eyes – okay that part is a bit scary)!
All is well. 🙂
For this layout, I used the Scraptastic Gale Song Kit. I am working hard to use up every bit of this kit. It is easy to hoard!
Page Elements:
And here’s a process video of this layout for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy!
Hello Friends! I am back with another Scraptastic Kit Share featuring the March 2016 Drops of Jupiter Kit. I absolutely adore this kit…it’s a nice reprieve from the turquoise and pastel colors that are popular at the moment.
As a design team member I received not only the main and add-on kits, but I also got the This Life Noted Kit, Scraptastic’s pocket scrapbooking kit. Design team members also receive all of the stamp sets that are offered for the month. Take a look!
For a complete product listing and to shop, visit the Scraptastic Kit Club!
THIS LIFE NOTED – Pocket Scrapbooking
3×4 Journaling Cards – Scraptastic Exclusive
4×6 Journaling Cards – Scraptastic Exclusive
Embellishments – Exclusives
Drops of Jupiter Main and Add-On Kits
Embellishments
Stamps
Check out my kit share video on the Victoria Marie YouTube Channel! Thanks for stopping by!
So, I posted this layout a week ago and just got around to uploading the process video. (It’s been a crazy month!) This is probably one of the best layouts I’ve made in a long time. There are just some photos that are worth more than words. And these photos certainly fall into that category.
Lovebug and Stinky – my big brother Love (yes, his name is Love) and me…Stinky!
Long story…:)!
You may be wondering how I inherited the childhood nickname Stinky. It’s a very long embarrassing story that is best told by my relatives. And believe me…they still give me a hard time and the incident that gave me this nickname will forever live on in our family history. I cannot escape it!
My brother on the other hand, well…the origins of his nickname are less embarrassing. As a young boy, he didn’t really like his name. That is until the “ladies” dubbed him Lovebug…oh imagine the narcissism that ensued! He has been Lovebug ever since!
These photos were taken while we waited for my mother to have surgery. Of course we were getting on her nerves with our antics, as usual. It is not often that we get to play around like this. You know how it goes…you become adults with separate lives. It’s hard to connect sometimes. We are trying to do better.
Since we are so far apart in age, fifteen years to be exact, we didn’t exactly grow up together. He enlisted in the Air Force when I was just a toddler. I would get so excited when he came home for a visit. To me, his travels around the world were magical! As a military fireman, he has seen the worst. We are so proud of him! The “old man” retired a couple of years ago…we are thankful for his service.
I am trying to scrapbook more about our relationship…which is evolving. We need each other more and more, especially as our mother begins to age. Believe it or not, we don’t have many pictures together…which is sad. I am bound and determined to change that. One photo and one layout at a time. I adore my older brother and I want our memories to last a lifetime!
Layout Ingredients:
And here’s the process video! Enjoy!
I love scrapbooking with my little one. She is such a creative little sprite! In December of last year, after much convincing on her part, we finally broke down and bought her a craft desk of her own. Whenever I am working on projects, she is right there with me!
Last week the Victoria Marie FB Group members were challenged to create a layout using items from their stash. Since I wanted to get this story document, I thought this would be the perfect time to pull out some of my goodies – I’m falling in love with my stash again!
It has been a while since I’ve used mixed media so I pulled out some Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Cracked Pistachio and Spiced Marmalade) to create a watercolor background. Next, I used a Heidi Swapp stencil and Liquitex model paste to layer small dots over the distress ink.
I layered pattern papers behind the photo and embellished with a variety of empherma to include wood veneer shapes (I used distress ink to paint these pieces), washi tape, and die cuts. I also added a bit of gold thread for interest and whimsy!
Here is a list of items I used from my stash:
Check out the process video for this layout on the Victoria Marie YouTube Channel! Thanks for watching!
Hello my friends! I am back after a few weeks away…let’s just say that life has been a bit crazy around the Calvin household. I started teaching part-time a local university, taking care of my mother who was hospitalized recently, on and on. But, the storm has passed (for now at least) and it’s business as usual!
How about a Scraptastic kit share! Check out the February 2016 Gale Song Kit! I Love, love, love this kit! The colors, the designs, the papers…oh my!
Take a look at these gorgeous products! The kit includes a lot of the Maggie Holmes Bloom Collection by Crate Paper and tons of Scraptastic exclusive papers, die cuts, and embellishments.
MAIN KIT
Includes:
12×12 Patterned Paper
1 Sheet of Maggie Holmes Blissful
1 Sheet of Maggie Holmes Fresh
1 Sheet of Maggie Holmes Spring
1 Sheet of Pink Paislee C’est la Vie 10
1 Sheet of Pink Paislee C’est la Vie 12
1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Crazy Heart designed by food/family/story
1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club High Road designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer
1 Sheet of Shimelle Star Shine Phoenix
12×12 Cardstock
1 Sheet of Bazzill Chantilly Cardstock
1 Sheet of Bazzill Dark Grey Cardstock
1 Sheet of American Crafts Seafoam Cardstock
Embellishments
1 Package of Shimelle Star Shine Thickers
1 Package of Maggie Holmes Bloom Ephemera
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive 6.5×8 Sticker Sheet
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Set of Flair
3 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Wood Veneer Hexagons
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Pink Glitter Foam Word – Lovely
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Black Glitter Foam Word – Fabulous
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Silver Glitter Foam Word – Today
3 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Vellum Notebook Sheets
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Yellow Acrylic Ampersand
ADD-ON KIT
Includes:
1 Sheet of Maggie Holmes Bloom Sweet Rose
1 Sheet of Pink Paislee C’est la Vie 02
1 Sheet of Pink Paislee C’est la Vie 09
1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Dream On designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer
1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Magnifique designed by food/family/story
1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Mi Amor designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer
1 Sheet of American Crafts Rosebud Cardstock
1 Sheet of American Crafts Vanilla Cardstock
1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Journaling Cards – food/family/story and Kaitlin Sheaffer
1 Package of Pink Paislee C’est la Vie Foiled Chipboard Alphas
1 Package of Heidi Swapp Glitter Frames
1 Scraptastic Club Exclusive Gold Foiled Butterfly Die Cuts
1 Package of Pink Paislee C’est la Vie Puffy Stickers
1 Package of Maggie Homes Bloom Fringe Hearts
1 Package of Heidi Swapp Paper Clips
Scraptastic also offers a pocketed scrapbook kit called This Life Noted. Here’s the February TLN goodies:
Includes:
24 3×4 Exclusive Double-Sided Cards – Kaitlin Sheaffer and food/family/story
6 4×6 Exclusive Double-Sided Cards – Kaitlin Sheaffer and food/family/story
1 3×4 Exclusive Clear Stamp – Kaitlin Sheaffer
2 Exclusive Flair Badges – Kaitlin Sheaffer
1 Set of Exclusive Die Cuts – Kaitlin Sheaffer
1 Exclusive 4×6 Story Notes Sticker Sheet
1 Exclusive 4×6 Clear Tape Stickers
1 Sheet of Simple Stories Alphas in Pink
1/2 Roll of American Crafts Silver Star Fabric Tape
1 Glitter Foam Word – Love
3 Wood Veneer Butterflies
7 Acrylic Asterisks
6 Vellum Snail Mail Envelopes
Take a closer look at this kit on my YouTube channel! Thanks for stopping by!
Each week the Victoria Marie Design Team hosts a weekly challenge on the Victoria Marie Facebook Group Page. This week is Free Style and designer Cacie Carrillo-English challenged us to create tags and to use them in a creative way. I plan to use my tags to decorate birthday gifts! Here’s what I created!
Everything I used for this challenge was pulled from my stash. I have a variety of embellishments from Maggie Holmes, American Crafts, Thickers, and The Paper Studio.
I love to cluster and personalize embellishments. The stars were covered in gold embossing powder – this adds a lot of sparkle and shine!
I distressed the edges of the tags and some of the die cuts with Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink by Tim Holtz.
Want to see how these tags came together? Check out the process video on the Victoria Marie YouTube Channel!
I hope you play along with our challenge! Happy scrappin’!
Hello friends! I am back with my first layout of 2016 using some goodies from my stash!
Last summer my family and I took a quick staycation to Austin, TX. I absolutely love Austin! This photo was taken at the Thinkery, a children’s science museum. I recently came across this selfie of me and my little munchkin girl, cuddling a bit while taking a break from our many adventures.
I scrapbook a lot about my relationship with my daughter for several reasons. She is an only child (we will not have any more children) and I want her to have a rich history of her childhood. And I might sound biased by saying this but…she is a super cool kid! Truly and honestly…she is a lovely little girl who has an infectious smile and a hardy sense of humor. She’s quite the cheeky little sprite with so much energy! As she gets older and matures, our relationship becomes that much stronger. I really hope that she will always know that I am her soft place to land…no judgements, only love and support.
I am going to stop now…my eyes are leaking!
Okay, on to the layout. I used the Amy Tangerine Finders Keepers Collection from American Crafts. I LOVE me some Amy and this collection is perfect for documenting summer memories. Amy has such a cool California vibe and it certainly shows her design aesthetic. Be sure to check her out (as if you haven’t already, duh!).
I wanted to keep this layout light and free flowing! I was inspired by the style and colors of this kit…as if I was walking along the beach in L.A., soaking in the sun! West Coast living is so relaxed and that really comes across in this collection.
I love how the photo is so crisp against the colors in the collection. I had no rhyme or reason for the placement of the embellishments and washi tape. I just went with the flow.
The collection includes an awesome pack of printed card stock and acetate pieces that are perfect embellishments. I used the various patterned washi tapes to add more interest to the layout. The coordinating Thickers fonts worked perfectly with my overall design and add the right finishing touch to this layout.
Materials Used:
Check out the process video here!
Have a fantastic day and happy scrappin’!
I am so happy to announce that I have completed my December Daily album for 2015! In fact, I finished my album on December 26th. I love, love, love this project and I am looking forward to doing it again in 2016.
There is something about taking time to document your everyday activities, your everyday life. December is always very busy for me (as it is for everyone) so keeping up with this project proved to be challenging at times. But, I was committed to this project and I was determined to keep it simple.
This was my second year doing this project. My approach was a bit different. When I did this album in 2014 (finished the album in 2015), I didn’t take the time to really understand the process. I sort of did my own thing without much guidance or a plan. I did not complete layouts daily and I only wanted to document the special holiday moments that take place for my family in December. And that approach is fine. However, what I found is that I missed the point of the project.
I wanted to go back to basics in 2015. And that’s exactly what I did.
Before getting started, I took the Ali Edwards Storytelling with December Daily class. I highly recommend that you take this class! Ali shared her wisdoms, suggestions, and advice for tackling this project. Next, I purchased the Ali Edwards December Daily Kit. Ali has a very clean and simple style which I absolutely adore so her kit was perfect for me. I also purchased the Scraptastic Stocking Stuffer kit to supplement.
I spent two days prepping my album – this is such an important step! I am typically the type of scrapper who is a “game time” decision maker. I let pattern paper and embellishments guide me in most cases. However, since this project is mainly about storytelling, I didn’t want to get caught up in embellishing. Prepping the album in advance saved me so much time! There were days when I was able to knock out layouts with no problem. And then there were days when I would come home, dog tired, not really in the mood to tell a story. Having the embellishing done in advance allowed me to focus on the story and not feel forced to make design decisions when I just wasn’t feeling it!
I am very deadline driven so I set a goal to finish my December Daily on December 26th and I accomplished that! I felt so proud of myself! I think I deserve a happy face sticker!!!! Yay! The album is done and ready for all to enjoy.
Is my album perfect, no.
Is my album done, YES!
Did I tell a lot of really good stories, YES!
Did I tell some “not so great” stories, YES!
And it’s all good!
A few take aways:
Most of all…ENJOY THIS PROJECT! Have fun and do not stress!
Here’s a tour of my December Daily 2015 Album!
Here’s my December Daily 2015 – The Finale YouTube Video. Enjoy!!!!
Happy New Year lovelies!!!!
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