SMASH! If you take off the first S, it still has nothing to do with Mash.

Can't wait to start SMASHING!

I've been seeing these books in craft stores, and I kept putting off getting one because I have this unfocusable brain. And I told myself I had to decide exactly what I was going to do with it before I got it. And then one day I said... "karen, ... fittsineager....  it doesn't matter what you put in it. It doesn' t have to be organized...  it just has to be! Because it'll make you happy, and you can fill it with happies!"  And I have tons of those notebooks filled with magazine clippings, and sketches, and bits and tids..  like they show in the video...  ( like I  was doing pinterest the hard way...) 

 But even post pinterest, I still found myself cutting up my crafty mags and my country home mags...  etc.  THIS... my friends

TOTALLY SOLVES THAT PROBLEM ...

all in a pretty mess. *sigh* my prayers answered... Check it out!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFsArr4Z1s]

I'm pretty sure I'll be needing more than one...

Catching up on babyness

So I was re-organizing my photo collection and came across these from when Eleanor was about 7 months old. I can't believe she was such a ham already... Well, she was a canned ham, and now she's pretty mobile.

So we started kinda like this... a couple papers, a water squirty pen thing... and some watercolors.
You can see a couple stages of the flowers in this photo. I cut out 2" scalloped circles, wet them with the squirty pen (any spayer will do... even dabbing a little water and letting it soak in). After they're good and wet, crinkle em up into balls. Let em' sit a few minutes, then open em' up. Don't open em' flat because you want that wrinkled look. You can actually start to shape them at this point to how you'd like them to dry.

And though I have the worst handwriting in parts of the world... I love sloppy handwriting for scrapbooking. It just becomes another embellishment. ya know... I hate the word EMBELLISHMENT. I don't know why. It's like... too good for itself or something. embellish... maybe we should shorten it to bellish. Let's BELLISH THAT PAGE! But that page is nothing like a bell although if it chimed, I'm sure it'd sound like Elvis on a tuesday night. Saturday has a higher probability for brain-power diminishing activity. Then again... shut up fits.


Long story short... and without further interruption.

Season of love... and weddings...

So I'm working on a couple projects involving wedding photos right now.  And the photos I'm using in this week's featured layout are TO DIE FOR!  Here's the photographer's site: http://www.dibezi.net/ .   Just awesome stuff! And even though I asked this couple if I could feature their photos in a layout like... in october... I'm finally getting around to it now.  I'm gonna start organizing that TADA list in a more "like the quickness' fashion...

Anyway, so I picked two photos of the beautiful bride to feature in this layout.

I know I said last time that I was going to abandon my sewing machine in my future featured layouts because I wanted to keep it simple and doable for those who didn't have a sewing machine.... but after sneakin' my way around some scrapbook groups on the interwebs... I realize that most of ya'll are really interested in incorporating sewing into your layouts.  SO, instead of abandoning it, I'm probably going to feature it... from now on.  Because I use it almost EVERY TIME.  It's like a coffee habit that's almost impossible to break at this point.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tonSl6CyJ4&w=640&h=360]

Products I used in this layout!

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  Three different papers from close to my heart:  Green cardstock, melon cardstock, one paper from the "Dotty" collection (which is on sale right now) and one paper from the "Stella" collection. The stella paper was double sided-so I used half for the photo mat, and half for the rocky looking edge.


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  Red acrylic paint- Usually 89 cents in any craft store.  and a brush...any ol' brush will do.


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  Ivory thread for the sewing


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  The stamps are from the stamp set: Friendship Boquet


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  Watercolor pencils and water brush are also from close to my heart


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  Microtip scissors to cut em out: MICROTIP SCISSORS 


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  The brads I got from Cranberry Cat scrapbooking supplies: A great site for discounted stuff.  They even carry some pazzles inspiration products.


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  I cut out the frames for the photos with the Pazzles ahead of time.  I basically made a few rectangles on the computer and made the edges wavy with the decorative scissors tool.  Then I made an outline of that shape so I could have a double mat look on the photos.


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  OH, and an ink pad for the stamps. .. and an acrylic block to stamp with...


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  IF I forgot anything, let me know... but that's all I can think of right now...

Well, it's saturday morning, and I'm gonna go pull some weeds!

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!

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