Happy Mother's Day Card 2

Here's another Mother's Day Card.  Very similar to the first one, but a little different.  :-)

http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/2013/05/fun-friday-mothers-day-challenge.html Mother's Day

6th Grade Graduation Layout

Here's my layout for my daughters graduation.  I love thes little birds.  They are so fun!  I'm entering it into the Pumpkin Spice Challenge.  :-)

http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/nsdthings-with-wings-challenge-with.html things with wings

Toolbox Layout

Ok...I've had these photos sitting around for a while and decided to get them done so a challenge is just what I needed.  So .... one page done and one challenge entered.  :-)

http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/nsd-lets-catch-up-layout-challenge-with.html

It's Your Day Card

I had some leftover pieces from my Mother's Day cards so I decided to make a "It's Your Day" card for my Grandmother.  Since she's not my "mother" I titled it, "It's Your Day!"  I love using my stash and my scraps....a win, win every time!  I hate the old grey stamps....I can never get them straight, probably because I had to cut them myself and the bottom isn't straight....hence my crookedness.... Kinda like the "There was a crooked man who had a crooked house...." anyone remember that story!  LOL.  Have a happy day!

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/05/anything-goes.html anything goes
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2013/05/challenge-268-something-blue.html blue
http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/agnes-nsd-post-challenge.html Mother's Day
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/2013/05/weekly-challenge-stash-it.html stash it
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2013/05/dlart-thankful-thursday-challenge-109.html flowers

Another example of how I use extra piecings on different layouts

 

 

 

 

 

If you read my last post, I was commenting on how I choose to buy patterns and why.  If you want to read it, scroll down.  LOL.  This is another example of how I use extra piecings on different projects.  If you look at all these cute bunnies, you will notice that they are all from the same set used in different ways with different poses and sometimes different faces.  I used these bunnies to make a "Coloring Eggs" layout alone with a "You are Somebunny Special" and several cards.  I used a gray paper which I don't use often so I didn't have any scraps on hand and so since I always try to cut as many as possible as would fit on my paper, I had lots of bunnies hopping around my work station.  LOL.  Here's how I used them!  See how the layouts are different but that I used the same piecings?  Just FYI, the bunnies actually came from a Valentine's set and yet I didn't use them on a Valentine's Day layout at all.  I switched out the hearts and added eggs instead.  Anyway.... just another example on how to use the same pattern differently.  Enjoy!

Using my scraps....

 

 

 

 

Since we are on the topic of my conversation with my friend the other day, she also wanted to know how I found the time to scrapbook as each layout takes forever to create from scratch.  Besides cutting several piecings at one time, another trick that I try to use is to use my scraps.  I scrapbook 8.5 x 11 as you can see from the pictures.  That means that for every page that I do, I have a left over piece of 3.5 by 12 and a 1 by 8.5.  So to help use those, I try to keep all my scraps from a paper pack together and to cut borders out of the leftovers.  If you look closely at these pages, you will notice that they are all from the same paper stack and that the borders are all from the "background" of another page.  So basically, if I cut my long extra pieces into borders, then I will have them ready for another page and any leftover other pieces that I have, I can use for titles and embelishments that match the pages.  This helps use my scraps AND keep my pages color cordinated and saves time when I'm actually scrapping.  Hope this helps someone!  Have a great day!

Happy Mother's Day Card

Here's one of the cards that I ended up with for Mother's Day.  The flower is from Miss Kate's Cuttables but it's a pretty common flower.  I actually have a quickkutz die very similar to it.  Glad to finally have these done as Mother's Day is fast approaching! 

http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2013/05/sos-100-mothers-day-or-pink.html Mother's Day
http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com/2013/05/challenge111-april-winner.html Mother's Day
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2013/05/ptt119-mothers-day.html Mother's Day
http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-post-96-for-mom.html for Mom - there prize this time is the CUTEST set of stamps EVER!!!!  I love them!  I'm crossing my fingers AND toes!
http://scrappyfrogschallenge.blogspot.com/2013/05/free-choice-challenge.html free choice
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/05/pile-it-on-18-for-mother.html Mother's Day
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-19-anything-goes.html anything goes
http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-sheri-crafts-challenge-109-mothers.html Mother's Day
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2013/05/challenge-64-for-mom-or-special-lady.html Mom
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2013/04/dlart-thankful-thursday-challenge-108.html Mother's Day
http://www.scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2013/05/terrific-tuesday-challenge-mothers-day.html Mohter's Day
http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/winner-announcements-challenge-19.html flowers
http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe198.html Mother's Day
http://www.twistedtuesdaychallenges.blogspot.com/2013/04/2tc49-fifth-tuesday-free-for-all.html free for all