The Paper Addict

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ScrapStuffz “Inspired By” September Reveal

     So can you believe it’s September already!?!?  Beside cooler days and the return of school the beginning of September means another challenge over at the ScrapStuffz “Inspired By” blog. So the inspiration photo for this month gave me a bit of trouble. 

      At first all I could see was the food, and I could figure out what direction to go in with that.  I put it aside for a few days and came back to it.  Then it hit me….I can use the colors!

     The paper has the green, yellow and orange in it.  When I get new ink for the printer my journalling with go on the tag in purple.  I made the flowers myself using different size scalloped circles, inked and joined with a color co-ordinating brad.  The kicker about the whole thing…the photos I used ended up both being about food!
     So…what direction does the photo inspire you to take?  You have the whole month to link your entry, but don’t forget that you have to tell us what part of the photo inspired your layout.  Oh, and of course we have a prize graciously provided by the ScrapStuffz Etsy store.

Back 2 School Projects

     So today is day two of the KK8 day focus on back to school projects.  We specifically had to use apples in our projects.
     Since my little one hasn’t started school yet I couldn’t do a layout so I had to get my ideas flowing.  I came up with an altered wipes case.  I went out and found a school themed paper, with apples of course, and a set of school stickers.  I had the wipes case around the house already since we recently finished potty training.  The whole project took two sheets of paper, one patterned and one solid, and one pack of stickers.  Total cost…maybe $3.00

     I also chose to decorate the top so that you couldn’t see the brand name of the wipes. 
    Now think of all the cool things you could fill this with!  Depending on the child’s age maybe leaving it filled with wipes is still the way to go.  If not, about 9-12 packs of pocket size tissues would fit in here.  It could fit about 10-11 packs of colored pencils.  Maybe 9 small boxes of crayons.  Or if you want to be a really good parent fill it with miniature candy bars!
     With the scrap of patterned paper, and stickers, I had left I made a card to write M’s daycare teacher a note.
I hope this has inspired you to try something new, and please head on over to the KK8 blog to see what the rest of the design team has come up with for back to school.



Denami’s Sweet & Simple Blog Hop

When: The blog hop starts on August 11th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until August 12th, 2013, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!
Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We’ll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we’ll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!


You should have arrived here from Dana Seymour, and this is stop five on the hop.  If you have gotten lost along the way just head back over Denami’s blog where they have a full list of participants, and their order.

 



Denami stamps, one Denami glitter, and one one ink color.  It literally took me maybe five minutes to put together.  I really love the way it came out.  The stamps I used were D109 (Small Solid Filigree) and J115 (Filigree Centerpeice).  The glitter was Sparklettes SS23 (Aquamarine).

Now, head over to Leah for the next stop on the hop, and more great inspiration.  Don’t forget to leave comments along the way for your chance to win.

Fun In The Sun Page

     I really wanted to show you all this page because I’m rather proud of the sun element, as it was my first succesful attempt at making my own embellishments. As you all know, any type of embellishment at the store that is dimensional that gotten crazy expensive. My solution has been to try to use things I have to create dimensional elements myself.

     The sun is made from two different card stocks.  They are similar, but just slightly different is hue and one is textured.  It makes for a really nice effect.  The bursts are washi tape my friend La-Vie gifted me, and the yellow bling is from my friend Meka. 
     I think this has given the the spark to try other types of homemade embellishements.  What about you? Do you create any of your own or are you strictly store bought…and why?