Have you ScrapStamped yet?

I am still plugging away on my baby girl scrapbook, I want to deliver it to Miss Ella Grace Troth and her parents in the next week or so. I dug around in my stamp drawer and came up with a combination of 3 stamp sets for today's layout, while I could have used the Cricut for the lettering and border, stamping was so much faster!! If you have done the "Emporium" workshop you may recognize this layout, I love how you can use a WOTG recipe to come up with lots of different looks on a layout, fast and easy. Here is a list of the stamp sets I used;

Felicity- For lettering

Field Trip Alphabet

Connections

ScrapStampin

Not sure if ScrapStampin is a word but work with me on this!!

When I started my business with CTMH the main attraction for me was the level 1 kits, they were perfect for beginners and ladies like myself who had decades of photo's to scrap. While I thought CTMH acrylic stamps were beautiful I am just not a true stamper, I used stamps to make a few cards but that was the extent of stamping for me.

Over the past year I have begun to see where incorporating stamping into my scrapbooks have added an additional tool to my every growing arsenal!

So here is the challenge for this week, get out your stamps, (I know everyone has them) and use them on your layouts. You are going to need to think outside the box on this, even if the stamps you have are for card making play around and make them work for layouts.

On this layout I used 2 different CTMH stamp sets, the swirls are from the Felicity kit a special from a few months ago, the journaling block is from "Frame of Mind" also from CTMH.

Lets all get some inky fingers and lots of layouts done this week!

Last of the buttons

Here are 2 more layouts I was able to complete yesterday between yard work and a some Harley riding. Both pages are for a Ella's scrapbook, I need to buckle down next week and get this one finished, still have lots more to make with all the upcoming babies this summer.

So how did you do with your button stash? I used over 100 buttons, not bad. Here is what I discovered, the jars of old buttons didn't get touched, I ended up using all CTMH buttons because they were a perfect match and there are enough of each color that I didn't have to substitute for something that doesn't match. There are 100 buttons in each package with 4 different colors so I have lots of choices from tiny winy to nice and bulky. I will be sorting my old random button jars today to see if I want to hang on to any of them, the leftovers will be going to Tyler's day care next week, they are always in need of craft supplies. CTMH has 25 color selections in buttons that match their card stock so that should be all I will need in the future, the old stuff needs to go, gotta make room for the new!!

Monday we will be starting a new challenge so stay tuned and lets all keep scrapin, summer will be here before you know it, if you are like me I have a heck of a time getting as much done in the summer, with vacations, riding, garden, yard work, boating, sports, the list goes on and on

Saturday and still sunshine!!

Wow 3 days in a roll that we have had pretty weather, and finally it is warm enough for me to ride, I am an above 70 degree but below 100 degree rider, Bob has ridden all winter long as long as there is no snow or ran, he is nuts, besides the fact my butt doesn't look at all cute in chaps!!

So today the layouts are still using buttons but I took on and additional challenge to myself and used scraps for the layouts. The pink layout is leftover paper from the Tickled Pink kit from last spring, the second layout is from Animal Cookies, which is still available. I have 2 more layouts started that I hope to get completed today but with riding and yard work it is gonna be a squeeze to get it all in.

Have a great Saturday and keep using up your buttons!!!

Button Friday

Wow the weather is beautiful here today, it has been hard to stay in my room and create with so much sunshine calling my name. Bob has gotten part of the garden planted and we will spend the afternoon doing yard clean up from the bad winter we have had, that could take weeks!

Only 2 layouts today but that is better than none, the paper from the make a splash layout is from way back when I started scrapbooking, I really don't like it at all but I am doing my best to use up a lot of what I have, I added buttons and liquid glass to the bubbles to try and dress it up a bit, maybe I should do a week of really old paper we all have in our stash, will have to give that some thought. Both layouts are with photo's from the early 80's of our youngest daughter, they are all getting such a kick out of seeing what I have finished each Sunday, I wait till Mondays to put everything in scrapbooks for that reason.

The second Layout is using up some leftover CTMH scraps and I found the cute acrylic frame in a drawer full of odds and ends embellishments. I wanted just a bit more polka dots on the layout so I ran a strip of cardstock in the cuttlebugg then sanded the top so the white core would show, talk about a cheapo trick to finish it off, dig around in your scraps, you might be surprised with what you come up with.

How are you doing with your own button layouts? We bought this stuff so now lets use it up, why let it just collect dust or worst yet take up space that we all are in such need of.

Something extra

As I was moving photo's into folders I realized I hadn't posted the cover page of the Baby Girl scrapbook I started yesterday, no buttons on this but I don't think the blogging police will get me. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Scrap Shack for having the perfect paper for this project.

Dog gone it, stupid thing loaded wrong again!!

Ella's room is done in pink, sage and some brown with branches, birds and bird cages so I will be doing lots of stamping on her pages, stay tuned for more in a few days

Buttons and Babies

I was so excited yesterday about the paper I found for the baby girl scrapbook I blew off the rest of my to-do list and made a few pages, in keeping with this weeks theme I made sure to use buttons! The design for the page is from the Caboodle WOTG I just finished for the baby boy scrapbook, same but really different when you use different paper and embellishments. I am so stinkin excited to work on this scrapbook can't wait to give it to the new Mom and Dad.

Also decided to post a photo of my scraproom and what it really looks like when I am working, I have had so many nice complements on my Little Room of Sin I wanted to make sure and share the good, bad and ugly! I make a heck of a mess when I scrapbook but I normally clean up after each layout, the exception was yesterday, I might have blown off my to-do list but supper is one item my hubby will notice if it doesn't get done, Ha. So today I will have to do a clean up before I get started then try and squeeze in a page or two while Tyler is napping, not an easy thing to do.

I know the experts say buttons are out but why in the world would you pass on buttons when they are so darn cute on layouts? Keep digging out your buttons ladies and lets use what we love, to heck with what the experts say, this isn't brain surgery you know.