Scraps and Ink

All-American

Hi all! So did you have a great 4th of July? We had a pretty low-key day here. We were doing yard work and got a nice surprise phone call from my BIL saying he, my SIL, and their baby girl were in town and asked if they could come hang out with us at the house. Um...yes!!!!! LOVE their baby! She is 10 weeks old, and is fussy due to a sensitive tummy, but it's nothing that lots of hugs and snuggles from Aunt Nancy can't fix!

Had the best time just visiting with them, and then headed into our sleepy little nearby town of Melba (about 10 miles away) for fireworks. The town gets overrun by massive hordes of people that drive from all over the greater Boise area just to see the town's famous firework display every 4th of July. Literally FIFTEEN THOUSAND people converge on a tiny town of a few hundred! We've learned our lesson the hard way about the crowds there on the 4th, in that you do NOT drive your vehicle all the way into town and then try to leave after the fireworks are finished because you will be waiting in a line of cars for three hours! Instead, we parked at the edge of town about 45 minutes before the fireworks started, dropped the top on the convertible to watch the show, and then left early to avoid the giant crowds. Easy in, easy out! We've got it down to a science.   

In honor of the holiday, I did an "All-American" page for Scraptastic Club using the June 2015 "Can't Go Home" main kit and add-on that was featured on their blog HERE. I simply pulled out the red/white/blue products from the kit and added them as layered circles in a grid pattern on my page.  

LADY LIBERTY

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Truth be told, I planned on sticking that journaling tag nice and square-like on my page, but it went wonky in my printer and the text printed crooked. What to do? Stick the tag to the page in an even-more-wonky fashion to make it look like the crooked text was done on purpose.  

 

Fun circles! 

 

 

More circles. Lots and lots of circles. I started to run out of circle ideas toward the end of the page! Thank goodness there were only 17 circles I had to embellish.

The pic on the page is from a trip that Andy and I took to NYC last summer for his business. We had the BEST time! 

To me, one of the most iconic symbols of America is the Statue of Liberty. There is nothing like seeing her in person in the New York Harbor! Truly something every American should see, IMO. :)

Since I still had soooo many products leftover from the kit, I created another page that is a little less "All-American". In fact, it's NOT-AT-All-American. It's all Greek to me! :)

GO 

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The pics are from our trip to Greece last fall for our anniversary. :) We had been staying in Athens, and decided to get out of the city and take a little day trip thru the Peloponnese region. I was supposed to be navigating while Andy drove, but I COULD NOT figure out the road signs or map! So Andy ended up stopping frequently to read the map and road signs himself. If he had not been familiar with the Greek alphabet (it is used in advanced math- something i am NOT familiar with), we would have been lost for sure! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

later,

 

Webster's Pages Cards

I have always LOVED Webster's Pages products, so when I decided to make a set of three cheerful cards for the Scraptastic Club Store, I just knew they would work beautifully!

Webster's Pages card set

"HAPPY DAY" card

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"MAKE A WISH" card

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"HI" card

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Since I wanted these cards to coordinate and be a "set" (besides the obvious use of matching papers from Webster's Pages), I used four repeating elements on each card: kraft cardstock as my card base, a white doily, b&w baker's twine and a gold puffy heart.

I just LOVE the results, don't you?! 

Thanks for stopping by!

later,

Goofy's Sky School

Hello friends! Just popping in to share a scrapbook page I created using the "Playful" line by Authentique. It can be found in the Scraptastic Club Store HERE. 

GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL

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These foam alpha stickers matched the "whimsical" feel of the page perfectly, don't you think?!

I used my Silhouette Cameo II to cut out this cute little airplane from two different patterned papers and then layered it. I created my own loopy "trail" behind the airplane with a black pen. 

After using my silhouette to make these fun little airplane tags, I strung them onto black & white baker's twine and stitched them down across the bottom of my page.

I am also thinking I could use some of my giant hoard of paper punches for this technique as well! What do you think?  

Thanks for stopping by! 

later,

 

 

 

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #12

For this challenge at Cocoa Daisy, we were given five color palettes and told to choose one to use on our page.

The list of palettes is here.

I chose the first palette.  The page also had to have at least two photos and something "shiny" on it.

I used two of my favorite photos of the girls from our last trip to WDW. And of course, anyone who knows me also knows I put a hidden "Mickey" on all of my Disney pages. Can you find it?   

FAVORITE

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Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #2

So for this challenge over at Cocoa Daisy, we had to create chevrons. Love me some chevrons! :)

I used this fave photo of Anna's cat, Shadow, for my page. And he literally is her shadow! He follows her everywhere!!!

ANNA'S SHADOW

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To create my chevrons, I cut 1" squares from patterned paper, cut them at a diagonal and added them to my page in a sort of "brick layered" fashion. I machine stitched the "seams" so they were not as visible.

I also used my Pazzles Inspiration electronic cutter to cut out the little paw prints from my flags under the photo.

Materials List:

Cardstock- Carta Bella; patterned paper- Basic Grey (orange check, brown, multi, cat image), Lily Bee (blue, yellow); lettering stickers- American Crafts;  border punch- Fiskars; string- My Mind's Eye; black pen- Faber-Castell.

Thanks for looking! 

Later,

Nancy

 

Last of the Basic Grey

Where has the time gone?!!! I'll tell you- it just flew by during a crazy busy summer!!!

Andy, the girls and I (as well as two extra teenage girls) took a 10-day road trip to Chicago for a family reunion. SOOOOOOO many cool stops along the way! Did tons of fun stuff and even crossed a couple things off the bucket list. Woohoo!!!

I stayed busy up on the mountain working in Silver City for the summer. Both the Sci-Fi and National Geographic Channel filmed in the hotel for episodes of a couple of different series'. Fun stuff. 

Andy and I celebrated our 18-yr anniversary in Seattle and on the Washington coast in a fabulous little beach cottage. Had the BEST time and found our new fave getaway!!!  

Ashley turned 16, is driving, and got her first car. (This would worry most other parents, but she is a stellar driver, so I have great faith in her.)

Anna is her usual gorgeous, smart, sweet self. :)

Okay, so there you go.

How 'bout some scrappy goodness?

My time on the Basic Grey DT has ended, but I still have some pages to share:

SAVOR IDAHO

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TEA PARTY

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SAN FRANCISCO

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So there you go!!! The last of my Basic Grey Design Team goodness. But never fear, I truly LOVE LOVE LOVE all things BG, so I know I will be using their products for a long time to come!

Later,

nancy