...and the fun continues!!

...last night i had my friends lori and tracy over for a chill night of scrappin'...

( and my banana martini's )

...oh, and in my last post, i was showing a bunch of fun new paper flower techniques I've been playing with

( and plan to share with at my May 2 day crop )

and i accidentally deleted the finished product of the last flowers..

well, here they are...

the are pleated paper flowers, and i trimmed these ones off with some Ranger Stickles ( thanks for the suggestion Tracy...)

this is going to be a TOTAL scrappy post, and I just wanted to share my process as I worked on a few layouts!
this is the ONLY layout i completed last night ( hahahaha )...
it seems my Mexico album is lagging ( amongst other things ) in the scrapbooking dept. so i had the creative juices to work on one!
i "punched off" the white cardstock ( like stamping off ) and trimmed the white C/S down to 11.5 x 11.5 and adhered it to kraft C/S.


...i also sprayed the white C/S with tattered angels glimmer mists and painted with bubble wrap for a fun background effect!

...ta-daaa...

...a closer peek...

...and the finished product...

LOVE. IT!!!

...and today, the mojo kept going and i played all day long...

here's some of my creations of the day!

...i finally made a layout for tyler about his piano lessons...

...and another fun one for Oliver's album too...

( don't forget to scrap your furry family members too! )

i cut the C/S down to 8.5 x 11 ( his album size ) and stamped off the paper with Stampin Up
goodies!!!

..and of course, pulled out the paints again and dotted around the journaling...

...drying time is about 5 mins...

...and then using my ultra fine point sharpie, i drew circles around the painted dots to make them pop right off the paper!! ( a trick i've adopted long ago from Elsie Flannigan )

...i also had a fun piece of "embellishment" to add to this layout to go with the journaling...

the other day Oliver bit the cable for our PC keyboard ( Grrr, that's 3 cables now! ) and i added a small piece of the cable to the layout!!!

...and had fun playing with the bottom of the page too...

ta-daaaa!!!

...and here's the process of another one for tyler's album...

the photo is from a couple summers ago, but still a favorite and a soft spot in my heart!!

...i free hand cut out the "marry me" words out of wood grain MAC TAC, and the bonus is IT IS ALREADY ADHESIVE!!! try it out yourself, cut out shapes, use it in your punches ( works like buttah!! )

...and while i was playing, i found another fun paper flower embellishment on the American Crafts website and tried it out...( again, you'll see this one at the May crop! )

...love it...

...and i tried out a few other ones with smaller papers...

...and i wanted to use the pretty brown travel flower right away, so here's the last one of the day...

of course, for my Mexico album!!

...looking back, i can see that WHITE was my canvas color of these layouts...hahaha....i guess it just shows off the glimmer mist so nicely, in its true color...

ANYWAY....hope you've enjoyed a peek at my creative day today!!!

...be back soon....

:)