Random Scrapbook Pages

'nuff said

I saw a page like this on Pinterest and knew I had to recreate it. 

I Started A New Online Scrapbooking Class at Two Peas

I started this online class yesterday at Two Peas called "Art Class With Wilna".  She uses mixed media as the foundation of her pages.  Since I love Scrapbooking and Mixed Media Art I thought that this class would be right up my alley *(so to speak).  The class was $25 and there are 10 sessions. 

I am currently working on the first session that has 3 pages to make.  I've finished the first page, which is below and am looking forward to making the other two.  I love this course!

Wilna, the instructor, uses a silhouette, I used the Cricut.  To make the frames for the photos I combined a rectangle on the George cartridge and some flourishes on the Storybook cartridge.  I never would have thought of that if I had't taken this class.  Cool!

A Scrapbook Page...

I wanted to make this eyelet studded chip board piece that I found in my new embellishment book I previous posted about.  I have alot of eyelets and alot of chipboard so this was a good page to do.  I started with the pink cardstock and inked the edges to age it.  I found an inspiration page in a scrapbook magazine that I have.  I painted over a flower stencil that I have with white paint to the background.  Then I doodled a little.  I like how the page turned out and I'm really glad that I was able to use items from my scrap piles.  Yeah, more of these please!

Scrapbook Page of A Favorite Day!

Scrapbook page made with ideas from The Scrapbook Embellishment Book, previously mentioned on this blog.  I love this book, I had to buy one!  I'm still waiting for it to arrive.  I made this page before I returned it to the Library.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I Love Books!

I checked out a book from our local library called The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook.  It has alot of cool ideas that I would love to implement on my pages.  I'll post those when I start making them.  The book is worth checking out if you get the chance.

ATC's with a Texture theme

I don't know where I found this but I thought it was appropriate to post here. 

ATC Swap for December - Theme: Quilling

Here are our ATC's for December.  I had to buy some tools for quilling to pull it off, but found that it was a fun thing to do.  So many wonderful videos and blogs out there devoted to quilling.  It was a great learning experience.

Here they are:

September ATC Swap

These ATC's are the result of our September swap.  The theme was "feathers & metal".

Great job ladies!

Empty Nesters!

After 24 years of rearing my two boys, my husband and I are now empty nesters.  We've had to relinquish control little by little over the years so it wasn't a shock.  In fact, it's more of a freedom that I'm embracing.  I love my boys, but they need to embrace their independence and fly the coop, which they have.

It's a little strange though because I'm trying to find my new "groove".  I seem to be floundering a bit trying to figure it all out.  Things are so different now.  I do find myself cleaning a little deeper and reading books from my "to read" pile.  It's all good!

I'm taking it day by day.

A friend encouraged me to have a SB retreat at my house in October, which I decided to do.  It was the weekend that we always took off for a few days, but now I don't have anyone to care for our pets while I'm gone, so we'll just have the retreat here.  Which means no packing, yeah!

I am still doing an ATC swap with a couple friends every month, I'll try and get those pics uploaded soon.

Great, Great Read!

If you love time travel, action, romance, Italy and the middle ages, you'll love this series.  It's called the River of Time series written by Lisa T Bergren.  I simply couldn't put them down!  Listed in their correct order below: