September 24 - Crafty Challenge at Two Scrapbook Friends - Hexagons

Hello again! Its time for another Crafty Challenge over on the Two Scrapbook Friends forum. For this weeks crafty challenge I am challenging you guy to used hexagons on your layout. So many manufactures are coming out with papers that have hexagons on it I thought it would be fun to see what you guys could come up with.

For my layout I used the paper above and came up with the creation below. I have seen how alot of people use these types of paper and thought I would give it a try for myself.

I used some journaling stickers from Authentique to create my journaling section of my layout.

When creating part of my background with the hexagons I found that popping them up with pop dots really helped everything stand out a little more.

I would love to see what everyone creates for this weeks Crafty Challenge over a Two Scrapbook Friends. Just make sure to upload your creations to the Two Scrapbook Friends Forum and/or Layout Gallery.  I look forward to see who will play along.

Sketchy Challenge!

Alright, its time for another Sketchy Challenge over on the Two Scrapbook Friends Forum. This is my third sketch and its one of my favourites!

Based on the sketch above here is my layout.  I love how simple the layout is and also the colours.

I used some thickers and stitching to add my title.

And used a mixture of colours to create a contrast with each other.

Come stop by the forum to join in with all the fun!

Update

Alot has happened within the past month around our house. I find August always goes by so quickly and everyone is running around with their heads chopped of because they are rushing to get everything ready for school. As the summer is coming to an end and I start to say goodbye to good friends again because they are going away to school again and my own family is running around to get things ready for the upcoming school year it makes the summer go by so quickly.

Someone really close to my family hasn't been feeling 100% the past two months and it is really starting to suck. Having someone close to you not be themselves is hard because you hate seeing them in pain.

I found that quote on Pinterest the other day and it really made me relate this to my life. I never really realized all the things we take for granted until someone you know is not 100%.

As a kid I was raised alot around my family. We spend alot of time with our grandparents and I became very close with them and have learned alot about them. Both sets of grandparents play a very large roll in my life because of how close I have been with them since I was little. Below is a picture of my Grandma and Grandpa on my moms side of the family.

My Grandpa has been under the weather for the past little while and its been really hard to watch him not be himself for this period of time. My Grandpa has been hanging in there and been a really good sport about everything he has been having to go through. As for my Grandma shes hanging in there. I cant believe how strong this woman is. I have always looked up to my Grandma because she was like "superwoman" when I was little but seeing her now amazes me. I have stopped by a couple times to visit them to see how they are feeling and either call everyday or send a text to make sure everything is alright. I find that the older that I am getting the closer I am becoming to my family.

My Grandpa and I had a "secret" when I was little and it was between him and I. Knowing that he isn't well makes it harder knowing that we have this "secret" that no one else knows about. I have texted my Grandma to remind my Grandpa about this secret and I always get a cheery response back so I know it cheers him up. We are hoping to get some answers this week about what is going on with him. My fingers are crossed and I am praying for both of them every day.

As for the rest of August it has been super busy with holidays, work and hanging out with friends that will be going away for school shortly.

In my last update I had talked about the guy I met and how I was hoping that it was all going to work out. Well everyone having my fingers crossed helped! I have been happier than ever the past little while and I hope it continues.

I will be back with another update i'm sure shortly. As for now that's everything.  Thanks for stopping by to check everything out.

Washi Tape!

This week over a Two Scrapbook Friends some of the design team members thought it would be fun to create some projects with washi tape.I absolutely love washi tape!! It is a really fun way to change things up on a project your creating. This is the layout that I created for the washi tape challenge.

The grey stripe in the middle of my layout was created using washi tape by My Minds Eye. I love their washi tape colours and selections. They all have such a unique texture to them and are a little bit transparent so you are able to tell the difference between the washi tape and the regular paper.

Again, in the picture below you are able to see more of the difference between just regular paper and the washi tape.

I added some stitching down the side of my layout to created more texture and to add some more colour.

My favourite aspect of my layout was my journaling strips. I used the Dymo label maker to emboss the strips of cardstock and then I sanded over top to have the core colour of the cardstock to show through. Then when I matted my journaling strips I used the washi tape that I had that went with the line I was using. Doing this took a little bit of extra effort but it was worth it in the end.

I added a couple last embellishments and that finished the page off.

Go stop by Two Scrapbook Friends to see what the other girls created with their washi tape.

Eggs!

Alright, so tonight I tried something very different I guess you could say! When you think of an egg you would like of food... correct? Well tonight I put eggs into my hair. My mom had pinned something on Pinterest about helping your hair grow and etc and I kind of joked about it with her when she posted it because I knew she would never try it. I have been told a billion times by my hair dresser to try "natural" ways to help your hair stay healthy etc but never wanted to take the time to try them or thought they would ever actually do anything.

Well I can now say that one of them works. I went onto my moms board on Pinterest and got the concoction mix that I was supposed to make that consists of 2 egg yolks, 2 Tbsp of olive oil and a cup of water. Next time I would probably do 3 eggs and an extra tbsp of oil and a little more water because I had a little too much hair. When I was mixing up the stuff I kept thinking to myself that this was a dumb idea and I'm probably just going to make a mess and it wont do anything to help fix my hair. But I was bored and it was going to give me something to do.

I brought my mix upstairs into the bathroom and leaned over the tub and started pouring the mixture over my hair thinking to myself that this was disgusting and that there was no way this was going to come out of my hair. After I poured it all over my hair and the bottom of my tub was now yellow with egg yolk I cleaned up and wrapped my hair up for the mix to "set" in my hair. I went downstairs to continue on with whatever I was going and took the towel off and noticed that I had all these white piece all over my towel. I was creating scrambled eggs while my mix was setting on my hair. As soon as I found that out I think I texted everyone I knew and got made fun of along the way.

After the hour was up I went back upstairs and started to wash the eggs out of my hair. I have to admit the smell wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I was watching the little scrambled eggs rinse down the drain and the entire time I was wondering if this was going to work. After I cleaned up my mess I went to do my hair and my gosh the mix worked!! My hair has never felt so soft in  my life! Its bouncy and looks amazing! I honestly would do this every week like it says to do and see if this is actually going to keep my hair healthy and help it grow!

For anyone who is bored and wanted to try something you probably usually wouldn't I would give it a try! It was defiantly worth my time!

Design Team Reveal!

Alright its time for my second design team reveal over at Two Scrapbook Friends. This time around I got "Everyday Eclectic" from Echo Park!  I absolutely love Echo Park! They are one of my favourite manufactures in the scrapbook world.  There papers are so easy to work with and are very much my style. I love how much the colours stood out when I saw this line online and couldn't wait to work with it once I received it as my kit.

I loved all the patterns on the paper because of how vibrant the colours were but was kind of nervous to see what pictures I was going to be able to use with the line.

I found that craft paper worked really well while creating with this paper. Below was one of my favourite patterns in the line! I just love the clouds!

I also loved the honey comb paper. As soon as I saw this patterned paper in the collection I knew I had to do something and cut the pattern out.

Echo Park is probably one of my favourites because of the sticker sheets that they come out with! They are always so full of things and for a very good price. I have an obsession with alphabet stickers when I am scrapbooking. I have alphabet stickers in probably every single colour so when I saw these I fell in love.

This was the first layout that I created. One of the new styles I have noticed in scrapbooking these days is the honey comb pattern.  Every manufacture has some paper in the lines that they create that has this look to it. This paper caught my eye as soon as I saw it!

While creating this layout I kept it very clean and simple! To add a little bit more detail I used the journaling words from Authentique to do my journaling. I have done this on a couple layouts and it takes forever to try to come up with your journaling but it looks amazing when your finished. I popped up my journaling because I thought it would stand out a little bit more.

When finishing up this layout I used more pop dots (one of my favourite scrapbooking things) and popped up my background pieces that I cut out of my pattern paper to give my layout more of a 3D effect so it didn't look so flat to that page.

My next layouts was one of my favourites.  I went with the clean and simple look again and I think it turned out great! I got some professional photos done from a friend that I went to school with and the pictures were perfect with this line! Most of them were in black and white so the colours really popped when I used them.

I have been stitching on almost every layout I have been creating the past little while so why not do it on this one? I cut out a couple hearts and popped them up with pop dots and stitched down the center with a contrasting colour.

The final touch to this layout were my butterflies. I love the look of butterflies on the layouts I have seen in magazines and I hadn't tried them until this layout. After seeing the way that they look I think all my layouts are going to have butterflies on them. I added little spools on the top of them and wrapped then with contrasting floss to add a little bit of colour and taaadaaaa!

My next layout was also really neat! I tried a bunch of new things while working with this paper so I really liked them all. This one had a couple of new things I have never done before and it turned out really well.

I used the Silhouette to cut out my title for my layout and it turned out really well.

I stitched a "rainbow" pattern on my layout to add a little more colour and a different effect. To finish off the "rainbow pattern"  I added matching brads around the outside. Then I cut out a couple clouds and popped them up to finish off my layout.

The last layout that I created was by far my favourite! I wont say much about this one because it will have its own blog post shortly.

The final project I made with my design team kit was this adorable card! I stitched again to create the circles on the background.  Then I cut out some butterflies and added a couple matching gems to finished the card off.

This new Echo Park line is in the store so stop by and check it out!  Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Challenge at Two Scrapbook Friends

Its time for another Crafty Challenge over at Two Scrapbook Friends. I just recently tried something new myself and thought it would be something perfect for a Crafty Challenge. Alot of manufactures are coming out with these element pages like below and I usually cut them apart and use them as journaling cards or I use little pieces of them on a layout but I usually end up wasting a bunch of the sheet because I don't know how to use them. What made this piece of paper was kind of tricky because it was double sided so I had to pick what pattern I preferred more.

The layout below was created with only using that one piece of pattern paper and a couple stickers from the line as well. The crafty challenge for this week is to use a piece of paper that has been divided into the 3x4 cards like above and try to create a layout just using that one piece of paper and a other elements as necessary. It was very challenging at first but I loved the way it turned out!

To finish off the last couple parts of my layout I added a couple of the stickers from my sticker sheet I had that went along with the theme of my layout.

My favourite element of the entire page was the planes I cut out and stitched a trail behind  them! It turned out so well!

I hope you guys have fun creating with this challenge and I certainly hope to see your creations.  Don't forget to upload your project to the Two Scrapbook Friends Forum or Layout Gallery.