Suz Designs

Well it's my turn to inspire you today... I'm loving the new products in the ES store.  October Afternoon, Pink Paislee, Glimmer Mist, oh my goes thru my head like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz says as she is going down the yellow brick road lol.  If you are wanting any of the latest products you better hurry & start shopping because it is flying out of the store.

Here's a layout I made with Pink Paislee Starlight & a strip of my favorite October Afternoon paper

These are photos taken at Disney Animal Kingdom while on the safari.  It goes by so fast that I felt like I was just snapping away & many weren't in focus but these turned out really well.  It was such a hot day many of the animals were hiding from the bright sun but it was still a memorable day since it was the first time going to that park.

I love the Pink Paislee herringbone distressed letters but they were just too big for this layout so I tried to make my own with my Slice machine.

Supplies:  Cardstock (Bazzill); Paper (Pink Paislee - Starlight Glow, Pink Paislee - Starlight Shine,  Pink Paislee - Starlight Spark, Pink Paislee - Starlight Bright, Pink Paislee - Starlight Dazzle, October Afternoon - Thrift Shop One of a Kind); Sticker Letters (Cosmo Cricket - Tiny Type Cream); Diecut Letters (Making Memories Slice); Punch (EK Success); Journaling Spots (Little Yellow Bicycle Journaling Tablet & K and Company); Ticket (Pink Paislee - Starlight Diecut Sheet); Stamp (Unity Stamp Co); Markers (Copics); Rub Ons (Heidi Grace); Brads (Heidi Swapp)

I'm not going to spotlight the latest & greatest since I can't pick just one.  I have all the links in the supply list above.  I do want to share these great little journaling books by Little Yellow Bicycle since for $3.99 you get tons of journaling spots.  I buy them in all the different themes since they are so usable.

My 2nd project is a of course on my favorite topic... one of my pets

Echo Park is a fun new paper company.  I used some of the Sweet Summertime line on this page.  The little "flag" border was made by cutting out some of the argyle paper & topped it with a strip of embossed cardstock and one of their border stickers.

Supplies:  Cardstock (Core'dinations - Teals Blues & Bazzill); Paper (Echo Park - Sweet Summertime Argyle); Stickers (Echo Park - Sweet Summertime Alphabet & Sticker Elements); Letters (Making Memories Slice); Staples (Tim Holtz); Dry Embossing (Provo Craft - Cuttlebug); Pen (Ranger)

That's all I have for you today.  Hope you have a great one & do something creative.

I'm Loving Pink Paislee...

Using some photos of my sister gave me a chance to get a little more "girly" than I get when I'm scrapping the everyday in our lives.

I'm loving the Pink Paislee lines. Their new lower price points on embellishments that sure don't skimp on quantity made them the hit of CHA Summer 2009. The cardstock alphas give you 2 styles of letters both with a generous amount of each letter for less than $2!

The soft colors of Amber Road were perfect for these photos of my sister Karen visiting Stonehenge for the first time. She loves rocks so this was a must see dream come true on her trip.

I used one of the Postcards Journaling Spots as a frame for one of the photos - tons of journaling spots that you cut out yourself for the price of a piece of paper. Adding Stickles to a few of the inexpensive new E flowers from Prima really made them pop & look like the ones that cost 10x as much. To define the outer edges of the 12x12 die cut background paper & show off the details I mimicked the dots on the journaling spot & it made it pop.

Supplies: Paper (Pink Paislee - Amber Road Autumn Blossom; Pink Paislee - Amber Road Bonfire; Pink Paislee - Amber Road Fall Festival; Pink Paislee - Amber Road Harvest Hayride; Pink Paislee - Amber Road Postcards; Pink Paislee - Amber Road Apple Cider; ); Borders (Pink Paislee - Amber Road Borderline Stickers); Stamps (Pink Paislee - Amber Road - Impressions); Rub Ons (Pink Paislee - Amber Road Press Ons); Adhesive (Kokuyo, Diamond Glaze & Zva Pop Dots); Bling (Prima -Say it in Pearls Strip Black);

Ribbon (Maya Road - Black Gingham); Pin (Maya Road - Trinket Pins Vintage Black Pearl); Flowers (Prima E Line Flowers); Letters (Pink Paislee - Expressions Cardstock Alpha Pear); Glitter Glue (Tim Holtz - Stickles Antique Linen); Tag (October Afternoon); Pearls (Hobby Lobby by the yard)

I was crazy about the 12x12 diecut paper in Pink Paislee’s Twilight line. Karen shows it's never too old to have a crazy passion for Halloween. She loves to dress up & many years would even go to work in costume.

All of you know how I love the 12x12 die cut background papers. They really make a statement in any layout. This one from the Twilight line really has a lot of details & pazazz. I layered lots of the Pink Paislee rub ons. They go on "like butter". The hand stitching added some texture along with the Zva pearl flourishes. I'm all about cutting them up & using them in a visual triangle to draw the eye around the page.

to work in costume.

Supplies: Paper (Pink Paislee - Twilight Horizon; Pink Paislee – Twilight Eclipse ; Pink Paislee - Twilight Nightfall); Rub On (Pink Paislee – Twilight Press On); Bling (Zva - Symemetrical Flourishes Pearls White); Pin (Maya Road - Trinket Pins Vintage Black Pearl); Punch (Marvy); Card (Jenni Bowlin – Halloween Bingo Card); Letters (Jenni Bowlin – Tiny Circle Cardstock Alpha Black & American Crafts – Thickers Daydream Black); Ribbon (May Arts & Making Memories); Thread/Twine (Coats & Clarks & Vintage Stash)

I hope you took advantage of the fantastic sale over the weekend…

Happy Scrapping,

Suz

Trying Something Different....

If you scrapbook a lot then sometimes you can feel like you are in a bit of a rut...

Most times I can snap out of it pretty quick by: using some great new products I love, printing some new or old photos with a story I've got the perfect idea how to tell, or trying a new technique or doing something a little different... you know "Shake Things Up" to get those creative juices flowing again.

So this month I'm trying a different format than I'm used to... I love doing the standard 12x12 size pages because of the squareness (is that a word lol). But lately I find myself doing more of the 8-1/2x11 size because they are easier to scan & get on the web. So the 8x8 size I thought would give me the best of both worlds & it really did.

Here's a layout I did using a lot of My Mind's Eye paper & some old photos of our dog when I was a child. I wanted to tell the story of how we used to have parties with presents for our dogs. (Yes we are "those people" lol). I love Thickers & these pink fabric ones sure have been tickling my fancy on layouts lately. Even on the most basic layouts a bit of stitching adds a lot of interest, texture & that something that makes a page a bit more special.


Supplies:
Cardstock (Bazzill - White Orange Peal)
Paper (My Mind's Eye -No Worries Content Circles, My Mind's Eye -Pirouette Twirling Circles & My Mind's Eye -Free Flowing Stripes Die Cut Paper)
Letters (American Crafts Thickers -By the Yard Bubblegum)
Stamp (Unity Stamp Company - Fact of Love)
Photo Corners (Heidi Swapp); Ribbon (American Crafts); Ink (Ranger); Thread (Coats & Clarks)

Sometimes we don't even start a project if you are a slow poke scrapper like me because we don't think we have enough time... Well there are ways to make super eye catching projects fast. Just think about all the Simple Scrapbook style layouts & cards you see in galleries & magazines. So for this card I challenged myself not to bury the card in layers (which there is nothing wrong with sometimes) but to "Keep it Simple" & get a cute card finished in no time.

This card will be going to Cards For Heroes (organzation that collects & ships blank handmade cards to our troops on active duty).


Supplies:
Cardstock (Bazzill - White Orange Peal)
Paper (American Crafts -Splash Backyard)
Ribbon (American Crafts -Leaf 1 - Backyard Ribbon)
Ink (Ranger); Watercolor Pencils (Faber-Castell
Stamps (Unity Stamp Co -Hodge Podge of Happiness & Folk Inspired)

Ok so now head on over to the Everything Scrapp'n Store & get some product that will excite you and get those creative juices flowing..... Heather is having a sale so who can resist?

SALE! 35% off SALE!

July 21 - July 25th enter the code SUMMER to receive 35% off your entire order.

**I will not be able to ship any orders from July 26th through August 1st. Shipping will begin first thing August 2nd.**

We'll be heading to CHA next week & leaving the other team members in charge of the blog to keep you inspired. We'll be taking lots of pictures of the new product out there. Leave us a comment & let us know what you are especially excited about since you've been seeing sneak peaks in the last couple days from all the manufacturers.

Have a fantastic weekend & remember to do something creative.

Hambly

I used in this layout the beautiful new paper from Hambly, also the store has the same in overlay.
Wings - Yellow on white

Jana

Prima Layout

Used on this layout:
Fetching Chipboard Alpha
Bloom Polka Dot
Bloom eye Candy
Mommy & Me Prima- Over the Rainbow
Delight Journal Book

Thanks
Jana

More Layouts

Ok I've found some more time to get on the computer.

As you can see in this picture that my new software and I have not yet come to an agreement on it working well for me LOL. I could never be digital scrapper just because I don't work well with software. Ok anyway on to these layouts

This layout in again on two of Hambly's overlays. The bottom overlay is Grandma's Wallpaper in antique white. Over that is the swirly one that for the moment it's name escapes me. I thought is just have a classic look. It actually happened on accident when I was pulling product for this page. I laid these overlays on top of each other as I was searching for the brick and the circles and I looked down and new I had a page! The pictures are printed in both black and white and in altered color. The three photo's on the left were printed with the white border the one to the right I had to add it with white paper because Wal-mart had an issue.


Sorry this one is blurry. I love this paper. I was excited that I was able to pull some of my old paper and make use of it. The accents are from the store. I used Heidi Swapp's Bling Variety frames clear in the top right corner and I used prima swirl jewels in the left corner. I also used the cricut expressions for the shapes and frames of pink paper.


This is the first of this above two page layout. I used the girl figure for my journaling. She looked a little blah by herself. Again the cricut expressions was used for the frames. I personally love not accurately lining up the pictures and the frames. Also petaloo flower with a Heidi Swapp puff center.





Ham

I'm back to show my work!

Wow what a busy two weeks I've had. I send my husband and kids to visit family and scrapped. I didn't get as much done as I would have liked but I'll take it. I was unable to post what I did once I got to South Carolina due to lack of internet access. Those crazy people wanted $11 a day for internet access (as if). So it will probably be several post since I haven't framed them up and edited all of them yet.

Here is the first on.

This is my end of the month summary page or at least it was until I found more pictures for March. It's not my favorite but it will do.



This one turned out really cool. The silver look under everything takes away (it's my laptop). I think I need to try to take another pic. But anyway I layered Hambly overlays. It looked so awesome I did it on another page to. This one is the brick wall uncut and then I cut to of the circle overlays. The lime and the pink. I made sure the small circles made almost a flower shape. I put some Elsie click click paper in the mix and I almost achieved that new look everyone is doing with all that stuff in the middle. I like how it turned out I just wish I could get a better pic.

I'll bring you more soon.

Scrapp'n Is The Issue

Tonight I don't have anything new just wanted to share: I find myself sitting here in front of the computer at 9pm wondering when the last time I scrapped anything was. I also find myself thinking about the stacks of stuff that have been placed on top of my scrapping area. It frustrates me that I'm supposed to be an owner of a scrapbooking store and I don't have layouts each day or even each week that I can post to help inspire people to scrap. I do however know that this post will help many men and women out there.

Whether you work outside of the home or in the home life is a full time job and finding time is just hard. Today I really wanted to go and clean up my scrapping area but between shuttling my kids to their friends homes and making sure that the checks were in the bank, gas was in the truck and the dry cleaning got picked up, not to mention that I was keeping two children for someone else and had to work on the website I just ran out of time.

I know there are many of us out there who feel the same. I hope that my little vent helps you to know that you aren't alone out there. We must just try and one day we will get it done. This is a hobby and we should love what we do and do what we love. Don't give up!

Here is a sketch from Rusty Pickle's May Challenge that I thought was really nice.

Something to do with Maya Road Chipboard Keychains

This pacifier was made by painting the nipple and the handle and paper was cut to fit the middle. The paint on the nipple was Making Memories Apricot with a dot of orange and blue added in. The handle was just white acrylic paint after it dried I applied a couple of layers of Blushing Rose glimmer mist. I then tied three pieces of ribbon to the handle to give it a little extra. I don't remember the name of the paper I put in the middle, sorry. All the paper on the keychain is scrap.



For this safety pin I dug through my scraps. I was pretty sure that I had bought a shiny silver paper ages ago and I thought I had a little bit left and sure enough I found it. (My theory is to keep any paper that is at least 1". You would be surprised at what you can do with it if you just go back through your scraps.) In looking for the silver I found a nice patterned paper that had pinks on it. I traced the shapes and then cut and glued them on. Pretty simple and straight forward there.



This bottle nipple was used with the same paint that was used on the pacifier. The middle was painted white and then I traced it with Stickles crystal. I also gave it up and down stripes to give it the dimension of a real bottle. The bottom of the bottle I painted with Tim Holtz crackle paint worn lipstick.



Sorry that the picture is bad. I couldn't get a good one. The picture of the whole keychain gives a better look at the colors. This teddy bear was fun. I wanted to give it the patchwork or quilted look. You could easily take several papers and paste them on and add black out line and stitch with a pen. Anyway back to what I did. I had some left over quilted paper and traced out the teddy bear. I added half of a prima flower and a jewel to one ear.



Ok it's been a while since I've had the time to sit down and scrap. What's new right? I finally decided if I didn't start work on my friends baby album, the baby would be here and the point of the album would be mute. I want it to be an album the parents can put some of those first day pictures in. I'm going to use the Rusty Pickle Slim Jim album to make it. On the spiral binding I'm adding the above Maya Roads Baby chipboard keychain. I may also add some ribbon but I thought this would be something different. Decorating this keychain was fun and easy.

Creative Imaginations Busted Papers

I got the shipment in from Creative Imaginations with the Busted paper and the Beach papers. Also in that shipment was Sea World rub-ons. Here is a layout they had at CHA with the busted paper. I think this layout is what sold me on the paper. I know my son is always into something so I am going to make good use out of this line.

Oh as a side note. the busted stickers that I ordered to go with this are on backorder. Sorry about that.

H