make your own paper...

Okay so I've been busy the last couple of weeks on crunch time as my mom is having her grand opening for her store's new location and I was nominated to create her a "Before and After" album of her shop. Of course the color scheme she chose made it difficult to find papers so instead of searching for colored papers I have created my own "patterned paper".


And since I haven't posted lately I thought it would be nice to share a technique with all you wonderful people who still come by and check out my blog. Here we go....

Now to make this paper I chose to stamp two different colors to add a little more, but you can always change that up. You can stamp with one color, but 2 or more stamps or you can stamp with more colors it's all up to you and how you want it to look. It's definitely fun to play around and explore to see what you can come up with. It's one of my favorite thing techniques. I used a background stamp and stamped the whole paper with the lighter color and then I chose a darker ink and stamped the butterfly randomly around my paper.

To make it really look like patterned paper this is my favorite trick...you have to stamp off the paper. To do this I use a cellophane plastic baggie (that way you protect your work surface) that I got from a paper pack or if you're like me and shop online some people ship paper in them as well. I let it show from behind my paper and then I stamped my image partially on the cardstock and part on the plastic. That way it gives a continuous look and that you didn't stop before the edge of you paper.


You can see here my plastic piece with stamped images on it. When you're done you can either throw it away or you can even re-use it by wiping it off with a baby wipe.

Have fun playing : )

As promised...

Here are a few pics of my Bo Bunny "Edgy" Wedding Album. It turned out so beautiful and I had a blast making it. Enjoy!

So I haven't done a lot of scrapbooking lately due to moving and unpacking, but I did make an awesome mini wedding album for a dear friend of mine which I will try to post the pictures soon. I finally found the cable for my camera LOL. It's been MIA. I finally have a somewhat organized scrapbook room so I'm starting to scrapbook. I've missed creating. Hopefully I'll start creating lots more in the weeks to come. I'll try to post some of the projects I'm working on in the next couple of weeks so those of you who still stop by my blogs and check on me do keep coming back.
Later Gator

Good morning everyone!

Just thought I'd share another layout done with the Bo Bunny U Bug Me line. I really love using this line for my boys. I think the next layout I do with it I'm going to try a layout for Lachlan. Preston's been dominating this line LOL!

The title is Exploring...Don't Bug Me. Just the look on Preston's face reminds me of my nephew Drew. They look so much alike at that age.

And how about an oldie (picture I mean). This one is of Preston last September camping in Rivers. I have no clue what he was looking at, but it captured him long enough to take this photo. This is my first attemp at freehand sewing with my sewing machine. It was very fun because you can't mess it up it's supposed to look like that.

One for the road...

Hey all!

I'm heading of to Virden this afternoon and will be enjoying my weekend shopping in Brandon and visiting with my family this weekend. I haven't been home since Lachlan was born so it's well deserved.

Anywho, I thought before I head out for the weekend I'd share another layout I've done recently. This one if for Preston (I've been giving the spotlight to Lachlan lately oops!). Bo bunny's new line "Don't bug Me" is perfect for him LOL!

And did you notice? I've even put a little bling and flowers on this page. It still looks awesome!

This card I've done up for Paperbag's Anniversary this weekend. I mailed it so hopefully they got it. If you sent a card in your name was entered into a draw. This is the first time I've actually made a card for their anniversary. I was just trying to use up some old scraps and I think it worked out well.

The wording says "A little birdie told me..." and in the card it says "It's your 4th Anniversary Congrats!"