Scrapping Our Stash - The Practical Scrappers Blog Hop

Welcome to the Practical Scrappers Blog Hop 

where we are Scrapping our Stash.

I dug in my stash to find a little bit of everything that tends to get forgotten. Old Chatterbox, old chipboard shapes, not-super-old-but-not-recent stickers. It was fun! 

Supplies
Papers: Chatterbox Decorative Cardstock, My Mind's Eye (Lime Twist), Sassafras (Nerdy Bird)
Chipboard stars: Lil' Davis, Scrapworks
Stickers: Little Yellow Bicycle
Enamel dots: My Mind's Eye

We are not doing a giveaway on the main blog this month - but lots of our designers are - so make sure to check out each blog!   We have a smaller list this month so it shouldn't be hard to check out all the fun!

Practical Scrappers Blog Hop List

Practical Scrappers: You Are Here

Wendi Robinson
Marcia Dehn Nix
Christine Meyer
YOU ARE HERE --- Claude Campeau
Heather Sweet

Patty Selah
Majken Pullin
Jennifer Haggerty
Erin Morehouse
Lee-Anne Thornton

Bobbi Smith

Kelly Jean
Lisa Peeples

Nicole Laha

Alison Day

Have Fun Hopping!  

I made this layout for the Captured Candid challenge on Scrapbook Circle using a Laura Whitaker sketch from Let's Get Sketchy March Week 2 challenge.

Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.♥

Practical Scrappers On Trend: Gold

I'll be honest with you, I didn't think I was going to take part in this Practical Scrappers challenge. Gold is simply not my thing. But then I received my Hello Today February kit from Scrapbook Circle and it came with a great sheet of gold on kraft specialty paper from Studio Calico.

So here I give you my layout, 31 Months:

Wondering why I came up with this title? I had this picture of my two oldest with their paternal grandfather from 2010. I loved it, but I didn't know what to say in my journaling. Then I read the daily prompt on Mojo Hunting, which was to use our number stickers. It inspired me to write about the time since he passed away in 2011.

I am entering this in the February 1st Challenge on the Stuck?! Sketches blog. Make sure you also check out my pal Eliane's take on the same sketch: Rébi cachée.

Supplies:
Papers: Studio Calico (Atlantic), Chickaniddy (Date Night), October Afternoon (Daily Flash Snapshots)
Tags: Scrapbook Circles printables, Scrapbook Circle Exclusive Tag Set, Elle's Studio
Stickers: Chickaniddy
Enamel hearts: Chickaniddy
Stamp: Scrapbook Circle
Letters: KI Memories, Chickaniddy, October Afternoon

Make sure you check out Practical Scrappers for other golden examples from the DT!
 
Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.♥

Practical Scrappers Blog Hop - Scrapping our Stash

This month at Practical Scrappers, we are focusing on scrapping our Valentine's stash, or at least stash that has to do with love.  I decided to focus on love-themed embellishments.  

I used these awesome chipboard letters from American Crafts that have cute little hearts on them. The chipboard hearts are from them as well. The circle embellishments are from Chic Tags. See bottom of post for full list of supplies.

 We are thrilled to have Kiwi Lane Designs sponsoring this month!  

Kiwi Lane Designs creates templates that help take the frustration out of scrapbooking!  And one lucky winner today will get a border set and an accessory set from Kiwi Lane.  We are big fans of Kiwi Lane Designs and in fact have several members of our design team who either currently or in the past have been a part of their design team!  Details on how you can win this prize can be found on the Practical Scrappers blog!

  We recognize that this is a huge list for the blog hop and would love for you to visit as many as you can...but we are not making that mandatory to qualify for the prize here.  That said, many of the designers are offering prizes of their own so I do recommend seeing what you can get in on :).

Practical Scrappers Blog Hop List

Practical Scrappers

Krissy Clark

Christine Meyer Kim Ryden Patty Selah Charity Hotrum

Lissa Mitchell Jennifer Haggerty Alison Day

Bobbi Smith

Michelle Johns
Kerri Yarus

Cathy Harper

Nicole Laha
Lanette Erickson

Majken Pullin

Erin Morehouse

Lisa Peeples
YOU ARE HERE>>>>>>>>>>Claude Campeau
NOW GO HERE>>>>>>>>>>>Wendy Coffman
Lee-Anne Thornton

Supplies:

Papers: My Mind's Eye (Kraft Funday and Miss Caroline); Echo Park

Enamel dots: My Mind's Eye

Word stickers: My Mind's Eye

Burlap button: Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker 

Ribbon: Green Tara

Stamp: Autumn Leaves 

Letters: American Crafts and Basic Grey

 

Practical Scrappers - Colour Challenge

I don't know about where you live, but over here the temperature is minus-oh-my-goodness-I'm-staying-inside. I think my brain froze from my craft room because I totally misread this challenge from Practical Scrappers. You see, I saw it was a colour challenge and didn't bother to read any further. We were supposed to make a card; I made a layout. Typical of me.  But Kristine told me to post it anyway because she is awesome!

First of, let me show you the colour combo that inspired it all, courtesy of Design Seeds:

Pretty, right? Now here's my layout. Notice the pink on a boy's page. Love it!

Looking back over the past few years, I'd say using two similar 3x4 pictures on one layout has kind of become a trademark for me. I love the look of it. However, I think the awesome Creative Embellishments chipboard (#boys) might make people think these are pictures of twins rather than just 2 of the same adorable little boy (these pics are from January 2013, btw). But I don't care. I love it!

Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.♥