Practical Scrappers: Staples

Today on Practical Scrappers, we are featuring projects with staples.  I love to use staples as accents...and to hold ribbon on to projects, like I did here. 

This layout was based off Scrapbook Steal's Aquamarine 7 MWM sketch and the paper and embellishments are from Gossamer Blue's August kit.

Cheers!
Kristy

Practical Scrappers: Sew Crazy Sketch Challenge

I love Scrapbook Page Sketch Day on Practical Scrappers.  I love the sketches Liz gives us to work with.  Here is August's sketch:

 

 



And here is my take on it:

 

And here is a little close up of the sewing I did on my sketch.  I *may* have gone a little crazy with the decorative sketches on my sewing machine...there are actually 4 different stitches on the layout.

I used my August Gossamer Blue kit for the papers.  I fell in love with this chevron paper.  It is actually where I started on this page.  Do you do that?  Start with paper, then find pictures to go with it?  The embellishments are an assortment from my stash. 

Cheers!
Kristy

Practical Scrappers: Paint

Howdy!  I'm switching gears from an inky card yesterday to painted layout today.  Practical Scrappers is featuring projects with paint.  There are some wonderful ideas over at the site.  When you are done here, you should go check them out.

Here is my project:

I used Tim Holtz paint in Iced Spruce and Bundled Sage (applied with a dry brush) to create the background on the right side of my page.  I love the "rough edges" the dry brush gives the paint.  I really like how the transparent arrows allow the painted background to show through.

The paper and many of the embellishments came from my August Gossamer Blue kit and the sketch is from ScrapbookSteals.com's Aquamarine 5 sketch. 

Cheers!
Kristy

Practical Scrappers: Project Life

Wow!  Project Life!  I started out in January going, I'm going to be good and do this every week.  I even made the title page for my book.  And there the book sits, with that 1 page in it.  Somehow time just gets away from me before I get a page done.  Not anymore.  I will get pages made!!!

I have to give a huge shout out to Charissa Miller for giving me a kick in the bum inspiring me to get going on some project life pages.  I thought it would be fun to document my trip to Florida Project Life Style.  I will also be making "standard" scrapbook pages about the trip, but I thought this would be fun to document the little things that I might not want to make a WHOLE page about.  You may remember my title page for this.  If not, you can check it out here.

And here is the page about Day 1 - 540 miles on the road.  I admit, I do need to do a little journaling, like getting the route details from hubby for the North/South/East/West card, but you can see where I'm going here.

I had fun with this page.  I'm excited to make more.  I used a lot of goodies from Gossamer Blue's new Life Pages kit.  I LOVE the kit.  Perfect for this layout, and the rest to come.

Thank you for checking this out!  I hope you have a great weekend!

Kiwi Lane Blog Hop!

Hi!

Welcome to Mama's Sanity and the August Kiwi Lane Blog Hop! You should have hopped here from Kiwi Lane's site.  In case you get lost along the way, here is the hop order:

1. Kiwi Lane http://kiwilane.com/here/blog/
2. Kristy MacKeen http://mamasanity.blogspot.com  <--- You are here!
3. Elizabeth Hellum www.elizabethmcarney.com
4. Martha Bonneau http://mugsyboo.typepad.com/
5. Brie Pinales http://classic-couture-utah.blogspot.com
6. Heather Gray http://heatherskraftykorner.blogspot.com/
7. Linda Auclair  http://elendae.wordpress.com/
8. Melissa Dehne http://www.abitofscrappygoodness.blogspot.com/
9. Leslie Prinkki http://scrapsofmine.blogspot.com
10. Kristy Lee http://lifescrapped.blogspot.com

If you have been a follower of my blog, you know I love Kiwi Lane (and if you aren't a follower, I would love it if you would click that little button on the right!).  Their templates make creating a scrapbook page so easy.  For today's hop, I used the entire collection of Tiny Tags templates to make my page. 

Here is how I framed out my page:

And after a little cutting, a little sewing, and some embellishment, here is how my page came out.

I love the fun mix of patterns and embellishments from July's Gossamer Blue's kit.  They played so nicely with my Kiwi Lane templates!

Now, here is the important part...make sure you leave a comment on this blog (and everyone else's) by 11:59 MT on Sunday, Aug 4th, for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Kiwi Lane store.  The winner will be announced on Thursday, August 8th.

I will also be picking 1 comment from my blog to win a little blog candy too. 

Good luck!  Now head over to Elizabeth Hellum at www.elizabethmcarney.com for your next stop on our hop.

Cheers!
Kristy

Practical Scrappers: Sketch Challenge

 

Today's feature on Practical Scrappers is a sketch challenge.  I loved the sketch Liz came up with.  It is so such a fun layout, and perfect for a layout of my Road Warriors (including me).  I did flip it 180 degrees, so I could use my new "road" washi tape from Freckled Fawn on the layout - it only seemed appropriate.  :-)

Here is the sketch:

 

And here is my take on it, using my July Gossamer Blue kit...

 

 

Thanks for visiting me today.  See you tomorrow with some more fun stuff!

 

Cheers!

Kristy

 

Practical Scrappers: Tags

I was having a fun time combining a few challenges with today's layout.  First, Practical Scrappers is featuring the 10 Thing team (that's me) using tags.  You can see the tag I stamped with "Hello Love" to highlight my honey.

The starting point of this layout was the Aquamarine 1 sketch on ScrapbookSteals.com (seen here).  I'm also fulfilling one of their Birthday Challenges, but using 4 washi tapes on this layout.  The papers are from the Studio Calico July kit.  The other embellishments are from the Gossamer Blue July kit.  (Yes, I'm mixing it up a little here.  ;-) )

Cheers!
Kristy

PGCB #35: 3 Journaling Cards

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!  Ours is in full swing here.  Sorry I've been a little MIA on my blog lately (I'll be making up for 2 weeks off with LOTS of new projects coming!).  We were in Florida for a fun filled family vacation.  It was a wonderful time and I took a TON of photos.  You will be seeing a lot of them over the next weeks...or months.  ;-)  And here is the first...

There is a new challenge today over at The Paper Girls Challenge...using 3 journaling cards on a project.  Can you find them on these project? 

I wanted to show that journaling cards don't have to be just for journaling.  I cut 3 from Crate Paper's The Pier Accents and Border pages:

• The geotag with the journaling (which was actually cut out from the full journaling card)
• The yellow "Happy" tag
• The pink square with the white scallop circle behind the geotag and the beach ball, also from The Pier collection

I also used Scallop templates from Kiwi Lane Designs to add a little color and patterned paper (all from the Gossamer Blue June kit) to the page.

See you tomorrow with another fun new project!

Practical Scrappers: 2 Page Layout

Howdy!  Hope you are having a wonderful day.  I'm looking forward to a fun day with my family.  (Hubby is off of work today! YAY!)

 

Practical Scrappers is featuring 2 page layouts today.  I had fun combining 2-1 page layout sketches from ScrapbookSteals.com.  This is the Peridot 2 and 4 sketches.  You can find these sketches, and all the MidWeek Mojo sketches, here.  The challenge for me was to find a way to make these two pages cohesive with their different backgrounds - which is a huge challenge for me.  I had fun using similar patterns from my May Gossamer Blue kit to give it the look I wanted.  I think the patterns give it a fun look to match the fun (if not wet and booming) celebration on Memorial Day.

 

 

Cheers!
Kristy

KLD: Tuesday Tip Time

Happy Tuesday!  I'm up today on Kiwi Lane Designs' Blog with a new Tuesday Tip Time.  I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  We started out our weekend celebrating my son “graduating” from kindergarten to 1^st grade.  When I saw the fun stamps and journaling cards from Technique Tuesday, I knew I wanted to document the day (I even reached into my stash of Technique Tuesday stamps to add to what we received!).

After laying out my page, I also thought that this would be a fun opportunity to do one of my favorite stamping techniques – embossing!  There a bunch of different techniques on this page - see if you can spot them all!  Check out the Kiwi Lane blog for more details!

 

 

Templates:
Playtime 3, 4 & 6
Adventure 5
Aspen Court 1 A&B, 2 A&B, 3 A&B

Technique Tuesday Stamps:
Year Round
Live Laugh Love
Capture the Moments
Original Seal

Papers and additional embellishments:
Gossamer Blue May Kits

I have to say, I love all the templates featured this month.  There was so much variety to them.  I am pretty happy with how they blended together.  I used my “Live Laugh Love” stamps to create that final touch along the bottom of the page.

 

I’ve been in such a card making mode lately, I thought I would make one more.  I plan to send this card to a friend that needs a little cheering up.

 

Templates:
Aspen Court 2A
Adventure 1

Technique Tuesday Stamps:

Live Laugh Love

I hope I’ve inspired you to break out your stamps and use them not just on cards, but also on your scrapbook pages.

Cheers!
Kristy