My Boy

Hi there,

So I was at the Lorado crop, the last day of a 3 day crop. In fact, it was very nearly over, I had maybe a little over an hour to scrap before I needed to pack up. I really wanted to get one more page done if I could. So this is what I came up with!  I used the Echo Park All About A Boy collection, and pretty much just used things as they were.  I had this one-off picture that I'd printed as a 5x7.

I also had those chevron strips left over from the Balloons layout. I saved them all, and thought they looked kind of neat on this page.

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Balloons

Greetings!

Love these Echo Park papers, from the All About A Boy collection. I saw the balloon sticker and decided to dig out these old pictures from the 80s, when I went to a balloon launch. One of the few times I took a lot of pictures back then! lol

The other balloon is cut from my cricut, but I don't remember what cartridge it's from. Found it on my gypsy when I did a search. :)

Anyway, the zig zag patterned paper was perfect for the pictures, since so many of the balloons had that pattern on them. I also cut the background on my cricut, I think with the new Edge to Edge cartridge.

Going to try to find a balloon launch this year so the kiddo can see them. :)

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Fall

Greetings all,

Here's another layout with an Echo Park mini collection from last fall. SUPER CUTE. I love this collection. I actually really love the mini collection idea. This is the 2nd or 3rd one I've bought, and I hope to buy more.

When I made this, I didn't have any fall pictures with me. But I was so inspired that I just went to town on it. I have no doubt I can get pictures for it. ;)  Everything on this layout is from the collection. I used Artbooking to die cut the wood grain paper on my cricut, and I can't find the cartridge I got the sun border from.... I do know there were 3 suns per section, and I cut 3 and just glued them along the edge together so it looks like a solid 12" long border.

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Pick of the Patch

Hello everybody!

So every once in a while I allow myself the treat of getting new printed papers, if I just can't resist them. I'm trying to use stash only but now and then one just HAS to try some new stuff. ;)  In this case, this Echo Park mini collection was given to me free, so what was I to do? say no? lol
Pretty much everything on the page is from that kit, though I did cut the title on my cricut, from the Mini Monsters cartridge. Oh, and I cut a huge oak leaf as a background in the middle, if you can tell that's a leaf since it's covered up. LOL  There also happens to be a pumpkin button from Charlene's Button Box. :)

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Teacher

Greetings!

A friend of mine sells scrapbook kits in her booth at big crops, and one time her assistant could not go along. So I was invited to help her out, which meant I got to go to a crop I couldn't afford at the time. I wasn't very inspired by the stuff I'd brought, and my friend suggested, if I wanted, I could try designing a kit for her. She had a new school line from Echo Park that was super cute, so I decided to try designing with that. I ended up designing 3 layouts, and this is one of them.  Everything on the page is from the Echo Park line except some cardstock.  What a fun line to work with!

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Science Museum

Greetings!

Here's a page I made quite a while back in 2013, I totally forgot to post it.  I made this with Echo Park papers and stickers, along with a few brads and a felt border from my stash.  I included a button from Charlene's Button box as well.  The die cut on the left is something I created on my gypsy and cut on my cricut.

The pictures are from one of our visits to my mom in Oklahoma, at the Oklahoma Science Museum. My son loves that museum, and I admit it's pretty darn fun. ;)

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Back To School

Happy Sunday!

Here's a second layout with the Echo Park collection, Paper & Glue that I made a few weeks ago as a "guest designer" for my friend Irene of Little Masterpieces kit company.

This one is very busy! lol but the papers are a little busy. I think they are super cute! I love the globe sticker.

Kits to make this layout will be available through my friend's website soon, if you want one, drop her a line and she'll save you one. :)

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Field Trip!

Hello!

I apologize for the photo, I took it at my friend's house, where I did not have time to get a good shot set up.

A few saturdays ago, my friend Irene of Little Masterpieces asked me if I'd be willing to help her at her kit booth at a crop. She said she always paid for a helper to come, not so much that she thought it would be too busy but that she wanted company as well as a help if needed. I was game! She also told me to bring stuff to scrap as there'd be time to scrap at the booth. So I did.

HOWEVER, I ended up being her "guest designer" that day instead! I designed 4 layouts that day for her, two sports ones and two school ones. These school ones were designed using Echo Park's Paper & Glue collection.  I'll post the other school layout tomorrow. This one is my favorite of the two. :)

And if you think you'd like this kit when she's finished kitting them up, stop by her website and drop her a note, she'll save one for you!

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love it!

Hi everyone!
Here's another layout using only my stash!!!  I used Echo Park's For The Record 2 paper pack.

The photo is one I took on my bus, I thought the clouds were neat looking in the cross-over mirror. :)

I scraplifted this design from erinbassett.com, her layout was a pumpkin patch layout. :)

The only cricut is the yellow paper the picture is on, and the diamond print border which is cut from Elegant Edges.

Most of the embellishments come from the stickers in the paper pack. There's a Charlene's Button Box button in there. :) There are some chipboard gears from Maya Road I believe, that I used some mist on. There are some brads left over from another line of BoBunny papers. I also used another mist-able camera that I think comes from Studio Calico. I didn't realize it till this layout that those little camera parts can be separated so they can be colored differently. So I used black mist on the camera body and "Brushed Pewter" Distress stain on the other parts. Instead of spraying the mist on the camera or the gears, I unscrewed the cap and just let drops fall from the little hose... that made the ink easier to control and made less of a mess.

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little moments with mom

Hello!

Well here's another page done only with stash!  For The Record 2 by Echo Park, to be exact. :)  My mom came to visit and my son and I had a great time with her for the few days she was here!

The only cricut on this layout is the blue label shape at the top that I cut in half after cutting out. I don't remember which cartridge I got it from... there are several now that have some variation of this shape.

The rest are stickers and embellishments that came from the paper pack's sticker sheets. I had some buttons, including a Charlene's Button Box button (a bird) a mist-able camera from Studio Calico I think? Some scallop ovals from a punch. Pretty simple layout to throw together. :)

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Just Ducky

Here's a simple two pager I did. Another "use the stash" layout. The paper is Echo Park. There were some stickers on the sticker sheet that came with the paper pack that I used here. I also used a cricut font, I believe from CM Cheerful Seasons. I tried to make a shadow of the font but somehow when it cut out, I had the size wrong. But I kind of liked the effect so I left it. :)  I also used one of Charlene's Button Box buttons (the bird on the left). Of course, EVERY layout I put pictures on this year must have a Charlene's button on it. :)

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For the Record

I've been TRYING to use up stash. :)  I'm still buying :(  but really I am trying not to buy as much and if I do buy, I try to do it so that I can make a few kits to sell to my friends who ask for them.

Echo Park has always been hard for me to resist, especially their collection packs! I loved "For the Record" the moment I saw it (and YES I bought the new For The Record 2, the blue one!). But it's been hiding in my stash since I bought it.

This picture of us was totally spur of the moment. My son thought our shadows were super cool, so I thought, what the heck and snapped a quick pic of it with my phone, not even taking time to make sure it was focused! Lucky for me, iphones are pretty good at quick focus in good lighting. ;)

So here's to using up stash!
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