Scrap Our Stash Challenge Layout for April

Hi All - I am a little late with this but I was thinking my day for the Scrap Our Stash blog was today but it was yesterday - oops! Anyways, there is still plenty of time to join the challenge so here goes.  The challenge this month is a Spring Challenge:

Here's how this challenge works:

Create a Spring Layout using spring colors and include the following Pre made/packaged items from your stash:  Paperclip(s), Journal card and at least one 3D embellishment.

DUE: 4/29/2014 midnight PST

You are allowed to add whatever else you want to your layout as long as you meet the requirements above.
And one more important thing...click HERE for the SOS Challenge Guidelines!!!

Here is my take on this challenge:

"When I think of a Scrapbook line with spring colors, I immediately think of Dear Lizzy. I used a lot of her Neapolitan and 5th & Frolic collections on this layout of my niece, Micah, and me. For the 3D embellishment, I added some butterfly embellishments from Basic Grey. I used a paperclip to hold the "2" in place. The journaling card I used was originally a 3x4 card that I cut in half. I wrote my journaling and added it to the lower left corner. I finished the layout off with a stitched banner."

Make sure to check out the Scrap Our Stash blog. This month there is great prizes from Your Scrapbook Stash!

Thanks for stopping by!
Megan

Use my Stash-Layout 3 using Dear Lizzy

Hi All - Well I have been really bad at posting my "Use My Stash" layouts and to be honest, I have been scrapbooking but mainly using my kits. I have found that I make a lot more layouts when I stick to one kit and then throw in my older stash as needed. I subscribe to Studio Calico kits and so far this year I have made 10 layouts from January's kit Copper Mountain, 6 layouts from February's kit Sugar Rush and 5 layouts from March's kit Office Hours. I have also made other layouts that I have mostly showed here but in total, I have made 31 layouts so far this year! That is quite a lot for me and it has helped to start with my kits and go from there...

Anyways - Today I am sharing a layout I made with some older Dear Lizzy I had in my stash. Most of the items are from Neapolitan and 5th & Frolic. The Neapolitan I used is actually mostly from a paper pad I bought at Michael's that was re-branded for their stores and I bought a lot of the 5th & Frolic at Joann's and TJ Maxx. Here is the layout:

This is of my grandpa and my niece Micah when she was a baby. I actually pulled out and used part of the stitched banner on another layout I will be sharing later, so I covered up the "hole"  in the middle with patterned paper and then added my photo and other layers on top. The gold thickers are from Maggie Holmes' first line for Crate Paper and are some of my favorite!

Hope you have a happy Friday - Thanks for stopping by!

Megan

Scrap Our Stash Design Team & a Layout

A few weeks ago I was asked to join the Scrap Our Stash Design Team starting in January and said yes almost immediately! Since I found their blog, I have really enjoyed doing their challenges and they definitely help me use up some of my supplies. They announced the new team on the blog yesterday, which you can see HERE. I hope you check it out and play along with the current challenges, which you can see HERE.

Also, today I wanted to share a layout I made awhile back of Eli and his cousin, Micah. These two are about 17 months apart and are inseparable whenever they are together. We live about 7 hours away so it is not often. They are always, always copying each other!

I found this background paper when I was re-organizing my stash after our move and knew I wanted to use it because it is just so pretty! The paper is from Cosmo Cricket and a lot of the other items are from Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party.

I hope you are having a good weekend...What is left of it anyways...The weekends go by too fast! Thanks for stopping by!

Megan

Beach Girl - Lily Bee Design/Gossamer Blue Challenge

Today I am sharing a layout I made for the Lily Bee Design and Gossamer Blue Challenge. The main parts of the Challenge were for it to be about Summertime and to use 50% to 60% of Lily Bee Design products. I had just bought some of the papers and stickers from Lily Bee Design's new Sweet Shoppe line and mixed it with their "older" line Persnickety.

The picture on the layout is of my niece, Micah, at the beach last year. This girl loved the beach and playing in the sand. I absolutely adore the background paper, which is from Lily Bee Design's Sweet Shoppe Collection and may have bought a few more pieces of it :)

I cut the title "Beach" and "Girl" with my Silhouette Cameo. I cut the "Beach" from white cardstock a few times. I misted one of the cuts with Mr. Huey Shell from Studio Calico (one of my favorite mist colors), let it dry and then adhered the cuts together to give it a little pop.

The frame is from Crate Paper's The Pier collection. I received the frames in a kit and was not really sure if I would like them or not but I ended up really liking them. I now have a few ideas to use them some more.

I used the new Lily Bee Design letter stickers for her name and age. I love the new font!

ETA: Here is a link to my page at Two Peas in a Bucket, which shows most of the supplies I used.

Thanks for stopping by - Have a great Tuesday!

Megan

Basic Grey-Mint Julep

I picked the Basic Grey Mint Julep line as one my favorites last Friday.  Here are a few layouts I made using what I bought of the line: 6x6 Paper Pad, Chipboard, and Flair - and of course, products from other lines. One line that goes fairly well with this one is October Afternoon's Woodland Park, so I used some pieces from that line in my layouts. I also think some of Maggie Holmes' line for Crate Paper would work good as well...I plan to mix those soon and will let you know how it goes...

Ok - on to the layouts - these layouts feature my baby niece, Ruth.  The line is great for baby girl pages!

First Layout - Cute Sisters

The blue floral background paper is from Crate Paper's On Trend Line, and I think it goes well with Mint Julep. It is kind of hard to tell, but I used a lot of strips of patterned paper behind the photo.  Some of them were not long enough so I just cut the strip in a place that I knew would be behind the photo and adhered it to each side of the photo. This is a good fix for 6x6 papers that are not long enough. 

Second Layout - Sweet Niece

I did not have chipboard banner pieces with this line so I covered some chipboard banners from the Woodland Park line with paper from Mint Julep. To do this, I stuck the chipboard piece to the back of the patterned paper, cut around it and then added it to the page with a glue dot. This is an easy way to use your old stash and make it new or work with your current layout...

If you have used this line, be sure to let me know. I would love to see what you created with it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Megan