Pinterest Made Me Do It #22.....

Today's post is a little Flash back on "Pinterest Made Me Do It" because back on #4, I made a fabric covered bulletin board for Alex.  I still had one for me and found some super cute fabric in my stash and knew that it was my turn to get a bulletin board! 

Here are my supplies:

 

Luckily the spray adhesive is giving, allowing me to move the fabric around some:

 

Once the fabric is set, it was time to use my thumbtacks (make sure not to attach fabric to the back before this step so that it has some give):

Being the picky person that I am, I didn't like how the silver thumb tacks looked.

 

So I thought maybe I'd cover each tack with a button:

 Unfortunately, I didn't have enough buttons, so that would be expensive to go the button route.

 

I spent $1.88 at the WalMarts for som white thumbtacks:

They were perfect!

 

Here's a peek at my scrap area:

 

 Excuse the mess on the desk, Alex was there!  (love that he uses the area too!)

 

Over in the flower/ribbon corner is my cool tray:

 

 Then my fabric area/reading nook:

 

I have lots more ideas for decorating the craft space, but am trying to only use what I have on hand!

Pinterest Made Me Do It #21....

Saw THIS layout on Pinterest (the one on the right), but just didn't have a pattern paper that I liked, so I made my own!  I took a piece of grey cardstock, some acrylic alpha stamps and VersaMark:

 I really like how it turned out.  I don't use my stamps often enough and need to start!

Here's the finished layout:

I'm loving all of the gold that's hot in scrapbooking right now and guess what I found in my stash?  2 sheets of gold glitter paper, SCORE!  So you'll be seeing gold glittery bits and bobs on my layouts. 

 

Pinterest Made Me Do It #20....

Still making school layouts for Haley and Alex.  I loved this THIS layout on you guessed it, Pinterest!

 

Love to see Haley at this age, makes me feel sentimental and SO excited for her to start Grad School on the 14th!

Pinterest Made Me Do It # 19....

I have to ask myself if I ever have original thoughts anymore or does everything come from Pinterest?!  Well, why re-invent the wheel?  Ha!  When I saw THIS pin, I knew it was for me!  I made a ton of posies and then glue gunned them to my lampshade for my antique milk glass lamp:

 

 Then, viola:

LOVE! 

I still really like the colors of the posies in the original pin, so I might need to acquire another milk glass lamp.

Pinterest Made Me Do It #18....

It makes me feel a little better to see that I'm up to Pinterest Made Me Do It #18, at least the amount of time I've spent on Pinterest is paying off!

When I saw THIS layout on Pinterest, I knew that I wanted to recreate it using stars.  It took longer than I would have liked, but I'm happy with how it turned out:

I love that Alex's friend Max is also in the picture as well as a girl from our church.  Makes me happy!

Pinterest Made Me Do It #17....

I pulled out all of my school papers and embellishments along with Haley and Alex's school pictures.  Alex's class pictures are hard to scrap.  I saw THIS layout on Pinterest and knew it was perfect for the class picture:

One down four more class pictures, need to find some more ideas!

 

Pinterest Made me do It #16...

Love THIS birthday card that I saw it on Pinterest.  Here's mine:

It was SO easy and fast to make. 

MME Sketch...

I love sketches, so when MME put up their July Sketch Challenge, I was all over it!

All pattern papers are MME, alphas are Prima and Cosmo Cricket, sticker is T!m and sequins and rhinestones are Hobby Lobby.

Sweet Bonus Baby....

  I just love the colors of this layout:

I used October Afternoon papers, Thickers alpha, Studio Calico ribbon and Chic Tags rolodex tag.

Hope you're having a terrific Tuesday!

3 Years Later...

Over three years ago, the uber talented Christine Middlecamp started a tutorial, The Embellished Paper Doily.  I only made 12 of them and then 2 years ago at ScrapFest, I bought a tray ~ I was getting closer!  With this summer being the summer of decorate my house with things I have on hand, I finally finished my Embellished Paper Doily project:

 

 

I really love how it turned out!  Here's the link to Christine's finished project.

I'll be back tomorrow with another Haley layout!

Simply Love her....

This photo of Haley is from 1999, she was 8 years old, wow, time flies!  Like yesterday's layout, I really wanted the layout to be simple because the photo is just beautiful.  I love the white space of this layout:

I'm really struggling with giving layout titles, don't know why.  Anyone else have that problem?

Always Beautiful....

I just love this photo of Haley (I know, I say that about every one of her pictures, she's SO darn photogenic!), I wanted to make sure the layout was simple and elegant, just like the photo:

I miss this girlie so much!  I'm so proud of her, she's enjoying life, exploring and so independent, GO Haley!

Pinterest Made Me Do It #15...

We have a small patio area that needs decor and since this summer's theme is crafting with what I have (with an item or two from the Dollar store/Goodwill), I used this pin for an outdoor wreath inspiration.

My supplies, a bag of moss, a wreath and three packs of clay post from the Dollar Tree ($5 if you're keeping count!) and string, scissors, glue & gun from my craft hoarding supplies:

 

I started by gluing the pots on one at a time them wrapping it securely to the wreath with clear string:

 

Once all the pots were on, I glue gunned moss to the wreath, making a huge mess:

As you can see in the top left corner, those are broken pots - I broke them ON PURPOSE and it was FUN!  I needed more pots for fillers, but refused to buy any more supplies (read: didn't want to change out of my pj's and leave the house!), so I went out to the patio and threw down my leftover 3 posts and viola:

I got three perennials from the farmers market for the pots and hung a trusty 3M hook on our privacy wall/fence that separates our patio from our neighbor's.

 

 

 

Here's our patio:

 

 

Oh look, it's the cutest fastest growing thing in our house:

 He grows taller and sweeter every day.  NO. JOKE.  seriously sweet and always thanking us for taking him places and telling Bigs and I that we're "the best".  Crossing my fingers that he'll feel the same way when he's a teen!  Hehe, not likely, is it?!

Thanks for stoppin by!

Pinterest Made Me Do It #14....

I made a couple of wall hangings for our half bath.  The color theme is yellow and grey and it's a TINY bathroom, so just needed something small.  The frames are from the Dollar Tree, I spray painted them white and used scrapbook paper and stickers:

 

("wash your hands and say your prayers because Jesus and germs are everywhere")

 

 Tennessee isn't to scale, but it works for us:

 

I have one more project for the bathroom before it's finished, it's a sewing one.

B'day Boy....

Have I told you that I'm still missing a box of scrapping supplies, will all but 1 of my border punches, all but 1 of washi tape, my corner rounder, my date stamp and goodness knows what else?  I'm very scared that the fell of the moving truck as I've looked high and low for it with no luck.  So with said box missing, I've pulled out some oldie but goodie supplies, like my Creative Memories hexagon punch:

 

This is the layout from Creating Keepsakes magazine that I wanted to lift:

Notice the little squares have rounded corners?  Well with no corner rounder to be found, I had to improvise, insert hexagon punch!  I'm happy with how mine turned out, but I'm still super sad about the missing box of scrap goodness, sigh.

Owl Always Love her.....

My Grandma Chapin loved owls, purple and tennis.  I too love owls and purple (last time I played tennis, I ate the turf three minutes into playing and that ended my tennis career, graceful I am NOT!).  When I was flipping through a Scrapbooks Etc. magazine (MISS them, boo hoo!), I noticed the cute owl art that I just had to make!

Here's mine (shadowbox from Goodwill $1.99, everything else was in my scrap-stash) :

 

Here's the original: 

I really didn't intend on adding the sunshine, but since my finished owl was much shorter than her frame (story of my life, ha!).  So insert the sun and my Mary Owl is finished (Grandma's name was Mary!).  She will hang in my scrap area, LOVE it!

Pinterest Made Me Do It #13....

To see the original Pinterest inspiration, click here.

Andy's super sweet Aunt Carolyn gave me two MME paper stacks last time we were home (she gets me!!) and it has really inspired my scrapbooking, well that and Pinterest!  Here's a layout that using only MME papers:

Aren't the papers lovely?!  Yes, it's another picture like the one I posted from Mother's Day, I might have to make a page showing the progression between my sister and I: I get fatter and she gets younger, that snot and yes, she is my OLDER sister, that crusty snot!  Love them both to pieces though and adore this layout!!

More Wall Hanging Wows....

I found a framed faux canvas on clearance at Target for $5, and how lucky was I that once I got it home, it was 12"x12"?!  I modge podged the paper to it, modge podged some cardstock to a "B" I've had forever and slapped it up on the wall:

Unfortunately, it's the only thing up on a huge wall in the dining room.  I need to get some things up next to it...it's on my list!

 

Andy and I found a cute antique store on the way to Cabelas and I got a wire rack to house Alex's stuff (in winter, gloves & toboggans and now, ball caps).  The space looked naked, so I hung this neat lil picture that is Andy's above it:

It surprised me how this one little nook being finished makes me SO happy!

My 4th Birthday....

Yes, you read that right, pictures from 1976!  This is the first time I've done a double page layout in a while and my first 8.5"x11" double page layout: 

Can you tell that I'm lovin pinwheel flowers and doilies lately?!

Pinterest Made Me Do it #12...

I mentioned that I have been busy hanging pictures and checking off from my summer to-do list.  Here's my next wall hanging (frame and mat from Goodwill for $2.50, all other supplies I had in my scrap stash):

This is the link to see the original.