Project Organization, Day 2

So I really need to clean off my table. I have the materials for a gift wedding album mixed in with a couple other projects and you really can't see anything. I did manage to put my kits all together in a box next to my desk so I have them available for any projects I want to do until I have everything in place. I also found a large pile of layouts I completed in January that I never did photograph and post, so I'll be showing those in the next week or two. Slow progress, but I'm still going!

Project Organization

Okay, so every once in a while the organizing bug bites me in the butt and makes me go crazy. After destroying my space on National Scrapbook Day because I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, I had enough! I decided to do a complete overhaul on the organization of my space, and maybe some purging too. So I started emptying bins and baskets into big boxes and stacked them all up.. looking at everything in those boxes really makes me think I have way too much stuff! The only thing I have left out is a gift wedding album project I'm slowly working on - I had already collected all the papers and any embellishments in the colors I'm using and put them in one basket. Let's hope I'm actually able to go through everything and make it all look nice. Let's hope I'm able to let go of what I won't use... but most of all, let's hope I'll be able to finish that wedding album!!!

Kitchen Keepsakes Crop

There's a crop going on at Kitchen Keepsakes until midnight tonight, and I managed to get one challenge done. The challenge was to use some type of spice on your layout. I looked through my spice cabinet and ended up using crushed red peppers - even though it's not in the recipe, the recipe is spicy like the peppers so I thought it would work. Here's my layout:

I used a pagemaps sketch, and the red peppers are to the left of the photo on embossed paper.

Birds of a Feather May Guest Designer!

Hi Everyone! I have been selected to be a guest designer at Birds of a Feather Kit Co for the month of May! The May kit and add ons are fabulous - you should definitely get them before they're sold out! It's a wonderful mix of Jillibean Soup and Little Yellow Bicycle.. here are some of my creations:

Framed project:


Remember Today:


Naptime Impossible:

Tickles:

Fly High

Chris:

The Reilly Family:

I should also note that all the layouts were done using sketches from Pagemaps
I hope you enjoy! I also have a tutorial for a mini file folder on the forum, so go check it out!

Just a Few Sketches

I've been trying to use up the scraps from a Fancy Pants kit and I just can't seem to use it all! I looked online for a few sketches to use, and here is what I made:

This one is for the sketch challenge at pagemaps:

This one is for a sketch challenge at Skipping Stones Design:

This one is for a sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches:

This one is for a sketch challenge at Sketch and Stash Challenge (the paper is from a new kit I'm trying to use up, and the stamp is poorly neglected - bought a couple years ago and never used):

This last one, using scraps from Pink Paislee's Sweetness collection, is for a sketch challenge at Card Positioning Systems:

Birds of A Feather Spring Fling Crop

Hi all! I just finished all these wonderful projects, inspired by the challenges on the Birds of A Feather forum... take a look!

This first group of cards was inspired by the challenge to "go green" by upcycling packaging. I had a Making Memories mini embellishment kit, and I used the backing on the packaging for the first 3 cards... the next two were just using up the rest of the embellishments in the kit. The only thing I had left over was ribbon!

This card was created for the challenge to make a shaped card - no squares or rectangles allowed!

This page was for a challenge to use a spring quote:

This was a sketch challenge:

This was a challenge to be inspired by the song "A Few of My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music:

This was created for a challenge to be inspired by a photo of a robin's egg nest:

This challenge was to use pastel colors and have a photo in the shape of an oval:

This challenge was to use at least 10 flowers on your layout, one of which had to be homemade:

And these last two pages are a two-page spread created for a recipe challenge. I had to use 5 photos, ribbon, flowers, chipboard, and 3 patterned papers.

Birds of a Feather March Layouts

Every month Birds of a Feather has five different layout challenges to get your creative juices flowing. I had a great time working on this month's challenges, take a look!

Photography Challenge (use the macro setting on your camera) (used sketch from Pagemaps)

Use Your Stash Challenge: Create a page using only scraps except for the background paper, and make at least one embellishment from your scraps. This was using the leftovers from a Fancy Pants page kit, and the flower is my embellishment.

Journalling Challenge: Tell us how lucky you are, and journal in the shape of something...

Color Challenge:

Sketch Challenge: