The Enemy

Trixie's newest addition to the GGI sale at Gotta Pixel just made me smile.

Though the kit made me smile, I decided to do a semi-serious layout with with it. It still has a side of humor to it, because that's just who I am. But there is more truth than not in this simple layout.

I give you THE ENEMY...

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KIT: Got Glasses? by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: Seeing Double Temps Vol. 2 (Part of July 2013 Templatetopia)

FONTS: KG Change This Heart (Title) and Scrap Casual (Journaling)

To Gnome Me Is To Love Me

OH.MY.HECK!!! I was soooooo excited about one of Trixie's newest kits that I grabbed it right away. I found it awfully funny that she created this kit a month after my post about my indoor garden.

When I saw this kit, I knew that I had 2 pages to create with it right away and even though it took me quite a few weeks to actually get to it - I did make the 2 pages I wanted to. And because I was trying to get them done, I used templates from July's 2013 Templatetopia as well.

First page I did was about my son's Halloween costume a few years ago.

The next layout was, of course, about my indoor garden. It was a page that just needed to be scrapped!

...I accidentally put the wrong year on this page, though. Still need to fix that...

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GNOME ON

KIT: Love In The Garden (Will be released in all stores later this week)

TEMPLATE: Multiphoto Temps Vol.4 (Part of July 2013 Templatetopia)

FONT: Beautiful Every Time

HOW DOES MY GARDEN GROW?

KIT: Love In The Garden

TEMPLATE: Trixie Scraps Triple Play Vol. 2 (Part of July 2013 Templatetopia)

FONT: Firefly Castle

If You Met My Family, You'd Understand

I was finally able to do another post about fonts on the Trixie blog! I love fonts and I'm always excited when I get to do those posts. You can read the full post here, but here's a look at the layout.

This was a fun layout to make. My siblings and I don't look too similar now that we're all grown up, but I think as little kids we had more similarities than not. I love how this came out. It's not how I pictured it going in my mind originally, but it came out close. (We'll see if my siblings still talk to me after seeing this post. HAHAHA)

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KIT: Roots & Branches by Trixie Scraps
FONT: Pea Ellie Bellie (Title and Journaling Circles) and Teen (Journaling)

Freedom

If you know me at all, you know that I love to work with templates when I'm scrapping. It makes things quicker and easier and it doesn't stress me out as much.

A couple weeks ago, a fellow CT Member on the Trixie Blog posted a template challenge that was going to be posted yesterday. I liked the look of the template so I played along. You can read her post (and download the template) here, and this is how my layout turned out.'

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Template by MK of Trixie Scraps CT
Kit: Rise To It by Trixie Scraps
Font: CK Calligraphy

Recently...

My little sister is part of a craft group with a bunch of her friends. They used to meet together every month, but then my sister moved and so she doesn't meet with them - but she still does the crafts. A few months ago she invited me to be a part of the FB group and it went downhill from there.

A few times a month the girl spearheading the group will post a craft and ask who is interested in doing it. She will then go buy the items needed to make the craft and we pay her from there. She posted a couple things in recent months that grabbed my attention, but it also took a couple months to actually get around to doing them.

The first one was a sign for Independence Day and since it's creeping up on us, I figured I'd better get my butt in gear and get it put together. The girl originally found the idea on Pinterest. (I think that's where she gets all of her ideas)

I did mine slightly different and distressed my sign when I was complete. I also made the star blue, when most of the others that did this craft stuck with white.

The next craft was a countdown sign. I laughed at the timing of this craft because I had just started a countdown on my big white board in the kitchen and was thinking to myself, "I should make a real countdown sign of some sort."

So of course I jumped on the bandwagon with this countdown sign:

(It was 50 days until baby, it's now 45! Though I'm praying it's more like 30...)

I apologize for not knowing more about the fonts and materials used for a majority of these projects. Like I said, there was another girl that got all the supplies together - I just actually PUT them together.

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GOD BLESS AMERICA SIGN

Paints

Anita's Acrylic Craft Paint - White (Used as base coat of paint)

Delta Ceramcoat - White (Because I didn't have enough of the above)

Delta Ceramcoat - Navy Blue (Star)

Anita's Acrylic Craft Paint - Tomato Red (Sign)

String
Unsure

Glitter
Pickyourplum.com

DAYS UNTIL SIGN

Paint

Delta Ceramcoat - North Sea

CASTLE

It was my turn for another Master's Monday over at the Trixie Scraps blog.

You can read my most recent tutorial on Adding Peek Through Shapes To A Layout...

If you're not interested in reading the tut, you can look below for the layout. It's not exactly what I envisioned in my head, but it's okay...

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KIT: Rise To It by Trixie Scraps

FONTS: Rough Typewriter (wordstrips), AGaramond LT Titling (Castle Title)

Father's Day Tribute Video Titles

For my Father-In-Law's Father's Day gift I decided to give him a video of pictures of him and each of my kids as they were growing. The video ended up being about a half hour in length, but I was able to share some awesome pictures with him that we probably all forgot about.

Knowing I was doing a video, I wanted to have transition title images for each segment in the video. I did this by creating a scrapbook layout and then switching out just a few things for each segment. That way the video had the same feel to it, but it was changed depending on which segment was playing.

These are the layouts for each segment:

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Template: Scraplifted cover image of Creating Keepsakes July/August 2013 Issue

Kit: My Hero by Crazy 4 Monograms

Fonts: Mom's Typewriter, Throw My Hands Up In The Air and Lindsey (Tabs)