Blog Hop Winner

Just wanted to pop in and post my blog hop giveaway! The random winner is...

Amy! 

Amy, please email your address to me at limegreen(dot)flower(at)juno(dot)com. You have 7 days to contact me or I will draw another winner. Thanks! 

Scrapbooking from the Inside Out BLOG HOP

Hello there and welcome to the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog hop! If you're just coming in on all the fun, make sure you start at Melissa's blog and hop from there.

I haven't exactly gotten on the bandwagon for OLW (One Little Word), but if I had to pick a word for me to focus on in 2014, it would be ENJOY. It seems like lately (like since I have graduated), I have thought about the future and how I wish this or that would happen, and I have had to tell myself to just slow down and enjoy life as it is right now. Enjoy not having anything do to besides scrapbook and go to work. Enjoy being single. Enjoy not having *that many bills to pay. 

So. 

Here's my page I made:

I used this page as the chance to scrapbook a few of my current goals. Right now I am focusing on 1) getting a scholarship and attending college… hopefully this fall 2) save more and 3) enjoy life right now and trust God more. I know He knows what He has in store for my life and I just need to focus on living right now. Stop thinking 

"I wish that I were _____." I annoy myself sometimes with thoughts like that.

I LOVED the dreamcatcher piece of paper from the February Intention kit (from the Glitz Design "Wild & Free" line) and so I used that as literal symbolism… catching my dreams. I also used that awesome speech bubble paper clip to symbolize that I keep telling myself, "Enjoy the journey." 

I hope you have enjoyed learning a little about my OLW and so now it's time for a giveaway! I haven't done a giveaway on my blog in a while, so I thought it was TIME. So, leave me a comment and you just might win this gold glittery goodness (say that 10 times fast). Comments will close Saturday night at 9 pm Pacific time and I will pick a winner after that and post it here on my blog. Plus commenting will also give you one more chance to win the SFTIO prize! 

Now after you comment, hop on over to the SFTIO blog where Rachel has something for you! :)

Shoot for the Moon

Alright, today is my first post for February on the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog. 

I have been stumped as how to share my SFTIO projects on my blog as well as do the "Behind the Art" segments for the SFTIO blog. But I think I have it figured out.

On Thrusdays (my day to post the Behind the Art segment), I will post the emotional thoughts about the project on the SFTIO blog and then I will give a little insight on HOW I made the project here on my blog. Maybe a special technique I used on my layout or something. 

So, without further adieu, here's my first project I'm sharing that I made with the February "Intention" kit.

On this art journal page, I actually die cut my handwriting! Whaaa??

Oh yes. 

First, I wrote my quote on a white piece of paper. Then I took a picture of it with my camera. After that, I resized the photo (so it didn't pop up HUGE) and imported it into my Silhouette software. traced it with the "Trace" feature. 

And this is what it looked like right before I cut it.

So that's a little bit about my art journaling page. Make sure you go to the SFTIO blog and see the other behind the scenes segment of this project! :)

Valentine's Day Cards: Part 2

 I have a couple more Valentine cards to share with you. This time I made some mixed media- type cards. And my take on mixed media is using gelatos. Haha. 

So for this first card, I blended three colors of gelatos to make this super cute heart. Just a quick tip: I use wet wipes to blend the colors together when using gelatos. So easy and you don't have to wait for it to dry too long as compared to spritzing the card with water to blend the colors. I added some white stitching around the heart to bring some more texture to the card. I can't hardly make anything without stitching these days. :)

I also wanted the sentiment on this card to be something other than just "I love you" or "Happy Valentine's Day" so I used some little word stickers from Authentique to add the words "happy heart." 

I kept the rest of the card pretty simple just because the heart was so pretty on its own. White doily on white paper = so elegant. Sometimes simple is better.

And oh my goodness-- I just realized I made this card using NO patterned paper! :O That's crazy! I never do that! :)

Card numero dos. I used the same technique as on card number one to make the mixed media type hearts. I just freehanded them. This time instead of sewing around the edges (too small to sew!), I doodled little black lines around the border of the hearts. I stitched on the word strips on the hearts. (Don't think I forgot to sew somewhere on it!)

So there's two more Valentine cards. :)

Ta-ta for now! 

-Heather

Love This

I have a layout today that I made for the date stamp challenge over at Scrapbook Circle. Scrapbook Circle is one of my favorite places to go for inspiration and challenges! :)

For this layout I used two of my all time favorite lines-- Allison Kreft's "Composition and Color" line for Webster's Pages and Katelyn Shaeffer's "Hello Again" line for Carta Bella. I love nice textured paper and both of these lines have GORGEOUS thick paper. I have a little basket on my desk that holds bits and pieces-- tags, stickers, Chic Tags, etc. Just random stuff. But it's SO nice to have just some random little pieces to add to your layouts. I'm "trying" to use up my stash. 

I loved Audrey's inspiration page for the SC challenge. She used a date stamp and stamped it repeatedly straight onto the background paper. So, I used some yellow/orange ink and one of my date stamps (love those things!) to add the date to the page. It documents the date and then also adds a cool texture to the page. I will probably be using this in the future. I love the way it looks! :)

OH! And make sure you come back Friday. We're going to be having some fun! 

-Heather

Valentines Cards Part 1

Hi there! I have made a few Valentine cards lately, so I thought I'd share a couple of them with you today! 

This first one I did NOT like when I first made it. It just was too "different" for me. I tried something that I had seen on one of my mom's potholders and it translated a tad different on paper… What I did was I sewed lines diagonally on a piece of paper that was lightly adhered to another piece of patterned paper and then I cut in-between the sewn lines (only through the top paper!) and kinda distressed the edges of the paper. 

I then added some chipboard pieces to my card. But something was wrong. It was too dimensional in all the wrong ways! Like, it was really simple, but yet the technique I used added a lot of bulk to the card. Plus you add some chipboard on top of the dimensional paper… it just wasn't cute. Then I posted it on instagram and asked for suggestions on how to fix my card and Katie said to add some bling or sequins. Sequins were the answer! I used some Lawn Fawn sequins (actually from their Christmas line) and that made the whole card better. It helps connect the chipboard hearts to the "Happy Valentine's Day" chalkboard cloud and also helped the dimension flow a bit better. Instead of it being REALLY dimensional on top of REALLY dimensional, there was a little go-between texture. 

So that's the story of my card! And it ended up I like it! 

I also made this card from THIS CARD that I saw on Pinterest. Simple, but cute. I'm totally loving the "Love Notes" collection from Crate Paper. There's just something about their Valentine lines that I ALWAYS love. Maybe it's because I love pink and hearts! :)

Alright- thanks for looking! :)

-Heather

SFTIO February Kit Reveal

Happy 1st day of February! It's totally crazy thinking that we are already done with one month out of 2014! Time flies…

Another month means another kit from Scrapbooking from the Inside Out! Yippee! This kit is absolutely GORGEOUS. Take a peek:

This is just my photo I took of my kit when I got it in the mail. Aren't those colors just so BOLD and awesome?! I had to show Mom the whole kit (I do that when I'm excited about something I have just gotten.) and she said, "It looks like they know you!" Meaning, the kit fits "me" so well. I couldn't agree more, Mom. ;)

Most of the kit this month consists of Glitz Design's "Wild & Free" line (very bold and awesome!) and My Mind's Eye "Cut & Paste: Adorbs" collection. Also included are a couple of pieces from Hazel & Ruby's "Chalk It Up" line and a piece of paper from the "Chalk Studio" line from MME. Embellishments included are some paper clips from Allison Kreft for Webster's Pages, some enamel shapes and a tag from MME, some awesome Thickers, a whole sheet of alphas from Glitz, some chevron bling, photo transparencies, camera wood veneer and transparencies, and an awesome white Galaxy marker from American Crafts. Everything mixes together so perfectly. :)

This kit is called, "Intention." Scrapping all about what you're meaning to do, what you're aiming to do, what your goals are, etc. So fun to scrapbook about these things with it being the beginning of the year! 

Here are my three layouts and one art journal page that I made with this kit. I will be sharing more about these projects throughout the month, so stay tuned!

Be sure to check out more kit details at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out.