Reunited-- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Ok one more for today and then I'm takin a break. These are the photos from the day my husband returned home from the 6 month boat deployment. (Before we had our son).

I dug through the archives to find a sketch that would work for my LO and this one is from 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks.

Honey & Pilots -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

My husband's job in the marines was to load ordnance (aka. bombs) onto Harrier Jets. He loved his job and he really enjoyed getting to know the pilots. He took this photo of a couple of his pilot buddies getting ready to take off. I couldn't think of a theme for this page, so I thought it would be funny to put "Always tip your Pilot" on there. The torn notebook page at the bottom is an svg file, you can get it here.



This was the sketch this week at Color Me Daisy. I am also participating in Frosted Design's challenge this week which is paper tearing/distressing.



Now I know you're probably wondering what this page has to do with the Marines, right? Well, my hubby and I dated long before he joined, so shortly after bootcamp, while stationed at Pensacola Beach, FL. I went down to visit for Valentine's Day. Well, this photo was taken just after he'd proposed to me on the beach. It was the day after Valentine's Day and it was very COLD! But nonetheless, it was romantic!

This is the sketch for this week at 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. Only 1 week left before they shut down. :(

Daddy Is Home & On the Boat -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

I got a couple more pages squeezed in yesterday. My husband was busy assembling some christmas toys, that way my son didn't have to wait for them to be put together after opening them. So while he was occupied, I was too!

This page was made using this week's sketch at Sketch Inspiration (a new site!). They are trying to reach 200 members by Christmas, so go join in the fun! The little newspaper article at the bottom was about a missle narrowly missing my husband's ship while at port in Jordan. It was pretty scary. One soldier was killed and it made CNN headline news back in June of 2005.

This one was made using last week's sketch from 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. The font in the title is called "Captain Howdy" I love it! It cut really well at about 1" high.

Pickin' Punkins - Fall Scrap & Stamp Challenge

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a fabulous Saturday! This is my first time to be a part of the Scrap and Stamp DT challenge. This week's challenge was to scrap about "Fall Traditions". These photos were so perfect for this theme. I took them of my son Travis at the Pumpkin Patch a couple of months ago. Every year we visit the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect pumpkin. He loves to go there. The man who owns it is an old family friend and I think he enjoys our visits just as much as we do.


I used this week's sketch from 52 Weeks, 52 Sketches. The cute little die cut title was a free svg file from SVGcuts.com. I just downloaded it and cut it with my SCAL program and Cricut. It was so perfect for this layout! As a part of the challenges at Scrap and Stamp, we are supposed to use stamping somewhere in the layout. Well, I decided to spruce it up a bit with some flourishes. So I got out my acrylic flourish stamps and used my Tim Holtz "brushed corduroy" distressing inks to put flourishes in all the right places.

Don't forget to hop on over to Scrap and Stamp to check out the other fabulous layouts done by our Design Team this week. There is a whole new crop of designers ready to show off what they've done, so share the love!

The Crew --- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Here is another page for my husband's Marine Corps scrapbook. I've been trying to sneak around and do it when he's busy doing something else or not here. It's hard to be a sneaky scrapbooker. I'm used to leaving everything on the table and coming back to it whenever I want to finish it, but I can't do that now! Argh!


This page was done with sketch #43 from 52 sketches, 52 weeks. I usually participate every week with them, but I'm a little behind. I haven't done it in a few weeks. The letters that I used for the title were using a font called: "Too Much Paper". I love that font. I make faux chipboard letters by printing the letters out 4 times each (would've done 5 usually, but ran out of that color cardstock). Then I glued them one on top of another. I distressed them with Tim Holtz "brushed corduroy" inks.

I wanna be a Rock Star

Here is a LO I did for 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. I decided to scrap the pictures of my son at christmas last year. He recieved a drum set. Yay! Thanks Uncle Wes! (insert sarcasm here).

This layout sort of evolved slowly as I worked on it. I started by searching my stash of paper and realized that I didn't have anything appropriate for what I wanted to create. So I set out on google to find something printable and I found this awesome Rocker background. I printed it out and used it as the backdrop for the pics. Then I decided to create my own title. So I used some basic font and a few flourishes, welded them together and wha-lah! You can snag your freebie down blow. I also created the scalloped border you see at the right of the layout. You can download it here. Rock Star Title SVG

I wanted the title to look like a chandellier, so I used a bunch of gems to create this effect.

Font: Rage Italic Journal Frame $1.00

Guitar Stamp $1.00

This is a first for me. I created my own "bling flourish" by using glossy black dimensional paint. I printed out the image on white paper, then I used some clear plastic (left over from some sticker packaging) to create this. You can see the tutorial here. In this photo you can see the plastic, but when I put it in a scrapbook protective cover, you won't be able to tell! BTW, I did this one yesterday and let it dry overnight. So if you just want to play around with the idea, you could make a few and then put them aside for later. That way when you go to create a LO, they are already dry!

Ok...and don't forget to check out Lindsay's blog for her Halloween digi stamp freebie and to see what the other DT members have created! You won't be disappointed!

Freebie Thursday!
In addition to the files that I've shared above, I wanted to give you this stiletto shoe svg. Remember that cute little high heel shoe that I created a card for the other day? Well here it is...yours to download and use! If you missed the post about the shoe card, click here to see it. High Heel Shoe SVG Freebie

Sketch #37

I absolutely love this photo. I took it a couple of weeks ago after my son got done playing in the dirt. He was sweating so badly that the dirt in his hair turned to mud and started to drip down his forehead. So he needed a popsicle to cool down. I was able to use the new toy that I got from Lora! It was the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. I used it to secure the ribbon to the top of the photo. Works great! The popsicle was cut using the doodlecharms cart.

Sketch #36

Here is another LO for 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. I just love their stuff! These pics were taken on the way home from shopping one day. We saw a monster truck across the street from Wal-Mart at a Jiffy Lube. My son Travis LOVES monster trucks. So we went over to see it. He was so amazed! It was Big Foot!!! Very cool day!

The paper is from AC, the scallopped circle was cut using my cricut and scal. The font in the journaling is called Pea Stacey. It is a freebie, you can find it here.

Sketch #35 + freebie

Here is a layout for 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks that I did using a picture that was taken back when my hubby and I were only 17 years old. I love scrapping these really old pics. It helps me remind me how far we've come. I'm the one holding the blue balloon. He's the one with the yellow visor behind me. I sure wish I was that skinny again! haha.
I did something on this layout that I've never done before. I created a scut file that would cut out tiny holes in a circle so that all I had to do was hand feed colorful floss through each hole to create the look of stitching. After I did the blue floss, I decided to go back and do pink in the opposite holes to get this look. The buttons are put on using fabritac glue with floss glued on to make it appear like it was sewed on when it was not. If you would like to try this technique, I've included the scut file below.

Circle Dots Scut
The above font was a freebie from Kevin & Amanda's Blog called Guess What.

Sketch #34

Here is a LO that I did using this week's sketch at 52 sketches, 52 weeks. I forgot to include the journaling portion of the sketch until it was too late. oopsy. Oh well. This is my little man about a year or so ago when he was only 18 months. He'll be 3 in October. My, how the time flies!

The cute little bunny is a svg file from Treasure Box Designs. They sell these in sets and are so easy to assemble! They give away freebies on their blog every Tuesday, so check 'em out!

Sand

I'm so glad we got my son a sandbox! He has the best time diggin' in that thing! We actually got him one of those turtle sandboxes for free through Freecycle.org It is a forum based site that lets your join a yahoo Freecycle group near you. I get emails that tell me when people are either offering things or wanting things. Well I happened to see that a lady was getting rid of her son's sandbox since he'd outgrown it. My husband picked it up that very afternoon. All I had to buy was some sand to go in it! How awesome is that?!

Anyways, here is a sketch that I did from 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. It had lots of layers, so it gave me a chance to use up some of my patterned paper that I wasn't so fond of. Which interestingly enough, I love it on this page. I wasn't crazy about the polka dots paper until I acutally used it. I've had it for probably 7 or 8 years. haha.