Julie's Journal

Saturday, May 18, 2013

My Love For You...August 2012 CKC

This layout is based on a sketch at Sketch'n'Scrap. I love that I was able to incorporate a ton of scraps and washi tape on this layout. I used my August 2012 CKC kit for this layout.

I had forgotten I had loaded several layouts into drafts last year with the intention of posting them and for some reason just never did...till now!

Love those mixed alpha titles

I used clear stickles on the heart to bling it up.

I stamped this heat on blue paper with yellow ink to make it green, the areas that showed yellow I covered with blue stickles to make everything green, I even added some yellow pearl paint to accent.

I used yellow pearl paint around the heart.

That journal spot was on a cut apart sheet at one time, but for heaven's sake don't ask me from where! LoL!!

I think the next several weekends will see these summary layouts on my blog so I can move them out of the draft section!!

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Friday, May 17, 2013

Birthday Cards--April CKC

I was about to deconstruct my April Spring Fever CKC kit and noted that I had lots of little scraps that I didn't necessarily want to keep but didn't want to toss out either.

So whats a girl to do????

Make birthday cards of course.

I cut all those little bits of paper into circle, believe me I have more than what's shown here, grabbed some pearls and bling and some stamps and well...here we are!

I even added circle to the inside of the cards! If I could have figured out a way to attach them to the outside of the card, believe me, I would have!

I scattered the circles along with some bling and pearls and a few foam adhesive squares and there ya go! These were sort of assembly line cards, I stamped all the sentiments and then went back and added all the circles at one time. I think this is a trick I will have to use again! I'm always looking for ways to use up my scraps!!

I was able to make a total of 9 layouts and 4 cards with my April Spring Fever CKC kit!

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Christmas 2013 Album #1

I completed this album the weekend that I was away on retreat, May 2 to 5. I used the SEI Mayberry collection to complete this album, it's a travel themed collection but I don't think you would know it by looking at these layouts. Plus I did a little stamping and sewing and added a few hexagon embellishments and brads.

This album, along with another, will be packed away until December, that's when I will pull them out and go through my photos for the year to fill them up. I give 2 albums for Christmas, one to my father in law and one to my mother.

Here it is, all 20 pages! This is an 8x8 album and I used Scrapbook Generation 1 page sketches to complete it. I sorted the pages by 1 photo, 2 photo, etc... but I won't put them in the album in this order, it's just easier for counting photos when Christmas gets here to have them sorted like this.

1 photo layouts

2 photo layouts

3 photo layouts

4 photo layouts

5 photo layouts

You prolly noticed that I added the dimensions for the photos, some of the mats will be used as mats and others are just place markers so that I will know what size to cut the photos. I still have some embellishments left and once I decide on the photos in December then I will decide if I need to add any additional embellishments.

Do you make Christmas albums for anyone? Do you wait till December to make them?

I usually make several pages each month and then by December I have them all done, but because of school this year I decided to make both albums while I was on retreat. I will share the other one next week.

I hope my endeavors inspire you to share your crafting with others!

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

My Birthday Present

Happy Birthday to me!!!

There is a very expensive little garden store in Lubbock called Holland Gardens, it has fabulous lawn/patio furniture and all types of decor for the outdoors.

Last spring we went in there looking for a new porch swing (glider).

I found the perfect one, the only problem was that with the fees to put the silly thing together it was over $300.

I'm no adverse to spend some money on patio furniture but not that much!!!!

So we didn't buy anything...

This spring we go in and have a look around the store again and they still have the same swing and it's still going to cost over $300 to take it home.

Of course Mr Gulley looked at the price tag and said No Way, No How!!!

I think on my next set of days off I am going to scour the city of Lubbock and find me a swing but in the meantime I have to work and work and work!

I came home the other night and he was a bit antsy, I went through my normal routine when I get home from work and he was patiently waiting until he couldn't stand it anymore...

He came in the kitchen and turned on the patio light and drug me out the back door to see this, the swing from Holland Gardens!

I couldn't believe that he spent that much money on me and I told him so, well he fluffed up like a prize peacock and informed me that he had saved a bundle of money by finding it online, having it sent to the house and putting it together himself!

He hunted and searched online until he found the exact one for half the cost literally, to ship it to the house for him to put together it cost about $150.

So Happy Birthday to me from my wonderful husband!!!

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sunset--April CKC

It's official, this is the last layout from my April Spring Fever CKC kit! I had to add the background cardstock to make it though and used most of the bigger pieces of pattern paper to complete this layout. I also cut the title from a sheet of metallic paper.

I was going to enter this for the Chic Tags Challenge Sunday due on 5/11 but as you can see, I'm a little late for that. I am entering it in the Artful Delight/Delightful Inspiration monthly sketch challenge#32.

The Chic Tags Challenge was to mist on your layout and I did, the whole background paper was originally white.

These are little doo dads from the chipboard letter stickers.

I've already used a piece of that flower border on another page so what I had left I chopped and used here as well. I also chopped the journal card to leave the sentiment that was on it out.

The title was cut with my ~~Quickutz~~ Lifestyle Blossom grand dies

Love how the misting came out on this layout.

You can see a little of the sparkle from the mist here but the photo below really shows it off!

Supplies Used:

Pattern Paper: SEI, MME, Scenic Route, Bo Bunny, Heidi Grace Designs

Cardstock: Bazzill, Color bok

Stickers: Bo Bunny, MME, RUM, Cosmo Cricket & RUM

Embellishments: Melissa Frances, Recollections

Washi: Target & Recollections

Mist: Glimmermist & Heidi Swapp

Dies: Lifestyles

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Monday, May 13, 2013

PL Week 10

I completed these PL pages while I was away on retreat May 2 to 5.

I used my March Corner Stop & Shop CKC kit, the kit was huge and it still seems to be going and going and going! Which I'm ok with because the colors really make me happy!

I also decided to change my focus a little this week and start working more on the monthly end of PL, I'm not going to be so focused on just capturing photos from this week, if I have more photos from one week it will be ok to run them over into the next weeks PL spread.

Sorry about the glare, I really didn't want to take the layouts back out of the page protectors. I feel like I didn't add that many textured embellishments to this weeks layouts. I didn't add any typewriter journaling or computer journaling since I didn't have access to either at retreat.

Now for the close ups...

I cut off a piece of the paper that already had some layering on it and just added a little more, I just now realized I didn't put the week number on here, guess I will have to go back and get that done.