Scrappy Saturday- I love this girl/SpiegelmomScraps DT

Hello everyone!!

How excited are you that Christmas is only a few days away!!! My kiddos are so excited! lol Anyways.... This week I'm scraplifting the awesome Missy Whidden!

This is the layout of Missys that I decided to scraplift. I wanted to go a different way since I've been on a roll of scrapping circles lol. So I chose a grid. I will say that I did a lose scraplift of this layout lol.

I loved the Birthdays&Balloons sequin mix and Crate papers Cute Girl collection went great with it! I had already picked out my pictures of my niece, shes so pretty, but I swipped her snapchat pics to scrap lol. 

I started my layout by pulling out some of my shimmerz that matched the colors in the sequins and in the paper collection and using the packaging technique  around my layout like Missy had.  Once I had the colors where I wanted them and let them dry, I added the machine stitching like she had.

I kept my grid loser then Missy did, but I knew I wanted it to cover more of the page, I was trying not to have so much white space. But after knowing where I wanted my pictures, I started my paper layering in the other two spaces and then behind my photos too.

I went in as I was adding the layers and added some little thread nests for some more texture and because Missy had added them.

After adding little puffy stickers here and there and the thread nests, I moved on to adding all the pretty shinies! Birthdays & Balloons sequin mix has so many colors and the shine on some of them are just different. I'm guessing its because some of them are see threw and some aren't, but I love the different shines they give!

Thanks so much for checking out this layout, and make sure to check out all the great layouts that all the other Sparklers made too and make sure to check out what Missy has made too! 

Cat Girl / Shimmerz Paintz

Good morning everyone! 
This morning Im sharing a layout I made with some beautiful Shimmerz products and some of the September release from SpieglemomScraps 

I wanted to try another way to do a background using my mists, so I spritzed the colors I wanted on a circle pieces of cardboard I had in my stash, it had a white coat over the cardboard so I thought it would be fun to see how it would do transferring it to a piece of paper. So once I has the colors sprayed, I spritzed it with some water and then layed my cardstock on top of it. Some of it looked more saturated then others, but I loved the way it looked and that it actually left a circle shape. 

Once that dried I pulled out my sewing machine and added some stitching around the circle in black and started playing with my sequins! I mixed Painted Garden, Aquarius and Fairy Garden and added them all around the stitched circle. The colors of the sequins were a perfect match for the sprays I used and it looked amazing!

I figured at this point I needed to chose photos and a collection to use, lol. I never start a layout this way, but it was fun to do it all backwards for myself! I pulled some pics from Snap chat and matted them to look like a photo strip and started layering papers that matched the background.

I pulled out some frames and since I had cat ears in my pictures I decided I was going to use some of the cats from my stash. It also gave me my title. A little goofy, but I chose cat girl, lol and instead of using the word for cat I added the stickers and chipboard cat faces.

I added a few strips of paper to the left of the layout and added some more of the cats there and added in some of the star stickers and at this point I was happy with the way my layout looked and stopped. I have the habit of keeping on adding more and more embellishments! lol, so I stopped myself and that was it for this one!
And remember. when your checking out over at Shimmerzpaints.com make sure to add my name in the comment section and get a free gift with your purchase!!

Get to know your Sparklers / SMS

Hello everyone!! 

I'm excited to share a little get to know you along with the rest of the Sparklers. I thought I would share this layout that I created a while back using SMS products.  I love how the cork brought more texture to the layout, just like the sequins did and a bit of bling! lol You can do so much with them! Make shaker pockets, add the bling factor, texture for the layouts, you can make little decorative pockets like I did here with a glassin baggy. Love it all and there are so many possibilities. 

Ok so to get to know me a bit better... I have been scrapbooking since I was 9 years old, so I've been scrapping for about 22 years. And I still love it! I am married and have 6 kids, yes 6. 2 boys and 4 girls. So it can be a little hectic around here but I wouldn't have it any other way! With all these kiddos I always have something new to scrapbook to, so another plus to having a big family! lol I grew up in Alaska and have lived in every A state except for Arizona, but I have visited there. I have managed to get some of my kids into scrapbooking already too, they boys being older, they dont seem to want to do it as much but they still play along with me at times. Everyone in our house loves something artsy. We all paint and draw and I love that there is always that creative outlet for them and me, but its a pain to try and keep them out of my scrappy goodness! lol

When it comes to what you can expect of me with SMS, right now I'm going to be doing a blog post 3 times a month or more with sketch on Saturdays. I love sketches and have so many pinned on Pinterest that I think this will be fun for me! I hope you enjoy sketches too and will play along with me!!

I thought I'd share with you what I got in my 1st design team package!! And man, oh man is everything so beautiful!! Do you know how hard it is not to use everything all at once!! lol

Oh did I mention that Jody, The owner of Spiegelmomscraps, is also giving away a $20 Gift Card for one ransom commenter??Yep, she sure is!! How awesome is that??!!? Well follow along and get to know the rest of the Sparkles and comment away and you may just win it!! And oh man are there so many beautiful things you could get!!

SpiegelMom Scraps Blog http://spiegelmomscraps.com/

Jody’s Blog https://spiegelmomscraps.wordpress.com/

Lisa Kingston http://pinkglitterscrapper.blogspot.com

Marie Friant http://somethingaboutmarie.over-blog.net/

Karla Yungwirth http://creative-love-affair.blogspot.co.uk/

Hannah Lemieux http://www.scrapbookpagesandcupcakes.com/blog/

Daisie Hanson http://daisiesscraps.blogspot.com

Khristina Sorge http://www.redefinedkreative.blogspot.com

Sheryl Banares http://sherylbanares.com/

Christine Beuzit http://myscrapmyworld.blogspot.co.uk/

Sara Scraps https://sarascrapsblog.wordpress.com/blog/

Dannielle Brown http://danibscraps.wordpress.com

Laura Rumble - http://beadsbuttonsandbirds.blogspot.co.uk/

Mary Garcia https://createcraftrepeat.wordpress.com/

Rachel Stewart wordsandpaperscraps.wordpress.com

Ali Scraps www.gagedesigns.blogspot.com

Sarah King http://scrappinmylittleroyals.blogspot.com/

Suzanna Lee http://www.lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

Christy Harriman https://christysbeautifullife.wordpress.com/