Iolite 2

Mom and I do a lot of stash sharing, when I was at her house recently she sent products home with me to sell at an upcoming stash sale and I'll bring something new and fun the next time I visit. It works well for us. Well, I was working on MWM Iolite 2 and had decided on these pink and purple toned scraps but very much needed some depth to the page, I looked down and saw these frames and epoxy dots. Love happened. 

I think my favorite thing about the epoxy dots is that while a teeny bit larger than most enamel dots they have that same sort of "look" and I used quite a few. Guess I'll have to find her something really cool now...

The background paper is Webster's Pages Trendsetter, other papers include Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye, and Crate Paper. The epoxy dots were from Prima Azure and I have no idea who made those frames. 

Iolite 9

I helped as a vendor at a local crop recently and while there I did a little paper playing in my free time. In a few days I'll post the mini album I made with this Teresa Collins Far and Away line, but for now you get to see how I used the scraps. 

The layout is based on the ScrapbookSteals Iolite 9 MWM sketch and is actually about part of my adventure to the Steals Retreat last fall. I was busy painting my toe nails in preparation for my trip and Rylan insisted in joining me with some green polish. When I was done Vance wanted his done too. And I made them stand still for a picture of our tootsies. 

In addition to Far and Away papers and embellies I used some stickers from Glitz Design's Happy Travels. 

Iolite 10

A couple of days ago I posted my Scrapbooksteals MWM Iolite series round up but didn't go into any sort of details about the layouts that hadn't already shown up on the blog. This layout was for Iolite 10. 

I made it using some Moxxie Musically Inclined papers that my LSS was wanting to push out of the store. LOVE getting to kill two birds with one layout. I'm hoping that the more vintage styling of the layout helps break people out of dismissing these papers as simply "music paper." 

Naturally, I went to town with fussy cutting and thought it would be fun to "shadow" the flourishes a bit with some sketching. It really popped them from the page. 

Awww, and nothing like using some oldie but goodie Thickers, you can almost see the strips of MME stickered gems from the Miss Caroline collection. Both were such perfect colors for this layout!

You Are Messy

I'm bringing you another installment in the "Jessica needs to get caught up on this ScrapbookSteals MWM series." Thanks for humoring me, here is Iolite 1:

I'm still really pushing to get through some of my scraps so in no particular order other than the background, which is Basic Grey, the other papers are American Crafts, Pink Paislee, My Mind's Eye, Echo Park, and at least one other. 

The main journaling tells the story about him eating his first dollop of pudding. Seriously, he had less than 1/4 cup of chocolate pudding in that bowl. Somehow it got everywhere anyway! And he loved every second. 

The journaling around the page is about the water color tag - I've been on a mission to use more of my mixed media supplies that I just "had" to have after taking some classes at my LSS. Well, as part of that I've been sharing with the boys and they did a little Faber-Castell Gelato water coloring with me. He painted a small sheet of the paper and then I cut out the tag as a secondary way to feature him. I love how the irregularity of the coloring ties with the messy face. 

Focus

Just a fun little layout for the ScrapbookSteals MWM Iolite 8. While the page somewhat resembles Melodee's sketch what her layout really inspired was me to pull out some of my Simple Stories goodies and u-s-e them. They've been sitting, neglected, for far to long. 

The background paper is Tim Holtz Coordinations Crackle Distress Cardstock. There's a couple pieces of scraps and then a piece of water color paper that I had used while playing with my Faber-Castell Gelatoes. 

Those tabs are from AC Chap and the white/red arrows are from Pink Paislee's Artisan collection. The scalloped chipboard border is from MME All is Bright.

And these are a couple close-ups of the water color paper. Those gears are from an old Basic Grey line's journaling pieces, I can't even tell you which one, but the temporary adhesive had become permanent so trimming and tucking was necessary to use them. They're pretty close to perfect accents on this one, even if I do say so myself. 

This is probably one of my favorite layouts that I've done recently, and that's saying something because there was a point in the process that I nearly put it all away and started over from scratch.

Reimagine the Possibilities

 This week's MWM sketch, Iolite 7, at ScrapbookSteals was created by one of their buyers and my friend, Brittany Perry. I just loved it! And I'm loving playing along again. 

The base of the layout is BasicGrey's Little Black Dress. I'd been eyeing it for ages and my LSS put it and another BG on clearance and I broke down and finally bought all that she had. As many times as I almost purchased it I think it would have hurt more to let someone else have it. 

Other than the lacy black and cream piece and the letters from the same line, this one is a stash buster. Three partial embellishment packs used up and lots of scraps! 

Feels like forever

I've made a little goal this year to spend more of my free time creating for creating's sake (or at least to participate in a challenge). While I'm realistic enough to know I'd never make it through a year of "just my stash" using it is part of the goal. 

All of which has led me back to playing along with Melodee's fun sketches at ScrapbookSteals, this one is based on the Iolite 6 sketch. 

It gave me a bit of a headache to photograph, with all the colors I couldn't get it balanced correctly. I don't know if it was the lighting or what, but you get the idea. 

The close-ups have a bit better interpretation of the colors. Check out all the scrappy goodness I used! 

ETA: this one is also being entered with the Scrapbooksteals MCM series: Journaling