Finger Licking Good {Birds of A Feather Kit Co: February; Basic Grey: Kissing Booth}

Three posts in three days - crazy, huh?! I really am trying to be more consistent about my scrapping and truly hope to get quite a bit done this weekend.

Today's layout is created for the current challenge at The Paper Variety. They've made some changes to their challenges (more time to get them done) but this is the first one I've been able to complete so far. It's a sketch challenge: 

and here's my interpretation {click on image}:

I used pictures from over a year ago that I had printed - love pulling from my stash of photos :) I used the February kit from BOAF and added just a couple of Bo Bunny embellishments and alphas from my stash. I'm so glad that I was able to play along at TPV again! 

I'm back! {Basic Grey: Kissing Booth; February Birds of A Feather Kit Co}

Hello! Are you still reading? lol I know it's been a long, long time but I have lots to share :) I'm going to share two layouts today and then I'll try to get my (completed!) December Daily posted to share tomorrow.

I can't tell you how happy I am to be back to creating full size layouts. These are both direct lifts from Linda (was sooo happy to see her chosen as a DT member for BOAF this term!). My kit was fresh on my doorstep yesterday and she happened to blog her first two layouts yesterday as well. I'm not sure that I would have thought to go with baby pictures with the kit - but once I saw her pages, I knew which photos to use :) Here is Linda's:

and mine:

 My darn sewing machine. I did NOT miss haggling with it during my break from using it!

 And then Linda's again:

The hearts were calling my name! lol Here's mine:

Sorry, the wind kept carrying my layouts away so I couldn't get any more closeups of this one! I hope everyone's new year is treating them well. If you are still reading, I would love to hear from you!

Birds of a Feather Birthday Blog Hop {Basic Grey: Out of Print; Pink Paislee: Soiree}

 Birds of a Feather Kit Co is having a birthday party! 

Amy started her company one year ago this month and she is also celebrating her very own birthday today ;-) What better way than to celebrate with a crop, right? To start the crop off, the design team and a few of the guest design team alumni have put together a blog hop for you! If you arrived here from Linda's blog, you are headed in the right direction. If you came to my blog first, be sure to head back to the BOAF blog to get started so that you don't miss out on any eye candy!

I have two birthday theme layouts to share with you - both using the August kit (there are still 3 kits left in stock!).

The first layout is using the sketch from October's sketch challenge which is posted in the forum here. Did you know that completing all 5 monthly challenges puts you in the running to be a guest designer? If you want to try one of Amy's kits, this is a great way to do it! 

The pictures are from mine and my sister's joint birthday celebration from last year. We celebrate our birthdays just 3 days apart so we took ourselves to lunch and then for cupcakes after. We even repeated the tradition just a few months ago but without my daughters in tow ;-)

I created the banner by fussy cutting from one of the Pink Paislee papers in the extra patterned paper kit. The twine, tiny type alphas and paper clips are from my stash... but everything else is from the August kit.

I also fussy cut these flowers, outlined them with my white signo pen, layered with embellishments from the kit and then added bits of bling. The bling is in the kit as one piece, but I cut it into pieces and still have some left for future projects.

This next layout is based on a Pagemaps Sketch. I loved the cake piece that I fussy cut from the same Pink Paislee paper and thought it would be perfect for this picture of my daughter's princess cake from her 4th birthday.

I used mixed pieces for the banner, added the same twine from my stash and added a couple of pins as well.

I contracted a case of Stickles sneeze on this layout! Amy included a bottle with the August kit and then I also added a couple of other colors from my stash. I outlined many of the flowers on the busy background piece, but I also added Stickles to most of the other embellishments as well.

Hard to see all of the stickles in these photos but ALL of those green dots were accented!

One of the many reasons I love the August kit is the Core'dinations cardstock. The first layout was with the white back so when I filed the edges, a white frame develops. But this second layout, I used the pink back so all of my distressed edges are pink. Love that!

What is a birthday celebration without presents, right? I've got a present for one lucky person who comments on this post...a $10 gift card to scrapbook.com! We are cropping all weekend long and the entries are due by the 12th, so I will post my blog candy winner on the 13th. You do not have to be a follower of my blog, but if you like what you see, I'd love for you to stick around! 

All of the crop challenges and games can be found in the forum here. The grand prize is going to be a kit of your choice! Oh, and the boutique will be having a BIG sale this weekend! 

If you've made your way through the blog hop, you'll want to keep going so that you can be entered to win a prize package of Bella Blvd products valued at $50! You'll need this word to add to your collection for the mystery phrase: 

and then you'll want to hop on over to Kayla's blog here to continue with the celebrating. I hope to see you in the forums cropping with us this weekend! 

Our Little Kinder-gator {Basic Grey: Out of Print; Birds of a Feather August Kit}

Last week my oldest started Kindergarten and I couldn't be more proud of her! She was so brave about going and didn't hesitate a bit ;-) The school district's mascot is a Gator, so I played on Kindergartener to be Kinder-gator for the title. I fully expect that next year I'll use "First Gator" instead of "First Grader" :-)

I was inspired by Lisa's layout that you can see here as well as the layouts in this post. I really need to look into a better tool to distress the cardstock...

 This is for the August color challenge at Birds of a Feather and is made of products that are from the August kit! Thanks for looking :)

Cute girls {Basic Grey: Olivia}

I created today's layout for a challenge over at Birds of a Feather...to scraplift a layout from the gallery. 

Janet lifted Kayla here:

I really liked BOTH layouts and I had a couple of photos that needed scrapping so I lifted both of their layouts. Can you see a bit of both in mine? ;)

The tag says "I might be biased, but I think these are a couple of cute girls". Thanks to Janet & Kayla for the inspiration :)

Scrapping the weekend away {Basic Grey: Olivia}

Amy is having a crop this weekend at Birds of A Feather to welcome her new design team. That's where you will find ME this weekend! I've already completed two challenges...the first was a sketch by Liz Chidester. 

 The wind is crazy outside so I didn't have time for closeups! The wind even blew the knot out of the bakers twine that I used for the little banner. I checked the mail this afternoon and received a package from my friend Kayla with LOTS of scrapping goodies inside....including the twine! How fun that I was able to use something right away :) Thanks, Kayla!!

The next challenge was to create a layout with a predominant color that we don't normally use as well as to fussy cut. I don't think that green is a normal color of mine so I went with that as my base. I fussy cute the green strip at the top, as well as the top and bottom of the patterned paper. The pictures are of my little one when she had a pretty bad case of thrush from the antibiotic she had been on at the time.

I'm running really low on my white alphabets so I've been having to get pretty creative to complete my titles! For this last layout, I used Pretty Little Studio's sketch #5. I won a gift card for my entry last week and can't wait for the products to arrive, I'm so giddy waiting for my rainbows!

I hope to be back tomorrow with a few more pages - if your weekend is free, you should come checkout the challenges!

NOT a fan! {Basic Grey: Jovial}

I'm back with another layout for this week's Christmas in July challenge at TPV. For this week only, we can enter more than once! I saw Suzanne's layout using BG's Jovial and it got me itching to use some of mine... so I whipped this up super quick this morning :)

I used part of a double page sketch from Page Maps for my inspiration. Not my favorite layout ever, but it's another two pictures scrapped!

Cute & Adorable {Basic Grey: Olivia}

I'm back today with more Basic Grey :) My largest stash based on manufacturer is definitely Basic Grey but I haven't used in any ages till just recently. I love the Olivia line and had forgotten how much until I was in search for paper for this picture. I've had this picture for over a year but wasn't sure what I wanted to have for the title & journaling...

Enter this month's journaling challenge at Birds of A Feather - to scrap a conversation. I ask my oldest daughter often if she likes being a big sister and the answer has pretty much stayed the same for the past two years. She really does love her little sister to pieces and I'm so excited to know that they have each other to grow up with! MY sister is one of my best friends :-)

This LO is also for the challenge at The Paper Variety to use polka dots!

I lifted this layout from one I saw in the My Mind's Eye April newsletter. The sketch is by Jana Eubank but the layout I lifted from is by Tamara Jensen. I tried to find a blog link for her but gave up (I admit, pretty quickly, lol).

Happy Birthday #30! {Basic Grey: Olivia}

Today I have a two-fer to share with you!

The challenge this week at The Paper Variety is to create something with paper that includes a number. I decided to make a card for a friend's upcoming 30th birthday...and unfortunately she's going to see it here on the blog before she gets it in the mail because she's a blog reader! lol The card is also for the color challenge over at Birds of A Feather.

It's not my favorite card that I've created but I had fun learning how to use the corner punches to make dimensional flowers. I made the flower without looking back at the instructions and didn't snip the tip off of the scallops...so birthday girl may end up getting the card with a different flower on it! ;)

Autumn Inspiration {Basic Grey: Green at Heart}

This is the 2nd layout that I completed for the online crop last weekend at Birds of a Feather. The challenge was to use one of several quotes and use a tree, leaves or pumpkin on your layout. I don't normally scrap with purple but these pictures called for it, and the Green at Heart paper went great with the pictures. The striped paper and the circles used on the tree are the only two sheets that I bought from that collection. I was digging through my cardstock stash at 1 am to find a shade of purple that worked! lol The tree, grass, butterfly & bird are from a set of Little Yellow Bicycle rubons...I have way too many rubons! I doodled around the circles on the tree, under my journaling and around the outside of the LO...it just needed something extra when I looked at it the next morning ;)

The quote I chose is "Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. ~William Cullen Bryant" and is on the brown journaling strips. I didn't use a title for this layout - it feels weird to me to not have one!

I used an Inspired Blueprints sketch. I have no idea what number, sorry :( But it does have a tree on it, just like my layout!

Cookbookin' October Sketch {Basic Grey: Nook & Pantry}

Here is this month's sketch for Cookbookin'. And here is my take on it.

I got this recipe from a friend, and my husband really likes the dish but hates ANY thing that is named "casserole". So I've started renaming all of the recipes :) Pizza casserole is now known as Pizza & Pasta, lol.

I chose this recipe because it was the only recipe I had a picture printed for Suzanne's challenge at Challenge Master's was to scrap a casserole recipe. A two for one layout :D

Thanks for stopping by and I promise to share my other two layouts this week!

Cookbookin' September Sketch Challenge {Basic Grey: Nook & Pantry}

Cookbookin' has a new blog and Kristie gets to be in charge of the blog! She is VERY talented and I get tons of ideas (including the pinwheels from a few posts back) that aren't even all recipe scrapping related.

They are having a monthly sketch challenge - yay! September's challenge is to use this sketch: And this is what I came up with. This is an 8 1/2 x 11 page which I'm finding I like most for most of my recipes.

I haven't personally made these cookies yet but they are super delicious and sound super easy to make! Here's the recipe:

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

1 chocolate cake mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 package of Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures

Mix the first three ingredients together until well blended. Mold cake mixture around the Reeses PB Cups and bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 mins.

Another Digital Layout

I made this in just a few minutes tonight based on a PageMaps sketch for a challenge here. I actually have a layout done for the sketch with real paper, too! Here's the sketch: I'll be back later (more likely tomorrow!) to share my other layout for the sketch! TFL!!

I've Gone Digital!

I wasn't sure if I would actually ever get around to making a digital scrapbook page...but here ya go! I downloaded a starter kit from Basic Grey - one that I definitely liked the colors/patterns so that I know I'll use it on other digital pages, too. Then I followed the FREE online video (Kristina Werner is who's talking, and I like her style) to create the page.

It would not have taken me very long if I wasn't having issues with my computer and Photoshop. Apparently...they do not like each other!

I definitely won't be giving up traditional scrapbooking, but I like this aspect, too! And I really like that when I purchase an element, I can resize it, alter the color, and use it OVER and OVER again. For the $, it really is a better deal. Shhhh, don't tell my husband ;)

My Girls {Basic Grey: Olivia}

I was so excited for the new Olivia line to come out and was just a tad disappointed when my LSS only had 4 of the papers :( I guess I"ll be buying collections online from now on! I came across this sketch (#50) from Inspired Blueprints a few weeks back...and was inspired to use it with the new Olivia papers and this photo of my girls. It's not the greatest photo but when someone takes their pictures at "school" I can't pass up buying at least one! I'm a total sucker :) It was a super easy sketch and I think it helped me find my mojo again ;)

Thanks for all of your kind comments that you leave me and thanks for stopping by!

Bingo! {Basic Grey: Nook & Pantry}

Kristie posted a Bingo Challenge at the Creative Cookbooking Iron Chef Crop and I spent nap time on Monday completing it :)

I made my bingo by using: red, bling (stickles on the dots & flowers), a dessert picture and/or recipe, and flowers. I'm not liking the title - I wanted sooo badly for those wood grain letters to work but they are too big. As soon as I find a suitable replacement, I'm going to fix that :)

I scraplifted my own work for this one LOL Which actually started as a scraplift from Suzanne.

I post my challenge for the crop tonight so I'll be back tomorrow to share it and my example ;)

100th Post!

Maybe since this is the 100th post here at the Paisley Petals blog, I'll be lucky enough to win the prize this month at The Scrappiest :)

As promised, this is a picture of me, my daughter, my sister and her daughter. {I'm the one showing her behind in the photo!}

The title comes from my niece being injured TWICE at the park this afternoon. All papers are Basic Grey...

You can see the sketch #48 at The Scrappiest here. I have to be honest, it was a really hard sketch for me at first. I moved the pictures up and the title down, then things started moving. I think it was so hard because I'm used to being so symmetrical on my layouts...the off center circle threw me! If you have time, go check out the other entries...#6 is gorgeous!

Thanks for looking :)

First House - Sketch 47 at The Scrappiest

I had so much FUN making this layout. I totally scrap-lifted this page from Aphra...for sketch 47 at The Scrappiest. The only thing I'm not 100% pleased with on this lo is the button - it's a little large for the door! But I loved the color/texture of it...I think the fun part was this house - so stinkin' cute! Can you see the freshly applied stickles? shhh ;)

I'm not going to even try to give a list of the papers I used - I think it's one from every collection I own!

With this layout I decided that I think Halloween is my favorite holiday to scrap. I never would have guessed that but I'm pretty sure it's the most scrapped holiday in my albums!

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Don't miss one more photo here.

Batty For You {Pink Paislee: Twilight - Nightfall and Eclipse; Basic Grey Eerie Black Doilies}

It has been ONE WHOLE MONTH since I've been able to sit down and create something for myself and even then, it wasn't scrapbooking layouts. I've got to admit that while the countdown calendar sure is cute, it was very difficult to find a variety of treats that would fit inside the mini-muffin tins! Sweet treats were easy enough to find, but if you're looking to put little trinkets/toys in there you might need to upgrade to two regular size tins....

Since the last time I scrapped was over a month ago, the pictures left on my desk were Halloween. I had only been able to make one layout using the Scrap For A Cure Fright Fest kit so I broke into it and whipped up 2 layouts. My first experience with Pink Paislee paper - and I love it. Now, I've very excited that the newest kit from my scrapbooking club also has Pink Paislee - for Valentine's Day. I see what all the fuss is about for PP!

I liked the Basic Grey Doilie paper so much that I wouldn't let a single scrap go to waste. I took all of the scraps and pieced them together for the circle background in this layout:The only thing in this LO not from the kit was those gold thickers...Don't you love the little bat pin?So I feel a little odd scrapping Halloween in December but hopefully I'll get caught up soon :) Both LOs were based on a sketch (20 and 18) from 52 Sketches...52 Weeks. I was sad to hear that Julie won't be continuing to add to the site in the new year and I hope that she'll be able to keep the site open for us to go back and use old sketches.

Thanks for stopping by - I hope to be back to updating regularly now!