My "Happy" Kit from Scrapshotz gets put to use!

I love Scraphsotz scrapbook kits, the work is easy when they give you a kit that is well thought out and put together. I think out of most kids I manage to use almost every single page. I am not a kit member right now because I am trying to catch up (I had a ETSY store for 2 years and it never gave me time for much else!) but as soon as I see one that I absolutely must have, I will join a again.
Anyhow, this kit was from a couple years ago and the papers were from "Chatter Box", a line called "Happy"...bright and cute. I am working on Vacation 2007, I had a cheap little digital so some of the pictures are not as nice or in focus, but I am scrapbooking a life store, so they still work just fine.

I love double page layouts, easier to tell a story, specially when I have lots of pics that covey the story.

Out of focus, but he's a boy and doesn't sit still!

I used butterflies because they flutter about just like my son kept doing!

Notice that I try repetition and to carry the elements through the pages, in 3's is normally my style.

I try not to go Embellishment heavy on my layouts, though sometimes I tend to group a few for effect.

Trying out a portrait with a Sears type pose, he does it naturally!

Notice embellies, I used quite a bit here but they work well to balance out the 2 pages.

The papers were double sided too, so it added a lot more colours to work with, thus yielding a whole lot more pages for the album. As you'll see this is my first post of probably what will be 3-4.

I always but two sets of  alphas, and I try to use up as many as possible for the titles. I also use up any bits to further add texture and depth without too much bulk. I try not to make pages I cannot get into my albums later.

The whole kit had a bit of sparkle, and it worked well because they were summer pictures, I normally don't use much sparkle on boy pages though.

Notice the dots, they were the dots for the J's and ?'s.

The kit actually works well for either a boy or girl, I worked some of the pink (there really wasn't much) into some pictures that included my Mom or me... you'll see those later on.

I wanted these in there, so they worked well like this.

I'm going to try to get a few more pages done this afternoon, I am trying hard to get through some of the kits....there are so many new scrappy things on the market but I promised myself that if I did not get creating with what I have...I will turn into a hoarder and end up on some really TV show trying to explain my "Illness"...it's called Scrappy Happy don't you know!


Cheers,
Viviana

TO BE CONTINUED...

Scrapshotz Fall Crop, very productive!!

This fall, I was lucky enough to get to attend another crop hosted by Scraphshotz, here in Calgary. As these events usually go, I get lots of talking done, tons of ideas, I buy lots of stuff, and make nothing (atleast get nothing finished).

For the first time, I was a woman with a vision and on a mission. I wanted to get a few gifts done for family members and get some CD tins done for sending picture CD's to the 3 grandmas, instead of making albums which cost way too much to ship, everyone likes digital these days.

My friend Crystal signed up too, so she came down from Edmonton for the event.

She was working on getting some tags done for the gifts she is giving to her co-workers, you can tell it's a labour of love, she had about 6083486 of these tiny reindeer to colour! I'm not big into the colouring.....


That's us, early enough to still look perky since the crop went from 11 am until midnight(we stuck it out till the end too). We got pizza for dinner and a second wind long enough to get things accomplished!
That's Crystal, Lizette and Me!



I got 3 CD tins finished, got 4 Hot Cocoa/Tea Tins done too, I squeezed in an alcohol inked acrylic album (for our mini albums collection), and last but not least 3 Christmas cards and 2 wrapped chocolate bars too.
I actually did tons of stamping, and heat embossing, and I did some die cuts too, all with stamps and dies I don't own (borrowed from some of the wonderful ladies attending the crop). I had a great time and came home with a great little door prize, a light Merry go Round light box!!!



As forCrystal and her 60 reindeer, I think she's still there adding stickles to the pile!