Interactive Pages for the Win!

Hi there, Lisa here today to share a page I made to highlight a bunch of snapchat and instagram photos of my daughter's recent trip to Kentucky.  Because the photos were not of very high quality, I chose to keep them small and make little accordian flip books on the layout. I used Simple Stories papers and Crate Journey and Open Road embellishments for the layout.

All of the photos you see here have more underneath...the large one at the top flips up with the license plate sticker with more photos and journaling.  The three photos on the bottom actually hold about 20 more photos in flip out form.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Love you...

Hi there, Lisa S here today to share this layout I created for our Pinterest Crop. I used a mashup of products, from Crate Paper Shine to Pink Paislee Cedar Lane to create this layout....one of my favorites of the year!

Here's a close up of the layers...I added some enamel dots and Heidi Swapp Color Mist in Gold, my favorite!

I hope you've been playing along with us in the Crop...we are having a great time and would love to have you join us!

Over The Rainbow

Hello and happy Saturday!  The Pinspirational Crop has begun at the My Scraps and More Forums! Get ready for lots of inspiration and fun challenges!  My first challenge is based on movies and today I'm sharing my page using Maggie Holmes' Shine collection!  Can you guess what my favorite movie is? LOL 

I cut strips from "Cheer" to create a sort of rainbow and layered them across my page. I used glitter black foam American Craft Thickers for my tile and added Shine Chipboard Accents.  

I love the variety of Ephemera in all of the Crate Paper collections! I layered a cute as well as a gold foil banner under my photo. 

More cute chipboard pieces as well as coordinating stickers! I love the gold glitter/black frame! 

More ephemera loveliness!! I also added a doily as well as enamel dots from my stash. 

I color coordinated chipboard and stickers to each of the pattern colors to keep my rainbow theme!

Thanks for stopping by today! Visit the forums today and tomorrow for lots more Pinspirational challenges!

Have a great day!

Be Super!

I love Halloween...it's a chance to let your alter ego take over and just shine...and I love to see what my girls choose to be for Halloween.  My middle daughter chose to be Super Girl this year and I just love that she did.  Moving to Nevada, 515 miles away from home, to go to college was a HUGE step for her and she's been handling it with flying colors!  Super girl she is!!!  I created this layout for the Monday Mix it Up Challenge in the forum.  I used the Crate Paper After Dark line and the layout just flew together~

A close up peek at some of the embellishments...

Thanks for stopping by today!!  Go be your SUPER self!!

My Scraps and More Purchase Fun!

Hi there!  Lisa here today to share a little video I made with my latest MSAM scrappy haul!  Hope you enjoy hearing the thought process behind my selections :)



What's your favorite thing I bought?  Did you buy it too???

Best Day Ever

Hello friends and happy Saturday!  It's Jennifer and I am sharing a layout I created with the new Crate Paper Maggie Holmes' Shine collection!  I am a huge fan of both Crate Paper and Maggie Holmes and was excited to see this fabulous line in the My Scraps and More shop!  The prints and colors are in the traditional Crate Paper fashion!  

I used one of the lovely Wood Veneer Embellishments as my title...I am in love with these! You receive 16 different pieces in each pack.  

Showing some of the Ephemera and coordinating Gold Foil Stickers that I layered under my photo. I added some enamel dots from my stash! 

I love all of the little pieces included in the Ephemera, as well as the 12x12 Chipboard Sheet!  

Thanks for stopping by today!  Check out this collection in the shop before its gone!  Have a wonderful day!  

You and Me

Hi there, Lisa here today to share a layout I created with a mash up of Crate Paper and Pink Paislee...these lines work so well together! Check it out...

The Craft Market by Crate paper and the Pink Paislee floral paper (I fussy cut all of the flowers from this paper) along with the cute puffy stickers worked so well together! 

How cute are these cork bows?  They are sold out so I'm sure many of you got them..they are such a perfect accent.  Also, I used a gold Wink of Stella pen to add touches of gold to the fussy cut flowers...it's such a pretty little glimmer in real life!

Thanks for stopping by today, hope to see you sharing your pages in our My Scraps and More Gallery. 

School Rocks

Happy Saturday! Jennifer here on the blog today sharing a layout I created this week for the Word Up Wednesday challenge!  It's back to school time and I scrapped an older, but favorite photo of my daughter and friends using Crate Paper's Wonder collection!  This fun line is so versatile and can be used for many themes!  

I used a cut file from the Silhouette shop along with some gold foil paper from my stash!  

I layered a few of the tags from the Ephemera Pack alongside my photo! I love that Crate Paper always has so many embellishments to choose from!  

Showing some of the cute coordinating stickers that are included in the collection. I love the gold accents! You can also spy the bright patterns of "Cute One" under my journaling spot; I love the many rows of banners!

Here are more of the Ephemera and  Die Cuts as well as a gold accent arrow from the 12x12 Chipboard Sheet. Also included in the embellishments are a pack of colorful enamel dots and self-adhesive mini gold sequins!  Love!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Check out all of the fabulous goodies that are new in the My Scraps and More Shop!  Have a great day!!

Journey to Nevada

Happy Thursday!  Today I'm sharing a layout I created using the Studio Calico Thataway Collection and the  Crate Paper Journey Collection.  I know these are older lines but if you're anything like me, you bought it and hoarded it because you loved it so much!!  So here's some inspiration for using these products.  The papers are Studio Calico and all of the embellishments are from Crate Paper.




and a close up of the details, including where I fussy cut the states out of the Studio Calico paper and then added brads and twine to symbolize her journey from Southern California to Reno, Nevada.




Hope to see you sharing those lines you've been hoarding.

Wonder

Hello friends! It's Jennifer and I'm here to share a layout I created using the new Crate Paper collection: Wonder!  I always appreciate a CP line and this is no exception!  The prints and colors are so lovely without being too "theme-y".  I wanted to scrap a few baby photos of my daughter (who will be 12 this month!) with this collection!

I used these lovely Wonder Patterned Chipboard Thickers for my title.  I love the variety of colors! I also added a cute heart from the 12x12 Wonder Chipboard sheet as well as a sentiment from the 6x12 Stickers. 

Like all Crate Paper collections,  included is an Ephemera pack full of little goodies and tags!

Showing more of the ephemera along with a cute chipboard arrow as well as coordinating enamel dots and gold sequins!  

Thank you for reading! Now, stop by the MSAM Shop before this collection is gone!  Plus, check out  the many additional fun new lines! Have a great day!

The Ring

Hi there, Lisa S here today to share a layout I created for our Tuesday Trigger Challenge over in the FORUM.   One of our triggers this month is celebrations so I'm sharing this page I made about my daughter's Bat Mitzvah ring.  It's a family tradition that each child gets a ring for their Bar or Bat Mitzvah from their Great Aunts and Uncles, so I had to mark this milestone with a layout. I used Crate Paper Journey Collection mashed up with some Confetti for this layout. I LOVE these  sticker letters!!
Your challenge for this trigger is to use alphabet stickers and GOLD on your layout!!  Hope to see you sharing some of your celebrations, too!

So Bittersweet

Hi there, Lisa here today to share a bittersweet moment.  Sometimes, in an effort to be genuine as we tell our lives stories, we have to share the not so happy moments.  For the most part, our scrapbooks are filled with the highlights of our lives...but there are moments worth remembering, especially when they are part of a bigger story, but explain so much.  In this layout I created for my middle daughter, I used a screenshot of her snapchat story to remember the big moment she realized that it would be the last time she was on this stage that she had performed on for 15 years of her life.

The Maggie Holmes Confetti Collection is filled with little tickets of all kinds and I fussy cut them and some film strips to build this layout.  The flowers, which reminded me of the flowers we have given her after every perfomance were cut from an older piece of Crate paper as well.  I tucked a journaling card with her story (also from that same piece of paper from the Confetti collection) into a glassine bag behind the photo as this was a very emotional moment for her and I didn't feel the journaling belonged front and center.  I hope you'll take the time to scrap the bittersweet moments, too.  It helps not only to process the emotions surrounding those events but keeps our stories real.  

Just Plain Wonderful

Hi there, Lisa here today to share this layout I created for our Mix it Up Monday challenge in the forums.  Mix it up Monday is a recipe challenge...I love to do them because it really helps me create quickly!!  You can find the thread HERE.  I used Crate paper lines to create this layout...you'll find This paper, This paper, these lovely Amy Tan Rise and Shine stickers and some phrase stickers from Studio Calico to complete my page.




Hope you'll join us in the forum for our daily challenges!

Hello Summer

Hello friends! It's finally the weekend and I hope you are having a good one so far!  I'm sharing a layout I created for one of the Daily Challenges this week on the forums.  If you haven't checked out our fun challenges or our current Got Talent? challenge, please do! The ladies on our design team wow me with their creativity!  

I seem to be on a Crate Paper kick lately! I just love their collections! The new Poolside is so fun and has a variety of embellishments to play with!  I scrapped a recent photo of my niece and nephew having fun at our local splash park! :)

I layered a chipboard banner and cardstock sticker over one of the cute Poolside Frames for my title. I love that the ephemera pack as so much to choose from!   

 I love to layer little embellishments so I pulled a few of the ephemera pieces out that caught my eye! Then I just try to configure them to see if they work! Here I used two tags as well as a sticker title.  And can I say how much I LOVE the wooden buttons?  So cute!  

 Layering more tags and stickers, as well as patterned papers! I love the diagonal grey and creme print as it sets off the bright colors! 

 Showing more of the Poolside embellishments!  The pinwheel stickers are a definite favorite in this collection!  

At the side of my page, I layered more ephemera plus a sticker boarder.

Thanks for reading today!  Go to our Facebook challenge page to see our fourth Got Talent challenge by Missy!  Have a great day!

Crate Paper Confetti: 8

Hello and happy Saturday! Jennifer here today to share a layout I created for this week's Monday challenge! I used Crate Paper's Maggie Holmes' Confetti collection.  CP always has such beautiful lines and this is no exception!  Confetti has such soft colors and prints; its geared for birthdays but you can use it for pretty much any theme! I chose to scrap this photo of my gorgeous niece! 

The collection comes with a two 6 x 12 sticker sheets with many shapes and letters!   I chose these gorgeous pennants to peek out from under my photo!  I love the gold glitter!  There is lots of gold accent in this line!  

For my title, I used a chipboard number from the Chipboard Accent  sheet.  

I love to layer pieces of ephemera along with stickers! Here is a cute kraft tag with a "love" circle from the sticker sheet. I also added a gold paper clip from my stash.  

I always appreciate a good ledger print! The B side of Centerpiece is perfect!  

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out our Facebook group for this week's Got Talent Challenge!  We would love for you to play along! Have a wonderful day!

Good Times with Just Nick Cut File

This week we are collaborating with Nicole Nowosad and her new online store for digital cutting files, Just Nick! All week long, the My Scraps & More design team will be showcasing layouts and projects featuring cut files from the Just Nick store. 

Stop by the Just Nick blog and get to know the new Design Team! You could win a $20 Gift Card to the My Scraps & More Store! Here are a few ways to enter. 

1) Leave a comment on this blog post introducing the new Just Nick team.

2) Follow and leave a comment on the Just Nick Facebook page.

3) Follow and leave a comment on Nicole's Instagram account (@nicolenowosad), where you see the same above image.

That's a lot of chances to win! Spread the word and good luck! Nicole will draw a winner at the end of the inspiration week smile emoticon

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It's my turn on the blog today and I'm sharing a layout I created with Nick's, Fancy Floral Cut File.  I chose to cut it up so that I could use it on multiple parts of my layout. It is cut out of textured cardstock and misted with Cherry and Gold Heidi Swapp mists.

The effect in real life is so glimmery and pretty!  I paired this with papers and embellishments from the Crate Paper Poolside Collection. The background paper is the adorable Studio Calico Baxter pink dot paper. As you can see the pink dots are much more mellow than the preview led me to believe...they are a lovely deep fuschia color...almost red. Perfect for a Disney page!

Here you can see one of the flowers....

And a corner of the cut file that has several flowers...

Thank you so much for stopping by today and hope you are enjoying our Collaboration!

Lisa S.