Ryan: October

Okay kids, since we have the movers arriving on Monday and then we'll be living out of suitcases for most likely at least two months when we get to Germany (and pretty much a month between now and then for good measure), I am writing up a bunch of blog posts to go live in between now and whenever I have my new craft room up and running.  So please enjoy these prerecorded messages, heh.

Time for October in Ryan's baby book!

I always feel like I don't get to use much purple in my scrapbooks (even the regular ones, not just Ryan pages), so when I do manage to sneak it in I'm proud of me.  Happily it seemed to work for these pictures.  These are the last few pics of Ryan with his Beatles mop top hairdo; you can see in a few of them it's post haircut.  The hair on that kid.  Anywha, I am particularly proud of the picture on the bottom right of Ryan with the vacuum cleaner; I took it on my phone and when I had it printed as a 4x6 both Ryan and the vacuum were cut off.  So I had it reprinted as a 5x5 and voila!  We got the whole picture in there.  Ryan was too little to stand up on his own, my hubs is holding him steady while Ryan holds the vacuum, we just thought it was funny.

Today's color palette was definitely Halloween-inspired:  Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, and Whisper White.  As I type this I am trying to talk myself out of buying all the Halloween stuff in the mini catalog this year; I have a bunch of Halloween paper and stamps already, and I don't even really send out Halloween cards, but I might as well have SUCKER stamped on my forehead.  Well, we'll see which side of me wins the argument.  What do you think, do I need more Halloween stamps and paper?

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letters for You, Spooky Bingo Bits
Ink:  Gorgeous Grape, Bermuda Bay, Granny Apple Green, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Basic Black, Gorgeous Grape, Bermuda Bay, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Whisper White, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  Large Letters dies, Stitched Shapes dies

2015 Scrapbook Showcase, Part 2

Welcome back to the second half of the 2015 scrapbook showcase.  Know what I just noticed?  All of the layouts from the first half of the showcase had warm, bright colors for the page bases.  And all of the layouts for today are on the cooler end of the spectrum.  Just how it happened to turn out, so let's take a look!

July's pick is this layout from a Scottish castle which supposedly belonged to my ancestors a zillion years ago.  I'm glad I have a large stockpile of Baja Breeze cardstock to use in my scrapbooks, it is one of my favorite colors ever.

My pick for August is the first of my terracotta warriors layouts; this was my very favorite thing that we got to see in China.

In September, I was hard at work on baby books so September's pick is the first layout I did for my friend Jen's twin boy books.  I like how bold the orange and green are on the black page base.  Well, it's hard not to love everything with Cucumber Crush on it.

October's pick is this Parisian layout, for which I made my own fleur de lis patterned paper.  I probably have patterned paper somewhere in my stash that's already printed with fleur de lis, but I like how my homemade version turned out.  And also those stair pictures.

November's pick is this layout from our somewhat abortive Mount Fuji climb; that picture of the four of us in that cubby under the stairs is one of my very favorites and I need to put a framed one up in our house somewhere.

And to finish off the 2015 scrapbook showcase, December's pick is this layout from the church near the house where we lived in England.  I think that's my favorite place that we've lived, and that house is my favorite one that we've lived in too.

Okay, kids.  That was a very Scrappy Monday :)  Tune in tomorrow for...something.  I don't know what yet but I hope it's fabulous!

Baby Books: October

Mornin', peeps.  Why do Monday mornings have to come so much earlier than other mornings?  Oy.

Anyway, let's start the week off with some more baby book pages, since those are the only scrapbook pages I've done since we moved to Virginia.  But I should have 6 to 8 weeks to work on my own books before the next baby book kicks off.  Anyway...

Yay October!  This was the first layout I did for the twin boys' baby books (which went out in the mail last Friday, thankyouverymuch).  Their mama told me that "Pastels are for wussies!" so I decided to go very bold for this layout.  How much do I love that orange and black mosaic pattern!!

And there are three of the Googly Ghouls for you.  This time around on the books, I tried to incorporate more circles and shapes on the layouts rather than sticking solely to squares and rectangles.  I think it makes the books more visually appealing.

Also appealing:  the very bright (really, this picture doesn't do it justice) Cucumber Crush on black cardstock.  That green is awesome for Halloween!!

One more detail shot, there's a bat from Spooky Bingo Bits.

And the color palette:  Basic Black, Cucumber Crush, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, and Whisper White.  Love it.

Something else I love:  it's starting to feel like fall here.  The hubs and I spent several hours wandering around Old Town Alexandria yesterday and I didn't feel like I was going to melt!  I think I'll be making some pumpkin coffee cake for breakfast on October first.  Pumpkin cheers, y'all!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Googly Ghouls, Spooky Bingo Bits
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pumpkin Pie, Cucumber Crush, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Cucumber Crush, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Creepy Crawly DSP
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, Sizzix Alphabet

Too Cute to Spook

Can't hardly believe it's almost October already!  Today I've got another baby book layout...after this, there's just one more to share from the last set of baby books that I finished in June.

I admit, I bought Jack of All Trades just before it retired specifically for this set of baby books.  I thought those cute lil jack-o-lanterns would be just perfect for Karyn's baby books : )  I like the Halloween stuff that's cute rather than scary. 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I think I might have to go watch Ghostbusters...

Supplies:
Stamps:  Jack of All Trades, Spooky Bingo Bits
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Whisper White, retired Frightful Sight DSP
Accessories:  retired bat punch, square punch, scallop square punch, old Sizzix alphabet