FOR THE BIRDS: DOREEN

Have you entered our challenge this month? Today is the last day and here showing you one last bit of inspiration for this challenge is our newest design team member Doreen. Way to bust down the door Doreen!
Deb♥


My layout for the “For the Birds” Challenge is my first layout for “If Its Groovy”.
The funny thing about the layout is it may be the first for this challenge, but it is not the first layout I have made of these pictures. The truth is, I scrapped the pictures before, but after I finished the layout, I just wasn’t happy w/ it. I am not a believer in re-doing layouts because, well really…who has time to re-do a layout when there are so many more that need to be done?! But, I just could not stop thinking about it… I literally woke up and went to bed still thinking about how much I hated the layout! Crazy huh?! Well, I decided that if it bothered me that much, I would put my ‘rule’ aside and just re-do the darn thing! So I did and here it is! Ta-da! I am 100% happy w/ it now and what a scrappy-relief it is too! This experience taught me 2 things:
1. Be thankful for the digital age when you can just re-print or re-order pictures whenever you feel like it (I had to throw the originals away when I destroyed my layout)
2. Some rules are okay to break! It is okay to go back and re-do old layouts if it would truly make you feel better.
I know not every layout I make will be a masterpiece and I am okay w/ that…most of the time. But when I’m not, I now feel okay w/ the fact that I can try it again!

FOR THE BIRDS: JEANNIE

Are you a Digi Scrapper? It's a fun way to work on our challenge this month :) Here is one with digi options from Jeannie!
Deb♥






For the Birds, now that was a fun layout to do! I used a DIGI STAMP by a wonderful artist named Therese Travis. You can find her at theresetravis.net. This was originally a DIGI STAMP, but I told her what I was doing and she created this .svg file for me to use on my CRICUT. The inspiration for this page comes from a glass bird I used to have. It was called “THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS.” You can find the folk lore behind the “BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS” by Googling it.
I made my birds all in shades of blue and the Whimsical bluebird on my frame is a cut file from MYSCRAPCHICK.COM.
I love using my Cricut on my projects and with the world of .svg files out there, I can make almost anything in my head, come to life on paper. I hope you enjoyed my happy page.
The phrase on my page says:
“My Bluebirds of happiness….” The fine print reads “and my insanity, lack of sleep, messy house, etc.”, meaning they are the cause of it ALL for me! In their defense, they get a lot of help (especially in the INSANITY dept.) from their five older siblings!!

FOR THE BIRDS: DARLENE

Do you ever find it hard to scrapbook important events such as weddings or religious ceremonies? Darlene has shown us in her layout today that monochromatic is the way to go. Let the picture(s) take center stage!
Deb♥

I hardly do any dainty, subtle-colored layouts and decided to give myself an extra challenge to match this photo and occasion. This is a photo of my little, now 14 year old, sister who made her First Holy Communion and Confirmation last Easter Sunday. She didn’t like me posing her to take these photos, but she was a good sport anyhow and these frame was the one I liked best of the photos. Doesn’t she look like a little angel?

I spent the majority of my time working on finding the “perfect” papers and elements for this layout, because my style lately has been loud and bold, I have very few sheets of feminine/elegant papers and coordinating embellishments.

I ended up using 2 sheets of paper by Die Cuts With a View in their Luxury stack of paper for the main papers, 2 bird chipboard pieces from Glimmer Angels Crème Collection of Glimmer Chips that I misted in a shiney pearl, one sheet of a bling set to sit on either side of the layout, beige lace and pleated white lace (that I misted to get a pale pink color), strings of pearl to line the center borders, and lastly a journaling tag by American Crafts’s Sparrow line- with a Prima center on the tag/title. Although I initially struggled with the design, I was happy to make all of the very different manufactures elements work together well on a layout.

FOR THE BIRDS: JEN T.

Paper Piecing, love it!!!
Deb♥

I just love this picture of my oldest daughter of her at Easter!....so when doing this page for the
for the birds challenge, I remembered a title in a magazine a while ago that I knew I could use.
So ,I pieced together some cute birds from patterned paper and stickers and added that cool title
I liked with her pic and this is the page I got from it. TFl!

FOR THE BIRDS: KELLY (and a Tutorial)

Another great layout using punch art to make something and this month, our theme being birds, well see for yourself how cute Kelly's are!
Deb♥

From Kelly:
Whooo's smarter than this 5th grader? Well, maybe his mom. What's a gal to do when she doesn't have an owl sticker or embellishment? Recipe for an owl...a rectangle with rounded corners, a 1/2 circle, a tulip punch for claws, 2 different heart-shape punches (beak and wings), a "splat" punch (for a tuft of hair), and some googly eyes. Whoooo needs to buy an owl? Not me!

FOR THE BIRDS:HEATHER

Here is a beauty for Heather's lo for our challenge this month :)
Deb♥

I have been playing with masking and just knew that i wanted to try this for this challenge. I had some old October Afternoon rub-ons left over from a previous lo so I thought this would be a good time to use them! I love the color brown and enjoyed putting the cream and orange with it! Then I had to have a picture so I found a picture of myself that my 4 year old Jackson had recently taken of me! I changed it to sepia to go with the lo! I plan to use this layout in my "Book of Me".

What I haven't decided yet is what the little birdie told me! I am thinking it may be my secrets to happiness! Just can't figure it out yet! Help me out here . . . What are your suggestions? What are your secrets to happiness? In fact, my challenge to you is to scrap a page about yourself telling about your secrets to happiness! But don't forget to include the birds so it meets the monthly challenge!!!!

Hope you enjoy my layout and I hope you find all your secrets to happiness.
Heather

FOR THE BIRDS: NATALIE

From Natalie for our For the Birds Challenge :)
Deb♥

Bliss is having my daughter in my life. It is so much fun watching her discover things for the first time. Her curiosity and facial expressions are the subject of many conversations in our household. I love getting close-up pictures of her so that I will never forget her baby face. That flawless, innocent, bliss!
I used K and Co. paper and embellishments from the Brenda Walton collection.
Natalie

FOR THE BIRDS: GROOVY DEB♥

Once Upon a Time...



There was a little girl who was in love with a boy who had a prom at the local hotel, The Jefferson. They had big plans for after the evening's events to come back to his house, take a nap and then head to the beach, one of their favorite things to do together. This was his prom date the day after that awesome evening. The year was 1986 and it was a beautiful day to compliment the time they had the night before! LOL! Groovy Deb♥