Halloween Cutie - CM Full Moon

Today in preparation for the upcoming virtual crop that Creative Memories is hosting on January 14th & 15th I decided to get some of CM's digital paper packs.  I played around using Full Moon as the main kit.  I do have a thing for Halloween. I did bring in a border from the Totally Tonal Red & Orange and I layered a photo mat from Sparks of Magic to make the black paper stretch across the page.  I am not sure who will be in the photos, but I do like it. I will add it to a file for base pages.  It has a spot for 1 5x7, 1 4x6, & 2 2x3's. 

I do like digital scrapbooking. I didn't have to worry about not having the right size die cut, not having enough of an element or too many, the only thing is I don't have the ability to use my specific tools to shape my papers. I will definitely be going digital for doing our Disney vacations. I have so many photos to do and have just been putting off because making 3 coordinating pages uses SOOOO many supplies. I have tons of bits and bobs from all the kits I have used that I don't have enough to make a set of pages for us. I am sorta kicking myself in the rear for not starting earlier with digital, how many kits that I would have liked but missed out on.  

I will be adding this to Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge.  I honestly did not expect to work with the Halloween kit first but that is the one that drew me.

Scrap Saturday - Quick Quotes

December's Club Q finally showed up on Monday.  I knew I was going to dig right into the kit once I saw the amazing papers.  

I ended up making both of the page kits today.  I could not stop working on the layouts.  They were so easy to do.  I did not even make that many changes to the page design, which is HIGHLY unusual for me.  I tend to use kits as a base to make my own version of it. I did however still gut the papers if a large section was covered.  

DP 1245 - Merry Christmas

With this kit the 'snow' die cuts were very thin and did not look right on the page, so I layered the thicker humps across both pages to mimic snow.  I changed the red flower paper to a tone-on-tone paper from the bonus pack. The Merry Christmas is popped up on foam

DP1246 - The Joy of Christmas

This page kit was the one I had the hiccup with- the quote was missing from the kit.  I improvised and used a vellum quote that was included in the bonus pack. The only other change was I used a .5-inch piece of the blue to overlay the top & bottom of the page to look like washi

Scrapbook Saturday - Quick Quotes DB1236

Last Saturday I broke out my Club Q - November 2021 kit and worked on Blessed- DP1237. Today I worked on Family page kit - DP1236, I made some major changes -flipped paper sides, removed some elements, rotated page a layout, then added new elements

The original design:

  

 My Remix Design:

   

To start I cut the two background pages with a 1.5-inch border & the 5.5"x7.5" mats with a 1-inch. When going through the directions I noticed that two of the laser cut pieces were cut almost an inch bigger with a dove tail on both ends.  I just could not get the page to look right with the size that the large banners were in, and instead of trimming & trying to make both look identical I just did not use them.  Instead, I die cut 2 tags out of one of the gutted brown papers, flipped the back 2 layers to the other pattern, removed the layered columns. 

I fussy cut the vellum quote around the printed frame and used a gutted rectangle to back it.  The quote just seemed to disappear on the patterned paper, I wanted it to pop. 

Supplies not used and scraps from kits pages or punchouts:

I did not do any die cut from the smaller scraps that were in the kit.  I have 2 more altered kits & the bonus paper/ribbon pack that I can play with before my December kit arrives. 

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Today I was going to play around with some Halloween items to make something for the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge....I ADORE that name.  I grabbed a Simple Stories "Happy Halloween" mini collection that I have had since the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo in 2019.  I was stuck as to what to do with it, the kit only has 6 double-sided pages and a 6x12 sticker sheet.  I did not want to waste any with going willy-nilly on a design. 

Then this afternoon I watched a FB live with Noreen from Organized and Creative Mom.  She showed a 5-Step / 5 Minute layout that was absolutely wonderful.  That got my creative juices going.  

Instead of doing the circle cut I used Stamps of Life - Fancy Pumpkin Fold-it base die. Then used the layering dies to cut out the pumpkin in a mustard yellow shimmer cardstock; a leaf (Sizzix # 663094 - Skeleton Leaves) cut from a scrap of ink blended cardstock.  I used just a single cut and trimmed to make 2 separate pieces.  The grass (Stamps of Life is also cut from the ink blended paper.  The rest of the paper is Neenah 65# paper from a starter pack.  The orange is 4" x 6" mat layered with the black cut at 3.75" x 5.75".  I popped up the bats and phrases along the photo mats.  I now have another base page in my scrapbook.  

Scrapbook Saturday - Quick Quotes DP1237

Just looked at the calendar and realized that it was almost time for another Club Q from Quick Quotes to ship again.  I haven't even looked at last month's kit.  I opened the package, checked the packages, placed them in my Quick Quotes paper holder and completely forgot to go back and do them.  Today during our quiet time I worked on the kits. I try and do either a scrapbook layout or a scrap busting project on Saturdays.  

I normally seem to alter the kits slightly to fit what I need.  I always try maximizing my paper to have very little waste.  I only found out about Quick Quotes during the Scrapbook Expo in 2019 after taking a class. Since then, the Craftlings and I have adored the easy but beautiful kits that they have.  The page kits from November are DP 1236 Family & DP 1237 Blessed and the altered kits are CQ178 Christmas Card Bundle and KICK 178 Gift Card Holder.  

With all the page kits I 'gut' my large sections as long as it will not effect the final layout.  I typically use a .75 to 1.5 - inch to make my borders; it all depends on how I feel about the final design on how much structure that I need.  With smaller photo mats I will use some smaller dies to make tags, banners, alphabets, etc. in the center. 

The original layout:

My remixed layout:

My remix I did not use the 9.25 circle. I changed the flower clusters to make it look more flowerpot-ish verses the wreath look.  I also shifted the large photo mat over to give myself a journaling spot on the right page.  

My leftovers & made elements

I made banners & ribbons from the small photo mats using and Stamps of Life Set - HighlighterPlanner (retiring soon) & the MiniDoubleBanner die. The larger photo mats I gutted to use later, one of them I used to make a photo mat so I did not have to waste from the other page from the kit. 

Scraps from cutting and punchouts:

Once I complete the entire kit I will sit down and play with everything leftover with the bonus pack that comes with the kit.  I can normally get a couple extra layouts as well as a few cards & tags.