Makeover ~ Smash Style

Hi ~ Today is my Guest Design Spot Day at The Bug Bytes.  Today I created a "Smash"ing layout.  My friend Allison nominated me for a makeover last summer at our local outdoor mall.  Me and two other ladies got clothes to model and a makeover from Ulta.  It was so fun.  I used these extra photos to create a layout in my Smash Book.  

I am a little uncomfortable just "Smashing" random things, so this looks more like a typical layout....but I am trying!!

I used Quarter Note to weld my title.  The letters are sized to 1.42 inches.

I needed to cover up this flower paper (it was too much for me!) so I made a fold-out page on the left side.

I used my circle punches to create the tab and smaller photos to use in place of embellishments.

My son was our driver.  He drove us from the courtyard area to Ulta and back.  You can see him here checking his phone bored out of his mind!!!

To add interest, I wanted to use some Washi tape, but I did not have any that really matched the color scheme I was using.  So I made my own Washi tape!

I bought Nexcare medical tape to make my own Washi tape.

I put strips of tape on wax paper and used my stamp pad inks to color the tape.  Then I used rubber stamps to create designs on the tape.

Make sure you give the ink a chance to try before you stamp the images on.

I used several stamps from my stash to experiment.  For this layout, I used Dictionary from Pink by Design.

I hope you give the tape tutorial a try ~ it was fun!

Thanks Pam for having me over at TheBugBytes today!!!

Smash ~ All About Me

I just finished my second 2-page smashout.  I wanted a page all about me at the beginning of my smash book.

I started with a couple of my favorite photos and my 2 favorite colors:  purple and lime green!

I journaled with the help of my computer as my right hand is still in a cast.

I love taking pictures and creating scrapbooks!

I love Disney and my family :) not always in that order!!

I found this quote on facebook.

I used the following Cricut Carts:

Sophisticated for the font

MS Seasonal Art Cake for the banner

Cricut Everyday for the Scrapbook Queen and Cricut symbol

Graphically Speaking for got kids?

Art Philosophy for the doily, tag and parenthesies

Smash It Summer Fun!

I found some inspiration and decided to enter a Smash Challenge.  Smash books have been so ~ well scary to me!  I am great at collecting things but not great at Smashing....yet!

Karin from Smash Addicts posted a 2-page Summer challenge and I wanted to give it a try! 

I use my Gypsy most of the time so naturally I grabbed her and got designing.  Most of you know I broke my right wrist and I am right handed.  I can not easily sketch my layouts right now, but I can size up the pieces on my Gypsy!!

I used the font from Cherry Limeade and sized the letters to 1.5".

The pool is from H2O sized to 3.3"

The sun is from H2O sized to 1.5"

Home plate is from Baseball sized to 2.53"

The ball players, also from Baseball, are sized to 1.82"

I cut everything out from cardstock scraps.

I used Paper trimmimgs to cut out this 12" border of daisies.

Journaling is difficult for me right now, so I typed:

Soccer Mom

Baseball, Baseball, Baseball

In the pool

Vacation Fun

Flower Lust

I Love Summer

6-15-12, 22nd day in my cast

Everything else is from my stash.

Thanks for the inspiration!!

Mini Smash Book (Memories In Tyme Blog Hop)

Welcome to the Memories in Tyme blog hops - where you will find some seriously talented people who love to share their ideas with you!

If you are looking for my BugBytes Guest Design post, please go HERE.

Our hop today and tomorrow is anything relating to mini albums - doesn’t matter the size as long as it’s mini and it’s an album!!! This is Lynda’s favorite project - making mini albums - where you can take a set of pictures and scrapbook them and complete a project in a day or less! Great for gifts for special people, (Mothers Day is coming up you know), and just fun to showcase a trip, birthday or shower even!

Now, if you just happened upon my blog, then please go back to the beginning which is at Lynda’s blog (http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/). Besides, the beginning is always the best anyway!!!

Here is a complete line up in case you get lost along the way:

1.  Lynda - http://www.memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/

2.  Rhonda - http://scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/

3.  Suzanne - http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/

4.  Shannon - http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/

5.  Anita - http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/

6.  Lori - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/****HERE***

7.  Blue - http://www.craftingwithblue.blogspot.com/***NEXT***

8.  Vicki - http://mawmawsthoughts.blogspot.com

9. Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com

With Smash Books being all the rage, I started collecting things to put into mine.  I keep all of my left over cricut cuts and cute paper and embellishments in a folder.  The problem is, I just can't seem to put anything in my book just yet ~ fear of commitment!!!  I am afraid to stick something down just in case I find a better place for it later.....lame I know but that is the truth!  

My son is a junior and has already been invited to several Graduation parties, so I decided to make a mini Smash Book as a graduation gift for one of the girls!  I just might need to make some more!!

I started with these large tags from 7 Gypsies and some of my cricut cuts, scrap paper and a coin envelope. I added my Zutter Bind-it-all and a little ink and got started.

Inside the front cover I added DREAM and a pocket.  I cut the top of a coin envelope off and used a circle punch to cut a half circle.  I put some Tim Holtz tickets inside the pocket.  I punched the side of this burgundy left over shape and added it to my book.

I included this Things to Do tag.

I layered some papers and added them to the book.

I created a pocket with this striped paper and put some smaller beige cardstock papers inside.

I punched holes in this Bingo Card and added it to the center of these two pages.

I inked a red LOVE cut out with some brown to distress it and smashed it to the back cover.

Thank you for checking out my project, now follow the links below and remember to visit all the stops for MAXIMUM ideas and LOTS OF FUN!!! Next up on the hop is BLUE, make sure you check out her fun project!!!