I started scrap-booking way back in 2009 when a friend asked me if I wanted to come over and scrap with her one night. At the time I was only thinking it would give me something to do…well, I haven’t stopped since! Honestly, at the time, I thought it was just putting photos down on paper and I think I might have actually said, “you know, they make photo albums for that!”
Anyhow, I have often wanted to go back and “fix” my earlier layouts and
More Than Words gave me the perfect motivation this month! Truthfully I have been wanting to go back and “fix” this particular layout for a while (the before photo is a bit further down!). At the time I made it (mid-2010, according to the date of the photo of the layout), I hadn’t been scrap-booking very long, maybe 7-8 months. I didn’t have a lot of supplies, I think all my paper still fit in a single Iris 3″ Scrapbook Case! Then I found out people sew on their layouts!
“SEW!!! Why didn’t I think of that! I have a sewing machine! I’m gonna sew!”
This months More Than Words Challenge is “Favorite & Scraplift Yourself.”
What does the word FAVORITE inspire you to create?
You can choose to use the actual word somewhere on your project
or simply be inspired by it. Please explain in your blog post
how it inspired you if it isn’t obvious in your work.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens – are these a few of your favorite things? As an extention to our word inspiration this month, we want you to find a favorite old project of your own and SCRAPLIFT YOURSELF! You can copy the design, the colours or any part of the project, so long as the project was created by you. Please share the original project in your post so we can see both the original and the scraplifted pieces.
The word “favorite” has a two part inspiration for me.
- Sewing is still one of my favorite techniques on layouts.
- These are some of my favorite photos! Especially the look on my sons face while the eggs are being counted! (No, that’s not me counting them with him in the photo! I was the one behind the camera!!)
As for scraplifting myself, I lifted technique (sewing), and colors (I actually used paper from the same DCWV stack!)
I took “Reinvent and old favorite” very literally! LOL!!
Ok…are you ready now? Ready to see the original?
Here it is:
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| The original, and my VERY first time sewing on a layout! |
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| The original paper that the original title had been cut from! |
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| What a difference nine years of “practice” makes! |
Cut Files & Fonts (new layout):
- Sweet Pea Sketch (Font) #86121
- PN Flittering Bold (Font) #191827
- SG Easter Egg Dingbats #256084
- Chevron Easter Eggs #121232
- Easter Eggs #24502
Products (new layout):
Coloringz
Studio Calico
- Large Alpha Used For “HUNT”
Pink Paislee
Hip Kit Club
American Crafts
Dear Lizzy
Prima
Die Cuts With A View
- Holiday Stack?? (around 2009-10)
Bazzill
A Flair For Buttons (Etsy)
- All three buttons … at least I’m pretty sure because my collection was “manhandled” by a 2 & 6 yo in April when my niece & nephew came to visit! But who can resist colorful, shiny objects?!?!
13 @rts
idea-ology
Ranger
Tim Holtz
- Peacock Feathers
- Squeezed Lemonade
Silhouette
Uni-Ball
Liquitex
Krylon
Unknown/Unbranded
- Threads
- Washi Tape
- Tissue Paper
- White Cardstock (scrap pile!)
- **All the other patterened papers. (They came in a SSS kit at least two years ago, but SSS “tears” off random chunks of pads …)
Original Layout Products & Fonts (that I can remember):
- “53 Eggs” came from a Cricut Cartridge. I don’t know which one, it’s been a long time! I want to say it had the word “Basic” in it …
Die Cuts With A View
- Holiday Stack?? (around 2009-10)
C.J.'s Corner Scraps 
