May 21st Scrapbook Group Pages

I LOVE the You Rock paper pack!!  These are the pages that we will be making in group this month.  This  paper pack was SO much fun to work with and can easily be used for SO many different subjects.  It is a lot like Caboodle in that it is SO stinkin' versatile!!  This month instead of using the My Reflections Stickease that coordinate with this paper pack, we are using the Rockin' Top Coats.  Everyone will get a FULL package with their kits to use on their pages.

I have to take a moment and reflect a bit on these 2 pages with my now x-SIL and my nephew Cody.  Do you have friends or family that have come and gone in your life that you are no longer friends with, but you still have amazing memories of times spent together and the photos to along with them?  What do you do when that happens?  Do you stop scrapping because things ended not so good?  I wanted to!  But, I started thinking that just because they are not in my life NOW, does not mean that the memories I had THEN were not good ones.  They were.  So scrap them and relive the GOOD times through the pages!!  Even though these pages make me sad now..... I know that I was happy when I took the photos.

One more thought.....when my daughter saw these pages of Tee and Cody she gave a big sigh and with a tear in her eye she said how much she missed her aunt tee.......absolutely heartbreaking.

I did use a few of the My Reflections You Rock Stickease on these 2 pages along with the Rockin' Top Coats for my title and a few accents.  These pictures are of my FIL's retirement party 10 years ago.  And he truly felt "Wild & Free"!!

The pics on the photos below are of my side of the family!  These photos are from the Nebraska Football Game party that I posted a few months back.  Just getting around to scrapping the rest of the pics that my Aunt Judy took while she was vising.

Lastly, I am going to show my group girls how you can use 1 sheet of paper to cover an entire 12x12 page AND use paper from the same piece on the 2nd LO.  This was a technique that I was taught way back when I attended group at my upline Shari's.  I honestly had forgotten all about it until I was making these pages.  I thought, darn!  I don't have enough of the multi dot paper to create both pages!  AAHHH but with a little creative cutting with the trimmer, VWLAH, I do now!!  LOL

Supplies used on these LO's:

Paper: You Rock
Stamps: Cocktail Alphabet, Just be You (from the wotg kit)
Inks: Outdoor Denim, Indian Corn Blue, Honey and Goldrush
Embellishments: Outdoor Denim Mini Medley, Rockin' Top Coats and My Reflections You Rock Stickease

Thanks for stopping by!!

I hope that I have inspired you to get out the photos good times gone by and scrap them despite the relationship that you have now with those in the photos.  It can be very therapeutic......

Happy Scrappin' and Stampin'!!

Jen

Scraplifted card from the new Summer Idea Book.......ssshhhh

Just a little tease!  LOL  And not of any new products, but new art using old products!!  So, as soon as I get my hands on the new Idea Books, the first thing that I do is go through the WHOLE Idea Book and search out ALL the new stuff.  The second thing that I do is go back through to make sure that I did not miss any new stuff the first go round!  LOL 

The third and final thing that I do is go back through ALL of the new art that is displayed using ALL products in the Idea Book.  I almost always find a card, LO or dimensional project that has used a stamp set or paper pack that I had previously over looked or owned but had not thought to use it that way. 

That is what happened as I was going through the soon to be released (May 1st) Summer Idea book.  I found 3 cards using 2 stamp sets and papers that I already owned, but had not thought to use them together.  So, I took 2 of the cards and combined the ideas and came up with this card.......

I was pretty tickled with the way this turned out.  I used CTMH papers You Rock and the stamp sets are  Cottage Floral and Cocktail Alphabet (for the thanks).  I stamped the flower in Sunflower and the inside of the flower is Smokey Plum.  The White Daisy Ric Rac is from the Ric Rac collection and the Outdoor Denim ribbon is from the Outdoor Denim ribbon collection.

HHMMM maybe I will re-create the other 2 cards and post them here to show you how I came up with this card.......I will put that on my 2 do list for next week!  Stay tuned!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

I hope that this has inspired you to take a card, LO, or other project that you LOVE and re-create it to make it all your own!  I have faith that you can do it too!!!

Jen