a little vintage feeling

Holy smokes, it's been a busy couple of weeks, topped off with an incredibly jam-packed weekend!  Not much time for scrapbooking, but I wanted to share a layout for a wedding album (not mine) that I'm working on.

I'm super excited for this album!  The wedding colours were red/white/black but it took place a few days before Christmas, and was the snowiest day of the year.  Since white and black are both neutrals, I wanted to bring another colour into the mix, but thought green would make it a bit too Christmas-y and would take the focus off the whole wedding theme, so I opted for blue since it adds to the winter feel of the wedding.
 

I am a huge fan of wood vaneer and tend to use it on almost every layout, and most of the time, I like it's natural look.  But every now and then, I love to dress it up, and using some blue pigment ink was a lot of fun, and made the arrows pop off the page.  The plain wood was blending in a bit too much for my liking against the kraft cardstock.

Let's not forget about my constant affection for mists, too, and how I rarely ever use them in a misting format, and almost always as a splatter effect!  And it was made even better with the red sparkly/glittery dots (from an old Christmas collection from Recollections) strewn in among the blue (Mister Huey's in Honor Society) - they added the right amount of texture and fun.

Speaking of glitter... who doesn't adore some glitter tape and glitter Thickers (both from American Crafts)?  I certainly can't seem to pass up the opportunity to add some sparkle to pages, and clearly went a bit glitter-crazed on this particular page. ;)  The smaller blue letter stickers are one of my favourites also from AC.

This layout was too much fun, and it came together very easily (all thanks to a little sketch inspiration from 2 Broke Girls Scrapbook).  Hope you all are having a great week!

Happy scrapping!
Dalreen xo

Ice Cream & Broken Car Windows...

What a busy weekend it's been so far!  I have 2 layouts to share this afternoon (one very recent and one about a week old - both from my personal albums).  Any guesses as to what they might be about?  :]

  

 

Okay, so we didn't actually break any car windows THIS weekend (we actually just got a new car not to long ago!) as this happened last year, but I just got around to scrapping it a few weeks ago.  Side note: Yes, the car was very dirty, and yes, we used cardboard and duct tape to create a make-shift window.  Surprisingly, it actually worked for a month at the beginning of winter (we live in Canada, and at the peak of winter it can get to -40C) which was incredible and also a life-saver! 

 

Papers I used include some older Webster's Pages for the background, I believe (but I'm not 100% sure), some My Mind's Eye and 3Bugs in a Rug (the A-sides were very cat themed, but the B-sides provided some really great yellow and pinkish-red tone on tone designs).  I used silver Thickers for part of the title, and some smaller Glitz alphas in turquoise/red for the date and rest of the title.  Silver washi tape, a yellow button, Pink Paislee embellishments (the chipboard elements and cream photo tab), and some black doodling and outlining finished it off!  There's actually a video on how this layout came together here. 

 

I have been waiting and waiting for the perfect chance to use this awesome sunburst paper, and I FINALLY just went ahead and used it today (instead of staring at it and hoarding it for my stash just because it's so beautiful and cheerful).

Am I the only one that likes to scrapbook my ice cream addiction?  I sure hope not!  But other than just my love of ice cream, there is another side story to this photo which includes a solo celebration of my brother's birthday since he lives so far away.

The only two papers I used here were both from the Splash collection by Echo Park: the sunburst paper is called Sunshine, and the blue waves that I cut up into arrows is called Whales.  The white foam letter thickers are from Amy Tangerine in Journal, and the other one are American Crafts glitter chipboard in Sunrise.  Oh, how I love my glitter!  To finish it off, I used some self adhesive rhinestones from Abi's Craft (back when she was having her 90% closing down sale, I collected a whole bunch of these in a variety of colours and LOVE them!) in Bright Yellow. 

 

This is probably one of my favourite layouts, even though it's really simple!  I hope you guys like it as much as I do, and find some inspiration in it.  

Happy Sunday Scrapping, everyone! :]

Love and hugs,

Dalreen xo

Welcome!

So, the website has been up and running now for almost a month, and I couldn't be happier with it.  We also got our Facebook page set up, which has been great, and I thought that a blog section to the site might also be fun!  This way, aside from the service business, I now have a place to talk about all the scrappy goodness I get to enjoy, and post about layouts in more detail (other than what is already in the projects section), with more pictures, and even let you in on the videos that get posted to YouTube.  There may also be a few posts about the joys I get to endure in my everyday life. :]

This weekend is going to be great because I get to spend the majority of it in front of my craft desk creating memories!  And this weekend's projects include some daily "little moment" layouts, a few wedding layouts for a winter wedding album, and a lot of baby/child layouts for a baby book which my client will be giving as Christmas gifts!  I'm very excited about it all, and the reason I love scrapbooking!  Creating memories is one thing, but preserving them for life is something else, and that's wonderful!  I'll have some sneak peaks, hopefully by the end of the weekend.  :]

I hope you all have a wonderful mid-summer weekend - it's the perfect weather for camping and barbeques!  Enjoy it, and live life... so you can scrapbook it!  :]

Love and hugs,

Dalreen xo