tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69969780326937790032024-02-06T23:10:26.681-05:00Happy Scrappin'AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-73897379809491812642015-02-16T05:57:00.002-05:002015-02-16T05:57:55.997-05:00Moody Monday 2/16I couldn't resist sharing this adorable mood board from Studio Calico. I loved the teal blue triangles and diamonds, color palette, gold hints here and there, and the layered hearts.<br />
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And so I created this layout of my great niece from this amazing mood board and color palette. I mean, who could resist that face??<br />
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AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-38315952943480814462015-01-11T18:13:00.000-05:002015-01-11T18:14:47.817-05:00New Year - new ideas!So for the last year, my focus on Etsy has been to create Project Life Card sets. And in that process, my blog has definitely taken a back seat. So now, my plan is to share those new items as well as new ideas, finds, and layouts on my blog. New Year - new ideas! With that said...here are three new sets of cards for my blog.<br />
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In addition I have decided to mix up my own album style and while still creating 12 x 12 layouts, I plan to include some project life style pages as well. This should go well with my Universal Studios photos (especially Diagon Alley and Hogsmead) photos. Stay tuned!!AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-52209892404414764252014-07-09T12:43:00.000-04:002014-07-09T12:43:06.437-04:003 x 4 CardsI know that Project Life is really hot these days but I can't bring myself to begin the craze. I love making the 3 x 4 cards to use on layouts and cards though!! I have even opened a new section of my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/FandHMom?ref=listing-shop-header-item-count" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a> to sell them. I often make two sets - one to sell and one for moi!!! Here are a few of my favorites!!!<br />
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AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-66572371942667025772014-02-10T08:56:00.000-05:002014-02-10T08:56:01.930-05:00Moody Monday - 2/10 - Pastel Mood BoardToday, I was inspired by this mood board from Studio Calico. I loved the color scheme, sunburst effect, and the circular theme fit well with my photos. The photos that I scrapped aren't the greatest but I could not resist scrapping them. They are of my great-niece playing in her ball pit. She played hard but in the end the ball pit won!! :)<br />
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I hope that you too can be inspired by this mood board! Happy Monday all!AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-16155707708815392752014-01-20T08:00:00.000-05:002014-01-20T08:00:01.040-05:00Moody Monday - 1/20/14 - Pretty in Pink!As you know, I promised every other Monday I would play with a mood board and create a layout or project based on that board. This Monday, my inspiration comes from a beautiful mood board that I found on Pinterest called Pink Ladies. I loved the amazing textures, flowers, color scheme, and I knew the perfect pictures to go with it. <br />
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And here is the layout that I created of my beautiful daughter going to Homecoming for the first time! Obviously I was inspired by the lace flowers but I also created the trim from muslin and dyed it a light shimmery pink to represent the dress in the mood board. I loved the camera embellishment and couldn't resist adding a camera chalkboard label. I also added a bit of blue and mint to go with the inspiration mood board. I hope you like it!</div>
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AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-83312298016872574282014-01-06T13:25:00.000-05:002014-01-06T13:25:38.307-05:00Moody Monday 1/6/13Who isn't moody on a Monday morning?? Well I recently fell in love with mood boards (little collections of inspiration) to spice up my layouts. My layouts seem to be a bit blah lately and I felt that I needed to include more textures, layers, and frankly some spice. So I decided that every other Monday - twice a month - I would share with you a special mood board and inspired layout. This week's inspiration comes from two places.<br />
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1. I loved the colors and textures in this mood board from <a href="http://onewed.com/">Onewed.com</a>. <br />
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2. The second piece of inspiration revolves around the CUC DT Board. Our challenge this month is to use our stash and scraplift another. So I chose to scraplife Annie C.'s beautiful Be Brave layout. I rotated the design to fit my layout.</div>
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And finally, here is Queen Coco. All hail the queen!!! She truly is the queen of our house. She sits on a furry pillow, gets carried everywhere she goes, rules the cat (and her food might I say), and honestly has a fluffier bed than I do!!! :) So again All Hail COCO!!!<br />
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I was inspired to use the sheer ribbon similar to the invitations, the flower inspired my fluffy flowers, of course there was color inspiration, and I loved the addition of the "book print" in the fan so I included that in the patterned paper and flower. I couldn't resist a little bling like the earrings in the center of the flowers and gems on the crown. Hope you enjoyed my little mood board inspiration. Check back soon!</div>
AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-79286726092955191572013-11-03T09:08:00.001-05:002013-11-03T09:08:06.175-05:00Just a Sketch and a Girl!I loved this sketch from <a href="http://nutsaboutsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nuts About Sketches Blog</a> and couldn't resist creating a layout or two to share with you. Both of these layouts were inspired by Fall and Sketch #289. Hope you like them! <br />
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Here is layout #1 - my great niece having a few Fall photos taken!<br />
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And my daughter and our puppy at the local park!<br />
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AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-78121500132401759262013-10-05T10:11:00.001-04:002013-10-05T10:11:45.508-04:00Happy World Card Making Day - Challenges and Prizes!At CUC this weekend, we are celebrating WCMD with some <a href="http://www.cookinupcreations.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=55" target="_blank">amazing challenges</a> and a beautiful prize! I am so excited and can't wait to play along. So I posted a cute little challenge in honor of Fall Harvest.<br />
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Now I don't make a lot of cards but when I saw this set of stamps from Dear Lizzy, I knew that I had to use it! So the challenge I posted is an embellishment challenge. In honor of fall harvest and all the amazing canning taking place, I challenge you to use a canning jar on your card. It can be a die cut, stamped image, printable, etc. like I did here! <br />
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For the card on the left, I simply stamped the jar and filled with love. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Join us all month long as we celebrate the children going Back to School, the clothes shopping, the school supply lists, the <a href="http://www.cookinupcreations.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2925#" id="_GPLITA_0" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Click to Continue > by Text-Enhance">classes</a> and even the lunch menus!! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Everything </span>related
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The first sketch from Liz:<br />
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All month long we are planning and sharing amazing challenges, games, inspiration, way cool prizes, and much more - friendship! I have been a member of this site for a few years now and love the relationships formed here. Come <a href="http://www.cookinupcreations.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=48" target="_blank">join us</a> for sketch challenges, birthday celebration challenges, unique gift ideas, birthday games like Pin the Tail on the Donkey, and more. We would love to have you! Don't forget to browse the gallery!<br /><br />AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-21247737743833947982013-05-26T11:27:00.002-04:002013-05-26T11:27:48.703-04:00Show and Tell Saturday (kinda) - My favorite Cut FilesOkay, so I know that it is Sunday - sorry graduation parties are keeping me busy - but I wanted to share a few of my favorite Silohuette Files. I received a Silohuette for Christmas and have been hoarding files ever since. I'm kind of a hoarder - Ahem . . . here they are!<br />
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2. I love these gears for boy themed layouts from <a href="http://lessvgdekldezign.blogspot.ca/search?updated-max=2012-07-18T06:00:00-07:00&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=true&start=28&by-date=false" target="_blank">KLDezign</a>:<br />
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3. Perfect for Project Life or any layout - Also from <a href="http://lessvgdekldezign.blogspot.ca/search/label/svg" target="_blank">KLDezign</a>:<br />
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4. I love this star and circle border from <a href="http://store.chictags.com/chtafrcutfic.html" target="_blank">Chic Tags</a>:<br />
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6. And even though you have to pay for these from <a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/digital/digital-cut-files/" target="_blank">Two Peas</a>:<br />
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Just thought that I'd share! ;) Enjoy!<br /><br />AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-37535231684885323862013-05-11T08:26:00.000-04:002013-05-11T08:26:20.395-04:00Summer Scrappy Goals - Show and Tell SaturdayOne of the things that I love about teaching is the summer. No, I don't get the summer off with classes, planning, redoing curriculum, learning new techniques, etc, but I do get some time to work on projects that I can't get done in the regular school year. Most of the time my evenings are spent cooking, cleaning, grading papers, making seating arrangements, or falling asleep on the couch! So I thought that I would share a few scrappy/altered ideas that I want to do this summer!<br />
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1. I love anything that displays photos so when I saw this wreath from <a href="http://tryitdoit.com/2012/12/16/picture-frame-memory-wreath/" target="_blank">Try It Do It</a>, I knew I must try it. I have tons of old photos that have been passed along to me and my plan is to make copies and display. My family would love to see my Great Grandmother, her great grandparents, etc!<br />
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2. I want to make this perpetual journal from Meredith Winston for next year - and maybe even do one to finish this year. I then can record awesome memories all year long - and as my kids have my sense of humor, it is always interesting to hear the stuff that comes out of their mouth!<br />
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3. I must decorate my hallway going up the stairs like they did <a href="http://carothrift.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. I painted last year and hope to decorate this year. I love the extra embellishments here and would love to add some vinyl quotes as well!<br />
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4. And who could resist this display by <a href="http://weddingbycolor.com/">weddingbycolor.com</a>? These would be so cute on the mantel up the stairs!<br />
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5. And finally, I am absolutely in LOVE <3 a="" album="" camera="" from="" href="http://bobunny.blogspot.com" mini="" shaped="" target="_blank" this="" with="">Bo Bunny</3><br />
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So those are my summer goals for this year. I would add more but this is also my home improvement time and I have tons to do! Hope you can take some inspiration from this post and use it in your home! I will post my progress as the summer begins - OFFICIALLY JUNE 10th at 2:30 pm but who's counting???? :)<br />
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<br />AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-53238066384715331092013-05-05T08:32:00.000-04:002013-05-05T08:33:18.974-04:00Re-using Sketches????There are so many amazing sketches out there to inspire and challenge us on a daily basis but I began thinking . . . (yep dangerous) . . . and sometimes I come across a sketch that I want to use more than once. My worry is that my pages may start to look the same so I try to mix it up a bit and use older picts on one and newer on the re-used sketch layout so they won't be so close together in my albums.<br />
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That definitely works but this time around I wanted to use the same sketch in the same album (livin' on the edge!) So I thought that I might try to angle the sketch so it won't be so obvious!<br />
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I re-used this sketch from <a href="http://sketcheswithatwist.blogspot.com/2013/01/february-sketch-and-twist.html" target="_blank">Sketches with a Twist</a> - and changed up the angle and embellishments.<br />
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Here is the first layout:<br />
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and the second angled layout!<br />
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So that's it! Re-using favorite sketches with a slight twist! Try it out!AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-20863785136108338752013-04-27T09:10:00.000-04:002013-04-27T09:10:00.197-04:00Sketch Mania! Show 'n Tell Saturday!Now you all know that I love sketches! Every layout that I create (ok maybe not EVERY layout but most) starts with a sketch of some sort. Here are a few of my favorites lately!<br />
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This first sketch comes from <a href="http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2012/03/designing-with-arrows-template.html" target="_blank">Ideas for Scrapbookers</a> and I knew that I wouldn't be able to resist try it out since it was so unique!<br />
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And here is a layout of my son and some friends on Superhero Day. Please excuse the dorky costumes!!!<br />
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And this sketch come from <a href="http://nutsaboutsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nuts about Sketches</a>. I chose to only do the left side but I loved the way it turned out!<br />
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This next sketch also comes from the same site!<br />
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And finally, one last sketch from <a href="http://sketchabilities.blogspot.ca/2013/03/sketch-88-design-team-reveal.html" target="_blank">Sketchabilities</a>.<br />
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<br />AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-48015218080482075922013-04-21T10:34:00.002-04:002013-04-21T10:34:58.374-04:00Washi Tape ButtonsGood Sunday Morning everyone! I just thought that I would pop by and share a quick little tutorial that I did this morning. In my surfing on Pinterest (Yes I know it is addicting) I found this cute little tutorial on Washi tape covered tacks and thought - hmmmmm . . . buttons? brads? So I thought that I would give it a little try. Here is what I came up with:<br />
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1. Gather supplies - Unwanted buttons - My father picks up tons of buttons at garage sales for me and so I have a tons of those not-so-appealing white ones, washi tape, a darning needle or piercer, and maybe an exacto knife.<br />
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2. Lay your button on the washi tape tape sticky side up and trim around the edge.<br />
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3. Begin folding up the edges and run your nail along the edge to secure.<br />
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4. Finally put the large end of your needle or piercer through the holes and wiggle a bit til you get the desired effect.<br />
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5. Now I like the rough edges at times but sometimes I like a cleaner edge so on the green and teal buttons, I trimmed around the edge with an exacto knife!<br />
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Here is a layout that I created using teal buttons with a rough edge. My daughter loved the One Direction store at the MOA!<br />
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Extend that washi tape and try these out!<br />
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1. First, a <a href="http://paperiliitin.blogspot.com/2013/02/washi-tape-feather-tutorial.html?m=1" target="_blank">tutorial</a> from Paperiliitin. This tutorial shows how to make feathers from Washi tape and a bit of wire! So cute!!! I had to try it out!<br />
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2. I love the idea of making my own twist ties for layouts and cards as they did here in this cute <a href="http://organizeyourstuffnow.com/wordpress/washi-tape-twist-ties" target="_blank">tutorial</a> from Organize & Decorate Everything - a bit of wire and Washi Tape - That's it! <br />
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3. How about <a href="http://www.littleloveliesbyallison.com/2012/06/tutorial-washi-tape-stickers.html" target="_blank">Washi stickers</a> from Allison???? Just some label backing and washi tape!<br />
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4. I even found a <a href="http://hamblyscreenprints.typepad.com/screen_prints_blog/2011/07/dt-tutorial-by-kim.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a> on how to print on Washi Tape from Hambly Screen Prints:<br />
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I hope that you are inspired to play with a bit of Tape this weekend! Enjoy!AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-7890916084259353182013-04-02T08:00:00.000-04:002013-04-02T08:00:12.067-04:00A few Sketches from Nuts About Sketches!I love the uniqueness of Shawn's sketches at Nuts About Sketches. Here are a few recent sketches and layouts!<br />
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And here is my layout:<br />
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And my layout:<br />
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(Funny story and side note about this layout - The boy on the left with my husband . . . not a member of my family. My husband saw him and just invited him into the picture! And he did!!! His family just laughed and said that they could see their family doing the same thing! Phew! At least they didn't see my husband as a creeper!)<br />
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<br />AlteredDivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04105518131822106611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996978032693779003.post-9130962481709720532013-03-16T17:36:00.001-04:002013-03-16T17:36:12.403-04:00The Leprechauns are Upon Us! - Show and Tell SaturdayAnd with them they brought a rainbow and a pot of gold! I thought that I would just share a Pinterest inspired layout this weekend with St. Patty's Day soon to be here. I loved this layout from Carolynn at Designer Digitals. I loved the way that the rainbow colored patterned paper peeks out from around the cardstock and the cute little arrow. So without further ado, the layout:<br />
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And my scraplift:<br />
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Happy St. Patty's Day everyone! I hope the leprechauns share their gold with you this weekend! <br />
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Around Christmas my brother found a cute little gift (gross but cute) called BEAN-boozled. It was a crazy game where you spin a spinner that shows you a jelly belly. Now you choose a jelly belly of that color and the trick is one flavor is yummy and the other gross. So you choose Peach or Vomit, Strawberry or Centipede, Licorice or Skunk-spray, well . . . you get the idea. So on Christmas Day I had to take pictures of the "fun." The circles in <a href="http://nutsaboutsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nuts about Sketches</a> sketch 250 reminded me of the spinner and I had to scrap.<br />
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Next, as Spring Break draws nearer, I began to think about Disney (and all the photos that I have yet to scrap!) So when I saw the <a href="http://nutsaboutsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nuts About Sketches</a> 251 sketch and the large photo, I decided to change it up a bit and scrap a few 5 x 7's that I had lying around. Secret: I also wanted to try "paper piecing" with clip art on my new Silohuette Cameo. Here is the sketch:<br />
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