End of Summer, Day 4: Scrapbooking serendipity

Sometimes I select product to use, and it takes me forever. Other times things just fall together like fate.

Case in point: I went to Archiver's recently to get adhesive. I left with adhesive, Basic Grey patterned paper, and My Mind's Eye tags and stickers. I put the products in a pile and left them.

As I looked at them together over the week, I thought, "Man! Those look good toegther." Mind you, I didn't buy them for that reason. But they did look great together.

As a result, I decided to use them together on the same page. Here it is (the extra products come from the Studio Calico August kit Summer of 69):

I scrapped my meeting fellow Club CK peep Alison M, also a fellow Mainer. (Maniac?)  I met her IRL on our vacation to Maine this summer on our way to Acadia. We took photos, being scrapbookers, and I thought my new, look-so-good-together product would work well on the page, since it was sort of about travel and the map worked for that, and it was definitely about girls, and the pink would look good with that.

Sometimes putting together product is a struggle. And sometimes it's not. I like the latter.

So tell me: do you like picking the product to use on your pages? Or is that your least favorite part?

CK peeps weekend

A couple weekends ago I went to Scrapbooks Too in Bloomington to scrap with my CK peeps! We had a terrific time. I was so glad to meet them IRL, and they are just as nice and funny as they are on the boards!

Here's a few of the pages I worked on then (click on images to see them larger):

I did the stamping and embossing at the crop, but I'd started the page at home. This is a little more technique heavy than I normally do. The stamped image is the yellow bubble border, which looks a little like patterned paper. And I love my cat in this photo. Doesn't she look wistful...


Like the last page, I started this page at home and did the stamping and embossing at the crop. The yellow bubbles are an embossed stamp. And I love the play on words in the title, "Co(s)mic Justice." I also felt great using older papers.

Just for info sake, the photo was blurry, so I used a 70's action on it--I think it was Pioneer Woman?

This one I made completely at the crop, my last page that I made out of Studio Calico's December kit. I made myself use the two pieces of the Making Memories Christmas paper, neither one of which I liked as they were--too busy!--but when 80% of the paper is covered by photos, it looks pretty good!

I like how I used the envelope on the side to house the title. To make the letter stickers stand out on the polka dots, I used a Jenni Bowlin Paint Dauber to cover the pattern a little. Those daubers are my new favorite toys.

Another one I started at home. I added the complementary paper strip on the bottom to balance the top.


This page I started at the crop and finished at home. I used the WRMK line "Maple Grove," which I won through a Scrapbook and Cards drawing for Project 12. LOVE that line. Unfortunately, I ran out of the brown woodgrain, so I used an orange woodgrain on the second page, then added a border trim on the bottom of each to balance it and make it look purposeful. And check out what ancient supply I cracked open on the rub-ons:

Yes, that's white flock. I used my clear glue pen and just sprinkled that all over the cloud. Clouds should be fluffy...

And for some fun...

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Club CK Blog Hop!

Welcome to the “Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall!” Blog Hop, hosted by a talented group of ladies from Club CK. If you did not arrive here from Amy Chretin's blog, please go to the beginning of the hop at Virtually Froggy and follow the blog hop in order. By following the blog hop from beginning to end you will collect words to a secret phrase which will make you eligible for the grand prize. The details for grand-prize entry are posted at the start of the blog hop. You won't want to miss it!

Here's the project I did to memorialize the end of summer:

We had a perfect summer day yesterday, sunny but not too hot, a nice breeze, and a day at the local playground with friends. The corn in the background really is as high as an elephant's eye, which means it's time for fall.

I used my August Studio Calico kit called Summer Camp for it. I also played around with PSE 7 and made a template for all the photos. I left two spots blank and put the patterned paper there. I SO wanted to stitch but ran out of time. Thank goodness for pens.

Thank you for coming to my blog! The secret word is WAVE. Now hop on over to Annie's blog for your final clue!