Bucket List Challenge

I am a subscriber to Heather's Crafty Life and she posted a video on You Tube for her subscribers to scrapbook their bucket list.  So I did the challenge.  I used Fancy Pants Grunge Paper Rough & Tumble for the background, MME Now and Then Mixed Bag for the numbers.  The Chevron paper is MME Now and Then collection.  The flowers are Making Memories Paper Reverie Metallique.  The ribbon is The Paper Studio Burlap Ribbon with lace.  I also used EK success scrabble letters.

The buckets I made for a swap I was in over on the Yahoo Group Scrap-a-holic Anonymous.  My bucket list (since I did my main bucket list item of going to New York) is:

1.  Sit on the beach on the east coast in the fall.
2.  Read the entire Bible.  I've read most of it but not ALL of it.
3.  Find a Geocache in ever state in America.
4.  Go to Branson.  I don't live far from Branson and my friends go all the time but I have never gone.

Mistletoe Manor

This is my first Christmas house from a file from www.svgcuts.com called Mistletoe Manor.

#Selfie layout

I wanted to capture my daughter's (and most of the population of the world's) obsession with selfies.  So, I got on all of her social media sites and pulled off a ton of selfies she has taken of just herself and her with her friends.  There are 29 on this layout and I think they are all from a span of 3 months.

I also wanted to capture the hashtag (#) popularity hence the title #SELFIE.  I had a flare that said "But first, Let me take a selfie" and then one that says "Oh snap" and a flare with a camera and the word "click" in the lens.  Those all went very well with the theme.  I used a camera motif background & put all the photos in film strips that I cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  I also used the Silhouette software to size my photos to fit the holes in the film strips, added my title in black foam letters, typed journalling and a few homemade enamel dots.  Finally, I added a cartoon image of older ladies taking a selfie and told my daughter that was her and her friends years from now.

Recipe organizer box with file from Kathy Orta

This is my recipe organizer box I made with a file from Kathy Orta at paper phenomenon.


File box from Kathy Orta at paper phenomenon











This shows the drawer that houses the shopping list/coupon organizer and a pencil and whatever else you need.



Here is the shopping list/coupon organizer from the Silhouette online store.  silhouette online store
The file has a ton of score lines.  I personally prefer to manually score my fold lines so I don't have those little cut lines.  So, I used a pencil in my pen holder and drew the score lines on and then used my score board and scoring tool to score the lines.  Then I erased the pencil lines and love how that technique worked.  I plan on using that technique whenever I have a file that has fold lines (score lines)

Design ID #64294
8/05/2014

Here is my version.  I Googled shopping list and found the list.  I love the way Shopping & List are overlapped.  I just had to re-size it a bit to fit my organizer.  Have to say I am not a belly band fan so I may change that to a strap with a Velcro or tie or snap or something.

This is the inside of the box showing where the recipes will go on the right and the binder and take out folder on the left.  I have yet to line the box but will get to it soon.

This is the binder that houses the days of the week divider tabs (which I have not finished).  I will also put Planner or Weekly Meals or something on the binder edge and maybe something decorative on the front.  Maybe a metal label frame with a title inside of it.

This is the take out menu folder.  I am going to add Take Out Menus to the tab.

It Runs in the Family layout

I had the opportunity to play "Matron" the hospital head nurse in a stage show, 'It Runs in the Family' a very funny British comedy.

I enjoyed many parts of the show but picked, what I thought, gave an overall view of the hilarity that ensued on stage in this layout.  This is also from a sketch on Scrap-a-holics anonymous on Yahoo Groups.  I have attached the sketch as well as my layout.  Oh yeah, I won the sketch contest.  Yeah me!  LOL

SVG Cuts dress form

This is a dress form I made using the svgcuts.com dress form file.  I love SVG files!  I think the next one I make I will use stiffer card stock for the base and stand.  I plan on making one for my daughter to use to decorate the bathroom at her haunted house she is working.  I plan on using black card stock and tulle with Halloween paper.  To give it that haunted house feel I will put blood dripping from the neck and arm areas and plastic spiders on the tulle and on the base.  I will post a picture when I get it done.  This set came with a hat box a couple of cards and a lipstick box.  I want to make them all.  This dress form took almost three hours to complete.

This is the one I made for my daughter to put in the bathroom at the haunted house she is helping with.  Not very scary but I still love it.  I need black or red tulle but alas I have none.  Black with spiders would be amazing.  I love svcuts.com.  Great cut files with video tutorials to help you put them together.  No, I'm not affiliated with them but they are the only cut files I buy other than the Silhouette online store files.  Oh yeah, on the Halloween one, I added beads to the inside of the pedestal pole to make it more sturdy.  I think I should have added some to the base as well.  There is always next time.  I have a seamstress or two that work for me when our theatre group does shows.  I'm always looking for clever gifts.  I will be making them these filled with candy or sewing notions as a thank you for the next go-around of costumes.  Good way to give a gift card to a sewing shop, clothing store gift card for a teenager, crochet hook and gift card, earrings and money, the list goes on and on.

Backyard Fire layout

I purchased the fire paper while in Wisconsin because I knew I wanted to do a layout of us having a back yard fire.  I used some of the PL cards from the September Scraptastic Club kit and a flair I had laying on my desk.  I made the title with my Silhouette Cameo using print & cut.