NYC album product picks

 Back in May I want to New York City with my Mother-in law, sister-in law and my mom. We had the best trip and NYC will always have a special place in our hearts! I did a little post about it HERE. I knew the whole time that I would make a whole album (maybe not WHOLE album) to document our fun trip. So here are most of the products that I have set aside to use.

Pretty much all my embellishment, photos, and letter stickers are kept in this box from Ikea (its an old one). Im really liking that everything that I would need is here and I dont have to go look for something that would work. Let take a closer look at whats inside. 

Here are some of the letter stickers I have pulled out for this collection. I must admit I have gone back to my stash and used other ones. But thats something I let myself do because I knew not all these would work for all the layouts and I would eventually run out of letters. 

This is what I call the "sticker" embellishments  its a mix of different company's and collections but they work well with the paper I have picked. It seems like a lot, but I noticed that I don't really use that many stickers, so I'm really hopping to make a dent in my stash and push myself to use what I have. 

This is what I call the "small" embellishments. Mostly brads and stamps, and cameras! I love the way Shimell.com has a repeating "theme" going through her travel album, and thats craft cardstock and cameras, even though all the papers are different. My papers are pretty much the same through out the album but I just LOVE all the camera motif out there right now and I wanted to take advantage and add it to my NYC album too. 

This is the washi Tape I'm hoping to add in my pages. I too many that i don't use and would love to add more of it in my pages. And Polaroid frames and some old Amy Tangerine product im hoping to use up.  

These are the large chip board and sticker sheets that came with the papers I'm using. I love everything about them! 

Along with the paper these I did not put in the Ikea-box-of-goodness I was worried that the cut-aparts would get lost or forgotten with the other fun embellishments I had pulled out so it has its own little tray.

Last but not least, the paper! The main paper I'm working with is Crate paper "story teller" collection. Then I added Simple stores called Urban traveler, and also pulled out an older collection by Basic grey but don't remember the name. 

And all that's left is my Photos and memorabilia, these live in the Ikea box.

Hope you come back soon and see what I'll be doing with all this pretty product! As of right now I have 12 layouts! Yay! I've been working hard and has so much fun! I'll be post more soon! 

May Haul

So I haven't been around lately, but I'm really hoping to post at least once a week. No promises. We're really close to getting the house done and I don't know how much time I'll have with crafting and blogging. I've been really inspired with the beautiful paper product that are out there lately and of course the awesome layout pages that come with them. I have a stack of prints that are waiting to be put in my albums that are really old. Like 1950s old. So I got some pretty paper that I thought would go nicely. Plus with my recent trip to NYC I wanted to make sure I documented it well with fun travel themed paper. These products are mostly from Crate Paper, American Crafts, Simple Stories and a bit of Studio Calico.

Can't wait to be in my own craft room playing with all the great Paper!

Bday Haul

My birthday was last week and I'm just now getting around to post my Bday Haul. I'm bad, I really shouldn't have spent so much, but its my bday right?

I meanly got Crate Paper, the little boy blue is going to be for my son's birth photos and I was planning on buying it anyways. Studio calico wood veneers was a must! they are so darn cute! As for the other crate paper collection, well that's where I was bad. I've been eyeing to for the longest time! Plus when I saw THIS blog post by Sasha Farina I fell more in love *wink*. And actually I'm in the middle of working on a project with that collection, and here is a hit, its really similar to what Sasha Farina has done. Can't wait to get back to scraping! Have a great weekend!

Oh and whats this your ask? well is my Bday present that I've been dreaming of for a while. A tattoo! Crazy I know! what do you think!

CHA Favorites

So as we all know CHA is going on in the Windy-city and I wish I could be there. But its alright I get to see all the new goodies that are coming out soon from the comfort of my home! My favorite thing about Summer CHA is that they start to release the Christmas lines. Those are some of my all time fav, plus I start looking into what I'm going to buy for that season! cant wait! Anyways here are some of my Favorites that are coming to the stores soon. I've link all of them so that you can see the whole collections.

Aspen Frost by Basic Grey:

Studio Calico:

Studio Calico, Year book:

Crate Paper, Acorn Avenue

October Afternoon, Woodland park

My Minds Eye, All is Bright 

AC. Dear Lizzy,  5th & Frolic

AC. Amy Tangerine, Ready Set Go

Echo Park this & that Christmas 

Echo Park, Very Merry Christmas

Scrapbook Haul video

Just a quick video of a scrapbook haul! Usually don't make video buts its something I would like to do more of! Enjoy!

My Minds Eyes- Lime Twist

Crate Paper- Paper Hearts 

Gray Doodle Twine

Studio Calico Paper

Scoth ATG tape

Simon Says Stamp "oh happy day"  craft die

Simon Says Stamp "BRILLIANT AND STRONG" Craft DIe

Mat Stack 3 Collection Stamp Set

Tag-its #10 Mini Stamp Set

Mat Stack 3 Die

Wonderful Words Die Collection

Scrap Haul

Recently bought some fun papers and other goodies that I cant wait to play with!! The first 8 papers are by My Minds Eye, Miss Caroline collection. And I know just want photos I'm going to scrapbook! Also from that collection I got some of the journaling and title cards; and some really pretty blue Twine! so excited to use it! It's such a bit trend right now and I've been look to buy some for a while now. Then on the right side I got a 6x12 page protectors for some layout I have in mind that need just a little more space to add photos and journaling. Also bought washi Tape from the Amy Tangerine, I just love the grey one with little people on it! Its so versatile. The last 2 papers on the bottom are Dear Lizzy from the Neapolitan Collection. I'll be back soon with some Layouts using this haul! Can't wait to play with my new stuff!

Scrap Haul

Just got back from my local scrapbook store and they have a lot of new stuff!! yay!

 I wasn't really planning on buy any of the new Echo Park collections but when I saw their Journaling cards paper (Below) I couldn't help but think on how great they would be for birthday cards!! right? so of course I couldn't just buy that one page, and the I found some more papers collections that I fell in love. This collection is call "This and That Graceful" 

Loving the large flower paper! its gonna be perfect for my  cards.

this page is a win-win! its got the nice polka dots in front and the back is a tone on tone brown grid that i'm looking forward to using.

I'm not too crazy about the rulers but I got the page for its B-side. Its a nice tone on tone cream color with a little swirl design.

Again not a big fan of borders but these are nice a wide. Plus with all the different designs I thought it could be the perfect little touch on a card.

This next collection is called "This and That Charming" . I think its such a cute boy collection, and at the same time it could be used for everyday or family themed! So once I saw Graceful (being a girl collection) I just knew I had to get the Journaling cards and make some boy/ masculine birthday cards.

When I saw this page with all the tags I right away know I was gonna cut it up and use it for journaling cards on my scrapbook layouts. And the yellow on the B-side goes well with the Graceful collection ;)

Hello cameras! I think the only reason I got this pages was for the awesome looking cameras! eeekk! I just love them! Another page I'm planning to cut up and use! The B-side is also a really nice ledger that I'm planning to use.... maybe I should have bought 2 of these pages. Guess I'll have to got shopping again ;)

Being that this is a boy theme collection I though that the rulers may just look good, and the B-side is the reason I got the page anyways.

Another page I got for its B-side, its has this really cool tone on tone swirl/circles design, I cant really explain but it looks really cool.

Another great boarder page that I thought would be great to use and the b-side is a really small chevron pattern.

Another great line by Echo Park Papers is called Note to Self. Just like the other 2 lines I just had to have the Journaling page.

How cool is this page? Totally reminds me of my childhood! I'm thinking about cutting the circles out and using them instead of doilies on more masculine layouts.

Here is another great page I'm thinking about cutting up and using the words for cards. And if not then the B-side has nice polka dot on blue.

More boarders to use up!

The other thing I got was these 2 Dear Lizzy pages. The lady said they  sold out on the collection within days! ha! these are some of the last pages they have! Good thing I bought the collection last time I went shopping.