Bright Sunshiney Day

It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day. I need some little music note emoticons. This page was created for the Scrap Your Stash Challenge over at Two Peas in a Bucket. If you haven't checked them out yet you should. (The link is above) Every year one of their free classes gets me and this year it's Scrap Your Stash. (Not that i have much of a "Stash" to scrap) 

Last Thursdays Video was all about using your stamps on a layout. I am not a big stamper, mainly because stamps intimidate me. I can never get a good impression OR once I put it on it doesn't look right. Unfortunately ink is permanent and once it is there...It's There! So, I took a step outside of my comfort zone and gave it a try. Lilith Eeckels...You really got me going and I have to say I am happy with the results.

Sorry for the dim photos but it had started getting cloudy.

That "Summer" banner you see there under the flower is a Pink Paislee Stamp, Stamped onto Vellum and then stapled to some card stock that I Printed a chevron pattern onto. It is actually a bit brighter in person but the wind was blowing and it would not stay down.

 So the hearts all around the page were stamped using a reverse mask. I simply cut my shape out of a piece of scrap paper and then taped it to the page with washi tape so that it wouldn't slide around and then stamped through it. All of the hearts were done with the same stamp I just moved it around a bit so that the pattern wouldn't be the same.

For the rest there is: Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic, Amy Tangerine Sketchbook, October Afternoon Mini Market Alphas, Basic Grey Fact or Fiction Snippets and a Smash Journal Tag.

In Other News:

It was 60 degrees and sunny last Friday and it snowed Saturday. Granted it wasn't a lot of snow and it was gone in like 3 hrs but man did it leave us soggy!! Chloe did not like the snow...nope...not one bit!!! As evidenced by these next pictures. 

Mad because it was wet and she wanted in the front door.

 And nervous on the car ride because she didn't know what was going on when I let her stick her head out the window.

Let me know what you think. Do you like to stamp on your layouts? Have you ever tried stamping on vellum? Have you been inspired by a video on 2 peas lately? Let me know in the comments below. I love comments. 

~Ashley Crafty~

What I Did Today + A Preview of Next Weeks Layout

Happy Saturday to all the peoples out there. I have been a week without posting. I am apparently already slacking on my New Years Resolutions. So, here I am without a whole lot to say but I did manage to get a few productive things done today.

First--I finally decided to take my camera and check out the macro setting. I figure I should figure this out since I have been taking a lot more photos up close for the blog here. I took about 10 photos and ended up with only one that I really like.

Moss

This one here. It is a picture of a lone clump of moss in a sea of good ole southern red mud. I have never really played with the macro setting and I don't have a DSLR or anything, just a CoolPix S3100 but I really love this photo. So much so that I think I am going to scrap it. I never knew that macro would fade out the background. I love that effect. 

I also took a picture of the sun setting over our neighbors building, but that one didn't turn out so well. (No, I didn't use macro) Still didn't turn out. 

Second--I took photos of three layouts that I completed this week. I will be posting these here over the next week, the first being tomorrow. Here are a couple of previews. 

Third--I have finally started my Creative Prompts Journal. I used some old paper and embellishments, some notebook paper and Stamps. Just random things. I will go into more detail about this next weekend. 

AND Finally--I ate some soft pretzels....I love me some soft pretzels (with extra sea salt)

So that was my Saturday. What did you do today? Leave me a comment and let me live vicariously through you. 

~Ashley Crafty~