The Queen Has Spoken... Jenny's August Kit Reveal

When the big brown truck pulled up to my house and the nice driver slipped that gear into park, I went runnin for the door. I just knew what to expect... my August Queen Bee kit and a big old pile of goodies from the SO store, as well. I love this kit. I love that it is just soo pretty and unexpected. It's not at all a typical color palette. The yellow and grey are just gorgeous and that punch of teal just puts it over the top. I made 2 pages and a card with my goodies. There is still a TON of kit left. The first page includes a photo of my younger daughter playing dress up. I used a piece of diecut Bazzill (from the store)and a MME paper as the base. I fussy cut one of the PP papers. Gotta love those flowers. When I glued them down I only did here and there. I like the movement the unattached edges provide. Beneath the photo I layered a diecut and one of those darling clears.


Next to the photo I layered a diecut with a punched scallop circle (on a popdot), a cork piece (flipped over), and a button with some bakers twine. Love all the dimension here. You can also see here that I distressed the black alpha so that it remains visible on the black cardstock. I think the distressing really works well with these papers.


Here where that unexpected comment comes in. I used photos of my DS on the football field for this next one. Lots of cutting and layering with a bit of stitching thrown in here. Isn't he a little hunk?!?

Next up, a sweet little card to welcome my hubby home from Afganistan TODAY!! Off to watch my hubby fly in on his E-2C Hawkeye and see my children run out on the flightline into his arms. Sure hope this waterproof mascara holds up!

scrappinjen

Jenny's Hello Sunshine Reveal

Oh my goodness, I know the other girls have said this already, but July's Simply Obsessed kit is fantabulous!!!! The colors are absolute perfection for summer. I just worship that teeny tiny little Maya Road banner Heather included. I made a super cute little banner to use on my personal blog. I broke out the paints on the larger banner triangles and on the tiny stars and hearts. I even added a little Martha Stewart snow glitter before they dried. To finish it up I covered the smaller triangles with the Lily Bee paper and punched circles and yummy YELLOW Thickers from the kit. Like sooo...

This next one is my favorite. It doesn't hurt that my hubby (who is deployed) is center stage, but I just love how easily this page came together. I didn't realize until I was finished that the photos with the handcut paper beneath sort of form a heart. Do you see it?

The red So Sophie paper kind of dictated this next one. Isn't that paper great?!?

Had fun cutting up the Lily Bee's rub-ons for this next one. I cut the yellow sun rub-on from the larger words rub-on. Next, I cut a large circle out of the blue cardstock and layered a photo of Sophia behind it and the words around the opening. And from there, I just went a little circle crazy.

Check back tomorrow for another summer fun reveal!!

scrappinJen

Jenny's TRUE Man of the House Reveal

Where do you find scrappy inspiration? I found some while scrolling through some handmade goodies over at Etsy. Can you find which of my June layouts was inspired by this little stationary set? You may even find a little inspiration here today as I share my Man of the House projects with you.

Happy Friday Simply Obsessed Fans! As soon as I received my June Man of the House kit, my mind began to churn. I don't get a lot of time to sit down and scrap with my hubby deployed overseas and me being the only caregiver to our 5 kids. So, whenever I can, I think scrapbooking. I tossed around the thought to use this kit to document my current "Man of the House". He's 2 inches shorter than me and 9 years old. But, I figured I do enough pages about P.J., and as hard as it may be emotionally, I thought I should celebrate my hubby Patrick. While he may not be here very often, he is still The Man.

The first two layouts are photos my hubby sent me from the Ike just weeks ago. They recently made a port call in Dubai, and like any good hubby of an avid/rabid scrapbooker would do, he took pictures for me. I love that he gets me. Warts and all.

Lots of layered circles and stars. It was all spurred by that large dot patterened paper. Love it. So many possibilities!

This next one was inspired by the chipboard sheet. The Badda Bings chipboard was my favorite element of the whole kit. I just had to use lots of thoses yummies. So, I created a little border utilizing them and some of the Basic Grey gummies and the Bo Bunny Buttons & Bling with some pieces handcut from one of the other pp's.

For this last one, I chose the photos that represented family. Besides being a wonderful kit to celebrate the men in your life, it also works perfectly to rejoice in your family as a whole. Love this one...

Check back tomorrow for another fabulous Man of the House Reveal!

scrappinjen

Pinks & Browns & Bears, Oh My!! by Jenny

Hello all you Simply Obsessed fans. Jenny here with you today to share some of the projects I created with May's Pink Plum kit. I absolutely love playing with scrapbook kits. I love the challenge of creating something with a set pile o stuff. It really pushes me creatively. I also love kits because it makes me play outside of my comfort zone. It gets me to dive into a paper line or company, I may not have worked with before.



Simply Obsessed's May kit does not disappoint. This kit is flippin amazing. The richness of the pinks and browns and oranges is absolutely spectacular. And don't get me started on the B sides of the papers either. Heather actually made her own brads?!? I got the main kit plus the cardstock add-on (had to have the quicksand cardstock) and the ribbon add-on (check out the pink ribbon below) and the chipboard stickers. I know, I know ... greedy, greedy. With that said, I slammed out 3 layouts and still have a TON of goodies left to play with...

Check back tomorrow for even more inspiration. Can't wait to see what YOU create with Pink Plum.

Jenny's Thrift Shop Reveal

OMGoodness, I lurve this kit. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it!! But, life got in the way of me playing with it on Saturday when it arrived on my porch.and I couldn't start playing with it. I was finally able to dive into its goodness just yesterday. and, I completed FIVE pages in one day. So, here we are...

I seriously could have cranked out even more if it weren't for these pesky kids who live with me. wink. Hope you got yours!!

Jenny's Lucky March Reveal

OMGoodness!!! I'm SOOOOO excited to be here with you today. It's my very first reveal as an official member of the uber fabulous Design Team here at Simply Obsessed. I'm so honored that Heather loved my work enough to let me share it with you for the next six months. March's kit is chock full of Little Yellow Bicycle's Lucky line. It also includes some of those fabulous new Jillibean soup buttons. These buttons are so different from your other buttons! Don't froget the cool crocheted shamrock (an awesome Etsy find) and the Prima flowers.... ahh.



I got four layouts done and still have a pile of stuff left for some more scrappy goodness. The first layout mixed 4-5 pp's and some of the cool clear embellies with some handmade flowers. You know you're digging all these cool flowers we're seeing popping up everywhere. I made a lollipop flower and a few box flowers with several of the LYB's pp's. Love how these turned out.

Oh yea, I made some banners with some scraps of the diecut paper and 2 rub-ons.

For this next one, I hacked the diecut paper into 3 pieces. I used the 2 outer sections and filled in the center with my photo and another scrap of pp. I edged the sections with strips of pp and border stickers. Used lots of pop dots on my title and the embellies (grouped in 3's around my photo). I love that button up top with all that texture!

Simple, simple. Love the Prima flowers ala blooming tree. My pleated paper draws the eye to this sweet photo of my Sassy with the bunny. I do this on a majority of my pages. It adds so much dimension. I added 2 more pink elements to balance out my dd's top. I love how this burst of color is so surprising with the blue/green color scheme.

The two items of note in this last one are the shamrock element in the lower right corner. I forget when I make up funky details, that I have to photograph them, as well. This shamrock is on popdots yet floats against the open circle cut through the base papers. It so doesn't photograph well. Also, I hate to throw away scraps (yep, I'm a hoarder), so I used the other piece from my curve that I used on layout #1. so the curve here in turn inspired all those gosh darn circles.

That's all for today. Check back tomorrow for another Reveal Day!

Suzanne Kit Reveal

This month's kit was so much fun and packed with lots of fun stuff. I also ordered most of the add ons.

"Easter Hunt"

I got 9 photos on this one!

"Pinewood Derby"

"Flower Acetate Card"

I wasnt sure how to photograph this one. I put the background paper on the inside of the card and the flower and border on the front of this card.
Thanks for looking!

Suzanne's April Reveal

When I saw what the new kit was I was a little nervous because I thought it was a more feminine kit and I only have boys, but I have really enjoyed using this kit. I also loved the add ons and ordered most of them. I have used the add on Bazzill and Ribbon in my layouts today. The lettering I used is from a previous kit.

Thanks for looking!

March Kit-DT Reveal by Suzanne

Heres what I did with this months kit from Simply Obsessed. I also used the Bazzill add on.

I thought with the spring feel of the paper that it was great for Easter layouts!

For this card, I painted the butterfly brown. I thought it would help it stand out more.

Thanks for looking!