Sarah's "Lucky" March Reveal

Hello everyone and happy March. First of all I have to say just how stinkin' excited I am to be back for my second term at Simply Obsessed! This is seriously the best team, best kit club and best scrappy place there is. I am so honored and grateful that Heather asked me to come back and work among this super talented group of girls. Well enough about that! On to the kit reveal............

Every month I say this is the best kit yet. And yep, I am going to say it again this month :). The March Lucky Me kit is just so fun! Even my husband commented on my projects and said how much he liked the colors. I would never pick out these colors on my own. I always go for pinks and reds. Good thing I have Heather, because I love the projects I created with this kit. That's just one of the reasons I love the kits at SO so much. I find so many great products that I would have otherwise overlooked if not for the kit. Plus the kits are always jam packed with amazing products!

My first layout is of my husband, my daughter and I. We were fooling around with the self timer on the camera and took these goofy pics. I cut out the swirls on the patterned paper to make embellishments and used some chipboard and thickers from my stash.



All right, I'll admit it. I couldn't resist adding some pink to this layout. I don't like it when people think Frances is a boy so I thought a little pink would solve that. Aren't those prima roses the cutest? I wanted to use them as is because I thought they looked so cute like that. I tied them with a pink ribbon to make a rose bouquet.

I usually don't like making cards, but I love the cards I made with this kit. I tied some raffia around each to give them fun dimension and used the cool Jillibean soup buttons.

After all this, I still have tons of product left too! I am saving it for photos of our traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner that I make every year on St. Patty's day. YUMMMY! Have a great one- Sarah

Sketchity Sketch!

Hey there Elizabeth here. I'm gonna try to jump start your mojo!!!
With what you say? A sketch! Yeppers, a sketch!

Sketches are often a really great way for us to find our mojo, get a jump start on a challenge, and just stretch us and help us get creative! Feel free to take this sketch and make it your own. Whether you follow the sketch to a tee, or change it up a bit make sure you have tons of fun with it! That is what a sketch is all about!!!

So here is the sketch I created! I sure hope it inspires you!

Supplies used:
Bazzill cardstock, CM corner rounder, JilliBean buttons, Offray ribbons, Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me clear cut shapes, Little Yellow Bicycle foil alpha's, Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me Plaid papers, Fiskars punch, Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me chipboard stickers, Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me Denim Dots papers, Little Yellow Bicycle Decorative Edge cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Autumn papers, Pop dots, Pounce Wheel, Computer font Browallia New, Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me cardstock stickers, DMC floss

Elizabeth

Susan's Lucky Reveal

Hi everyone! I am so excited to share my work with you as an official member of the Simply Obsessed design team! I need to thank Heather for giving me this wonderful opportunity. The March kit featuring the Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me line is just wonderful! The colors are absolutely beautiful not to mention the wonderful little crocheted clover. This etsy find is oh so sweet! I also purchased the ribbon and bling add-on. Anyway, on with the reveal!
For the first one I wanted to do a masculine layout featuring my son Kyle. He graduated last year and is doing well with his job, etc. I decided to use an oversized black and white photo of him I took one day after work.

I used some of the striped paper under the photo as well as the brown ribbon from the add-on. Over that I layered the little shamrock border sticker. I created a cluster of embellies on the lower right corner of the photo. For the cluster I punched a large circle and a medium scalloped circle from some of the green coordinating paper. I outlined and inked these to help them pop a bit. I used pop dots and layered them with a clear cut clover, I Love You sticker, a threaded button and that adorable little clover. I used rub-ons to create the title "You Dream Big." I also made a little border above the top left corner of the photo using some of the stickers.

I really love this second layout. Bryn posed for these one afternoon in her new sundress. The colors coordinated perfectly with these papers.

I used two papers and stitched down the center to form the background paper. I used one 4x6 photo of Bryn matted with the plaid paper. This photo is popped up with pop dots. Next to it I placed three 2x3 photos. I added a cluster at the top left corner using punched circles, stickers, and a cute little button.There is also a little hidden journaling tag that sticks out at the bottom of the little cluster. To create this I just cut a rectangle, punched a hole, tied some ribbon and wrote my thoughts down. I tucked it behind the photo and used a little piece of bling to hold it in place. There is another cluster at the bottom right using stickers, buttons, bling, and the little prima roses that I inked with some brown distress ink. I added one more little sticker at the top left of the wallet photos.

The last layout I have to share has lots of "white space."

I used two different patterned papers to create a background. I cut off one side of the die-cut paper and let it stick out from under one side. I layered a ribbon over this and tied a little bow near the bottom. I created a cluster at the top left of the photo using a punched circle, stickers, buttons, and a clover I cut from the other side of the die-cut paper.The title went at the bottom of the pic. To tone down the bright green here I applied a little stazon black ink to the letters before placing them on the layout. The journaling was done on a little label sticker(not included in the kit) placed near the bottom of the page and under the ribbon. The last little touch I added to balance the layout was a couple of scraps of paper and a sticker that I stitched to the top left corner of the layout.

AND I still have lots left to play with. I intend to work on another layout or two this weekend using the kit. I will repeat myself here---the colors in this kit are just wonderful! So you know you NEED one! Well, that is all for me today. Make sure you check back tomorrow because there will be another reveal for the March Kit! You don't want to miss that!

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!

Misty's March Reveal

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be joining Simply Obsessed as an official Member of the AMAZING Design Team! Today is my very first reveal with the MAGNIFICENT March kit, "Lucky Me", featuring Little Yellow Bicycle...and WOW~WOW~WOW! This kit ROCKED my WORLD! It is SOOOOOO versatile and will cover a wide variety of topics...not just St. Patty's day!

In this layout " ..LUCKY...", I focused on the blue and green colors to create a baby layout. I did use that little crocheted clover that comes in the kit...isn't it just stinkin' adorable! I used a punch to make the tiny white flowers and my cricut to make the vines.



In "BLISS", I did a punched blue bonnet that I pieced together. I have been wanting to do this for a long time...and this kit finally gave me the inspiration! I used white and blue cardstock for the petals and inked the top with green to create the off colored top of the blue bonnet. I used my cricut for the leaves. For the butterfly, I trimmed and heated one of the clear shamrocks to get it to look like the butterfly...I then used dimensional paints to create the black body and outline the wings.


And last is a traditional "Good Luck" card.


Thank you all for looking! Be on the lookout for another reveal tomorrow! This kit is FANTASTIC...and there are soooooo many things that you can do with it!

ANNA'S TITLE PROMPT CHALLENGE: FAVORITE

We all have a favorite something. For my family, it's basketball. It's one of the only things all of us love to watch together. But since there are six of us, going to actual games just aren't in our budget. Unless the tickets are free :) My hubby scored us some free tickets to the division championship game for the Phoenix Mercury. It was so much fun and the kids are totally hooked on live basketball. Here's the LO I came up with of our fun night together.


My challenge for you is to scrapbook your favorite thing. It can be something you love to enjoy alone or an activity that tops your "favorite things to do with my family" list. And your title for the fabulous LO you come up with must be "FAVORITE". Just that one word. I can't wait to see what you come up with. Be sure to share it with us in the S.O. gallery!

February Photo Challenge

Can you believe it's already mid-February!! Wow, time flies!
I don't know about you, but I LOVE taking pictures!! Whether it's snapshots or a photoshoot, I LOVE doing it. There is so much to photography, and I learn more and more everyday.
This month, I want to challenge you to take editing your photos to the next step. Sometimes, it's the editing in a photo that will make them "pop", and seperate your photos from others, making them creative and interesting.
Here are just a few of my examples, just some snapshots I took to "play" with.
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After


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Sometimes, it may not be a drastic change, just a small subtle change that will make the difference. I used Photoshop to edit my photos, and have downloaded lots of Photoshop Actions to play with. Some of the places I've downloaded actions from are Pioneer Woman, and Maggie Holmes. Some places are free, and some you have to pay for.
If you don't have Photoshop, there are other ways to edit photos, such as Picasa, which is a free site.
So, take the challenge, and take your editing to the next level! Can't wait to see what you do!! (Post a link in the SO Photography section on the message board!)
Have a great day!
~Ronda