Laura Vegas

still scrapping … still feeling my creative "mojo" going. not really enough time to do anything with it right now … but squeezed in these 2 layouts last night.

love this layout. love the photo of amanda. the colors are showing up a little different in the pictures … the aqua is a little brighter and the green background cardstock is more like the green on the stickers. i grabbed these epoxy stickers on a recent trip to target … they're from my minds eye. they fit perfect in this 7 gypsies scalloped circle stamp that i had. and you see that i finally used my making memories tag maker. i usually just use the metal rims on their own … but i finally cut out paper to fit and used the tag maker to make an actual tag. 

i'll be honest … i'm not totally loving this layout. love the picture of haley though. and i love the colors on the layout. i had these patches and flowers from an old poppy ink kit … and i just wanted to toss them all on there together. and i had the creative imaginations circle rubons from a goodie box i got recently. just one of those tossed together layouts that i really didn't think to much on. got to the end and felt like it needed something else … but also realize that it's fine as is too.

in other random scrap stuff:

• last week i picked up the september issue of scrapbook trends … couldn't wait to get my copy with my layout. the layout is of my friend dina's youngest daughter tawny … one of sarah's best friends. i took it to show to her … and told tawny that she was famous now. she just gave me one of those looks … like "whatever". i'm hopeing she got more excited after i left. lol!
• got my october issue of scrapbooks etc this weekend. this was one of my "secret" things i was working on a few months ago … i had my very first magazine assignment! it's for the "make it yours" column … where i had a layout that i had to be inspired by and use elements of on my layout. i ended up using some fun pictures of haley for this layout … so look for fun pinks and blues. her mom was so excited to see it in print … always fun to get other kids in the magazines! lol!
• i realized this weekend that i'm seriously addicted to my scalloped edged scissors. i seem to use them on everything i do lately. funny how they were in my drawer for years … from back when we used to cut all our pictures super small using all sorts of decorative edged scissors. lol! then again … i think back to a few years ago when i used to tear the edges of all my papers. i can't even think of the last time i tore a paper. now i just scallop it to death! lol!
• i also realized that i've done a lot of one photo layouts recently. i never got into that "one photo on a page" trend. but i seem to have more lately. maybe it's the smaller page size … just so easy to throw an enlarged picture on there and work around it. when i place my picture orders at winkflash i always order some 5×7's … because they're so super inexpensive. so i have my favorite pictures all ready to go.
• have i told you that i looooooove the 9×9 page size?!?! lol! seriously … if you havn't tried this size you must. i did a page a few months ago that i started as 12×12 … had like 5 pictures on it printed in some collage prints. had lots of goodies on it … pattern paper, ribbon, chipboard letters, flowers, etc. but yet i still had so much space left over … i couldn't figure out how to finish it. so i never did. lol! i love how compact the 9×9 size is. and so different pulling out a cute 9×9 album with all your cute little 9×9 layouts. not like lugging out your huge, heavy 12×12 albums. lol!
• and have you seen the disney channel show life with derek? the episode where casey is trying to make a film about the beauty of her blended family … and noone is acting like she wants them to so she writes a script for them to follow. as each member of her family fails to comply with her script … and the way she wants them to act … she writes them out of the script and out of the family. why is this scrap related? because it shows her cropping her family photo … cutting out that member of the family right out of the photo. i laugh every time i see this (and believe me … we seem to keep watching this episode over and over). i can just picture casey cutting up her photo and saying "you are NOT in my family anymore" in her totally controlling, type-A way! lol!

guess that's it for now. next up will be random everyday life stuff … girls are busy with so many things right now that i should share. back later!