SOS Frugal Tip

Every Friday at Scrap Our Stash we share a frugal tip, this week I shared one.
My frugal tip is a simple one that some of you may already do. I save almost all of my paper scraps, I hate to throw paper away. I use my scraps to make simple cards. I don't like to spend too much time on my cards, I like them simple. Making cards is also a good way to use up all these flowers you have or any other embellishment you haven't used in a while.
I keep my cardstock scraps by color and then have a folder for all my patterned paper scraps. I made all these cards one night when I couldn't sleep but didn't feel like I wanted to do a whole lo. What do you do with your scraps?

July Challenge

It's not too late to submit your lo to Scrap Our Stash. This month we are using brads and or eyelets. I like to dig into my stash on these challenges, that's the whole point right? So I went with eyelets since I never really use them. Here is the page I created for the challenge.


These pictures are older ones of Daniel. They were taken the first time we put him in his saucer. He loved it!

Happy Thursday!
Monica

Cute idea to share

I have been meaning to share this for a while. I received this as a gift from a student on the last day of school, his mom made both my partner and I one. It's a totally cute gift idea I think!!



She hot glued the boxes to a green floral arrangement foam.

Hope you like it!

Blog Hop Winner

Thank you for all the sweet comments and for all the new followers I gained!

My 2yr old helped me pick the winner! The winner he picked was:

Michele (Michele's Scrapy Creations)

Michele please e-mail me your address and I will get your prize sent to you!!
monjoyoung@yahoo.com

Thanks!
Monica

Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog! If you didn't come here from Ren-Yi's blog go back to Scrap Our Stash and follow the blog hop in order. This will allow you to discover the secret phrase which will make you eligible for the grand prize.


I have been reading more home type blogs recently and saw some cute wood letters that I have wanted to make. So I thought this was the perfect project to try and share with you. If your interested in more ideas, here is a link to the blog I first saw these on. They are very easy to make and a super cheap gift idea too!
My husband recently bought some 2x4's and 2x6's just because they were discounted so I was able to use some. I had him cut the 2x4's into two different sizes for me. I then painted them with one coat of regular white paint.




Next I picked out the scrapbook paper I wanted to use. I didn't want to use all different papers on each block so I decided to go with two. I measured them a little bit bigger than the block and then ripped the edges and even inked them to give it a more distressed look. I used Mod Podge to attach the paper. Here are the blocks ready for letters.


I used my Making Memories Slice to cut out the letters. I had a hard time deciding what to do but came up with "Jolly." I figure I can also leave off the l's and just use the word "Joy" if I want. So I just used my regular scrapbooking glue to attach the letters and then went over it with Mod Podge again. After they dried overnight I attached just a few embellishments. Again here I just used the glue that I would use on my scrapbooking pages.


A few close ups of the letters with embellishments




I really like how they turned out and I want to make more for other seasons! Not sure if I like them all together or separated.


What do you think?

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Thank you for visiting my blog.
Monica

I linked my project here

Christmas in July Blog Hop coming soon!

Who doesn't love Christmas? But once Thanksgiving comes - so does all the hectic preparations for Christmas. Who has time for Scrapbooking in December?
Scrap Our Stash will be sponsoring a Christmas in July Blog Hop! It will be from July 22nd - July 25th. Many of the Design Team and Guest Design Team members are preparing a special "Christmas" type post for you to visit on their personal blogs, and many of the blogs will also be offering blog candy for comments and/or following. There will also be a prize awarded for the Scrap Our Stash Christmas in July Blog Hop Contest.
This will be a fun filled weekend you won't want to miss. Mark your calendars now - and watch Scrap Our Stash for further information.

Please check back here soon, I am working on a fun project!

SOS Sketch #2

I am sharing my lo for our mid month (June-July) sketch at SOS


I really enjoyed using this sketch! I love creating pages with more than just one photo so this was perfect for me. I decided to use 3 pictures since they were hard to crop. In place of the fourth picture I put some journaling. I always have to have journaling, to me it's really important to document what the pictures are about. These pictures are of my son and neice in their Halloween pj's that my sister-in-law bought them both! Loved the pictures of the two of them!