My Cluttered Corner

It's Monday which means the new ScrapTiffany challenge is posted, but before I get to that I wanted to thank everyone for stopping by this weekend for the ScrapTiffany Recycled blog hop. Thanks for taking the time to look through all the designers posts on the hop and for leaving such sweet comments here. And without further ado, I want to announce the winner of my blog hop giveaway. I used Random Integer Generator to pick a number for us and it chose lucky number 14!
So the winner is Katie:

 Katie said...

Fabulous ideas! I can totally see me doing a few of them! BTW, your kiddos are seriously cute!

June 5, 2010 8:51 AM

I have a nice priority mail envelope with a little stack of new goodies ready to go-- so Katie, just email me your address (rebeccakeppel at hotmail dot com) and I'll get that package right out to you

Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming...the ScrapTiffany challenge this week is to focus on family.  All of our extended family lives far away, so the time we spend with them is extremely valuable to us. I made this LO about a visit we recently had from Grandma and Grandpa.

Welcome to the ScrapTiffany Recycled Blog Hop! All the designers on the hop will be presenting projects that will somehow involve recycling materials. Some may use non scrapbook supplies on their projects or use packaging or other creative recycling ideas.  If you've just happened onto my blog, please go back to the start of the hop at the ScrapTiffany site here: www.ScrapTiffany.com

For my projects I wanted to find a number of uses for these...

you know, those plastic sleeves that so many scrapbook products come in. The plastic sleeves are great for purchasers to be able to see what they are buying, but they are not recyclable, so I wanted to find some ways to use them on my projects. My goal was to find the top 10 uses for plastic sleeves, and I came close to that many.

#1 mini album sleeves--
I took a few empty sleeves, and slid photos matted on patterned paper into them. Then I covered plain chipboard which I had cut to slightly larger than my largest sleeve. Finally I used my cropadile to punch a hole through  both chipboard pieces and put a jump ring through the chipboard and through each hole that the packaging sleeves had (for hanging from a store's hooks).



#2-5 several ways to use them on a layout--
For this layout I used sleeves in several ways, First, I die cut flowered shapes into two 6 inch strips of plastic and used those die cut strips as masks for the background of this layout. Then I took the die cut plastic flowers and layered them with crackle paint and popped them up with pop dots. Finally I took one 12" strip and dripped alcohol ink onto it. When the strip was dry I sewed it onto the bottom of my layout.

It may not be June 21st yet, but I think summer is here because everyone I know (including us) has been crazy busy. Birthdays and parties, pool and sprinklers. We get a little more sunshine and light and we all have long, long days. Fun and exhausting all rolled into one! Why just today, we went to the gym, ran home and changed and gobbled some lunch and ran back out to meet friends at the pool. Had ice cream cones on the way home and now after dinner we are watching Toy Story 2 (to prepare ourselves for part 3 coming to theaters in a couple of weeks). I havent shared pictures in a while so I thought I would share a few favs here.

Here is one of Little Miss and her new hair do. She wants to grow out her bangs so we got it cut short to help that process along.

Here is one of her all decked out for Circus dress up day at school.

We found an awesome pool to have her 5th birthday out with a perfectly sized water slide and beach entry zero depth pool.

And here are a couple from our yard and the slip and slide.

Speaking of our yard, I recently made a mini book about where we live. It's easy to get down about living here when it is just the beginning of June and we are already suffering 100+temps. But there are a lot of wonderful things about this neighborhood and I wanted to showecase a few to remind myself :) All the papers are Nikki Sivils...