scrap weekend with Heather

Just returned on Sunday from a 4 day scrap weekend with my friend Heather. She lives in Cinncinnati and I live in Chicago so we met halfway in a town near Indianapolis. I have never been away from my family for that long but it was an easy decision to have a little get away. Work and school and family keep me busy and for my own sanity I needed a break, LOL. We reserved 2 adjoining rooms and did a WHOLE lotta scrapping. I finished 13 layouts...my hands are still sore, lol. I have two to share today plus some pics of our room set up.

The first two layouts I finished were the kids first day of school. I lifted a layout of Nichol Magourik, which you can see here. She puts a lot of detail on her pages such as diecuts and stamping and I loved the apples at the bottom. Kendall's layout has 5 different stamps. The apples were stamped with versamark, heat embossed, and then covered in glossy accents. The banner stamp was stamped in black and then I used Distress Inks to color them in. I used the notepad stamp for the journaling, which was typed on.


Aydan's layout uses the same idea as above but I changed the color scheme. On his I used Jillibean soup papers and some Cosmo Cricket Core'dinations color core cardstock. Love this paper pack, which I got at Hobby Lobby. I really love the Jillibean paper, I'm now a huge fan!

I used my Making Memories sand block to show the white core. I journaled on the report card die cut with my typewriter. And I've realized that I don't have a title...will have to change that!
I had so much fun making these layouts and really understood how much time it takes to put a lot of details on your page. I think I used to spend more time on my layouts years ago but with two kids I don't take that much time anymore on my pages. I really had fun with all the stamping and embossing!

And Heather asked if I wouldn't mind taking some pics for her. I was happy to do so and we went driving to the outskirts of town looking for a nice place. We found this golf club with a cute fence but on the way we saw a few barns and tractors and were dying to stop but its private property so we had to pass.

Here are a few pics of our set up...we used drawers for our stamps and punches and we had some tables for supplies. Each room had a desk and a chair, which was really comfy. Heather and I planned the whole thing out for a while and we even made a list of who was bringing what so we could share supplies. She brought a ton of stamps and inks and buttons. I brought diecutting stuff and ribbons. I also brought this...

Having a typewriter is perfect for scrapbooking when you don't have a computer/printer with you. We used this a ton! I know that it was Heather's favorite tool!

Here's our worktable set up...

Heather brought her collection of distress inks...I had fun playing with them. I own about 4 or 5 but I loved all the fun colors she had and I'm planning on building up my collection a bit.

our work tables before we got started...

I used the second bed in Heather's room to put my junk on, lol. I brought a LOT of stuff.
drawer for ribbons...

our diecutting/embossing station...we used this a lot! Fun to have a place for all the diecutting stuff and embossing supplies.

To the right of the desk was my dresser where we stored our punches...

we used two drawers to seperate our supplies.

Our tools table...scorer, irock, heat embosser and tray, circle cutter...oh yay and my i-top, couldn't used that because I couldn't find the accessories for it. lol!

Well I have a lot more layouts to show you in a few days...thanks for looking!

Supplies for Kendall's layout:

Cardstock: Stampin Up and Recollections
Patterned Paper: Echo Park, Jillibean Soup, Basic Grey
Stamps: Hero Arts (apples, banner, notebook), and KI (subject)
Ink: Stampin Up, Ranger, Memories, and Versamark
Embossing Powder: American Crafts and Ranger
Glossy Accents: Ranger
Border Diecuts: Bazzill
Diecut Machine: Slice
Embossing Plates: Cuttlebug
Chipboard Letters: Basic Grey
Baker’s Twine: Jillibean Soup
Cork: Karen Foster
Other: String, Buttons, Circle Punch

Supplies for Aydan's layout:

Cardstock: American Crafts and Recollections
Embossed Cardstock: Core’dinations
Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup
Stamps: Hero Arts and KI (A+)
Ink: Versamark, Memories, Ranger, and Stampin Up
Die Cut Machine: Slice
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug
Embossing Powder: American Crafts and Ranger
Border Punch: Ek Success
Border Sticker: Scenic Route
Distressing Block: Making Memories
Clips: Tim Holtz, Ranger
Bakers’s twine: Jillibean Soup
Cork: Karen Foster