Layouts... Layouts and some more Layouts.. oh... and 2 CT Calls!

Hi Everyone!  I'm always posting tutorials... so I'm going to share some recent layouts that I have done... and then 2 CT calls that you should send your apps in... RIGHT AWAY!  :)

All images are linked to my gallery.... hint, hint.... lol!  :)
First up are my layouts (that I am behind in making) for my P52 project!  It doesn't bother me that I am behind, because I have every intention of working on them... time just goes a lot faster than I can scrap!  You might have noticed that my continuous theme for this album is paper blocking.  I try to add a little color and some cute ellies to each P52 layout, and paper blocking is an easy and fun way to make it pop!  What do you think?

Week 4 Layouts, credits between the pages.  Jenn's papers are just awesome and pop off that pale BG... I love them!

Color Me Happy - Jennifer Labre Designs
Scrapping with Liz - Block Templates
Font is The Pencil by Heather Hess

Week #5 Layouts, credits between the pages.  Amy's kit was a fun flea market kit and had great little ellies with a shabby feel.  I used a photo treatment to match my pics to the kit!  Another little tidbit... see the pale, pale brush on the creme background?  That is an awesome grunge spot from Inspirations from Day... a perfect little boost to add to any BG!

Saturday Flea Market by Amy Stoffel
Grunge Smears by Inspirations By Day
"Zine" Style Templates bu Scrapping with Liz
Font is Throw My Hands Up In The Air. 

ScrapMatters introduced a fun idea in April... the Mix A Kit!  It ties all the designers together with the same palette.  You get so many things to choose from, and basically make the kit you want!  So custom made!  Here is a layout that I made with A LOT of the pieces!  :)
Credits below, and my page is linked!  :)

Spring Stitches by Inspirations by Day
Springy: The Elements by WM [squared]
Footloose and Fancy Pattern Papers by Graham Like The Cracker
Letterpress Paper Pack by Chelle’s Creations
Sprung: Little Bits by Stolen Moments Designs
Spring Punch Alpha by Jennifer Labre Designs
Spring Punch Papers 2 by Jennifer Labre Designs
Blueprints Set 3 by True Blue Studio

I love scrapping double pages... I know they will fit nicely together in my printed books, and it also allows me to use the supplies a little more!  We all have that big a stash that it makes me feel better that I've used things a couple extra times, lol!  My most recent page... I'm waiting on summer to come, so I thought I'd scrap it!  Plus, this kit is sooooo girlie... I mean, c'mon... It's A Chick Thing... .just called out a challenge to show off the masculine side of the kit!  Credits between pages.

It's a Chick Thing by Spinky Dink Scraps and Daybreak Scraps
Sweet Spring Set 2 by True Blue Studio
Font is Teletype.

Thanks for checking out my pages... remember, hint, hint... I love love!  LOL!  Up next will be some sort of tip or tutorial.... I have a couple ideas!  IF there is something that you would like to see, please share!


I almost forgot... check out these two CT calls over at ScrapMatters.... So, get those apps in... and fast!

AND...

Again... Thanks for visiting!
Jenn
(jk703/The Typative Scrapper)

Project 52: Catch Up, lol... not Pick Up! :)

Hi Everyone.... Just a quick pop in today to show off my recent Layouts for P52.  I am so nutty at work lately, and with only so much time, blogging has slid a little... but I'll be sure to post some more layouts and tutorials soon!  Share them... someone might learn something!  :)

I last showed off Week 1... so now to show off Week 2, and 3!  Here you go!

Week #2 used the following supplies:  Fiddle Dee Dee -- Verbosity Album,  Geek Chic Scraps and Spinky Dink Scraps -- Tell Me About It Kit,  WM [Squared] -- Vintage Summer Alphabet, and the font is Earthquake Typewriter. Photo Action by Paint the Moon.  Note: Scrap Goodies in my picture are from Chelle's Creations and Stampin Up!

Week #3 used these yummy goodies: Jennifer Labre Designs - Winter Wishes and Fiddle Dee Dee Designs - Fuss Free Day by Day: Set 1(was at ScrapMatters, will hopefully be moved to The Digichick soon!) & Fuss Free: Square Pegs.  


It sure seems like snow and winter are the main themes of my pages, but we've gotten so much snow that I am done with winter for the next 5 years!  Really... it is March now... and guess what, we got snow today!  Hello... spring has started!  Hopefully I will get some spring shots for my P52 soon! My main theme for my P52 is simple.... fun pictures, a bit of journaling and paper blocking.  I wanted to keep it easy, no stress and fun to scrap!  I may be behind, but I am doing it and enjoying it!  


I'll be back with Week #4 and Week #5 which are done... sometime this weekend!  


Thanks for visiting!
Jenn (jk703)

A Layout, Favorite Shows & What I Believe...Day 11 & Day 12

Helloooooo everyone!  I'm here again to climb back on the Bloggity Blog 30 Day Challenge... though mine are spaced out instead of being consecutive days... lol!  Here are my Day 11 and Day 12 posts... all in one! :)


Favorite Shows...
Funny that this would be today's topic for me... since I am home sick (not fun) and actually catching up on all my recorded TV shows!  I've had a migraine on top of things, so I actually restricted my computer time... so what else to do but rest and catch up!  Here are my favorite shows...

CSI - All of them... though lately I've loved NY the best...
NCIS
NCIS: Los Angeles
Criminal Minds
Bones
Castle
Fringe

There used to be so many more, but since I've found digital scrapbooking... well, I haven't been able to keep up with all of them.  So, my list has whittled down to the above and I watch when I can, or lol, when I am sick!  They sometimes sit for months, and months... then I watch a whole bunch!



What I Believe...
Well... this isn't really my type of topic.  I don't really think I want to get into ideology or beliefs, and all the stuffts that go with it...  I think I will leave it at that... :)



Just cause I can... I thought I'd share a recent layout.... Here is my son, Shayne, on the teacup ride at Disney World.... I loved how the pictures always come out with real smiles DURING the ride!  Kids laugh and smile, and have a ball on rides -- I just try to catch it in action! It isn't as easy as the pictures make it out to be... with me bumping around, and trying to sin the teacup!  Makes me prouder that I even got a couple good shots!

The templates are from Scrapping with Liz over at Scrap Orchard, and the kit used was Love You Rain or Shine by Spinky Dink Scraps and Shawna Clingerman over at Gotta Pixel and Sweet Shoppe. I also used Paint the Moon Photoshop Actions!  They are awesome!  If you want easy photo editing actions for photoshop OR elements... check out Annies!  They rock!  A fellow CT member sent me over some photos to play with, and I just finished those - I just hope she likes them!  The actions are that addictive!  lol!

Round and Round Page 1

Round and Round Page 2

I'll post something yummy soon and my P52 Layouts!
Thanks for visiting!
Jenn (jk703)

Friends and Fears... Days 9 and 10

So.... Friends and fears are up next... no, they don't go together!  LOL! I'm just smooshing my posts together as I go... especially since I am not a post -a-day person!  Many of my posts are first posted somewhere else, and then re-cycled for my bloggity blog!  :)  For me, this gives me all my posts in one spot though and includes my tuts, some layouts, recipes, randomness and chattery!

Day 8 -- Friends

I have friends, and they are grouped in my brain!  LOL!  There are the high school friends, college friends, neighbors who turned into friends, and my online friends!  lol!  Seems funny to be grouped, but that is the easiest way to explain!

High School Friends are the oldest friends that I know... duh?!... but there are few.  I had fun in HS, but it is that awkward teen years and you have no idea who you really are, kwim?!  These are also the type of friends that pop in and out of my life at times.  Dana, (Hi Dana!) was my best friend throughout most of HS... but we grew apart the last year, and then with college.  Our parents are friends, so I would see her a couple times at friendly gatherings!  We may not be as anywhere as close as we once were, but I truly do consider her a warm, wonderful, caring friend.  I would love to see her more often, but being able to catch up at least every summer, and through Facebook at least allows me to know a little about what is going on in her life.

College friends are the crazy, fun, happy crowd, right!?  Well, mine are that, and then there is the sweet, thoughtful and warm-hearted side!  I joined a sorority in college, and many would think that because you pay dues for your sorority, you don't really have "friends."  So untrue!  There are seven of us who meet a bunch of times a year, with girls night out or get togethers with the kids, who remain friends from college, and in my mind, for many years to come!  I am closest to Sara and Kari of the bunch, and know if I ever truly needed anything, they would be there - and the same goes for them! There are a few more sorority sisters the I count as friends.  Many times I just wish I lived closer to many!  It is hard to be active when so much is going on in your life, and family!  One other friend from college, I actually met after college (even though we went to the same college) was Dana!  (Yes, another) We worked together, and spent lots of time together.  She is a special friend.  She truly holds a spot in my heart!

My group of Neighbors-Turned-Friends, right now, are the ones that I see most often.  We were all having kids, meeting each other and living in our neighborhood -- perfect mix!  Everyone gets along, and we all have fun together!  The kids get to play, run around like maniacs, and just be happy!  Though times are changing, and people are moving, we make sure to plan things together and see one another!  Annual get togethers are starting at Halloween, Christmas and multiple summer BBQ's, and I've just enrolled Shayne in a Wizard Science class with one of of kids!  I know any of the ladies would help me out in a pinch as I would them!

Online friends... they are those fabulous people that I've met online in the Digital Scrapping Community!  I don't think that I have any BFF's so to speak, but there are people that I chat with, and see ALL the time.  People I am drawn to... In time, maybe I will be able to call them true friends.  Time will tell!

It appears that friends and closeness goes in cycles for what is going on in my life...

Many of you night know a close friend of mine, lol... Linda (scrapporreia)!  She actually is one of my neighbors-turned-friends IRL! We've gotten closer throughout the last year, and I truly love this woman!  I consider her one of my close friends.  We have so many things in common and I just truly enjoy her company, as well as her family!  She is a person that I can talk to, share my worst moments and happiest with, laugh with, trade kid problems with and just about anything else!  One big thing that we have in common, now, lol... is Digital Scrapbooking!  I was able to turn her to the Dark Side, and she is just as obsessed as me!  It is funny to our hubby's that we can scrap together and sit there and not talk!

My last friend and only true best friend - the one who will stay my friend no matter what will happen in my life. My husband, Peter.  He is truly my best friend.  I cannot really put into words everything he is.  He just is everything to me!

Using Spinky Dinks Scraps - Take a Chance, and Fiddle Dee Dee Designs, Don't Box Me In.

Open Your Heart To Love 

There you have it... the rambly friendly part!  lol!




Fears... What am I afraid of?

I'm not to sure to be honest.  I fear me... ROAR... nah, just kidding!  I think I don't fear anything specific... I'm a worrier, so that just takes over.  Maybe making the wrong choices, and how it affects my life, my kids life, and our future.  Maybe it is the uncertainty of what lies ahead.  Not sure.  How's that for uncertainty?  :P  There are the given fears of losing -- family, friends, job, etc... but I think that might fall into the uncertainty of what lies ahead!



Hope everyone has a great night and weekend!
Thanks for stopping by...
Jenn (jk703)

Huh? Typative wha? and First Love... (Cue: Awwwwww) ROFL!

Hi Everyone... I'm back (albeit late) with Day 2 and Day 3 of the 30 day Blog Challenge... Woot!  After this I can say I'm 10% there!  HA!  Just kidding!  I am so corny... anyway... onto my posts... and guess what... both have scrapbook pages associated with them!  Where's that blink smiley when I need it!?  (Shari?! - lol!)


Day 2:  Behind the Blog
My blog is named... The Typative Scrapper.... I can be the biggest chatterbox!  BIGGEST... when I have time... or run of the mouth!  I spend a lot of time on the computer, e-mail, facebook (check out this page... The Typative Scrapper FB Style!) forums, and just about anywhere where my happy little fingers can type so.... I said I'm so typative... as in a typing chatterbox!  That is the gist of it... I even made a page about it...

The Typative Scrapper, Included In the November Artisan Notebook
Jennifer Fox Designs - Rough and Tumble
Fiddle Dee Dee Template for November Artisan Notebook.
Font is CK Cooper

Yup... that is it in a nutshell... a chaterboxish scrapper with a keyboard!  LOL!


Day 3:  Awww.... My First LOVE.... (*gag*)....
OK... just kidding... My lucky husband is Peter... and he and I met in college.  It was actually pretty funny!  Here is the LONG back story:

I had met Peter one afternoon, when my sorority sister introduced us at the college apartments we all lived in.  I thought he was cute, friendly, and funny... great qualities, but didn't think about it much...especially when he was all googly eyed over my "sister!"  KEY:  I had blond hair.

Fast forward about 6 months and we headed out to a fraternity party.  I was DD, so I was looking for something to do, that didn't need a drink!  :)  I found a pinball machine, but I was unable to get it working... I went up to a couple of the brothers that were having the frat party and asked for help.  Well, Peter was in the group, and offered to help me out.  We went and he got the pinball machine working and we played a few games.  Time to go...  Peter and a couple of his friends needed a ride, as well as my friends.  I drove his drunk rear home, along with his friends and mine... Night all... and again, didn't think anything of it...

Fast forward a couple more weeks, and I saw him at the bar across from my now off-campus apartment... we chatted, had a couple of drinks, played darts, just hung out.  At the end of the night, I wrote my number on his arm... from mid arm to his wrist!  LOL!

I found out the next morning that he got up and SHOWERED!  lol... he ran down to my sorority sister's apartment and asked for my number... they didn't give it out... but called me to ask!  I said it was ok... and we've been together ever since...

OH... when we met again after the first introduction... I had gone red!  We still joke to this day that he ignored me because I had blond hair and my friend had brown.  Obviously, I wasn't too impressive as a blond! :)

Here are two layouts that I have done for DH!  I bet you can see which is a favorite!

Spinky Dink Scraps -- Take a Chance 
Fiddle Dee Dee Designs & WM[squared] Template Collab
Font is Times New Roman

Mad Love Full Kit by Pixel Gypsy 
Lists and Lines Stamps by Pixel Gypsy 
I am not sure what the font is! Sorry!

That second page is my FAVORITE!  It is a double spread, but I don't need to bore you with more layouts, lol!  So... There you have it!  Day 2 and 3 done!  Yeah!  I've gotten 10% done!  Tomorrow I will be posting about Day 4: Parents... and Day 5: Recipe!  

What would you like.... figure friendly Tex Mex Turkey meatloaf, crock pot EASY Turkey meatballs, or snacky stuff?

Can't wait! rofl!

Thanks for visiting!

Jenn (aka jk703)

Project 52: Started! Wooties! :)

Hi Everyone!  I've decided that I'm going to give myself a project for 2011!  I was contemplating doing a P365, but that is just a little daunting right now.  I don't really want to set myself up to fail, and want to keep upbeat and excited for my project. So, P52 came about in my mind as the solution!  So, I've made my album cover, and I LOVE it!  


Here is a picture of it, linked to my Gotta Pixel layout:

2011 Album Cover using Spinky Dink Scraps Capture Life Kit and Buttons

I just love this, and originally had the buttons as the words (Stop, Pause and Capture Life - 2011 Rewind), but my brain kicked in that I wanted it a little different!  I asked Lindsay (the awesome Designer behind Spinky Dink Scraps) for some help, and presto chango she agreed!  Woot!  Thanks Lindsay!!!! The buttons were created, and they are FABULOUS!!!!!  My plan is to use some similar items on each page, and these buttons might be perfect!  I guess I need some in more colors and a general neutral set!  LOL!  So that is how I got here -- to my Stop, Pause and Capture Life,  2011 Rewind P52 Album Cover! 


I hope you join me and my weekly quest to create a double page layout for each week!  It will give me a way to showcase some awesome products as well as getting me to scrap my year as it happens!  


SO... do you want to join me in my quest!?  Every week I would like to post on my blog about my week, along with my layouts, and some chattery randomness! Hope you will follow along!  I would like to provide the information to the kits I use, and if I can get permission, give away my pages as quick pages! That will be determined by the designers that I CT for though!  I hope to have a wonderful and completed layout for 2011! If I am able to, I will come back and add an entry for the Album Cover!  So, keep watchin or press that little button and FOLLOW ME! :)


The products I used to create this wonderful album cover are:


Capture Life by Spinky Dink Scraps

Capture Life Buttons by Spinky Dink Scraps:

Thanks for stopping by to check out my chattery randomness, and see my album cover!  I hope to see you again... and would love if you showed me YOUR albums!  Link me up!  
Have a great night, and a great start to the New Year!  


Jenn
(jk703)

December Goodies! Come take a Peek!

Hi!  Happy Holidays to you and your families!  I'm just popping in to share some of my recent December layouts!  I really, really have to get these all put in a book over the school break, so maybe once I have a book being printed, I can share that link!  


First up is my 2010 Christmas Card!  I just loved it... it took awhile, but I was so happy with it!  My little boys, and me making them giggle so I could get a somewhat decent pic!  It only took me banging a container of M&M's on my head!  Who would have thought!?  I think that someone should have taken a picture of that!


2010 Christmas Card

Supplies Used:  Erica Zane -- A Touch Of Winter(some snowflakes), GG Digital Designs -- Winter Wishes, Fiddle Dee Dee Designs -- Fuss Free: Christmas Greetings and Ali Edwards -- Holiday Word Art.

Goose!  

Supplies Used:  Sugar On Top Collab by Spinky Dink Scraps and Project B, Blueprints Set 6 by Studio True Blue, Fine Line Page Titles No. 3 by Katie Pertiet, and the font is CK Smile.





Out on the Town

Supplies Used:  Winterberry by Jennifer Labre Designs, and the font is Times New Roman.

Thanks for looking and checking out my layouts!  Would love to know what you think?  Trying to improve myself, so Constructive Criticism is welcome!

Have a great day!

Jenn (jk703)

November 2010 Layouts... I've been busy!!!! :)

Here are some layouts that I created this month!  :p

Using Jennifer Labre Design goodies and Fiddle Dee Dee Shape Templates:
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P1


P2



Using Geek Chic Scraps's Twinkle -- part of the November Daily Digi Files found HERE
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P1


P2


Using designs from Tracy Stroud, Designs by Ziska, and Ziggle Designs:


Using Captivated Visions and Stolen Moments, Second Spring:
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P1


P2


and last but not least.... using Collab Goodies from Studio Gypsy and Studio True Blue.

A Recent Layouts!

Here is a recent layout that I loved.  I just loved the coloring, the scatters, and an actually somewhat ok picture of us!  All are linked to a designer's gallery for all credits!  Thanks for looking!

Using Spinky Dinks Scraps - Take a Chance, and Fiddle Dee Dee Designs (with Wm[Squared] -- DSD Collaboration.  Specifically, this template was from the Don't Box Me In collection.

Open Your Heart To Love 

Thanks for looking, and I'll be adding more and more!  I already have a whole bunch of layouts to share, I just can't type fast enough! (and I do have to get some sleep!)

Have a great night!
Jenn (jk703)