Carefree at 15

Well Hello Everyone!! What a busy fun filled summer we have ahead of us.   I have some great things planned and in store for me so keep on a look out for all that is to come here on my blog! 

I just wrapped up school a few weeks ago, and am completing a summer class as we speak, phew I want to nap.  I have been exhausted and creativitly drained until this week when I got some snapfish photos in and have been diggin through my stash.  If you have not gotten photos from snapfish, for sure it is the place to purchase!  I used to go through Walmart, but Snapfishes quality even on iPhone photos is amazing!

So this layout came about with this great pic I found on my desktop, of just a fun simple photo while I was in highschool, It is a great photo that I wanted to highlight with bright colors.

Since I just purchased a glimmer mist, it has been my new found love, have used it about on everything and have tried to come up with some creative uses. Not to mention I also incoorporated a paint chip sample in here as well, I love the look of the gradient colors.

Products include: Paper- October Afternoon, Sassafrass, Basic Grey Embellies- Hero Arts, Joanns, Making Memories

Alright everyone, that is it for now, would like to hear how all of you are doing and what you would like to see more of here on my blog!  Thanks Everyone!

AP Art

My AP Art class was one of the greatest times I had in High School.  Although I think I could of preformed better, I created lasting memories and learned about myself as an artist. 

The main inspiration for this design was the studio calico paper that features the brushes, I cannot say I find many art related papers, let alone ones I like so I thought it would be a perfect time to feature it.  I bounced it off of some basic grey basics in kraft along with some basic grey orange dotted paper. Added October afternoon paper and some sassafras embelishments, it has become a funky and polished layout!


This weekend has been one of self discovery, a book my mom purchased me entitled "5" has really made me want to strive more and to strive to be greater at everything I do. I want to acomplish more and attack my dreams with passion and drive.  I recommend this book to EVERYONE, its a bit of an eye opener and inspiration for everyone. 
    I was off from work this weekend as well, a few and far between for me because of working in a grocery store.  Its weird and I almost didnt like it because everywhere I went this weekend there were TONS of people everywhere!  I am too comfortable to having weekdays off and being able to enjoy it without so many people, eh you win some and loose some. 

Bloom

So I have decided to finally make this a blog that is mine, in the sense that I want to share my life with my readers, whatever may be going on.

I feel as though I have had a hard time with trust within my life. Anyone I may know I will give them 100% of my trust until they show me that they can no longer.  I delivered information to what I thought would be trustful people in a time of impulse and just plain stress and information that I told them I always wanted them to keep to themselves and absorb it in.  I should completely know better knowing that in this situation I know the consequences and what ended up happening. I am now faced with my choices and the repercussions that effect an important person in my life currently.  Her impact is defiantly greater than I have ever imagined, let alone her guidance is nothing I have ever experienced in my life.  I certainly find that I need to be able to trust within her much more than when she did trust within me.  Since these occurrences she no longer trusts me and from now on I will be forever be striving to get back to the place that we started.  I have never felt this sort of appreciation or actual caring from someone in my life no matter who it may be, and I think it means more to me that it is not someone in my family but rather outside of that who actually stood up for me in times where she hardly knows me or when others would tell her not to.  It makes me anxious that I never took this into effect when realizing what I was doing or even what it was actually about.  I feel like i took 50 steps backward into a person that I was in the sense of being a younger teenager and unaware of actions have consequences.  I am defiantly at the age where I know right from wrong and that I am subconscious of what I am actually saying or verbalizing. This will be with me for a wright of learning and a time to grow and learn to move past and conquer.  But when these sorts of things happen to me, I find they forever burn a hole in my heart.


On a lighter note, here is a layout for the day.

9teen

yes, I am on a cosmocricket kick.  What can I say I have grown to love their products like no other, all the lines have similar colors to mix and match and their prints are fun and vibrant.  I would own every collection if I could, but right now I am just trying to go through some of my old stash to get some new. 

I created this layout in the intent for Scrapbook Trends magazine, if I were to have a magazine idol, they would be it.

I mixed material girl, joy ride, and boyfriend collections from cosmo, because it is so easy to do and they always go together as i said. 

I love this picture for just being nineteen, and the innocence I still try to emote.

CosmoCricket Layout Challenge

Whatcha up to?

Ahh another session of school begins again.  I think I only really had an entire week off from not doing school work.  I am really getting so used to it that stopping feels unproductive, but none the less I will be ready to graduate when that happens!!!

My latest graphic design class that I am taking is all hands on. =D [angels singing]  I am over elated that I get to cut and past for 10 weeks and am taking advantage of it.  My new buddy silhouette will be making my cuts to put my project together (CAN WE SAY PROFESSIONAL!?)  I am excited to use all this scrapbook paper I spend all my paychecks on and just being able to do what i love essentially which is cutting and pasting.  As much as I love graphic design I wish it wasn't so computer based and go back to the old school ways of cutting out every letter and pasting ads carefully together.  Pictured above is some of my things for my first project of the class.  I am sure I will show it to you when I am done.

Scrapbooking has been on hold for awhile with the holidays and my creative fart.  I go through lulls of being overly anxious to create to sometimes months of not even touching paper. I am starting to get an urge again since I just recieved some new pictures so we will see if I end up having free time to devote to this hobby of mine.

yours until the headaches start
emily

Hello Strangers

Wow it has been a whole month since I posted.  It has been crazy, finishing up school and working at a grocery store you dont get much slack.

I hope you guys have not missed my feature on the cosmo cricket blog!  What an amazing honor after crafting so many projects!  I still have plenty I have not even shown yet. http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/2010/12/3-random-things-foreign-toilets-gdt-contest-circa-layouts.html

Christmas was a great time because I recieved a Silhouette SD!  What a total surprise and its awesome, like a cricut imagine but 1000X better!  I have been cutting like carazayy!

bout time for a new layout.  I am unsure if i showed this layout previously but I had created it for my mothers surprise party.

I love this picture of me in the kiddie pool, pure innocence.

This layout started with a Jana Ebunk sketch I believe, shes got some great sketches!  I also participated in a studio calico challenge of using only circles for your title. 

Background and plaid is from basic grey olivia (obsessed), and is offset by some kraft and tim holtz pink.  The large pink piece is swiss dots with some glimmer mist.

A scalloped circle punch of basic greys paper is a great contrast for the "sunshine" title which are placed on pop dots and layered on popsicle sticks. KandCompany flowers finish off this page which is easily gorgeous.