SPRING/SUMMER 2013 PANTONE COLORS:

I found out about these a few years ago when someone I had just met played a big joke on me about how he had just graduated from "Pantone school" and now he was an expert in the official color department. We became very good friends very quickly, but He let it go on for a few weeks, and to this day I still crack up when I think of Pantone colors.



I credit him for my love of the "official color" and look to them for inspiration in a season. (love you, Steven) so I studied the colors for a minute, and got crafty.

Here are the three cards:








On this one: evalicious stamp, vintage thesaurus paper, really old Heidi Grace metal stickers and the card is an order from Oriental Trading.









This one is a three fold card, my favorite bc there's so many ways to decorate them. The envelope label is Recollections found at michaels, Glitz Design little elephant from a 6x6 stack, Cocoa Daisy arrow stamp, office labels sprayed with ink.






Side note: these got a little wrinkled by my adorable Ezra, who always wants to be right in the middle of what I'm doing. This last card is my favorite. the card is from Michael's $ bin, it was already in 4 of the colors -- the heart speech bubble is Cocoa Daisy, Glitz Design paper (hearts), Crate Paper, and pearl lines from Recollections.

Feeling stuck? Find a color combo and roll with it..


#playing with color, loveTIFF

favorites from the sky.

in the last 30 days:

































stay #inspired, loveTIFF

march of minis

Part one:

At the beginning of March I made a quote mini album with some square cards i'd made at the office. I forget how much I enjoy the process of a fast mini album. The term "March of Minis" came to mind and I was off.

Of course in my mind i saw myself making 100s of minis and i would need tiny shelves everywhere to house them all, but...

I made one per week. I'm going to go backwards, because I am a "save the best for last" kind of person. (the quote one is my fav)

Made this one in two nights. One making the book, the next adding the pretty.

Aside from actual product, all of the materials here are "recycled"...the cover was saved from flower shop packaging, the labels and paper are saved from the newspaper. The cool scalloped and cut out pages are the free Silhouette cut file from a few weeks back.

Papers used: GlitzDesign. Studio Calico. Basic Grey. OLD KI Memories

alpha pearl paper.

All other credit goes to: more Basic Grey pockets, Cosmo Cricket tiny text words, Bazzille words, magazine words, and My Minds Eye tiny words. (I have a thing for word stickers, we go way back).

The book is "bound" together using the stamped white labels you can see, with some help of a little washi. Look around you, you have EVERYTHING on hand #RIGHTNOW to make a mini. have fun and stay#INSPIED xoxTIFF

On devouring paper

In the last 4 years or so, in my world, patterned paper had made a
HUGE comeback. It all started
 when they introduced double sided
papers, and hired actual

artists to design paper.

Even though it sometimes hurts

my feelings to choose sides, it has

become a staple in my scrapbooks.

6x6 pads are the ultimate.

Especially when you LOVE an entire

 collection and investing in the entire

line would cost a bazillion dollars.

Recently I won a slew of products on Instagram from Basic Grey's new line "Hipster"...I really really like it,

and all the paper is double sided,

 which of course I think is incredible...

When I love a paper, I want to use every piece. Both because I'm obsessed with a pattern, and bc I'm very thrifty

and that stuff gets expensive. ;))

So. I started with this page:

It's a cover for a binder where I can keep notes for a project I am working on, and I was really just playing with paper.

I had A LOT of scraps left over.

So I got a cameo cut and kept going:

.....and after that I had all these cute little odd shaped strips left,

so I kept glueing:

remember all of your favorites? All those little squares and rectangles you have stashed away, saving them for someday?

Get them out, have a glue party, and

stay #inspired, loveTIFF

project life: weeks 6&7

These are a total hodgepodge of companies. City & "right here right now stamps from Studio Calico, arrows from Cocoa Daisy.

Love adding current magazine typography to my pages. Those things are FILLED with words that were meant to be cut out and glued down.

how are you doing with project life? still loving it?

stay #inspired, loveTIFF

pleasant surprise.

Last weekend I got a random visit from my sister. <> with the Past several Studio Calico

Kits in hand. Ready to work on her project life. It. Was. AWESOME. I owe a lot to her, she's the reason I started scrapbooking 8 years ago when all we knew was Becky Higgins and square frames. Finally I had something to do with all of the art supplies I'd been collecting and hoarding for years. <> Amber is a fantastic person to get scrappy with bc she loves collecting product...and even better, she cheers when I use it. Anyhow, random i know. But this is a shout out, bc she's cool as hell. #totalopposites

Here's my fun from the night:

stay #inspired, loveTIFF