More Smashbook ideas

Okay so I haven't done a Smashbook page in about.... a year and a half. I grabbed one of my books off the shelf and thumbed through it. I love it! I don't know why I stopped. Well, I guess Project Life and other things got in the way!

Other ideas for Smashbook pages:

Black "All About Me" album:
1. Favorite Stores
2. Yoga
3. Aries traits
4. Favorite Stores

White "Wedding/Love" album
1. Joe getting ready for our wedding
2. a pic of me, Mom, and Dad before the wedding
3. the DIY projects Mom and I completed for the wedding,
4. Joe, the Most Interesting Man in the World
5. My bouquet

I'll have some smashbook pages to show you soon!

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Find Your Voice - Week 3 SMASHbook page

This week I sort of combined Option 1 (crafting based) and Option 3 (picture based) prompts. I also used these pages for Challenge 18 - The Great Outdoors - in the Smash Your Stash facebook group.

These pages are in the Red smash book that I'm using for challenges. I chose 3 photos from Lake Tahoe and explained why they made me happy. I used Thickers, Pebbles Lakeside collection. Studio Calico cork stickers, October Afternoon alphas, enamel dots, and Crate Paper photo slides. I love mixing and matching embellishments from different lines.

I must say, I love how this turned out!

This is one of the longest titles I've ever had on a smashbook page, and I love how all the words are different colors and fonts.

I'm a bit literal when it comes to using embellishments, and haven't had a use for the trendy anchors that have become so popular - but since these pictures were taken from a boat tour, I thought the anchors made sense! :)

I adhered 2 layers of washi tape (to make the pattern show up better) and added cork arrows to reiterate the chevron pattern.

Hope you like this page and it inspires you to do a project about the great outdoors!

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Let's Get Together! and a SMASHbook page

Let's get together! Yeah yeah yeah!
(Do you know what movie is from? It's one of my all-time faves!)

Since Google Reader is gone (RIP, old friend), I just want to make sure we stay connected!

I've got buttons over on the right where you can quickly follow me on Bloglovin' or Feedly. Have you tried one of them? Which one do you like better? Why?

 I've also recently set up a Facebook page for Mrs. Crafty Adams if you prefer to stay up on blog posts that way. I love connecting with people on Facebook. It's a quick way for you to drop me a line or ask a question or share a project with your friends!

And of course, I post pics to my Mrs Crafty Adams Pinterest board.

Onto the SMASHbook page! I've been wanting to do a page about some of my favorite phone apps. I printed and cut out the icons and arranged them in a patchwork pattern. I'm using this for an older Challenge in the Smash Your Scraps Facebook group.

Here's my favorite gold Thickers again:

Here's nine of my favorite apps - Instagram, Message, Candy Crush, Snapchat, Pinterest, A Beautiful Mess, Camera, Facebook, and Momento.

And both pages together:

*Oh, and that title? it's from the Parent Trap*

Big Picture Classes: The Phone Photography Project

I signed up for the Phone Photography Project and I'm enjoying it! Every day, a challenge and interview is posted.  Here are some of my first pictures for the class:

Day 1: From Where I Stand

Day 4: Summer Food

Day 5: Family

Day 6: Be a Tourist in your own town (this isn't my town, but it's close enough)

I really like the 7 questions that are answered by each contributor, and thought I'd share my own answers.

1. What is an approximate estimate of your ratio of DSLR photos to phone photos?
99.9% iPhone 5. Hubby bought a DSLR and is in the process of learning how to use it. I don't have much patience for it. I prefer to just grab my phone and start snapping pictures.

2. How do you use your cameras? Describe your approach to taking DSLR photos vs. phone photos.
My iPhone is pretty much glued to my hand. It allows to me to quickly capture the little, every day moments. Before I had a camera on my phone, I wasn't able to capture these moments.

3. How has phoneography affected your photography in general?
It's made my photography exist! Seriously. I used to only bring my digital point-and-shoot camera with me on trips or to special events. Most of the time I didn't remember to use it. Then I would have to plug it into my computer and upload the pictures. It just didn't happen. With my iPhone, I have Photo Stream set up. My pictures are automatically uploaded to my Macbook Air. The quick accessibility makes sharing and printing so much easier!!

4. Describe your phoneography work flow.
I always take pictures using the Camera app on my phone. I can quickly crop and post them on Instagram, or add fun extras using the A Beautiful Mess app or Rhonna Designs.

5. Do you use different apps for different settings? Do you rotate between favorites? How do new apps on the market affect your approach?
I really only use 3 apps (Instagram, A Beautiful Mess, and Diptic). I just downloaded Rhonna Designs and have been playing around with it too.
Sometimes I use filters from Instagram. Some of my favorites are Early Bird, Mayfair, Amaro, X-Pro II, and Nashville. I adore the A Beautiful Mess app. The doodles and borders and fonts are too cute! I often use this app to edit my pictures, then I post through Instagram and sometimes share on Facebook. I use Diptic to make collages to use in Project Life. The new Rhonna Designs app is one that I've been playing with for a few days. There are so many options for fonts, phrases, and scrapbook elements! I love that you can delete an added element later if you want.

6. Do you have concerns about the real-time social nature of phoneography?
Somewhat... I do tag locations on photos, but not when I'm at my house.

7. Where do you learn about new apps?
Mostly from Facebook groups and Instagram.

How has phoneography affected your life?

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SMASHbook page ideas

Don't you just hate when you're in the mood to smash or scrapbook, but you don't have any ideas??  I used to get 'stuck' all the time.  So today, I thought I would share some ideas for SMASHbook pages. I've been keeping a list of inspiring pages as I run across them. Of course, there are also tons of ideas pinned on my SMASHbook Pinterest board. Hopefully this list will inspire you to make a new page in your SMASHbook!

In my black All About Me SMASHbook, I want to add pages for:
1. Guilty Pleasures
2. Phone apps I use
3. 100 Things I love
4. Current and past jobs
5. Adjectives about me that start with E, M, I, L, and Y

In my white Wedding/Love SMASHbook, I want to add pages for:
1. making wedding jewelry with my mom
2. a great pic of my and my parents right before the ceremony
3. Joe's 'before the wedding' stories
4. me and Joe riding bikes @ camping world
5. Joe, the Most Interesting Man in the World

In my red Random/Challenges SMASHbook, I want to add pages for:
1. thrifting with #poppintags as the title
2. my craft room
3. washi tapes
4. something with a patchwork paper background
5. Zentangles

I just got the Green Tasty SMASHbook - I plan on adding favorite  and new restaurants, and favorite and new recipes.

Do you have any great ideas for me to add to my list??

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Smash Your Stash Challenge 8 - Favorite Article of Clothing

The challenge was to smash a page about your favorite article of clothing. I don't really have a favorite piece of clothing, so I decided to do shoes instead. I feel like I searched for a long time to find the right pair, so I chose my cowboy boots! I'm still using the Red Doodle page for the Challenges. I thought this page was perfect since it already said "you look nice today".

I absolutely love this page - I think it's my favorite page I've ever Smashed! It's so pretty!

I used Heidi Swapp's Color Shine mists and a wood veneer for the first time ever on this page. I'm really not sure why I haven't used either item until now - I love them both! The Color Shine creates a beautiful sheen and adds just a bit of color. The wood veneer is from a Recollections pack I got at Michael's.

I used some arrows that I cut on my Silhouette a while back. I have an accordion file that I put cuts into for future use. These arrows had 3 little pointy things (technical term, obvi) so I cut them to make all 3 different. I used the Color Shine on the middle arrow.

I used 3 different alphas on this page, including sparkly turquoise Thickers. Love!

What do you think? What is your favorite article of clothing?

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Smash Your Stash: Bonus Challenge

Since I was on vacation, I'm a little behind on completing the challenges in the Smash Your Stash facebook group... but better late than never, right?

This was a bonus challenge and you had to use green, gold, and a rainbow. I printed 3 pictures from St. Patrick's Day. My mom took the pictures when we stopped over at her house after watching Oz, the Great and Powerful. It took a few tries to get a good picture. 

Close-up of the 3 pictures - on the left, I'm making crazy eyes; on the right, Joe is moving around, and in the middle is the good picture! There was already from writing on the page. I put an October Afternoon 'love' sticker over top of 'like'.

I cut out the "luck" card on my Silhouette Cameo. I plan on using another one (sized down to 4x3) in my Project Life book.

Close up of the journaling. I cut out the shamrock border on my Silhouette Cameo.

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Smash Your Stash Challenge 2

This week's challenge was to use washi tape, ribbon, or twine (or use all 3!) to make a border around the page. Then use a journaling card to talk about which food would be your last meal. Bonus points for including the recipe!

In general, we only make my favorite foods - chicken casserole, broccoli casserole, and mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving (and sometimes Christmas). The page itself was already Thanksiving colors. I used 2 layers of washi around the outer edge of the page to let the chevron pattern show up better. These journaling cards are from Farmhouse by Crate Paper. I used a little bit of twine on one of the cards. I used fun Thickers to spell out my title.

I wrote out my mom's chicken casserole recipe that was passed down to her by my dad's Great Aunt Lelo. It's hands down the best chicken casserole dish ever.

What would be your last meal???

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Smash Your Stash Challenge 1

I just joined a group called 'Smash Your Stash' on Facebook and am going to try to do as many challenges as possible. I'm using the red SMASHbook I got in a SMASH bundle at Michael's a few months ago. I tend to always have a theme when I do my SMASHbooks. I'm hoping these challenges will push me to be a little more random. My pages are still going to be scrapbook-y though. That's just my style :)

The first challenges was to use your oldest piece of patterned scrapbook paper and some letter or label stickers. I used a paper called "Wally Moose Tracks" from Gin-X's 'Take a Vacation'. It's not the first piece of paper I ever bought, but it's one of the oldest I still have. I just cut out lots of the circles from the paper and scattered them around the pages. I used some orange October Afternoon Mini Market stickers.

I thought 'take a vacation' was a great theme for me to use, so I chose a picture from our one-year anniversary trip to Jamaica last year. Joe and I love to travel and explore new places together. I don't think we'll ever run out of places to go.

I used a bunch of little embellishments from K&Co, an Amy Tan sticker, and a few random travel-related things I had laying around.

I am going to use my SMASH date stamper in this book.

 I think the international clocks are cute. The stars add a bit of sparkle to the page.

So what do you think? Are you up for the challenge?

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