'Cuz the kid "embellishes" her pictures enough. Such a ham!!! Oh my, where did my baby go? She looks so very grown up in her new brown hair and contacts. Seriously, should I be worried? What happens when she becomes an actual teenager?
This one of the four Spellbinder Decorative Labels Eight. I LOVE THESE! They are so intricate and beautiful. I used three of them on this layout. A corner punch, some flourish stamps, and a little bling and my pictures need no further embellishment.
'Cuz the kid "embellishes" her pictures enough. Such a ham!!! Oh my, where did my baby go? She looks so very grown up in her new brown hair and contacts. Seriously, should I be worried? What happens when she becomes an actual teenager? Had a day off to scrapbook with Mom and Sis. I (nearly) completed a layout I've been working on for a while. However, I did start and finish two new layouts. A digi one and a traditional. The first is my daughter's dog, Nala. Miss Thing took all of the pictures here except for the cloud background, which I took after seeing the picture of the dog waiting patiently for someone to play with her. The second is for the August challenge at My Creative Sketches. I knew that I wanted to do the daisy background shortly after seeing this sketch. I had a hard time finding the right picture for it until I happened across these ones that my MIL gave me. This is my beloved Grampa... who became mine the minute I married his grandson. He is a sweet and wonderful man who is currently battling dementia. I wish it were so easy to find the key to his memory as it was to find it at Michael's! I used Wow and Reflections glitter and shimmer papers and a piece of black cardstock to hold it all together. The daisies were a MS punch and the frame a Sizzix die. The key was from Tim Holtz and the ribbon was swiped from my sister's stash. I don't recall who the bling and alphas were from.
I love this picture because it really captures the impy meriment in his eyes. I pray that science can find a cure for this disease that robs a person of their memories and steals them away from their families bit by agonizing bit. Another challenge... both sketch and color-scheme. The color gave me fits trying to find some patterned paper that had the right colors and wasn't so busy that my pictures disappeared! I settled for one that was close and added orange Stickles over a color that didn't fit. Which gave it the bonus of being sparkly! The sketch called for two rows of stitching on three sides; I aimed for a tractor track look. It was a happy day for me when I discovered that you could cross stitch on your layouts. Just print out a pattern in the size you want, lay it on top and poke your holes. Easy - peasy, and it looks so cool. Don'tcha think? But this stitch has got to be my favorite... a scallopy border made of French knot daisies. Could life get any more perfect? This completely overshadows the early joy of getting the chance to use FOUR different Spellbinder sets. And altering plain cardstock with alcohol inks and nailpolish!!! And the pictures! I just love the long shot at an angle from the back of the line. If you look really hard past all of the people, you can make out the machine pulling at the other end of the rope... but I like the two other shots so you can see the details that I wanted, like the tractor and my Cutie Pie! So do you stitch on your pages? Hand or machine? Hello, Beloved Peeps! My family spent a morning on the beach recently and I took a WHOLE lot of pictures that I wanted to scrap. I had an idea for scrapping them all, but needed a map of sorts. And as I have been jamming on the sketches lately, I decided to made my own... Feel free to use it, if you'd like... just remember to link back to this blog post if you reproduce this sketch on another site. Here's how it turned out, with slight modifications to sizes and angles. I cropped the pictures so they would be slanted, but the horizon would be level and used a reflection text effect on the journaling to give it more of a water effect... I decided right there on the beach to use the rocks and shells as embellishments for the layout. I glued them on using Ranger's matte Glue N Seal and put Glossy Accents on the top of some of the rocks and shells to give them a fresh-off-the-beach wet look. I also filled the shells with the Glossy Accents to make them more solid and hopefully less fragile and grouped them with rocks of the same height (or close). Have you ever used rocks, shells, or other found natural items in your scrapbook layouts? My apologies to my friend, Lisa, but this layout has absolutely NO patterned paper. Just plain white cardstock, some alcohol-thinned dyes, and various washi tapes strung onto embroidery floss and backed with more of the above-mentioned white cardstock. I'm sorry, my Peeps. I know I've been doing so well with the pp thing... but the urge to create from near-scratch was overwhelming. And FUN! I splotched my "alcohol inks" on with a papertowel, a rubber gloved finger and a paintbrush. The banner was made by affixing washi tape to a strip of cardstock and cutting out the triangle and folding the tape over embroidery floss. I LOVE THE WASHI!!! This layout was for yet another challenge. The colors were lemon, strawberry, and mint... which kept me from using the whole rainbow... which would have probably swallowed up the photos into one wild psychedelic rainbow. So, three cheers for color challenges!!! This is the July's sketch from Creative Sketches. I really liked the geometric simplicity of this one. I shrunk it down a little to make room for all of my journaling and my preferred 8 1/2 x 11 size. I used three different fruit patterned papers: bananas, Granny Smith apples, and strawberries. I then finally broke out the squirrel paper that I bought years ago, but never used. A little bling, some old paper flowers, some new and adored brads, some Spellbinder die cut leaves, letter stickers and we are nearly there. When I saw the picture that Miss Thing took with her new birthday camera, I fell in love with it immediately. Isn't it just the cutest??? I knew that I had to scrap it and finally use the acorn that I made when I first started making paper. This was done by packing paper pulp into a plastic cookie-cutter. Then I discovered how cool that the paper looks when die-cut and I quit making these thicker paper forms. However, I really like it and may revisit the use of cookie-cutters again. Another challenge page. As you can tell, we had fun taking these pictures. I had poor Miss Thing in stitches. It was dark when we got home after our visit to Nana and Papa’s, so these were taken by putting the camera on the bookshelf, setting the timer, and running into place and smiling… in near darkness against a white door. It made our eyes (or mine anyway) look appropriately creepy for a Halloween photo shoot. Of course I was a bit silly… sticking my finger into her armpit or saying something asinine before the shot was taken. And of course, the lovely beetle tattoo on my neck didn’t show. It was a DOOZY… a hideous Asian longhorned beetle; a temporary tat from the State Forestry agency given out to kids (and bug-obsessed freaks like me) at the annual Paul Bunyan show. All my Peeps at work loved my “gansta ink”.
I got some use out of my MS Punch Around the Page set and took a sheet of POW! glitter paper for a spin. Isn’t it GORGEOUS??? The bottom corner was looking a bit naked to me. I tried a flower and a grouping of buttons and brads, but decided that a spider was what was called for. So I dug out my felt and found an awesome spider in this children’s coloring page website. Isn’t she just ADORABLE??? A little Sharpie, some white paint and Stickles, and a few stitches to hold the three felt layers together, and I have myself a cutiepie little spider. Let me tell you, my beloved Peeps, there are the PERFECT images in cyberspace just waiting for you to find… and coloring pages make for quick and fun paper piecing (or felt) projects. Check it out when your own Voices tell you that your page needs something else. I used a transparency for my journaling. I used a rounded rectangle drawing shape in Word and made the outline a very light grey and added a shadow to the bottom corner. I then layered two text boxes on top of it, changing the settings to "no fill" and "no outline". I highlighted the text on my quotation and added a relection from the Text Effects. I added my title as Word Art and spun it 90 degrees and added it to the edge of the rectangle. I printed it and cut it out and cut another piece of the silver POW in the same shape. I thought it would be a lot easier than trying to print directly onto glitter paper. Though I am bound to try it one of these days. And for more on the actual hats, see my posts here and here. Thanks for stopping by… please leave a comment if you have a minute. I LOVE hearing from you. To say that this one has gone together quickly would be a gross fabrication! I knew when she brought this picture home last fall that I wanted to do another Prima-type layout. I really liked how the last one I did turned out. And with the leaves and wall in the background, I knew that I wanted to incorporated leaves heavily into this layout… and woodgrain too. So I wrote up the journaling and printed it out onto a light (and imminently readable) woodgrain paper. To get the mottled leaf effect, I had to have all of my colors of paper pulp made up at the same time. That required some ambition… which took a couple months to find. Then I made the paper and tried cutting it with my Spellbinder dies… of which I had a couple amazing packages of leaves. Only a small handful of them actually cut completely. So I dug out the thick Sizzix dies, even going so far as to order another one. (Yes – it was a hardship. But one must suffer for their art, they say…) So I cut a pile of leaves. And I punched some small daisies out of vellum to be made into asters – one of my favorite fall flowers. I went with white, which looked better with Miss Thing’s dress than the purple, I thought. The Voices had some issues with what to put behind all of the leaves and flowers and big old “6”. I carried dark brown paper and gold ink and butterfly stamps with me to a crop. Fortunately, I never got to this layout. Then I checked a book out of the library on decorative paper techniques and got the idea for the tissue paper. I spent $2 at the dollar store for a variety pack. I then layered yellow, pink, and red with tinted glues… first brown, then pink, then orange pigmented matte glue/sealer. I was going to go with yellow and green, but I fell in love after the pink and didn’t want to mess up the color combo. I cut frames out and adhered the journaling and pictures behind instead of matting them onto the front. I actually liked the background so much, I opted for less leaves and didn’t like the asters after all. I did use some metallic rub-ons here and there, mostly in spots that the white background still showed through. I think the tissue paper makes a lovely leaf background and may try it in greens for a summer background… or blues for water… or multicolored for…. Yep, I’m thinking it’s addictive!!! And I got another Prima-ish layout for my scrapbook. Here is a picture of the cake that I made for Miss Thing's birthday. I found the idea here. I used a whipped type frosting that didn't behave the same, but I think it turned out pretty well anyway, don't you? The cake was supposed to be made with a white cake, but she had requested a Pepsi cake. The cola extract made the cake a near-chocolate color. I just used extra gel color. I decided to play at My Creative Sketches again this month. I think the sketch is so pretty, don't you? I realized that I had never documented the ordeal with the dog, so I put it into the journalling that I did on the page. And as usual, there is more journalling than anything else, so I tried to include it into the "background", so you can read it, or just enjoy the pictures of the cute pooch. This is my take on the sketch, with tons of vellum, border punches, and bling. I used a Sizzix Originals die to punch a flower through all of the layers before I adhered the whole block to the background. I like this effect and plan to use it again. |
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About MeScrapbooking is the self-medicating therapy I use to deal withthe stresses of being a slightly less-than adequate housewife, mom of a pre-teen, and full-time laborer with great responsibilities but no real power. |