An old favorite and a new one. I made some butterfly buttons out of Shrinkies. I stamped the white ones with Stayzon ink and the red ones were stamped with pigment ink and sprinkled with red Zing embossing powder BEFORE shrinking. The embossing powder I hadn't done before... the color and texture are awesome, but all of the detail from the stamp was lost.
An old favorite and a new one. I made some butterfly buttons out of Shrinkies. I stamped the white ones with Stayzon ink and the red ones were stamped with pigment ink and sprinkled with red Zing embossing powder BEFORE shrinking. The embossing powder I hadn't done before... the color and texture are awesome, but all of the detail from the stamp was lost. I found this idea on the Internet on a math website. Yes, my Peeps, math CAN be fun. A flashback to the 70's - String Art. Insert your pins into a piece of waxed paper on cardboard, string your design, and coat lightly with glue. When dry, remove the pins, and VOILA! - adorable scrappy embellishments ready to glue onto your layout!!! This first layout was made for a color and sketch challenge and was PERFECT for the picture of my darling daughter when her hair was Rock-N-Roll Red. Here is September's sketch from My Creative Sketches. I had been looking for the PERFECT idea for the pictures I had of my friend, Susan. I liked the sketch and when I saw the tutorial for the sketch art, I knew this was the one.
Things I learned about embossing powders on this layout:
Found this sketch on the internet (but couldn't find it again to link it back - I apologize to all involved!). Used patterned paper from a school-themed matte-stack I had. Shannon did the Stickles art. And I had to throw out a tablespoon or so of Zing. (sob...) But another school picture is scrapped. Whoo-Hoo!!! Had TONS of fun with this one! I printed my picture onto cardstock, modgepodged grass paper on top of the page and gravel paper below it, then added a layer or two of white tissue paper, some green paint, stamps, die cuts, chalk, rub ons, flocking, embossing paste, painted metal letters, a variety of brads, a Shrinky Dink, crystal flourish, and a charm.
I am going to do this "canvas" playing/technique again; I really loved the artsiness of it. Took a TON of animal pictures on this trip. I had a hard time narrowing it down to 2 pages!!! I cut a couple of embellies out of a brochure ("Featuring" and "Feed the Animals"), I then played around on Word to get similar results with my journaling. I had lots of fun distorting the image to get the quirky shape here. However, the Crystal Effects warped my paper a bit. Do you have a "shiny dimensional" product that wouldn't do that to thin paper??? If so, please let me know!!! 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? 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. |
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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. |