Sharing my homework...Wilna's Art And Design Class

This class was one of my favorite classes related to scrapbooking that I have ever taken! For any one that missed the original run of it on Big Picture Classes old website, she is now offering it in her shop, iheartstudio . I felt it was well worth the cost of admission, just for the cut files, much less the wonderful inspiration and instruction! Here are a few more of my pages inspired by the class, click on "Wilna's Art and Design" in my category tab to see more:

I fussy cut the "Primeval Whirl" title from an actual photo that I took of the sign. I painted the smear across the page with Gelatos, and the "Awesome" was a cut file from the class. I know that every time I use Gelatos, I think of Wilna, and her videos for 2Peas, because I never would have discovered them if not for that.

A couple of embellishment close ups:

The "windows were also a cut file offered up in the class, and I had such fun scrapping once forgotten photos from my honeymoon, and filling the grid up with little bits of loveliness from a past counterfeit kit, such as these fun stamped and painted mixed media embellishments:

I love the tiny textured treasures on this page. The stamped cork and canvas really adds a fun bit of texture to the page!

A couple more cards...

that I made for World Card Making Day (Weekend):
Card #1:

See It on 2Peas

 It was made for
WCMD 2012 Challenge 5: Trend Watch Challenge by Julia Stainton, using Kimber's Saturday Card Sketch on 2Peas

Card#2:

See It on 2Peas

This one was created for Just Lulu's WCMD Challenge on 2Peas: use a sticker, a brad, and a stamp. The stickers, brads, and papers are all from My Mind's Eye Sweetest Thing:Lavender collection. The doily stamps are from My Mind's Eye, the sentiment is from TPC Studios, twin is from Martha Stewart.

Basic Grey Sketch Layout

Just a quick post to share a layout that I made for this week's Basic Grey sketch:

Here is my layout, using Basic Grey papers-the background is from the Basics line, and the light blue/white swirl is from the Eskimo Kisses Collection:

 I used up some scraps of dark aqua cardstock, and a few other bits and pieces, such as a wooden button leftover from one of my Christmas kits, and a glittery white snowflake from my January "Cozy Cabin in the Snow" kit.
A Closer look at my mini banners:

Best Buds

Today, I am sharing a layout that I made for Creative Scrappers, sketch # 195.
The sketch:

The layout:

 A close-up look at the embellishments:

I used papers from my February Counterfeit Kit, and from my scrap basket: background paper is a beautiful embossed with glossy hearts by Coud 9, cork paper, striped paper from Cloud 9, scraps from Basic Grey, Cloud 9, and chatterbox, a die cut tag, wood button, and crochet flower- all leftovers from my December Daily "Cozy Christmas" kit, clear acrylic heart shapes from Heidi Grace, October Afternoon Sidewalks buttons, letter stickers from Pink Paislee, and kraft letters that I diecut with my Cricut and Plantain Schoolbook cart, and corrugated with my Fiskars crimper.

2 for Friday

Today, I am sharing a layout that I made and shared on Sketches 4 All, but I haven't shared here yet.
For my Pinterest Inspired Challenge Group, I am challenging everyone to use this sketch:

 http://pinterest.com/pin/8585055509541234/

My Layout:

Since this sketch was pinned from the October Afternoon blog, I was inspired to use some of the fantastic OA goodies I had in my Counterfeit kit, including the 8x8 paper pad, stick on chipboard, and buttons.

A closer look at my embellies (I also added some Echo Park and Pink Paislee letter stickers, EP flower sticker, a crochet flower, and some Denim baker's twine):

  And sharing a "Boy" birthday card I threw together from some past and present Counterfeit kit scraps:

The background is DCWV, the grid paper is October Afternoon, with green twine (from the Twinery, I think), and Echo Park banner stickers with Making Memories letter stickers.

Sketchy Thursdays *Last one!

I was saddened last week to see that this is the last Sketchy Thursdays sketch. I have so enjoyed playing along with this fun blog, and being inspired by the terrific sketches! I had to play along with them this week, and say farewell!
Here is the sketch:

My Layout based on this sketch, "Love":

A Close-up Of my Embellishment cluster:

When I saw the sketch, I was immediately reminded of the "Love" paper by MME in my January kit. I chose another photo of my husband and myself from our honeymoon (almost 10 years ago), and I added red cardstock for the photo mat, a heart shaped doily that I inked with Barn Door Distress Ink, and layered with a button tied with twine, a Maya Road Vintage Trinket, and black lace from the Little Black Dress kit from Scraptastic Club.

Sketch Challenge at Sketches 4 All

Good morning! I hope you all had a great weekend! I did! I had some time to myself to scrap this past weekend, and it was such a treat! I have to say, this month's Counterfeit Kit really seems to suit my style, because I am really enjoying scrapping with it, and the pages just seem to flow so easily! The page I am sharing with you today is one that I did for a sketch challenge over at Sketches 4 All .

The sketch:

(Isn't it gorgeous?)

My Layout:

 A Close-up of my embellishment cluster:

Everything I used for this layout came from my January Counterfeit Kits. The background, photo mat and paper strip under the Mistables trim is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses paper, along with a piece of diecut paper from Target's $1 spot, and I added a piece of light green swirl print paper tilted under the photo mat. The snowflakes were cut from a transparency, using my Cricut E and SCAL (still love what my baby does for me ;-) ), and then I dabbed it with a pearl paint dabber to make it stand out. The title is made up of Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type Stickers and Basic Grey letter stickers, which outlined with a thin black Sharpie pen to make them stand out. For my embellishment cluster, I covered a large white chipboard snowflake with glue, then silver mica flake, used a ZVA crystal swirl, then layered the glittered snowflake with light blue chipboard snowflakes, an embellished button, and a little eskimo girl from the Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Chip Sticker pack. I added a pink "ticket style" journaling spot, some {crooked} hand-journaling, and I was finished! I have to say, that since I had that moment of self-discovery when I was sharing my favorite layouts from last year, it feels a bit easier to scrap! I don't feel like I am "wandering without a map"-I know my style now, and what I like in a finished layout, so it helps me to make decisions much more easily as I am putting my pages together. I have been inspired to find my style ever since I read about how Melissa found her style-and it was refreshing to find mine!

Now that you've seen my take on the sketch, won't you come and play along for a chance to win a 6x6 Echo Park Happy Days paper pad&Thickers? And while you're there, check out our guest design team call for February?

12 Tags of Christmas, Day 4

Have you been following Tim's Tags? I have to say, this is my favorite tag so far-but it was definantly the most time consuming one that I have done!

Here is Tim's Tag:

And here is mine:

There were ALOT of steps in this tag :-) I only have 2 Distress Stains, So I used Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans) which I rubbed in different spots on wax paper, then homemade marshmallow shimmer mist, Sapphire and Sea Glass Glimmer Mist which I misted onto the wax paper and rubbed the tag through, adding more as needed, then misted the whole tag with my marshmallow mist.I partially dried with my heat gun, then left it alone for a while to finish drying while I worked on the other stuff. After it was dry, I stamped various snowflakes from several different sets in a random fashion with the Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, and Chipped Sapphire Distress inks. I stamped a flourish in Moonlight White Momento Ink up in the upper right hand corner, cut a snowflake edge that I designed in Sure Cuts Alot to look similar to Tim's, which I dabbed with a Pearl Adirondack Paint Dabber. I cut the snowflake and snowman out of chipboard with my Cricut, Deep Cut Blade, and Winter Woodlands cartridge. I cut out the "25" from a little piece of Christmas sheet music from Tim Holtz's Seasonal Paper Stash, also using the Winter Woodlands cartridge with the font set on blackout. I coated the snowman and snowflake with my pearl paint dabber first, dried with my heat gun, then coated with Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint. I had to let this dry on its own. I then coated the "25" with Glossy Accents and let it dry again. I misted the snowflake with Sapphire and Sea Glass Glimmer mist, then wiped it off. I added 3 clear/white/greenish buttons tied with tulle, tied a tulle and shabby seam binding "scarf" around the snowman, added some pearls and rhinestones to his hat, along with a tiny feather. I tied the tag with more tulle and shabby seam binding, adding a "joy" charm and a snowflake button at the top for decoration, and topped the die cut snowflake off with Stickles.
 I am linking this tag up with the Simon Says Stamp Challenge of "Anything Goes", and the Sir StampAlot Challenge Bingo :Pearls, Stickles, Ribbon

"Paddleboat Fun"

I saw this awesome color challenge over at The Color Room, and since I had these colors in my October kit, I decided to play along (albeit a little late).

The challenge:

My take on the challenge:

Again, with a crooked photo...gaggghhh!!! Oh well, you can get the idea-I just have to get used to shooting my pages w/o tons of sunlight (it has been very fallish, gray, and rainy here lately). Any way, on to my layout:

I finally scrapped a few photos from my honeymoon! Supplies I used: Pink Paislee Vintage Moon Harvest Moon paper, scraps of Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe Dresses paper for the photo mats, Echo Park Life is Good Element and Alpha stickers, several Girls Paperie vintage buttons, ZVA bling flourish that I colored to match my layout with a Copic marker, black glitter chipboard Thickers.

Oh, and if you don't read the Dear Lizzy blog...she had the AWESOMEST recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies on her blog this morning- 16 oz can pumpkin, 1 box spice mix, and chocolate chips. It sounded so yummy, and I had some of the stuff, so I tweaked it to what I had-1 cup of pumpkin pie mix, 1 butter recipe yellow cake mix, 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla, and just added in some spices-ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and a cup of chocolate chips, dropped them on a greased cookie sheet and baked at 350 for about 15 minutes. They were SOOOO yummy with a glass of ice cold milk-and I think they still would have been awesome with out the chocolate chips. Try them out and let me know what you think!

Scrapping up a storm...

My crafty muse, or inspiration comes and goes in spurts. I may be inspiired one night and scrap 5-8 pages. Then, I could without inspiration for weeks-when my kids were really small, I went without scrapping for a few months at time (for some reason I never stopped buying supplies,though-I think I enjoy shopping as much as I enjoy scrapping). But, 2 nights ago, I was inspired. I just started scrapping, and didn't stop until I realized it was 11:30, and I had to get up before 5...But it was so worth the lack of sleep! I love a great, productive evening like that, where I don't have to force it, it just sort of flows out! So, all that being said, here is what I made(all supplies from my March Counterfeit Kit):

You Are My Sunshine layout:

I used the back side of one of my Sassafrass Lass sheets (one of the best things about that company is that both sides of the sheet of paper are equally beautiful!), a white paper doily, Sassafrass Lass photo corners from the cardstock sticker sheet, a chipboard flower and doily, all from my Sunny Clearing kit. I also used a chipboard title, orange cardstock (for the photo mat), and a small orange journaling spot from my Main kit, and another KI Memories chipboard doily and a gem from my Babbling Brook kit.

Close Ups of Title and Chipboard Doily:

My Little Punkin' layout:

This layout was made with mostly my Main Kit: Orange patterned paper from Pink Paislee, Dark brown cardstock, ruffled brown ribbon, Making Memories journaling spot, and flourished heart shaped Daisy D's journaling sticker, my homemade "fabrips", and some buttons, flower gems, and Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type stickers for the title from my Mossy Knoll add-on.
Close up of journaling spot, buttons, and flower gems:

Yum layout:

I made this layout with Sassafrass Lass paper, Yellow scalloped circle cardstock, Thickers puffy alpha stickers, yellow ric rac, and one of my homemade clips from my Sunny Clearing add on. I also added orange cardstock, a Making Memories journaling spot, and twine from my Main kit, and made an ice cream cone with paper scraps, my Cricut, Indie Art cartridge, and Glossy Accents, and added memorabilia from the chocolate/ice cream shop.

Close Ups of ice cream cone and homemade clip:

Thanks for stopping by today, and allowing me to share my creations with you!

Duct Tape Diapers

Scrapbooking ( for me) is first and foremost about keeping and recording memories. This page is one that I have wanted to complete for quite a while (about 3 years). It is a memory that is very amusing to me now, although at the time, it was so frustrating and annoying! When the twins were 2, they refused to pee in the potty, and I had the hardest time keeping diapers on them. They would go hide, take their diapers off, and pee (I swear, it was just like puppies!). So, we had to wrap a strip of duct tape around their diapers so they couldn't take them off on their own. They still figured it out though- they helped each other- it was so funny when I caught one of them tearing and unwinding the duct tape from her sister's diaper. The girls still HATE clothes (I really thought that they would outgrow that by now, but no, as soon as they get home from school, they strip their clothes off). But at least they are potty trained now!
For this LO, I die cut a diaper with my Cricut and SCAL, and wrapped a strip of duct tape around the top of it and around the chipboard letters, the photo mat, and used tiny strips of it for photo corners. The journaling spot, strip, and buttons are all Jenni Bowlin, and the patterned paper is a piece of "denim" paper from my stash.
Challenges that I am entering are:
Allsorts Challenge: buttons or Lace
Sisterhood Of Crafters: children or babies
YNS Challenges: buttons
Crafty Creations: child's Play

Thanks for looking!

Celebrate A Sweet Birthday!

For this birthday card, I used the sweet Ice Cream #1 digistamp from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, and this week's Mojo Monday Sketch and the Digital Tuesday Challenge. The patterned papers are some yummy Basic Grey papers, then I attached a ribbon, sewed on a button, colored the ice cream cone with Copic markers, covered the "ice cream" part with Crystal Stickles, and let it dry over night before I attached it to my card with Pop Dots.
Thanks for dropping by my blog, now head on over to the rest of the Design Team, someone has a free digistamp for you!

Lindsay (owner)

Janet

Kim

Leanne

Katt

Melissa B

Melissa C

Olena

Tamara

Tracey

Lisa

Row

Diana (August Guest Dt)

Feb 8

Here's my layout for week 5 sketch at 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. The papers are: DCWV Rock Star Stack (lips), Bazzill Basics (scalloped circle), DCWV Metallic Stack(circle). I also used Grungeboard by Tim Holtz, black glitter Thickers by American Crafts, and flower by The Paper Studio, rhinestone brad by Making Memories.