A Scrappy Sunday, Part #1

I had some free time and the house to myself today, so I had some time for scrappy fun! I worked on using up bits and pieces from previous counterfeit kits , and making pages for some challenges. Up first, a page that I made for sketch #227 over at Creative Scrappers.

The Sketch:

My Layout, Smile:

See It on 2 Peas 

 

Papers used: B-sides from Simple Stories Summer Fresh, Pink Paislee Declaration, Pink Paislee London Market. I used a loopy border punch, Prima decorative tape, a Grungeboard flourish that I painted and heat embossed , hot pink Prima flowers, one Crate Paper journaling spot, woodgrain letter stickers from Momenta, and a layered flower from my September kit.
I'll be back with another layout in a few minutes!

12 Tags of Christmas...Day 6

I can't believe it's half over!! I am having so much fun learning new techniques, watching the videos, and looking at other people's interpretations of the tags!!
Tim's Tag for today:

My tag for today:

My favorite part of the tag I made has to be the little wreath charm that I made!

I followed Tim's techniques pretty closely for the tag itself. I finally got out those paint dabbers that hadn't been used yet, used some yellow, greens and black acrylics in addition. I didn't have the metal foil tape, so I die cut a tag with a free svg from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, Shipping Tags, out of a silver metallic cardstock from my stash, and embossed it with a Tim Holtz embossing folder (not the exact one he used, but I think this one worked okay, too). I sanded with a fine grit sand paper (after drying the paint, of course),  distressed it with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, and coated the tag with UTEE and heat embossed twice.
For my little wreath, I cut and hand painted a tiny wreath on a scrap of the silver metallic cardstock, sanded the edges and top of the wreath a little bit, Inked with Perfect Medium all over (pressed the wreath into the Perfect Medium), lightly inked with Walnut Stain, then coated with a thick layer of UTEE (sprinkled it on there like sugar!), melted, and coated again. I added some rhinestones that I colored red with a Sharpie marker, and then punched a tiny hole for the jump ring in the top holly leaf. Added a piece of hand dyed silvery gray seam binding, some fasteners, and I was finished! What do you think?

Travel Mini Album

Since my family is going on vacation soon, I thought it would be nice to have a mini album/journal for us to record our memories as we go. This is what I came up with.

The whole album is made up of the plain sheets of Tim Holtz Grungeboard. I punched 3 holes in the end with my Crop-A-Dile Big Bite, and put on book rings ( easy to take off and put on as I finished them).

For the cover, I inked the Grungeboard with "Tumbled Glass" Distress Ink pad, then misted it with Turquoise , Riptide, Sea Glass, and Sand Glimmer Mists. I colored this lovely sketch from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Seaside Sketches digistamp set with colored pencils, glued it to the cover of my mini, then surrounded the scene with tiny glass beads in various blues and golds, to mimic sand and water. The letters for the word "Travel" are from Making Memories Passport collection but they were flat stickers, so I attached them to a scrap of Grungeboard, and trimmed the excess.I added a Prima flower and a strand of golden brown beads. I decorated the book rings with various blue and white ribbons, tulle, and twill, and added a Grungeboard "key", that I embossed with gold embossing powder (looks real. huh? ;-) ).

For this part, I attached papers from the Making Memories Passport collection to the Grungeboard, and misted with turquoise, sand, and sea glass Glimmer Mists (very lightly). for the right side, I added a journaling sticker from the Passport collection. For the center, I added a little journaling card from Crafty Secrets, and an envelope for memorabilia that I cut from Kraft paper using Lindsay's Stamp Stuff's Envelope Bonanza svg set. The right side is also misted with Glimmer Mist, and I added an embossed golden keyhole and brads, and inked the edges with Sapphire Distress Ink.

For the next pages, I used some light blue papers from the Passport collection, and stamped a border and title with some stamps from the Passport collection and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. For the center I used a Margarita digistamp freebie, which I printed on white cardstock, cut and embossed with my one Nestie, colored with my Copics, inked the edges with "Tumbled Glass" Distress Ink. I covered my "Blue Hawaiian" with Crystal Stickles, and my hurricane glass with Glossy Accents. For the right side, I used another Passport stamp and "Tumbled Glass" Distress Ink, and tied an "island blue" sheer ribbon for accent.

On the next pages, I used "sand" style paper from DCWV. On the left side, it is accented with sheer ribbon and a travel journaling tag from K&Co, which I also tied a sheer ribbon onto. I added another Crafty Secrets journaling card, and a Making Memories shaped journaling note paper. For the right side, I simply accented it with a ZVA Creative rhinestone flourish to evoke the feeling of a water spray or splash.

On the next pages, I left the grungeboard bare, and misted with sapphire, riptide, turquoise, and sea glass Glimmer Mists, dried with my heat embossing tool, and re-misted, and dried again. Then, I rubbed my glue pad on the edges, dipped them in gold embossing powder and heated. I added an orange hibiscus journaling tag from K&Co to the center.

The next pages are covered with some DCWV travel pages, inked the edges with Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink. On the right side, I added a tiny envelope from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Envelope Bonanza svg set, and a tiny road sign that I cut from an svg I picked up somewhere (I have no idea where or I would share the link). Anyway, I cut it, stamped a tiny palm tree with a Studio G stamp, and inked the edges.

The next 2 pages are for the day of my sister's wedding, so I tried to make them a bit more elegant. I attached a creamy white shimmer swirl paper to a kraft background. I finished it off with a black Doodlebug Frill. I tied a tiny organza bag in the center to hold a small souvenir or momento.

The last 2 pages are dedicated to the drive home. I used paper from DCWV's Mango Frost stack, and stickers/journaling spot from Making Memories Passport collection. For the back cover, I left the Grungeboard bare, then misted with Sand Glimmer Mist, Mango, Treasured Hymn, Trufflez, Ruby, and Bed of Roses Shimmerz. To finish off the back cover, I colored another digistamp from Lindsay's Seaside Sketches.

Challenges that I am entering this mini album into are:
Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Summer Days
By the Cute And Girly:Warm Summer Days
Clearly Delightful:Pearls, Bling, and Button Things
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Summer (with the option of using yellow)
The Crafty Pad: Use yellow and orange and some holes (I punched my own holes in the Grungeboard)
The Belli Challenge: Alter It and use up old stash ( I altered and used up a ton of Grungeboard that I have had for at least a year, along with a bunch of ribbon and other goodies)
Creative Cottage: no cards allowed
Creative Craft Challenges:Summer Lovin'

Drunken Stampers: Water (I will be adding beach photos as soon as I have them, as well)
Easy Crafts Projects: Challenges: summer
If The Shoe Fits...Scrap it:vacation
For Fun Challenges: Hand colored design

Gingersnap Creations: Shades of Blue
Pear Tree Designs: Glitter/Sparkles

Practical Scrappers: Embossing
Stamp With Sarah Kay: anything Goes

Now, my album is ready, bring on the vacation!!

Thanks for looking, now head over to Lindsay and the rest of the DT's blogs for lots of inspiration and a freebie!!

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Leanne Garner
Lisa Jurecek
Margie Visnick You are here!
Melissa Craig
Rebekah Doak
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Micki Harper

Sometimes guest
Erin Bailey

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Thursday (and I got more scrapping done!)

For this week's LSS post, I did another layout, since my goal was to complete 20 layouts in July. For the "Magic" LO, I used a photo of one of my twin girls at the carnival this past spring on the Merry-Go-Round. To me, there is nothing more "magical" than a carousel to a child- I still love them! Anyway, I embellished it with the Carousel digistamp from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff that I colored with colored pencils first, and then blended with baby oil and went back over the edges with some Copics for shading and blending. I then heat embossed the edges of the page with gold embossing powder, and inked the edges of the pink photo mat and chipboard letters with a couple of Copics.

For my "Playin in The Rain" pages, I cut the Rain Frog from MyScrapchick.com and the splat with my Cricut and SCAL, and the spotted blue paper is from GCD Studios.

The layout with our wedding photo is also on GCD Studios, and the edges of the photo mat are inked and the the edges are embellished with black vinyl Thickers.

The last layout is a quick one of my big girl, and I used one of the shopping bags digistamps from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, cut one out, and colored and embellished it with a gel flower from Heidi Swapp, some Twistel type stuff for the handles, and cut out some flip flops with my Cricut which I embellished with beads and flower shaped rhinestones.The beach ball is a rub-on , that I colored also.

Now, head on over to the other designers' blogs to "Find the Freebie"!

Lindsay (owner)

Melissa B.

Melissa C.

Olena

Janet

Leanne

Row

Tracey

Tamara

Katt

Lisa

Kim

Erin Bailey (July Guest DT)