Scrap Our Stash Challenge #16

A stash challenge from Scrap Our Stash is exactly what I needed!

This is my kind of challenge - to USE WHAT I ALREADY HAVE - because I have too much stuff! Using as much from my stash is one of my goals in scrapbooking during 2014!

Here are the details of the challenge:

For this challenge we are going to shop our personal stash, we will not be taking a trip to our local scrapbooking stores.

Here's the rules:

From the shopping list below, shop for (5 or more) different items in your stash. 

Create a layout and include those (5) items on your page. 

 

Here is the shopping list:  I have highlighted the elements I incorporated into my layout!

Washi tape

Stars (3 or more) - I used 3 wooden stars!

Striped Paper (not lined)

Enamel Dots (3 or more)

Polaroid Frame

Buttons (3 or more) - I used 6 buttons!

Flag

Dimensional sticker

Paper Clip

Arrows (3 or more) - I used 3 punched paper arrows!

Wood Veneer

Journaling card - I used 2 journaling cards!

Sequins (3 or more)

Use (2) or more types of punches 

Die cut - I used 9 chipboard die cut letters for my title!

Tags (2 or more)

Flair button

Rub On

Transparency

Flowers (3 or more)

Cork embellishment - I used 1 cork tag!

 

 

I combined this shopping challenge with a 2 page sketch from Let's Scrap!

You * Me: A layout for Frosted Designs

This simple layout is based on Sketch 43 at Frosted Designs.

I really have enjoyed creating layouts with 1 photo, lately, and I think it is their simplicity and ease of design!

I used these products:

Kraft cardstock, paper butterflies, White Daisy Ink & Twilight Ink by Close To My Heart

Basic Grey brads

My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Two Sunshine "Lovely" Plaid Paper

Authentique "Splendid" Renown Paper

Pink Paislee Daily Junque paper and Cardstock Sticker Expressions Ambrose-Ocean

Adornit Carolee's Creations Tiny Whoosy Teal font stickers

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XO: A Layout for Let's Capture These Sketches

Let's Capture These Sketches

is having a sketch challenge, and I just loved the look of this sketch!

Check out their blog site, and give their sketches a try! 

This layout my youngest son and I two Easter vacations ago at the pool!  I am giving him lots of hugs, kisses, and squeezes, so I thought "XO" would be a fitting title!

Here is the list of products/manufacturers I used to create this layout:
atd Momenta Knee Socks Puffy font stickers
Authentique Splendid Collection, Renown paper
Bazzill Basics "Blue Calypso" cardstock
Crate Paper Borders
CTMH Just Blooms Paper Shapes Flutter butterflies
My Mind's Eye: Follow Your Heart Collection paper and decorative brads
Tim Holz Ranger Distress Ink: Scattered Straw

<3 Roberta

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Living My Own Adventure

So as you can see, I love patterned paper!  And lots of it! 
 I have also been playing with black cardstock as my base, and I like how it worked with these photos! 
 I used my Fiskars handheld circle cutter for the "circle" in yellow from Pink Paislee's Junque collection. 
 The black and creme pattern and the blue/yellow fleur de lis patterned paper are from 7 Gypsies, as is the title piece ADVENTURE.  The 3 red stars are also fussy cut from another sheet in that same paper pad. 
 The printed butterflies are from Close To My Heart - and I must say, I love them!  The strip at the top with the word "destination" is from Pink Paislee, and is actually a transparent border sticker!  The font stickers in the lower right corner are from Carolee Adorn It. Don't you love the old world script font stickers that appear to be written by quill pen!  (And these are ancient stickers by Flavia). 
The gold/white striped paper is from echo park's Little Boy collection. The blue/yellow polka dot accents in the top right corner, on the lower left photo corner, as well as the red/black circle strip in the top left are border stickers from Crate Paper.
I really got a kick out of all these primary colors, and I hope I have inspired you in just a tiny way, to feel more confident to play with angles, shapes, lots of fonts, various manufacturers and collections, and of course ----- patterns!

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Good Times

Welcome to my layout for the Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs, featuring "Embossing." I chose to incorporate dry embossing on the red cardstock die cut shape behind the "E," as well as wet, heat embossing on the title and horseshoe accents! I really do like both types of embossing for different reasons: dry embossing is more subtle, and heat embossing adds pop!

So, I encourage you to get out those embossing plates and stylus, heat guns and fine powders, and get creative! (And messy, if you are like me! :)

Please join us each and every Fabulous Friday at Frosted Designs!

Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas 2011: This is my first Copic and Prismacolor marker project! I absolutely love Christmas, and traditional Christmas colors, so I just layered and layered those with my favorite shape, the square, until I was happy with my card. This DIGI image is by Mo Manning, and actually was chosen becuase this little boy, "Jimmy" looks so much like my own 3 year old! I usually add a lot more "bling" to my projecrs, but for this card, I really wanted you to be able to focus on the image of this sweet boy and his excitement about Christmas, so I took a more minimalist approach.

This being my first coloring project, literally, I was pretty pleased with how this sweet boy and his stocking turned out! I have just a few Copic Sketch markers, and so I mixed my coloring with Prismacolor markers that are available where I live. Both worked very well on the Copic Xpress paper, and I could tell a big difference in the ease of coloring with it and the basic cardstock that I tested colors on!

The angle of this photograph really emphasizes the embossed texture on the base of my card, and I think it adds a little something without being a distraction.

For this card, and the many duplicates I will make to mail to loved ones all over the USA, I dove into my STASH, and decided to CLEAR OUT the Clover Meadow cardstock from Close To My Heart that I have had for at least 3 or 4 years. I also used the last red rhinestone on a sheet that I have had for years, too...and yes I saved just one rhinestone... I was thrilled to be able to pull out a very old embossing plate out of my tools stash, and hand emboss the basket weave texture onto my base layer!

*Being a mother of ALL BOYS - I get to create papercrafted projects that reflect my primarily masculine household. (Me, and 2 of our pets are ladies! LOL!) Personally, I love ribbon, flowers, bling, etc... but, for this card, I wanted to truly reflect who we are as a family...we are mostly boys, very bright and colorful, very conservative & square, very complex with lots of layers, and completely in love with Christmas....and I feel that's what my card communicates.

TOP TIP TUESDAY: When working with any medium to dark colored solid cardstock, be sure to wash your hands with a non-moisturizing soap, and DO NOT apply hand lotion or cream! This will keep your cardstock fresh and clean without any oily fingerprints, and will prevent your photos and images from detiorating over time from oily fingers!

***I found some WONDERFUL blogs that are hosting challenges that worked with my card, and here they are! *** Please become a follower of my blog, and visit these, too! **** There She Goes: TSG129 Holiday Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges: #46 Anything Goes w/a digi Heart Song Inspirations: Challenge #23 Anything Goes

Stampin Sisters in Christ: Challenge #114: old stamp Stamps R US: Challenge "Masculine" Paper Creations Ink: Challenge #12 Holiday Wishes for Kids

Make it Monday: Challenge #62 Anything Goes

Crafty Boots: Challenge Young at Heart Craft Your Passion: Challenge #83 Anything Goes + Brown

Cards For Men: Challenge #23 It's Nearly Christmas

Tuesday Throwdown:#74 Your Favorite Color Combo

Top Tip Tuesday: #59 Anything Christmas Party Time Tuesdays: #40 Bling it On Papertake Weekly: First Christmas card Everybody Art Challenges: #167 Advent

Digital Tuesdays: #136 Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenges: Minimalistic

Bearly Mine: #23 One For The Boyz Clear it Out: Fave Holiday

Stampavie and More: #155 Anything Goes

Papercraft Star: #70 A Number

More Than Favors: Wacky Wednesday #58 BBB - bling

Crafting For All Seasons: #13 Texture

Really Reasonable Ribbon: #35 Christmas Theme I Dit It Creations: #80 Christmas Theme

Flowerets: #8 Christmas cards Cupcake Craftroom: November: Sweet Christmas

Made It Myself Monday: #22

Beary Sweet Challenge: #37 Your Beary Best

Dream Valley Challenges: #19 Anything Goes

*Products I Incorporated Into This Card: Clover Meadow cardstock by CTMH (very old) Classic Red Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Sassy Trees on Ivory pp by Canvas Corp. Copic XPress It Laser White cardstock "Jimmy's Stocking" image by Mo Manning Twine by My Minds Eye Basket Weave Embossing plate by Fiskars (very old) Clover Meadow ink by CTMH (very old) Playful Numbers Stamp Set by CTMH (OLD - not used in 3 years?) Rhinestone bling by Me and My Big Ideas* (very old!) Copic Sketch Markers: 0, 100, BG10, E33, YR04, R29, YG03, YG67 Prismacolor Markers: PM-192, PM-187, PM-90, PM-88, PM-19

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 10-14-11 Fancy Trim

The Fabulous Friday challenge this week is to use "fancy trim" on your project! As a professed scrapbooker, and a mother of 3 boys, I seldom have an opportunity to use a feminine fancy trim! So, I was extremely excited to find this faux leather fringe at the Buy The Yards Ribbons booth at the CKC-Charlotte convention vendor fiar! I snapped up all she had in her booth, knowing I would be workin on all of our cowboy/indian photos from Tweetise Railroad!

I used 2 strips of this trim, and adhered it to my layout with Zips Clear Adhesive Lines Ultra Thin. I think it turned out great! I hope you like it, and will give some of those masculine trims a try when you come across them!

Keep an eye out each Friday for a new challenge at Frosted Designs!

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 9-30-11 Fussy Cuts

I guess everyone can tell by the layouts on my blog, that I really love to photograph and then scrapbook my son, Ezra! And much of what he wears, and what we do involves bright colors! So here we are at our local amusement park, Tweetsie Railroad, on one of my favorite rides: The Merry Go Round! I am really not sure the difference between a carousel and merry go round, but we sure do love them!

As a very thankful member of the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Design Team, I was challenged to do fussy cutting! For this layout, I cut out the 5 clouds from a piece of My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Out of The Blue "Smile" Float Paper, and the 2 carousel horses from a piece of Best Creations, Inc. Looops and Scoops paper. Boy, those carousel horses were very fussy!!! LOL!

I added Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Faded Jeans with a stiff bristle brush to the top edges of the clouds, and adhered them with foam circles! For the horses, I also adhered those with foam, and for a "Twist" of fun, I used Lime Twist baker's twine, 2 strands twisted, for the poles of the carousel! I hope you like it!

My best tip for fussy cutting -- use a pair of sharp, fine or microtip scissors! It will save you time and frustration! Keep an eye out for a new challenge each Friday at Frosted Designs!

All Aboard!

Here is another layout in my series on our summer adventures at Tweetsie Railroad!