Scrapping Everyday Miracles August Main Challenge

Scrapping Everyday Miracles August Main Challenge...."I Can Do All Things Through Christ".
For I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:13


By Cara:
God created us to do great things and gives us the strength, courage and perseverance to do them!  He also delights in us and with us when we do---isn't that cool? So this month I want to you to create a project about an accomplishment...it can be your own or a loved ones.

The LORD your God is with you, 
He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with his love, 
He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17

I chose to create a layout about my daughter Ellie's Kindergarten graduation (back in spring 2012). She is in the Dual-Language program and many times felt overwhelmed not understanding very much of the Spanish language, but she has stuck with it despite her fears, and is on her way to becoming a fluent Spanish speaker (she will be going into the 2nd grade in the program this Fall). I know God is so very proud of her...just like I am!

So, you can choose anything that you consider an accomplishment---completing a degree, finishing a race, beating an illness, weight loss, etc. Can't wait to see what God is doing in your lives.

Oh, and don't forget the Scrap Twist...use metal or something metallic on your project!

Here is my layout for the August Main Challenge and my twist metal elements are the brads, and the metal pin holding the flowers and star above the tag!

 

Head on over to Scrapping Everyday Miracles and enter those layouts!

-Roberta

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #121: Make your own patterned paper

This week at 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge, the assignment was to make your own patterned paper and then create with it!  I'm a guest designer the month of December, and I really enjoyed this challenge!  I love to get messy!

Here is my completed piece of homemade patterned paper!  I used recycled/repurposed things to make my patterns, that otherwise would have been thrown away! 

 

And here is the layout I created with my new paper!

 

 

Here is a look at the recycled materials I used to add the various textures and patterns to my cardstock.

 

And add a nice big squeeze of white acrylic paint to work with:

 

Dab that paint all over the bubble surface of the bubblewrap with a sponge.

 

Place that face down onto your darker cardstock anywhere you like - I chose an angled tilt and off-center.

 

Next, I sponged white paint all over the foam slats of this little protective cover that Asian Pears come wrapped in, and placed it face down on my cardstock, too!

 

Try to keep the various items you are placing on the cardstock still, without sliding them, as you will end up with a big white smudge rather than a print/pattern.

Here's how that came out.  You can turn the foam inside-out and you will have the other diorection of the weave pattern.

 

Next, I added in a shimmery blue acrylic paint to coordinate with my photo.

I sponged that all over one side of the plastic rings that I saved from my son's individual juice bottles (I don't normally buy these, but he was very sick, and he needed the fluids!)

 

I placed this face down on the paper and pressed firmly!

 

Next, I sponged the entire corrugated side of this little lightbulb box insert with a mixture of the blue and white paints, and reapeated my face-down press!

 

 

I used these products and tools to create this patterned paper & layout:

American Crafts Metropolitan City Park paper

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in white

Folkart acrylic paint in Metallic Blue Sapphire

Magic Scraps Felt Die Cut Shapes "All Boy"

Tim Holtz ideo-ology memo pins

Mon Ami Gabby Crepe Paper

XXL Glue Dots

Bazzill Basics Classic Blue & Handsome cardstock

Michaels ribbon

Adorn It font stickers

CTMH distressing ink in brown

thickers vinyl white letters

Old tags, one of which was from a sweater I recently purchased

foam cover from an Asian Pear

Corrugated cardboard insert from a lightbulb box

plastic separating rings from juice bottles for kids

bubblewrap

embroidery floss

 

Remember to hop over to 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge and play along!

 

Sketches in Thyme: Sketch # 96

I am so excited to be a Guest Designer this week with Sketches in Thyme for Sketch #96!

 

 

As much as I love to use as many photos as I can on a layout - because I have so many to scrap - I am equally thrilled to focus a layout around 1 favorite photo!

 

All of these papers are from the My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart Collection!

I created the 2 very different "rosettes" with an XXL Glue Dot for each, and torn strips of crepe paper twisted and stuck down for the larger, and strands of baker's twine and burlap twine twisted and coiled around and stuck down! 

 

I threw in a couple of random clock gears from Tim Holtz I picked up at a convention. I added in a cork tag I have had since 2007, and adhered patterned butterflies from Close To My Heart to it, along with a My Minds Eye bakers twine length or two!

 

 

 Next, I added a ticket from Jenni Bowlin and inked it all over.  Another butterfly to tie my clusters together, and a twine rosette I made with an XXL Glue Dot!   I added some simple journaling, a title with puffy thickers, a few brads, and I was done! 

Hop over to Sketches in Thyme and join in the fun!



"boy" layout for 4 Crafty Chicks & Quick Quotes

I created this layout using the Quick Quotes Friday Challenge 20 Sketch for inspiration!

I included a quote about boys by Robert Powell on the 3 tags in the top right corner.  I also used the Powder Puff Chalking Ink Mocha Mama around the whole edge of my gold cardstock, and brushed the ink all over the surface of the chipboard tags!



4 Crafty Chicks 4CCC-111 Tag You're It challenge

 

I used 3 identical chipboard tags, that I trimmed into banners and brushed with Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Inks Mocha Mama. I was thrilled to participate in this challenge because I pulled out my little box of blank tags, and used these 3 that I have had for maybe 7 years?  Yay for using my stash!

 

To create this layout I used these supplies and tools:

•  Bazzill Cardstock
• Simple Stories Year-O-Graphy collection
• Jenni Bowlin calendar tags
• The Paper Studio chipboard alphas
• Jillibean Soup green burlap twine
• October Afternoon font stickers
• Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalking ink
• American Crafts metal photo brads
• Prima distressing tool
• Spellbinders square scalloped die
• Sizzix Big Shot
• green ribbon and tags from my stash