Happy NSD and A Challenge Entry

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY EVERYONE!

Some of you know that I really enjoy Gloria Stengel's challenge blog, Craft Hoarders Anonymous. And because I do, I squeezed in a project to enter just before the deadline. It gave me an excuse to print a couple of photos of my youngest daughter's trip to Europe and make a layout. She and a couple of friends took a few weeks off from work and have gone to London England, two or three places in Italy (one being Rome), Germany, and are currently in Amsterdam.

The current challenge  at Craft Hoarders Anonymous is a sketch with a twist - which is to use something old and something new. Well, all the paper I used is old. I've had it for a couple of yearsby now. It's Prima's Almanac. The ribbon is new, the photos are very new as my daughter is still over there, and the bling is new. Well, new to me.

To the left is the sketch from CHA. It can be used for any kind of project you wish!

I ended up putting two extra small
photos on the LO than indicated in the sketch, but I tried to make the three one unit. At the top of the larger photo you see a tag peeking out from behind. This can be pulled out and has some journaling on it.

I have a couple of detail photos for you.

This photo shows the details of tearing, curling, inking and painting with ink and water.

And this one just shows the pull out tag and circle element from the sketch to which I added some bling (one of my new elements on the project).

Thank you for stopping by to have a look at my layout entry, and go check out Gloria's challenge blog Craft Hoarders Anonymous. It's open to cards, layouts, and more! This reminds me that I made a video of my Challenge #4 prize package to share with you. I should find it and post it.

Happy papercrafting!

May 7, 2014 -

Blues & Browns Masculine Vintage Layout

- a little late getting out, but a class I'm looking forward to teaching.

It's time again for the Vintage Layout class at Scrapbook Parade. Since Father's Day is this month I thought it would be nice to create a masculine layout again. The papers used are from the retired Upsy Daisy company using the 'Man About Town' collection. I used the blues in the line along with some dark brown.

I was inspired to use my Cricut for this layout, using the Heritage cartridge. It will be a time saver in preparing the kits for this class.

All but the fussy cutting of the floral flourishes are ink distress with Tim Holt Vintage Photo. I even used it around the edges of the photos.

Normally I would have used a brown marker to edge the fussy cutting so that the white paper core doesn't show, but I was in a time crunch here. So if you do something like this, I recommend that you do it. It looks so much better.

Here are some close ups to see all the parts that I popped up. Yep, I even use dimensionals on my layouts. Just can't help myself! I just like the look.

Hope you enjoyed this layout. Thank you for so patiently looking at all the photos. I have so many for those that can't take the class and have a kit. These detailed pics help them to put their project together.

Till next time, happy crafting!

Shadow Box - Authentique Remembrance

- unique colours and versatile collection make this line fun to work with

Hello blog friends! Today I'd like to share with you a future shadow box class. I love making shadow boxes, especially those that encase a precious photo. Here is what I came up with.

Oops, forgot to check my camera settings again. They look fine in Picasa though. Sorry for the blur...again!

Because this occasion was a western style wedding celebration, I thought adding the twine, lasso style, would be a nice touch. These are my children! The young man on the right, isn't really mine, but being the best friend of my oldest son on the left, he was over often and considered family. So after several years, it was nice to see them all together again.

There is one design in this collection that I simply had to fussy cut and roughly colour in just a bit of colour.

Beautiful paper, isn't it. 

I used Fantastix and my ink pads to lightly add some colour. You can use the pen nibs I put in the photo, as well. Once I get all my Spectrum Noir, I'd use them.

So, let me show you some close ups. Hopefully they won't be too blurry.

The "My Favorite Memories" card, is a tag that can be pulled out and written on.

You can better see all the layers of these fussy cut pieces I used on the left side here.

Can you see that the purple pinstripe layer is popped up? Next is the photo with the twine lasso.

I put the year on the photo in Picasa. Love that program. Here is another view.

Well that's it for the detail shots. Now, which one do I give this to? The Groom? Or should I make one for all of my children do you think?

Thank you for stopping by to have a look.  Have fun making your own shadow box!

Tools & Supplies:

PAPER: Authentique Remembrance, Bazzill - Dusk & (forgot the name of the green!)

INK: Tim Holt Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters & Dew Drop VersaMagic Eggplant

Tim Holtz paper distresser, Pop Dots, Hemp Twine, Fantastix

Paper Piecing With Julie Dinn!

-Taking more classes with Julie so I can get some cards made for my Grand-daughters...oh, and learn something too!

I've done some paper piecing in the past, but wow!, I learned a few new things from Julie. Wish you were all here and able to take these classes at Scrapbook Parade, too. I don't have photos of the pieces we cut out before putting it all together because I was in a class, but I hope to do that in the future for some of my own paper piecing projects.

These are the cute cards we made in class, but please don't laugh at my colouring. I haven't had the skin and hair colouring classes yet. But my grand-daughters won't know the difference.

We even cut out the little hair elastics and the little flower on her shirt! It was worth it. You can't tell in the photo to well that her shirt is hanging over her pants and is not glued down but loose. I love the Die-Namics daisy!

Julie likes to beautify the insides of her cards, so we did that as well.

The paper piecing of this little girl has 4 layers! And it looks so good in real life.

Love the colours on this card. The challenge with this paper piecing project was the arms and hands. We coloured and cut out an extra set of arms with hands that went under the dress at the top, but in front of the dress at the hands. What a big difference that tip makes in the appearance! Thanks Julie.

I hope we'll have more paper piecing classes with Julie. There is always something to learn out there, isn't there?

Barnyard Fun

I completely justified the purchase of barnyard-themed dies some time ago by telling myself I would put them to use for the kiddies. Finally got around to it!

The background board is from a dollar store kiddy set--a steal of a deal!  I just whipped up the barn and animals with my dies and felt. To speckle the rooster, I sprayed him with Studio Calico's Opaque White Mister Huey's mist and dabbed it dry.

Fun to make, but I learned a thing or two about putting a barn together.  ;)

{Supplies--all Papertrey Ink unless noted}

• Dies: On the Farm
• Other Tools: felt--Fine Linen, Vintage Cream, Melon Berry, Harvest Gold, True Black, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate; Mister Huey's Opaque White mist (Studio Calico)