October over at the Rainbow Challenge

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You know it's a new month and that means a new color challenge over at the Rainbow Card Challenge! This month we are all about the color Golden Rod which is a nice rich color. 

I used a couple of color to achieve goldenrod in my card background.  I used distress oxide fossilized amber and a little distress ink wild honey and some oxide pumpkin.

I used a Tim Holtz stamp-this is one of my favorites. Around the edges I used distress oxide walnut stain and sprinkle little water droplets here and there for the oxide effect.

The sentiment is Tim's and usually stamps together but I cut them apart thinking I was going to stack the words. But turns out I liked it better this way so lol you know. And Tim's flowers are in the corner and I sprayed them with the seasonal broomstick mica spray. So nice! Also I used Ranger gold embossing powder and this was the first time I used it. And I love it! It's a nice bright gold. 

Thank you for stopping by today! Be sure to check out everyone's goldenrod card. And we can't wait to see what you make! :)

Haunted House (Mansion) Layout

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Stick It Down has great inspirational sketches this month (and every month!). This month I loved the 2 page layout and was able to put photos together quickly.

The paper and bat and ghost stickers are from Carta Bella: Haunted.  I added the black drips using black soot distress spray.  The title Haunted House is from Paper Wizard.  I assembled it and it makes a cool 3-D die cut.  I added a little cluster with Tim Holtz things on the title page (page 2).  

Here is the original sketch from Stick It Down:

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...there is always room for one more ;)

Fun Rain Card

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There is a new challenge at Creative With Stamps!  We want to see ink splatters!

For my card I used a new stamp I bought at the Scrapbook Expo-it's from Technique Junkies.  The stamp is called umbrella people-they are very cool umbrella people. :)  I masked them and sprayed Dylusions blue spray mist to be like rain.  The sentiment is a Fiskars stamp.

The umbrella people are embossed with this really cool powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle called Midnight Madness.  So it  is a black embossing powder with little flecks of gold and green.

Trying to capture this awesomeness was a challenge!  On the left you can see the glittery colors.  It's very cool in person.

We are super excited about this new challenge.  Be sure to check out the rest of the designers beautiful cards.  And be inspired to join with us!  We can't wait to see what you create!

I am linking this card up with:

Sparkle N Sprinkle-anything goes with loose embossing powder  eom

Inspriration Destination Challenge #92 Anything goes 7/7

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes 7/8

Until next time my friends...stay dry. :)

Pew Pew

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I am here with another layout for Let's Get Sketchy!  (Under the wire here!) ;)  This layout is inspired by their Week 4 Sketch.

My son is a Storm Trooper this year for Halloween.  So I love the Halloween Star Wars Mash Up :)  This was regular black card stoc that I sprayed White Dylusions spray on.  It need something in the background.  

The sticker under his picture says "Aren't you a little short to be a Storm Trooper?"  It never gets old. :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Eat lots of candy! ;)

Scrap It Girl New Challenge!

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Get out your embroidery floss and sewing needles--it's time for the new challenge at Scrap It Girl!  This month the challenge is to have sewing on your project.  Be sure to check to the site to see the awesome prize that goes with this month's winner!

Here is my scrapbook layout:

I used my We R Memory Keepers sewing kit thing to make these 2 stitches at the top:

The buttons are faux--I just put embroidery thread through the buttons and then I glued those on.  But I am always happy when I can put buttons on a project. :)

Thank you for stopping by!  We can't wait to see what you make!

Until next time my friends...just so you know...you are sew special! :)

Pumpkin Patch Layout

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Over at Let's Scrap they are doing a month of scrappy challenges for National Scrapbook Day (month).  I know that there are only 2 days left in May-but you gotta start sometime!  ;)

The Challenge I did was Mixed Media Madness where you had to use 3 techniques of Mixed Media.  FUN!!  Count me in! :)

Here is a quick side story.  A friend of mine was passing her Stamping Up inks along.  She does more quilting and not as much stamping stuff.  As she passed them along to me!  It is quite a collection.  She had all of the re-inkers too!  So I took a few drops of Orange and water in a spray bottle and sprayed the background with a stencil from Dylusional.  

For my 2nd mixed media trick I took that same re-inker and put 2 drops into my little pile of light modeling paste.  It was way to bright so I add some more paste.  I used a Crafters Workshop stencil with the paste.  (Don't worry I didn't get rid of the bright orange paste I had left over.  Hopefully that will be apart of a project in the very near future!)

Then here I used Old Olive and stamped with a Tim Holtz little circle stamp and used a stencil with the ink (bubble wrap).  Around the edges I used chocolate chip Stampin' Up.  I love this brown color and the green color.  I feel like I am living In Color now.  :)

These little dots are Candi's.  At the Scrapbook Expo I bought the glue squares for them-the ones especially made for Candis.  It was so easy to adhere them-what a relief!

The half circle, hexagon border, and journal ticket are all die cuts by Tim Holtz.  I embossed and darkened the raised areas on the hexagon cutouts from the die cut.

Over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge they are doing Anything Goes so I would like to submit this page to that challenge.  

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...stay inky and use those Candi's! ;)

Baby Layout

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Today I finished up a layout using my baby picture.  At Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge the first challenge is to use a baby picture.  I have them and have only thought about scrapping my own baby picture.  Now it's time to scan one and make it happen!

I am also using a sketch from Stick It Down.  They are having a DT Call-so more details at the end of this post! :)  This is my entry for the DT Call.

Here is my page and cute little baby picture.  I am pretty sure my dad took the picture as my mom is in the background.  My dad likes taking pictures and back in the day he would develop them.

I used a piece of Making Memories eyelet lace for the background and sprayed it with Sweet Cherry from Heidi Swapp.  Then I used light modeling paste and my harlequin stencil behind the photo cluster and in the right hand corner.

Here are some closeups.  Those hearts are rub-ons from a company long ago called Luxe.  I still have a few more of their things floating around.  :)  And the film strip is a Tim Holtz die that I put a little walnut ink on.

 I light bulb says ME and is from Prima.  I used a piece of Tim Holtz tissue tape and a scrap with hearts on it.  The felt heart is from Fancy Pants.  (Trying to use a little stash!)

The banners and flowers are from a Sizzix banner and stamp set that I just love.  And the bigger flower is from Prima (2010!).  

These are Thickers letters that I edged with a little red ink.  I ran out of T's so I put two exclamation points together-woo hoo!  And if you see that brown embossed banner under the picture-that is a piece of kraft paper embossed and I applied walnut ink to the embossing folder.  It's a fun technique! :)

Here is the sketch that I used.

The Stick It Down DT call is still open-they have card sketches as well as layouts.  So come on!  Join the fun! :)

Until next time my friends...Happy Monday! 

Good Clean Fun!

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I am so excited about this month's challenge at Technique Time Tuesday!  It is the shaving cream technique and it is really cool.

There are instructions on the site.  Initially, I used re-inkers in the shaving cream and made a bunch of "prints."  So I thought about how to construct my card--but then today I went back to look a the tutorial and it said to use sprays.  Sprays!  That totally changed everything.  So for this I used a blue Dylusions spray and such a difference than if you use the re-inkers.

I swirled some but not all of the color.  I like the color drops.  Then I used light modeling paste and a Tim Holtz stencil.  I used a Tim Holtz sentiment stamp and pop dotted it.  Then I glued down some silver sequins.

Now if you look closely you will see that the paste is a little brown in parts.  That is because I have a serious problem cleaning my stencils!  LOL  Of course I didn't realize it until it was too late but I am pretty sure it was walnut ink distress ink on my stencil.  It was too late but instead of scrapping it, I embraced it.  I like that it kind of breaks up the blue and white.  

I do hope you come and join us for this fun technique.  You can get your kids to do it too.  Instead of re-inkers or sprays you can use food coloring.  :)

Until next time my friends...embrace the imperfection! 

Smile Layout

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I created this layout using the sketch at Sketchabilities: Sketch 107.  I used spray inks (Mr. Huey and October Afternoon) and some modeling paste with a Tim Holtz stencil.  I also used one of my new stamps from the Bitty Grunge stamp (my sister gave me for Christmas).  There's washi tape and some Ideology on there as well.

My son who is older now than in this picture insisted on putting this bingo piece on there.  There isn't a significant reason for the number.  He just picked it and wanted to glue it down.  So I said ok-but I told him where to glue it down.  LOL ;)  The blue star is Tim Holtz and I used alcohol ink to paint it blue.

I am also submitting this to the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Smile!

Citrus Thanks!

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This card placed in the TOP 5 at Inkspirational! 

There is a sketch challenge going on at Inkspirational this week.

This is one of those great sketches where you can do all sorts of things.  So I had too many choices.  I looked through stamps and paper.  So what I decided to do was a technique I saw on Simon Says Stamp.  She uses Ranger Pipettes to move the color around.  You can see the tutorial here.

So I bought some pipettes and went to work.  I have London Blue, Squeezed Orange, and Fresh Lime Dylusions ink spray.  So with my pipette and straw I went to town after I embossed thank you.

The I masked the bottom with a stencil and just used the blue dylusions.  I used green twine from Doodlebugs.  It has a citrus feel hence the name of this blog post.  I hope you like it.  I think it came out good for my first try.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a happy day! :)

Aquarium Fun-A Scrapbook Page

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Over at Simon Says Stamp and Show they are having an Anything Goes. So I am trying to work on scrapbook pages, and I thought I would make one with a little mixed medium on it.

I used 3 different hues of blue gelatos and mixed them with light modeling paste-which is one of my favorite things right now.  If you want to get something like this and your not sure which one (because it can be overwhelming to go to that part of the craft store-for me anyways!) get this stuff first.  Martha Stewart has some stuff-just wait on that.  Fiber paste is fun but if you have to get just one thing to start with-my suggestion is this stuff.  You can mix it with gelatos to make different colors and when it dries-well it's cool and raised.

So the bubbles on the left are made with the paste and gelatos.  The circle on the right are made with a stencil from The Crafters Workshop and Salty Ocean Distress Paint.  The bottom of the page is sprayed with blue Dylusions ink.

I used some cool ocean die cuts from K&Company.  I am like addicted to buying their die cuts. I love them!

I had to hang my page up with clothes pins to get a better picture of it.  Because of the spray mist at the bottom it wouldn't stand up-LOL.  So please look past them at the top.  :)

Here is (hopefully) a closer look at the paste (which I used a dylusion stencil for these).  Also, a closer look at the journaling which is a circle from Bella Blvd.  It sorta looks like a bubble too.  The remember and camera on the kraft panel are stamps from Simple Stories. 

I hope you like my bubbles.  This was a fun page to make.  Until next time my friends...don't burst my bubble! ;)

All Boy Layout

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Over at Let's Scrap they have been doing a challenge a day to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day Month!  There are so many I want to do but time is such a factor!  There are a few that I am down to the wire on!  So I am going to post this and then go work on something! :)

There were 4 different ways to create backgrounds.  I chose to use spray mist and paint and stencils.  I used sketch 5-11-11.

The one tricky thing was that you couldn't use white cardstock.  So I have a light blue cardstock here.  It may look grey but it is more of a light blue.

I used a couple of different stencils.  I also have the cardboard from game pieces and I like to use those as stencils too.  I used Tim Holtz's broken china and salty ocean distress paint and a light blue acrylic paint from hobby lobby.  Also, I used a paint brush and painted circles and the edge with the dylsuions ink.  I just put the paint brush in the bottle.  I like doing that because it creates an intense color.

I used paper to create a mask and a stencil from Tattered Angels (at least that's where I think the swirls came from) ;).

I sprayed blue Dylusions ink.  I was in a monotone mood-which doesn't ever seem to ever happen but I had so much fun!  I used some sequins, rhinestones, and buttons from Martha Stewart and outlined some white letters from Making Memories.

Here's a close up of the journaling.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a great night! :)

Resolutions-A Scrapbook Page

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I knew this morning when I had a little time that I was going to work on my scrapbook page for Another Freakin' Scrappy Challenge.  The challenge is to talk about New Year's Resolutions for this year or of year's past.

So before I got started I skimmed through the updated blog list and stopped at Yvonne's Do More With Less.  She had spray painted her background, and I loved it.  But I more than loved it-I had to get out my stencils and spray something!

So here is my scrapbook page using a green Mr. Mister and brown Dylusions and a Crafter's Workshop Tree of Life Stencil.

So I had so much fun making this page.  One of the challenge's DT's had taken a picture of their shoes-and I thought that was a great idea too so I had to scraplift it! The sun is an embossed circle that I had colored with various color of distress inks and the I used a gear from Tim Holtz.  It's on yellow cardstock but I used this embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle called Guilded Ivory.  It's white with gold glitter.  So the gear has little bits of yellow peaking out-I think this may be my new favorite embossing powder!

Oh! And peaking out behind the shoes picture is a scale (stamp) from The Alley Way Stamps and there is also a measuring tape.  I just had to use those!  LOL :)  The Eat Your Veggies is an ATC I made a couple of weeks ago.

I wanted to share this with you too.  I had sprayed the stencil (right).  Then I took a piece of white cardstock and layed it over the stencil because the negative had mist on it.  So I gently rubbed it and used a brayer.  On the right side is how the ink transferred over.  And then there is a 2nd edition at the top of the original sprayed stencil.  Pretty cool!  I can't wait precious mist! :)

Thank you for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends...have fun misting backgrounds! :)

4 Squares

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Happy World Card Making Day!  Such a fun and happy day!  I'm gonna start it off my showing you a card I made for The Game-Challenge #10 Four Squares.  I hadn't played this until my husband and I were at the park with our son.  It's lot's of fun.

I cut a piece of black card stock 4.5 inches wide by 9 inches long and folded it in half.  The smaller squares are 2X2 inches.  I made them from dictionary paper that I had sprayed Dylusions ink on.  I love this ink!  So bright and happy!  I used squeezed orange and a little bit of fresh lime for some contrast.  Around the edges of the squares I put on some orange Smooch.

The stamps are from Stampin' Up 2001.  I am still using still using these little guys!  And I used black embossing powder on them.

Here's the inside-a smaller white square for writing and a trick or treat ribbon across the bottom.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...let's make some cards! :)

Flutter Hi!

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This is my 2nd post of the day.  I'm on fire!

I hopped over Simon Says Stamp and Show.  Awesome projects.  Then I saw that Simon Says Stamp is also doing a hop with Washi Tape.  Well I couldn't hop any longer-I had to make a card!  And I must use Washi Tape!

Sooo after I finished my pictures I go to look at their website again and realize that Washi Tape was for the blog hop-not this week's challenge.  LOL That's the way that goes.

Thankfully-I had design elements floating around in my head!  So I am submitting this card to the Moxie Fab World-Repetition.

Here's my card.  The butterflies are made out of-you guessed it-Washi Tape! :)

Here is my little collection of Washi Tape.  I alternated the blue tapes on white cardstock.  I used my Martha Stewart butterfly punch for the butterflies.

I sprayed the smaller white cardstock with Smooch Spritz.  It looks like orange but sprays like yellow.  That is another blog entry for another time ;)  Luckily, it works here.  The Hi is from rub-ons.  Then I put little pearls for the butterfly bodies and moved the wings to make them look 3-D.

I used a circle punch for the corner.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a good day! :)

Masking Tape Card

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Hope all is well in Blogland!  I am waiting for my sister to arrive and thought I would make a quick post.  I have been working on this technique and then this morning I was able to put the card together and take a few pictures.  I am submitting this card to the Do More With Less: Guest Miae Rowe challenge.  Go check it out.  Miae does a great job explaining the Masking Tape technique and it's easy and fun to do!

Here's my card.  The letters are glittery letters but I don't remember the brand.  The flowers and stems are all apart of the Masking Tape Technique.

Here is my first piece of cardstock with masking tape on it that I sprayed.  You need gesso to put on the tape.  I didn't have any but I have been seeing people use it all over the place.  So when I saw this technique I decided the time is now!  I am so happy I bought it because I've used it on a few different projects.  I googled other uses for it.

Here is a close up of the flowers.  The orange color is Tattered Angels, red from Smooch, and the green is from October Afternoon.

Here's my card.  Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...who knew a little masking tape could be so much fun? :)