Scrapping in my new 6x8 album w/page protectors

I'm really excited to start this album. 

It works perfect in my space and gives me a break from

Travelers notebooks.

I love them - but I want something more to

protect my photos.

They have several different protectors

which is a challenge for me.

Sure, I could get just 6x8 but where's the fun in that.

So you may be aware of this first page as in the challenge

my friend Brooke and I were challenging

each other with sketches and embellishments.

We did four and are on the blog.

This is a 2 pager in which the 2nd page is behind

this one. 

Don't ask....

because they're glued together.

😐

 

 

So I love collecting ephemera and the National Parks

are quite generous with it.

If you're a senior- buy the National Park pass

we get into each and every one free.

Just sayin....

 

I also buy NP ephemera - they are totally getting with it

now and have a bunch of really cool stickers and patches and

they have a date stamp (for the passports). 

Love how it's turning out.

You can see the entire album cover here

You can see Brooke & I's challenges here, here, here & here

The 4th Scrapbook Challenge with my pal Brooke

 

It was a fun challenge, again. I find all challenges fun, more or less LOL.

Buttons, tags, stamps, ribbon and doilie and the sketch below.

She totally nailed it.

I think this one is a favorite.  

Love the photo of her son and hubby. 

My "doilie" was a cool thing I had from pink paislee.

Brooke sent Today at 9:29 AM

I love Thickers. The loves part of my title are foam thickers.

Brooke sent Today at 9:29 AM

My tag is the arrow patterned paper....cut it up and used it to layer

 

 

 

 My challenge from Brooke gave me a 2 spread - which I only did one

and thought what the heck - lets do a 2 page.

See that photo with my big mouth open - only a long lost

cousin I haven't seen in 40 years took it.

Love that nothing changed since we were kidlets.

 My challenge from Brooke was the sketch below and 

patterned paper only, 6 buttons, 6 eyelets, ACK!!! 3 stamps different mediums

WHICH IS TOTALLY OVERLOOKED THAT - SO FAIL!

and handmade flowers.

Also FAIL on eyelets - I had NOT A ONE - so I used whatever

brads I had remaining - which wasn't many.

I think I had 7 and they were all different - so I used them anyway

and they totally worked.

I was so worried about brad and eyelets forgot about stamps.

Sigh.

 

You will also see this page in my new 6x8 album that you can

read about here !! It turned out so pretty I think.

Can't go wrong with oxides and stamps.

 

Challenge #3 - Brooke & Lynn rocks it-totally

Having a BLAST!!!!

We both love how our challenge turned out.

This was the sketch for Brooke

8"circle as background

cardstock

design your own pattern paper

watercolors

something handmade

She totally nailed it and 

I LOVE THE TITLE.

Awesome play on words involving her hubby.

and in her words.....

So, it's on 9x12 watercolor paper. Background done with oxides and shimmer mists, with various stencils, bubble wrap. Strips under pic also done on watercolor paper. One is embossed with scales them misted with shimmer mist. Other one is done with handmade "wave" border with oxides. Oxide colors used are speckled egg, broken China, pumice stone, black soot and blueprint sketch. Shimmer mists are patina, sea glass, honeydew mist and walnut shine. Even added some magic mesh!

Brooke's challenge for me:

Nuvo glimmer spray

heat emboss title

envelope

6 different color cardstock

3 washi tape

WELL.....I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!

It was so much fun.

So I did use 6 different cardstock colors for 

both the flowers and the banners 

with the flowers tucked nicely in the envelop.

The nuvo spray color I have does not match the

cardstock colors so I sprayed it on

a tag and tucked it into the envelope.

3 different washi is stacked on each other

and the heat embossed title.

Well...I used a puffy title and had some shabby chic

embossing powder and it worked

great until I got a little too close to the J and

it started to melt the actual J. 

Ooops.

It works.

We are currently thinking of tossing another challenge

SO STAY TUNED...

 

Traveler's Notebook - Tags and Pages

Love the filler card - that is a stamp

on vellum using TH crayons.

I love coloring.

The next page Brooke and I met up at the s/b

shop before I left and bonus- sale!

The cup and spill the beans is a new stamp

I bought that I have been eyeing forEVER.

It's all about coffee.

You'll be seeing it a lot.

An eagle landed in our lake.

Like out our backyard.

It was soooo cool.

And you can't have an eagle page w/o flag,

red white and blue and star stencil background.

Holli and I had one last play date before I left,

and behind us is a sneak peek of PART of her stamp collection.

It's so much fun playing.

The coffee pot stamp belongs to Holli and before

I hit the road I stamp a few of them to

have on hand because 

A. they're so much fun to color

B. love it

C. see above 

LOL.

It's actually the journaling for the next page

which as you know if you've been following my blog 

(which I hope you do)

is the challenge page from my pal Brooke.

You can read about it here.

I love the page and it was so much fun to do.

Dear Lizzy

Tim Holtz

Quikutz

Hero Arts

Stencil

This album is getting kind of thick so I need to

be pondering on creating another one.

 

A challenge among friends!!! Oh what FUN!!

So my pal Brooke and I did a thing.

We challenged each other.

Goodbye comfort zones.

Here we go.

The challenge was to provide a sketch - 

and 5 things to incorporate in

said sketch.

My challenge to Brooke.

I love this sketch I found on Page Maps. 

No sense in drawing when you can get one from the best.

Her 5 things:

Mixed Media background

Work in the tag I gave her.

Thread or Twine.

Fussy cut something

Use her new TH alphas - the skinny ones that I love.

AND WA-LA!!!

Brooke totally rocked it!!!

Using stencils and inks in her background.

I LOVE how she did the title.

She rocked my tag - changed it up a bit and love it.

And fussy cut the butterflies.

Twine behind the tag.

She did work in 8x8 page.

A beautiful photo of her mom rounds it out.

Love love love how it turned out.

And we're so gonna do it again.

I need to get to pondering.

Again.

My challenge from Brooke went down like this.

A sketch she found on pinterest.

3 arrows 

(I struggle with arrows)

Nuvo drops

3 pattern papers

staples

paint

I work in 8.5x5 in my traveler's notebook so I took

it right down the middle.

I managed to work in 4 arrows - using pattern paper

and my arrows were PP but the anchors didn't come through LOL

however the tiny flowers are heart PP.

I did use 2 photos because I didn't want to

waste - I used 2 different sizes which worked out great

because it highlighted the 'rentz.

I used a doily as the "round" thing

The nuvo drops are in the flowers I drew and

on the tag.

The paint is on the homemade washi tape because

I really couldn't think of another way to

work it in.

So I made my own washi tape using Studio Calico

blush crush and arrow stamps with

versifine black ink.

Splattered some watered down paint.

I love how BOTH turned out.

It was sooooo much fun we're gonna do it again.

I'll keep you posted.

 

New challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking

And you too can join in the fun!!!

Here's the color pallette and the sketch.

Here's my version......

which was by the seat of my pants and you can read the

rest of the story here

which I hope you do because it was an adventure.

I sometimes have the strangest adventures in scrapbooking.

Also you'll get a look at my pal Erin's take!!!

Awesome!

You can do it challenge

I was invited to become part of a challenge group called

"you can do it".

First challenge!!!!!

Create a page using kraft or white and KEEP IT COMPLETELY 

SPLATTER FREE basically.

Soooo here's my version of the challenge.

I had some leftover paper that I used water colors on and

I repeated the circle theme around the page.

And it was a REAL challenge because

I still really really REALLY wanna splat something on it but I find

it different. I kinda like it.

YOU Try it.

And if you're a person that likes to keep it plain then

YOU get to splat it up. 

Off the Rails Scrapbooking - July Challenge!!!

Come join us over at OTR blog and see all the amazing posts going!!!

The challenges are fun and the prizes are amazing.

July's challenge is this color pallette!

Don't the shoes make you swoon.

Join our Over the Rails Scrapbooking facebook page 

and post your entry

 for the July color challenge to win this amazing prize.

OH! And here's my interpretation of the color palette.!!!

I had a great time with the colors.

I love teal with most any combination.

But red. YUM!!! Red happens to be my favorite color.

I used an old Basic Grey line Out of Print

as the base paper - the flowers work as part of an ocean them.

And the straw was a touch of whimsey along with

some rubon and die cut sea critters.

Spritzed some mists.

And that bow was just waiting.

And the photo of Amelia.

Swoon.

Over the Rails Scrapbooking - check it out.

Off the rails scrapbooking challenge - Up up & Away

Its a challenge that covers anything that flies.

I chose my hot ballon stamp.

And a mixed media format inspired by Soaphousemama once again.

It just seemed to fit, although when I was working on the page I didn't have any photos 

much less all the putting pix of all grandkids in mind, 

however, it was awesome the way it worked out.

 I chose the colors from a sunset perspective and once completed I decided

that B&W photos was the only way to go.

It was a fun page to do, AND in full disclosure once again,

 this was my second attempt page-the first page

ended up in the garbage.

I did rescue it and have been die cutting shapes out of it.

(We'll see what happens with them).

I used 2 pieces of kraft paper glued together because I didn't have canvas.

The colors are a mix of gesso, paint, and watercolors and alcohol

ink that has been more or less covered 

because that resulted in disaster

in my mind.

The stamp is from inkadinkado and the alphas are Tim Holtz grungeboard

that I've had forever.

Head on over to Off the rails scrappbooking and checkout the team's projects.

Off the rails Scrapbooking challenge

Chipboard!

Pop on over to Off the Rails and see what the team has created.

I used a combination of chipboard and Tim Holtz grungeboard

which is chipboard with an attitude.

Used some older product - My Mind's Eye, Authentique,

and yes, Studio Calico. QK cookie cutter for the heart,

my Martha Stewart punch and washi tape..

I used watercolor on the chipboard because I didn't have enamel

paint that matched. Actually the watercolor didn't come 

close either. So I swooshed it around and mixed.

Several times.

Fortunately you can flip the arrows around.

Love the photo and the title actually popped into my head.

Surprised me. 

LOL.

Spring - for Off the Rails challenge

This is my page for the challenge at OTR for April.

It was a color palette and sketch challenge.

I have troubles with color palette challenges because I

never have the exact colors. Or all of the colors.

Which is why its a challenge.

Love these older papers by Jillybean soup. 

And if they don't have the exact colors - they have a facsimile thereof.

And you can't have spring without butterflies.

Nor is there not sprint without an adorable kidlet celebrating

that winter, long, cold, hard winter is history.

More or less - because this has been quite the fickle year.

Check out the rest of the design teams creations!

 

Sneak peek for Off the Rails challenge

Check out the challenges using a sketch and color palette.

You may want to give it a try and win a prize.

Cyber scrapping rocks

Especially when its with a pal that loves a challenge.
April chose the lift - upper right corner in a 2008 Simple Scrapbooks Jan/Feb issue. It was a fun challenge. My page as you will recognize my favorite eldest son and my amazing granddaughter. I used patterned paper (studio calico) vellum, washi, and cutout card with some mist going on. I kept the title because it fit. Didn't do alot of journaling because it really doesn't need it.

April kept to the spirit of the page changing up the title and location of the heart.  We both kept to the 8.5x11 size.

The challenge of it was fun and I find it amazing that pages that were created "back in the day" still resonate today. They have a classic look, like the little black dress. Trends come and go but that little gem somehow continues to rule the day. The same in scrapbooking. I love the trends, but I feel it sometimes "dates" my pages. (Think 80's hairdos).

However, in 100 years from now, I'm hoping those next generations prize and cherish the pages I created and they will never know that A. The latest and greatest products weren't used, and B. Trends may or may not have been followed.

Remember that post I teased

about here? Well its challenge time at Off the Rails

Scrapbooking and the challenge is create your own embellishment.

TADA for one in a row when I was actually ahead of the curve for a change. The tag has some gesso going on along with some mists and alcohol inks.

 I chose some Paper Studio pattern paper because I just love the greenish/blue stripes.

It makes the best girlie girl page ever. I took my honeycomb stencil and modeling past and made some honeycombs on the page.

Does the texture rock or what.

I grabbed my watercolors and just sloshed some paints over the honeycombs.

Watercolors are so forgiving and you don't have to be a Rembrandt to use it.

I picked up some kraft doilies. Kraft is another favorite with bluish/green and it accented the tag nicely as I used it for a mat. A B&W photo was perfect for all the elements. Found a bag of hearts I got carried away punching and tossed them on the page. I don't remember the alphas - but they are soooooo cool and fun and blingy.

As an aside, my kidlets always called their toes piggies or pigs until about kindergarten. I am carrying on tradition with grands. 

Head on over to Off the Rails Scrapbooking and check out the design teams creations. Also play along and hopefully win a lovely prize. Join the facebook page and post your page!

Can't wait to see!

Sneaky peek & Reveals at Off the Rails Scrapbooking

Here's a sneaky peek of my project that will be revealed on Sunday 

so you need to return :)

In the meantime go HERE to check out

the amazing projects from the rest of the team!

The challenge? 

alter anything you want with mists, paints, inks, - 

on anything you want.

Link up your project at the OTR blog to enter to win a lovely prize.

Working with acrylic

In case you didn't check out the Off the Rails challenge #1

use acetate - go on over and check it out.

This is my version of the challenge.

I decided to make a 12x12 scrapbook page on acetate.

I learned a few things which was different

than making acetate albums, I found.

1. Like don't peel off the blue backing while misting and using

alcohol ink on the acetate.

2. Do not mist and ink while the humidity is high.

(Unfortunately in Florida humidity is the norm).

3. While waiting for the mist to dry and in hurrying it along with

embossing powder - DO NOT use the heat gun with the blue paper on.

It is NOT pretty and its very difficult to remove.

 Here's how it looks without the blue paper. 

You really need to have backing to see what's what.

And isn't my kitchen rockin' or what.

 I got the blue backing off - very very carefully. 

And it was warped.

Not happy with the warping.

SO I put some paper behind to make sure what

goes where when I begin the placement of the elements.

 Can I say that I am totally giddy with delight as to how the

misting and alcohol ink is designed on the acetate. 

 It was hard finding a surface to photograph it on.

The misting made me swoon.

The alchohol drips made me swoon.

A close up of the cluster amidst the inks and sprays.

I had the best time with taking thephotos.

NH in Autumn is beautiful.

Stay tuned for the next Off the Rails challenge to be revealed on
December 27th. 

Off the Rails Scrapbooking....

I'm proud to announce that I have been asked to become a design team member for
 Off the Rails Scrapbooking and I would love love love it if you my friends
would click on the link and follow along. 

It's going to be soooo exciting. 

I'm so excited.

There are so many lovely and talented designers that I am

totally jazzed to hang out with.

Our first challenge is Nov 29th!
I hope you will join in!