Turtle Beach ~ mixed media

I went to town on a sheet of tan cardstock with various products. I love the shimmer and shine which doesn't show well in the photograph but is gorgeous IRL.

The papers I used to mat the photo  are BoBunny. The chipboard palm tree is Fancy Pants. Prima flower misted with turquoise mist.

 

 

1. I started with a Tim Holtz dot stencil and texture paste.
2. Once the paste was dry I used my large scroll mask and turquoise mist.
3. When that was dry I sprayed a couple different blues and held up the paper to let the ink run.
4. I spread some blue MM paint and sprinkled some glitter on while it was still wet.
5. I stamped seashells randomly with turquoise ink.
6. Then used my text and zig zag lines stamps with black ink.
7. Finally I used my Tim Holtz chevron stencil and white ink.

 

 

My title uses the mini square stickers(yes that's an upside down f for a T. I was out of Ts) and a chipboard piece with the word BEACH on it.  The Prima flower is sprayed with Maya Mist and sprinkled with glitter.

I used the border sticker from the BoBunny 'Modern Miss' sheet. It looks like waves so was perfect. A Kaiser strip of bling went on top of that.  I pained the LOVE frame with turquoise mist and added an 'adventure' word sticker from the travel sheet.

Loved this chipboard palm tree. It's grounded with a patterned paper strip on top of my dotty texture and glitter.

~Heather

Adventure with Simple Stories

We didn't just do Rappelling on our Mexican vacation.  We also did some zip lining.  Having teenagers makes you adventurous!

 

I love the Urban Traveler line by Simple Stories! 

I started off with plain green cardstock.  I sprayed my 12 x 12 leaf mask with green ink and then added some drips of bronze paint.  I stamped some dragonflies with the paint as well as some with white and black ink. I finished my background with some black glitter and brown glimmer mist.

 

The patterned papers are all Simple Stories as are the stickers.  Washi tape helped hold down the patterned paper.

I always find a place for vellum on my page. Here I punched leaves out of vellum and grouped them with a brown flower, Kaiser brad in the center, Kaiser wood camera and a sticker.

I just love these little frames.  Perfect for accenting a photo.

I used Kaiser jewels on the stamped dragonflies.

All Dressed Up

We found this cute collar and tie for my Mum's dog at the Touch of Salt Spring craft and art show last December.  We made him pose for a ton of photos.  Kona was a very good sport about it all and didn't even try and remove his tie.

I started with a forest green Bazzill cardstock. Using MM metallic gold paint and a piece of bubble wrap I added some colour to the base.  I sprayed my cheesecloth with gold Glimmer Mist and spritzed a little on the cardstock also.

I wanted to do a punched border and found this Christmas lights punch in my stash.  I used it along one edge of my gold cardstock.

 The snowflakes are by Maya Rd.  I've used them before on this layout. Here I've dressed them up a little with Kaiser gold bling.

 

The gold stars came out of a Making Memories set of Christmas poinsettia's, leaves and stars. They'd be easy to make.  Just punch a star out of red cardstock and coat with glitter.

 

It's never too late to get those Christmas photos scrapped.  There is an entire section in Unforgettable Memories of Christmas papers and embellishments. Check it out soon!

Fun with glitter.

There are so many sparkly embellishments available. I love them. When I picked out the glittery Prima butterfly to go on this layout I decided I needed more glitter on my page. This is what I used...

1. Glue Pad.
2. A tin with the right circumference for the circle I wanted. (This one is a Maya Rd tin; I think it had felt birds in it.
3. Glitter. I used Making Memories glitter in a copper colour.

I laid out my page and then used the tin and a pencil to lightly mark where I wanted my circle.

I dipped the edge of my tin into the glue pad; just like you would a stamp.  After I moved the photos and mattes out of the way I stamped down with my tin on to the pencil mark I had made earlier. After lifting the tin off the paper I sprinkled a good thick layer of glitter over my circle.

This is how my pages looked after I shook off the excess glitter.

And here is the completed layout.

I think the circles really add to the finished page. And it was a really quick easy addition to create.

Rainy weekend = scrapbooking time

It rained this weekend so I managed to get a few layouts scrapped.   I have a couple of single pagers to show you today.
This first layout is built on Harmonie papers that I've added some pink stickles to.
Loads of Prima pretty it all up. I like the texture the Prima printed burlap adds to my page.  The big pink flower is folded in half and tucked under my matte.

  The arrow and the journal spot are by Little Yellow Bicycle.  Everytime I go in the store I pick up another packet of LYBs acrylic Clear Cut journal spots. 

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The next layout I have to show you is a quick one I put together at midnight last night.

These two know when it's dinnertime and they make sure we don't forget it!

The background paper is by Fancy Pants.  It's their 'family' line and has a family tree printed on the reverse side.  I love the graph paper look, especially when it's all shabbied up with ink and my Making Memories distresser.
The patterned papers around my photo are MME.  And a little piece of ripped dictionary page under the brown strip.
The film strip is one of Little Yellow Bicycle's 'Clear Cuts'.
Prima flowers and black bling.  The brads in the center of the off-white flowers are by Seven Gypsies, as is the photo tab.
The title alphas are from a sheet of Bella Blvd stickers.
The bee, and the circle ties have been in my stash forever.  One of those almost empty packets that I'm trying to finish up.

Lots of New Stock!!

Wow! We just got a big shipment in of new goodies! There are lots of new stickers, punches, papers and more!

We've got in Martha Stewart punches, glitter and micro beads. K&Company paper and embellishments as well as coordinating albums.

And a wide variety of brand new ek Success punches.

Make sure you watch the blog starting next week for details about this great new stock!