3 kids ROAR

Aug 20 edited to add...
Double page layouts can be tricky sometimes. With this layout I loved the left page and I loved the right page, but once I put them together I felt like the layout was missing something. I was in Unforgettable Memories yesterday and I spotted some new stencils. Tim Holtz stencils. I had to pick up a few.  Three of them, to be exact.  I decided to use the 'clockworks' stencil to add some more design to the background.  Then I used the rest of my inked cheesecloth across the top of my page. 

I think it works much better as a double page layout now.

Love the clockwork stencil.  I used my felt pad and handle to pick up black ink off the stamp pad and patted over the stencil to show the design. 

Scrapfriends has an interesting colour combo challenge this month.  Yellow with different shades of black/grey.  Check it out on their blog...

The colours were perfect for the Halloween photos  had of my three scary monsters.

I had fun with the drips.  I was debating about doing the drips all the way across the top of the page, but the hubby put in his two cents with the opinion three drippy splotches were enough.

Here are some close-ups.

I sprayed the Maya Roads fabric flowers with 'soot' Glimmer Mist. The same colour was sprayed on the cheesecloth.  The stickers are Echo Park.

 

 

'ROAR' is made with alphabet masks and ink. Random stamping adds texture to the background. Strips of washi tape underline my title.  Maya Rds felt birds, Webster's porcelain flowers and cheesecloth embellish the page.

I sanded all sides of the photos and tore a couple edges. I matted with vellum, patterned paper, and some netted product.

 

Cheesecloth and drippy paints and inks are perfect accents on  Halloween layouts.

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!

UNWIND

Is everybody ready to do some scrapbooking this weekend.  It's going to be tough to stay inside with a weather forecast we've been waiting months for, but I have a couple pages planned.

Here's a double pager I just finished last night.

I built this one on a couple of 12x12 sheets of tan coloured Bazzill. The photos are of my family walking around Victoria.  We do a lot of walking when we're in Victoria.  There's no snow! Ever! It's wonderful!
My journaling is on pages of a Smash note pad.  Check them out when next in Unforgettable Memories.  There is a great selection of designs and themes!

 

My title is an old rubon I've had in my stash forever.  It's a Making Memories one.  They last so well.  Some cheaper brands I've bought have ended up losing their stickiness and I've had to toss them.

I layered tags, a frame from an old sticker sheet, rubon letters, Smash pad pages, and black Maya Roads snowflakes. 

A punched dragonfly, chipboard, bakers twine tied around a couple of stick pin leaves and sticker words are some of the embellishments I placed on my page.

I just love these black Maya Roads snowflakes.  There are quite a few in the package so I will be using them on a few more wintery pages.

Challenge #2

This time I played at White with 1.

The challenge is to use white with kraft and to layer.

I started with a piece of kraft cardstock and using my Mr Huey's white mist and my Tim Holtz scroll mask I created the background.

I started layering with a crumbled piece of 7Gypsies tissue paper.  I could have used an old sewing pattern for the tissue paper, but the 7Gypsies stuff is so pretty.  It has butterflies, bird cages and postmarks stamped randomly all over it.  I love it.

I layered a doily and a Jenni Bowlin journaling piece under the photo and a scalloped chipboard circle over top.

I added some white Maya Rd rub-ons around the edges of the tissue paper and then decided they were too white so I painted them with 'latte' metallic Maya mist.

I punched a few butterflies out of white cardstock and used brads to attach them in place.

 The felt bird is also Maya Rd.  I'm using lots of bits and pieces on this layout.

And lots of Prima.  Love all their different styles of flowers.  The ferny leaves are punched out of packaging.

Two challenges finished.  Lots more to go. 

The Family Cat

Have you seen the Basic Grey pet lines in the store.  I picked some papers and embellishments up last week and put together this layout.

The photos are of our cat, Turbo, playing in the Christmas wrapping paper after we were done opening presents, this year. He is such a fun cat.

I started with a couple sheets of white Bazzill and painted a big blue circle in the middle, because Turbo is always going in circles... fast. I splattered some yellow paint.  The yellow vellum is crinkled and torn to look like the yellow tissue paper Turbo is playing in.

The word paper is from the Basic Grey pet line as are the epoxy clips.

I used some scraps of Daisy D from a few Christmas's ago(red pp) and some BoBunny(cream pp).

Here are some close-ups...

Those felt birds are Maya Rd.  I bought a tin of them a couple years back and they are on many of my layouts.  I love it when they package unique little embellishments in big packs so I can use them again and again.

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The butterfly is Prima. My title is BoBunny (family) and Flair (le Chat metal tag). The Santa ticket is Jenni Bowlin.  Did you notice the Basic Grey clip?

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 I used 3 of the big blue Bazzill brads on this page.  And the yellow twine again (I used it on my last couple layouts)  It's a tangled mess because that's how Turbo does it :)

I just had some puppy photos developed so I will be picking up some of Basic Greys puppy dog line.
Can't wait to play.

Mists, paints and inks...

I have a day off so I've taken over the dining room table and I'm making a mess.  I have out my sprays, and my ink pads and my Making Memories paints. I picked out a couple of masks from my box and quite a few stamps.  Now to decide if I use them all or just a few of them.

I'm using some great textured kraft coloured Bazzill as my base...

• First I used my vine mask with applejack Mister Huey's color mists, then with walnut ink I had mixed up myself. I moved the vine mask around my page as I misted.
• Second I unscrewed the sprayer from the walnut mist bottle and shook it over my page splattering spots of ink.
• Third I painted meadow Making Memories paint around the edges of my page.  I did a thick layer so it would still show after step number 4
• Fourth I rubbed a turquoise ink pad around the edges. 
• Fifth I selected a set of long thin stamps and with my black Brilliance ink I created a border around the edges of my page.
  
  

• I decided I needed some more colour on my page so I grabbed a lemon metallic Maya Mist (it's more orange then yellow) and a red Maya Mist.  I used one of my large scroll masks and sprayed some more.

I really like how this is looking...

I have placed my photos, but nothing is glued down aand I'm thinking I want a stronger colour in there.  Maybe some red paint splashed along the bottom of the photo matte in the middle of the page? I will have to play with it.

I will show you the finished layout tomorrow.

Happy New Year

I hope everyone is recovering nicely from the festivities.  It was lovely to get 4 days off in a row. 

Do you have a list of scrapbooking blogs you like to check out?  I have a couple dozen saved in my 'Feeds'.  One of them is Britt from Norway.  I love seeing what she's created each week.  She cuts her kids out of many of her photos; she says to get rid of the clutter in the background.  And then she builds fantasy worlds around her kids. They are wonderful.   She says she finds a lot of her images on the internet.
You really should check her out. 

I've never attempted a layout using her style until this past weekend.  I had some photos of Breanna goofing around on some concrete structures left over from the world war, at McCauley Point Dog Park in Victoria. The backgrounds in the photos weren't that interesting so I cut her out and made a fantasy land for her to play in.

I started off making the background with blue Glimmer Mist, green Shimmer Mist and a yellow Mist I mixed up myself with a reinker.  The trees are Glimmer Screens (the same ones I've used on my last half dozen layouts).  The clouds are handcut.  Around the splotch of yellow Mist I glued down some Mulberry paper to create suns rays.

I had fun building the swing out of a piece of corrugated cardstock and some twine, and then hung it from one of my popped up clouds.  Sassy Frassy Lassy was printed on a clear page and cut out.  'Uniquely You' is by Fancy Pants.  The butterflys and flowers are punched out of a scrap of Cosmo Cricket.

I felt like I was back in Grade School Art class with no rules except to have fun.

What scrapbooking blogs do you like to check out?

Play all day

I love the new kraft cardstock by Bazzill.  It has little dots embossed in it.  Great texture.  I sprayed with Maya Mist using a scrap of a scrolly lace paper as a mask.

I cut one of Prima's felt branches in two pieces so I could use it alongside my photo strip as well as under the lone photo on the left.

The patterned papers are by Harmonie and the chipboard accents (including the title arrow) are Crate Paper. I pulled some magic mesh out of my stash, a frame rubon and some Making Memory word stickers.

Misters

You may have noticed if you read the blog regularly that Heather shows all the fun things you can do with misters. A few days ago you can see that I mentioned the new Smooch misters that we have in stock. We also have Tattered Angels and Maya Road misters available for purchase.

Maya Road Spray Mist are water-based pigments that come in 2fl.oz pump spray bottles. There are 8 base colors and 3 metallic glitter colors. Spray a coat of metallic mist before adding on a base color for a shimmery sparkle effect.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist is a quick and easy spray that delivers just a touch of glimmer in a fine mist to make all of your projects shine. Glimmer Mist puts an end to messy, clumpy, and time consuming conventional glitters with over 80 colors to choose from so finding the right one for your project is easy. Glimmer Mist is safe for and adheres to all types of materials including paper, acrylic, metal, and fabric.

Here is a great example of Heather's misting techniques. Why not try it for yourself?