Home Is Where I Park It

 Hey there friends!

I am excited to be sharing my first design team project for Richard Garay Designs! I used a variety of their products on this fun camping page:

 The camper and chair are from the Happy Camper Digital Stamp Set. I colored them with watercolor colored pencils. I used Tangy Apple & Rich Cactus Sugar Drops on my background and mixed a little water with them:

I used the Bountiful Trees Stamp Set and stamped a few trees- 2 with Tangy Apple Sugar Cube and 2 with Rich Cactus Sugar Cube. Then I fussy cut all of these.

The title "Home Is Where I Park It" is from the Happy Camper Digital Stamp Set. I backed it with Rich Cherry Cardstock. The "Welcome Home" is from the same set

Here is another camper that was included in the digital set. I also added a few more trees here as well. I backed my photo with Blueberry Card Stock:

I used a frame from the Boho Frames and colored it with the watercolor pencils:

I am loving all of the Richard Garay products and look forward to creating more projects with them!

Feeling Blue...

Hey there scrappy friends!
There's a new challenge up over at Cards In Envy!
The challenge is called- Feeling Blue and distressed. The challenge is to create a card with distress inks and lots of the color blue.

I used a white piece of cardstock and added modeling paste through a Prima stencil. Then I took 2 Ranger Distress Inks-Faded Jeans & Salty Ocean. I smooshed them one at a time on plastic packaging, spritzed it with water and smooshed it onto the stenciled background. I continued this until I was pleased with the result:

I stamped my sentiment using embossing ink, added embossing powder and heat set it. I added a few different blue washi tapes, stitching them in place. Finally I punched 2 butterflies from white cardstock and glued them on:

We would love to have you play along with us! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Snow Blast!

Happy Sunday Scrappy Friends!
I am doing a quick post before I head outside on this beautiful sunny day in Wisconsin!
Today I am sharing a layout I created using a Stuck?! sketch, a photo challenge at Creative Embellishments and a challenge at Turtle Soup (use embossing folders).
Here is what I came up with:

 

I ran my circles through embossing folders and then added watercolors.

I used a frame from Creative Embellishments and added black in to it:

 

I cut the word "blast" on my Cameo and ran that through an embossing folder too:

 

In these pics, you can see my stencil and modeling paste work along with  misted, stamped and drips of watercolors:

 

Here is the sketch:

 

 

 

Here is the photo I took inspiration from at Creative Embellishments. I started my layout with the colors blue, pink, brown, green and yellow like in the photo. But once I was done I wasn't happy, so that is when I added the orange to bring out the bit of orange in the photo. Love it!

 

Hope you have a wonderful day!

 

 

Happy Easter!

Good morning and happy Easter! Hope everyone is spending time with their families today. We are having a quiet Easter with just the 4 of us at home this year. I am looking forward to it!

Today I am sharing a layout I created using Sketchabilities sketch #136 along with Scrap Our Stash word challenge. The challenge is to use something on your layout from each letter of the word: STAMP. Here is what I came up with:

 

Here are some close ups:

I used a stencil to apply texture paste. Once it was dry, I added some watercolors and mist to add texture to my background:

 

I stamped some leaves/acorns, fussy cut them and added them throughout my layout. I have had this leave and felt acorn in my stash and thought it was perfect for this fall page:

 

This butterfly has been in my stash for quite some time too:

 

Here you can see one of wood veneer leaves that I inked. I also added some enamel hearts and an arrow:

 

Here are the things I used:
S- stencil and stitching

T- texture paste

A- acorns

M- Martha Stewart stamps

P- Pink Paislee papers, photo turns and punch.

 

                                                                   Here is the sketch:

 

Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy your Easter!

Yolo

Hey there!
I just want to share my layout: Yolo (You only live once), it's a popular thing my teenagers say:)
I used a Keren Gerber sketch over at Scrap Our Stash, I love her sketches! Besides the sketch, the twist was to use gold. I also  am entering this layout for the March challenge at Creative Embellishments (a photo and a CE flourish) and Toni's Mix It Up challenge at Turtle Soup (use a mix of different 6x6 paper pads)
I used Fancy Pants Be Loved, Carta Bella Merry & Bright & a few other 6x6 papers I received in a RAK for this layout of Sierra all decked out for prom last year:

 

It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but I used a CE flourish, added gold embossing powder and then some Stickles to make it bling: 

 

Here you can see my layers. I cut some arrows and a heart from a My Minds Washi Tape and added them along with a chipboard piece from Be Loved. What do you think of that gold May Arts ribbon? I love it! I cut it jagged to give more texture.

 

Here you can see some of my background work. I used a Tim Holtz stencil and texture paste for the diamonds. I also used a TCW stencil and some distress ink for the coffee stains. The mini Polaroid frame I cut by hand. I added some washi tape, mists and a punched border:

 

Here you can see some mist drips (I spray mist and then spritz with water), some more of that yummy May Arts gold ribbon, washi tapes and a fun gold heart from Studio Calico:

 

and how about that gold YOLO word banner? That's from Studio Calico also:

 

 

Here is the sketch I used over at Scrap Our Stash:

 

Here is the picture for Creative Embellishments challenge. For inspiration, I used the green, gold, Polaroid frame and flourish.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your day with me!

 

 

 

 

Fun Card!

As promised, here is the card I created using a sketch at Let's Capture Our Memories:

 

For my card, I used a Hero Arts Stencil. I just got this and wanted to try it out! I applied Glass Beads through the stencil and removed the stencil. I immediately sprayed with 2 different colors of mists. I love the look! I added some twine, a few embellies and I was done.

 

Here is the card sketch:

 

 

 

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Good morning and happy Monday!
I am so happy the Packers won their game yesterday! Division champs! YAY!
With the big game yesterday, I was inspired to do a football page of Austin. I have so many pics to scrap.
I used a Sketchabilites sketch (#129), my Cameo and decided to get messy!

Here is my layout:

 

Some close ups:

 

I cut the helmet with my Cameo and added a wood veneer star:

 

I used the Kreaxions Circle Cutter with lead to create my circles and then used a black Sharpie to outline them. I also added a Polaroid frame and a chipboard star:

 

 

I cut the Football Frame with my Cameo and added a few stickers from my stash along with a football brad:

 

I used a Tim Holtz stencil along with light modeling paste to create the diamonds and then added a few colors of mists and outlined a few of the diamonds with a black Sharpie:

 

Here is the fun sketch:

 

 

Enjoy your day!

 

December Inspiration Elevator: My Challenge

Our main purpose here at IE is to challenge ourselves, each other and YOU to take the creative process to the next level;  to inspire growth and change in our scrapbooking beyond our usual boundaries.
You can see all of Inspiration Elevator's previous challenges on Facebook .

 This month's challenge was issued by me.  Here is the challenge I gave this creative team:

" Scrap A Christmas Past.
We all have them- one Christmas that sticks out more in our minds than others. Maybe it was when you were a child or maybe it was more recent. Maybe it was a gift you received that makes it memorable. Maybe a special visitor? Create a page, with or without photos and tell us the story behind that Christmas.."

We encourage you to check out each designer's creation this month: here's a complete list of this month's participating designers!

 

Lisa Moen

Ann Jobes

Jayne Morgan

Wendy Robinson

Katherine Sutton

When I issued this challenge, I had a few Christmas' that stuck out in my mind. The first was when the kids were 2 and 3, I loved the look of delight on their faces that Christmas morning as they realized Santa had come and left them so many presents.
The second was the one I choose to scrap about- being snowed in one Christmas Eve. I was a junior in high school, some of my older brothers and sisters were already on their own, just us younger ones at home. It was so fun to have all my siblings and their spouses back in one house and sleeping under the same roof again!
I didn't have a photo of that special Christmas, so I decided to use lots of mixed media items and do my first photoless page.
For my background I used KI Memories diecut snowflake paper and added 3 different colors of mist. I used Echo Park papers, letters (Christmas Eve), and a journaling card. I also used Fancy Pants corrugated paper and added Modge Podge with glitter added in it. I took an old chipboard window frame I have had in my stash for quite awhile and added light modeling paste and glitter to it to resemble snow drifts.
Here is my page:

 

Here are some close ups:

 

I used lots of old embellies from my stash.

 

A Gossomer Blue wood veneer arrow.

For my title I added Stickles to the top of my letters to resemble snow as well:

I used some old Fancy Pants chipboard stars, painted them yellow and added glitter on top:

 

Here you can read my journaling:

 

 

Why not give the challenge a try yourself? Then pop by our Facebook page and share with us what you created!