Greetings,

It's been quite a while since I have posted any of my projects mainly because all I have been doing is working on ATC cards for a JAM group I participate in. That group is made up of a bunch of fun and friendly artists and boy do they keep me busy. I did pull my name off the swap list for two weeks, got caught up on all the JAMs I had to complete, got them in the mail and decided to work on a few projects of my own.

So the first layout I did was about relaxing one evening out in the back yard with the hubby, a glass of wine and a bonfire.  As you can see I wasn't the only one enjoying the evening. Just in case anyone was wondering...no he did not fall a sleep and spill his wine but I was actually waiting for that to happen.



The second layout was a night out at the local paint bar. This was a gift to my hubby from my daughter for father's day. We had a great time and my husband actually picked the painting we all did. You guessed it Wine theme. I has a slight mishap with mine hence the spilling wine splash my painting has.



My third project is a fall greeting card. I make one every year for one of the girls at our corp office. I'm the crafter and send her crafty things and her hobby is making peanut brittle that she sends me. I think I have the better end of the deal but we won't tell her that.

 

 

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ATCs for Swap

Happy Sunday Evening,

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I spent my weekend cleaning up my craft room and catching up on the swaps I committed myself to. I have not been doing any scrapbook pages because I'm waiting for the scrapbook retreat to do those. I also plan on doing a baby mini album and a doggie mini album while I'm there. I'm sure I can accomplish a lot in 5 days of nothing but crafting. I'm going to have a blast. Hubby will be home painting. I guess that will be a vacation for him cause he can get some work done without me being around telling him how to do everything and getting in his way.

So on to my ATCs...

I stamped all the flowers with Versamark, used black embossing powder and colored them with Faber Castell Big Pens.

Top Left: The background was done with Gelatos, Shimerz Paint and a Punchanella.I used a button and some string for the center of the flower and perfect pearls to make the stem and leaf.
Top Right: This background was done with some Gelatos, Acrylic Paint, Watercolor Crayons and Tissue Paper sprayed with Perfect Pearls Ink Spray. I used the Perfect Pearls Tube to add the dots in the corner.
Bottom Left: This one I colored the background with 3 shades of Gelatos and then stamped with a script stamp. I did the same for the section of green for the sentiment. I used blue StazOn Ink. The center of this flower has some Glossy Accents.
Bottom Right: I used some left over paper that I made using the Gelli Plate and Acrylic Paints. I stamped some flowers with Tim Holtz orange Distress Ink and added the ribbon. Put a button with some string in the center of the flower and called it done.

I came across this Blog giving a free E-Class thought what a great project this would be. Although they are at the end of the class I can start at the beginning and do it on my own ... unless there is someone else who would like to work along with me. The class is "52 Weeks of Being Me". It's basically 52 weeks of soul searching and loving yourself. Thanks to Scrapwordsmom for posting this. Here's the link to her website.

http://wordsofmeproject.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-my-year-long-and-free-e-class.html

Hope everyone has a great week.


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Mountain Meadows Lodge, VT

Happy Sunday,

It's been a while since I posted any projects and that's cause I haven't really done any lately. I'm saving all my projects for a scrapbook retreat at Mountain Meadows Lodge, VT I'm going on in March. Five days four nights of crafting. Doesn't get much better than that. I'm hoping we have some nice weather so we can walk around the grounds. It's so beautiful. They have a pot belly pig named Alice that roams around the grounds. There are some goats and sheep and a miniature pony that I hope to get some good photos of.

http://mountainmeadowslodge.com/ 

It's such a warm and welcoming place. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the gals from last years retreat and hope to meet some new friends this year. If you think you might be interested in joining us just contact the lodge and let them know you are inquiring about Jane's Group March 19 - March 23.

I will be working on one ATC for a swap at the Art Colony  http://community.art-is-fun.com/ It's called Late and Your Style Valentine Swap and can be done in any medium. Late because the mail date deadline is Feb 26th. This is such a fun group. The last swap I did with this group was the Endangered Cats. That was a few posts back. Once I complete the ATC I will upload a copy to post. Hopefully in the next few days. I want to have it done so as soon as the swap partner list is posted I can get it in the mail early just in case I get an overseas partner. I don't like having my swaps show up late.

I completed my ATC tonight. I made the base paper using my Gelli Plate pale pink and gold acrylic paints and a swirl stencil. I then stamped using a script stamp and pink distress ink. Then I used red StazOn and stamped the hearts. Added some texture using Shimmerz Paints and a flower stencil around the edges and finished it off with the heart jewels.

Well until next time, hope everyone has a fabulous week!

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Sleepy Girl & Popper's Precious Girl Layouts

Hey There,

It's Friday night, hubby went to bed, tv is turned off, dog is with hubby and I have a nice hot cup of tea near me and I'm wide awake. What better time to post two more layouts that I completed. I'm trying very hard to stay on top of them so I don't fall behind. I have another 4 piles of pictures printed ready to go and if I get to have the Bnut ( my nickname for my granddaughter) this weekend,  I'm sure I will end up with another large pile after I get those printed. Well anyway...on to my layouts.

Lets Scrap inspiration sketch 5-23-12

Here's what I came up with

Now this layout was entered in the Let's Scrap Our Stash challenge #33.
I needed to use the following...

• 2 patterned papers (black/gray printed paper & raspberry color print paper)
• 2 card stock (bee & flowers for the butterfly trail)
• 2 die cuts (bee & flowers for the butterfly trail)
• 2 flowers ( purple flower & flowers for the butterfly trail)
• 2 blings (butterfly & jewels on the flowers on the butterfly trail)

I has a 2fer and a 3fer on this layout... hehehehe... the bee counted twice, the flowers for the butterfly trail counted 3 times.
In the pictures are Jason, my son-in-law, Tammy my daughter and Brooklyn my granddaughter. Tammy and Jason are Aunt and Uncle to Brooklyn not the parents. Tammy had this hat made in Seattle WA at a craft booth at Pikes Place Market while we were there on vacation. We didn't think the crafter would be done by the time our tour bus was ready to leave but she did it and I think that hat is so stinkin cute with the flower and the bee.

Now, on to the second layout...

Let's Scrap inspiration sketch 4-27-11

 My take on the sketch...

I love these pictures, my hubby actually is holding Brooklyn while she is awake. Poor guy everytime he held her before she was always sleeping. Now she is wide awake. Look at her little fingers holding his... it just swells my heart. He is going to be called Popper. The journaling reads "I thought I had forgotten how to hold a baby but my arms remember". I thought that fit perfect with the pictures.

Well my tea is just about gone, I'm going to check the weather one last time and hit the hay. We are in for a big snowstorm tomorrow so I'll be home bound for the weekend...and that's fine by me.

Hope everyone has a great night!


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I Believe In Santa

Greetings,

Today I have another layout to share. This layout is for a challenge#34 Shades of Blue in the group Let's Scrap Our Stash at Let's Scrap.

Inspiration Sketch 09-09-09

My take on the sketch

Now to explain a little about this layout. My picture was taken with Santa today at work (notice my shirt is blue). We had a Meeting/Christmas Party where Santa showed up. I had to have my picture taken in front of our beautiful tree (notice the wall behind the tree is blue). I took two pictures of the tree, one with the lights on and one with them off. Cut the two in half and swapped a side to get that look. I used a tag I made from a tag swap last year that was left over (I always make extras when I do swaps). I think I met all requirements for this challenge (Shades of Blue). 

Now on to make challenge #35. Stay tuned  to see what I came up with. 

These are a lot of fun. Why not visit http://letsscrap.ning.com/ and give one of the challenges a try. At the very least you will be inspired to get some of your own pages made.

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2 More Layouts

Happy Monday,

Why does the weekend go by so fast? I could use another day off, what about you?

Yesterday I worked on two layouts. I used inspiration sketches from Let's Scrap. To visit their site you can click here... http://letsscrap.ning.com/

The first layout was from sketch 12-29-10

Here's my take on the layout...

The second layout was from sketch ...

and here's my take on the layout...

I need some practice on sewing on paper. I was worried that the paper would rip so I let the machine pull it where it wanted so the border ended up very crooked and uneven. I wonder if I would have used a zigzag stitch it would not tend to move around so much. I will give that a try the next time.

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Mima's Girl

Hi There,

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

Tonight I did a 2 page layout of the adorable little Brooklyn and her Mima (Moi). I used sketch tagged 11-7-12 from Let's Scrap.

Here's the inspiration sketch...

Here's my take on the sketch...

I wanted to spritz some perfect pearls but the sprayer was clogged. I tried to wash it but it still didn't work so I ended up just doing some drops around the page. 


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Brooklyn's Baby Album

Good Morning,

I wanted to start a baby album for Brooklyn's first year. I still have to do the layout of the ultra sound photos but I haven't quite figured out how I want to do them yet. It will be a one page layout as it's the first page in the album when I figure it out.

For the day that Brooklyn arrives, I chose to use a sketch from " Lets Scrap" You can click the link here to visit   http://letsscrap.ning.com/?xg_source=badge

This sketch is tagged 5-5-12.


Here's my take on the sketch...

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Ornaments for Festival of Trees

Good Morning,

I'm just doing this quick post to share the two ornaments I made for the Festival of Trees. The first one I did was the Christmas Tree. I used Acrylic paints, glitter, glossy accents, perfect pearls, and fibers. The picture doesn't show the fibers all that well. The second one I did was the Peacock Feather. On this one I coated the base with gesso and went over it with golden shimmer acrylic paint. I then used a peacock feather stencil with some modeling paste. Once that was dry I used liquid pearls to follow the pattern of the feather and added the ribbon.

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Welcome Our Little Brooklyn

 Happy Sunday!!!

Well it is a happy Sunday for our family. Today at 6:59pm our little grand-baby Brooklyn made her appearance. Mom, dad and baby Brooklyn all doing fine. I'm sure you'll be seeing lots of layouts being posted over the next few months... but for now here's a little peak of our little beauty.

Day 1

Day 2

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Endangered Cats ATC Swap

Happy Saturday,

Over at the Art Colony the Swap Art Group was having an Endangered Cat ATC swap. I picked the Arabian Sand Cat and the White Lion for my choice of cats. Here's what I came up with. I will be sending to my swap partners on Monday.

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Tree Tops

Happy Saturday,

Today I made a layout inspired by sketch 4-25-12 over at Lets Scrap.  Here's the inspiration layout.

Here's my take on the inspiration layout.

The first four pictures were taken on Friday 11/1 in the evening around 5:00pm. The second three pictures were taken this morning 11/2 around 8:30am. I was sitting in the same chair in the same spot when I took these pictures through my family room window. It's pretty amazing how different the tree tops look with about the same amount of light outside but being different times of the day.

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SWAP

Good Morning,

In the crafty scrapbook world when I say SWAP or they're doing a SWAP what do most of you think? Maybe someone is hosting a tag swap or a card swap or even swapping out artsy supplies... right. In my husbands world when you say SWAP he thinks of swap meets where he can find all kinds of goodies like car parts, tools, lawn equipment etc. Well at work a SWAP is a bunch of managers balancing out merchandise. And while a Crafty Swap might give you a smile because you like what your sending or receiving and a at SWAP Meet  you might also smile because you just got yourself a great bargain or if your on the other end you just made a sale......a SWAP at work gives you  A GREAT BIG LAUGH!!!!   These managers look so funny running back and forth to cars handing to and taking from other managers merchandise from or for their stores. It's like big kids Trunk or Treating. But in stead of calling out trick o treat they holler out store numbers. It's the funniest thing to watch. I was lucky enough to pull in the parking lot in the middle of one of these swaps...and being a avid scrapbooker I had to take the opportunity to get a few pictures. So here's my project for today.....

The layout was inspired by sketch 4-29-09 over at Lets Scrap.

 http://letsscrap.ning.com/photo/4-29-09?context=album&albumId=2186252%3AAlbum%3A630432

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New Look

Happy Sunday!

So I decided to give my Blog a face lift. I changed the cover photo to a digital art piece I made, moved things around a bit and changed some colors.  The problem is I can figure out how to get my cover photo large like the last one. I tried for over two hours and then just gave up. If anyone knows how or can suggest something I would greatly appreciate it.


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