2nd Annual Lobster Bake

Hello,

I have two layouts to share today.

"Girl Time" was a girls get-a-way at Pine Acres Family Camping Resort in Oakham, MA. We rented a trailer located on the water. It had two bedrooms and plenty of space for us to scrapbook. Kim actually did scrapbooking, I was on a mission making ATCs. Originally we had rented a cabin but it was not waterfront. When we were talking to the lady at the desk checking us in she mentioned they have three new water front trailers that we might like. We decided to change to the trailer. She told us if we didn't like the trailer we could move to the cabin. This was off season and the camp was pretty much empty. We did a Tuesday to Thursday trip. 

 

 

"2nd Annual Lobster Bake" was a layout I did basically to show off my new lobster pot. We borrowed pots from the French Model Council Club last year. We had to steam the lobsters in the pots over my fire pit because the pots are so large. The bottoms of the pots turned black from the fire and it took us forever to clean them. This year I purchased my own pot. I figure if it turns black on the bottom I will wash it best I can and call it good. It's not like I'm going use this pot on my kitchen stove, it would never fit. I also bought the propane burner for the pot. It worked out very well.

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Amazing View

 Just wanted to share these photos. I took them while in flight to Orlando. I thought they were just breathtaking.

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Hello My Crafty Friends,

As it goes, I have another set of ATCs for a swap at ATCsForAll.com.

This swap had a catchy title that caught my eye as I was scrolling to see what might peek my interest. "Emboss It - This Ain't Your Mamas ATC". Naturally I had to embossed it. I used a new set of stamps from FLONZ clear stamps unmounted UM acrylic 12// Japan Girls in Kimono.

 

Sorry I pulled the picture from Ebay where I purchased the stamps and they are very hard to see. Hope fully you can get a better idea with my ATCs.

 

 





I used a black embossing powder and heat set it with my heat gun. Used some Spectra Noir Color Pencils and Gamsol to color the background and the girls. Around the edges I used the floral stamp that came with the set and stamped half on and half off the cards. Little touches of green and pink Stickles finished them off.


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Available for Trade

Happy Saturday,

After the daunting chore of window washing, I snuck away to create. I was in the mood for a little coloring and decided to make an ATC. I love this time of the year and all the wonderful colors that will start popping up all over. This card is listed up for trade at ATCsForAll.Com. I'm hoping someone will want to trade for it.

 

I colored the image with Koh-I-Noor Tritone  Color Pencils, inked the edges, added the ladybug sticker, puff butterflies, picket fence border, rub-on zig zag, plastic hedgehog, glitter centers and quote. 

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House Shaped Halloween Houses

Happy Sunday,

Hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend. I spent my day today working on some ATC cards for a swap over at ATCsForAll. The theme was "House shaped Halloween Houses". Only rule is no digital and no stickers. I used Halloween papers and fussy cut, used some paper punches, plastic embellishments and brads. I think they came out pretty cute. I don't usually do Halloween themed crafts. I'd rather focus on the Autumn season itself, but I figure I'd give these a try.

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Happy Sunday,

I just wanted to share a simple birthday card I made today.

 

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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.

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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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