YKNR challenge #2

This challenge is entitled "Heavy metal". I admit I've never really liked heavy metal when it comes to music, so I went a little softer, maybe. The only real metal on this card is the mesh flower I punched out and the brad holding it on the page. The rest I used some of my metallic copper card stock and copper ep. So yes I admit it I'm not a true rocker. If you want to see more of the entries to this challenge click HERE.

I just realized that Allison's Suggestive Sunday Challenge was to use FAT ribbon and I think this qualifies. Maybe in my subconscious I actually planned it that way so here I go I am going to piggyback the challenges! If you want to see more of the entries to this challenge click HERE.

Baby Boom

Over the next four months I am going to be having to make quite a few of these baby cards. The boy card is for my sister in law, she just had a baby boy yesterday and I am trying to finish a blanket for her before I send all the loot off.

The girl card was for my friend Brenda's baby shower. She came in town from Arizona and her sisters threw her a baby shower. I had these dimensional stickers from Target and added a few layers of scallops and a silk flower. Voila!

This is the matching gift bag I made using the cool idea I learned at convention. You just fold out the sides and snip to make a sleeve and glue them closed to stay. Tuck the bottom piece back to the normal position and there you go. Onsie bag. It looks best if you cut a little neck line at the top. Just a little tip. if you over fill this bag things get a little hairy.

Wedding Pages

These pages use pictures from my brother's wedding that was almost three years ago. I just love these pictures. The photographer was so good. This wedding was in the dead of winter Dec 28th in Nauvoo Illinois and it was very cold. My sister Hillery just got engaged this week and I've been helping her come up with a wedding invitation. I will post it when we get the final product done.

Card stock: K&Co Lotus paper pack and also some of the die-cut elements from the Lotus collection. The scallop layer was a card from MME an so are the journaling card and the printed card.
Sticker letter: ChatterBox.

AFSS30 All Felt Up

This is my entry to Allison's Suggestive Sunday challenge. This go round we are supposed to incorporate felt into a paper crafting project. This is a 12 x 12 scrapbook page of my daughter Gena when she was just a couple of weeks old. I don't really scrap in order, she is five years old now. But this is one of my favorite pictures of when she was a baby. The felt flowers and the buttons I bought while I was in Salt Lake City at one of their wonderful scrapbook stores. I don't really know the brand you just paid by the scoop.

Back Yard Work

I completed this page a couple of months ago. I was using one of my old Simply Scrappin' kits. (actually I think I just used two stickers from it.) I used a fairly simple lo with the symmetrical squares in the center, and matted them all with the card stock vellum. Then I journaled around the outsides. While matting the pictures I didn't want to crop off my son's head and I thought "wouldn't it be funny to cut around it?" I did the same with my daughters hand, and really like the result. I was nice and didn't do the same with the picture of my husband pulling the kids.

Card Stock: Kraft, Card Stock Vellum, Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal, Cool Caribbean, Certainly Celery
Ink: Journaling Marker
Accessories: Simply Scrappin Kit (Sellabrations 2007)

Something for you to look at

I know I know I've been AWAL for a while. I sincerely apologize for the lack of new things for you to look at. This fun card features sprayed ink. Super simple. Ink + water sprayed over embossed images. To play clean I first draped myself with an apron then placed the paper in the sink and spritzed there. The ink resists over the embossed images so you get a cool watery look. After spraying you can wipe off the resisted ink with a paper towel. Then I just clean my sink out ASAP, so it doesn't stay for a day or two.

*Weston said there wasn't enough contrast with the teal and the navy ink so I added the red. It did add more pop. *

I will post more about convention but I am trying to catch the house up from me being gone for five days.

Hello From SU Convention!

My feet hurt and I really need a back rub but I have a lot of new ideas and new product. I can't wait to get my fingers inky at home. But I will have more fun stuff for you to look at next week!

Gift Swap for Convention

I signed up for a swap at convention where you hand stamp a gift. For my swap I made these necklaces with earrings to match.

The hand stamped part of this was done on matte shrink plastic. I stamped the large flower from One of a Kind and the flowers from Together Forever. On the earring card I wheeled Forever Flowers. After stamping I colored the reverse side of the shrink plastic with my Prisma Color pencils. Poppy Red, True Blue and Apple Green. I punched the large flowers with my scallop circle punch and the rectangles were pre-cut sized with the corners rounded. Then I baked them in the oven.
For those who don't know. I was making jewelry long before I was stamping. I have a problem with collecting all the supplies of something when I get into it. Alas, I have almost as many beads as I do stamps.

Here's the summary of the jewelry making bit. I strung the beads onto two 32" lengths of waxed linen one at a time. The nice thing about waxed linen is that it is very stiff so you don't need a needle. Basically once the first bead is threaded on you tie a knot approximately 1"below the previous knot. With the stamped beads there is a top hole and a bottom hole and I strung through the front and from the back to hold the bead in place. The top has tube crimps and the toggles are held on with jump rings.

For the earrings I just used my jewelry pliers to bend the bottom loop of the french hooks to face out so the beads wouldn't turn sideways.