Masking/Misting Project

With summer here and the kids out of school, we have been too busy for me to get many scrapportunities!  But, I've been playing here and there.  So, I'll share a few more projects that I've done lately!

This was done for a challenge at A Cherry On Top.  We had a photo prompt to use, then interpret it.  I cut my camera shape with vinyl and my Cricut.  Then using it as a mask, I sprayed several different Mister Huey mists onto the background.

The vinyl stuck and tore the paper a little, so I covered it up with some flowers and a cut-out from some patterned paper.  I think these tie-dyed Prima flowers look perfect with the misting, don't you?!

This is for the Graphic Design challenge at ACOT.  You can find that here.

Thanks for looking!  Hope to post again soon!

Cards inspired by Pinterest!

Well, I've been out of the picture for a while!  lol!  Whatever scrapportunities I've had, I've been doing challenges and having lots of fun over at A Cherry on Top.  It's an awesome online store with an awesome message board.  Check it out here.

So, I've been hosting a Pinterest inspired challenge, so I want to share some cards I've done for that.

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And my card, I interpreted the picture pretty literally.  I stamped the jar with a Papertrey Ink stamp from the Friendship Jar set on vellum and fussy cut it.  Then layered it over some brown for the dirt and added some parsley cuts from my Cricut.

Next, I used an Easter-y inspiring photo:

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And, my card:

I used my hexagon punch from Stampin' Up! and several scraps for this springy card!

Hope you like these examples, and to see how I used some photos from Pinterest to make some cards.  Will be back soon to share more.  I'll try not to forget my little blog again!

Be Mine! Sharing a few Valentine Layouts

Wow, I've been so busy with doing challenges over at A Cherry on Top online scrapbook store and message board, that I haven't been sharing any crafty stuff with you all!  So, taking a little time out today to share my latest creations.

Here are a few layouts I made with photos from last year's Valentine pictures.

This challenge was to make a word in our title a color.  Even though my photo wasn't the greatest, DD #2 was in a phase where she wouldn't smile or even look at the camera, I had to scrap about the rose DH got her for Valentine's Day!  I used 2 inch squares of scrap patterned paper to frame my photo, and made roses with my Cricut's Flower Shoppe cartridge.  I drew the little swirly with a pencil and poked holes so I could hand embroider it with some Sew Easy floss.

Now, DD#1 knows how to smile for the camera!  She is holding her flowers just right, too!  I did this one for a Mood Board challenge, where the hostess basically had a photo prompt for us to go with.  I went with the bright pink color and used some Echo Park paper and dark pink washi to make my heart on my doily.  I made a little bird from 3 Birds on Parade cut with my Cricut.  Then I had a few stickers from Sticko and sequins and pearls moving up the page.

This layout is another Valentine's Day page, but with non-traditional colors.  The Elle's Studio "Love You More" line was perfect for it!  And this hostess challenged us to use something that was 3 years old or older.  So check out that Magic Mesh!  I knew I was holding onto that stuff for a good reason!  I also used some acrylic oval letters that I've had forever!

I'm moving right along with these challenges, and most of them offer an ACOT gift card as a prize!  So, if you're interested, check them out here.

Christmas layouts

Okay, I'll admit it--these layouts were made with 2012 photos!  But, they are new creations!!

I got my big kids a cookie kit at Walgreen's last year.  If you look closely, you can see that it's a Ninja-bread kit!  DS loves Lego Ninjago, so I thought this would be fun and different!  We had a blast making cookies with this!  For my layout, I used Authentique's Joyous collection and a little Mister Huey's white mist to represent flour.  It looks more like it IRL.

This layout uses some Bazzill kraft background paper and some scraps from my stash.  The kraft with white words and the squares are from The Paper Studio.  I pulled out lots of supplies on this one: the santa brad, the paper clip, twine, two kinds of alphas, the journal box, and the washi tape.  I love the little extra that washi gives to layouts!!  The title is meant to be a little sarcastic--my DD did NOT want her photo taken at her class Christmas party.  Lol, the joys of having a scrapping mamarazzi!!

Now, my DS LOVES having his photo taken--he always stops and poses with that huge grin!  These papers are mostly The Paper Studio, with a few scraps from my stash.  I Stickled the candy and reindeer die cuts (from my Artbooking Cricut cartridge) as well as some of the hexagons.  This one was actually from a Becky Flech sketch used in a challenge on A Cherry on Top.  You can find the origianl link here.

Hope you liked these pages; and I'm hoping to get all of Christmas 2012 scrapped so that I can move on to 2013!!  Have a great new year--it will be here soon!!

A Few Layouts

I've been working on several layouts lately to enter into challenges at A Cherry on Top.  It's my favorite online scrapbook store and message board.  You can find a link here.

This first one uses some new papers, the black with words and numbers is Graphic 45's Journey paper, and the leaves and multi chevron is Bazzill's Candy Corn Chevron/Scattered Leaves paper.  I loved both sides and had to use some of each!

 

The next layout shows some of the progress of building our house.  I used We R Memory Keepers' Happy Campers collection.

I loved these Reminisce papers, and thought they'd be perfect for scrapping my little boy with his candy bucket.  He thinks it's the only kind of container to take trick-or-treating!  I used a chalkboard sticker for my journaling, and the "Trick-or-Treat, Smell my Feet" saying is actually sticker strips.  I put them on top of some washi tape strips to highlight the saying.

This layout uses some swap pieces from a group I was a part of at It's a Scrapbooking Swap Thing (IASST).  It used Webster's Pages Game On collection.  I just love the look on my daughter's face in the bottom picture--I think she was coming out ahead in the game!

Hope you enjoyed looking at a few of my layouts!  Hope to get a few more uploaded soon!