Pencil Lines Sketch 232

I doubled up this layout for Pencil Lines.

How Much is Too Much?

I have been checking this blog out for a little while but hadn't had a chance to play along until now. I don't usually get to scrap pages about myself, mostly because I always forget to have photo's taken of myself. I found this one which was taken whilst watching my son play football, its not exactly the best photo, but I suppose it is me most days.

The Challenge was to scrap about YOURSELF, specifically, journal about your name--do you like it, hate it, have nicknames, etc.? Anything about your name is fair game!

Write down the letters in your name, and use items on your page that begin with each of those letters (could be the generic name of the thing or a brand). Use: 3 - three-word title 28 - items (at least)

So here's hoping I did this correct.

F - Flowers kaiser & Websters cutouts, Fancy Pants patterned paper & Rubons, Flourish chipboard, Fancy Pants covered chipboard banner, Fairy's
I - Ink around the edges of flourish, cutouts and journalling
O - Once Upon a Time papers by Graphic 45, Origins patterned paper by Basic Grey
N - Neighbour Hood banner sticker by Crate paper
A - Acetate

3 Word Title - Fiona or Fi?



I am pretty sure I have used 28 items on my page. I have also used one of the Sketch's from Pencilines this month.

Thanks for looking.

Color Combos Galore 186

This weeks Colour Challenge was to do some layering. I used a picture of my DD when she was two. As you can see by her picture her skin is very fair and I was trying to encourage her to wear a hat outside when she played. However after popping the hat on her I would turn my back for a moment only to find that she would remove it again. This particular day I just happened to take a snap of her expression when she removed it..the look says it all.

For this Palette I used papers from Pink Paislee, Websters & Making Memories. The gray stumped me a little, mine was printing with a slight olive tone and the name of the colour was Smokin Hot Gray so I used two grays to cover me. Jo Sonja Dove Gray paint and the Pink Paislee doilies that I cut from paper are a sort of Olive Grey and matched with my palette printout. I used a Tattered Angels stamp with the paint and stamped on the background cardstock, then layered all my cutouts from Prima Gabrielle & Basic Grey Gypsy. I spritzed some Foofala canvas flowers and layered these as well however these look a lot more turquoise in the picture. I used teal ink for the butterfly and then blinged it up with glitter. Transparencies is from Hambly the other one is a digital download that I used.





Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave.

PAPER CRAFTS BIRTHDAY BASH

Well what an exhausting weekend. Between my sons football, gym and crafting I am wondering if I had a weekend after all...lol

Kristi B over at Paper Secrets let me host one of the challenges over there and I also thought it would be great to join in and give the challenges ago.

I went with the scavenger hunt first, we had to get together the list of products posted in the challenge, then scrap them. So whilst scrambling around grabbing together the requirements I also had to make sure that I would also be able to work with them. Then the task of finding a photo of me when I was kid...this is probably relatively easy for some, but for me I also shared my Birthday with my older brother and to top it off, it was the day after Christmas. By this time most people were a little bit over the celebrations, I am thinking this is why their is not a lot of photos.

However I found my baby book and was able to scan a picture taken of me and brother is no where in sight...lol

I also took on the Recycle challenge. Every 1/4 I receive a kit with cosmetics, after my nearly 17yr old DD opened and sampled everything I discovered their was some lovely packaging that would be perfect for a recycling job, I also found pastic packaging in the recycle bin and some aluminum soft drink cans. I thought this was going to be a quick and easy project, certainly did end that way.

I had some sort of idea that I wanted to turn these pretty packaging envelopes into a mini book. As for the plastic packaging I used that to make tags that would slide into the envelopes for extra journalling or photo mats. I used black cardstock and made an accordion base to hold each of the envelopes. I opened the envelopes up so that I could cover the fronts and stitch these down without stitching the envelopes closed. I stamped the plastic tags with stazon and used one of the new lines from Pink Paislee stitching through all layers.

I used Making Memories definition stickers to cover up the company name that was printed over the packaging. Ribbon was spritzed with Glimmer Mist and I embossed the metal shim, cutting it up and using it throughout the booklet. I did plenty of stitching, inking, distressing, punching and glittering I was more than happy with my recycled project.

And last but not least I did an altered project - the box I used is a tampon box that would have normally been thrown into the bin, I covered with Websters Hollywood Vogue, painted, stamped and glittered with this being my end result. I was hoping to add a mini book but I will add that later.

Well I hope you enjoyed looking at my projects and if nothing else I hope they inspired you in some way.

Bye for now.
Fi

Paper Secrets Birthday Bash - Vintage Shabby Chic Challenge

Hi Everyone

Welcome to Paper Secrets Birthday Bash Weekend. These are the projects I did for Vintage/Shabby Chic. You could do either or both entirely up to you, I hope these inspire you in some way.

Thanks for playing along and good luck.

Paper Secrets Holiday Weekend Bash.

Come on over and check out Paper Secrets this weekend.

Paper Secrets Manufacturers Challenge

Paper Secrets March Manufacturers Challenge. I was hoping to get a few others done but have been working on the Birthday Bash challenges instead.

For this page I used a Prima Paper for the background and some scraps from Creative Imaginations and Websters.

The photo matt is a die cut paper and I have used Kaiser rhinestones around the edge scallop. I used the Making Memories border sticker to create the photo corner and MM canvas stickers which I have painted with Tim Holtz crackle paint, inked and kindy glitzed for some added bling. Paper flowers are cut from Websters and I used the TH die cut for the other flower. Also used clear border sticker from Pink Paislee.




Thanks for looking and don't forget to check out the challenges this weekend.