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When making this page I used prompts from both Big Picture Classes and Shimelle.com once again. From BPC it was to use arrows to emphasis journaling. And from Shimelle there were two that caught my eye: #4, write with repetition and #18, use the rule of 3’s.
And for this challenge I was again at Shimelle.com. I used challenge #5 (use brads or eyelets), challenge #15 (add embellishments in rows) and #23 stretch your supplies. All the pattern paper strips came from sheets of pattern paper that I had just about used up. Most of them were punched in odd area. Instead of recycling the punched up pieces I was able to cut around the punches to salvage some nice strips of paper.
Sorry about the glare. I was sure I was in a good spot when I took this photo! I am just pushing through all my backlogged projects so retaking photos of things is not a priority for me right now! Okay, I wasn’t sure how I was going to tackle challenge #7 over at Shimelle.com, which was to use unexpected supplies. But when I found the photos of my daughters apple art, I decided to raid the kitchen for little tidbits to add to my page. Natural embellishments! I combined this with challenge # 19, use paint, and came up with this page. I used a grocery bag to stipple paint onto the page, then used a slice of apple to dip in the paint and stamp on the page.
Quick one. This was a challenge to scrap about yourself from Shimelle.com (#8). Scrapping about myself isn’t something new to me. But I haven’t done it in a very loooong time. So in a way that was a challenge to take time away from my other projects to talk about me. This is 6×6 for my personal album.
They say if you are going to go, go big. And I did for this one. These challenge were from both Big Picture Classes and Shimelle.com (#1, #3, #9, #11, & #17). The main challenge I focused on was try something new. So many new things for me here. The arty style, using fabric to hand cut shapes, homemade spray ink, using my Cricut + Gypsy to design & cut a popular Polaroid style frame, using lots of pink & sparkles, adding color to a black and white photo. All new. And I love it!
Yesterday was National (or International, if you prefer) Scrapbook Day. Each year I want to participate fully and each year there is always something else going on. This time our family went to a Medieval Festival and also Free Comic Book Day at our local comic shop. So my scrapping came in late in the day. Never the less, I got a ton of work done trying to catch up on the last 4 months of scrapping. I’m hoping to plow through pages this week! With the help of NSD and some challenges at a few of my favorite sites, I am making things happen. Here is my first layout.
The challenge both from Big Picture Classes and from Shimelle.com (#21), was to use divided pages to add extra photos to a layout. I’ve never done this before and I do like the results. My only worry is that none of my other pages have to be removed from their albums to be fully experienced. I’m wondering if this style will work for me long term. I have some ideas to tweak the process to work for me. So maybe I can incorporate it next time a way that I didn’t use here.
I’m not a huge Valentine’s Day celebrator. Why do we have only one day to tell the people in our lives that we love them? I think it should be an everyday event! Flowers, and dinner and movies are all nice, but wouldn’t it be nicer to randomly surprise someone with something heartfelt and meaningful? That is one of the reasons I love cards. They are made by me, for that someone special, with love. Now that is something to celebrate!
Recipe: cardstock, dye inks, corner rounder punch: Stampin’ Up Lay blobs of ink color on a palette. Use a spray bottle to really wet your watercolor paper. The wetter it is, the more the colors will move. Dip the end of a straw into a puddle of ink and blow the droplet onto the watercolor paper. Start with light colors and work your way through to the darker colors. Finish with accents that pop off the colorful background. And here is my entry for the DCWV stach-a-holic card challenge. The sketch
And my entry…
Recipe I’ve been meaning to enter one of the DCWV stack-a-holic challenges since I first found out about them a couple of months ago. I just haven’t felt like photographing and uploading and writing to my blog. Well, I found the energy tonight for this one. Here is the sketch
And here is my entry…
Recipe So May. I haven’t posted anything since May. I promise you I have been crafting. I have not felt any inclination to blog though. Such is life. I’m here now and offering some crafty goodness. A friend had a baby not too long ago and I had fun making this layout for a gift when we get to visit for the first time. I placed it in a 12×12 frame so that they can hang it on their wall with the other lovely family photos. I hope they appreciates this little piece of art to add to their collection.
For this project I actually went to the craft store and specifically shopped for product. I never (okay, ALMOST never) go shopping for a specific project. I try to keep a bunch of interesting supplies on hand and just create with what I have in stock. But this time I wanted to shop. And how fun it was. Recipe Baby themed kit (6×6 paper pad, die cuts, tiny text, words): Authentique (on sale for $5! What a score) This qualifies for 2 challenge blogs, both of which I have never entered anything in before:
I look forward to more challenges with these sites and a few other new ones as well as an old time favorite. I may even get blog posts done about them and actually enter them! He he. |
 Hi! I'm Misty. I've been crafty since I was a kid. I've learned to sew, make cards and scrapbook. I wonder what I will learn next. See my full profile in the About tab up above. |
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