Brentwood – The owl that time forgot
This month Brentwood has gone prehistoric.
This month Brentwood has gone prehistoric.
When they were in 1st grade Brentwood and his friends took a trip to the museum to check out the Cro-Magnon Owl exhibit. They were showcasing some specimens dated approximately 40,000 to 10,000 years ago. Brentwood learned a lot about the dinosaurs that walked the earth. He wished that he and his friends could have been around during those times to make friends with those large creatures.
Join us tonight in the JLO chatroom at 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern for chat and prizes. Jessica will be giving away stamp sets and gift certificates to the JLO store.
Tonight, you will also meet Biker Brentwood…in digital and clear stamp form!
I saw Brentwood on a motorcycle…and knew I had the perfect pics to scrap!
A friend took DS on a Harley Ride for his 14th birthday! This is a progressive page. Stop by tomorrow for step by step directions on creating a progressive page. This is an easy, creative and very fun way to create distinctive layouts!
But first, tonight, stop by the chatroom to say HI to mollymoo951 – that’s me! Come meet Jessica Lynn and the Design Team. Hope to see you tonight! No password required, just enter your user name & click connect!
We all have those crafting supplies and tools…we just “had” to have. And we have yet to use! That could include some stamps. Do you have any JLO stamps that haven’t seen ink yet? Or if it has seen ink, has it seen enough ink?
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to ink up any JLO stamp you have that hasn’t seen any ink or enough ink!
Post back here and link your creation! If you upload to SCS, use the keyword JLOST01 (JLO Stash Challenge 01).
I’m still strolling down the memory lane…it’s May and that means awards day and the last day of school!
Not for the obvious reason (cuz I loved school), I looked forward to the last day of school.
It was time to close the book on a successfully completed school year, time to clean out your desk or locker, time to get that final report card, time to look forward to summer, time to sign yearbooks…
DS is in the fourth grade!
Not really, he’s in the EIGHTH grade…I’m taking a trip down the memory lane…remember?
So he’s in the fourth grade. (wink wink)
I just LOVE the right page!
The titling is a hodgepodge of chipboard letters! All RAK’d. (I can’t believe I did that…no matchy match here!)
Here is DS receiving an award at his fourth grade Awards Day. He was on the Honor Roll and received a medal. I was and still am so proud of him!
The chalkboard designer paper is from a Karen Foster School Pack found in my stash. Already distressed…gotta love that! The green DP is some of the SU! SAB designer paper. The naked chipboard stars are from SU! The glittered brackets are SU! sticky cuts and Martha Stewart glitter. Sentiment is a rubon from Me and My Big Ideas. The journaling is done with a white gel pen.
I love the titling! I’m so proud of me…I mixed and matched! And used up my stash!
The left page is simple. Gotta rest the eye…or somethin’…
More Karen Foster paper from the same paper pack. Pencil and titling are Me and My Big Ideas stickers. The photo mat, the stick kid and the “A+” are from a scrapbooking kit Mom got me for Christmas quite a few years ago. The handwriting is my own. I need to ask DS for sure who these boys are in the pic and add that to the page
SUPPLIES:
Paper – Karen Foster Designs (School Scrapbook Paper Pad), SU!
Accessories – SU! Sticky Cuts, Martha Steward Glitter, Sticky Strip, Making Memories Distresser tool, Me and My Big Ideas Stickers, assorted chipboard letters, SU! Chipboard (stars)
I’m taking a stroll down the memory lane! When DS was in the 4th grade, his elementary school had a Book Fair. The topic of the evening must have been dogs, although I don’t remember it being advertised as such.
Meet CLIFFORD, the Big Red Dog and WOODY, the Kentucky Weiner!
I love Clifford. Whoever was dressed up as Clifford that night and visited the book fiar, must have thought I was a NUT. Seriously. I saw Clifford…started juming up and down…Clifford! Clifford! Look Dale! There’s Clifford!
ah hum.
To this day…I STILL don’t know who was dressed as Clifford and I don’t care! I love Clifford, the Big Red Dog. I got my picture with him!
This page was my first scraplift! Whoo! I scraplifted the sample on the Karen Foster Dog Scrapbooking Kit. I can’t believe I just used the letters…RIPPED up the DP…not ONE page, but TWO pages. Another thing I noticed…I’m using FRAMES over my pictures!
I’m in a use up the stash mood. Seriously. I found more neat stuff in my stash for this page featuring Woody, the Kentucky Weiner and his owner. She came to the book fair to sign books, introduce Woody and Chloe and tell a Woody story. Yep…she brought the real Woody and Chloe! They are so spoiled…that Woody and Chloe!
I scanned the cover of Leigh Anne’s book and the autograph from inside the cover. I purchased four books that night. A set for Mom and a set for DS. All four were autographed! The bulletin board DP is from a School scrapbook paper pad by Karen Foster. You’ll be seeing more of those papers this week. Notice the red brads…those are my faux push pins. Titling was stamped in Real Red Craft Ink using Best Friends Alpha. Seriously now…what other alpha would I use to title a page about a famous Kentucky dog?
If you want to learn more about Woody, Chloe and Leigh Anne, visit them here!
SUPPLIES:
Paper: Karen Foster Designs
Stamps: SU! Best Friends Alpha
Ink: SU! Real Red Craft
Accessories: Real Red match brads, Making Memories Took Kit, SU! Mat Pack, lettering, die cuts and frames from Karen Foster
…and Allie Goodman and Eighty-Eight. These pics were taken in March 2005.
Meet Molly Moo. She’s in the top picture…with little Natalie, her daughter. Natalie was born with a paint brush dipped tail. It’s so cute. Solid black and the end looks like a paint brush dipped in white paint.
Next…meet Allie Goodman. As a calf, she was very alert, so I named her Allie. DS came up with the Goodman. I’m sitting right under her taking that picture!
On the far right is 88 and her bull calf. 88 is a bull twin. DH purchased her and her twin brother for beef cattle. Normally, we do not use female cattle for beef. We castrate the bulls and use those. However, as I stated previously, 88 is a bull twin…the female/male twin set usually results in a female that cannot be bred. 88 was a RARE exception and has a fine looking calf. She’s an excellent mom. And, without fail, she gives us a calf every year. She’s also known as Miss Piggy…she hogs the feed. I reckon that’s from being raised as a steer before we found out she could be bred.
I’m using up paper, accessories & ribbon from the Stampin’ Flybabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit…the butterfly glittered paper, ribbon, flowers, buttons. I really do like the ribbons in this layout; they have a retro feel. The butterfly glittered paper was cut with the Top Note Bigz Die and distressed. The title was cut using Lollipop Sixxiz Alphabet. I ran the title letters through Xyron and attached.
Are you enjoying this trip to my farm? Stop by again, soon!
Supplies:
Paper – SU! Very Vanilla, Making Memories Flower Patch
Accessories – ribbon, buttons, felt flowers, glue dots, sticky strip, Big Shot, Top Notes Bigz Die, Sixxiz, Lollipop Alphabet, Xyron, distresser tool
Have you ever torn designer paper? Accidently, yeah sure..that’s aggravating actually.
How about on purpose? No? Yes?
Me? Yeah…I use my SU! Tearing Edge…love that thing.
Still with me? Ok…next question…
Have you ever wadded up designer paper? Yeah…ya know…wadded it up like a paper basketball? No? Yes?
Me? NO! I don’t even wad up designer paper scraps before I toss them in the trashcan. Wad up designer paper on purpose…ARE YA NUTS?!? I keep my DP as wrinkle free as I possibly can!
Crumpling DP sounds like scary stuff! It was unthinkable for me…until this past weekend.
I reckon it’s like a child doing something “scary” for the first time…like jumping in the swimming pool, riding a bike…but after ya do it…what a rush!
Tearing designer paper and crumpling is just WAY too much fun! There’s just something about tearing and cumpling cheap DP…it’s kind of like popping the bubbles in the bubble wrap.
I haven’t crumpled the expensive stuff…yet…that’s still a tad too far outside my comfort zone at the moment. Let me get used to this new comfort zone.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to distress DP by tearing or crumpling. Then use it on a project along with a JLO stamp.
Keyword for uploading to SCS is JLOTC01 (JessicaLynnOriginal Technique Challenge 01).
JLO challenges are open to Design Team members and anyone who wishes to participate. Post a comment and leave a link to your project so we can check it out!
…my furry kid and my smooth kid. I saw this sketch from 52 sketches…52 weeks…I already knew I wanted to do this Inspiration Challenge…Add a Little Spring to your Layout. It kind of all came together over the course of three days. I just needed to find some pics! Then I found these I had taken in June 2006. I love these pictuers.
Our challenge was to create a layout using the following supplies:
S- use shaped paper. I used the shaped paper from Making Memories Flower Patch that I found in the Stampin FlyBabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit.
P- use patterned paper strips. A perfect way to use up scrap paper strips.
I- ink up those edges. A little bit of thinking here. I decided rather than try to match…coordinate. So I inked the edges of the Blush Blossom panel with Taken with Teal Classic Ink.
N- add some nature to your page; butterflies, flowers, bugs, trees, etc. Butterflies and flowers.
G- glitz up your page with glitter or gems. The Making Memories Flower Patch paper I cut the circle from has glitter accents. I also added Making Memories Rhinestone brads to the primas.
Jennipher must have forgotten the R…
Here’s a close up of the top of the page. I used the Tim Holtz Grungeboard flourishes again. They didn’t look right naked…so I dressed them up by smooshing in Blush Blossom Craft Ink and dumping on clear EP.
It’s lotsa fun trying to heat emboss grungeboard. YA…right. It was quite an adventure trying to figure out how to hold it with the tweezers so it gets heated. Grungeboard is quite floppy. After it cooled off, I popped that big flourish on pop dots.
Here’s the middle portion of the layout. Here you can see the inking of the edges and a bit more of the pictures. I distressed the edges of the circle and the patterned paper strips with a distresser tool. You can also get a detailed look at the many patterns of the paper in this layout. They all coordinate nicely.
Here’s the embellishments at the bottom of the page. That one…I ran through my Xyron.
How much I enjoy those lazy June & July summer days with my kids…the furry kid and the smooth kid. They are coming up soon!
Supplies:
Paper: Making Memories Flower Patch, SU! Blush Blossom, PTI White
Ink: SU! Blush Blossom Craft, SU! Taken with Teal Classic
Accessories: Tim Holtz Grungeboard, SU! Clear Embossing Powder, SU! Heat Gun, Tweezers, Powder Pals tray, Pop Dots, Primas, Making Memories Rhinestone Brads, glue dots, Making Memories distresser tool, sticky strip, Exacto knife, dinner plate, paper cutter, Xyron
I made six cards and decorated a clear box with scraps from the Stampin Flybabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit. I just could not throw that gorgeous ribbon away. And look at the acetate butterfly! It matches the card I showed you yesterday!
Wanna peek at what’s inside?
I took pictures of my flowers, printed these off and attached to PTI White cardstock. I decorated the picture cards with rub-ons from Stampin Up!
Easy, elegant and unique!
SUPPLIES:
Paper: PTI White, Making Memories Flower Patch
Accessories: Rub-ons from SU!, Basic Grey Rub-on tool, glue dots, sticky strip, Making Memories Flower Patch ribbon, brad & die cut, photos, Big Shot, Bigz Butterfly die
Wanna see the card I made for Mom & Grandma for Mother’s Day?
I had received this printed acetate DP in the Stampin’ Flybabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit. One sheet…I wanted to get my “money’s worth” out of it! I love it. But I was still trying to come up with ideas on how to use it. Unique ways that pack some punch. I decided to run it through the Big Shot with the Butterfly Bigz Die! Oh WOW! I love these butterflies! I mounted these on the side.
Diane will be please to know I’ve just about used up all my buttons. She’ll probably be more pleased when I use them ALL up. Just a few left. The bottom panel was created from paper scraps mounted on a scalloped piece of PTI White. The butterflies and buttons are attached with glue dots. The glue dot does NOT show under the acetate!
Here’s my inspiration for this card: me sale-a-bration card from maryloves2stamp’s gallery on SCS.
Later on, I’ll show you the matching gift box and some of the unique cards inside.
SUPPLIES:
Paper: Barely Banana, Making Memories Flower Patch, PTI White
Accessories: Making Memories Flower Patch Buttons, Barely Banana ribbon match, sticky strip, glue dots, SU! Scallop Border Punch, Big Shot, Bigz Butterfly Die
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