I felt like scrapping a series of photos that tell a story.
It’s time for a double page spread!
I love the reflection of my husband’s work gloves in the windshield of the truck.
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More stashbusters! For this one, I dug into my stash for a cat scrapbook kit I knew I had. I wanted to do a cat themed layout with a grid of circles.
Here’s the challenge: Stashbusters – February, Week 1
1.Dry emboss and distress an accent. WHAT I DID: The gray circle at the upper right is dry embossed and covered with Prima chalk ink. I also rubbed distress ink on the die cut cat in the lower right.
2. Use a shaped photo. WHAT I DID: I die cut two photos into circles. The one of my cat (in the middle) and the one of the ball of twine. I wrapped some twine around a die cut circle, photographed that and die cut the photo.
3. Ribbon. WHAT I DID: I tied ribbon around the neck of the wood veneer cat and attached ribbon to the paper clip for a flag.
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SUPPLIES
Paper: SU! Basic Gray; Karen Foster Cat Scrapbook Kit; PTI White
Ink: Prima Chalk Edger Old Road; SU! Distress Ink Tea Stain
Accessories: from Studio Calico – Wood Veneer Cat (Sandlot Card Kit), Small Cat Veneer (Here & There Collection), Large Black Letters (Cirque Scrapbook Kit); from SU! – Gray Satin Ribbon, Circles Framelits, Square Lattice Embossing Folder; other – Gold Paper Clip (Staples), Thickers Good Tidings Gray, Pop Dots
Using the stashbusters challenge, I’m scrapping another set of photos from the Ice Storm of 2009. These photos are from Day 8, which was a mild day. I was cooking supper outside on the picnic table, using the generator for electricity, watching Dale & Phillip haul water to the cattle in the barn.
Here’s the challenge: Stashbusters – February, Week 2
1.Use Red as your main color.
2. Incorporate parentheses or brackets in your layout.
3. Photo Corners.
Well, other than missing the red as the main vs accent, I still pulled items from my stash in addition to attempting to use up the Cirque SB kit. I doubt I’ve used photo corners for a while and the brackets are from this cute set of chipboard alpha / numbers I have yet to use. This is probably the first time I can remember using a PL card on a SB page. Note the mix of rounded and square corners. I really do love the bold black letters form the Cirque SB kit.
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We’re snowed in with about 10″ of snow and 10 – 15″ snowdrifts, so I thought I would scrap the photos from the 2009 Ice Storm. LOL. I probably should be documenting the Big Snow and Deep Freeze of 2015. We, in Kentucky, were in negative double digits – air temp – overnight. At midday, it’s warmed up to 4 degrees. With a minus 8 windchill. OY!
My scrappy mojo has been gone for a little while; I found it over the course of a few days looking at the scrapbooking challenges over on SCS. Finally, last night, WHAM! it hit me! whoo whoo! The stashbusters challenge speaks to my counterfeit loving heart. My stash is fairly current, so I found myself substituting for the older items we are challenged to use. This is ok, as it’s also in the spirit of stashbusters – use what you have – don’t go out and buy it!
Here’s the challenge:
1. Create a border of the oldest metallic accents you’ve got in your stash! You should use a minimum of 6 items but feel free to use more. These can be brads, eyelets, rivets, clips, or metallic words. You can also create a border around a photo, a journal block, or the entire page.
2. Use at least 2 different ribbons.
Here’s my page:
WHAT I DID: I created a border using the SU! Tasteful Trim die – I love that die, I don’t use it enough. I did not have any suitable metallics in my stash and I purged most of those types of embellishments long ago. My substitute was those chipboard circles from Studio Calico’s Copper Mountain scrapbook kit and some mini clothes pins from my stash. These are things I don’t usually reach for – I was happy to find a use for them.
I didn’t have any ribbons that would look good with ice glazed farm equipment and corn fodder! So, looking into my stash for two similar use items, I found some black / white baker’s twine and a roll of American Craft’s silver glitter tape. I have several rolls of that glitter tape in various widths & colors. I like it; I need to use it. However, I don’t want it on every. single. layout. I thought it provided a nice metallic pop along the border of the main photo.
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The gilded age has returned!
I love the sparkle, especially the Zing! Glitter Finish Gold embossing powder! I’m not certain I’m impressed with the Mister Huey Gold. In the right light, it shimmers nicely; otherwise, meh. While I wish I had tried it without the Mister Huey Gold, I’m very happy with how it turned out otherwise! Mister Huey plays a big role in this card though. LOL. Maybe it will grow on me some more.
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Stamps: SU! Solemn Stillness
Paper: SU! Very Vanilla & Brushed Gold
Ink: Brilliance Galaxy Gold, Versamark
Accessories: SC Mister Huey (Gold); SU! gold cord, Gold Glory EP; Zing Glitter Finish Gold EP
I need 16 – 20 more Christmas cards. (sigh) I thought I had enough. No worries. I’m having fun making cards. I checked in with my go-to challenges over on SCS: CAS, Color Challenge and Sketch Challenge. I figured I best pick a stamp set first. So, I picked another go-to: SU!’s Solemn Stillness. There are so many possibilities with this stamp set.
Next, I chose the color challenge: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake and Pool Party. Really? Pool Party. That name so does not go with winter in Kentucky. LOL. BUT, adding touches of silver and bouncing off the Sketch Challenge, it made a lovely card.
I made four of this style, which is my favorite number for successful mass production. I probably could do up to 10 maximum. But, I did four. And am very happy with them.
Stay tuned for more variations on Solemn Stillness!
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Stamps: SU! Solemn Stillness & Christmas Greetings
Paper: SU! Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake & Whisper White
Ink: SU! Pool Party & Chocolate Chip, Versamark
Accessories: SU! Sterling Silver DP & silver cord
Virtual Scrapbooking Night challenges are happening over on SCS.
Challenge 1: Celebrating babies in our lives: Babies have many different definitions in my mind. I immediately think of newborns. But babies include infants, toddlers, young children, grandbabies, friend’s kids, and even heritage baby pictures. So many of us consider our pets as our babies. I still consider my 25 and 28 year old as my babies. So, your Babies Challenge, is open to include all that you consider your babies.
Challenge 1 Rules:
• Use monochromatic colors for this page. (All shades of one color such as all blues or pinks, or greens, reds, or blacks.)
• Label the names of the people in your pictures. This can be a title, journal box, label strips, or other creative idea.
• Complete a one or two page layout.
• Add two additional embellishments.
Here is my interpretation:
The monochromatic orange color scheme with pops of black looks wonderful with the Green Goblin! My two additional embellishments were the black grid that I cut into three pieces and the black sequins. In this project, the orange washi tape serves as an paper element, rather than as an embellishment. The “make magic” panel is a silkscreened acrylic paint on watercolor paper.
It’s been quite a while since I have played in VSBN. I hope to create some more pages.
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Paper: Basic Grey for Studio Calico x 2; ProvoCraft Jack O Lantern Spooks; Canson Watercolor Paper
Accessories: Accessories: Studio Calico – (from The Underground kits: black grid, “make magic” silkscreen), CT acrylic paint (Orange County), CT alpha (Inky Black), Sequins (black); Target – orange washi tape; Tim & Beck for SC – Tiny Alpha Stickers; Thickers Sotheby’s Charcoal
Techniques: Silkscreen
This week’s color challenge over on SCS is “Crisp Coral Crumbs”. That is: Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral and Crumb Cake. I’m still loving the look of the direct-to-paper technique I experimented with yesterday for Monday’s CAS challenge: stamp-a-pad..
Lately, I’ve been inspired by projects featuring “color blocks”. I’m looking forward to trying this on a larger canvas!
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Stamps: SU! Season of Thanks
Paper: PTI White, SU! Crumb Cake
Ink: Studio Calico Color Theory (Blush Crush, Coral Bay, Creme Brulee, Inky Black)
Techniques: Direct to Paper
I’m playing in the CAS challenge over on SCS again this week. This week’s challenge is “stamp a pad”.
I used a technique called direct to paper to create the paint swipes using three shades of blue for an ombre look. I really do like that pop of black. That’s the more version, only because it has three more sequins! LOL.
This is the less version. It’s fun to do a more & less version, interesting to see the differences. I can’t make up my mind which one I like better.
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Paper: PTI White, SU! Basic Black
Ink: SC Color Theory (Glass Slipper, Clear Blue, Something Blue)
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Silhouette Cut File, SC sequins (black)
Techniques: Direct to paper, Sewing
Halloween 2014. Garfield decides to play a trick. At first I thought it was Dale playing a trick. It all started when he announced that Garfield caught a mouse.
I looked at my husband in disbelief. This is Garfield we’re taking about. Garfield, whose hunting skills would put him in the “starve to death” category if there were to be no Purina Cat Chow being served.
Yeah, right, I said. He probably picked up something Princess or Freddy left.
Oh no, Dale said. It’s alive.
Garfield caught a mouse.
That’s what I said hon.
Later, Dale goes outside and Garfield runs inside. With the mouse in his mouth! He drops it and it hops along the wall of the shop!
OMG! AAAAHHHHHHH! I have on rubber rain boots, shorts and no socks. Those suckers jump! AUGH! Garfield and Lincoln are hiding under the table, peeking out, because I am screaming.
Later, as I stop by the shop to get my hug & kiss before I head off to work, Dale is so proud. He moved the extra flooring and out hops the mouse. Garfield caught it. Dale proceeds to show me some gnawed up carcass in the cat yard. Um, Dale, that’s not the mouse. Where’s the mouse?
Yes it is; that’s the mouse. Garfield caught the mouse.
It’s awfully small.
Garfield’s been chewing on it.
Okey-dokey. You want a picture of that hon?
Garfield. What a cat.
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