two challenges

Hello and happy Saturday J Today I have two layouts that I made this week with my “Romantic Spring” May Scrapthat kit. It is loaded with gorgeous Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden papers and Prima Botanicals. The first layout is called “two” and the photo is my grand daughter Kylee. She is just such a sweetie. I did this layout for an inspiration by Emeline challenge at Dusty Attic. I did a lot of fussy cutting on the papers and lots of distressing and inking.

The bow on the cage is crinkle seam binging and the Dusty Attic leaves are all first embossed, then inked and I used crackle accents on them.

Below are a couple of side shots where you can see all the layers and details.

For my next layout I used this weeks #58 palette at The Color Room. I did lots of distressing and inking on this layout as well as some masking and misting. The photo is me and my hubby and daughter at Caesars Palace in Vegas.

Here you can see the masking and the Dusty Attic chicken wire that I tucked in.

I used lots of layers in this layout and here you can see and DA vine piece.

The bottom of the layout has tonnes of goodies on it.  I love the DA border across the bottom with the ribbon on it, and lots of pretty goodies.

A couple more shots.

Well that is it for today, tomorrow is the reveal for Sketchabilities and I will be back with another layout. Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

Soul Food **Swirlydoos**

Hi there and welcome to my blog. Well back to rain here in BC, yucks, so after work today I made this layout for a challenge at Swirlydoos. The idea is to take a photo of something in your house and use it as inspiration for the layout. So the photo is of my piano and lookie there is a bottle of wine in the background. So then I poured a glass, set it on the piano and took a shot of it. I love my red wine, I think I got that one thing from my mom J I used my Timepiece spotlight kit and did lots of distressing, stamping, inking, masking and so on.

I used all Petaloo flowers and vines and added a skeleton leaf in the back ground, The title is from Dusty Attic as well as the music notes and the corner swirl.

You can see all the distressing in this close up and some stamping. I tucked in some lacy material in a few spots.

In this close up you can see all the layers and the DA on the bottom.

Well this was a fun challenge and now I have a glass of wine to drink too, yippee. But only one glass allowed I have to work tomorrow, BOO!!! Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

Christine ** Swirlydoos**

Hi there and welcome to my blog. It is a gorgeous sunny day here is BC today, and everything is starting to grow outside now. I had a chance after work today to finish up this layout I have been working for a challenge at Swirlydoos. It is a different layout as it has hidden photos behind the main one. I used my Timepiece spotlight kit and the challenge is to honour our moms. All the photos are my mom, she was so full of life and quite the character, always the life of the party. I distressed all the bottom layers and added lots of goodies to this one.

The little knob on the front, when you lift it up it reveals the two photos under the main one, and as you can see she was a bit of a character my mom. The photos are not totally clear as I do not have many photos of her.

Below is a close up of the flowers and trinkets, you can see the knob in there as well.

The chippy frame and the key are from Dusty Attic, there is also a DA snowflake tucked in the top flower cluster. I added some gems to the title as well.

Well that is it for today. One of my kits arrived and I am working on a challenge at Dusty Attic, and will hopefully be posted tomorrow.  Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

Love ** Swirlydoos**

Happy Mother’s Day!!!  Well talk about fun stuff. Yesterday was NSD and at Swirlydoos they had so many fun activities going on all day. We made flowers, played Bingo (swirly style), had a scavenger hunt and started a paper bag album. I made this layout for the inspiration challenge there for NSD and the blue flower is from one of the upstream activities that we did. I used 100 percent Swirlydoos stuff, either from old kits or the store. The photo is my daughter and my grandson shortly after he was born. You can just see the love of their faces. I have scrapped this photo before but I will give this one to my daughter framed.

 

I distressed and inked all the bottom layers and added some flower clusters and Dusty Attic pieces to finish off the layout. Below is some close up of the layers.

Well that is it for today. My kits should be here this week and I will be a scrapping maniac when they arrive, I can’t wait. Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

All Aboard **TCR #57, Swirlydoos**

Yippee it’s Friday! I got one of my kits yesterday in the mail, my Timepiece spotlight kit from Swirlydoos. I tore open the box and fell in love with all the goodies in there. And as soon as I saw all the pocket watches on the papers and embellishments I thought about my dad. He was a conductor for the Rail road and always carried a pocket watch for work. The papers matched the palette for this week’s The Color Room #57 and I got right at it, and finished it today after work. The photo is my dad in uniform probably back in the  mid 50s.

I distressed the layers and did a lot of inking and some masking. I used a stamp in the top corner on top of the masking. The punch around the photo is from MS.

I used a Dusty Attic scroll piece on the right side. It was first painted with acrylics then inked and I added some smooch and glossy accents.

I added some clock arms to one of the large clocks on the paper and I love the little pocket watch that I added by the gems.

Below is just a couple more close ups.

Well that is it for today. Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic weekend. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

Spread your Wings **Scrapthat**

Happy Hump Day!!! I am still home from work, I have a bad cold uggg L but hey I got to clean up my scrap room a bit today and while I was in there I had to play for a while too. Scrapthat has a misting challenge this month so I used my April kit and made this layout today. The photo is my grandson Johnathan at Easter.

I used a tutorial from Irene Tan aka Scrapperlicious to get the misting, gesso, technique; you can see her blog here. In these two close ups you can see the masking and distressing that I did.

I tucked in a lace doily in the section up top and added some liquid pearls to the title area. The flowers are all from Petaloo and the wing is a chippy that I altered and layered. The butterflies were cut out and I added stickles and gems to them.

Well that is it for today. Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

Mother’s Day Card - Cardabilities

Wow Tuesday already, that weekend went by way too fast for my liking hehe. I am home from work yesterday and today L some kind of a cold grrrrrr. Kinda feels like a freight train hit me lol. Mother’s Day is approaching very fast now and I made this little card for my mom in law and I usually get her flowers for her patio each year. I used sketch #30 from Cardabilities. I got a new cartridge for my cricut and used it to cut out the smaller pieces. The flowers are a piece from a Petaloo vine and I added a crinkle seam binding bow and some liquid pearls.

I hope one of my May kits is in the mail today, love playing with new goodies.  Well that is it for today. Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J

Spring is Here **TCR #56**

Happy Sunday everyone!!! Holy May already, that sure did come up fast. Just a quick post then I am off to do some gardening outside, finally a beautiful day here, and it sure does feel like Spring. This layout was made using TCR Palette #56 and I used a sketch from Stuck on you Sketches. The palette this week is spring colors so I chose to do a photo of my grand daughter collecting Easter eggs last weekend. I used papers and embellishments all from my stash, there is some BoBunny, Prima, and even some Creative Memories in there.

I used a deep edge MS punch for the edges and accented the flowers with liquid pearls. I did a bit of distressing on the edges and some machine stitching.

The flowers, swirls and doily are all from Prima. You can see the stitching in this close up.

The butterflies are printed out from Swirlydoos and then I just cut them out and added some gems and stickles to them.

I am anxiously waiting for my May kits to arrive and also a spotlight kit from Swirlydoos. I hope one of them is here tomorrow so that I can play with some new goodies. Well that is it for today. Thank you so much for stopping in for a peek. I hope that you all have a fantastic week. Feel free to leave me some scrappy love comments, I love reading them ...take care and happy scrapping J