Stencil me in

Don'tcha just love stencils, I do

I ended up using four different stencils on this page , I love layering them.

Scrap It Girl is having a Stencil challenge this month and  this is the prize the are offering to the winner.



Anything but a card is haveing an open theme challenge, just don't make a card.

Unruly PaperArts is also going stencil crazy and I  mean stencil craaazy

Heck of a challenge wants to see a frame


My inspiration for the layout came from Skissdilla, they have awesome sketches over there. 

oh no not the kitchen

                  any room but the kitchen, no, ok the kitchen it is.  That's the challenge at Scrap It Girl this month Kitchen color challenge.  I have to be honest the kitchen is not my favorite room in the house for a couple of reasons.  The first being this room has not been redone, the wall paper you see in the photo below is 20+ years old, uuuggghhhh!  The second reason, I don't particularly like to cook, lets say if it would to go in a top ten list for me it would definitely rank eleven and finally no matter how many times you do the dishes there is always more to do!

I wanted to share this photo below because this was my inspiration (the wallpaper, ugh, I know) for my projects below and I wanted to share that this is my all time favorite dish.  Yes that is a plate hanging by the red ribbon, yes the one with the big hole in it.  Isn't it fabby?  It is to me, not too many people have a plate with a hole in the middle.  My son brought this home one day from school, they were doing ceramics and somewhere along the way something went wrong and his plate exploded in the center.  He was quite disappointed and really didn't want to give it to  me, I on the other hand loved it and thought it to be very special and this is where it hangs.

So for the Scrap It Girl kitchen color challenge I picked the majority of my kitchen colors which are blues, browns(wood), creams.  I first made this card for the challenge but I still had some kitchen mojo left so....

I embossed the background then brayered the blue over it, love it

... I made a page, same color combo of course

here you see some green added for the leaves there actually is some green in the wallpaper leaves

So go on over and check out Scrap It Girl for the kitchen color challenge, oh and I hear  in November there will be a double challenge.  For October the prize is




 Here are some more blogs you may want to check out and enter creations:

For my page I made I followed the sketch from Scrap & Music, my title is part of the song "she's got eyes of the bluest skies"  it fit perfectly for my photo.  I love the sketch.



It's a anything goes challenge at 2 Sisters challenge blog, a favorite for everyone.
Time to play Bingo at 4 Crafty Chicks, my page includes buttons, embossing (the butterfly) and flowers.
Allsorts challenge is "how does your garden grow", since I have lots of flowers I thought I would enter my layout.
All you have to do to enter Frosted Designs challenge is add texture to your project, I added gesso for the white circle , I also have several differnt textures of paper, metal, fabric, resin, metal.
For the monthly challenge at Natalie and Amy, it's shabby chic, that's what I was I was aiming for when I made my page.
Pile It On is having a leaf challenge, I used plenty of leaves on my page.
There is a flower challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and a DT call, all my paper flowers on my layout are handmade

Thank you all for looking, happy crafting!

Marvelous

So I thought I would play with the sketch at Berry71Blue, pretty cool sketch and along with their challenge you have to use some mixed media. I uses some gel modeling paste and a circle stencil to make the circles on the page I then inked them up


Berry 71 Bleu - sketch and mixed media

Who wood of thought

that working with a wood album wood be so much fun!

I chose the coffee album because I LOVE COFFEE and I thought what better to put in the album but the CREAM and Sugar of my life!

I used a lot of stencils on this album, love how it turned out

This was so much fun to work with the wood, I love it.  Over at Scrap It Girl this month there's a surprise mid month challenge Wood, yes the Back to School challenge is still in full swing until the end of the month, and now you can enter the Wood challenge too! It’s time to use your wood veneer pieces, wood chips, wood scraps, or do a home decor wood project.
I got my album from  Genuinely Jane Studios.   This was the perfect size and the wood is not to thick or heavy,  I would highly recommend giving a wood album a try if you haven't already.
You should head on over to Scrap It Girl and check out what the other team members made, very cool! and then get your wood on and enter!!  If you don't enter you can't win , here is the fabby prize Kimberly is giving away




Now do you have some stash you have forgotten about or maybe a technique you haven't used in awhile if so check out Our Creative Corner .  (I had forgotten I had the silver stick on words)

Now if you have some Texture with a twist (choose your style) head on over to Crafts-Too, I think the wood album gives this project lots of texture, I also added some gel modeling paste to a page and used a stencil, it's a little hard to see in photo (it's on the first page) and as for my style, I honestly don't know what you call this?? modern? shabby? eclectic? girly? whimsical? I think I'm all over the board, that"s how I would define my style.

If you head over to Simon Says and stamp on anything besides plain paper , like I did with the wood album you can enter the challenge there.

In this album I chose to use some old flowers from my stash (at least old to me) the blue and white printed ones I have had for quite some time and I finally had the perfect project to use them on, go over to Shopping Our Stash and check out some more floral projects.

  I also made my own zipper flowers I love that purple color, something new I hadn't done.  If you make your own flowers go over to  Try it on Tuesday and enter there.

and.....last but not least , are you ready to get Unruly, at Unruly Paper Arts, they got their wood on! Who new what you could do with wood, the RAQ1 is a 3d wooden project.

Ok, so that's all for now folks, until next time happy crafting and thanks for looking.

Back to school

September already, wow how this year has flown by.

 in the photo the binder looks kinda red, it is actually pink

Here I have stamped a binder, a pencil case and a composition book for the back to schooler.  What a neat way to personalize those items they use each day.  This month over at Scrap It Girl the challenge is to use school supplies.  You have all month long to enter and you could win this prize, swing by and see what the other designers have made.

                                                    

 I am also entering this in the following challenges, be sure to check them out as well.

 Just Us Girls - distressing   I distressed using ink on the edges
Sugar Creek Hollow - back to school used school items
Just Inspirational - ribbon , the black and pink border on left of book is ribbon
Shopping Our Stash - school/workplace, I used school supplies, I could also use these at  work!
Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes
Flutterby  by Wednesday - open challenge with butterfly or fairy,
Really Reasonable Ribbon - back to school, with ribbon, my ribbon is the pink and black check and I used string

6 G's

Six generations

This post has lots of photos :)

 my mini

all put together front cover

great gmaw and gmaw

mom

me

my daughter

hiccup , oldest gdaughter

peep, youngest gdaughter

Close ups of each individual page

 

Wosza you made it through all the pics, this mini was a major so glad I did it though , I'm gonna give it to my mom cuz I love her :)

This was my project for the new challenge over at Scrap It Girl this month the challenge is mini albums, I definitely think you should show us what you got., you have all month to enter.  You won't want to miss what all the other designers have created as well.  Here is the link http://www.scrapitgirl.net/index.php/2013/08/01/mini-album-august-challenge/

I have also decided to enter this into a few other challenges.

Paper Issues - chipboard
Sentimental Sundays - things with wings
Simon Says - anything goes
Try it on Tuesdays - collage with a twist
Unruly Paper Arts - embossing
Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger - collage inspiration  inspired by images and colors
Craft Your Passion - 3D it
Pile It On - anything goes
Craft Room Challenge - heat embossing, I embossed 2 chandeliers

Just a little thank you

ETA -(edited to add ) to Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger, these colors are so in right now aren't they fab!! or should I say Moxie Fab

 

It's been awhile since I made a card but was just itching to use some new products.  Love these colors, so into it right now.
Some places you may want to visit:
Brown Sugar is having an anything goes challenge.
Over at One Stop Craft challenge they want you to make your own back ground, for the front of my card I embossed then sanded it and for the inside I embossed then brayered with ink.
Totally PaperCrafts wants to see you make your own flowers, I used the pansy punch for mine and I made the mini peachy ones with a mold.
Anything goes at Through the Craft Room Door.

I followed this sketch from cardabilities




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