Shape it up x 3

     This was a new kind of challenge this week over at Frosted Designs and so here is my take on this Shape it up x 3...  I have 3 x handmade flowers - 3 x butterflies- 3 x photos -3  x sticker sayings- 3 x journal spots- 3 x decorative brads.... wow alot of Three's in this layout-- great number to work with.

 I just love this paper stack by Recollections "Charming" love the patterns and love love the colors. I toer away areas and backed them with this glittear circle pattern paper to pop thru. Layered the photos which I again painted on the mat look and then used Tulip fabric paint for the black flourishes I drew on

 The best part of this layout is the 3 fabric flowers I made with some Making Memories special ribbon in blue and then a decorative brad for the center and then added some stickles for some more bling.

The brown ribbon on the side is also from Making Memories, I painted over the journal area of a precut journal spot- so I could write on it, added a plastic calendar and a oval chipboard with an added title  celebrate sticker. Then 3 butterflies and some little silk flowers and I was done with this fabulous page of my Daughter's College Graduation celebration Dinner- along with me and her boyfriend and his mother- now future husband and mother-in-law.
    I know last week was suppose to be my last week as a Design Team member-but I couldn't help myself and so I joined in on the challenge this week and say goodbye to all the wonderful people I have worked along with at Frosted Designs its been a pleasure and I will be checking in weekly and probably doing a few challenges along the away. So be sure to link up a project this week for a chance to win another fabulous prize at Fabulous Fridays weekly challenges at Frosted Designs

Doggone cute...

     Doggone cute...is the perfect title for my two Eskies... since I dont have any children around here I find myself taking lots of pictures of my dogs. I did another layout using the challenge over at Frosted Designs to use brads/eyelets on a project. So here is one using several eyelets and weaving or tieing twine in between them.
  Since these photos were taken this fall, I thought I'd pull out some of my falls papers/colors by Me & My Big Ideas. I used 3 patterned papers and inked all the edges in dark brown. I then used my Big Bite to punch holes and attach all the orange eyelets.

 Used some natural color twine to tie in between each eyelet, made a simple banner for the title over the two pages. I then added a bingo card to each of the dogs layout with their birthday number circles, and a few rub-ons

Well , you still have time to enter your project over at Frosted Designs this week- and I just wanted to say goodbye to the Design team- I am stepping down for awhile and have truely enjoyed the last year I have been creating pages and projects with all of their wonderful challenges and a great bunch of girls to work along with. I will miss them- but will be visiting every week.

Frosted Designs brad/eyelets Challenge

Here is my DT take on the challenge this week over at Frosted Designs to use brads /eyelets on a project. I did a layout of my ex-husband grandmother- so that would be my children's  great grandmother who passed away when they were very young. So, I thought I would dedicate a pager for each of their scrapbooks.

 I used K&Company papers and border trims and 3 butterflies embellies, tulip fabric paint for the flourishes I made, a variety silk flowers, Cricut & Gypsy for the Title , Stickles, and of course my brads...

 I used some gold jewel brads on top of the banner as the center of the flowers and below you can see I used a decorative fabric brad in the center of the large flower. I then used yellow Stickles for the center of all the other flowers. Then I attached a metal heart shape love tag to the flower.

So be sure to go thru your stash and pull out those brads and eyelets and put them to good use on a project this week and enter it over at Frosted Designs- Fabulous Fridays for a chance to win a prize from their sponsor this week.  Have a great weekend!

Little Angel for Frosted Designs

Isn't she just a Little Angel? I thinks so, but that's because she is my grand-daughter. I did this lo while I was a my retreat a week ago and I also entered it in the Parade of Pages- as the most favorite page I did during the retreat. Everyone loved it- so pretty and love the cute stamps as a banner- they said.
  Well I got the sketch from Sketch Along Tuesdays over at Frosted Designs and these photos were perfect for the sketch.

Materials used: Graphic 45 paper, DCWV green paper sanded, white and red cs, and photo paper embossed with Cuttlebug and folders, jewel brads, polka dot ribbon , red cord or ribbon for banner, Cricut and Gypsy for Title cut "Little Angel" on Coredinations paper sanded prior to cutting. Paper flowers misted with Clear Tattered Angel Mist, Stickles in red, Graphic 45 stamps cut out, and the Seasons Greeting precut embellie. So not only is this the sketch from Frosted Designs this week I incorporated the Ribbon/twine challenge in this layout also. This will be a treasured page in her scrapbook that for sure.
      Be sure to check out all the challenges and the Love is in the Air Blog Hop scheduled for this weekend over at Frosted Designs

big SIS... little BRO

What a fun layout this was for me to do for the ribbon/twine challenge over at Fabulous Fridays at Frosted Designs this week. These 2 photos are of my 2nd  cousins, that I had the priviledge to babysit for while their mommy (my cousin) spent some quality time for herself on her birthday. The baby (Joshua) was only 2 weeks old and I loved holding him every minute and so did his big sister.

 We R Memory Keepers papers, Recollections border punch, a colorful pink / orange gross grain ribbon in several spots on the page, stamps, brown & teal inks, Journal tag, chipboard alphas in green and sticker alphas in brown, chalks and a few brads to complete this "cute" page.

 I stamped the birdhouse, branches and birds on cream colored cardstock and then fussy cut them to put on the page. I used some chalks to give them a bit of color.

 Also added some colorful ribbon to the "cute" tag. Well be sure to stop by Frosted Designs to see some more wonderful projects that the Design team came up with this week and enter into our challenge of Ribbon/Twine on a project for a chance to win a prize from Memorable Seasons.

Color Us Happy

The Fabulous Friday challenge over at Frosted Designs this week is Paint...and that is what I did here in more ways than one. I used several colors of acrylic paint and scattered brush strokes over the page and then this layout is of my son and his girlfriend painting some projects in my craftroom one evening. As you can see they were a litlle messy- I think they got more paint on them than the projects...lol  I also drew and cut out my own paint-brushes and painted the tips of them.
 I used a colorful patterned paper for background, torn graph paper- so the photo's would show up better, cricut cartridge- Ashlyn's Alphabet for title and acrylic paints. I think this turned out great- such a colorful and fun page. So be sure to get out those Paints this week and have fun on a project and be sure to enter for a chance to win a prize at Fabulous Fridays at Frosted Designs....can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

a treasured POEM

This was a challenge alright- 4 of them-- First one is Frosted Designs to use cardstock only ( this was stepping out of the box for me) Scrap Our Stash "NEW" challenge - so this was a new technique of cardstock only & no pictures- a poem instead, Scrapbookers Anonymous to use either ink, mist or paint along with masking on a project and the last challenge I used was the sketch from Sketch Along Tuesdays over at Frosted Designs.

 All my papers are plain cardstock- which I masked stars on the background, chalked a rainbow,  embossed on the sun and clouds, and fringed for the grass.  I used Tattered Angel Mist, several inks and jelly roll markers. This cardstock was a great challenge for this layout of mine- because I wanted the poem to really be the main focus of this page for my daughters scrapbook.

 She wrote this poem the night her grandfather (my father) passed away and gave it to me the next day, which was also 2 days before I was getting remarried- so it was an emotional roller coaster in our household. I tried to bring out a few of the embellishments that she had written  about in her poem such as the birds, clouds, the sun , rainbows and grass. I used some rain drop like rhinestones  to represent rain from the clouds which she mentioned also in this lovely poem.

I drew some birds and some swirls to represent the wind- which might be kinda hard to see in this photo. This is the original copy that she wrote on -so this will be a treasured page for sure in her book. I know the sketch is not quite the same as Sketch Along Tuesdays- but I was inspitred by the sketch and tried to follow it the best I could with this poem- instead of a photo.

My DT project for cloth/fabric challenge

I decided to do a layout this week for the DT  and Challenge for Frosted Designs this week instead of a project- using fabric/cloth . Which was pretty simple to do. I titled my page Apple of my Eye..its a picture of my oldest daughter and her father back in the days when she was in high school.

I had so much fun doing this layout-and I really like how it turned out- even tho it took me a few hours to do- well worth it all in the end and my daughter will really appreciate this page also.The cloth/fabric is the burlap I used behind the picture, which I unraveled the edges a bit and used the twine to tie a bow on the corner of the photo.Materials used in the page are: October Afternoon for apple/checked paper, KI- alpahabet paper, Burlap, Tree Cut from Cricut - My Community, chalks, inks, Stickles, 4 apple brads, alphabet tiles cut out and mounted on barn red cardstock and attached with pop dots- and bakers twine for the banner effect of the title
I hope you get a chance to do a project and enter it over at Frosted Designs for a chance to win some fabulous prize they have to offer- Happy Holidays to all.

Frosted Designs-ribbon challenge (DT)

I was so excited to make this ornament for this challenge at Frosted Designs  this week... here is my ribbon pinecone ornament.
     I will have a tutorial on how to make this ornament on the Frosted Designs blog on Sunday- December 18th- so be sure to come back and check it out.  (just click on the name)
     It was very simple and fun to make this - and would make a great gift for anyone on your list this year. The dimensions on this ornament or 2" x 3" so it is a great size- not to big or to small- just right!
The challenge is to do any project using ribbon this week for an entry and a chance to win not 1 but 3 fabulous prizes this week from our generous sponsor GRAPHIC 45--- so be sure to give this a try and let me know how your ornament turned out.

BFF- glitter project

Here is my DT project this week for the challenge over at Frosted Designs to use GLITTER on a project- which was so easy to do- because I put glitter on almost everyone of my pages somewhere and with the holidays - glitter is everywhere.

 I love the colors and patterns in the K&Company papers I choose, which I mounted and torn the edges onto the black cardstock- so the colors really stand or pop out at ya. I cut out the butterflies from K&Comapny papers also and added glitter (purple) to them and used pop dots for some dimension.  The chipboard letters- I also covered in glitter the same colors of the alpha's.  I  reprinted the original photo on plain paper so it would look a bit different and not as colorful and cut them in two different sizes- so they kinda look like two different photos.

 I torn two areas and used black embroidery floss to weave the threads in- which I really like how this turned out...kinda represents friends tied together....

I made my own flourishes with black tulip paint and the saying is something I found in my stash of friend stuff, which I also put silver glitter on the frames edge. A simple layout but a big bang of color and I really like it and so did my daughter- which is the one with the strawberry blonde hair in the photo with one of her best friends9old roommate) taken a year ago when she came home to visit during the spring- she lives in Las Vegas and doesn't get to come home much- so this was a special time to get together with some friends.

Frosted Designs Metal challenge-Ornaments

     Here is my project for the Design team at Frosted Designs to use Metal this week....So , I thought lets make some ornaments for my 2 (girls) dogs this year and so I got my Cricut Machine and Gypsy out and played around with the different cartridges and found this. I used Graphically Speaking for the metal banner and Christmas Cheer for the tag look ornaments in 2 sizes. I used a bright pink cardstock since I like bright colors on my tree lately and white cardstock for the banner and then cut out some medium weight aluminum the same as the banner.

 I use my light box and a embossing metal alpha template for the names and then used my Cuttlebug and folder to dry embossed the pink ornaments- which I then used 7 different colors of Stickles and colored over the embossed circles. I then tied and ribbon to hang  the ornaments  and made a bow with silver & white ribbons and glued them on the top. I  used 3-D Zots in between the two different sizes of ornaments and under the metal banner to give it more demension. Which  the inked edges in pink and silver helped a little bit more also.

It was hard to take a picture without the glare of the metal -which will make them show &glow and sparkle  really good on the Christmas tree- This one has the name IZZY for one of my dogs. On the other side is the same thing except the banner has 2011 embossed on it- which I forgot to take a picture of the back side --oops! So hopefully this was inspirational to you and maybe you might make a few of these simple yet cute ornaments for your family tree. So be sure to enter into the Metal Challenge this week over at Frosted Designs for a chance to win a fabulous prize from One Stop Card Crafts.

Such a Cute Couple

 I just love the colors on this layout I did from the sketch over at Sketches in Thyme this week and also the recipe challenge at Scrap Our Stash - which consisted of :   5 embellishments- 4 words or letters in a title-
                                                                                          3 pictures-2 pattern papers- 1 solid paper.
All my papers are from a Recollections paper stack- and white cardstock for all the Cricut cuts. I used 3 cartridges: Calligraphy Collection-Accent Essentials and Wild Card, which then I embossed with my Cuttle bug and folders and then I heat embossed them with 3 different powders- Silver, Pink and Red which you can see a close-up of the hearts that I did this technique on. Which is also the challenge this week over at Frosted Designs- heat or dry Embossing on a project.

      I also used a Recollections x x x border punch, brown inked edges on layout and pop dots. So I will be applying this layout for 3 challenges ( Frosted Designs as a Design team member). This cute couple is my son and his girlfriend when they first started dating in the end of  2006- beginning of 2007.

Embossing for Frosted Design weekly challenge

Here is a photo of my (Happy looking son) in his Freshman year in High School- I know he had a better year than what his expression is saying here- but I still needed to scrap this for his book. I used several papers from My Mind's Eye Complete Boy stack and layered them. I pulled out the colors in his pinkish-purple shirt to cut out the stamps and embossed them (with my CuttleBug and several different design folders)and then layered them also with pop dots. I used my Gypsy along with the Cricut to cut out the tag and the years and the school zone -used the Graphically Speaking cartridge. Stamped with Martha Stewart varsity letters the title on the tag and colored them in with markers and added some black and white ribbons.
      Well thanks for stopping by and looking at my project for this weeks challenge over at Frosted Designs to heat/dry emboss. I hope to inspire you to create some project and enter for a chance to win some great prizes from Mold Muse this week.

Here's The Scoop!

I just LOVE this YUMMY layout of my granddaughter and I along with my daughter in-law-  taken this summer while we were visiting Amana Colonies in Iowa for the day. I also was at a Scrapping Retreat a week ago and won second place with this layout- I was so thrilled. The challenge over at Frosted Designs this week is to use food/candy on a project- so this is my DT layout titled Here's The Scoop!

 I used polka dot papers in the colors of pink, brown and white and lots of cardstock for all the Cricut cuts along with my Gypsy. I inked all the edges and used several pop dots. I then chalked the little ice cream cones and stamped the letters on them and added stickles to all the cherries on top. I used a precut die cut (see-thru)  with words  behind the pictures, which I cut out with my Cricut also in a scalloped circle shape.

 I did some doodling of the sundae glass and the small cones then chalked them with a little bit of color and  used brown paint and stickles for the chocolate chips on the ice cream. And added a pink spoon- just like the ones we used that day.

Well I glad you stopped by to see my project this week and hope to see your entry over at Frosted Designs-Fabulous Fridays to have a chance to win a wonderfu prize.  Happy Scrappin!

Color Challenge at Frosted Designs this week

I thought this was perfect for the color challenge at Frosted Designs- This was taken back in 1991 of my daughter sitting in the middle of the pumpkin patch in her purple shirt. So that is where my purple color is on this layout- plus all the other fall colors for this great challenge this week.

 I used several papers and lots of stamping and fussy cutting of the pumpkins and leaves then I chalked them in several colors. I also added a few stickers for the saying & title- which I first dry brushed the cardstock with a cream paint then put on the sticker. I used a precut tag and inked the edges and tied on orange ribbon. The sunflower paper striped is embossed and is touched with some gitter -had to see in this photo. So be sure to stop by Frosted Designs this week with your entry for the color challenge- its so easy.

Family

I did a layout using the sketch from Frosted Designs- Sketch Along Tuesdays this week of a older portrait that my mother had and gave me a reprint of it. Its the only picture of my parents with 3 of their grandchildren back in 1990- before the birth of my 4th child/grandchild. So this is pretty precious to me and my mother since my father has since past away.

 With so many colors in this picture it was very difficult for me to choose papers- so I thought I would choose a Family words- for the background and some muted colored stripe paper, which I used a Martha Stewart border punch, stamped the Title family in black. I did some fussy cutting of the photo since I didn't care to have all the background showing.

I then added alot of handmade embellies to this layout which include the crocheted lace trim on the side, the doiley flowers with buttons attached and the Tulip Fabric paint for the hand drawn flourishes in brown.

Fancy Trim Challenge for Frosted Designs

Here is my DT project this week for Frosted Designs Challenge to use fancy trim ...wasn't sure if this qualified as fancy trim at first- but I guess it does. I used some sheer blue and pink ribbon and tied two bows and used a Martha Stewart border punch and Cricut cut the TWO SWEET and added stickles to it for some bling on the card. Then I tied lots of pastel curling ribbon around  the basket and make two hang tags also one for each of the newborn twins- and on the back I put all the birth information for them.  I have a baby shower that I'm attending this week and thought this would work for this challenge at the same time. I bought the wooden hangers and painted them in pink and blue and added with white paint some dots and their names. I had fun decorating this basket for this happy occasion for one of my co-workers.

Well I hope you join in this weeks challenges over at Frosted Designs for some great prizes from our sponsors. I will be at a scrapbooking retreat all weekend and will be back Monday with all kinds of pages to upload- I'm so looking forward to get away and SCRAP.....enjoy your weekend also.

Fussy Cutting for Frosted Designs

Here is my take as a DT member over at the Fabulous Fridays- Frosted Designs. The challenge this week is to do a project with Fussy Cutting. So here is a photo of my son and his date to Turnabout back in 2006. It was hard to choose colors for this layout, because of all the blue in the background of the photo. Yet they wore colors of pinky-peach black and grey- so I choose to go with those colors  in my layout.

 I found special papers that had big designs of flowers so I could cut them out and place them where ever on my page, I also used some predesigned transparent design on the bottom and chalked in blue underneath after I cut it all out. Also the ttwo birds from transparent and the cute little birdcage from some papers I had in my stash

I used a star border punch for the photo and took the punches (stars) and scattered them on the page. And for extra bling added some more Stickles to the cut out flowers. Wel I hope you found some inspiration in my layout and join us this week over at Frosted Designs for a wonderful prize to be won.

Using several Punches for Fabulous Friday.

Welcome- glad to see you stopped by to check out all the punches I used on this simple layout this week for the challenge over at Fabulous Fridays- Frosted Designs. I was kinda in a crunch for time this week due to the fact that I'm going through a divorce and I have alot on my plate with court hearings and mediations- which is really no excuse- but I have been alittle preoccupied with other things lately. I am looking forward to getting my life back to normal and spending more time in my craft room  and focusing on stuff that I like to do. Well enough about my life-

Punches was the challenge this week and I had a few more misc. photos to finish up so I thought I'd do a simple layout using nothing but punches . And that I did -I used 6 different punches from border, to corner, little and large flower punches here. I used DCWV paper stack from Once Upon a Time and punched the whole 12 x 12 border with Martha Stewart-star border and just let the white cardstock show through, then used some papers from my stash and used the EK Success large flower punch as a border (which is kinda hard to see in this photo) on the pink, geren and purple paper strip on top and bottom.  Fiskars  photo corner punch and a 3-way corner punch for corner mats on photos with white cardsstock. EK Success little  & medium floral punches and  some tiny purple rhinestones in the centers of the flowers. So be sure to go through your stash of punches and see what you can come up with in your project this week for a chance to win a great prize from our sponsor this week- Close to my Heart.

Flourishes and more Flourishes.

Hello there-I'm glad you came to visit my blog with my first project as a new Design Team member at Fabulous Fridays at Frosted Designs. I have been scrapbooking for about 3 years now and have done over 1000 pages- and only a handful of projects (scrapping)- so this stepping out of the box a bit for me...but it's a challenge and probably like you we like challenges, right?
     Well, this week the challenge is flourishes and that I have alot of in my project. Its a  book- but only two pages that open up with pockets on each side to put those little momentums in or a handful of pictures to keep with you on special occasions or trips.

 I used specialty papers from K&Company- 2 sided paper- and did some folding to make this from one sheet of 12 x12 paper. Added alot of flourishes by Inkadinkado stamps "sketchy flourishes" some stamped in black right on the main paper and the others on different color pattern papers and then cut them out.  Some silk flowers with rhinestones and sequions in the centers and of course my favorite bling- Stickles in black and diamond  for some extra bling. I cut the saying out from K&Company paper stack and inked all the edges in Studio G brown.

I then punched a hole in the top half (through both ) of the booklet and threaded some gross grain ribbon ( I burned the edges of ribbon a little- to stop any fraying.) Then you can tie the ribbon on the side or front to keep all your treasures in this little booklet for safe keeping.
 Well, I hope you enjoyed my first project and try this challenge out for yourself to enter for a great prize from our sponsor this week  Kaiser Craft- I just love their line in scrapbooking supplies.