… the story of my life!
There was no way that I wasn’t going to do this challenge … a sketch!!! Yeah!
Here it is:
Lovely isn’t it? Here is my take:
The papers are Take this & that by Echo Park … the cutie pie is our little Annie, 26 days old, at her first coffee meet with the Scrapbooking crowd! What a darling little princess!!!
Some close ups:
and another one!
It is still early and I have a whole evening ahead … 🙂
Saturday again, and as I have a few free hours I decided to put some ideas done on paper …
So here is my take for Challenge 3 …
Gone but not forgotten … get those hankies ready, if you read the journalling it’s a tear jerker!!!
Details of title:
Top corner … I took the paper apart, distressed it, and reattached it on a cardstock … using 3d foampads for the outer edge …..
I found doing this layout very emotional … so I’m taking a small break to have some lunch, then will be back with something more uplifting!
Good morning … this past weekend I had been incredibly creative and I managed to finish two more things that I wanted to share with you ….
First off, more of the A Trip Down Memory Lane challenges … this is my take on Challenge 1 – Stamp your Feet!
You have to use stamps on your layout, card, tag …
I’ve got my unity stamps out for a little 6×6 page …
I will have more to tell you about these 6×6 pages in a later post … :) The ATDML challenges end on Sunday so you still have plenty of time to join in … I’m slowly trying to get all of them done!
The second thing I want to show you is another double spread in my Art Journal …
This was so much fun to do … lots of mediums on there … decided to get out the crackle paint and some 3d paint, and to use a new stencil …
Here are some closer details:
Today I’m off for coffee after work so I don’t think I’ll get any crafting done … already thinking about what to do with my Wednesday afternoon!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Today, the shop A Trip Down -Memory Lane is holding an on line crop that you can see on their blog … So far there are 5 Classes and 2 challenges going ….
When I heard about it, I thought that it would be perfect for me as I am ‘free’ this weekend … and as I haven’t had a lot of creative me time, I thought I deserved it! 🙂
I decided to go ahead and do Class 2 which is a lovely Mini-Travelling-Hanging-Scrapbook-Library … it’s a little mini foldable box that is about 10.5 x 8 cm …
I used Black Coredination paper as the base, cut it down to A4 paper and ran it thru my printer and printed the template directly onto it … and then Graphic 45 Curious shop as the pattern paper …
And here is a side view, so you can see the embossed inner boxes ….
I also glued baker’s twine under the bottom paper, so that I can just tie it close!
And here is the inner hanging version ….
I’ve decided to use the minibooks as a place to write down quotes that I can across that I find inspirational … I’ve also used used stickers from the 7 gypsy quote sheet as embellishments …
This is such a FUN project and a huge THANK YOU to Jane Hewitt for her time, instructions, and inspiration!!!!
I plan on doing another one with summer blues for my summer in Naxos to write down memorable events … may even make one with the grandkids for my mom!!!
Did you think that I had forgotten my art journal?
Of course not, it’s just a creative journey progress, and it takes a while before I can say that a page is finished …
So here we have another completed double page:
I started this out about 20 days ago, took it along with me to the crop that we did at Katerina’s place, played with her chicken wire stencil, and her birdie maskes … played with Zeffy’s H2O twinkly paints [the yellow in the birdie] … then gave a try with image transfering using Claudine Hellmuth’s Studio multi-medium matte …
I know it’s not perfect, but I love the way the underneath layers peak through …
Look at some close ups:
I think it’s such a cool effect, and I love how it’s all so see-though-ish without the added bulk … if you know what I mean???
The piece of advice is:
Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you … so girls LIVE YOUR LIVES!!!
What more can an auntie say? Eh???
I saw the quote used by Ronda on her own cover of her new art journal book!
It seems so strange to me, but yes I’ve been having a bit of card mojo these days!!!
I’ve started my summer classes, and even though there are fewer hours which means there is less $$$$ there are plenty of ++++
So back to the topic at hand … cards, cards, and more cards ….
The first card:
This I had thought up originally for Natasa’s challenge on the Scrapbooker’s on-line crop, but I just didn’t have enough time to do it then … but I wanted to get it done anyways ….
I found the saying on line, so printed it off my PC, misted the paper … and added the funky paper clips which I bought a while ago at Jumbo ….
You can actually take out the paper clips and use them … bookmarks maybe?
As you have probably guessed by now I have an incredible fondness for the easel card!!!
My second card is for a new challenge blog … It’s called Addicted to stamps and my friend Marie is a DT member there … [Congratulations again Marie] …. they will be having a weekly challenge and once a month it will be a layout challenge as well …
Anyway this week’s challenge is called ‘Make your Mark’ & you could do whatever you wanted as long as you used your markers … we all know how I love my promarkers even though it’s been a while since I’ve used them …
So here is my card:
The image is a Sarah Kay one and I’ve used my promarkers … although it’s orginally an Xmas image I love to use it for Birthday cards ….
Here is a close up of the colouring … what do you think of the resin flowers ??? I’m totally in love with them … I got them from another friend Channa who I’ve already told you about her new SHOP …. well, I thought the colours would be perfect for this card!!!!
Final closeup of bottom edge of the easel card ….
Well, it’s off to work I go now, hopefully I’ll be back soon with more stuff to show you!!! 🙂 🙂
Today we have a fantastic sketch to play with …
As I have made another easel card I sort of adjusted the sketch to my size:
The paper is from a 6×6 Paper pad, Crate Paper the random collection … the chipboard is Basic Grey … and the brown diamonds are bazill edges … The sentiment is Unity Stamps …
It was fun to make and don’t forget our sponsor this month:
Get Creative Embellishments is sponsoring 4 packs of embellishments
2 for the layout winner
and 2 for the card winner
You have until the 29th of June
to upload your creations to the side bar
just follow the inlinkz instructions
and please link you blog post not your blog other wise we cannot see what you have created!
so….Get Creative……
It’s been a busy week, and unfortunately work had to take priority … but I owe a post as to what I was up to 2 Saturdays ago …
I ended up meeting with friends [the organizers of the crop] and I actually got a new of the other challenges done myself!
Here is what I managed to do …
First of all Katerina’s sketch … here’s my layout:
Katerina is just 6 years old here, it’s she just the cutest???
I next did Irini’s tag challenge … I was working on the two of them at the same time ….
I’m sure that I will find somewhere to use them!!!
Finally I made this cute recycled pencil holder …
Thank you to everyone who took part in the challenges … it was so much fun and I hope we do it again soon!!!
Good morning everyone ….
It seems that wordpress is not showing my photos in the post but you have to press on the link to see them … sorry if this causes inconvenience … will have to look into this …
Anyway, this month we have a fabulous sketch to play with created by our DT member Elina Katechi!
The moment that I saw this sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to do!!! Does this happen to you? It just ‘spoke’ to me!!!
Here is my take:
My nieces Sofia & Katerina looking in a mirror in the old town of Naxos …
I’ve used Graphic 45 – Old shoppe collection which I think suits the sketch … fussy cutting and layering of papers …
The mirror is from Sfragidomania! I used Vintage stain paint to do the ‘wooden’ part of it, and stickles to create the mirror …
I also played around with the photo of the girls as I printed it twice, enlarging / cropping the right photo, and keeping the left photo as the correct size …
Here is the original photo for you to see:
Here are some details:
I cut the title with my Bigshot, and traced around the letters with a glitter pen.
Detail of flower cluster … the small flowers I use are from iamroses …
Close up of the mirror!
You have until June 29th the upload your layout, for a lovely chance to win a prize from a fabulous new shop:
Get Creative Embellishments is sponsoring 4 packs of embellishments
2 for the layout winner
and 2 for the card winner
So go on over to the Get Creative Blog to see what our lovely DT created!!!
A friend and fellow member on the Get Creative DT,
Channa Suitella-Megkoula,
has opened up a new craft shop and is having a giveaway on her blog …
So … you can look at her shop here:
I’ve already ordered as I couldn’t resist the resin flowers … so cute!!!! Very pleased with them!
Wishing you great luck in your new venture Channa!!!
