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Hair Up Here

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Hair Up Here

A layout featuring photos of yours truly at (almost) 11 years old! The journaling explains it all!

Me, in April 1990, attempting to get the high bangs that were in style at the time. Unfortunately (Fortunately?) I was given a head full of fine hair that has never cooperated!

This layout is for two challenges, the first being the August 1, 2017 Stuck?! Sketches challenge, using the following sketch:

The second challenge is the “Ugly Paper Challenge” over at scrapbook.com where I am the hostess. I first did the challenge back in August 2011 with the, I believe, original hostess. Then in 2012 (I think) the second hostess took over, and in March 2015 I took it over! So, as far as I know, I am the third hostess of the challenge. I haven’t done the challenge every month since I first found it (with the previous hostesses), but I have always loved the challenge! In short, two “ugly” papers and one (or more!) “ugly” embellishment(s) are mailed to another player (I give out addresses!) at the beginning of the month, and players have until the end of the month to create their layouts! The papers have to still be recognizable, and the embellishment is optional (it counts as two extra votes at the end of the month!). Now, this isn’t to say any particular papers or embellishments are “ugly,” but the combination given is! Most of the time anyhow! The challenge is receiving a combination that you may have never even considered putting together on your own, plus you are receiving papers that may not be your “style.” Anyhow, I just wanted to make it be known that “ugly” is a subjective term, and I have received (on more than one occasion) papers that were wonderful, even though the sender didn’t think so!

When I received my papers this month I immediately thought of my being a “tom-boy” growing up, but I just didn’t know what photos I had to use with them. It turns out I didn’t have the photos needed, my grandmother did, but I didn’t know that until our family has had to start sorting through her 88 years worth of possessions after she passed on August 3, 2017. And while it has been a sad time for the family, we have also discovered many items, mementos, and photos we didn’t know existed.

The papers, and embellies, I received for the August 2017 Ugly Paper Challenge

Product List:

  • Crate Paper – Chasing Dreams Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Royale
  • Ranger Glossy Accents
  • Sharpie Fine Point Writing Pens
  • Shimmerz Paints: Paste-eez “Raspberry Sherbet,” and Coloringz “Well Blue Me Down.”
  • Carta Bella Paper – 6 x 6 Stencil – Lattice
  • Pink Paislee – Paige Evans – Oh My Heart Collection – Ephemera with Foil Accents
  • American Crafts – Starshine Collection – Thickers – Glitter – Fitzgerald – Teal
  • Tim Holtz – Idea-ology Collection – Industrious Stickers – Deco Type
  • The black/grey glittery paper is DCWV, but it was in my scraps, and I couldn’t even being to guess what the stack was it came from!
  • Hip Kit Club Exclusive Enamel Dots (March 2017)
  • Unknown pink & white twine

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas!
All folded up!

All of the cuts came from the Silhouette Store (the card base, the card panels, and the poinsettia).
Product List:

  • Glossy Accents
  • Bazzill Basics Silver Foil Cardstock
  • Seed beads I’ve had forever!
  • Pink Paislee “Merry & Bright” stickers
  • The deer paper is from Me & My Big Ideas – no name given
  • Silhouette Cameo 

Poinsettia Christmas Card!

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Poinsettia Christmas Card!

I created the card base myself using Silhouette Studio. It’s a 6″x6″ flip fold. The colors aren’t exact because everything is so shiny getting the right angle was rough, it kept trying to reflect my camera, which really stood out since it’s pink! All of the poinsettia cuts came from the Silhouette Store. The biggest poinsettia is cut from a silver card stock and I used some red seed beads & Glossy Accents for the center. The rest of the poinsettias were done last year on water color paper, and I used Distress Spray Stain “Candy Apple” with some “Pewter” Perfect Pearls mixed in for the red poinsettias, and for the silver ones I used Heidi Swapp “Tinsel” Color Shine. The centers of the red and small silver poinsettias is some Glossy Accents that I used to “hold” a layer of Stickles “Gunsmoke” up (Stickles tend to dry flat, and Glossy Accents tend to dry 3D!). After all the flowers were in place I popped in a few little bells from Basic Grey’s “Juniper Berry” embellishment pack.

This angle shows the colors the best!
Colors aren’t exact here, but I had to lighten the photo a bit so the print on the card stock would show up!

Colors aren’t exact here either, I had to lighten this photo a bit too so the print on the card stock would show up!

 Product List:

  • Hot Off The Press – Paper Pizazz – “Black Silver Floral Foil”
  • -Me & My Big Ideas – The deer print paper, didn’t have a “name” on it.
  • Heidi Swapp – Color Shine – “Tinsel”
  • Tim Holtz – Distress Spray Stain – “Candied Apple”
  • Ranger: Glossy Accents, “Gunsmoke” Stickles, “Pewter” Perfect Pearls, Mini Mister
  • Silhouette Cameo
  • BasicGrey – Juniper Berry – Embellishment Pack
  • Red sead beads I’ve had forever!
  • Bazzill Basics – 12 x 12 Silver Foil Cardstock
  • McGill – Paper Blossoms Collection – Tool Kit

Flora & Fauna Pocketletter!

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“Flora & Fauna” Pocketletter!

Another Pocketletter done for the swap, hosted by “bonprof,” over at scrapbook.com! The theme (my partner and I chose) this month was “Flora & Fauna,” which gave me a chance to use up some of my stash of Pink Paislee’s “Cedar Lane” collection, along with a few other products! (But it’s almost all from the “Cedar Lane” collection!)

The Pocketletter outside the protector!

Product List:

  • Thickers “Fitzgerald” 
  • Pink Paislee “Cedar Lane”
  • Ephemera
  • Washi Shapes
  • Puffy Stickers
  • Papers: “Market Square,” “Town Square,” “5th Avenue,” “Riverside Lane,” and “Cedar Lane.”
  • Amy Tangerine “Better Together” Rub-ons
  • Basic Grey “Saturday Morning” Cork Sticker
  • We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool Kit “Aqua,” and Fuseables “Mint” Ruffle Strip
  • We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile & Case 
  • DCWV Tassel 
  • Random beads, charm, and ribbons

    • Tiger Lilly!

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    Tiger Lilly

    Sometimes I just experiment, I get “I wonder…” and “What if…” thoughts in my head and I have to try them out! Sometimes I experiment because I have a shiny new product to try out! In the case of this tag, it was a little of both!

    I had cut out tags the other day using my Cameo, and I decided I wanted to coat them in dark colors. One was done with black acrylic paint, and the other (the top one) was done with some Tattered Angels – Plain Jane Collection – Stained Glass – Semi Matte Glaze – Green. I’ve had the bottle for about three years now, I forgot I owned it!

    Well, I live in a dry climate, and I basically had some goo in a bottle at this point, but I decided to see if I could rehydrate enough to use one last time. After adding some water & rubbing alcohol I managed to get some lumpy green liquid in a bottle! LOL! It was just enough to coat a tag.

    At this point I wasn’t sure what to do with my newly coated tags, so I went browsing through my stamps and when I came across my Penny Black Tiger Lilly I decided to practice using my Distress Oxides on a dark background!

    Love the “Water Droplets” created by Ryn at Designs by Ryn!

    When I get to experimenting I have a tendency to do things rather backwards. I stamped and colored my Tiger Lilly, then decided I needed to add more to the tag! I used some scrap plastic to make a quick mask for the Tiger Lilly so I could add some plaid to the background with more Distress Oxides and Tim Holtz’s “Stripes” ATC stamp for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! Then I decided to use my “Water Droplets” stamp by Ryn at Designs by Ryn to see how those droplets would look on a dark background as well! I like it personally, and I’ll be sharing/entering this tag in Ryn’s monthly challenge!

    You can really see those water droplets here across the flower!

    I still wanted more on the tag, I thought there was too much empty space! I decided to at some stenciling!! Now, because Distress Oxides are a pigment and dye ink hybrid, the Snowflake Paste by Prima activated the dye ink and absorbed it! (I planned on this happening!!) Now I had some shiny, greenish honeycomb on my tag! And to keep the paste off my water droplets? Artist’s tape. As the final touch I added the little bee and embossed it in Ranger’s Gold Embossing Powder!

    That Snowflake Paste absorbed some of the colors from the Distress Oxides underneath!

    Product List:

    • “Water Droplets” stamp created by Ryn at Designs by Ryn!
    • Tattered Angels – Plain Jane Collection – Stained Glass – Semi Matte Glaze – 1.35 Ounce Bottle – Green
    • Silhouette Cameo
    • Prima Snowflake Paste
    • Ranger Water Brush (nib), White Embossing Powder, Gold Embossing Powder, and Jet Black Archival Ink.
    • Tim Holtz “Stripes” ATC Stamp, Honeycomb Stencil, Paper Distresser, Distress Embossing Ink, Distress Ink – Picket Fence, and Distress Oxides – Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Peeled Paint, Iced Spruce, Cracked Pistachio, and Broken China.
    • A PrismaColor White Colored Pencil
    • Unknown on that little bee stamp
    • Penny Black Tiger Lilly Stamp
    • I used one of the black eyelets that came with my Pink Crop-A-Dile & Case!!

    Peacock ATCs!

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    This was one of those projects that started with a vague idea and I just followed where all the trials and mishaps took me! The ATCs aren’t exactly what I had in mind, but I’m still content with what came out of the process!

    Peacock ATC set!

    I made this ATC set for MarciLB’s ATC Swap over at scrapbook.com! I’m also going to be entering them in to Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge “Distress It.”

    These are a rather straight forward process, a lot of Cameo sketch pen work and cutting, followed by a lot of coloring!

    For the ‘green’ of the peacock’s tail I mixed Peeled Paint & Lucky Clover Distress Oxides on my work surface with some water & used my water brush to paint!

    For the ‘stone’ I used Weathered Wood & Pumice Stone Distress Crayons and blended them.

    After the Crazing Distress Collage Medium was dry, I used a blending tool to add the Frayed Burlap Distress Ink to the surface.

    Cut Files:

    • All cut files came from the Silhouette Store.

    Product List:

    • Silhouette Cameo & Pen holder with uni-ball gel pen, micro line, with “uni Super Ink.” I seriously love this pen, it makes nice, fine lines, and it holds up to water!
    • Watercolor paper
    • the green background paper is from an OLD K & Company stack from their “Designer Paper” series. And I mean OLD, like probably 2009, and in scrapbook years, that’s ANCIENT!! LOL!!
    • McGill Paper Blossom Tool Kit – Ball Tools
    • Ranger Glossy Accents, water pen (nib)
    • Tim Holtz – round blending tool, Distress Collage Medium: Crazing, Distress Collage Brush, Distress Crayons: Weathered Wood & Pumice Stone, Distress Oxides: Peacock Feathers, and Peeled Paint & Lucky Clover mixed together, Distress Ink: Frayed Burlap, and Distress Marker: Wild Honey
    • Vicki Boutin Acrylic Paint Set 2: “Saltwater Taffy” used
    • PrismaColor Markers (on the flowers)

    be your own sunshine

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    I saw a piece of paper (I’ll show that later) that inspired the coloring of this tag. Plus, Simon Says Scrap’s current Wednesday challenge is “Summer Sunshine.” Add to the mix a quote I saw that said, “Sometimes you have to be your own sunshine,” and a tag was born.

    The flowers didn’t come out exactly how I had hoped, but sometimes that just happens!

    I started out with a piece of cardboard cut to a size 12 tag (10 1/2″ x 5 1/4 I think…I have a template so I don’t always have to measure or remember!) and I coated it thickly with white acrylic paint.

    My tag base

    After that I started gathering supplies I thought I might use and picked out colors I thought could be used to try and recreate the color and design of this piece of Echo Park paper! (I received mine in the July Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp, now to make a card with it!)

    The paper that inspired it all!
    Smooshing paint into all the crevices!

    The honeycomb and riveted metal are from using Amazing Casting Resin in Tim Holtz’s embossing folders (Watch a technique video here!). The flourish’s are from a flourish circle I had cut out a few years ago with my Cameo. It was multiple layers of cardstock that didn’t get glued together quite right, and was painted a light pink. I finally decided it was time to either use it or toss it! And, all of the gears on this project came from the Silhouette store.

    Lots of ink & paint & Metallique Wax & Perfect Pearls on here!

    After I painted everything, added some “Old Silver” Prima Metallique Wax randomly then I went back over with matching/coordinating Distress Oxides. After all that was dried I used a Crafter’s Workshop 12 x 12 Template (“Sunburst”) for the rays, and a circle stencil I made a while back for the…umm, circles.

    All the shine on the gears for the “sun” is from Perfect Pearls “Perfect Pearl.” The sun rays are Delicata “White Shimmer” Pigment Ink.
    More Perfect Pearls for the circles!

    Lots of “mulberry” type flowers sprayed with a variety of colors! For the oranges I mixed “Carved Pumpkin” Distress Stain with some Perfect Pearls “Perfect Pearl” and “Pewter.” The different shades of yellows and oranges is due to the original colors of the flowers. The pink flowers are from Shimmerz Coloringz “Pink Stilettos,” and the mint is from Heidi Swapp’s Color Shine “Sweet Mint.”

    Product List:

    • Silhouette Cameo
    • Amazing Cast Resin
    • Pink Paislee: Take Me Away Collection: Thickers with Foil Accents: Phrases: “Dream”
    • Hip Kit Club Exclusive Alpha (May 2017 Main Kit)
    • Shimmerz: AcriTonez – Pinkadelic; Coloringz – Pink Stilettos
    • Perfect Pearls: Perfect Pearl & Pewter
    • Tsukineko Delicata: White Shimmer
    • White acrylic paint
    • Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Sweet Mint
    • Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Carved Pumpkin & Cracked Pistachio; Distress Spray Stain – Carved Pumpkin; Distress Oxide – Wild Honey, Cracked Pistachio, & Picked Raspberry; Embossing Folders – Riveted Metal & Honeycomb
    • Ranger Mini Mister
    • Prima Art Alchemy Metallique Wax: Old Silver
    • “Mulberry” type flowers

    Teal(ish) Flower ATCs

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    Teal(ish) Flower ATCs

    Over at scrapbook.com “MarciLB” hosts a monthly ATC swap with four categories. For July, “Flowers” was one of those categories, and these are the ATCs that popped into my little head! I’m also entering in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge! The background is some thin, self-adhesive cork that I didn’t even remember owning until I went digging through my stash looking for inspiration! (I believe I bought it at Hobby Lobby)

    That “fishnet” ribbon got a total make-over! I’ve had it for years, and had used the majority of it previously. It was originally a dark teal and green with glitter. I changed that. I could have worked with the dark teal piece, but I didn’t have enough for all four ATCs! I slapped on some Tim Holtz Distress Grit-Paste pressed the ribbon into it and used Tim Holtz’s Tiny Attacher to hold the ends in place. After it dried I started painting the background with white acrylic paint! I used paint instead of gesso because it is thicker, and I needed coverage! (As for the origins of the ribbon, I know I received it in one of my first kits from “Birds of a Feather,” and I received kits for close to 18 months I believe. Unfortunately as of February 2016 kits were no longer offered.)

    Some old bits of fishnet “ribbon” that got a make-over!

    The flowers are made up of a combination of Prima E-line flowers and flowers from Prima’s Wildflower Pillar Pack. The gems came in the same kit as the ribbon.

    A closer look at the flower cluster!

    Those two metal filigree pieces are even older that the ribbon and gems! After I added them I painted them with the white acrylic paint as well.

    After everything was glued down and coated with some acrylic paint (The gems are the only parts I didn’t put paint on!) I started spritzing on some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in “Tinsel” and “Sweet Mint,” and some Shimmerz Vibez “Jeni B Bleu.”

    List of Products:

    • White acrylic paint
    • Tim Holtz Distress Grit-Paste
    • Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Tinsel and Sweet Mint
    • Shimmerz Vibez: Jeni B Bleu
    • Prima Flowers: white E-line mix and Wildflower Pillar Pack
    • Unknown: Filigree, ribbon, gems
    • Cork Background: Probably from Hobby Lobby