Paper Girls Challenge #6

It's my turn to host over at The Paper Girls Challenge blog!

I decided to use this photo for the challenge's inspiration:

Here are the projects I created:

For my card I used the colors as inspiration. I took a grey cardbase, yellow woodgrain paper, white homemade washi tape, and yellow dot purchased tape. I fussy cut some Authentique flowers and stamped a sentiment.

I went a little more literal with my layout.

I cut 2-inch squares of clear acetate, then cut 1 3/4-inch squares of Authentique Blissful paper. I adhered the clear squares over the paper (using spray adhesive) so they'd look like the frames in the inspiration photo.

I die cut a branch from the Straight from the Nest cartridge to help anchor my photo.

I hand-cut a banner and stamped my simple sentiment from a Unity/Authentique stamp:

I am entering the layout over at Stampin Sisters in Christ #135 which is to use something transparent.

I also tried to use this sketch from Authentique's monthly challenge:

I initially had hexes cut out but just wasn't feeling it. I stared at my LO for hours. Then I switched to squares and that's when it all came together. The title was moved to the bottom. I added extra squares instead of those hangy things. And added a branch instead of a bow. It's funny how one vision is transformed into something else. I was totally stressed about this project, but then making those few changes turned it into a layout that I finally love!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you come play with The Paper Girls and the other two challenges!

Card Supply List:

SU Basic Grey cardstock

MME Miss Caroline All Dolled Up

Authentique Blissful 6x6

Unity Stamp Hello My Friend

Up & up printed tape

SU basic Grey ink

LO Supply List:

Authentique Foundations paper

 Authentique Blissful 6x6 papers

SU Basic Grey cardstock

Straight From the Nest cartridge

I-rock and stones

Unity Stamps Authentique co-branded stamp set "you + me= bliss"

SU Basic Grey ink

A preteen journal

I made this journal for my little niece as a Christmas present.

I started by taking some of my white printer paper and folding it in half for the insdie pages. The covers are made from an old Cheerios box! I covered it in this really cool Basic Grey paper from the Obscure line. Then I bound it with my Cinch tool with that hot pink wire because what little girl doen't love pink? 

To  make a few pockets (for collecting photos, tickets, notes, etc) I cut some patterened paper and adhered it to a few pages (gluing only on the sides and bottom).

Then I put my die-cutter to work! Using the Indie Art cartridge I cut the skull and cross bones but added wings and a tiara! In metallic paper. Because it's for a girl. And girls love tiaras and sparkly things!

 I also cut the butterfly in 2 sizes and layered them and covered the body with glitter glue and added a random heart I had leftover from another project.

Then I cut the heart locket and key several times. I think the locket was cut about 5 times from cardstock and I glued all the layers together to make it thick. I then covered it in about 3 layers of silver metalic embossing powder (heating and cooling between each layer).

The red key was cut about 3 or 4 times and glued together to give it substance.

 To close it I intended the key to hang from a string to wrap around the front. So to lift the locket and give some room for the wrapping I hot attached a big eyelet (or grommet - I still don't know the difference honestly!) to the cover and then hot glued the locket to it. See how it raises it up from the cover?

Look at this pic again to see how I tied the twine to the heart. And I know you can't see but the twine is attached to the inside back cover and then covered with another sheet of pretty paper.

 Now to close it she just has to wrap the twine around the back of the locket. I left the twine fairly long so there is plenty of room for it to grow as it gets stuffed full of trinkets and memories.

An old Autumn project

Here's a project I made last year and never posted. I'll post it now since I have been too busy to make anything this year!

I found this old wreath last year with most of the decorations fallen off.

So I grabbed some paper in autumn colors and cut out all these leaf shapes on my Cricut.

I then inked all the vein lines, sprayed the whole leaf with glimmer mist, and crumpled the leaf while damp to give it some dimension.

See what a difference it makes?

Here they are all after being inked up.

 And here's what my hand looked like!!

 The last thing I did was glitter up some chipboard pieces and then hot glued everything on.

 The final wreath on my door:



A little Halloween laugh

I haven't had much time for crafting lately. : (

But I needed a costume for my Bunco group last Friday.
I decided to go as Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials!

And this is what I came up with:

 

I wore all white and purchased a plain white apron. Using my Cricut I cut out the letters for Progressive on blue cardstock and hot glued them on. I also made the "I love Insurance" button and nametag too! The base is white cardstock and I cut the letters out of adhesive vinyl. There was no way I was going to apply glue to letters that small. Vinyl is awesome because it's already sticky.

This was super easy and fun.

I also crafted that headband out of some old ribbon in my craft room.

And no Bump-its. I am proud to say I do not own any! That hair is just lots of hair pins and hairspray!

LOL. I hope this was good for a laugh!

Happy Birthday barn card

For Wee Memories Challenge #59 which is Anything Goes!

I made this for our cutie pie friend Charlie's 1st birthday which was a farm animal-themed party:

 My first banner:

 The inside:

That Create a Critter cartridge got a workout on this card!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY baby Charlie!!!!!!

Too bad I didn't think of photographing the cute matching envelope : (

Have a cool day!

My entry for Unity's SUMMER Challenge Sun and Sand
and Wee Memories Challenge #59 Anything Goes

 The glasses are from the April kit of the month and the sentiment is 2 stamps from the Mix-up of Cuteness set.

 I sanded kraft cardstock with my sanding block to try to get a sand texture. It didn't turn out quite as I wanted, but close enough. And I used my chalks on the water and sun.

A birthday card

I had to use my Paper Lace cartridge again. I just love the images on it!

For the first time I used double-sided paper for my card base instead of solid cardstock. I really like the look it gives. Just add a piece of white paper inside to write your note on: 

I used the same side of the paper that's on the inside for the lace shadow on the front:

For the corners on the card front I just cut off pieces from another image of the cartridge

The image on the right was what was left after I peeled the image off.

On the left is the image I peeled off but with the corners already cut off.



I find one of the easiest ways to attach these lacey images is to spray them with a spray adhesive. Using a tape runner or glue stick would just be too messy. If you have a large enough Xyron sticker maker that would work too. But I just have the 1.5" X, so I use spray adhesive. Hold your image in a cardboard box to catch the residual spray.

OR... another easier way would be to use vinyl! It's already sticky so you don't need to add adhesive.

Supply List:

Paper Lace Cricut cartridge

SEI paper

spray adhesive

7 months

 Here is another layout. This is one of Colton at 7 months old. I used a sketch from ScrapbookSteals.com for MWM #27. Find the sketch HERE, I can't get blogger to upload it now.

And Colton admiring himself!

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip textured cardstock from SU!

Pear Pizzazz and Peach Parfait cardstock from SU!

Imaginisce's Apple Cider line patterned paper

Flourishes cut on Cricut with Accent Essentials cartridge

A triple challenge entry

This is a triple challenge entry! For

Color Throwdown #25 to use Pear Pizzazz, Kraft and Blushing Bride colors

Wee Memories Challenge #39 to use ribbon

Stacy's Bling on 2011 Challenge #4 at Sketches4all to use at least 3 types of bling


It was going to be a cover for a notebook, but I cut the cardstock to small and it became a cover for my planner instead:

(Okay, so this isn't Blushing Bride, but I didn't have it. But I think this pink looks nice too!)

Here is my planner before:

Just plain green.

I covered it with Kraft cardstock (punched so it fit over the spiral) and then embellished away

My homemade flower:


Ingredients list:
Kraft and Early Espresso cardstock from SU!
Other paper is random from my scraps
Linen thread is SU!
Green ribbon is Offray
Green bracket cut from Accent Essentials cartridge
Newsprint patterned paper from SU!
Olive vine glimmer mist
Crushed Olive Distress stickles
Corduroy button is retired SU!
Library clip is retired SU!
Rhinestones are Imaginisce from the I-Rock Hot Rocks compact
Script stamp is from SU!'s French Foliage
Ink is river Rock, Early Espresso, Basic Black and Old Olive
Punches from SU!: 1 3/4" scallop circle, Spiral Border, Decorative Label, Boho Blossoms

Now let's just see how long this lasts before something falls off of it!