Memory Box Stamp and die...

Look what came in the mail from Lori at Love is in the Details awhile ago!!  Totally saw, and fell in love with this little stamp and it's coordinating die from Memory Box!  I love non-thematic stamps that can be made to work for any occasion.  I wanted the effect of stamping on patterned paper, to give the leaf part of the trees some texture.  

 I started by randomly coloring spots on the trees with 4 or more different shades of Copic markers.  Copics make blending between the colors so easy!

Here are the four cards I made once I'd die cut and colored the tree images.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you saw something that inspired you!!

Cards...

Good morning all!  Just going to take a minute and show you some cards I've made recently for one reason or another!

In one of my recent pizza boxes from Lori at Love is in the Details was this Spellbinder's M-bossibilities double folders. You fold it one way - you get one design.  Fold it back on itself and get another design!  Very cool concept!  And a very elegant design all by itself; it hardly needs much in the way of embellishing and so, would make up a last second card quite nicely!  These folders word well when doing a faux-letter press look too, but I ran out of time to try that.  

  

Then, a few weeks back, I made this Mother's Day card.  Found this SO-cute window chipboard die on a sheet of October Afternoon bits and pieces and thought how cute it would look with a vellum sort of curtain/shade behind it!

 I found a Hollyhock styled stamp, and repeated it at various heights and angles before coloring it and cutting it out.  

Finding the blue brick paper and the wood "fence" paper just sealed the deal.  

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Toy/Box

How many times have parents said this?  "Give a kid an empty box and they'll have all the toys they need!"  I can think of a particular couple of cardboard boxes my mom turned into a fridge and stove for me when I was about 4 or 5.  I can still clearly recall how THRILLED I was about that!  WAY better than any plastic Little Tykes model you can buy now!

This photo was taken on the occasion of my daughter's first birthday.  (Back in the day of film photography - hence the lack of editing!)  The box itself originally contained a little wooden table and Missy sized chairs.  But of course, it was the box that was most fun!

I put together this layout for a recent challenge at Challenge Me Happy, based on this sketch.  Got to lay down a whack of buttons, brads and baubles.  That always makes me happy.

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So lucky, so in love...

Playing catch up today...

I made this layout recently for a blog post over at Love is in the Details....  I had a technique I wanted to try and I was purposed to use up some DT stash that Lori has so generously provided!

I wanted to try my Copic air brush system, where you insert a Copic marker into a holder on an air can for that cool air-brushed look.  I used a Prima stencil to accomplish this look, and I mixed a couple of different colors of Copic markers.

I also wanted to try flocking on a double sided adhesive die cut.  I used a Marianne's die, cut it from Sookwang adhesive paper, and then applied a mix of white and green flocking powder from Doodlebug.  I really love the soft look and the way it blends into the air brushed design below it.

I used another of the layered butterflies left over from this project here.  The patterned paper is Pink Paislee, Prima makes the wood leaf, the canvas flower and the beaded pin. Alphas are by American Crafts - Thickers and Dear Lizzy.  With a little bit of Daisy D (tag), Glitz Design (transparency),  Melissa Frances (scallop edged sticker) thrown in!

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Water

We have this conversation at the lake almost every year, in one form or another.  Why do we love it there so much??  What is it about sitting on the dock at any time of the day or night, that just FEEDS something in us we had forgotten was hungry??  My mother believes that since our bodies are 55%-75% water, we naturally gravitate to water.  Might could be.

Anyway, that's what I was thinking about while I created this layout for our current challenge that just posted today at Challenge Me Happy!  The theme is water and you're free to express that in any way you like!  

Here's what I did.

I'm loving the mixed font titles again recently, as well as the word die cuts I can create with my Cameo.

Also loving the splats you can create with platinum UTEE.  I got this by sprinkling UTEE crystals on the paper and heating it from underneath the paper with my heat tool.  Saw this done somewhere recently but do you think I can remember where, so that credit can be shared??

Please be sure to stop by Challenge Me Happy so you can see what the rest of the design team created and enter your layout! This challenge produced a lot of awesomeness!!  

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

Hello my friends!  Are you getting to play with paper and glue today?  I got to play all week in preparation for today's celebration!  Love is in the Details is hosting an online mini crop challenge for everyone who would like to join in and there are PRIZES to be won!!

Lori, Lisa and I each posted a challenge for you and we hope you get a chance to join us.  The deadline is Tues, May 7th.

I know spring has been reluctant in coming in many parts of the globe this year, so my challenge is to create a layout of some summer fun.  Or a winter warm weather vacation or something like that.  Here's the layout I did for example.

I also created this layout for Lisa's challenge to use a minimum of 3 dies.  I included a punched butterfly too for good measure.  The dies I used are Just Rite Custom Dies by Spellbinders and they coordinate with clear rubber stamps by the same manufacturer.  I stamped them on vellum, heat embossed with Zing powder and then die cut them.

Lori's challenge is to make two cards.  One using at least 5 different patterned papers, and the other using a stamp or two.  Here are the ones I made for Lori's challenge.  The first uses the patterned papers.

 And these two both use stamps.  

 On this card, I stamped the bird cage image over top of a paper that had a strong local design in one corner.  I find those papers hard to use for layouts, but by adding this stamp it makes a beautiful card!

Please be sure to stop by Love is in the Details to see what Lori and Lisa created, and for the full rules and links to upload galleries so you can get yourself a chance to win!!

Love Lift...

We have a new challenge posted for you at Challenge Me Happy today and it's a fun one!  This time we're lifting this layout by the cute and oh-so-creative Marie Johansson!

Here's the layout I've done for the challenge.  Always love a reason to plaster stars all over a page!  

And besides that, I love the place in my heart and memory that this photo and little boy's face takes me to.  Sarasota, Xmas holidays, 1997.  Fun on a sand beach we'd never heard of before (had no idea it was in the top 10 beaches in the world for sand), playing games while gale force winds threatened to blow the building down, raking the beach for sharks teeth (for real!) and relaxing in a place where there were no snow drifts!  Good times.  Good times.

Be sure to stop by Challenge Me Happy to check out what the rest of the design team did and to enter the challenge for a chance to win a prize from Echo Park!