Thursday, July 28, 2011

Pine Point Rapids...

 Here I used a Kraft background that I inked up the edges with Vintage Photo, patterned paper is all from the Imaginisce "Happy Camper" line... stickers are from the same line and a little OA thrown in for good measure:-)




 these letters are studio calico's wooden letters, I sprayed them with Mr Huey mist in Clover and then painted them with Tim Holz Crackle paint to give them this look.


I hope you feel inspired today!
S

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Inspiration...

well this is kind of a "waiting time" at the store...saw a tonne of great stuff last week that were released at the show... here are a few things I LOVE!

 My Minds Eye - Lost & Found 2 line is AMAZING!!! I already know we will do some Mini-book classes with these!!

 OA - their little Cowboy line called "Sasparilla"  seriously sooo cute, look at those banners!!  I think Dain might be getting some cowboy boots so I can scrap with this!!

 For Whimsical Christmas - loving Echo Park! There will be chipboard, brads and stamps to match - Yippee!!

Graphic 45 - wowie!! Christmas Emporium is stunning, and check out those stamps!!!


Cosmo Cricket released this ADORABLE retro line!!"Dear Mr. Claus"  - sooo loving that Tiny Text...I'm actually kind of glad I did not scrap last years Christmas yet... gotta get busy as soon as this comes in:-)
Well those are just a few things I love!  I have already pre-ordered Basic Grey, Little Black Dress & Picadilly (Oct releases), and all of the Bo-Bunny lines.  Trying to decide which Halloween line to order (I usually only get one - maybe you have a suggestion!!)  Christmas lines - oh at least 6-8 different ones are on my list!! - What is it with this obsession with Christmas paper!!!
So like I said... new stuff is coming, but while we wait we can look and create with some older stuff in our stash...I hope you feel inspired today!
S

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Loving that Sunshine!!

time to capture it!  Check out these projects that I made with the Little Yellow Bicycle "Lemonade" line.

First up- this mini book!  The Paper envelopes and inserts, binder rings, grommets and String all come in this adorable kit for $9.49.
first I inked the grommets with my Old Olive distress ink pad & then put together the envelopes according to the easy instructions inside the packaging of the album **you will need a Crop-a-dile or an eyelet setter of some kind to attach the grommets and string. Next - I added a few "word" & "Image" stickers from the same line...as well as some chipboard & journal cards from the matching accents!  The chipboard and image stickers even have glitter on them (hard to see in the photo - but sooo great up close!)




















I printed a bunch of 3x4 photos from a Sunday adventure at the beach and there you go...Sunshine in a mini-book:-)
Then because I was still having fun - and had to use up the great leftover embellishments, here are a couple of layouts!








the edge of the paper is the Bracket border punch from Fiskars, and then the zig zig border is a Canvas border sticker from the same lemonade line.  They are self-adhesive so they just stick on, soo easy - as well the pennant banner in a photo above is from the same package:-)




check out that distressed edge! I used the Zutter Distezz-it machine on my cardstock for this layout...and I am in LOVE!! It's noisy, but soo great the way it just messes up the paper.... I think I will be adding a new toy to my collection shortly!

I hope you collect a little sunshine for your layouts & projects today and feel inspired:-)
S