Friday, April 10, 2009

Card to Crop

If you look at my last post you will see a card and the sketch that I made it, and this page from. The sketch was made for a card, but I thought it would maek a great scrapbook page as well.

Supplies:
Stamp: Life Thoughts (TAC)
Paper: Yellow Cardstock (DCWV), Cha Cha SWIC (TAC), Miss Moxie Cardstock collection (TAC)
Accessories: Black and brown ink, corner rounder, white gel pen, eyelet, grosgrain ribbon, circle coluzzle, Scor-pal, and paper piercer

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Little Stinkers 2



I have been in a MOJO slump for a couple of weeks and am working on getting the juices flowing again. One of the things that I do when I am feeling that way is to use sketches to create from. That way I don't have to do a lot of the creative process on my own. I just "fill in the blanks" so to speak.
In this case I used a card sketch by Tiets. HERE is her blog. Her artwork is incredible, you need to stop by her blog and browse awhile when you have some time.
She created this sketch for a square card, which is not what I wanted, so I changed it a little bit. I think I am going to try to make it into a scrapbook page as well...see, it is helping my creativity a little already.
Supplies:
Stamp :Little Stinkers (TAC-Serendipity)
Paper: DCWV cardstock, Cha Cha SWIC (TAC), Miss Moxie Cardstock (red), and white CS
Ink: Palette Noir, Cowboy Boots (retired TAC)
Accessories: Mini Brad, grosgrain ribbon, Crystal stickles, watercolor pencil, pop dots, paper piercer with plastic canvas, and my Scor-pal.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Graphic Blooms Scrapbook Page-Blog Hop


The little cutie on this page is the daughter of a friend on mine...isn't she a cutie? Our families had gone hiking together at a state park in Arkansas, and when the hike was over the kids wanted to go to the playground that was near the camping area...we had so much fun!
The stamp set I used is called "Graphic Blooms" In order to make the leaves around the flowers I cut up the petals of one of the flowers in the set. I thought it worked well.
The flowers are stamped in L'Amore Red and Raw Sienna Palette ink, and the "leaves" are done with Landscape Palette.
The red flowers are up on popdots to give it some dimension. The buttons are from one of the wonderful embellishment jars TAC sells. I used a corner rounder for the scallops, and a gel pen for the white dots. And, last but not least, the paper and ribbon are TACs "Cha Cha" SWIC. The tags are also from this paper pack.
To see how others have used stamps to make scrapbook pages see these great blogs
. Jen

Friday, April 3, 2009

New Family Pics

Lots of people have been asking for an updated family picture, one that has Julia in it...well here it is. These pics were taken of my family while we were in Maine. I thought my little sister did a pretty good job.




This is a picture of my mother reverting to her second childhood with her grandkids. They were playing Hullaballoo (or however you spell it), and she really got into it. With her are Brandon, David, and Anthony. We were at MY grandmothers house having a great grandchildren's party. What a blast...and a lot of noise.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Monkey Business #2


Since my MOJO is in a slump I MADE myself sit and make a card today...and this is what you get. I don't know what I will use it for yet, so I didn't put a sentiment on there, that will come later. Pretty plain, I know, but at least it is SOMETHING, which is better than the NOTHING that I have done the last few days.


Supplies:

Stamp: Monkey Business (TAC-Serendipity)

Paper: Blue and white cardstock, Kaleidascope Girlz patterned paper (TAC)

Ink: Palette Noir

Accessories: Watercolor pencil and dove blender, white gel pen, circle punch 2", scalloped punch

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Barnyard Birthday


I received this cute card from my up-upline for my bday at the end of February. I held off posting it because she was still sending out these cards for the rest of this month. Since it is the beginning of a new month I figure I am ok.
The stamp set she used is TACs "Barnyard Birthday"-such a fun set
Do you recognize the layout? I CASED it for one of my Fairy Tales cards.