ABC Primer Altered Clipboard

Hey friends!  Another Monday down and done!  Started this neat altered clipboard on Saturday and finished it up today. I don't like how it came, I LOVE how it came :)  I used my Graphic 45 ABC Primer line that I have been hoarding like a good little girl and dressed this puppy up.  Real easy to do, gesso up the board, then cover with the paper and embellies of choice.  The only thing that's not G45 is the ribbon, that's May Arts ribbon, the key and clock charm, the chain, which is from Tim Holtz chain pack, and the red little pearls in the flowers.  Here are the pics -

Well you know that time is coming folks.  Graphic 45's dt call.  This is my first piece, and I am prepping and brainstorming on the other things I want to do for the submission.  I will keep trying every year regardless of the outcome :)

Have a great week friends!

Sympathy Card

I belong to a book club.  There are several of us who meet every month.  We've been doing it for 3 years now.  They are a wonderful group of ladies and our ages are from late 30's to early 60's.  The first week of January one of our gals suffered the loss of her longtime boyfriend who has been battling cancer for several years.  The thing is he just got a clean bill of health in December, but it seems this flu like bug is what did him in.  Sadly treating cancer takes a toll on your body, and when you're older, it's even harder to bounce back.  Poor Carol is just lost right now.

I put this card together with some goodies from my stash and printed up the quote.  Hope you like it.

Thanks for coming by.

Everything Old Is New Again....

Hi folks, thanks for coming by today :)  I have tried something I never did before.  Now I know this isn't earth shattering and that plenty of gals have been doing this quite a bit, but not me.  I love paper. It's only the last two years or so that I have finally been able to take a scissor to it and cut away.  I don't like to cover up patterned paper with paint and drips or sprays of ink or mists.  This was a great way for me to cut my teeth so to say :)  I took paper I have had for, oh I don't know, 4 years or so and that I really didn't like anymore and re-made it.  I took some gesso, added a bit of water to thin it down some and painted it over my paper.  Then I dried it with my heat gun and added another layer to it with some texture paste and stencils.  It gave it a really nice effect.  You can still see the pattern coming through a bit but that's ok.  I should have taken a pic of the paper and how it looked originally. Now I know exactly how to use paper that I really no longer like!  This will come in handy for the new challenge site that Gloria Stengel has put together, Craft Hoarders Anonymous!  Click on the title for some q-n-a's about the whole thing, fantastic way for us papercrafting hoarders to use our stash!

This layout is for Sketchabitlities Challenge.  Pop on over there to see what's doing.  You may even want to give it a go!  Here's the sketch -

Here's my take on the sketch -

This is my son John on the left and my son in law Omar on the right on my daughter Desirae and Omar's wedding day.  John was an usher. That wedding was without a doubt a wonderfully epic extravaganza!  It has made memories that we will treasure forever.  I distressed the edge of the paper and crimped it up then randomly stamped around the page with a word stamp then sprayed with Lindy's mists. The picture is layered on top of some corrugated box that I have now started saving (sure more stuff to hoard), painted white then sprayed and distressed the edges, I embossed another paper with my gears embossing folder from Darise, cut my gears with Tim's big shot die, sprayed away, added the glitter letter stickers for the title, some Tim tissue tape and a jute bow :)  I backed it on another piece of paper from 3 Birds that I got from HSN eons ago, yup using the hoard.  Whaddya think?

Products -
pattern papers
gesso
homemade texture paste
Stampin! Up stamp French Letter
Lindy Stamp Gang Sprays in -
Flat Fabio I'm Late Slate
Glitz Spritz Steel Shimmerz
Starburst Sprays Frolic in the Forest
Carpathian Bluebells
Blue Hawaiian Blue
Steampunk Sepia
Distress Inks in Black Soot and Brushed Corduroy

Considering that I never did a technique like this I really like the way it came.  Hey guess what?  No butterflies or flowers!  It's funny, since the homemade paste has baby powder, every time I use the heat gun it smells like a babies room lol.

Thanks for coming by.