Beach Beauties

Hello scrappy pals! This is a layout I did using a sketch which I really don't do too often, but was lots of fun! I'm putting it in Dusty Attic and Lindy's challenges. Please give a visit to see all the gorgeous chippies they carry, amazing!

What a great mood board! Now while I didn't use this sketch I did use one of Emma's older sketches -

The chippies I used felt like feathery seaweed moving in the water to me -

We go to the beach almost once a week during the summer. The only stinky thing is it's 1 1/2 hours away because we live so far inland :( We spend several hours there though so we make the most of our day and I bring all my kids and granddaughters whenever possible!

Next up Lindy's color challenge :D

Perfect for a beachy feel. I used the creme brulee mist to mimic a sand like feel, and splats of the teal for splashing water. I combined silver shimmerz too to add depth to the background. The chippies got embossed with some gorgeous color which I layered over each other. I love Lindy's embossing powders! Give a click to go right to their pages.

Colors used
creme brulee cream
shabby turbine teal
silver shimmerz

Embossing powder
reindeer moss green
hyacinth blue jade
queen of sheba silver

More Than Words

Hi friends, thanks for stopping by! I have a new layout here featuring a sweet sweet pic of my baby Sophia holding my days old granddaughter Aelyn. What a precious memory to save. I'm entering it into this new challenge site, More Than Words. Give a click, it's a neat concept! The prompt is the word Wonderful, and show some sparkle. Well you all know that's a breeze for me ;) Love me some sparkle!

The pic I chose represents a small glimpse of all that is wonderful in my life. My baby isn't a baby any more, and the same for my granddaughter who is now a high school freshman, but they are truly wonderful beings! Being so close in age they're more like sisters than aunt and niece. I'm also using it for my song challenge over at scrapbook.com. My song was I Got You Babe from Sonny and Cher and decided to go this way with it.

We have Graphic 45's Little Darling,  Sweet Sentiments, and Once Upon A Springtime along with a smidgen of fussy cut flowers from Secret Garden. The flowers were made with Heartfelt Creations Sun Kissed Fleur stamp and die set which I colored with Lindy's mists, and the chippie is from Dusty Attic. A bit of texture paste and stenciling along with my butterflies and some stickles for sparkle.I love all the layers. A perfect memory saved. I have a Snapguide where you can view the process, just click.

Hope you like it and have a great rest of the week!

Adore

Hi friends, I'm here with a layout I did for a challenge over at Scrapbook.com. It's a favorite challenge, which means you go through your faves and pick one to lift and give your own spin. This was a lot of fun since I have several faves! I chose a beauty by an amazingly talented scrapper named Mandy. Please check out her blog - For Scrapping Out Loud, and her scrapbook gallery *HERE*. Such beautiful work for sure. I am also going to add this to Lindy's Stamp Gang's color challenge too.

I used Pink Paislee's 365 degree line, which I have to be honest with you, am clueless to where I got it from :( This brain just doesn't hold info much anymore. It's very pretty and thought it perfect for my pic of my hubby with my daughter MaryAnn on her Confirmation. I also did a video of my process as well. I hope you like it, here is the fave and my take -

I kept the orientation the same and tweaked the layers a bit with a cut out mat made with my cricut and the paper lace cart, some torn paper mats and little banners. The chippie is from Dusty Attic the Scrabble letters is a printout from Lisa Gregory, another uber talent! I cut them then dipped them in my utee for the gloss. I heat embossed the chippie with Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder and also colored my flowers and texture paste in the background. The little beads are homemade by me with my daughter's little craft set.

Here is Lindy's color challenge palette for August, you can access it on my side bar -

Lindy colors, first 4 challenge shades -

Curiouser Chartreuse
Ramblin Rose Pink
Crimson Coral Embossing Powder
Candy Cane Red Embossing Powder
Reindeer Moss Green Embossing Powder
Oakleaf Olive Embossing Powder

My video -



Thank you for visiting!

Sweet

Hello again! I'm back with a layout I did for Swirlydoos kit club All That Flutters challenge :) It's hosted by Angelica Franssen who is one the dt members. Check out her blog *HERE* and you can find the challenge on Swirlydoos *HERE* The March kit was filled with gorgeous FabScraps papers and I just loved creating with them.  I fussy cut the lacy part of one paper and put it onto the other, then covered it with clear gesso and did some grey painting in the background as well as stamping. The title is from Dusty Attic chipboard and I just embossed it with black embossing powder. The pic is of my daughters Desirae and Sophia from my father-in-law's 75th birthday last March. The light filtering just made it gorgeous.

Here's some pics -

Since it's an All That Flutters challenge, butterflies of some sort must be present.  I cut these with my cricut then dipped them in melted Utee to give a glass effect. I also fussy cut the roses from the paper in the top right corner of the pic and tucked it in along with stash flowers and Petaloo grey mesh that came in the kit. I did a corset type up in the left corner with string and also carried the string down in my mat layers. The leaf chippie is also Dusty Attic, and that got gesso'd white then painted with my silks and misted with some Lindy's.

A gorgeous kit for sure! Hope you liked it, have a great weekend,