Celebrate

Hello and happy Thursday people!  So glad it's almost the weekend :)  I did a layout using Prima's Lyric line.  Some very pretty paper.  Lots of layering and textures in this one. The pic is from our cherry picking adventure last June. WOW, it's almost June again!!  I most certainly will go cherry picking again because they were so darn delicious and the pie I made with them was off the hook fantastic!  I'll tell ya what, I'll post the recipe for the pie and my homemade crust the next time I do it.  I no longer buy frozen crusts any more and the whole thing is very simple.

I digress, back to scrappiness :) I also used their Fairybelle and Pastiche line for matting the pic.  I have the 8x11 stack.  That line is just gorgeous too.  I pulled out very old rub-ons from Oriental Trading that I've had oh I'd say about 6 or so years.  Imagine this!  I have stash so old it's not even funny.  That's why Craft Hoarders Anonymous is the bomb! Go check out this month's challenge, Ribbon, Lace, and Twine Oh My!  Phew, a little a-d-d today, back to the layout.  I used cheesecloth and Tim Holt'z tissue tape underneath along with my Ayeeda Paint and some texture paste and stencil work.  Check it out -

Can you believe how cheesy these girls of mine are being?  They crack me up.  The flowers are all Prima, don't ask which line, I'm clueless just know they're Prima ;)  The little sayings in the top left corner of the pic was some printables I got from Pinterest.  That darn place is the BOMB!!  Inking and distressing, border punch on the top and bottom edge and a paper doily under it too.  I have embraced "whatever".  What does that mean you ask, or maybe you don't but I'll answer anyway, it's the letting go of worrying about where things go or how it'll look.  I just plopped down tissue tape, then painted over it, then did my mask then layered the mats.  Just go and be free, if what you put on gets covered up for the most part, don't stress just be :)  I also use some foam squares to pop up my pic and mats so I can tuck for more dimension and layering.  I hope you like it.

Product List

Prima Lyric, Box Office
Prima Fairybelle
Prima Pastiche
Wilton Doily, small
Tim Hotlz Tissue Tape
Cheese Cloth
Homemade Texture Paste
Heidi Swapp Stencil small circles
Life Quotes, Pinterest
Prima Flowers
Distress Ink, Brushed Corduroy
Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst Spray, Bit O'Bubbly, Icy Primrose Gold, Rusty Lantern Lime, Mad Hatter Mint, Steampunk Sepia
Ingvild Bolme Chalk Fluid Edger, Olive Vine
Ayeeda Paint, Matte Coral

My body is slowing down as it always does at the end of the school year.  Running them and picking them up at three different times then if I have errands that day and chores boy I'm beat up. It is taking its toll on me so I start dragging about now.  One month left! And mama is coming with my two nieces for three weeks next month, I can't wait!

Thanks for coming by :)

Swirlydoos Round Robin Week Two

Hi folks!  Today I have a layout I did for Swirlydoos Kit Club Round Robin Lots of Flowers challenge. We're broken into groups and each week the next person in their respective group has to lift the layout of the person before them.  This is my first rr and I had fun creating.

The person I had to lift from made a gorgeous layout.  Her name is Christy and she does just beautiful work!  Check out her blog *Creating With The Girls*  Here's her layout -

Isn't it pretty :)  This is my take on it -

This paper is Prima's Optimist line.  WOW!!  I fell in love with the line when I saw it, bought a bunch then was a little intimidated by it.  Well, ya know what?  I'm tired of being intimidated by my papers and I'm not gonna take it anymore!!!!  I took my bubble wrap and Ayeeda paints, thinned them a bit with water and painted on the wrap. Then I stamped all around the page.  I also used my white marker, and guess what?!  I friggin doodled, yeah that's right I DOODLED!!  Next to where I ripped the page, then up in the top right corner, then little dots in various places around the page :)  It was liberating.  Circle chipboard from Creative Embellishments that I gesso'd then used my Faber Castell Gelatos to color it. Lord knows where would I be without my butterflies.  I love them, and the flowers are a combo of Recollection (little turquoise) and the artificial flowers from a hair wreath my daughter made for my father in law's Luau party.  I used my Silks Acrylics in the center of a few of them for more pop. My butterflies were misted and I misted the chippie with some Jack Frost. The little leaves in the left hand corner got hit with mist too.

So while Christy's background is Moroccanesque I went with circles. I had a blast and I'm just going to feel free to paint over, color, splatter and not worry about covering up the paper anymore!

Product List

Prima Optimist line - Focused, You and Me, Perfect
Ayeeda paint - Matte Pink and Blue
Bubble Wrap
Creative Embellishments - Circle Panel 6x6
Silks Acrylics - Sunflower, Apricot Nectar, Pretty Peridot
Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Spray - Plumeria Pink, Tiffany Lou Blue, Carpathian Bluebells, Mad Hatter Mint, Frozen Jack Frost
Faber Castell Gelatos - Cotton Candy, Bubble Gum
Printable Butterflies

So my first rr was a lot of fun.  Hope you like it :)  Have a great week,

Swirlydoos Sketch Challenge

I am so excited!  I just joined Swirlydoos Kit Club!  Since around November I've been researching, lurking, examining the various kit clubs and their kits, then starting the process over again.  I finally made my choice two weeks ago.  I really love the kits, and I love the atmosphere and wonderful gals there.  They host various challenges and offer wonderful comradery.  

I made a layout based on a sketch for the April kit.  This kit is gorgoeus!  It's called Tiffany and features the gorgeous papers from Authentique's line called Classic Elegance.  Wow, gorgeous papers! Here's a pic of the paper pad -

They are double-sided and amazing.  We also got some awesome Ingvild Bolme resins, lovely bling, pretty Petaloo flowers and an mdf wooden frame.  Just packed with awesomeness!   Here's thebeautiful  sketch -

Now, I usually don't do white space, but I did here and followed the sketch rather closely here.  The 

pic is my grand'd Aelyn from, you guessed it, Deisrae's wedding, lol!

I distressed the edges, inked with walmut stain, crimped the paper on the top left and put a small doily there.  Matted it on the pretty blue ombre page amd added a butterfly.  Down in the right corner, I used some mod-podge then added tissue paper on it slightly scrunched, stamped, put some strips of washi tape over the tissue then misted.  The flourish is from my stash of Tim Holtz grunge board pack that I got from QVC oh about 8 years ago!  Inked it with distress ink in black soot and then misted it with Lindy's.  The pretty rhinstone bling is from the kit, I cut them from this lovely large strip.  The crescent of bling is from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by :)