Beach fun

We had a little bit of sun for the past few days. Honestly it felt like only the morning hours were hot but that was inspiration enough for a beach layout.

I completed most of the layout using kits from Peppermint Creative.
Teen Queen Kit
Sunkissed Summer Kit

New 'Do Kit which btw is a freebie!

After I printed out my layout, I added Creative Imaginations rub-ons for my title, trees, and flip flops. Then I used Thermoweb's 3D dots to pop two epoxy stickers as well. After I stuck on Pink Paislee letter stickers. My sun wasn't as bright (or the layout itself after printing) as I had wanted so I used a bit of Pan Pastels to give that baby some pop.

She Art Canvas

I made another She Art canvas. This time around I was really hesitant on making a "She" and creating a background. I actually had to tear my first attempt to use patterned paper off the canvas. I didn't feel quite the same creative freedom as I had just using acrylic paint.

My girl really goes more with my fun, (going to label myself now) whimsical tendencies. These canvases are really fun to create and I get to use stash that I wouldn't normally. I grabbed a 6" paper pad I received in a Pink Paislee warehouse sale box, used bead caps that have been around since my polymer clay days, and rubons (BoBunny, Cosmo Cricket, We R Memory Keepers) that were left over from other projects. Even stamps. . . rarely do I ever use stamps but I managed to dig out different stamps.

I really went through  bling withdrawl the last time so I worked it in to create texture.  What appears as white spots in the photo are actually silver foil. These are really fun to create but what am I going to do with them? Next time I think I will need to add Riley's face to the pictures.

Winners and painted canvas

I decided to give an inro pendant to all who commented in the last post. Look for it in the mail!

I have ventured into mixed media canvas art. This is the first week of the She Art Workshop. Here is my first canvas I created. I used pattern paper, SEI cardstock (Bridgeport), DCWV cardstock, acrylic paints, water color (wax pastel) crayons, Staz On inks, Glitz Girls stamps, Pink Paislee and BoBunny rubons, Making Memories trim, Glimmer Mist , American Crafts brad, Tattered Angels mask.

The hardest part of this was painting the hair. Then next toning down the green in the DCWV music note cardstock I used for the face and neck. We'll see how the next comes out. It actually was a lot of fun to create. Riley wants to do one and I'm sure hers will be better than mine.

Since I can't sleep. . .

I decided instead of going into my scrap room and creating  more minis (I know I haven't posted photos yet), I would post a few photos of layouts. I went with papers that were hidden in my stash which I don't tend to use as often as I should There's a bit of Prima, Pink Paislee, and Urban Lily.

I've had scrapper's block for a few weeks now and am waiting for something to come to me. If you have any ideas to get me back into the game. . . I'd greatly appreciate the suggestions. 

It's been a while

I know I've really been MIA. I have had moments where I've made a few mini albums but have yet to select photos. Do you ever make minis or layouts and not have the perfect photo? Gees I do that a lot. I think scrapbooking is really about keeping myself busy and my mind off of the rest of the world. A huge reason I love scrapbooking is that it allows me to get creative but not be what people typically think of being creative. . . like drawing or painting.

You probably know that I don't really like to take photos with any type of artificial light or flashes. So that's another reason I've been MIA. Just because I haven't been around during the daylight hours. Well since my mom was complaining that I haven't posted recently and (2) I am around today. . . here's a mini (8x8) that I made while watching Diary of a Whimpy Kid.

I know where I got the album. . . Pink Paislee's warehouse sale box kit. The papers are Pink Paislee but they were packaged differently. Maybe it came from there. . . could have been the sale from the year before too. But had this album that isn't really my style. Well the papers aren't either but they matched because of the orange. The problem was I only had 5 sheets of paper from the line. So I chopped them up to create a cohesive mini. I don't generally make any of the pages alike. In this case I had to. The chipboard as well were Pink Paislee. I was going to leave sort of bare. . .simple. Yeah we know that I couldn't resist. I actually added some Crate Paper ribbon, Jenni Bowlin blinged out butterflies, Prima e-line pearls, and Kaiser Craft rubons and tags, flowers and buttons. Well enjoy! Hopefully tomorrow I can put some photos into a bright Bella Blvd album I made. It's kind of difficult to do because we've had such crappy weather this year. . . even for California. I guess that's why I had no issues with the colors in this album. . .because it already feels like we're deep into Fall and teetering into Winter.

Halloween keeping me busy!

So it was brought to my attention this week by Bonnie that I've been MIA for too long. Sorry. . . I've been caught up in phone interviews, scrapper's block, working on a fabric Christmas album, and making Halloween candy bouquets for Riley's teachers. I did manage to spin this baby out real quick. I haven't finished it because Halloween hasn't happened yet to give me good photos. I had gotten this heat sealed corrugated cardboard from a book order. It just screamed the look of spider webs to me when I peeled it open. It was going to be 2 layouts but I was stumped. I had a messed up canvas panel so I got to painting over it and made a mini album. I'll show you the individual photos once completely done. It's a combination of last year's Prima Little Boo and this year's BoBunny line. Oh since I took the photo, I added more ribbon to the rings. I tried to use random scraps I have around because I am horrible at using things up (then they get ruined in the drawers and I throw them away).

Painted the panel with Golden acrylic paint. Sanded the edges to distress. The cardboard edges were cut with the large deco scissors from Dollar Tree. Oh the stamp is Pink Paislee.

Day 27 LOAD

One more day of LOAD postings after this. . . sad to say it's over. I actually thought it would be more of a challenge such as use at least three patterned papers, lace, and a clear element more so than just a simple topic. Oh well it was fun and only $6. No biggie. Today's layout prompt was to layer. I have been I think at least for the entire time. I feel I've become more of a random (look at least) layer-er over the past month. With a bit of thought I have attributed this new style to my digital scrapbooking. I've seen so much more potential and freedom away from blocky sketches (not that I've used them really). I really do have a hard time picturing things to do with sketches. Ok so much for my issues. Here's the layout.

You recognize the paper? It's the rest of the We R Memory Keepers Nonsense paper I used to make the interactive mini album in January. I put a scrap of Pink Paislee and used Stickles and Dew Drops. I wanted to do something different so I desaturated the photo so it wouldn't compete so much with the wild papers. Enjoy.

Dying to scrap all day. . . .

I'm telling you I'm going through serious withdrawls. I've been dying to scrap all day long. Then of course I get the time and don't feel like it because I'm too tired because Riley has had nightmares the past two nights; keeping me up. I'll tell you a funny story. . . but don't laugh. So I went to have my eyebrows done this morning. I get off the train and go to the appt. Well check my messages and the new boss text me last night at 8:30pm telling me not to come into work until noon. Well I'm already in the city at 9. What to do? I stayed at the spa and slept in the relaxation room for an hour and a half. Telling you Iwas tired. Oh and of course I had my free (well technically not because I paid for my service) breakfast, tea and snacks too. Felt great until about 3. But anyhow. . . .I went shopping at Britex and bought grab bag ribbon and leather remnants. Oh the leather. . . .printed. . . time to make mini albums.

So here's my layout for Feb. 25. Gees the class is almost over. What. . . 3 days left. Tomorrow is a 30 minute layout. Wonder if it'll be faster to do digital. We'll see. So back to the layout. With the news of CK Media going down the tubes. . . today's challenge was to use scraps. Again. . . that's back to my resolution. Funny thing is that this layout was expensive. Here's the rundown:

Pink Paislee mini album kit (that was way over priced --maybe I shouldn't order online like that)
Cardboard from a 52" LCD TV (we did get a good price and even got $30 from Circuit City through ebates when we bought it from Best Buy. Haha if CC wouldn't have screwed up the order. . . )
Ballet costume (that was over priced too)
Lace and elastic given to me. . .yes that was free.
Fancy Pants rubons
BoBunny rubons
Bling. . . oh a few cents
Prima Flowers. . . never cheap
Glimmer Mist
Acrylic paint (Riley did it BTW)

All in all. . . probably about $1900. Hahaha. . . guess it's like Visa. . . Riley's happiness. . . PRICELESS. (Trying to convince myself.)

New LOAD layouts

Ok so I have to go to work in the morning and take Riley to school. It's going to be hard for me since I haven't had to get up to go to work in over 2 months. I'm dreading waking up in the morning which means I have to get up early enough to get Riley to Spanish class on time. BTW I'm not just crazy to do these layouts at midnight. I have to wait for the laundry to dry.So on my birthday I did nothing but taxes all day. If you only knew how much we had to pay in 2007. . . geesh a nightmare. So to avoid paying someone's IRS salary for the year, I sat down and played with numbers all day. But to think back at my day 19 layout (My Mind's Eye papers). . . I did have a Fruitista! Day 20 was to have a winter layout. Yeah everyone knows we don't have snow in San Fancisco. But we did go up to Tahoe about two weeks ago. Here's some We R Memory Keepers for ya!

Here I think is my favorite of the three. It was a resolution layout. And as you may recall, I said that I would use up scraps. I still have to post the Pink Paislee mini album (which I did feel I over paid for) but I used scraps. Almost three months and I'm still keeping with the resolution. Used some Prima flowers as well as Fancy Pants ribbon on this and the Fruitisa layout.