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.

Happy New Year!

We spent our New Years at Disneyland. Does that surprise you? I am not usually one for paper piecing but thought it was good cute idea for our Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger photos. The products are from The Sampler's December kit. The beaded snowflakes are from Meri Meri, which is a greeting card manufacturer who has warehouse sales twice a year. You wouldn't believe it but I got a huge bag of them for $0.25. A quarter doesn't buy a person much these days and I sure wish I would have bought all of the bags vs. most of them (haha...didn't know they were a quarter. Thought they were a quarter each snowflake). Ok back to the layout. I used my Pazzles to cut out the snowy branch.

Today's green craft

I decided to upcycle an old t-shirt (Angry Little Asian Girl circa 2002) because gees it's so obvious I wouldn't fit into this shirt again. It was an XS so there was very little I needed to do to it. I cut the arms off  at the seams then cut it straight beneath the neck line. Next I gathered and basted the top with a 1/4" seam in the front and back. Then added the seam binding, which was a good match in the package. . . not in the photo, to the front and back in a straight line. Then I used the rest of the package to stitch around the arm holes. I think the straps probably could be trimmed down. Riley says that it's her and her friend Arthur on the shirt vs. mommy and daddy. It's probably still more us. . . even though Arthur had to shower and put gel in his hair because Riley was coming over to play the other day. Oh . . .her arm. . . it's dirty because she had tattoos which are wearing off. Gees I hate those things!

Here is another layout which I did for the Sampler. The grey-ish BoBunny polkadot paper has the Rock Candy crackle medium on it so all the edges are curled and raised off the page. The photo I desaturated but not to the point of black and white. The green in her headband was so strong, that I left it with a slight green tint. In PSE, all you need to do is CTRL+U and slide the Saturation bar to your left. Plus I used the glitter in the kit and lined the photos with a Sakura glue pen.

More Sampler goodies

What did I do for Mother's Day? I stayed in and scrapped of course. Here's a layout I did with the 7gypsies fleur de lys paper that is in the May Sampler kit. Then with the remaining TPC Studios stickers I created the background mat for the photo. There are three border stickers which I cut apart. One contained flowers which I cut down and placed one in the middle of each Prima flower set. Then I cut out some butterflies and gave that a bit of a 3D effect by sticking down the middle and using a bit of powder to take the tackiness of the adhesive off the sides of the wings so they would not stick. I also popped the flower and butterfly on the "carefree" sticker as well. I left the Cosmo Cricket letters alone to go with the black Making Memories frame.

She sure doesn't look too happy in this shot. Once I got the settings correct she wasn't cooperating. I told Riley to sit by the window and she sat right up against it. Anyways, I took the American Crafts fabric paper again and tore them into 1-1/2" strips (x12"). Then I sprayed each with Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist. I put one aside. Then I sprayed the other two with Seafoam and placed one aside. And finally sprayed the last one with Patina. I dried them with the heat gun and could see it gave it a bit more curl. Next I did the twist and spiral. I first created a bit of a perfect rose center then did a carefree twist of the fabric and spiraled it around.  A bit of hot glue on the back held the roses together while I figured out what I was going to do with them. Then I just cut a small rectangle of the fabric, grabbed a headband. I glued the roses on then I placed some glue on the rectangle and sandwiched the headband in between. Riley really loves headbands so I just may have to go out and get more of the fabric paper because my fabric straps tend to be too busy for something like this.

I started this mini album for Riley's Musical Theater Summer Camp. I used Summer Song from My Mind's Eye. You'll only get to see the cover because I obviously haven't finished the album. On the cover is a really old My Mind's Eye Bohemia "Summer" rubon. I also used the letters to spell out "camp" from another set of Bohemia rubons. And I got the glittered musical notes and stars on Friday at the MeriMeri sale. I think it was $0.25 a pack. I finished off the cover with Cosmo Cricket tiny type letters in the Sampler kit and added ribbon and trim.

Grungy hybrid

Here's a hybrid using Little Musings' free friday downloads. I knew right when I saw the drawing of the girl in black, white and red what I needed to do. I had bought a grungy paper pack a while ago (digital) but couldn't figure out what to do with it. I simply layered papers on top and put the image in the corner. What makes the layout is the punched flowers out of Dr. Pepper soda cans. There's a combo of American Craft and Creative Imaginations brads. Plus the bling is Kaiser Craft. I also did a little grungy overlay on the photo. Ouh yeah. . .and a bit of Tim Holtz embossing powder.

Next is a challenge layout about our neighborhood. We don't go outside much. . .why should we? I mean the scrapbook stuff is inside. Anyways, there's this kid named Artie across the street. He lives right across from us. Different. He really is DIFFERENT. Ha! Not in a good way.

Fabric scraps on layout

Now that I can sew a straight line (or a line at all), I decided to use the left over fabric for a layout from Riley's skirt that my mom made for her. Remember the one she said I could pass off as my own work? Yeah we don't need to mention how it got me in trouble when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. She had written my essay on world peace for school. It was so damn good that I had to read it in two school assemblies. Guess that's why I can write a paper now and get an A even though I have no real clue on the subject. But I won't be doing that again any time soon.

I used Prism cardstock (left over from Memory Works retreat), May Arts twill, Oriental Trading brads, My Mind's Eye "today" cardstock saying, American Crafts acrylic letters, Zip Dry, and Maya Road rubons. Oh and the fabric was from JoAnn's. I wanted to originally make Riley's American Doll Riley (I can't believe she named her doll after herself but it is what it is) a matching skirt but there wasn't enough length.

Challenges of Me

So here I go again with another class. . . @ Big Picture. I'm getting close to a week behind now in all my running around trying to keep Riley and the boys (nephews) busy. I did manage to finish the first section page and the cover of the album. I was assigned the 6x12 page size but since I already had the American Crafts album I went to do the 8" format. This class is about using my stash so here we go! I'll try to get the tutorial up soon on coloring glitter and our finished fairy wings.

LOAD layouts

Here's three layouts I did to try to get caught up for Layout a Day. . .

So the prompt for this digital layout was to scrapbook an important moment. It's of Riley playing with her two favorite trouble makers. I used a kit from SweetShoppeDesigns.com and components of a kit from ScrapbookGraphics.com.

This next layout was done off of two drawings Riley did about two weeks ago. She drew daddy and I. All I can say is that at least I was smiling! Oh and had hair. The prompt was to use alphabets in the background. DCWV stack and American Crafts white marker. I probably should have used a medium point.

The final layout was to tell a secret. Honestly it's not a secret because if asked I will spill the beans. Dieting is highly over rated. And if you just learn to bake the buttery goodness like I do. . . you'll make everyone else bigger so you'll automatically look smaller. No dieting! K & Company, Making Memories, Pazzles, CTMH and dots from SweetShoppeDesigns (digi).