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CSI Case File #145

2014-10-29T06:00:00.000-04:00

Playing along with this week's case file. I love the lime green in the color scheme and used it as my page base. The strip on the right was perfect for the color scheme. To incorporate red, I stamped a bunch of label stamps with red ink, for the transparent elements in the evidence column, I stamped "true", "playful", "real" on transparency. I also used a stencil to add a little color in the background.

2014-10-27T06:00:00.000-04:00

At CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration they have teamed up with Scrap365 for some special case files, and they will publish a few selected pages from the participants in the next issue of the magazine. I loved the color scheme so I decided to play along since the deadline is Oct 31 and I had plenty of time to make a page.

Here is my take on the case file

Case No. 144 No Limits

2014-10-25T06:00:00.000-04:00

I tried to use as many of the "evidence" items as I could, my favorite was the Maya Road lightbulbs I just got from Flying Unicorn. What I really love about these challenges are the journalling prompts in the "testimony" column, they make the journalling so easy.

Park Page and Most Wanted

2014-10-23T13:07:00.001-04:00

Had fun using up leftover scraps of some old Basic Grey paper with this page. Used a bunch of newer Heidi Swapp stamps and some cool iron on numbers that I found in my stash. I'm determined to use up inters that have been hanging around in my scrap room for far too long and it's been fun challenging myself to supplies on hand.

Also I was surprised and excited to be featured on CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration Most Wanted list. It was my first submission to the gallery and I recieved lots of lovely comments from the members and the Design Team. It's a fun and friendly group and very inspiring.

CSI case file no.143

2014-10-18T14:48:00.001-04:00

Using the sketch and case file objectives from

All the little things...

2014-10-14T18:25:00.001-04:00

Since I've been cleaning out and purging my scrap room I am more determined than ever to use my stash and use up some of those scrap of paper that I can never seem to throw away but have been pilling up. This entire page was made from scraps a d a couple of sheets of CTMH cardstock.

xoxo

2014-10-11T13:54:00.004-04:00

Week 3 od Art & Design is all about pattern. With this latest layout I finally feel like I'm getting the feel for the concepts in this class and interpreting them in a way that is more my style. While I adore Wilna's pages, the stark white backgrounds that she starts most pages with is not really my thing. I usually start a page with colors that relate directly to my photo, and almost alway have a patterned paper or solid color card stock background. In this layout I started with golds and purples for my paint colored circles and the wood printed paper. I love the combination of the rustic wood and the shiny gold and metallic purple paint. the xoxo was painted with india ink on white card stock then fussy cut by hand.

What is an Ornithopter?

2014-10-10T06:30:00.000-04:00

Today I'm a guest designer with a featured layout over at Leaky Shed Studio.

There are so many great chipboard shapes to choose from, it was so fun looking through all of them but when I saw the Ornithopter I just knew I had to make a layout to document our recent trip to France.

Please go on over to Leaky Shed Studio and check how I put the layout together.

http://www.leakyshedstudio.com

Playing with Typography

2014-10-09T06:00:00.000-04:00

Just sharing another layout form Wilna Furstenberg's wonderful Art & Design class at Big Picture Classes
This week's lesson was about typography...

Wordless Wednesday

2014-10-08T08:52:00.001-04:00

Art & Design

2014-10-04T18:57:00.001-04:00

I've been playing around with art journals, using all kinds of mixed media techniques, but until recently I never really used them in my scrapbooks. I decided to take the Art & Design class at Big Picture Classes taught by Wilna Furstenberg. She does beautiful layouts with watercolor and gelatos and modeling paste....

Here are a few layouts I did for week one of the class based on grids

Back to the not so basics

2014-10-02T23:45:00.001-04:00

When I first started scrapbooking I did only 12x12 layouts, bit in recent years I focused mainly on mini albums. I was in a huge slump for a long time when it came to scraping 12x12 layouts, that is until recently when I rediscovered my love of scraping layouts. I found a few very inspiring ladies on YouTube who do a lot of mixed media techniques in the 12x12 format. Bringing mixed media to what used to be a mostly cut and paste process makes it more exciting and fun. It's been so much fun that I have completed a bunch of layouts that I'm excited to share on my blog. I haven't photographed all of them yet so I will start a couple that I did last week.

I made some stamped elements with that I stacked on top of book paper, vellum and doilies. They are grouped together on top of a strip of card stock that is textured with die cut letters and shapes, gessoed and painted. I also used twinkle H2Os in gold on the background paper. These are really old products that I have had in my stash since the dawn of scrapbooking, but I love how this page turned out, it's the kind of design that I never would have even though of doing way back when I started scrapbooking (17 years ago, yikes!). The photos are from way back when too, that adorable baby is turning 20 years old at the end of this month.

Here's another one I did using similar techniques of stacking little papers (a great way to use up all those scraps of paper that keep piling up) and adding paint to the background paper.

Nutcracker Sweet Mini Album

2012-12-10T19:21:00.001-05:00

I'll be teaching this great folded mini album featuring Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet Christmas paper and stamp collection at the Stamp Boutique

Gypsy ladies

2012-11-16T11:47:00.001-05:00

More Art Journal Experiments
This one totally inspired be the fabulous Lynne Perrella

Another day another page

2012-10-18T09:51:00.001-04:00

Art journal

2012-10-16T09:55:00.001-04:00

For my good friend who said my pages were too cool not to post

LO Challenge

2012-08-04T11:00:00.000-04:00

My friend Nancy has posted a LO challenge over at Craft Happens And what a challenge it was, starting with a blank piece of paper.

So I decided to give it a shot since it has been too long since I made a 12x12 LO.

I started with a 12x12 sheet of white paper and a 12x12 gear stencil from Crafter's Workshop I sprayed it with glimmer mist then did a little stamping, butterflies and words. I used border punches on the edges of the page, also tearing the edges to make the page a little smaller that 12x12. I also used a border punch and embossing folders on the photo mats and some of the cluster elements as well as the die cut flourish. There are two handmade flowers, one I cut with a TH die in three different materials (drier sheet, crinolin, paper) one I crocheted from twine. I clear embossed the title (together, cut with cricut)

I tried to use all the challenge options and it was really fun! Not the way I usually approach a layout, it really made me think about all the tools and techniques at my disposal.

Thanks Nancy for an awesome challenge!!!

Art tiles

2012-08-01T12:41:00.001-04:00

I recently came across a talented youtuber who posted a tutorial for making theses awesome cool art tiles.
Her YouTube channel is livartnow you can it check out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd1rpU6qTEI
( sorry I'm experimenting with posting directly from my phone and I don't know how to hyperlink)
Very easy and fun, go... Make some cute art tiles today!

Secret garden mini

2012-07-24T00:36:00.001-04:00

Cute little coin envelope mini I made for a swap on Mini Album Scraps Ning we had to make a garden themed mini out of coin envelopes or coffee sleeves. This one is made with 6 coin envelopes and chipboard covers. I used Prima's Nature's Garden paper along with paint, stamping, dimensional stickers, vellum garden fairy stickers, twine, burlap, eyelets and glimmer misted canvas binding. It's a tiny little mini that came out super cute.

Paper Clip Swap

2012-07-23T07:00:00.000-04:00

Just a little peek at the Embellished Paper Clip swap I joined at Mini Album Scraps
It's been a while since I participated in a swap so I thought I would start off with a smallish project and when I saw the paper clip swap I though it would be fun and simple.

I decided to do a little stamping, with some Inkadinkado Inchie stamps, coloring with twinkle H2Os (my fave!) then I embossed the whole image with clear embossing powder to give it some shine. Embellished with little "bling" stickers from Stampendous and Voila!
Fun embellishments for mini book, cards, whatever!

Journey

2012-07-19T07:30:00.000-04:00

This weekend I had the absolute pleasure of taking a class with the fabulous Anna Dabrowska, a mixed media artist who traveled from her native Poland to teach several classes in the US. I was fortunate enough to attend the one she taught at Everything Scrapbook and Stamps in Lake Worth FL

We started with a Prima Resist Canvas Covers
Embellished with Canvas word, resist canvas flowers and a bunch of other stuff including buttons and lace etc. Then painted with various sprays, pigment powders and acrylic paints. The whole thing is just layers and layers built on top of each other, creating a complex composition that is integrated and intriguing to look at. Kind of messy process but oh so much fun! I came home with dirty, inky fingers and a gorgeous project.
We also did o couple of pages for the inside using different techniques. I have been scrapping for a long time but I learned so much from this one class. Thanks you so much Anna!

Birds and Flowers

2012-07-13T15:16:00.001-04:00

I just finished another mini, this one is an envelope album with a paper spine that I embellished with ribbon. This mini is full of cute birds and flowers, I especially love the fabric stitched bird and birdhouse stickers from Heidi Grace.

More pictures here

Seaside Holiday

2012-07-06T09:29:00.000-04:00

I just love the Tropical Travelogue collection form Graphic 45

Here's the cute little mini I made with these fab papers and a burlap covered spine.

The dimensional flowers were all hand made, I finally found a technique for creating beautiful flowers that I can customize with distress inks

More photos of this mini here

Tres Magnifique!

2012-06-27T07:32:00.000-04:00

sneak peek of my next class at the stamp boutique

this mini book is made with glitz papers and stamps french kiss collection

embellished with lots of flowers and die cuts in paper and fabric