Sue's Art Suite

2009-11-17T07:35:00.000-08:00

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Scrapping From the Inside Out is giving away a FANTASTIC kit (that I would LOVE to
win) at Scrapbook Trends. Here's the link to get more information and see it.

http://northridgemedia.net/blogs/scrapbooktrends/?p=943

Some recent layouts for calls, challenges and contests.

2009-10-27T16:03:00.000-07:00

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This is another layout that was done for a call at Scrapbook Trends. It wasn't picked up, but I'm glad that I've documented my family's favorite recipe!

Serendipity Scrapbooks recently held a weekend crop with lots of challenges all to
remind us of breast cancer awareness month. This first layout was for a challenge
about Princess Diana; using words from a quote of hers. I received a "Pick of the Day" award for this layout 10/27/09 at Serendipity.

We were also to create a candy bar wrapper using the same papers.

This layout was for a challenge using a poem by Maya Angelou.

This final layout is for a contest at Memory Making Crafts (a Halloween layout).

2009-09-29T14:16:00.000-07:00

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I needed a little push to work on some layouts, so I checked the latest calls at Scrapbook Trends and did these two Easter layouts to submit for the March issue. I
don't expect them to get picked up, but at least I finished a couple!
The first layout is with a picture of our Malamute, Shiloh when she was a puppy (about 75 pounds ago) and the second is with a picture of our granddaughter on Easter with her basket during the (indoor) egg hunt.

Some more challenges

2009-08-19T03:25:00.000-07:00

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I am having so much fun (and getting some layouts done at the same time) doing challenges this summer! The first one is for Memory Making Crafts. This one is based on this sketch.

The final layout is another one for a challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks. The requirements for the challenge are to use a shaped background paper, some hand cutting, some hand or machine stitching, and layering. The picture is of our Malamute, Quinson, who was only with us for four years.

Where did summer go?

2009-08-14T03:27:00.000-07:00

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Where has summer gone?? The grandkids' baseball and soccer are finished, next week is our county fair and school starts on the first! I haven't had time to take even a long weekend away. Hopefully we will have a few days in September.
I have gotten a few layouts finished though. This first layout was for a challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks which required fringing. I fringed the round flowers and the strips in the lower, left.

I did some stamping on this layout. The birds and the wispy flowers are stamped and some are cut out and added with foam tape.

The next layout was also done for a challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks. For this one we were to create a border using non-typical scrapbooking items. I used some ephemera and images from Altered Pages for mine.

This final layout was another challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks. We were to create a layout similar to one that was shown which used a LOT of hand cutting and layering.
The inspiration layout can be seen here.......
http://www.serendipityscrapbooks.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=17195&sid=4ae6b4f8d3f58463f11469980530606c
And here is my take on it:

Finally, I altered a puzzle piece for a friend. This was a large, floor puzzle piece. Her theme was freestyle (anything goes) using the colors of pink/mauve/black and a lime/sage green.

Some things I've been working on.......

2009-07-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

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I've found a little time to work on a couple of cards and some layouts between the
grandkids' baseball and soccer games. The first is a card that I made with the leftover papers from the Prima layout that is in the previous post.

This second item is a quick card I made for a baby shower. The text is a sticker. I put both pieces of colored cardstock through my Sizzix with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

This two page layout shows how we transformed what was a screened in storage area under one bedroom in our house into a four season hot tub room.

This layout is of my great grandparents homestead. I used a challenge that a friend had on a blog for which she is a design team member which included lots of fussy cut work and layering. I've added two close ups to try to show the dimension with this layout.

This last layout is of my grandson, Hunter on his first day of preschool. I didn't take the photos, so you can't blame me for the "antlers" it looks like he's wearing in the large photo.

I had time.............

2009-06-30T05:56:00.000-07:00

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I was surprised that I had time to work on a couple of layouts over the weekend. This one is a couple of old school photos.I used some Daisy D's papers and punched
flowers from Rusty Pickle and Creative Imaginations papers and a Scenic Route arrow.

This layout was done with a new paper pack by Prima. I really like how it turned out!

A few layouts done in May

2009-06-25T09:30:00.000-07:00

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I am finally getting around to posting a few layouts I finished in May before our re-do on my scraproom. The first one is a picture of me with my grandson, Levi, which was taken after a day at our county fair (thus the reason for the frazzled hairdo). We were watching an evening performance of John Michael Montgomery and Levi couldn't stay awake.
You can click on any of the pictures to enlarge them so you can see more detail.

The next two layouts are two of my grandsons' school pictures from 2003. Yeah; I'm just a little behind on my photos! lol

Titanic exhibit

2009-06-25T09:07:00.000-07:00

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My oldest daughter and two of her three boys took me to see the Titanic Exhibit in Milwaukee on Mother's Day. It was a wonderful exhibit and if you are even a little bit interested in the history of that fateful ship, I encourage you to see the exhibit if it comes to a sight near you. We weren't able to get photos inside the exhibit, but they take a photo of your group before you enter and at the end you are able to chose one of several backgrounds (we selected the grand staircase) and purchase copies. I was able to use it and our "boarding passes" and some photos I found on the internet of items that are in the exhibit to create this three page layout. The papers I used are some VERY old ones I've had for a long time. And I don't even know who they are by because there was no identification on them. But they were perfect for these pages (they look like rusty old metal).
I used two of the boarding passes on the last page so you can see both sides. Each of us received one upon entering and the pass tells the statistics of one of the passengers that was on the ship (age, sex, married or single, adult or child, which class they were traveling in, etcl). At the end of the exhibit you could find your
"passenger" to see if they died that day or were one of the survivors. I also stitched a clear pocket onto the second page to hold the brochure that we received.

Where have I been???

2009-06-16T04:10:00.000-07:00

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I know it's been AGES since I've posted anything. I was surprised that some people even NOTICED! Well, I can finally show what I've been doing and why I haven't had
any new art to post.
We are replacing windows in three rooms of our house; including one in my scraproom.
Since I had to move most of my storage out of the room to do that, I decided to do a
complete makeover. I pulled everything out of the room (which you will see was quite a job in itself when you look at how much stuff I have in the room) and paint first. Since the color of most of my storage accessories is a lime green, I decided to go with turquoise for the walls. After painting, we put in a new laminate floor. My hubby and I did this ourselves. We were surprised at how easy and quick it was once we figured out what we were doing. Of course, when the flooring was in all of the old baseboards looked so shabby that we decided to replace those too! And finally we
put in the new window and then I was able to move everything back in. I've put the after pictures right below the before photos.

The black media tower just DIDN'T work any more! It was too wide for the spot for one thing, and everything else is white. I looked all over (internet, office supply stores, home improvement stores) and finally found this white cabinet in another room of the house!

I painted an old spice rack white and attached it to the wall in the closet to hold my paint bottles.

If you look closely, you'll see a framed layout below the large "S" on the wall by my desk. This layout is one that was published.

I hope you've enjoyed touring my new scraproom. I do want to put in track lighting yet, but that will have to wait for now.
Hopefully now I'll be able to start creating some new layouts and cards now and will post more often.

Easter card for The Pink Elephant challenge

2009-04-02T04:53:00.000-07:00

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Seems my only posts recently are my challenge items for The Pink Elephant each week.
LOL This week's challenge is to make something with an Easter theme. Since I was already in the process of making Easter cards, this one fit in perfectly. I tried a
couple of new things with this one. I used a brayer on which I dabbed shades of Martha Stewart green and blue inks and then brayered it onto a piece of white cardstock. I stamped the bunny on a separate piece of white cardstock and cut him out, adhering him with a piece of pop dot. The "Happy Easter" was stamped directly to the card with Versamark and embossed with a blue embossing powder. The tracks and
"boing, boing" were also stamped directly on the card. I added ribbon to this piece and then double matted the entire piece. A double flower and egg button finish it off.

Another Pink Elephant Challenge

2009-03-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

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This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is to use a sketch by Robin Willis.

Here is my take on the sketch. I used WorldWin papers DoubleMates Orange Dream embossed with the Cuttlebug Perfectly Paisley folder, an image from Altered Pages, rhinestone brads from S.E.I. and crocheted lace.

Track meet

2009-03-26T05:47:00.000-07:00

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My oldest grandson (15) had his first track meet last weekend. He is doing the hurdles and the pole vault for the first time this year. He was also bumped up to JV! They only had a week and a half to practice before this meet, so I think he did pretty well considering; and I'm very proud of him. Here are a couple of pictures from each event.

Spring is nearly here.......

2009-03-19T09:21:00.000-07:00

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The weather is finally starting to show signs that winter is nearing it's end and spring is right around the corner. We reached a high of 70 two days ago. We've seen
robins and a cardinal and the tulips are poking their heads through the ground!!
But even though the days are not as cold and we're finally able to spend some time outdoors, I've still had time to get some layouts finished. This first one is from a
trip to Michigan a few years ago. The photos were taken by one of many waterfalls we
visited.

This second one is of my grandson, Levi just being silly; which he does so well!

This final layout shows some photos my husband took while on one of his fishing trips of an albino deer.

2009-03-19T05:35:00.000-07:00

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This week's challenge is to use buttons. I didn't want to use them as just an addition to a card or layout, so I decided to use buttons to create a creature.
And what better creature for spring than ducks? The beaks are tiny pieces of ribbon and the feet are Twistel.

I won!!!

2009-03-11T05:08:00.000-07:00

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I am so excited! The card I created for week four's challenge at The Pink Elephant
won! Thanks to all of the wonderful dt members and the owners of the site; and to
everyone that voted for my card.

A second try for the Pink Elephant challenge

2009-03-05T11:37:00.000-08:00

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Okay; so I had some time before the challenge at The Pink Elephant ends for this week and thought I'd play around with a card. The challenge this week is to use die cuts and ribbon. I love these papers and die cuts from My Mind's Eye.

Layout for Pink Elephant challenge

2009-03-05T05:51:00.000-08:00

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I thought I'd do a layout for this weeks challenge at Pink Elephant http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/ instead of a card. The challenge was to use die cuts and ribbon. I hand cut the trunk of the tree and used two punches for the branches and folliage.

Another challenge

2009-02-24T16:39:00.000-08:00

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This week's challenge at Pink Elephant (http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/)is a card sketch.
Of course, I couldn't resist trying this one; in fact, I may have to make more than one card using this great sketch! Here's the sketch:

And here's the first card I made (I turned the sketch sideways; never liked to follow the rules LOL).

That one was such fun that I decided to make another. Since so many of my grandkids are boys, I thought I'd make it with a more masculine theme. Here's my second attempt
with the sketch.

Pink Elephant Challenge

2009-02-21T06:45:00.000-08:00

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My friend, Robin has collaborated with another artist to create the Pink Elephant blog for fun challenges and inspiration. Their challenge this week is to use bling. I'm not normally a bling kind of gal; I tend to go more for the vintage style. But this is the card I came up with (I had an image in mind when I woke at 6 this morning LOL). I purchased these glittery and irridescent flowers from LTD. The butterfly is from the $1 section at Michael's. The background (green) paper is World Win doubles, put in a Cuttlebug folder and the embossed areas slightly sanded to bring out the color of the opposite side.

A Day for Love

2009-02-13T14:20:00.001-08:00

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Didn't we just get through Christmas?? How can it be Valentine's Day already?
Well, I thought I'd share a couple of the versions of Valentine cards that I made for my grandkids. I used print papers from DCWV Spring Pack from last year and two
Cuttlebug folders. The hearts were cut using my Slice.

And of course, I had to make one for my hubby!I used the same print papers for his.
Finally, I made a special treat for each of the grandkids. I took Hershey's Dark Chocolate candy bars and made wrappers for them using the same print papers, wrapped a piece of ribbon around the center, attached an oval which was cut with my Slice and added a Valentine sticker to the center.

2009-02-09T13:37:00.000-08:00

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I started a new tradition for Christmas three years ago. Instead of buying a lot of
gifts for the kids and grandkids (things that they play with for a couple of days and then toss aside) we take everyone (14 of us) to one of the motels with an indoor waterpark in the WI. Dells for a weekend. We rent a three bedroom condo. For the first night there I take a couple of dishes that are favorites of everyone (my barbecued wieners and ham pasta salad). Saturday night we usually go out to eat. This year we tried a new motel; the Chula Vista. Our condo was very spacious and gorgeous! Here are a couple of photos of the great room (notice the jacuzzi and fireplace).

Here is a picture of Larry and me on the Lazy River at the waterpark.

And here are some of the grandkids having a blast in the waterpark.

2009-02-03T09:12:00.000-08:00

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My birthday was last week. At my age (59!??) I can't say that I "celebrated" it; but
I'm glad they keep coming! LOL The funny thing is that my brain doesn't accept that
I'm this old! Most days I don't feel nearly 60! And I guess that's good. Especially
working with children as I do. I thought I'd share a couple pictures from my birthday. The first one is with the few kids that were here that day. We had chocolate cupcakes!

My hubby took me to a wonderful restaurant for dinner on my birthday. They are a bit
out of the way, so we don't go there often; only for special occasions. We both ordered their most popular dish which is a Chinese dish (they also serve American
food). I asked our waitress to take this picture.

Scrapping in winter

2009-01-27T04:54:00.000-08:00

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Winter is a great time to get some scrapping done! If you're not an outdoorsy person (like me) you spend a lot of time inside where it's warm. I've completed quite a few layouts already this month which makes me really happy. Most were quick, easy ones; but I'm really happy with these two that are a little more involved, so I'll share them with you. The first one is done with Basic Gray Archaic papers.

I really like this one. It's made with Cosmo Cricket Souvenir papers and chipboard. I punched the flowers from some of the same papers and used embroidery floss for the
stitching.

Blog Candy Giveaway

2009-01-25T13:02:00.000-08:00

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My friend, Robin is having a FANTASTIC blog candy giveaway for some brand new stamps over on her blog. You can go to her blog to see the five stamp sets she is giving away: http://rockinrobin1973.blogspot.com/
And you can go to the Art DeClassified store to see all 18 of the new sets.
http://www.artdeclassified.com/store/index.php/cPath/62