Altered Paintbrush

What a unique and fun project this was! As soon as I saw this challenge at Laurie Moore's pFacebook page I knew I wanted to give it a try. You can find the Challenge here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/866817353347815/

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The fabulous steampunk butterfly is by Gina's Designs, and the other goodies are all bits and pieces from my stash. After everything was attached, I just went wild with mist (think the floor of my scraproom might have a permanent rainbow pattern now-LOL!)

Puppy Dreams

I just recently discovered this 3-year-old photo of my daughter and our Toby when she was going through her phone photos, and I had to scrap it!

This page will be submitted for the August Challenge at Scrap around the World and Rochelle Spears' August Scrappy Friends Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

The lovely mood board for Scrap Around the World:


The roses and vines on the shoes on the lower left inspired me, as did the soft colours in the image on the lower right. The hair ornament in the lower center image made me think of pearls. You can find their challenge here:
http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-2014-challenge-16-elegant.html

For the Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I chose the left vertical column, which includes one photo, dry embossing and pearls. You can find their challenge here:
http://rochellespears.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-scrappy-friends-challenge-july.html

I used some fabulous Gina's Designs chipboard pieces and cardstock doilies; I heat-embossed a flourish pattern onto the chipboard, and they look much prettier IRL!

I made the roses by tracing the pieces of ones I had, and misted them with Tattered Angels rouge, then lightly brushed chalk ink over them to soften the colour. The lacing is run through strips punched with the Martha Stewart lattice punch.

The bricks were dry embossed with a Tim Holtz folder, and rubbed with the same chalk ink as the roses. I added random punchwork around the edges, and inked the edges with TH Tattered Rose.

Thanks so much for stopping by-have a terrific day!

On Top of the World!!

My layout is based on the Pixels and Paper Challenge Blog's July inspiration photo:

The round shape of the ferris wheel caught my eye,  and the feeling of height and being above everything, but I really wasn't sure how to convey that in a layout until a few days later when my daughter came home with these photos that she'd taken in Niagara Falls-they were perfect for the theme, and the 2 candids that I printed in b/w summed up the feeling of height. Then the old Carpenters' song came into my head for the title and a layout was born!

I repeated the circle element in the bottlecaps, doilies, circle lattice stencil and static stencil, and the lovely 9th Wave paper by 7 Dots has subtle circles in the upper left and lower right corners.The cute banners are by Gina's Designs; I painted them with acrylic paint, then spongepainted over with white.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my page; I'm so glad I found this awesome challenge blog-you can check it out at:

http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/

have a great day!!

May the odds be ever in your favour

          There are a lot of movies and performers that I like; in fact I've been creating a Silver Screen scrapbook over time, but the Hunger Games series is a recent favourite that I wanted to add and I thought that the Berry71bleu  Movie Challenge for June was the perfect chance You can find their blog here: http://berry71bleu.blogspot.ca/

Using multiple photos was part of the challenge, and that's not exactly my forte, but I managed to incorporate three without it really looking like I did: the mockingjay design in the upper left was one photo, which I cut to create an embellishment, and the journalling was another (all photos found on my beloved Google Images!) I  cut the phrase into strips so I could place it in different areas on the page. I started with plain black cardstock, stencilled with black texture paste, heat-embossed some stamped images in gold then rubbed them with ink, added some crackle finish and micro beads here and there, then embellished. I wanted to keep the colour scheme very simple so as not to overwhelm the images.

The Hunger Games trilogy of books was written for young adults but will appeal to anyone who enjoys an intelligent, exciting clean series-as will the movies...I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment, Mockingjay! Thanks a bunch for stopping by!

Pixels and Paper June Challenge; rainy day memories

As soon as I saw this image on the Pixels and Paper blog (which can be found here:
http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html )
I knew I had the perfect photo to work with, from a photoshoot I'd done with my daughter a few years ago just after a rainstorm.

I created a mixed-media project with my beloved homemade texture paste, some mist and paint, and bits and pieces from my stash, including Maya Road butterflies, metal pieces and flowers from Prima and Flying Unicorn. I've had that red lace paper for ages and love how eyecatching it is! I painted all the metal, chippies, and flowers grey to match the corrugate efore misting (what a great way to use up weird-coloured or mismatched embellies!!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Life's a Beach!

This project was inspired by Agnieszka's beautiful May mood board at Inkido:

I'm excited to play along with this challenge, and you can find more about it on the Inkido blog:
http://inkido.blogspot.ca/2014/05/may-challenge-by-agnieszka-bellaidea.html

The photo I used is my daughter on a beach vacation in Northern Ontario last year; she had a great time and brought back several photos but this one was my favourite!



I used the Love is in the Air collection from 13 Arts as well as Dusty Attic chipboard and a Prima stencil. I made my own texture paste with baby powder, white glue and acrylic paint.The diecut shells above the photo were cut with a Memory Box die. The blue paper and the flowers are by Recollections, and the inks are Donna Salazar. The punchwork is Martha Stewart Swirling Lace.

 
I used real seashells and real sand to create a natural feel and add texture.

 The whale was spongepainted with acrylic paint and I used punchinella and ink to create the circle design.



The title was painted with acrylic paint, and the "netting" it's mounted on is something I found at Big Lots at Halloween...it was called "Creepy Cloth" but used like this I don't think it's creepy at all!

Thanks a bunch for stopping by, and I hope wherever you are you're enjoying beautiful beach-worthy weather!

Butterflies and freedom and creating...oh my!

Hi! Seems this layout was meant to be...I looked at the beautiful April mood board for Scrap Around the World's April challenge at the beginning of the month and loved it:



The butterflies and the freedom concept especially caught my eye, but I had other projects going and put it on the back burner. Then withing a few days of each other, I received some lovely butterfly images in the mail from my lovely scrappy friend Elizabeth and found a fabulous quote on Facebook that really spoke to me. Thus my layout and April challenge entry was born!


 Believe it or not, I didn't use texture paste on this page at all!In keeping with the airy, free feeling I wanted to capture, I added a little stamping/stenciling with ink, a few brushes of blue-white acrylic paint to create the butterflies' flight path, then some hand-stitching to accentuate that feeling of movement.

You can view Scrap Around the World's April Challenge information here:http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.ca/2014/04/april-2014-challenge-12-light-modern.html