Where has the time gone? Christmas layout for Gina's Designs

 Hi! Lynne here hoping you're all well and enjoying this busy but happy time of year; this week I created a layout with a photo of my son just before his third birthday (he's almost 23 now!). The Skeleton Clock and hands seemed so appropriate since I was thinking about how time has flown by and how much has changed     in our lives since then.

I painted the chipboard pieces with acrylic paint and they looked nice like that, but then decided to add gold heat embossing for a tone-on-tone textured finish and was so much happier with the finished look.

I had this page finished and waiting on my worktable to be photographed when my two kittens decided it would be fun and exciting to pull everything off! Fortunately they didn't damage anything, but believe me, they're definitely on Santa's naughty list right about now!! Think I'll be finding microbeads in my scraproom for months...sigh!!

Oh well, I wouldn't trade those furbabies for anything-have a terrific day and capture those memories; time really does fly by!!

Winter Tissue Box for Gina's designs

hi there and happy December! Lynne here with a home decor piece; I used a plain wooden tissue box cover from Michael's to create this project and lots of wintery chipboard pieces from Gina's, as well as papers from the Authentique "Cozy" collection. I decided to use a winter theme rather than a Christmas one so I can leave it out for a few months rather than just for the Christmas season!

I painted the mug, then heat embossed a swirly pattern onto it for texture and a bit of shimmer...I can just smell that hot cocoa....mmmm!

The snowflakes were heat embossed with Aged Ivory, then rubbed with a bit of gold gelato to warm the tone a bit.

I covered the beautiful bird piece with texture paste, then painted it before spraying with opaque white mist.

I love these mittens!! I want more of them to use on Christmas cards now after seeing how cute they look! I painted them with acrylic paint, then dabbed on a little taupe ink to give them a vintage look, added a strip from the patterned paper and popped them up a bit for dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and hope you're having a great time creating seasonal projects too!

Gina's Products used

Winter Shapes Set
Snowflake Shapes Set 
Bird on Branch Assortment

Other Products Used

Authentique Cozy papers
Stampendous Aged Ivory Embossing enamel
Mr. Huey's Opaque White mist

Live Joyfully-Scraps of Elegance and Gina's Designs

I just had to scrap this photo taken at our family BBQ this summer, as we all get together so seldom.  I loved the contrast of the pastel paper and florals from the November Scraps of Elegance kit, "Sweet Sentiments" with the black accents, including the Scribbled Frames and Lines from Gina's Designs.-BTW the green polka-dotted flowers are made with the Prima packaging from the flowers in the kit.I use everything-LOL!

I added a little stamping to the background around the photo as well as a few paint strokes, and simply painted the chipboard pieces with black acrylic paint. The three largest flowers came with the kit and the others were all diecut. Thanks for stropping by, and I hope if you're facing winter weather like we are that this summery page warms you up just a bit!

Gina's products used

Scribbled Frames and Lines

Other products used

Blue Fern Montage papers
Marion Smith Posh papers

(both from Scraps of Elegance Nov kit)

Elegant Masks-Scraps of Elegance and Gina's Designs

 Hi! Lynne here with  my latest project; I've been having fun decorating my new scrap room and decided to make these to hang on one of the doors using the Masks Shape Set.

I used pieces from the Mini Flourishes-Bella Set and the Feather Shape Set and used papers and embellishments from the November Scraps of Elegance kit, "Sweet Sentiments"  to finish them.

                     I painted the pieces with acrylic paint then brushed them lightly with white glitter paint.The flowers were fussy cut from one of the lovely papers in the kit.

       

                The fussy-cut dangles from  one of the gorgeous Blue Fern Studios papers were finished with Glossy accents to add strength and a metallic look. The colours and florals coordinate beautifully with the Victorian Wall shelf I finished last month with the October Scraps of Elegance kit, so my room is looking very feminine and pretty if I do say so myself!

 The Scraps of Elegance store can be found here:
http://store.scrapsofdarkness.com/

Gina's Products used
Mask Shapes Set
Feather Shapes Set
Mini Flourishes-Bella

Sisters...for Tresors Deluxe November Challenge

hi-check out this lovely fall mood board from the Tresors Deluxe Challenge Facebook page:

I loved the warm feel of the colours, the rain drops and the bird, and incorporated all of these into my page. The photo is of our two kittens, Honey and Sweetie, who are litter sisters, and also best friends.



I coloured my cream lace with mists and altered the background paper with texture paste, mists, inking  and stamping, then added Kaisercraft Droplets to simulate the raindrops from the mood board.

You can find their challenge group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TresorsdeLuxeChallenge/?fref=ts

Thanks so much for visiting; have a super week!

Well, I'm thrilled to say that this little album is my first finished handmade Christmas gift for 2014! My daughter recently moved away from home and has emailed me asking for several recipes, so I thought it would be nice for her to have her favourites compiled together, and this Cutout Cover Mini Album was absolutely perfect!

                            

 I painted the incredibly cute cover piece with charcoal grey acrylic paint, then stamped with Versamark ink and embossed it with black detail embossing powder to give it dimension and shine.

                                

I used mostly Basic Gray's Out of Print line to complete the album pages, which you can see here. I left the last page blank for her to add new recipes she discovers (we are both avid bakers and cake decorators!)

           

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I wish you a sweet and creative day!

"Buds"-November page for Pixels and Paper/Child's Play

         Hi! I created this page for Pixels and Paper's joint challenge with Child's Play Challenge Blog.

Here is the inspiration photo from Pixels and Paper, and you can find their blog here:
http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/



The green truck inspired me to use this gorgeous paper from Pink Paislee's Hope Chest collection, and the stuffed toys inspired my choice of photo. I also tried to capture the vintage feel of the photo.

Child's Play Challenges added a recipe challenge, and their blog can be found here:
http://childsplaychallenges.blogspot.ca/

Recipe:

gold

animal

something older than 1 year

3 patterned papers

bling

Hope you decide to play along with us this month-I had so much fun putting this page together!