My Creative Scrapbook Bloghop

Today is the start of My Creative Scrapbook's Bloghop. I have to say the design tem out did themselves this month. I would also have to say that the Main Kit if my fav!

This kit is chocked full of goodies from Prima's new Zephyr line and I can't wait until it gets here! Time to start stalking the mailman! Have a great day!

My Creative Sketches Layout Challenge-Heaven Sent

I've been having a hard time with scrapping these past few weeks. I decided to finally give up smoking (25 years) and have started medication to help curb the urges. Well I've been so nauseous I'd swear I was pregnant again ( absolutely zero chance of that!). It's been difficult to focus when your head and stomach are rolling with the waves but I really wanted to meet the deadline for the MCS Sketch Challenge. This was the sketch designed by Kim Keane.

This is my interpretation.

I flipped the sketch to accomdate the vertical picture. This is my grandaughter Emily as a flower girl on her uncle's wedding. I just fell in love with the picture when I saw it!

Some DA ( Scroll #8) in the corner with both a handmade and  Prima flower.

For the DA piece (Orante Gate) I painted it first with white craft paint and after it dried went over it again with my pealy coloured nailpolish to give it that shimmer associated with the pearly gates of heaven. Unfortunately no matter how I shoot this I can't catch the shine on camera :(  Well that's it for me today I'm off to start another layout stomach permitting! Have a great day and thanks for coming by!! :)



MCS July Challenge-Lil Miss

The challenge at My Creative Scrapbook this month was to scraplift a design team members layout. I chose to scraplift Zoe's.

My grandaughter Lilly has become quite good at posing for Grandma's endless photo sessions. This was taken in my backyard while all the girls were up for a week long visit.

 Just some flowers I made to match the paper Bo Bunny's Little Miss line. I love this paper!

The noteworthy cardstock pieces work really well in adding dimension to a page.

Ingvild Bolme is BACK!!

Ingvild Bolme is back to blogging and I couldn't be happier!!! Yeah! I have followed her blog for a long time and really missed her posting her great pages. The silence that came from her blog was deafening! Now she is back with a gorgeous new blog! http://www.ingvildbome.com/ Check it out! She's back full throttle!

Shells's Give Away!

Heads up Shell is having an awesome give away on her blog Another Scrappy Day! Check it out!

http://anotherscrappyday.blogspot.ca/2012/07/another-giveaway-once-upon-sketch.html?showComment=1343083651694

A Ladies Diary-Dusty Attic Sketch Challenge

This is the July sketch over at Dusty Attic.

This is my interpretation of it.

This is a picture of my godmother taken in 1957 with her younger sister. I scrapped the actual photo as I know it will only sit in a box until someone digs it up and then they won't even know who it is. It is really important to me that these memories are kept and passed on down the line. My Godparents ran a bakery on Yonge St. in Toronto called Ingemar's and visiting them was always such a treat. I used the Scraps of Elegance Kit with the Graphic 45 Ladies Diary line. I love this paper!

You can see one of the four tile embellishments I made with Sculpy clay and some stickers from the kit and some homemade flowers mixed up with Prima.

Another shot of the tiles mixed in with the flower embellies! I have a tendancy to cluster my flowers!

I used the Dusty Attic Vintage Wire Table, the vintage telephone and I used a scrap piece of the chipboard to make a vase. I cut a vase with my Silhouette and then used the vase stencil to cut a vase out of the extra chipboard. Didn't want to waste a thing! :) That's it for this post hope you have a great week and TFL!

T

My Lillies-MCS LE Kit

I took this picture of my gd Lilly by my pond posing with the flowers she was named after. I had the honor of picking her name :) The Girl Land papers from Websters in the MCS LE Kit were a perfect match for the variety of colors! I put alot of time into this layout trying different things like stamping and masking.

I used a Prima masked and painted the gate with antique white paint then added Pink Paislee sparkles to the paint before it dried. It is hard to see the sparkle especially given the bright light I took these shots in.

I really wanted to put the personal touch to the page so I made most of the flowers myself and added a Websters bloom. Again I added sparkles to the flowers (hard to see).

I used a Websters Cameo backed by the Cameo Ribbon Slider from Dusty Attic leaving it plain ( it worked  perfectly). The leaves are also a new product from DA as well! Of course the bling is also Websters Girl Land!

I used a stamp from my stash of a Calla Lilly (my favourite) and stamed several blooms onto the Websters paper. I then did alot of fussy cutting and detailing with a black marker to make a flower border for the one side of the layout!

The last little touch was adding a ticket (not Girl Land line) and some whimsies to finish off the page. It is my goal to add more mixed media to my layouts for fun and contrast and am always looking for new ideas. Well I'm off to enjoy the rest of this gorgeous very hot Sunday! and TFL!