Love To Create!

Scrap Tiffany's design team this week made banners.  I've wanted something to put up on my wall in my Scrappy Room for quite a while just never got arount to making anything.  When this project came up I knew just what I wanted to make.

I wanted each letter to be different from the others and I think I really did that. 

Scenery Photos - The Caribbean

This week at Scrap Tiffany we all used scenery photos to make a layout.  I had to really give this one a thought because I'm not one to take pictures of just scenery.  I then remembered out great cruise to the Caribbean in 2008.  I knew I had to have scenery pictures in there.  Of course I had great expectations of making a book with all of these photos but it never got even started.

On  our excursions in Tortola we went to see The Baths in Virgin Gorda.  It was amazing!  These huge bolders are sprinkled along the beach.  There is a path through the bolders and we followed our guide, climbing up, over and around, from one beach to another.

We are returning to Tortola in January 2011 on another Caribbean cruise.  This time we are taking an excursion on a boat that will go back to this same area so we can see it from the sea and snorkel around these great bolders.

I cut the letters out on my Cricut and applied glitter but not covering the whole letter.  I really like how they turned out.  Less Is Better!

Jeepers Creepers!

I really hate spiders!  This time of year really creeps me out.  Seems like there are spiders everywhere and I hear everyone commenting on how big they are this year. 

For Scrap Tiffany we were to use our scraps.  I keep all my scraps in drawers according to color so they are easy to get to.  I found a large (for a scrap) of black and used my new Cricut cartridge October 31st and cut out the spider.  I plumped up it's body with puff paint and added yellow glitter and little red glitter eyes. 

I took the stripe paper and soaked it in water and then distressed it and used some distress ink on it.  I tore up a small piece of cardboard that was sitting in the corner of my room and also used distress ink on it.  I found a scrap of tulle and tied it across the cardboard adding some stuffing from an old dog toy for webbing and then put that nasty spider on top.

I think it turned out pretty good for only using scraps.

We all have CARDSTOCK

The challange this week was to only use cardstock.  We all have some of this and use it to accent other paper on our page layouts and cards.  I took nine different colors and ran the 1 1/2 inch squares through nine different embossing folders.  I didn't think I had that many!

It's hard to see in the picture but I also popped up three of the squares to give some dimention to the card.  It was my DIL's birthday on the 2nd so this birthday card went to Lindsey.

VINTAGE

I love the look of vintage cards.  Vintage allows you to go in so many different directions.  One of many things that are on my wish list are more vintage stamps, I don't have any at this time.

I received the birdcage and bird die cut from a friend in a swap.  The cage was red and just didn't give me the look I wanted so I  covered it with crackle paint so that the red shows through.  I took a grungeboard swirl and added rhinestones to it and placed in on top of a page out of an old book.  The background of the card is distressed inks with a spritz of water giving it a weathered look.

The left side just didn't look right so I added tule and metal cornor brads.

"ORANGE" Design Team Card

I have been a really bad blogger through this summer.  I haven't entered any contests or anything.  I made a board book for my daughter for her 30th birthday and I've kept up with all the birthdays in the family and of course, I've done my design team work.  I just haven't been very good about sitting down and getting it onto my blog.

This card is for the design team at Scrap Tiffany.  This week we were to work with the color orange.  It's not one of Tiffany's favorite colors but it is mine.  The image is from Stampin Up and colored with copic markers.  I distressed the orange cardstock by wetting it and then rubbing my finger over it until it was torn and wrinkled.  I think it give the cardstock a ruffled look.

Enjoy the day and I will try to do better about posting my cards.  I'm now off to make next weeks DT card.

Black & White Photos

Today I'm showing you a LO using Black and White photos that I did for the design team.  I like to use a lot of color with B & W photos because I feel it makes the image pop!  This picture is my grandson in his backyard on his swing.  Even though it is B & W you can feel the sun.

I used my new frindge scissors, that I won on the Spotted Canary, on the bottom of the LO and cut the Caterpillar with my Cricut using A Walk In My Garden cartridge.  The backing for the photo is a Tissue and applied with Mod Podge and used a little distress ink to give it a little color.

You can see more LO's using black & white photos at Scrap Tiffiny today and again more on Friday.

Congratulation on the New Job

I made this card for my daughters brother-in-law that just got hired by a trucking firm.  He is now a long haul trucker.  The theme for Scrap Tiffiny Blog design team was to use Brad & Eyelets.  So I combined these into one card. 

I stamped the truck cab from a Stamp-in Up pickup stamp and cut the bed off.  Used the cuttlebug to give the trailer some embossing and the wheels are buttons with shinny chrome brads.

Lili of the Valley Challenge Card

I was in need of a Birthday card so went looking for a current challenge with a sketch.  It is so much easier for me to get started if I have a sketch to go from.  This sketch is a challenge with Lili of the Valley Blog.

Pirate Birthday Party! ! !

It was Cooper's Pirate Birthday Party this past weekend.  My daughter and I put together the invitations above using Paperdolls Cricut Cartridge. 

I then used a grunge board cutout and used it as a mask on his birthday card.  I sprayed over it with Glimmer Mist giving it an old look for the skeleton.  I, once again, used a paperdoll cut out for the pirate and ship.  I distressed the sails by wetting them down and rubbing them until the paper was ruffed up and applied some distress ink.  Two buttons for the skeleton eyes and a few stickers finished it out.

On the day of the party I made Pirate cupcakes for the kids and a Pirate cake for everyone else.

It's too bad that the Birthday Pirate broke his leg the day before he turned two and was not able to play most of the games.  He had a good time anyway and is now the proud owner of a black cast!

Join the Spotted Canary!

Join the facebook page for the Spotted Canary and you will get a chance to win this prize!  It is a great group with challanges and a lot of prizes to be won.  This is where I won a ton of scrapbooking items from.  Check it out on Facebook or on their web site:  http://www.spottedcanary.com/

Blog Giveaway!

I just ran across this giveaway from the blog, All Scrapbook Steals.  Enter by checking out all their great deals and then leaving a comment about what is your favorite summer past time.  Get a second entry by posting on your blog, Facebook or Twitter. Winner will be announced on July 11th.