Swirlydoos Kit Club January kit reveal!

Welcome to:

Swirlydoos Kit Club 

January Scrapbook Kit Reveal!

Thank you for joining our blog hop this month! If you came here from Helena's blog, then you are on the right track. If not, go back to Swirlydoos' blog and start from there.  Make sure you leave a comment on all blogs for a chance to win a prize! And, make sure you have LIKED & FOLLOWED Swirlydoos on Facebook!!!

Swirlydoos is proud to bring you our beautiful January collection:

Bejeweled

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And check out these coordinating add ons that perfectly compliment our January scrapbook kit! 

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Are you a subscriber? If so, your kit is on it's way if you don't already have it! If not, check out the Swirlydoos store to see if there are any January kits or add ons in the store!

***All of our monthly scrapbook kits are available in our store while supplies last!***

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We have some absolutely beautiful scrapbook projects for you to see today !!  

I must say, this is one gorgeous kit that includes Blue Fern's Sanctuary papers and chippies! Here's my sweet princess, Nika.  I've misted the background a bit and stenciled on a doily.  The blue flowers and stems are from the kit and the feathered flower is from an old Swirlydoos kit that I've been hoarding now for several years. It's about time that I used it!

The Prima wood icon is from an earlier Swirlydoos kit and that lovely rhinestone crown was a gift from my Secret Santa sister Heather.  Thank you Heather, I love it and it was perfect for this layout!

I nestled some burgandy roses from I am Roses into the kit Petaloo stems.

I touched the petals on the KC blue flowers with tan and white paint so that they would blend in nicely with the Petaloo Botanical stems.

I painted the chipboard white and then sprinkled on some really fine glitter and added some Prima crystals.

Supplies
Patterned paper: Blue Fern Studios Sanctuary: Base - Meadows of Time, rectangle - Bontanica Garden, (all from the kit)
Letters: Prima wooden icons "My Sweet Princess" (from a prior kit), I Am Roses
Chipboard: BFS Boston Lattice,  (all from the kit and addons)
Flowers: Petaloo Faux Dried Flowers Epherma Grey/Blue ( from the kit and/or addons),, Kaisercraft paper blooms iceberg (from the kit and/or addons), Prima Guava Peony Etude, Petaloo Spring Berry Cluser Yellow/Green (Both from previous kits)

Mist: Prima Pressed Petal
Masks: Prima Doily 3
Masking paste: 13 Arts Ayeeda Gesso
Paint: Claduia Hellmuth Blank Canvas, Traditional Tan, Pastel Yellow
Other: Prima SIIC 573218, (from a previous kit), white cheesecloth (from the kit)

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I did a little masking on the background of this layout with two different masks. I tore some pieces of cardboard and painted a whitewash over them to layer under my photo and flowers.  The photo was taken shortly after we were married some 22 + years ago.  Wow, can't believe its been that long!

The smaller roses that you see on my layout are from the kit while the larger pink roses are from my stash.  The brown ones are from a previous kit.  

I love the Prima Shabby Chic resin birds in the kit!

Supplies:

Corrugated paper Fancy Pants (from a previous kit)
Patterned paper: Blue Fern Studios Sanctuary: Base - Bountiful, cut out corners - Conservatory (from the kit)
Chipboard: BFS Tweet Friends (from a previous kit)
Flowers: Prima Rodanthe 577742 (from a previous kit), Prima Charme Rose Almanac (from the kit), I Am Roses

Ink: Distress Gathered Twigs
Mist: Lindy's Moonshadow Mist Long John Silver
Masks: Prima Decor 1, Memory Box Rings and Puddles
Masking paste: 13 Arts Ayeeda Gesso
Other: Prima Shabby Chic Birds, Heidi Swapp word stickers (both from the kit)

This is my mixed media mayhem layout for the month, LOL!!  I've stamped on a lot of gold and white paint as well as created some drips with watered down paint.  This style of work is not easy for me but I like to push myself with one layout each month using mixed medias.

Scrapbooking started out as a way of preserving memories and in the last few years has taken a turn where it is more of an art form that memory preservation.  While I love the art side, I want to combine the two so that while I am exploring my inner artist, I am also preserving memories and telling stories.

Here is my journaling:

In the fall we always take a trip to the mountains of NC and one of the things we really love doing is visiting Barber Orchard in Waynesville to buy apples. This year we bought 4 bushels, 2 for us and 2 for Mom and Dad. I canned 20 quarts and 32 pints of applesauce and 24 quarts of sliced apples! Some of the sauce was for Mom and Dad. It really is a lot of work but we enjoy the bounty all year long and its so much better than what you can buy in the store!

To treat the chippy, I first dabbed silver paint all over creating a texture with the paint, then I randomly applied gold embossing enamel here and there and heat set.

To create the drips and splats, I watered down red paint and dripped it on the page.  To create the splatters, I gathered paint on my brush and then just tapped the brush over the page.

Supplies:

Patterned paper: Blue Fern Studios Sanctuary: Base - Correspondence, circle - Conservatory (from the kit)
Letters: Pink Paislee Artisan Elements
Chipboard: BFS Beaded Flourish (from the kit and/or addons) painted with silver dabber and gold embossing powder
Embossing powder: Stampendous aged Gold
Diecuts and punches: Spellbinders Gold Labels Four
Flowers: Petaloo Chantilly Hydrangeas (from the kit and/or addons), Petaloo Chantilly Mixed Blooms Red Burgundy

Ink: Stazon gold,
Masks: Prima Decor 2
Masking paste: Art-C dark green
Paint: Art Anthology Red Velvet watered down for drips (from a previous kit), Claudia Hellmuth Blank Canvas, Ranger silver dabber
Other: Burlap Ribbon (from the kit and/or addons)

You have until midnight, eastern time, January 8th to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on 1/10. In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Take your time. There are REALLY beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down. 
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence. 
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had, tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected. Can't wait to hear from you.

My special word is : encouragement
The party continues over at Maja's blog. Have fun!

Blog Hop Order:

Kim www.droopidog.typepad.com

Angelica  http://angelicascrappenings.blogspot.com/

Paulien  http://paulienvandenbosch.blogspot.com/

Helena http://willeascrappar.blogspot.com

Maggi  http://scraptravelbark.blogspot.com/\

Maja http://stokk-eyovine.blogspot.se/

Rae http://scrappingfancy.blogspot.com/