Times Nouveau -

My Mom, two of her sisters and a cousin lived together in Washington DC during WW II.  I have to wonder how my grandparents felt when their girls took off for the big city as my  Mom was raised in the countryside of NC on a farm and certainly was a stranger to the big city.  I love how they're all dressed in their trousers, so cute!

I used Graphic 45's Collector's Edition of Times Nouveau.  LOL, yeah I think I'm a collector all right, I have as much Graphic 45 paper as I have of all my other papers combined!!  I am not complaining, I start to get all scared if it looks like I'm going to run out of a collection!!

I used a ScrapFx clock and embellished it with a fussy cut image from the Fashionista collection.  That is an older Petaloo bloom, love these so much, thank you jrabs for giving it to me!!!  I have been hoarding it!

I fussy cut the ladies on this page and popped up one of them.  I do think the sisters all look like they are styling it!

Thank you friends for stopping by!

Bo Bunny Prarie Chic and ScrapFx chippies

Have you taken a good look at the ScrapFx chippies? They are seriously wonderful, very detailed and sturdy and they are just perfect for embossing with one of my favorite product, Stampendous aged embossing powders.  On these two layouts, I've combined ScrapFx chippies with Bo Bunny's great new collection, Prairie Chic.

For this first LO I used Garden as my base paper and cut it to put the two edge patterns together and made the swirly pattern on the right side of the page.  I wanted to bring out the subtle greens in the background so I stamped some flourishes with an old Heidi Swapp foam stamp near the bottom and then liberally sprayed the page on the left with Lindy's Moonshadow mist.

The photo is of me and my big brother when I was 3 1/2 years old.  Ahhh, every little girl needs a big brother!

I am loving ScrapFx chippies and here I've used one of my favorite flourishes ever behind the photo. I embossed the chippy with Stampedous Aged Hunter Green Embossing Enamel. I love the this stuff! The birdhouse is painted with Viva Decor paints.

Supplies:

Patterned paper:  Bo Bunny Prairie Chic:  circle-Chevron 14101668,  base-Garden 14101673, license plates fussy cuts-Prarie Chic 14101667, photo mats-Stonewashed Denim 1410676,die cut border stickers-Combo Stickers 14103681 (Currently this is out of stock at the Flying Unicorn)

Letters:  Sizzix diecut  Tim Holtz Vintage Market 

Chipboard:  ScrapFx flourish and birdhouse - new chippies will be added to the store any day now!

Flowers:    Petaloo Cantebury Rose Brownie, FUL Victorian Garden beige; Petaloo Canterbury Ivy leaf vines with gold

Ink:  Distress walnut stain

Mist:  Lindy’s Ethereal Emerald Moonshadow mist, Ponderosa Pine Olive on doily 

Embossing enamel:  Stampendous Aged Hunter 

Paint:    VivaInka-gold emerald green, Viva 3D Walnut brown

Other:  7 Gypsies journal ticket

Unknown:  Burlap,straw mesh

On this layout I was trying my hand and blending the photo into the paper in the style of our guest designer this month, Solange Marques.  After cutting my photo to fit inside the ScrapFx chippy circle,   I  painted some white gesso in the upper right corner, then I glued down the photo.  I added some molding paste and used a credit card to blend the edge of the photo into the molding paste.  I used Claudia Helmuth charcoalblack and traditional tan to stipple additional leaves on the tree, thereby extending the photo into the background. I covered the photo and then misted with Lindy's Frosted Forget me nots, stamped on some script with a Kaisercraft stamp and then added the ScrapFx chippy.

On the bottom left, I used a new Prima Lattice Stencil (6 x 6) and molding paste to create the lattice pattern.  After it dried I misted it liberally with Lindy's Edelweiss Moss Green.

I cut up a Prima Bretton Alyssa vine to layer around the large Manor House bloom.

Finally I fussy cut some banners from the paper and added to my floral cluster.

Supplies:

Patterned paper:  Bo Bunny Prairie Chic:  Base-Chevron , yellow-Stonewash Denim , Stickers Chipboard:  ScrapFxchippy

Flowers:    Prima Bretton Vine Alyssa 552640, large flower Manor House

Mist:  Lindy’s FrostedForget me Nots, Edelweiss Moss Green

Embossing Enamel:  Stampendous Aged Ivory

Paint: white gesso;  Claudia Helmuth charcoal black, traditional tan

More March kit creations with the Flying Unicorn KOM!!

Hi, I'm back with more layouts from the Flying Unicorn March KOM to share with you.

 

I'm still working on the wedding album for my niece. She has so many lovely photos from the event, I may be scrapping them for the rest of my life! Here's the wedding party at the reception.

I used Kaisercraft's Marigold collection from the KOM for this layout and just layered up those beautiful papers! I love EK Success punches and used the Flower Burst punch to anchor my horizontal floral clusters. McGill has a really pretty flower punch, Floriano, that I use all the time and I used it here to make the two large flowers that have been colored with Viva 3D Lime Green metallic paint. The small blue flowers are from the kit, the white fabric ribbon flowers and pink rosebuds are from my stash

The sweet little bird and house are ScrapFx chippies (from my stash) and are painted with Viva Inka Gold in hermatitie, greeen-yellow and old silver. The beautiful bling heart on the right is a Flying Unicorn Adornment, I just can't say enough about how beautiful the new Unicorn metals are! 

 

 

This is a small alligator that we saw in the swamps outside of New Orleans. For this page I used a mini fern mask and Viva 3D paint in moss green to stencil on the fern leaves. I also sprayed alot of Lindy's here and there on the background. I used Red Hot Poker Orange, Cattail Copper Brown, and Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist. Then I used a leaf stamp and bird stamp from a prior kit.

The one paper leaf came in the kit and I sprayed it with Goosebumps Shimmer Texture to give it texture and strength. I used Lindy's California Poppy Gold and Ponderosa Pines applied to the back of the leaf for color. LOL, that was kind of a mistake that turned out to look nice. The Goosebumps creates a resist and I stupidly applied it before I had colored the leaf sooooo... had to soak it in from the backside. I love the effect actually!

The letters are really old, probably purchased in 2005! The large red flower is from my stash, one of my favorite Petaloo Darjeeling flowers. I added the branches and moss for a natural touch, also from my stash.

 

Thanks for stopping by!!

July KOM creations!

I know you're going to love this kit, it is full of fun and diverse papers, everything from Fabscraps, to 7 Gypsies to Pink Paislee mistables.  This first layout incorporates all three of these paper lines.  The photo is a cabin in Hope, Alaska that we happened by while honeymooning there almost 20 years ago.  I loved the flowers everywhere so of course had to snap a shot!

The fence is from my stash as is the orange floral vine (there is a blue one like it in the kit) and the large orange rose.  The 5 petal flowers are in the kit but i have misted them orange.  The honeycomb paper is Pink Paislee and I have inked it with Bundled Sage Distress ink.  There are also some Prima masks which I used there on the right.

 The large bloom here is hand made.

You know how I love my furbabies!  This is my sweet girl Brandy, she went over the bridge December 28, 2007.  She was quite the character and I've included stories about her in the Dog Tales file folder.  I used Distress ink, Fired Brick, on the Pink Paislee mistable paper, its the circle.  I used my Lucky 8 WRMK Tatted Doily to cut the scalloped circles.  The large rose is a beautiful Manor House bloom that came in the kit that I misted with Lindy's.  The tiny roses are Flying Unicorn Enchanted Passion Bordeaux - all from the store.

I love the crows on the telephone line, that's a Scrap FX chippy, love it!!

My journaling:

Dear sweet Brandy…there are so many stories to tell, she filled our hearts with love and laugter for 12 ½ years, her last year with us was difficult, but a dog is a forever friend so you do what you have to do.

During the last year of Brandy’s life she developed anxiety disorder and it got so bad that we had to put her on Xanex twice a day.  One day I came home from work and Brandy greeted me at the door.  I thought to myself, “Hmmm, that’s strange, I could have sworn, I put the dogs in the laundry room this morning.”  I figured I hadn’t closed the door good and thought no more about it until the next day when Brandy again greeted me at the door when I got home. 

At that point I figured some further investigation was in order so I went to the basement to check it out.   Our laundry room was a combination laundry and storage room and it was quite large so that’s where Chena and Brandy spent their days.   What I found was really quite amazing, the round door handle was quite mangled as Brandy had learned to grasp the door handle in her mouth, turn it, and pull the door open.  Yes, smart dog!           

Her anxiety attacks were quite severe and caused her to cling to me to the point that she would try to lay on top of me.  She would pace and pace and nothing calmed her down.  One night I was awake all night with her because she would not settle down.  She and I went to the guest room one night and I allowed her in the bed with me but she would lay down for a minute and then resume pacing, and jumping on the bed, and pacing, and laying on top of me, she was wild with anxiety, I felt so badly for her.

 The final straw before putting her on Xanex full time was the day our housekeeper, Kathy, came.  Well Kathy was afraid of dogs so we always made sure the dogs were securely locked up downstairs where Kathy did not have to go.  That day, Brandy was stricken with anxiety and opened the door and she and Chena went running upstairs to find a very startled and scared Kathy who climbed up on the island in the middle of our kitchen.  Brandy reportedly laid down on the floor but Chena kept circling the island and barking at her.  At some point Kathy was able to get off the island, grab the phone that was just a few feet away, and call our neighbors whose house she also cleaned.  They worked out a plan where our neighbor would come over to the back of the house and tap on the sliding glass door and get the dogs’ attention; meanwhile, Kathy would jump off the island and flee to the garage.  That worked just great except that by now, Kathy was so rattled that she couldn’t remember where the switch was to open the garage door.  Finally she slipped our house keys under the garage door and the neighbors were able to get in the house and put Brandy and Chena back in the laundry room.  Only problem was that Brandy again opened the laundry room door.  And so, the neighbors came back over to rescue Kathy from the dogs!  After Brandy’s 3^rd escape from the laundry room, the neighbors putting Brandy in the furnace room and when we got home she had escaped from there too.

 Amazingly, Kathy continued to clean our house, and after putting Brandy on Xanex twice daily, we had no more episodes of doggie escape!

I'll be showing you more things I did with the kit in a couple days, please come visit!!