Using my stash for the Use Your Stash Challenge at the Flying Unicorn

We have a great challenge going at the Flying Unicorn, it's Use your Stash, and like all of our Flying Unicorn challenges, you can use any products you like.  You do not have to use our kits or items from the store!  We welcome everyone to our forum!

This is just a fun LO that I did of my Dad using an old G45 collection, Communique.  Its one of my favorite collections as I love the reds, blacks and creams in this collection.  And it is very appropriate for this layout as my Dad worked in communications, teletype machines, radios, etc,  during his 28 years serving in the US Army. 

I popped up the letters and some of the embellies with foam dots and then painted them with Diamond Glaze to make them stand out.  This is a great way to add a little extra pizazz to your projects.  This is really a simple layout and it needed a little something extra.

Journaling:
"General Price presenting the Legion of Merit medal to Dad for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of his duties.  Dad earned two Legion of Merit awards during his 28 years in the Army, one for service in Vietnam and one for service in Germany.  The Legion of Merit is one of the highest noncombat medals awarded ."

Supplies:

Patterned paper:  Graphic45 Communique collection:  diecut - Pen in Hand 4500058, Red plaid - Typography 4500065, frame - photogenic 4500063. black check - society page 4500064, tags,

Letters:  G45 Alphabetstickers 4500235, script Websters in Love stickers lette

Diecuts and punches: WRMK Lucky 8 Fancy Scroll

Flowers:    Prima 564575 Engraver flowers light brown

Ink:  distress black soot

Other:  Diamond glaze, Jolee's fleur de lis

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you at the Flying Unicorn in the challenges forum!

Vintage and Shabby with Graphic 45

Alda is hosting a Shabby Shabby World challenge at the Flying Unicorn.  Take a look at her inspiration.  Alda does shabby chic like no one else that I know.  She made the below from a Cricut box!

I hope you'll come show us your shabby style!

I did this for inspiration.  I always start out on a shabby track but end up throwing in some black or something really bright.  I used Graphic 45 Ladies Diary for this.  I lightly brushed on some white gesso to tone down the black a bit and added some cheesecloth under the circle layer.

The birdcage is embossed with Stampendous Shabby Green embossing enamel.  Oh this is such a yummy color, I love it.  It  has some gold flecks in it that add perfectly to its shabby look!

Supplies

Patterned paper:  G45Ladies Diary collection:  floral-Focal Point, Clocks fussy cut - MOment in Time, pink-La Gazette, Beige frame - Moment in Time, Blue-Garden Stroll,

Chipboard:  Dusty Attic0678 Bird Cage

Embossing powder:  Stampendous Shabby Green

Diecuts and punches: Martha Stewart Cherish, Deco Fans,

Flowers:    Petaloo Catebury Ivy leaf vines, Prima Arcadian Collection Rosy

Mist:  Lindy's Glitz Spritz Blazing Sun

Masks:  TCW clocks

Paint:   white gesso

Other:  Creative Imaginations Signature Collection Rhinestones, Prima SIIC, Liquitex modeling paste, cheese cloth April kit

Unknown:  Lace from Joann's,

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll join in this fun challenge.  You could win an awesome RAK!!

Good times, good friends! Swirlydoos Sept kit

Last weekend four of my Swirly girlfriends came for a weekend of scrapping, drinking and eating!  LOL!    We turned our upstairs into a big scrappy haven and had such a great time making a big mess!  The poodles especially loved it because they had so many swirly aunties to pet and spoil them.  Every morning they run to the top of the stairs hoping to see their swirly aunties, girls you are missed!!  We all worked on paper bag minis and some of us dug into our Sept Swirly kits.  Dick and I took everyone on a drive through the countryside so they could see our southern lifestyle and tobacco heritage.

I really love the Prima Printery papers that are in the Swirlydoos September kit.  Someone kept telling me that less is better so I think my two LO's have a bit more blank space than normal!  I loved using this Dusty Attic frame that I first painted with suede acrylic paint.  Then I covered with Crackle Accents.  When that dried, I rubbed pewter perfect pearls into all the cracks.  The dress form is one of Primas new canvas resists that I inked with Distress antique linen ink - it was the perfect color for  the dress form.  The spool of thread is an Alterations diecut which I heat embossed to make it look like the dress form.  First I painted the spool, then I stamped swirls and then heat-embossed the swirls with clear embossing powder.  My Mother was an awesome seamstress so this LO is a nod to her talents.

I was really excited and really challenged when I came upon this photo of my great great grandparents, their daughter, SIL, probably a son and we don't know who the other person is.  The original photo was badly faded and I did not imagine that I'd be able to bring as much detail out as I did.  I was really ecstatic about the results that I managed to achieve.  I'm really hooked on photo restoration and think I'm going to have a look at some new tools to make the job a tad easier.  The Dusty Attic pieces are painted with white gesso and then sprayed with Glimmer mist in Timberline and Snowy Pine.  The canvas resist piece is also sprayed with Timberline. Oh my, those are some GORGEOUS colors, moost haves!!  Thank you Jen (jrabs) for the gorgeous buttons above and the trim below, both were perfect for my LOs!

Steam Punk and Sketches: Creatively Yours

I did this layout about 10 days ago for Sketches:  Creatively Yours and have been anxious to share it with you.  The fun part about this Steampunk layout is that the picture shows a REAL steampowered shovel.  Isn't that cool!?  I worked this LO for 2 days before it came together. 

Here 's the great sketch drawn by Ali MacDonald:

And here is my interpretation:

I took the pictures at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska where they have several old pieces of equipment around that were used during the gold rush.  This piece of machinery helped build the Panama Canal before it came to work in Alaska!

I used Core'dinations G45 Timeless Collection for the base page .  The rest of the papers are from Graphic 45 Steampunk Collection.  The frame is a Dusty Attic piece popped up for dimension that I stained with Distress stain in picket fence.  Then I used a tiny script stamp to stamp over it using coffee archival ink.  The various metal pieces are either Tim Holtz or 7 Gypsies.  The brown flowers were made using the Alterations Tattered Floral die and were cut from Kraft Glassine paper.  I added some pewter Perfect Pearls to give them a nice shimmer.  The sunflower is made from a Spellbinders die with vintage photo distress stickles in the center.  Oh yes, there's also some brown lace underneath the edge punched paper.  I covered the letters with Crackle Accents and popped them up. 

Thanks for visiting my blog, I really appreciate it.  I hope you'll give this sketch a try and post a link at Sketches:  Creatively Yours so that we can see your interpretation of the sketch!

Swirlydoos LO - July kit

Wow, I am sooooooooooooooo far behind in my posting and commenting! I did this LO about a month ago for a challenge at Swirlydoos to use misting, masking & Gesso on a layout.  I don't know what I've been doing all month but it hasn't had much to do with SBing much to my chagrin!!

The July Swirlydoos kit had some of my favorite papers in it, Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden.

For the mask, I used  the DA piece and olive vine glimmer mist. I used clear gesso on the hearts border strip and then painted with Shimmerz and Glimmer mist. The clear gesso acts a little like a resist and gave the mottled color look.

The photo is of my Mom, two of her sisters and a cousin. All of the girls lived together in Washington DC during the war. I call it spirit b/c I think it took alot of spirit for 4 country bumpkins to move to the big city like that! I can imagine that my Grandparents were having a fit!    Thanks for visiting my blog and I always appreciate your comments!!

 

September Flying Unicorn forum challenges!

As a guest CT member this month I am hosting a challenge, "It's all about techniques."    I hope you'll check it out and join in the fun.  For my challenge I've listed 10 different techniques and I challenge you to use them all on a single layout.  One enty point is awarded for using each technique (max of 10).  At the end of the month a winner will be chosen using random.org and the winner will receive a fabulous RAK from the Flying Unicorn store! 

Here's my example layout that I did for the challenge:

The techniques I used:

I made the large flowers on my layout using a tutorial from member Lisa Gregory. Check out her blog for some fabulous flower tuts. http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/


Heat embossing – I embossed the swirls using marcasite embossing powder

 My edges are inked and then distressed using water distressing. To do this, first distress the edges, I use my Zutter Distrezz-it-all. Then, dampen the edges of your paper a bit with your fingers and then wrinkle, fold, curl, and push the paper edges in so that the effect is 3-.D.

I used a Prima mask and distress ink in the lower left corner

On the upper left, I spread some gesso over my paper and then stamped it with that famous brick stamp!! I let that dry and then wiped over the stamped image with pumice distress ink so that the image of the brick stands out. I’ve also done this with molding paste and I think I like that effect a little better. Here’s a link to a tut on my blog for this technique. http://scraptravelbark.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-fox-sketches-creatively-yours.html

 I used a Martha Stewart corner punch to punch around my circle. That’s a great technique that I learned from Lisa Gregory! (tut http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/2010/10/paper-corner-punch-decorative-circles.html).It’s easy, just turn your punch over so that you can see where you are punching and punch around the circle. You can also use the technique described in this tut: http://scraptravelbark.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-fox-sketches-creatively-yours.html

 I made my cluster from two Petaloo picks, Prima leaves and my handmade flowers.

The letters for “France” in the lower left have been stamped with a Prima stamp featuring tiny script writing.

Everyone on the Creative Team has posted a great challenge, there's sure to be a challenge or two that you'll want to try.  There  are great RAKs to be won for each challenge too.  Come visit!

Flying Unicorn!

I am so honored to have been chosen as the September guest CT member at Flying Unicorn!  Alda sent me a wonderful package full of goodies so that I could create some special things for the Flying Unicorn gallery.  I hope you take a few minutes and check out the forum and gallery at  Flying Unicorn.  There will be new September challenges posted tomorrow and the challenge winners get great RAKS from the store.  I have a fun challenge planned too, hope you'll check it out!

So here are  a couple of layouts that I did using my Flying Unicorn goodies featuring the Authetique Journey collection and Fabscraps.  I made the brown flowers using Tim Holtz glassine paper.  I painted on some dry Perfect Pearls and then set the powder by heating with my heat gun.  It works perfectly and adds such a lovely metallic sheen to the flowers.  I love metallic accents and use it alot on my LOs. 

I love this photo of my Uncle, he looks so suave!  I think you'll be seeing this photo again as I haven't quite captured the essence of this photo that was taken in France during WW II.

My challenge LO at Flying Unicorn features Fabscraps paper.  Be sure to check it out tomorrow!!



Fun in the Sun

I haven't felt really inspired lately but had to get this done for the Swirlydoos round robin.  The photo is of my brother, two cousins and me taken at a lake in the Pocono mountains where we lived when I was a small child.  The other two images are from G45 On the Boardwalk.  I really love that Dusty Attic piece as it evokes the feeling of waves and water to me.  I painted it with Smooch pearl aqua and then applied Stickles in Eucalytus, Frosted Lace and Diamond.  The blue pearls are MM.  Love the pp, from Kaisercraft, part of the August Swirlydoos kit.  The other embellies are from past swirlydoos kit except for the clock face which my dear friend jrabs diecut for me using the Tim Holtz Alterations die.  I did the masking using a Tattered Angels mask and Distress ink in sage and tumbled glass. 

Thanks for visiting!!

Sketch challenge - Glitz Designs

I love this pretty sketch at the Glitz Designs blog and who wouldn't want to win some of their fabulous papers?  So I did this layout to enter in the sketch challenge.  The photo is of me when I was 3 or 4 years old, taken outside our home in Verdun, France, where my father was stationed in the US Army.  That is my very first dog, Mary Jane, a life long love affair with canines must have been born there in France!

I used the gorgeous Laced with Grace collection from Glitz for this LO.  It is one of my very favorite paper lines ever followed closely by Love Games.  I misted and inked the masked images using Tattered Angels branches mask on the circle and Prima mask on the plaid pp.  I used a Martha Stewart leafy corner punch to punch around the circle. 

Thanks for stopping by,  I really appreciate it and a special thanks for when you leave comments.  I love reading the comments and am humbled by your kindness and appreciation of my work.

Genuine Grace

I love this photo of my Mother, not because its a good picture of her, its not, but it's such an artistic photo from the perspective of standing in the door frame.  It really conveys a look.  I know I've seen a painting of a woman in a door frame but can't remember the artist.  The photo was a black and white that I converted to a sepia tone to better match the mood I wanted to capture.

I did this for the July round robin at Swirlydoos which, is always so fun, using one of my favorite kits, the Bo Bunny spotlight kit.  I added the laces and fan from my stash and a few other bits from other SDs kits.  I made the flowers from Tim Holtz glassine paper and achieved the glittery look by brushing with Perfect Pearls and then heating the flowers with my heat gun.  The glassine paper coating then sets the Perfect Pearls.  The flowers are so pretty and shimmery IRL.  Its kind of hard to capture in a photo. 

Painting the lamp post was fun.  I started by misting with graphite Glimmer Mist, then painted on some tattered leather Glimmer Mist, and finished by brushing the edges with walnut stain Distress ink.  I still wasn't satisfied so I added some bronze rubon.  I don't see that much anymore, but it is a metallic cream that you rub on, its fun messy stuff!!  I used scraps of white handmade pp stained with Distress antique linen to make the globes in the lamps.

The letters were first covered with Distress walnut stain and then I used gold rubonsto bring out the embossed areas. I used gold UTEE embossing powder on the watch casing.

I have to change the journaling a little as I got some additional information from my Mom yesterday but it  will read:

1953 Verdun, France – Dad had already gone to his duty station in Verdun, so you had to fly to France with a baby, Margaret, and Craig, almost 5 at the time. The plane was struck by lightening and caught fire so the plane made an emergency landing in Newfoundland. By that time, you must have been scared out of your mind and wondering why on earth you were traveling to this foreign land.


But there you were, in France, living in a house with a bullet holes from WWII in the front door. Our french landlady & her son had hidden in a cabinet in the kitchen when the Germans forced their way into her home.  Fortunately they didn’t look there and she was ok.

You and Dad lived on the French economy and with the grace that you’ve had all your life, you accepted the situation and set about learning to speak French. You and our landlady, Madam Gaillard, sat with the French/English dictionary and learned to communicate. By the time we came home from France, you were speaking fluent French.

Thanks for visiting my blog, I appreciate it!

Artist Trading Card (ATC) - The Flower 1/1

I made this ATC fir a challenge at Swirlydoos.  I often use ATC's as "practice" for a new technique.  On this ATC, I covered the background with molding paste and then stamped it with a brick stamp.  I used my heat gun to dry the molding paste, and then I sprayed liberally with Moonshadow mist Bucket o'blood red.  The large flower I cut using my Alterations Tattered Flower die, used the two small flowers.  I rad the flowers through using an embossing folder to give them a bit of texture.  They are sprayed with Moonshadow mist and then touched with silver ink although that isn't showing much in the photo.  I used a silver gel pin to add silver highlites to the leafy vine and the largeer Tattered Angels glimmer glass leaves. I drew the vine and leaves near the bottom using a glue pen and then sprinkled with glitter.  This was my first use of molding paste, I like the end result!

WAR - Swirlydoos June kit

A while back I challenged Krissy, our wonderful Swirly leader, to create a manly kit and WOW, did she deliver!  This month we got an eclectic collection of pps from Bo Bunny Timepiece, TPC Studios and My Minds Eye along with aawesome chippies, glimmer glass, and stamps!  Thanks Krissy!  I made this layout as my entry for the Round Robin challenge that we have at Swirlydoos every month and I also used it as my example LO to the gals at SOS to challenge them to try some different techniques.

I love this picture of my Dad with the rifle slung over his shoulder.  He was lucky in thta he was not on the front and was safely tucked away in England for most of his time during the war.

Journal:  Lady Luck sure was with Dad during WW II. The Army sent Dad to teletype school after he got out of basic training. That kept him out of the infantry. After completing teletype school he joined with a unit scheduled to go to Africa. For whatever reason, his unit never made the ship to Africa. Again, Lady Luck smiled on him as that ship sank on its way to Africa! Dad ended up in England where he stayed until just after VE day when he went to Paris and stayed until he came home in January 1946.

I embossed the gear with gold UTEE, I think it resembles a ship's wheel and that is what it is representing on this LO.  I love the paper rosettes cut with Alterations die.  I think they add a nice touch to manly LOs without being overly feminine as some flowers can be.  Love the little  Making Memories dog tag I found in the $1 bin at Michaels - perfect for military LOs as all the soldiers had dog tags.  As an army dependent, I even had dog tags!

The circle is actually a plain piece of off white cardstock that I stamped with a screen print stamp from Tattered Angels and a Bo Bunny clock face stamp.  This is a great way to "dress up" your plain cardstock and give it some texture and dimension.

Here's a close up of the embellie cluster:

Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate your comments!

Family Tree - Glitz Laced with Grace

Glitz totally has my number with their Laced with Grace collection and our May Swirlydoos kit featured this fabulous line!  I used our May sketch provided in our kit by Beggahuna for this layout.  After I finished it, I had that bright orange circle cutout left from something and I just picked it up and laid in on the LO, well it was perfect to draw the eye to this wonderful heritage photo so added it to my LO.

 The colors and the papers are just so vibrant and rich in this line.  They are just perfect for the heritage LOs that I have been working on.  These are my mother's father's parents, that makes them my great grandparents.  Those awesome swirly vines on the right are a  new Spellbinders die made for Heartfelt Creations.  There is also a matching stamp that I must get.  The gold key and leafy vines are Dusty Attic, oh how I love Dusty Attic!! 

Thank you everyone who is following my blog!!  I appreciate it more than you'll ever know.  Only 35 more followers to go until I give away that wonderful Love Games blog candy!  Tell your friends to come over, I need to give that away before I dive into it, LOL~!!

Youth - Bo Bunny TimePiece sketch challenge

The more I work with this collection, the more I love it!!  I just love the brown with the touches of dark red and subtle ivories.    It is perfect for scrapping the plethora of vintage photos that I have on hand!  I did this layout from the beautiful Tara Orr sketch at the Bo Bunny blog.
 
The picture is of my Mother taken circa 1945.  The little note say "Remember when you were young.  Could you have imagined all the places you would live - France, Japan, Germany?"

The chipboard at the top is Dusty Attic that I painted with vintage white and then "gold leafed" with Perfect Pearls.  After that dried I painted it with Crackle Accents to give it that aged look.  Finally I rubbed distress ink, frayed burlap, into the cracks. 

Swirlydoos had this collection as a spotlight kit recently and that's where the papers, trinkets, pearl spray, pearl flower centers, and tags came from.  I add a lot of bits and pieces from my stash.  That lacy bit behind the photo was actually a "hanky" that was tucked into the breast pocket of some outfit long gone!  The paper flowers are Primas that I have layered and inked.  The crocheted flower is from Petaloo-Chantilly.  Oh that striped ribbon I have hoarded for years.  I don't know why I like it so much, but I do.  Finally it is time to use it.  Seriously I've had it since probably Christmas 2005 or 2006.  It came in a page kit that my SIL gave me for Christmas. 



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Rocky Mtn High - new sketch at Sketches: Creatively Yours

This was a quick and easy page and I used Ali's great sketch 06-11 from Sketches: Creatively Yours.  The floral pp from GCD STudios Artsy Urban collection just matched so nicely with this sketch that all I did was fussy cut the interior of the page out, added another paper behind the floral, some journaling, a title, some Prima flowers, lace, and bam!  All done!

I diecut the letters using the Alterations die, Vintage Market.   I struggle with titles, I'll find some letters I want to use from my stash and of course, there aren't enough vowels to make the title, nothing else "goes with" the chosen font...this drives me crazy.  And I hate cranking up the Cricket in the middle of a project - I don't know why, that's just me.  SO to solve this problem, one day I got out a pack of border cardstock I bot years ago and I diecut a lot of letters!!  The precut borders are just the right width for the Alterations Vintage Market die.  I also had puchased a plastic divided storage container that had 32 little compartments, just perfect for sorting my letters!   Mostly I cut the letters in common colors like black, brown, beige, greens, white (easy to change the color of these!) etc.  Now when I need letters, I just reach for my box and this  works well for me.  Cuts out a layer of frustration, KWIM?

Thanks for your visit!!

My Aunt

Oh the May Swirlydoos kit is just fabulous!!!  I love the rich colors!!  This is my dear Aunt Margaret for whom I was named.  She was the most amazing woman and I have so many wonderful memories of time spent with her.  I remember as if it were yesterday shopping at a fabric store when she and my grandmother taught me to sew.  We often played cribbage in the evenings when she came home from work  and sometimes I would win.  Wonder if she just let me win?

Journal:  I was named after Aunt Margaret but she always called me Princess. It really made me smile when looking through some of her photos of me and I found that she had labeled them on the back as “Princess.”

I think of Aunt Margaret as one of the pioneers of women’s liberation, not that she was involved in the movement; she just lived a liberated life. Throughout her life, she traveled the globe, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends.

She chose not to marry but in no way was she an “old maid.” She was engaged once but she found out that he was a two timing Mama’s boy so she sent him packing!

Aunt Margaret had a great job with NASA and attained a high pay grade for a female civil servant back in those days. Her NASA career began with NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) which was the precursor agency to NASA. One of my prized possessions gifted to me at her death is a large footed silver tray that is inscribed “from your friends at NASA 1973.”

My Grandmother lived with her in Hampton, VA, and I loved visiting them and helping to care for her beautiful rose garden. There were roses everywhere and in the evenings, we would clip them just as they started to open and fill the house with their fragrant beauty. They taught me to cook, sew, knit, and crochet.

I say she was liberated because she did so many things that woman just didn’t do back in her day. She achieved so much in her job and it speaks volumes that several of her male co-workers at NASA made a one-way 3-hour trip to attend her funeral, 30 years after she retired.

I used the beautiful May Swirlydoos kit for this layout that features Glitz Designs Laced with Grace collection.  The venetian lace at the top is from my stash that I sprayed with Olive Vine Glimmer Mist and the tiny bloomers around the photo are Tim Holtz sprayed with Yellow Daisy and Sunkissed Peach Glimmer Mist.  I also added the Prima SIIP.  Aunt Margaret had a large and beautiful rose garden so I thought these papers were just a perfect match for her photo.  TFL!!  I really appreciate your visit!

all our Yesterdays

This is a picture of my paternal great grand parents.   It is an odd feeling to look at two strangers and realize that their genes contributed to the person that I am.  I didn't even know my grandfather on my father's side as he died just a month after I was born.

I made this as an example LO for a challenge that I am hosting at Swirlydoos.  I love love love this line of paper from Bo Bunny!  I used fabric mess, cheesecloth and cork on this layout - love natural elements like this.  The metal flower is Prima and the large wine ones are handmade.  The leaves were done with a Heartfelt Creations stamp, the swirls with Alterations die, everything else is Bo Bunny Timepiece and from Swirlydoos Spotlight kit.

My Father, my hero

I love this Swirlydoos spotlight kit Bo Bunny Timepiece collection just about better than any I've ever had!! I love the color combo, it just speaks to me! The passport and bicycle embellies are nods to some things that I know about my Dad. He was in the Army so the passport represents his travels around the world. The bicycle is a laughing memory that my Mom talks about. When Dad was a young teen he used to ride by my Mom's house on his bike showing off. LOL, I love it!!

My Dad reckoned the photo was taken 1947 or 1948. The building in the back was my grandfather's country store that had a bedroom in the back and that is where my parents lived for a while after Dad came home from the war. Dad knows this picture was taken after he came home from the war because the little room you see in the corner of the bldg is a bathroom that was added when he returned. Don't you love how we clue in on things to remember them? To have running water & indoor plumbing in rural NC in 1947 was pretty special. I remember when my Mother's parents got indoor plumbing and it was around 1960 give or take a year. I also remember when they got a telephone, and a party line at that. My grandmother's entertainment was to listen in on the party line sometimes, LOL!! Secretly of course....

 

 

 

 

Cardstock: photo mat Bazzill Bitter chocolate
Patterned paper: Bo Bunny TimePiece collection – bg page Timepiece; Timepiece Stripe; Timepiece moments
Stickers: Bo Bunny TimePiece collection
Chipboard: Bo Bunny TimePiece collection; Dusty Attic french flourish #2 DA0274; Tattered Angels Glimmer Chips Traveler (passport)
Ink: Distress black soot, frayed burlap, brushed corduroy, pumice stone, Colorbox chestnut roan, Glimmer Mist Tattered Leather, Ranger Archival ink jet black
Other: Bicycle Tattered Angels Glimmer chip; brads cameos, Bo Bunny TimePiece collection, cheesecloth

Nika and her "grandpa" Swirlydoos Cabaret kit - March

I just adore this photo of my Dad and Nika. She loves standing on her back legs and does it all the time. She and Dad were "dancing" and I quick grabbed the camera and got this shot. Papers are from the March 2011 gorgeous Cabaret Swirlydoos kit featuring Prima Moulin Rouge. Everything else is from Swirlydoos at one time or another. I will post supplies later.

Memories - LO for Get Picky

I did this layout for the Get Picky Inspiration challenge.   I just found this challenge blog and I really love their concept as their challenges focus on doing multiple photo layouts which I love to do!  Here's a link to Get Picky and here's the photo that was provided for this challenge:

I love the flower petals, the soft pink colors, and the girliness of it all, that is where I drew my inspiration.  Here's my take on the challenge:

  I love the peachy pink color in this, I am seeing this color in a lot of lines lately  - I think I'll be using alot of it.  I antiqued the chipboard, you can see how here.  The picture is of my Mom and I think she must have sent one of these photos to my Dad during the war as the inscription on one of the photos reads, "Your ball and chain. I love you."  LOL, I think that is so cute!

Supplies:

BasicGrey Curio collection

Back page – Rose water
Pink rectangle – Camelia
Fussy cut rose – Chiffonier
G45 – Le Romantique pearl pp & stamps images
K & Co Classic K journal spot
Bazzill peach CS
Prima flower – Rossetti Roses Grace
Maya Road chipboard title painted with antique white paint, Crackle accents, Distress ink – antique linen, copper perfect pearls,
Unknown ribbon