Amber 10 - Go Girl

Another 10 week series is over at Scrapbooksteals. That means a last sketch/interpretation and some repeated photos so I have one link to turn in for the drawing. ;)

Melodee did an awesome job with the Amber 10 sketch this week. There's something that I just love about grid style sketches. And then I totally obliterated her grid, I mean it's there still, kind of.

 

This one features a custom background - I used October Afternoon Sprinklers and Mister Hueys over the flower petals. The other papers are an assortment of scraps from MME, American Crafts, Fancy Pants, and Authentique. The flower with the pearl and the Thickers are from American Crafts. The yellow button is from Crate Paper. Twine is WRMK. There's also machine stitching and a Kiwi Lane Tag template involved here. The flower petals that I misted over are from a Silhouette Studio file. Everything's inked in Colorbox Rouge or Dark Peony Chalk ink.

Now aren't those petals sweet? You'll be seeing more of them soon. These were extras from a project that'll be posting next week. Don't you love a good sneaky peak?!

All my other Amber postings:

Amber 9

Amber 8

Amber 7

Amber 6

Amber 5

Amber 4

Amber 3

Amber 2

Amber 1

Nothing Should Separate a Boy from the Dirt

You know, sometimes I am really good at things. Sometimes not so much. After years of editing in high school and college journalism there are some words that still trip me up after all these years, and as soon as I started writing this post I noticed I spelled the title wrong on my layout. EEK! Guess I'll have to go in and see if I can edit that sucker. 

This page is based on the Scrapbooksteals MWM Amber 7 sketch by Melodee. 

The base is cream cardstock misted with Mister Huey's over a Studio Calico mask and then splattered. 

The rest of the papers are from various My Mind's Eye lines. 

I used Kiwi Lane Templates for the tags and the scallopy borders. 

WRMK and Paper Studio brads.

The chevron title card was made from striped Kraft Funday glued into a chevron with Jenni Bowlin mini alphas and October Afternoon Sticky Keys. 

American Crafts blue and white twine and Thickers.

Colorbox black pigment ink and machine stitching.

The sketch.

I'm also linking this one up to About a Boy's April 1 challenge - use chevrons.

Amber 5a and announcement!

Okay, I'm pretty excited so I'm gonna start off with the announcement. For my birthday The Paper Girls Challenge Blog has asked me to be one of their Guest Designers in April. Sqquuuuueeee!!! Well, it had nothing to do with my birthday per se, but I'm gonna take it as a sweet gift anyway!

For those of you you haven't played along with the Paper Girls before they are a twice monthly challenge blog that has offered up everything from sketches to inspiration pictures to techniques to types of products for the past year. I've been playing along with them since the beginning and let me tell you there's some fun challenges in store so check back April 1 for my first post with them.

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As for the Scrapbooksteals Amber 5a, I posted it to their blog in time to be entered for the challenge but didn't have time until now to get it posted over here.

I used a whole bunch of MME scraps that I'd had hanging around. The red and grey backgrounds are pieces of Lost and Found spliced back together! I whitewashed both layers to help cover up the edges. There's also a Lush 2 Orange journaling tag that I used Fired Brick Distress Ink on and turned it pink!

As for the other bits, there's more Lost and Found (paper and glittered cardstock), Kraft Funday, Pretty Please, Andrea Victoria, Good Day Sunshine, and Abbey Road.

Accented using Ranger Enamel dots in white and black, a WRMK eyelet, MME Kraft Funday twine, foam dots, Studio G white glitter glue, and Jenni Bowlin alphas.

You Keep Running In Circles

It's MWM time at Scrapbooksteals.com again. This week's sketch was provided by Design Team member, Bev Code, and was a lot of fun. It featured a large circle, something I've been seeing a lot of lately! 

This is my interpretation of Amber 4. Photos of Rylan playing at a local playground with my nephews when they came for a visit in 2012 - one of those places where running in circles is kind of the point! 

I painted the circle on a piece of AC Chap cardstock, then sketched around it again with purple pen and then hand-stitched in segments around one half of it. The triangles were made with green Bazzill and a couple of coffee cup sleeves. 

The papers in the center of the circle are from WRMK Hall Pass, Bazzill, and Jillibean Christmas Soup.  Alphas are from Echo Park. The stickers from WRMK Hall Pass and EP This and That and For The Record. Brads are stash. 

You are the Ticket to my Heart

Let me just start by bouncing off the walls! I won last week's Scrapbooksteals Mid Week Mojo, it's a random drawing, I know, but so exciting since it's been over a year since the last time I won. Woohoo!

That being said, I did Amber 3 so that it's done in for the 10 week challenge but I'm not going to put my name in the hat because that just feels greedy. 

So I've been *really* trying to break out of the habit of just opening a line of paper and using the same thing for an entire layout. This was born of that effort, and took a bit longer, but wasn't so bad since I know my stash very well!

The blue paper is Fancy Pants Lilac House.

Doily is Basic Grey.

Buttons, dimensional sticker, and a couple of the washi used are a variety of My Mind's Eye collections.

Alphas and "best day" sticker are from Echo Park For the Record and For the Record 2.

Chipboard frame from Echo Park This and That.

"I hope" sticker from 3Bugs Blast Off

Other washi and fabric tape are Love my Tapes.

And I have to say that these photos are from my good friend Regan. She's in college and among her other pursuits she's trying to get experience as a children's photog so she enjoys extra playtime with my guys. Between the two of us I have lots of pictures of my kids. ;)

Amber 2 layout and a shout-out

Okay kids, here's the deal. I had a life changing experience when my friend, Misty, explained on her blog how to DIY enamel dots. I may already be amassing a large stash and I only just watched the tutorial. 

The video was perfectly timed for this layout. The page is based on the Mid Week Mojo Amber 2 sketch at Scrapbooksteals and I was really wanting something in the elephant's spray that would resemble air bubbles/texture.

I used MME's new Collectable "Memorable" line for the papers, the washi also MME though don't ask me which lines. The elephant and spray were cut from Silhouette Studio files. To make the bigger spray "puddle" I rubbed gesso on the page and then added blue acrylic paint when the gesso was nearly dry and then swirled the two together for texture. Interspersed with my new enamel dots are some periods from the AC Dear Lizzy Thickers pack that I used for the title.

Get Dirty - Amber 1

I'm really busting through some of those scraps I keep talking about -- NOT -- another page done with older papers and scraps but the pile still looms before me. *sigh* The paper stash really needs to get down sized because I'd like to be at a place where I'm scrapping with year old lines. This goal is also really helping with making David happy with my scrappy spending, for right now at least. ;)

This page is based on the Scrapbooksteals.com MWM Amber 1 sketch by Kerys. I love, love that she went grid on it. Such a different feel for me than all my layers I am used to using and yet this one still feels, "me."

I'm also linking it up to the About a Boy Challenge to use photos of a boy 12 months or under, in this photo Rylan's 10 months.

For those that like to know resources used, this one uses a bunch of MME papers, scraps and die cuts - Andrea Victoria, Quite Contrary, Wild Aspargus, Kraft Funday, Ooh La La, and Abbey Road with some machine stitching to finish it off.