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I'm back with another installment in layouts for my paint dauber class at my LSS. This one I used the daubers and a lot of mist to create that colorful background that I then covered with a Silhouette Studio cut file and my usual style of photos and embellishments. 

I only used two colors of daubers - a yellow and a bluish green and blended them with mist both on my kraft mat before applying the paper to the colors and then misting some on the page after. Repeat and allow to dry.

Clearly, my blade is dying because I had to hand trim these circles out. That's the reason why a third of the shape is still solid, I got to lazy!

And one last close up of that background. Fun, right!?!

Play is Serious Business

Hey! I'm back, sort of, it's a long personal story (involving hubby having surgery/recovery, extra hours at work, and chasing little people) but let's just say that while I was MIA from the blog world I was still creating, still teaching, and have several posts I'm working up to show off some of what I was doing. 

This one is actually a little bit older, I don't remember when I created it but it was definitely around February and I just realized that I'd never shared it. I probably never would have remembered except that I was looking for the layout's title so I could pull the photo for instructions for a class and realized I'd never shared. Shame on me. 

This class at my LSS will feature uses for paint daubers, this is a really basic idea but paired with these papers the rainbow palate packs a lot of punch!

Supplies used: Tim Holtz Distress Paint Daubers, MME Record It! Lost and Found brads and paper, Metal number and paper clip are stash. 

Valentine's Greeting Card

Happy Valentine's from Practical Scrappers. Today we're sharing the love with a lovely bunch of Valentine's Day inspired projects. Are you feeling the love yet?! I crack myself up sometimes. 

I doubled up and also created this card for a make and take at my LSS, Soul Sentiments. As a family we don't do much for the "Hallmark" holidays so it was really a struggle for me to embrace the pinks and reds but I'm really happy with how cute it turned out in the end. 

This card will be a featured Make and Take on Feb. 1. Contact the store for questions.

Cardstock: Coordinations/Tim Holtz Distressed

Washi: WRMK, Bo Bunny, and I forgot the other

Journal Card: Echo Park

Twine: WRMK

Stamp: Hero Arts

Inks: Ranger Distress Worn Lipstick and Black Soot

Flowers: Imaginesce and American Crafts

Lace: stash

Birth Stats Mini Book Page

I don't know if it's because it's a break from my normal 12x12 routine or what but I am loving working on this baby book for my friend! So stinkin' fun! If you want to see other pages I've made for the book, then head here and/or stay tuned because there's a lot of pages still in the works. I love that I've still been playing along with my favorite challenges while putting it together, and there's so many pages left! Hopefully, I get it done in time. Eeek!

Anyway, this page brought me much excitement. I used the sketch at Scrap our Stash to finish it up, they also had the challenge to dig a little deeper and use 6 buttons.

 I said in my previous post that the base of this project is Teresa Collins On the Edge (which I was about to destash before I adopted this project) with splashes of Authentique Loyal, you'll see both here. There's also some American Crafts Thickers, buttons, EK Success Sticko (hands and feet!), and my newest toy the Tim Holtz Texture Trades embossing folder (admit one ticket), WRMK eyelet, and Studio G glitter glue.

Here's a little close up for you. You'll notice that I inked up both the Thickers and buttons, deliberately not coating evenly. Yummy. And check out the baby hands!

The Scrap Our Stash sketch:

Messy

Whew, what a week it's been! Glad things were back to normal enough for me to squeeze in this crafty project as a gift for a friend.

The frame was a white frame with a white mat that I picked up on clearance from Target. Boring, right?   I knew it had potential though so I bought it to stash away until the right moment. 

I covered the mat with pieces of MME Lost and Found scraps. Then I added some stash ribbon and a whole bunch of heat set gemstones (I really should play with my iRock more, so fun!). Next, I stamped a Tim Holtz flourish in the very center and then ghost stamped on each side twice. The finishing touch under the glass is a die cut from Authentique Uncommon that quotes Dr. Suess. All the papers are inked with Distress Ink Walnut Stain.

On the glass itself are four Bella Blooms (flowers with button centers) that I spray misted from a bubblegum pink to black. The flowers took the ink really well and are nearly black, the buttons didn't dry as quickly so I smeared them around a bit that way the pink really shows through. I adhered them with quick setting glue. 

I'm glad I got a little messy with this one because now I can enter it into the Paper Girls Challenge to do something messy creative. 

Feels funny to leave the sample photo in the frame but I still need to print the 5x7 that'll take its place. ;)

Bargello card

I love to learn new techniques and was excited about this one  - the Bargello technique. I gathered from some of the comments on the tutorial that the process isn't new to the scrap (or sewing) world but since I am I loved learning about it! 

I read about it over on the Spellbinders Blog and used the directions they provided. Time consuming, but super easy. 

After making the Bargello portion I wrapped some Girl's Paperie ribbon around that piece of card, tucked in a MME journaling card, heat embossed a Jillibean Soup sentiment, stamped a Tim Holtz stamp onto the background card and then glued it all together.

I went back to the idea later in the day, changing some of the paper dimensions so that the technique filled all a standard card. I also succeeded in doing it from memory! YAY!

Papers are MME Lost and Found and Paper Studios Affinity, ribbon is Pebbles, sentiment is Authentique, butterfly is Jenni Bowlin, inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink