DT Layout for Child's Play

Todays layout is my 1st DT layout for Child's Play Challenges. I received a message last week asking me to be on their Design Team & I happily accepted.  This is my first time on a Design Team & am so excited to participate!

At Child's Play their challenges are based off toys, movies, games. This week's challenge is based off a story book. You can make your layout based on any shape, color etc. of these images from the book.

I thought of fish right away when thinking of what a bear would see. Bears like to hunt for fish. I found a couple of photos of my son's fishing trips at Lake Michigan. His first trip we took as a family vacation & he just  fished off the cement wall with his dad & grandpa. My son was the only one to catch anything & it was  just a little bitty fish that they called a Goby.

On his 2nd fishing trip, a bunch of grandpas relatives went out on a charter boat for salmon fishing. I think just about everyone caught something but my son's fish was not the biggest. He was one of the lucky ones not to get motion sickness anyway.
Here is the layout.

I received the background paper from a scrappin friend, Robyn. The vellum lake sentiment is from a kit I won at a LSS.
 I fussy cut the geese stickers & made them 3D with a foam square. I inked the edges of the fish frame with Prima Shabby Tote chalk ink & put foam squares under it also.
The scallop chipboard border was painted with gesso, Rangers Salty Ocean Distress Ink & Clear Rock C;andy Distress Crackle Paint. I added real fishing line to make the photos look like they are hanging & I added Diamond Stickles so you can see the string better.  I then sprayed a Studio Calico Huey's Mask on the bottom borders of the background paper with Tattered Angels Electric Blue Glimmer Mist & added the fish.

Here is a closeup

I hope you can stop by Child's Play & make something with this weeks challenge.
Happy Scrappin!

Preschool Pictures

I guess I am making up for not blogging for 3 weeks. I also have made 2 layouts in the last few days.

Today I am going to share a layout that I made for About a Boy challenge.The challenge is to make a layout with a school age photo.

I chose my sons preschool pictures for this challenge. He went to preschool for 2 years. The photo on the left is when he was 3 years old & the photo on the right is when he was 4 years old.

The background paper is from a paper pad called School Days from Paper Studio. The PreSchool sticker was added to black cardstock & is from Scrappin Sports & More. I cut the A B C paper from Scenic Route Paper Co. by the squares they were sectioned in. I punched out 2- 2" scalloped circles & inked them with Rangers Squeezed Lemonade & Black Soot Distress Ink. On the left scallop, I punched out a 1" circle & inked a Huey's Mask with Rangers Barn Door Distress Ink. I then poked the apple brad from Paper Studio through the middle. The cool kid & star embellishment is from Little Yellow Bicycle. I made a banner from the blue striped Washi Tape that is from Queen & Co. & placed at the bottom of the star. I then added Diamond Stickles to the Washi Tape.

Stop back tomorrow to check out my DT layout for another challenge site.

Happy Scrappin!

Exciting DT News

Hello Everyone! I cannot believe that I have not blogged for over 3 weeks now.

Needless to say, I did not get any more Camp challenges done. I had a few picked out & I did the recipe challenge but I think my mojo went on summer vacation after that. I have something that should get my mojo going again.

I was asked to be on a Design Team. I was so surprised & excited when I received the message. I have applied for different design teams off & on. I have been a Guest Designer once but that is it. I cant wait to get started.

Actually, I did get started but I cannot share my layout until Wednesday. That is when I debut for the Design Team. I thought I would share my good news since I have not posted for awhile & let you know ahead of time what is going on.

I can share some old family photos with you though. My grandma had me scan these photos that she had of my grandpa & his family. I then emailed them to grandpas nephew that lives out of state. We were fortunate to have him & his wife visit this summer. This was my first time meeting him. We also went to the family reunion on Saturday. I was able to get some other cousins email to see if we can get more info on the family.

This would be a photo of my Great Great Grandparents. He was a dentist in our town & I found out Saturday some of his tools are in our Historical Museum.

    This photo is of my grandpa, who is the smallest, with his siblings & their grandpa. My grandpa is the only one alive today.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Remember to stop back on Wednesday to see my latest layout & find out who I will be designing for.
Happy Scrappin!

Summer Camp Challenge & LGS

Happy Summer  everyone! It seems like much of the country has been having a heat wave. After having snow in May, then lots of rain, I am ready for some heat. Although I do not sit out in this heat, I do not complain about it. I love summer nights when it only gets down to 70 degrees. I wish we would go camping again.

Speaking of camping. This week is Summer Camp at Scrappin Peeps ProBoards & Club CK. They have challenges all week long. Last year I joined Club CK & ended up winning a prize for one of the challenges. As slow as I am, I will not finish all the challenges so I will do what I can with my peeps  on the ProBoards.

This is the first one that I finished. It is challenge #8- Cooking Camp by Vicki. It is a recipe challenge. The ingredients we were to have on our layout were: 3photos,  photo mats, 3 colors, 3D embellishments, brads or eyelets, ribbon or string & journaling. Then I used the sketch from Ashley Horton at Lets Get Sketchy this week. I ended up turning the sketch so my photos would fit.

Prima                           My Mind's Eye       SEI Wedding Kit        

White Flowers                 Brads                 Paper       

                                                         Journaling Tag

 Oriental Trading            Pink Cardstock        

 Pink Ribbon

                                  

  Sheer Creations             Recollections

 Black Ribbon                Black Adhesive Rhinestones

                                Glitter Stickers

I inked the journal tag & the top flower with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink. The second flower was inked with Black Soot Distress ink. The flowers had a wooden button in the middle but I tore them off so I could put my brad there. I very seldom take apart my Prima flowers. I used my paper piercer to make a hole in the center of the flower.
The brads were a light pink so I inked them with Adirondack Raspberry Alcohol Ink using a piece of felt so it matched the ribbon better.

I didnt even notice until now that there is a glare on 1 of my photos. I hate when something like that happens.

Hope everyone has a Great Weekend!
Happy Scrappin!

                                                                                                       

New Challenge Blog

Hi Everyone! I was just checking out new DT calls today & found a new scrapbooking challenge blog thats going to start in August. It is called 1-2-3 Get Scrappy! They are looking for a Design Team & you have to apply by July 31st. If you go to their site you will find that they are going to use the Tic Tac Toe board for their challenges. I have seen this before but never tried it. I think it would be fun to do!  Stop over  to their site & check it out!

My 1st Mixed Media Canvas

I was on a scrappin chat forum & a few ladies decided to do a video chat. They wanted to do a canvas project & anybody was invited. I decided this would be fun to try. I had the canvas, gesso, stencils & spray mist to start off with. I was able to get to Hobby Lobby & Michaels before this started so I picked up some modeling paste & gelatos.

I couldnt wait for the day to come so I could create & chat with these ladies that I just met about a month ago. Of course, I had to have problems with my computer. I have always had problems with my flash player & it affects my videos. It wouldnt even install the plug in for the video so I had to use my sons laptop.

I was informed that they had started off  with layering papers & glueing them down with modge podge. I havent used my modge podge for awhile so I couldnt get my lid off. I just used my gel medium instead. After that it was smooth sailing. I tore papers, glued them down. After all the papers were glued down, I started more layering with stamping, misting & stenciling.

 I used 2 different Prima stamps on this photo. The top left part is a small flower stamp that I used black archival ink on. The red splotches by the butterfly was stamped using a red gelato & water. The white circles were made with modeling paste & bubble wrap. I added bling to the bottom of the Prima butterflies.

 I stamped the banner with black archival ink again but shaded in some of the pennants with a light pink gelato. I applied the gelato right to the image & got my finger slightly wet to spread the color around. The heart was made with a stencil, gelatos, Prima chalk edger & stickles. I applied the pink gelato to my craft mat & sprayed it with water. I then took the paint brush & painted in the heart. I applied the white chalk edger to the inside of the outline of the heart & rubbed it a little with my finger. I then applied the stickles to the inside of  the chalk & took a baby wipe & smudged the stickles a little. I took modeling paste & applied to the wing stencil with my plastic spatula. I sped up the drying process with my heat gun.

 On the bottom heart, I stamped a different heart using the gelatos right on the stamp. I need to practice on this a little more because it didnt turn out like I thought it would. I was able to get the outline of the heart so I ended up using pink crackle paint for the inside of the heart. After that dried I used Glitz Grape stickles for the inside outline of the heart. I smudged it with the baby wipe just like the other heart. I used more modeling paste for the wings, more circles & on a stamp. That worked ok but is hard to get off the stamp. My last part was clustering the flowers. I had a hard time with this. I can cluster but I just couldnt find the right combo of flowers. I took the pink gelato & applied it to my craft mat again. I watered it down & then used my fingers to apply it to the middle flower.

This is my first try so I dont think it turned out too bad. I know there is room for improvement but I do like the colors, textures & embellishments. I think this will go up on the wall. Hope you enjoyed!

Happy Scrappin!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

I THOUGHT I WOULD POST TODAY SINCE I WAS DIGGING OUT SOME OLDER SCRAPBOOK PAGES OF 4TH OF JULY.  THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM 2009.
 I HAVE ONLY BEEN POSTING BABY PICTURES BECAUSE I HAVE ONLY SCRAPPED UP TO ABOUT 1 YEAR OLD BUT THIS WAS SCRAPPED BECAUSE DAD WANTED SCRAPBOOK PAGES OF SONS FIRST WIN & PUT IT UP IN THE GO KART TRAILER. I WAS OBLIGATED TO GET THIS SCRAPPED RIGHT AWAY.
HERE IS A 2 PAGER OF 4TH OF JULY IN 2009.

I USED THE WRISTBANDS FROM THE PITS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE WITH HIS NAME IN PLASTIC LETTERS THAT I BOUGHT AT A LSS. I USED SCRAPS FOR THE SUBTITLE & WROTE IT IN SILVER METALLIC PEN. I TORE A PIECE OF CARDSTOCK & INKED THE EDGES RED & USED THE CHECKERED BORDER STICKERS AROUND THE PHOTO. I ALSO USED SOME VELLUM RACING SAYINGS & 4TH OF JULY STICKERS. THE FLAG IS SOMETHING WE HAD BUT DONT REMEMBER WHAT IT CAME FROM.

I USED SOME MORE 4TH OF JULY STICKERS & VELLUM SAYINGS ON THIS PAGE ALSO. I DID THE SAME THING FOR THE MATS OF THE PHOTOS. THE FEATURE WINNER CIRCLE WAS SOMETHING THAT HE RECEIVED WHEN HE WON THE RACE. THE CAR DIE CUT WAS MADE ON MY CRICUT OUT OF COORDINATIONS PAPER THAT I DISTRESSED TO MAKE THE RED SHOW A BIT. HIS COLORS WERE RED & BLACK AS YOU CAN SEE IF YOU LOOK AT THE PHOTOS CLOSE ENOUGH. I ALSO CARVED THE -5 IN THE CAR TO LOOK LIKE HIS GO KART.

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY & STAYS SAFE!