The Future is Bright

I really love it when things come together creatively. I made a mixed media canvas that was inspired by a combination of three challenges for differing aspects.  The copious amounts of Tim Holtz products comes from the Something New challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. New and cracked open for the first time for this canvas were the Pocket Cards, the Thinlet distressed background die, and the Gumdrops. The colours and bits of glitter and jewels were inspired by the Get Your Sparkle On gorgeous January mood board at Berry71bleu.  Lastly, the elements of time... clocks, calendars, and the butterfly were inspired from the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #20 Time Flies.

Supplies: Tim Holtz - Distress Inks, Distress paint, Stickles, Glue N' seal (Ranger), Distressed background die and Garden Greens die (Sizzix), Urban Grunge script stamp, Life's Possiblities clock stamp, Perspectives butterfly stamp (Stampers Anonymous), Symphony text washi tape, Ideology Pocket Cards, Newsprint Alpha Parts, Crinkle Ribbon, Word Bands, Philosophy Tags, Gumdrops (Advantus), Kraft Core Nostalgic Collection 11 (Core'dinations), canvas (MultiCrafts), gesso (Liquitex), clear emboss powder (CTMH), cardstock and staples (misc.)

It is really neat how these all worked together and are realized in this canvas creation. That is one of the things I like about challenges. The push you to go beyond your norm. Here are some close up detail photos.

You can see that there are multiple layers, starting with the gessoed die cut pieces and washi tape. Then, a Distress Inks colour layer and splatters. Next, Distress Ink stamping and lastly, the multi layering of paper and other embellishments.

For oodles of eye candy, check out each of the challenges by clicking on their respective icons.

      

TTFN,

Sisters

Bright cheeriness and bursting with colour... that is what I wished to bring to mind while playing at my scrap table last night.

I believe I succeeded in that endeavour.  Using the March Week #3 sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy paired it with the vibrant March Challenge mood board over at Sassy Scrappers , I came up with this layout.

Supplies: cardstock (Canadian Scrapbooker Super stock), embossed cardstock (Core'dinations), border stamp (Kelly Panacci for SandyLion), pigment ink (Martha Stewart), molding paste (Golden), floral stencil (Mona Pendleton Designs for My Favorite Things), gelatos (Faber-Castell), chipboard letters (American Crafts), liquid glass (CTMH), baker's twine (MME), tissue paper and chunky glitter (Dollarama), punches (Stampi' Up and EK Success), marker (Fibra Color)

Such cuties and the colours just zing!

I flipped the sketch and turned the square into a diamond as I loved the diamond frame in the frames section of the mood board.

Let's Get Sketchy March Week #3

Sassy Scrappers March Mood Board

As you will see, a lot of my elements were derived from each section of the mood board and used on my page.  

Firstly, I used the gorgeous colours.. corally oranges, teal, white and silver grey.  As I have previously mentioned, I love old frames.  It was such a natural fit to frame the layout using stamped orange framing.  From the teal coloured font script "art" word and the alphabet collage, I used a piece of sanded alphabets script embossed Core'dinations cardstock.

Those tissue poms at the bottom left of the board and the flowers through out... awesome... so I used a variety of combination amounts of Tangerine, Blood Orange and Metallic Melon gelatos to colour tissue papers and created the tissue flowers with Metallic Mint teal centres and string them banner like in place of the banner strip of paper in the sketch.

The top right section of the mood board had me drawn to the different glasses.  From the milk glass stemmed bowl, I used molding paste and a floral My Favourite Things Mona Pendleton Designs stencil and from the teal bottle vase, I splattered watered diluted Metallic Mint gelato following the sketches random dots diagonal.

For the clear glass, I used Liquid Glass on the chipboard letters after applying Silver gelato and the sprinkled with thick silver glitter.

Such fabulous inspiration results in a wonderful layout! So pleased that I played along with these challenges.  Infused with colour, texture and memories, this layout makes me happy.


TTFN,

Sharing some Easter Cheer

A little something to celebrate the occasion.



Supplies: Jillibean Soup Cardstock (Core'dinations), patterned papers (Jillibean Soup), wht cardstock and sentiment stamp (CTMH), Ink (Rangers), pen (Staedtler), bunny (from President's Choice Easter crackers)

Enjoy!

TTFN,

It has just taken 4 months!

At the end of October, I went to my first CreativFestival in Toronto (no that is not a typo, just their way of titling the event).  It is a crafting exhibit of multiple genres that happens in the spring and the fall.  There was beading, sewing, knitting, embroidery, quilting, designing, decorating, stamping, card making and ... of course my favourite and the reason I went... scrapbooking.  I was inspired to attend after a blog post on Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine's featuring the CreativFestival and Sarah Hodgkinson's layout class that still had some spaces available.


I can't say enough good things about the class.  Sarah is an ideal teacher.  She is very organized, goes step by step and allowed plenty of time for all levels.  She even brought her sewing machine ... need I say more.    The layout was based on one of my favourite sketch go-to-gals, Becky Fleck's PageMaps.  It has just taken me 4 months but I finally got around to finishing my version of the layout.  It features Jillibean Soup's Pasta Fagioli and Core'dinations Cardstock.

Supplies:  patterned paper, cardtock stickers (Jillibean Soup), cardstock (Core'dinations and Bazzill), photo negative die cut (Tim Holtz), punch (Fiskars), font (Disney Print), ink(CTMH), pen (Staedtler), thread and twine(misc.)

 See Sarah's cute layout here.  We also made that adorable Dove Christmas card with the Core'dination materials and some Jillibean Soup's Christmas Chestnut Soup that you see in Sarah's blog post link.


I felt the class was great value for money.  For forty dollars I got the class which was the double page layout and card, a small animal print Xyron, a full package of JilliBean Soup Core'dinations cardstock, and the Jillibean sticker sheets and patterned paper remnants.  On top of that, I even won a package of the new Stacy Julian Core'dinations pack in a give away.  Wow, such fabulous manufacturer sponsorship!  A big thank you to those companies.


It was a great crafty experience and I would definitely take a Sarah Hodgkinson class again in the future.  The Spring CreativFestival is coming soon and I look forward to seeing the class schedule.  Fingers crossed for another Sarah class.

TTFN,

Nook U - Botany 101

The very flowery, bling loving, sweet Camilla's class, Botany 101,  featured the use of... you guessed it... flowers.  The assignment was to use a minimum of 5 flowers, with at least 2 different kinds (different sizes of the same flower did not count) and 2 different colours.

I had the perfect photo for this assignment that I have been waiting to scrap for some time.  This challenge proved perfectly suited to this photo.

Supplies: Flowers(Prima, Making Memories, PSX), CS green (Core'dinations), CS white (CTMH), fabric letters (American Crafts), jewels (SandyLion), pen (Creative Memories), Font (Angelina)

I kept the design graphic and simple to keep the focus on the photo.  My flower choices, as you can see, were based on the colour of flower petals in the photo.  I ended up using 18 flowers with 5 different kinds in 5 different colours.  I used Core'dinations embossed cardstock and lightly sanded the centre area of my cut piece to slightly bring out the embossed pattern.  I love, love, love how this turned out!

TTFN!