PGCB: Stitch it up!

Hi! 

Happy Monday to everyone!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  I've had a whirlwind couple weeks.  Two weekends ago, I was in Salt Lake City for the Scrapbook Steals Retreat.  I had a total blast, and got to hang out with 4 other Paper Girls.  This weekend, we picked up my mom at the airport for visit.  :-)

As I was thinking about Jessica's challenge for The Paper Girls today, I thought it would be fun do to a page about meeting her and the other girls at the retreat.  So I used my Amy Tangerine stitching templates to stitch a "photo corner" on my layout.  (The paper is also from the American Crafts class we attended at the Retreat.)

One day I hope we can get a picture with ALL The Paper Girls in it.  Thanks for visiting! 

Cheers!
Kristy

PGCB: Glitter, Glitter, Glitter!

Happy Monday! 

Today is the first Monday in August, which means it is time for a new challenge over at The Paper Girls Challenge.  (Can it really be August already?!?)  Judy's challenge for PGCB was to use glitter on your project.  I firmly believe you either love the stuff or hate it.  I love the sparkle it adds to a layout...so much so that, I used two different sparkly pieces on this layout.  :-)

Ok, I said I love glitter, but I should add that I love glitter that sticks to paper and doesn't leave a trail everywhere.  On this layout, I used Glitter Thickers and Stampin' Up Champagne Glimmer Paper.  I am happy to report, no glitter was left behind from these products.  ;-)  The papers I used on this project were from Amy Tangerine's Lucky Charm, with the cut-off strip from Webster's Pages/Allison Kreft's  Candy Heart's paper.  Who says you can't use those cut-offs?!?

If you like this layout, you should check out the Aquamarine 4 sketch at ScrapbookSteals.com to see where I started!

Cheers!
Kristy 

Growing in Unity - Day 3

Welcome back to Day 3 of my guest designer week with Growing in Unity.  I'm having so much fun breaking out some of my Unity Stamps to create some cards this week. 

My family has a lot of birthdays coming up next week.  I thought this card would be fun for one of those days - because yes, it really does suck getting old! 

The sentiment was a little long for the area I had "allotted".  Instead, I colored half the words and stamped it, then repeated with the other half of the sentiment.  The lollipop was stamped on watercolor paper so it would be sturdy enough to cut and wrap with a piece of cellophane (actually a wrapper from a stamp set - upcycling :-) ). 

Recipe:
Unity Stamps - Sucks to Get Old
Crate Paper - The Pier: Sunscreen
Simple Stories - Urban Traveler: Grey Concrete
American Crafts - jute twine

Remember to leave a comment for a chance to win 2 Itty Bitty Stamps of your choice.  At the end of the week, I'll choose 1 lucky winner from all the comments during the week to receive 2 free Itty Bitty Stamps from Unity Stamps. 

If you missed my previous Growing in Unity projects, you still have time to comment:
Day 1
Day 2

Cheers!
Kristy

Growing In Unity - Day 1

Happy Monday!  Today is my first day featured as the Growing in Unity guest designer.  Be sure to check on my blog all week to see some fun projects featuring Unity Stamps.  Be sure to leave a comment.  At the end of the week, I'll choose 1 person to receive 2 free Itty Bitty Stamps from Unity Stamps.

For my first project, I am featuring a birthday card I made for my grandfather.  Today is his 91st birthday - Happy Birthday Pompa! 

Recipe:
Unity Stamps - Worn Grid, You Did It, and Ticket to Life
Authentique Paper - Loyal Collection: Brave, Steady and Faithful
My Mind's Eye - Collectable Enamel Dot
American Crafts - Jute Twine
Pebbles - Metallic Cream Chalk

Layout based on the sketch from Paper Secrets, found here.

Thank you for visiting.  Remember to leave a comment for a chance to win 2 Itty Bitty Stamps of your choice.  (I would love it if you would follow my blog too!)  And check back tomorrow for another project featuring Unity Stamps.

Cheers!

Love at First Sight

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone is having a great day.  I am home with my little girl, doing one of the things I hate most of all about parenting - potty training!  Ugh!  But we are going to conquer this.

I thought it was a good time to do a layout about the day she was born.  It was love at first sight with this girl, for sure!  I can't believe it was almost 3 years ago.  I have loved watching her grow into a little lady - attitude and all.  ;-)  I started with the Amber 3 sketch on ScrapbookSteals.com.

 

To make this page, I used my Studio Calico Neverland Paper Add-on Kit (Crate Paper's Maggie Holmes: Remember This and Amy Tangerine's Yes, Please: Commit) for the paper.  I added some butterfly touches to background using Unity Stamps: Butterfly Garden and {...with her own wings} and Stampin' Up inks.  I soften the edges of the butterflies by tapping them with a wet wipe after they were stamped.  I am entering this layout at Unity's {be inspired} Challenge.  I also incorporated some prompts from the 213 in 213 Challenges at 2 Peas in a Bucket.  And you know I can't complete a layout without grabbing my Kiwi Lane templates.  I used Tags 1 and Tiny Tags 1.

This is actually page redo.  Gasp!  I know.  I am actually redoing a page.  The original was only the 3rd page I had ever done.  But from the day I finished the original, I was disappointed in it.  I'm not sure what it was I wasn't happy about.  It just never felt right. 

Thank you Shimelle (Adventures of Glitter Girl: Memoir Makeovers) for encouraging me to try my hand again at these pictures.

Cheers!
Kristy

LGS December Week 5

Happy New Year's everyone!  I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2013!!! 

I have a lot of goals for 2013.  My crafty goals include starting Project Life and One Little Word.  I hope to blog about these projects as I go along. 

2013 also starts my 6 month term on Kiwi Lane's Design Team.  I kicked off the new year using a number of KLD's templates to create a layout of my son being thrown through the air.  I was inspired by Let's Get Sketchy's December Week 4 sketch and Week 5 Not So Picture Perfect Challenge.  Many of the pictures from this day were blurry and Kevin was thrown out of frame in one of them.  I never thought I would use these pics, but I think they worked out great after all.

Here is how I laid out my page with the templates:

And the final page:

Here is what I used:
Lily Bee Handmade collection
Kiwi Lane templates:
     Rings 4
     Wacky 1
     Tags 1
     Strip Set 3", 2" mini and 1" mini
American Crafts Thickers
Stampin' Up buttons
MS Candy Dots
Maya Road felt arrows
Studio Calico Darling Dear vellum shapes
My Mind's Eye twine

Cheers!
Kristy

KLD November DT Doodles

So you order pictures from Costco, and they won't be ready until tomorrow, so what is a girl supposed to do?  Why, scrap some other pictures you have, of course.  That's what I did today.  Kiwi Lane Designs presented their November DT Doodle Challenge.  I loved their 2 page sketch, but I started with the single page layout.  Kevin and Dan had a great time carving pumpkins this year.  Kevin picked out the designs - the spider for him and the smiley face for his sister. He had no fear about digging out the seeds and "guts" from inside this year.   

 

To make this page, I used the following KLD templates:
Strips Set 3 inch
Scallops 1A
Holiday 4T
Holiday 5T

The paper and black letters are from my Scrapbook.com October Kit and the transparency sheet is from It's The Little Things by Fancy Pants.  Add in some Studio Calico star wooden veneers and AC Flair and Thickers, and viola!  Here is my pumpkin page from this past Halloween.

Cheers!
Kristy

PGC #13 - Happy Birthday!

Thank you Judy Stech for the Birthday Challenge this time on The Paper Girls Challenge.  It couldn't have come at a better time.  My youngest nephew just turned 18 (YIKES!  That makes me feel old...), so of course, I needed a card for him.  My goal is to not buy a card, and so far, so good.  But, I have a hard time making cards for men, much less an 18 year old!  I wanted to do a card that had a lot of impact, without a lot of "gee-gah", as my sister-in-law calls it.  So I took this opportunity to try a fun new technique (at least to me) for his card. 
Using masks is all the rage, so I wondered how it would look as an embossed background.  So I grabbed my Studio Calico Bubbles mask, Versamark pad, American Crafts Zing Powder in Opaque Denim, and Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder in Peeled Paint, with a little blue painters tape and set about to giving this technique a try...

I taped the mask to my mat so it wouldn't move as I inked the paper...

I inked the pad directly on the paper.  My pad is a little sticky, which I didn't count on.  It started to move as I was inking the paper.  I should have taped the paper to the mask or my mat - lesson learned.  ;-)  Luckily, it didn't really affect my final product.  ::whew!::

I wanted a two toned look, so I sprinkled a little of the Peeled Paint powder on one half, knocked off the extra, and then sprinkled the Denim on, making sure I overlapped with the green a little bit.

This is what it looked like when I got done with the powders, before I applied some heat.

And this is after I added a little heat.  You can't tell too well in this picture, but it came out better than I could have hoped - the blue is a smooth finish while the green has a rough finish.  Even better for the contrasting look I could have hoped for.

And this is the final product.  I added a few mini-brads, some Sassafras Lass numbers, and a distressed cut from my Cricut machine with a scrap of green paper I had sitting on my table.  The numbers/cut are popped up for a little extra dimension.

Thank you for checking-in.  I look forward to celebrating every one's birthday creations. 

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Cheers!