Time To Go

Well, it is time for us to move again. If you haven't already heard my husband is in the Air Force and after being in Northern Virginia for 4 years, we are being stationed in back to Colorado. 
I felt I needed to make a goodbye card..... (stay tuned, there is a matching pendant at the end you will want to see too!!)

Of course I can't create without joining in on a few challenges, right?
I am entering this into:
Frilly and Funkie Sunday Share - This is an open theme, you just need to use something that you purchased from The Funky Junky Boutique and I am using my wonderful Metallic Distress paint on this one! This shop is owned by another wonderful gal, Linda, so sweet and talented she is.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - The challenge this week is "Favorite Ink", which is super hard to choose just one! WOW! I love them all. However, in the spirit of the challenge, I chose Vintage Photo (I used Evergreen Bough too) hehe!!

Hobby Cutz Challenge - The challenge over there is "More than One fold" I folded mine twice :) so I think it counts 

I started out this by choosing my distress inks, since Vintage Photo is one of my favorites I had to use that and I added Evergreen Bough as well. These two look awesome together.

I swiped a little onto my craft sheet, misted with water and ran my jumbo tag through it, front and back.

I had a vision in mind for this card so I cut a hole in my tag in exactly the spot I needed it. I used Tim Holtz movers and shapers Sized Circles for that. These are great because you can move them around wherever you want them to cut.

I cut out a Mini Globe from card stock and then used the Vintage Photo distress stain again to color it.

I then cut out another mini globe and cut the center part out of it. I used that as a mask in order to stamp

I stamped a Tim Holtz map stamp across the top using Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I used my black pitt pen to color in the center and then went over that with glossy accents

I used another Tim stamp from the set "Mixed Media" and Archival Ink to create lines on the front of my card

I used an oval that I cut out using scrap paper as a template and also stamped the inside of my card

I used my Distress Marker in the Vintage Photo color to go around the oval and also added that inside piece from the scrap globe I made.

I used Tim's Envelope  die to make small buttons for the front of my card. I cut these out with grunge paper.

I then used Distress embossing powder in Vintage Photo (of course) to make the buttons have a bit of a grungy look. I inked them a bit with Black Soot Ink as well.

Those were added to the front with brads.

I also did the same with this little hinge and added a few small copper colored flat beads.

I had made the front flower awhile back and it was just sitting there on my craft sheet, it worked great! Sometimes it pays off not to clean up. haha!!

After that was all done I used my Tarnished Brass Distress Paint to go all around my cards edges, it added just the right touch.

I used these three colors of distress paint to color my tag for the inside of my card. Including Vintage Photo of course. :)

So last but not least... I cut small letters from Tim's Typeset

strip die.

Here is my finished project...

I left the inside oval blank so that I could write something there to a friend of mine.

Last but not least, I wanted to show you a matching pendant I made. I bought some ice resin the other day and had an itch to try it out. I decided I wanted a pendant to match this card.

I started by using the same process as before.

I cut a circle using my Spellbinder Die that matches my pendant.

Instead of stamping with distress ink I used Archival since I wanted it to be permanent and not run once I pour in the ice resin. The paper turned out great and matched the card wonderfully.

I then added my embellishments, Mostly Tim's holtz trinkets but some were odds and ends. I made two, just in case, one larger and one smaller. The smaller piece also has a Tim Holtz Sticker Word in it. Lastly, I mixed the resin and poured it in. I'm waiting for that to set now. YAY!! After it's all set I will make a necklace. 

I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial today. Sorry for the long post, I just had more steps to this process. Have a great day!!!

Scrapbooking Again

Today has been a funny sort of day. I finished a few projects that I have been working on but my heat tool died on me, it just went Kaput!! I was in the middle of making a card for a friend and it just died! So now I need to go get a new one I suppose. It's just my luck, I have so many things I'm wanting to finish and I guess you never really know how much you use a heat tool until you don't have one. 

Anyway, I finished a Scrapbook page today and wanted to share it with you. I recently decided that I needed to do more scrapbooking, not only for myself but for my family and kids. My daughter often looks through our scrapbooks and she just smiles and laughs as she enjoys each one. (we have about 10 total) I have been a scrapbooker since my kids were babies and now they are 21 and 15. 

Since I hadn't done this in awhile, I had to go back and start where I left off, about 2009!! Yikes! It's been awhile. 

Here is a two page spread that I finished for Mother's Day 2009. My nephew had just been in a tragic motorcycle accident and had passed away a month prior. He was only 21.. and it was so tough on my sister and our entire family. We miss him so much... we all decided to get together in support of my sister and also to celebrate our Mom for the holiday. I have more family that didn't make it onto the page that were there but for some reason I didn't take a lot of photos. :(

My youngest daughter had also recently gotten surgery on her wrist for a ganglion cyst so you can see her bandages in the photos. 

It's really hard to photograph a 2 page spread but this is the two pages together. I must tell you, it's a bit harder to get back into scrapbooking after I've been doing the mixed media and other crafts. I want everything to have dimension and I can't really have a lot of things sticking up too far so that the pages don't get bent or ruined once they are added to the book and put together. 

I really like how it turned out and I'm sure once I create more, the pages will just take on a life of their own. I've been searching around online for inspiration and have found that a lot of people who scrapbook only do one photo per page and add a lot of dimensional flowers or embellishments and I want mine to go into an album, plus, I want more photos on the page.  I prefer to add three or more photos to one scrapbook page to help tell my story. So you will most likely see more than one photo on my pages. 

 I added Prima flowers to this page, these are great because they are soft and flatter. (unless you stack them, then you can do so much with them but that was too much for my page) I also wanted some sort of button in the middle and since i didn't want bulky, I made my own out of grunge paper, card stock and a marker. 

I like how the pages turned out but it sure is a switch from what I normally do. I'm going to keep working on it.

Thanks for coming by

Butterfly Fly Away

I have a few things to share with you today. The first being that my family and I went over to Leesburg Virginia yesterday to The Old Luckets Store there. They were having a big hoorah and had hundreds of vendors there with loads of antiques. It was awesome and so fun to go over and check out all the wonderful goods. Here are a few photos..

this door was amazing, I wanted to buy it for my house haha!!  

talk about having a big head!!  

Wouldn't these be so cool to do in Tim's new fabric?!! I might have to buy me some old suitcases!! 

I had a fun time and came away with an old printers tray, some watch parts and typewriter keys. I also bought funnel cake and kettle pop-corn!! I was actually pretty good, I could have bought SO much more.

Onto crafts now.. for my project today I worked on a journal page. I'm entering this page into the following challenges...

The Octopode Factory Challenge - This time it's all about Music. I used the old Miley Cyrus Song in my page "Butterfly Fly Away"

Stampotique Designers Challenge - This week they are doing "Anything Goes" WOOT! I love anything goes. I only used one Stampotique stamp on this page, but it's one of my new favorites.

Our Creative Corner - This week they are also having "Anything Goes" Double YAY! They have revamped the site and are starting out fresh and new, led by the new owner Laura, be sure to check them out.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - This week is all about "Flower Power", that's easy for me, I love flowers.

For starters I wanted to use this wonderful Gelli Print that I made a few weeks ago, I love that it has swirls and two big flowers right in the middle. I just love the contrast of color as well.

I used a little Tinkerbell girl from the Octopode Factory Shop

I colored her using a combo of watercolor pencils and chalks of various brands, I did the house the same way but I forgot to photograph it.

For the Butterfly I used three different colors of embossing powders and heat set

I then fussy cut the butterfly out and colored around the outside  with my wonderful Faber-Castell Pitt pen

I went around the entire outside of the page using Tim Holtz acrylic paint dauber

I used  my Memory marker to color the Seaweed Stampotique Stamp and then stamp it onto my page.. this stamp is by artist Jo Capper-Sandon.. this is a seaweed stamp but here I'm using parts of it for my butterfly swirls. 

I then used another marker (Zig) to go over it and make it stand out more and deeper black. I actually colored and stamped my seaweed twice here.  

I also used my white gelli pen to highlight the swirls

I also used a Sizzix Die for the black flowers

Here is my final page, I really love how the gelli print fades into the background so nicely and the characters pop off the page. Gotta love those gelli prints!!! 

The reason I chose this song title is because it reminds me so much of my daughter and our relationship and make me think of the not so distant future, she will be graduating high school and flying away from home like a butterfly. She will flourish and be beautiful and do many wonderful things, I just know it.. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a super Sunday.