Happy Resurrection Day!

What a joyful day!  I would like to share a photo of my darling little cousins on Easter Day.  I made McKenzie and Parker photo frames to put their picture in.  It's important that they remember these cherished moments together and the frame will definitely be a keepsake.

With these two frames I purchased from Michaels for $1 each, they were painted with a soft pink acrylic paint.  I used DCWC Garden Party Stack to cover them.  I cut out the butterflies from one of the pages and added the pearl bling.  The flowers are from Prima.  My punches are Martha Stewart lace edge punch and fringe scissors for the grass. The digital stamp is Robert Jackson Fine Arts. I used Copics and BicMarkit pens.

Robert Jackson Digital Expressions Blog Hop and Challenge

It’s coming……..The Launch of Robert Jackson’s Digital Expression Challenge blog!  All the fun begins on Monday, April 9, 2012 with an inaugural Design Challenge and Blog Hop.  This will be a fun filled week with something for everyone.  Make sure you participate with a chance to win a free Robert Jackson digital image!  Hope to see you all there.  You don’t want to miss out on the fun!

Papercrafter in the Making

My little cousin McKenzie wanted me to help her with a school project.  She had to create a shoe box with her favorite insect ‘the butterfly’ and boy was I excited!  What?!!  It’s another opportunity to Papercraft!   I took out a DCWV decoupage kit I received as a RAK from my scrappy sistah Samantha. We took out the Making Memories paint and the rest was on.  Being the scrapbooker that I am it was only appropriate to pull out the camera to capture the moment, because I knew a layout was coming.  It's my Design Team project for Platinum Scraps with a Pagemap 2 page sketch.

Of course I couldn’t resist the DCWV Mariposa pattern and solid glimmer cardstock paper pack.  Perfect huh? In her project McKenzie used Making Memories paint for the dirt, grass and sky.  She used Martha Stewart fringe scissors for the grass.  I received some butterfly stickers as a RAK and she placed them on the inside and out.  For the clouds my scrappy sistah Rhoda suggested cotton balls! Of course it was her project so why not personalize it with sticker alphabets and that’s why McKenzie Butterflies received an A+ on her assignment. 

2 page layout

Quickutz butterfly

Check out the details in her project!

That's a proud girl!  A+

Job Well Done McKenzie!! She was ALL smiles and I think she’s a PapercraftEr in the making!   

Altered Paint Stick Swap

Look what I created for my partner Eunice in an Altered Paint Stick swap at Scraps of Color hosted by sweet Mary J.  Her request were brown, black, earthtones and a little afrocentricity.  I've been wanting to create with Graphic 45 Curtain Call collection for some time now and use my rubber stamp.  Well the time has come.  Got inspired watching a You Tube video by LiveLoveScrap.  Eunice said she was pleased so I've been blushing every since!

Rear view (sideways)

Hidden tag and journaling fold secured by a Tim Holtz arrow. Added black lace under the fold

Hope she journals something that keeps her positive and motivated!

Yes indeed...I had to personalize it!

Added a few feathers and Prima flowers

Front view (height)

I cut out the Graphic 45 stamp by Hampton Art and placed on top of a Spellbinder die.
Added ink to the doily and placed them in layers on the paint stick.
Used some Creme de Chocolat glimmer mist on the doily.

Added beads around the face of the clock.

Used a Bo Bunny Time Collection sticker & pp

Supplies:
Paint stick supplied by Sherwin Williams
Graphic 45 Curtain Call Collection paper
Bo Bunny Time Collectin paper
Me & My Big Ideas animal print paper
Hampton Art Graphic 45 rubber stamp
Bo Bunny Time Collection stickers
Making Memories gold leaves
Prima flowers
Michaels feathers
Tim Holtz game spinner
Recollection bling

A mini scrapbook class

This is a little 6x6 accordian mini I put together for a scrapbook class of teens.  Love to do quotes when I'm working with them. Tim Holtz bird cage was the perfect die cut to use.  Teaching others how to scrapbook is so divine.  I try not to put too much in kits, because you can overwhelm children. 

The pp was a bargain at Michaels year end sale in 2010 for $4.99.  My goal is to use what I have before I purchase another thing...Going well since February! Almost 2 months....yeah

Front cover Supplies:
DCWV Farmers' Market pp
Tim Holtz birdcage
Prima butterfly
Quote by Maya Angelou
Sizzix musical note
Recollection bling
Ribbon & bud from Michaels

The inside reveals a mini pocket album and tags

See its simple.  They can just add photos. 
Don't you just love the quote, "A scrapbook is a present you can open again and again and again."?

They love the pp and pocket pages.  It was four teens and they were finished in 45 minutes.

Jungle Love

Got a little Jungle Love going on at Platinum Scraps.  Inspired by the cute little Pagemaps sketch  below, I chose Me & My Big Ideas paper pad. When I saw the JoLee animal stickers it was love at first sight!  I put emphasis on the animals by using the Spellbinder dies as their background.  The EK Success edge punch was used as a bridge for the leopard to get to the giraffe.  Are you feeling the love?

National Craft Month - Maya Road Vintage Chipboard Album

My first project for National Craft Month is a mini album I received from my scrappy friend Sharon Sutton in a RAK.  I pulled out an old Classygirl kit.  There are so many pretty colors in this paper pack.  It was so hard for me to cut it up, but I love putting it all together for my first posting on the Scraps of Color E:Spire Creative Team!  Here are several views of the mini

Front view - I added Recollection flowers on the floral pattern paper

It's so packed I enclosed it with three Velcro fasteners

Just added a lot of things from my stash including a spellbinder die behind the tag

Used a couple of rub ons

Yes you know I have to add a little mini in the mini album for multiple photos



Keeping it simple

Photos or journaling

Jazzed the spellbinder with a little bling and there are vellum tags inserted under the edge punched border.

Isn't that the cutest bird cage by JoLee?



And……..I used ‘Scraps in the Making’ to create two simple cards.

The left sentiment is a Unity stamp. The right sentiment is from the PinkMartini Flirtini rub ons.