Hello Handsome Part 2 of 3

Good morning! As promised, I have the complementing page to share today.  This page will be my submission for two challenges at scrapbook.com AND another new site that I dig, Scrap & Play.

 The Scrap &Play challenge is to choose a column or row from their bingo card. I chose the vertical row of buttons, Fancy Pants product and chipboard. This is what I created:

 The Boy and I needed help with his tie on Easter Sunday. Papa to the rescue! While my dad cleaned up my attempt, I snapped photos. Later, when I reviewed the hundreds of Easter photos, I noticed all of these silly faces. I was equally amused and reminded of how much he complained. These photos told part of the story of being dressed up.

 The design is based on a Page Maps sketch, which is part of the Page Maps challenge at Scrapbook.com.

I stayed fairly true to the sketch and tried to keep to an almost monochromatic color scheme.


I used the collection, Be Different, by Fancy Pants. The monsters used in each cluster have been fussy cut from patterned paper.

I'm glad I have the title pieces in my stash. The Boy Oh Boy piece was really helpful (and easy) when filling the center with an interesting shape.  I added "funny" to this piece to keep with the point, that his faces crack me up.

Want more information about the products used to make this page? Here's a link to the gallery submission at scrapbook.com.

 http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/376301/view/4234075/-1/0/0.html

Most of the items I've used will be listed there.  Thanks for looking!  You're more than welcome to return tomorrow to see the two pages together.  Personally, I think it looks better than having them apart.

Hello, Handsome! Part 1 of 3

Good Morning!  Yes, you read that correctly, this is one of three related blog posts.  Why three posts for one (possibly mediocre) page?  So glad you asked, because I have another....

Confession of a Challenge Junkie:  What I'm sharing today is my submission for the June challenge at Scrap the Boys.  This month, the challenge is to use a photo, 5x7 or larger.  I LOVE using large photos, and I knew that I wanted to use a large photo of DS and my dad after getting the Easter Sunday tie to submit to the human will.  Also, Holy Moly, I got The Boy into a tie AND smiling!  However, there is more to the story, so there is a complimentary page that I will share tomorrow.  It is focused on other challenges.  Then, because I like how the two look together, there will be a third post, just showing that.  If I didn't love challenge sites so much, this would have been much more straight forward.

Anyway, on with the share?

• I attacked the background with a texture stamp that I've owned for about six years. I hardly ever use it, but today must have been it's lucky day.  
• My little monsters are fussy cut from a sheet of Fancy Pants, Be Different paper.  
• The "Be Different" is cut from the branding strip.  It's a message I want my son to absorb often, so I'm trying to incorporate them whenever I can.

• These layers included more fussy cutting (that little banner on the bottom), a very distressed plaid paper ruffle and a left-over strip of glittered paper.  
• Also, may we have a moment of silence for my little Prima edger that was torn apart while inking that glitter paper.  Literally, it's in two pieces now....

• The bits of vellum are leftovers from the creation of the coordinating page.  I cannot bring myself to waste a single bit of vellum that I stocked up on, so even my mistakes are getting reused whenever possible.

And that pretty well sums up this page.  Thanks for looking!  If you're interested in learning which supplies I've used, most will be linked in my gallery post at scrapbook.com  You're more than welcome to return tomorrow, if you'd like to see the rest of this three-ring circus! ;)

Egg-cellent Decorating

Hello!  Happy Wednesday!

It turns out that I get a week off from my usually ickiness; and I've been lucky enough to play with my crafty crap.  Yay, me!  I've even got two pages done so far; so I'll have at least that many posts to keep things going.  That's good, right?  I thought so.

In both cases, I decided to try something new (to me); that inky splattery thing that has been all the rage.  I resisted it for so long because, well, I didn't "get it."  Fun fact about me:  I'm a literal person, EVEN when I'm feeling creative.  Most of the time, I have to figure out a logical theme that matches the story. Everything has to be connected; somehow someway.  When people sprinkle their mists or paints, it does look REALLY cute.  I enjoy watching people splatter in videos.  I like seeing it in the galleries.  I just couldn't convince myself to try.  Mists come with spray pumps for a reason; and apparently that reason is to cover the spread of a stencil on my paper.....  Yeah, I know.  I'm getting better; especially with the help of patient acquaintances in a scrappy group I joined last year.  I asked them why they sprinkle and splatter, and they had some really good reasons.

• It can help tie the colors in a page together; so you don't have to rely on just the paper.
• It helps spruce up white space.
• It adds a layer.
• You can create a visual line for the viewer.
• It's funky.

So, I sucked up the buttercup and I tried it.

AND, since I decided to add some fun and funk, I gave myself permission to play a little more:

Ever found yourself completely without the perfect color of thread, floss or twine?  I did; so I used an old, but well loved, stash of Glimmer Mist (color) to dye some twine and fake it.

THIS was a learning experience.  I'm going to have to keep practicing it.  Well over a year ago, I read a magazine article about adding Liquid Pearls to your project.  One woman added drops to her page, waited until they were almost dry and pressed down to crack the finish.  Hers looked A-May-Zing!  Mine...Well, maybe you can see why I kept thinking I was really popping really fabulous zits. For me, it will take a minimum of three hours drying time before I can even consider crushing them again.

OH!  OH!  Also, the green tags upon which I globbed placed my pearls is actually (at the base) a 4x6 card from the Fancy Pants/ Be Different line; green with cream polka dots.  I used a navy embossing powder with a label stamp on the card; cut out three; cut the largest into 2 pieces to place on the left and right of my photo block, and tucked the other two.

Now, the overall design is thanks to Sketch 267 from Creative Scrappers.

 

I took a few liberties.  It's a great sketch; and I love seeing what everyone is doing with it.  Unfortunately, I am currently lacking in single-photo stories.  HOWEVER, I liked the big square of background paper and decided to use this 8x8 collage of photos in it's place.  On this one, I can now relax.  Story told and in the books.