Close to My Heart Workshop on the Go - Charlotte

Here are the two layouts I did at this workshop. The photos of the layouts aren't great.  It's a rainy, dull day here today. I just followed along with the workshop guide. There were a couple of tweeks.  The gold alphas on the 2nd layout are AC Thickers.

The first is of Crop and Create September 2015. 

This next layout is of my friend turning 60 and celebrating here with us.

Use Your Stuff - Challenge #216 - POP DOTS

 

Stamps: Joy! - Under The Sea

Distress Ink: Tim Holtz - Salty Ocean, Squeezed Lemon, Cracked pistachio

Black Ink: Ranger Archival

Patterned Paper: Recollections - Boho

Dew Drops: Robin's Nest 

Check out what the rest of the Design Team did with this challenge at USE YOUR STUFF

Being Silly - 2016

I love being silly with my sister!

Project done for USE YOUR STUFF challenge to use or be inspired by a QUOTE.

Patterned Paper:  Echo Park (polka dots), Heidi Swapp (stripes) and Pink Fresh Studios
Diecuts: Pink Fresh Studios
Puffy Sequins: Pink Fresh Studios
Puffy Flowers: Pink Fresh Studios
Washi Tape: We R Memory Keepers
Sketch:  PageMaps - March 2016

Colouring

Adult colouring books are HUGE right now and yes, I've been caught up in the colouring phenomenon.  I had only coloured a couple of images, but they felt "flat" to me.  And what the heck do you do with those images once they are coloured?  These questions prompted a couple of friends and I to take a colouring class at the local high school with Marilyn Harris-Mills. 

This is one of the images that I have coloured lately.  This project was also done for my first challenge at "Use Your Stuff" - Challenge No. 214 - Flowers.

Products used:

• Flower Image: Design Originals Color Joy Coloring Book
• Colouring Pencils: Spectrum Noir
• White pen (dots): Uniball Signo
• Background Stamp: Recollections
• Clear Ink: Versa Mark
• Embossing Powder: Re-Mark-Able
• Shimmery Water Colour Paint: Michaels
• Distress Ink: Tim Holtz
• Stencil: Magenta (Bokeh)
• Blending Pen:  Winsor & Newton

Background:

• Stamped the background image with Versa Mark on to smooth watercolour paper.
• Sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heat set
• Painted on a wash using the shimmer watercolour paint – the embossed area resisted the paint
• Sponged on Tim Holtz distress ink over the bokeh stencil only on the edges and corners

Flower Image:

• Coloured the image with the coloured pencils
• Blended it all out with the blending pen
• Added dots with the white pen

Once everything was dry, I fussy-cut the flower image from the coloring book and glued it on the page. Then I took some grey shimmer watercolour paint and painted around the image to give it a bit of shadow. 

I wish you could see how shimmery the background is in real life.  

Retirement - 2015

My brother retired last year and I was there for the event! 

Cardstock: DCWV
Patterned Papers: Jillibean Soup
Stickers/diecuts: Jillibean Soup
Washi Tape: Recollections
Rhinestones: Love2Scrap
Sketch: PageMaps

Snowmaggedon - 2016

In February, we had a record snow fall of over 50 cm of snow in ONE DAY! Yikes!  

At my CTMH WOTG (Close to my Heart - Workshop on the Go) in November, the kit we used was White Pines.  We did two 2-page layouts and some Christmas cards.  When I did the layouts, I didn't have have any photos to add.  The photos of all that snow were perfect to add onto one of the layouts.
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The alphas that I added are from Thickers by American Crafts and are sparkly like the snow.

Design Team News - Use Your Stuff Blog

I am happy to announce that I am part of the Design Team on the blog - USE YOUR STUFF.

Every Monday, someone from the design team will post a challenge that we hope will help you use some of your stash and inspire some creative projects.  

I am so excited to be working with this talented bunch of gals!