Thursday, May 31, 2012

Fairy Post Card Tag


Hello Lovelies, today I have to share with you a wonderful postcard tag I made using well a post card tag from AlteredPages and several collage sheets from there as well.  The ribbon is some I had laying around.  I really don’t know the name of it sorry…  The Collage sheets I used are: Script Collage Backgrounds AP-1724, Winged Women AP-1056D, Scrabble tiles AP-1603. 

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What’s great about this tag is that on the back it’s a postcard!  I am using this particular tag in an art journal page all about letters!  It’s a prompt from Smeared and Smudged.  Their prompts are awesome and give lots of room for you to do what you want!

Zombabes Release Day 2


Hello Lovelies, it’s day two of the SBS Zombabes release and I am so excited for you to see these! Please head over to the Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls blog to see what everyone else has made and when and where you can get this awesome set!

Today we have for you: Beach Blast Alison, Haute Hazel, and Vacationing Veronica! 
I am starting with Vacationing Veronica: 
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again I am using that newly acquired summer digi set from ScrapGirls.com.

Next I have combined Beach Blast Alison and Haute Hazel on a scrapbook page of my girl!
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I hope you enjoy and remember to head on over and see where and when you can get these!  Now keep in mind Betty is on pacific time and I am on eastern so it may be a while before it show up!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Bombshell Hop and SBS Release


Hello Lovelies, today is a busy day!  I have for you the Bombshell Hump day Hop and a Burtonesque SBS release!!!  How cool is that.  Let’s start with the hop shall we.!

The hump day hop this month is great as it was a very loose theme…Here is what the Hump day Hottie Alison had to say about it!  This month, our theme is Celebrations of May. May has a lot of fun, interesting and sometimes bizarre holidays. So the challenge was to pick one of these holidays, and make a project out of it! We have a fabulous list of stops for you to hop to this month, so let's get this party started!
So I chose National Photograph month.  The hubby was taking a photograph class to finish his degree and of course I had to learn with him…it’s my camera after all!!! So here we are learning all sorts of new camera lingo and taking all these new pictures in different ways, which I will be posting later, and which picture did I pick to work with today… the one where my daughter is making a funny face!!!  LOL  I just knew when I saw it though that it would make a great journal page with her as the center of the flower…. it will be a two page spread with my son on the other page but right now it’s half done!

Here is the journal page… I used 1 image from 23 different Bombshell stamp sets on this page.   A lot of them are the petals of the flower and some are hard to see in the picture because of the inks I used for the background but they are all there!!! 

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Here is a little close up of some of the stamps.  Sorry about the Glare!!!

Told you she was being silly!!! 

Here is the hop list and if you started here please head over to the Bombshell blog to start at the beginning!



SBS Burtonesque Dolls Release

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Today we have a release for you called the zombabes.  These are all hottie zombies who are ready for the beach!  I guess I was continuing with the photograph month theme are a couple of these are scrapbook pages.  Remember we are having a two day release so that means 3 today and 3 tomorrow so make sure to come back to see the rest of the hotties!!!
Today we have for you…
Luscious Lucy, Martini Tina, and Snappy Ginger.
 
I will start with Martini Tina:

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Now I have to tell you, I printed the images out and colored them but all of the projects were done digitally.  I recently acquired this new digi kit all about summer and I knew as soon as I saw it I had to use it for the Zombabes!!  So all of my projects for the next two days will have a sort of retro/summer look to them!

Now for Snappy Ginger and Luscious Lucy they are together on a scrapbook page I made for my daughters book!  Seems I have a daughter theme today and tomorrow but don’t worry I have plenty of the boy too…His were just not for these papers!!!

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I hope you enjoy and remember to go to the Burtonesque Dolls blog to see what the others have made!

Friday, May 18, 2012

Forever Night Challenge # 37


Hello Lovelies, well you read it right!  We are finally back on track and all caught up over at Forever Night.  Personal issues just got in the way and we kind of got a little behind, BUT were BACK!!!  YAY 

This week our Sponsor is Bugaboo and our challenge is a color challenge… Black/White/Grey.  Yep 3 of my most favorite colors..  Or would that be 2 of my favorite colors and my favorite non-color?  HMMMMM  either way you could say I LOVE IT!!! 

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Aren’t they cute!  I love this image.  I made this card with my sister in mind as it’s her Anniversary this month. 

Now head on over to the Forever Night Challenge Blog to enter our challenge this week and to see what all the other DT have made.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Recipe Re-Do


Hello Lovelies, today I am here with the beginnings of a recipe box re-do.  I started this box for my daughter a while ago and recently decided to re-do the outside.  It started out as a box decked out in things you would find in Paris because that is one of her fascinations.  The further along I got into the box the more I realized that the theme might not go with her kitchen as she gets older so I thought…. well everyone loves vintage, and if they don’t they should!  LOL..Anyway I started redecorating the outside of the box with collage sheets from AlteredPages, From the Kitchen with Love AP775D and Cookbook covers AP907D to be exact.  So far I am loving the look of it and want one for myself! 

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A close up of some of the images I am using from these two collage sheets.

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See the Paris theme I am covering…while it looked awesome I just don’t think it would last like the vintage styles would…I could be wrong but I like the new look!
Don’t forget to head over to AlteredPages to check out the kits over there!!!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

May Pin Up challenge: Tic TacToe


Hello Lovelies it’s time for the May Pin Up challenge over at Bombshell Stamps!  Here is what our Pin Up had to say:
ROLL UP, ROLL UP
IT'S TIME FOR TIC TAC TOE: Pick any three in a row :lol:
Your challenge for the merry month of May is to create a project that contains
three items from my Tic Tac Toe selection.Just draw an imaginary line through three boxes. Horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.....no cheating :twisted: .

"Something new" is kind of a wild card. Interpret it how you wish but try something you've never done before. You may well discover a new favorite technique. You won't know until you try ;)

Now go forth Bombshells and create your projects. Do please come back and share your work with all your fellow Bombshell lovers.Tell your friends and fellow crafters too. Lend a stamp and let a friend enter. If they win, maybe they will share the Booty!!!Looking forward to seeing all your amazing entries.
Jennie xxx

Now really all you have to do is pick 3 in a Row and go for it!!!  I chose to go straight down the middle. 

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Now the Purple is obviously the letters, the paper piecing is the skulls which were stamped on patterned paper then cut out to make my flowers, and the something new is the whole thing, the journal, the concept of the journal, and the paper the skulls were stamped on!!!  So head over to the Bombshell Blog to see what the other DT have made for you and don’t forget to enter in our monthly challenge!!!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

BTBD Altered Item Challenge: Anything Goes


Hello Lovelies, it’s the 3rd Tuesday of the month and you know what that means?!Smile Yep you betcha it the Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls Altered challenge!!!  This time our theme is Anything Goes as long as it is an altered item. Now you know you can head over to the BTBD blog and see what the other DT have made for you but you also need to leave them some love on their blogs!!!  Also enter our challenge! You know you want to with that badge!!! Smile

Now you all know how much I love pintrest and you know I am always looking for a way to recycle something cause you know how much I hate to throw anything away!  So I have been saving cans, you know the ones that tomatoes come in, anyway I don’t use them very often but when I do I make sure to save them. 

I took some glitz paper and covered the cans… On a couple of them I took the scraps of paper and made my own patterned paper.  I used images from collage sheets I got from AlteredPages.com and added those to the paper.  I have my colored pencils stored in these by color group but am saving more cans to make a marker pyramid!

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This is one of my patterned paper pieces

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Another of the pieced together patterned paper
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This one needs a ribbon at the top but I can't find one I like right now.....

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Bombshell Sketch Challenge



Hello Lovelies, today is the day we wait for the day when we get to see what awesome sketch Ms. Kathi makes for us bombshells.  This one is no different it is as awesome as all the others she makes! 

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Told you it was awesome!!

Here is my take on the sketch using my newest set Rise and Shine from Bombshell stamps.

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Head on over to the Bombshell Blog to see what everyone else has made and also remember to go to their blogs and leave them some love, you never know what prize patrol person may be lurking!!!! LOL

Monday, May 7, 2012

Paper Creations Ink


Hello Lovelies!  I hope you are having a wonderful day.  I certainly am!  Today I am starting my GDT over at Paper Creations Ink and it is a wonderful challenge.  Unfortunately it is the last challenge at PCI due to personal reasons.  We sure will hate to see them go!  This cards I am sowing today are so totally not my style but I can assure you I had great fun making them… who knows maybe I will start being more eclectic in the way I make my art from now on!!!! 

Ok on to the Challenge: Here is what the lovelies over at PCI have to say…
Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to Challenge #24 "In The Garden"! Since Spring has finally come, we decided that most everyone will be working in their gardens and yards, so that would be an awesome challenge! What do you think? Just a quick reminder, you are only limited by your imagination! You can use any image for this challenge! We would LOVE to see all types of creations, whether it is a Card, Scrapbook Page, Fat Book Page, Tag, ATC (Artist Trading Card), Box, Bag, 3D ~ Altered Art, or Other Crafting Projects that has some form of paper on it!
All of our Design Team's inspiration is listed above, along with Inlinkz. This challenge will run until Sunday May 20, 2012 at 6pm CST. And for an added bonus, we will be looking for some works of art to Spotlight!

Our Sponsor for this challenge is our very own Miranda van den Bosch, she is so talented that she drew 3 Images just for us and these 3 Images will be the prize for this challenge! Isn't that an awesome prize for one lucky person? We hope that you like our creations!
Now here is a some information about Miranda!
My name is Miranda van den Bosch and I’m 47 years old. I have been drawing nearly all my life. At the age of 4 I was making drawings on a blackboard, but because my parents thought it was a pity that I had to erase all my drawings they got me paper and colour pencils. And I’ve never stopped drawing since. When I was little I used to draw portraits and Disney characters. After that I started to draw fairies and dragons. In time, I joined an art group and learned to draw nudes and still life portraits too. When I was in my 30ties I became interested in birds and started to draw them as well. And last year I published my first children’s book. It’s an ABC of birds and 26 birds tell you about birdlife in general. A good friend of mine wrote the text. About 2 years ago, I discovered card making and how I could use stamps with my colouring technique and style. I really enjoy colouring up all the cute images with watercolour or with regular colour pencils. Every week I discover new brands of stamps and I just decided to draw some digi stamps to see if other people liked them. A new world of being creative is opening up for me.




I was able to use two wonderful images from Miranda I love the bright springy colors I used as opposed to my normal dark colors.  Let me know what you think and remember to head over to PCI to enter for your chance to win so wonderful images from Miranda as well!
Here are my cards, let me know what you think!
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Altered Canvas

Hello Lovelies, today I bring to you an altered canvas I made using products from Alteredpages.com!   I have decided to cover the creative dungeon and the game room with art made my me and  my family!  It's a slow process but it's gonna happen!!!

So here is my canvas and go check out alteredpages.com to see all the wonderful products they have there!



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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

If I were a Zombie…I’d Eat you the most….


Hello Lovelies, Today is a new challenge day over on BTBD and as it hints above we would like for you to take something lovey dovey and ZOMBIEFY it!!!!!  That’s right pull out those cute images that you really don’t know what to do with and turn them into Zombies!!!! Doesn’t that sound fun!  I know I had a fan-tab-u-lous time making my card!  My image and senti are both SBS! 

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Now head on over to the BTBD blog and see what everyone else is doing and join us this challenge… It’s our first challenge of the month so anything goes!!