Surprise at StampFest Orlando

The crowd was tight.  I could not see over anyone’s head.  These women were not budging an inch.  Waiting for someone to kindly move out to allow someone else a chance to see wasn’t on any of these women’s agenda.  All I could do was hold my camera up high and over as much as my little short arms could reach and snap.

Here is the layout from some of those pictures.   Oh, and yes, the bag Kristy is holding was signed by Tim!

I had a fun time creating as much little extras as I could for these pages.  First I used a

Let’s Scrap sketch,  and worked out the DT Challenge from Michelle to make my own music sheet paper, which I printed off the computer, placed in a pan, and poured strong tea over it.  I then stamped it with a background stamp or two. The golden flowers I made by twisting a strip of taffeta and pasting it down on a circle of cs.

Supplies:  Paper – Glitz, Authentique, G45, Recollections, DCWV, solid cs by SU, matted with Fox River confetti sand.

Stamps – Tim Holtz, Inkadinkadoo, Stampin’ Up!.   Inks – TH, SU!

TH Iron Gate die cut. SU! cog, ticket, circle punches. Various craft tape. Fiskars circle  template & cutter.

Song title is by Herman’s Hermits and was cut with Cricut.

Hello Kitty Birthday Card

I made this for Leia’s first birthday.

I used the Hello Kitty Font Cricut cartridge, Stampin’ Up! sentiment, ink, punch and ribbon.

The inside is stamped.  The center is on a pop-up spring we got at StampFest.  So, we celebrate her one year birthday. 

Pages from a Filled Scrapbook

Kristy is in Virginia.  She survived the early morning departure and is loving her visit with my DGD and DGGD.  She has already sent a few pics via cell and I am getting the bug to get my hands on more prints that I can scrap.

I sent up a completed album for Kara to have since it is her beautiful baby.  I hope they will enjoy going over the pages as Leia grows.  Right now mommy, daddy and the other adults may enjoy the pics.  Of course, our little darling is only turning one so the memories represented by the pages aren’t that hard to conjure up.

Here are two sets of layouts I haven’t shared before.

Each was created with sketches from Let’s Scrap.  I love having a sketch challenge to try, gets me thinking outside of the usual design I would use.  The starburst was really fun to do.  Both sets use some beautiful designer papers from Stampin’ Up!. Ribbon and lace from SU.  The flower in the first is a stamp and punch from SU, the flourish was done with Cricut.  The second layout set uses butterflies and other punches from SU.  I used supplies from my scrap bin for the borders, various companies of border punches.  The blue mat behind the double photos on the bottom left was created with stamps from Impression Obsession – new from StampFest!   Photographing the pages proved to be difficult.  The lamp created a bad glare.  I should have waited for a sunny day, but we have had lots of rainy days lately. 

Anyway the photos are from when Kris went up after Leia was born.

Here is another t-shirt I embellished for Kristy. I should have taken a close up of the blossom, I can tell now that it didn’t show up too well here.

I made petals from folded strips, gathered and positioned under a circle that was fussy cut to utilized the flower in the fabric. I did a satin stitch with Isacord embroidery thread and added 3 buttons in the center.  Another look when she wants to ware the skirt.  Check out my precious post to see what else I made.

Cards from Splitcoast Challenges

Here is a card I made today for the sketch challenge at SplitcoastStampers.  It was perfect for using one of my new stamps from StampFest.

The woman, a stamp from Lost Coast Designs, was colored with SU watercolor pencils.  Using a scrap of pp from Scenic Route I cut a circle with my Fiskars circle template and circle cutter.  Then I wrapped strands of SU calypso coral organza ribbon around a scrap of DCWV paper and tied a couple of bows before attaching.  The sentiment stamp is a set called Occasions Alphabet from Stampin’ Up!.  It is stamped in the calypso ink and matted with calypso card stock.  Edges are sponged with Ranger Vintage Photo ink.  The circle is a punched out metal from a piece that Kris had left over from embossing and distressing, which she got at the StampFest also.

Here is a Christmas card from yesterday using the color challenge from SplitcostStampers.

I embossed the Medallion stamp (SU) on Cherry Cobbler card stock.  Stamped the sentiment by using markers on Very Vanilla, and stitched some Victoria lace on the edge.  The green embossing powder came from Michaels and everything else is Stampin’ Up!.  This makes Christmas card # 3 for July.

Two Layouts from My Paper and Rubber World

Here are my two latest scrapbook pages, both are inspired by the color challenges at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking.

Art Teacher – I love putting patterns together from different manufacturers. These happen to be papers I bought from Scrap Attack: October Afternoon, Scenic Route, Scribble Scrabble. The colors I was challenged to use were blue, green, and magenta. I had a real problem with the magenta. If it isn’t a Stampin’ Up color I probably am not sure what it is, as in the case here. When I looked it up on the Internet it said reddish purple so I got out my alcohol inks and glossy card stock and blended. It is a bit too dark, most likely, but a pretty reddish purple to me. I chose to hand write the title for the artistic look. Various stamps used are from Inkadinkadoo and Stampin’ Up. The photos were taken by my DD, so she is missing from the group shot of our stamp club – the “Spaced Out Stampers” at Ree’s Stamping Oasis. Ree is a retired teacher for real and now inspires us with her artistic abilities to make cards.

3 Stamp-a-teers – The bold contrast from the colors (orange, blue, black) in this color challenge made for a festive page with photos from our trip to Orlando for the Stampfest. We three had a fun and full day of looking at stamps and other fun stuff and certainly overloaded on ideas to take home. DD is seen doing a make and take. A lady at the Graphic 45 paper rack graciously offered to photograph the three of us together. Once again I played with patterns that used the blue and orange together. I liked mixing the geometric shapes of circles and diamonds. BTW, I hope you understand the title of this layout. It is a play off the 3 Musketeers.