Playing with chipboard

There is a bit of a glare on the top picture, but I tried using some of the chipboard I had purchased recently when it was on clearance on the SU! website. In this layout I just painted the chipboard with some acrylic paint. Earlier today, though, I made a layout and mixed some frost white shimmer paint with real red re-inker and then sprinkled dazzling diamonds all over the finished chipboard - that turned out really nicely, also.

Here I just used the picture of our empty plate of cookies to emphasize the sentiment and journaling as well as the point of the story. (Halleigh didn't think anyone had come to see her on Christmas morning this year...the plate finally gave it away to get her to go in to the living room and find all of her presents!)

Christmas Jingle SS kit, gold thread, Flirty Chocolate Chip ribbon, Ginormous Flowers chipboard.

Sweet little additions to our family

Here is a darling little layout I made of my brother and his son. The picture is not great, but I really like the way it turned out. I pleated my ribbon at the top and used a couple of rub-ons to look like I sewed on it.
I used the Merry Moments patterned paper and Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' kit among other supplies to create this page.

More simply scrappin'

Here is another set of pages created with the oh, so wonderful simply scrappin' kits! I love the fact that these kits are already put together, all you have to do is decide how to use it! I hardly added anything to the pages that didn't come in the kit!

For these pages I used the Jingle This Simply Scrappin' kit. I loved the sentiments about creating smiles at holiday time and family joy - I thought they went perfectly with the pictures of my daughter playing with her cousin. I added some gold brads, a scallop edge, a mini library clip, and some die cuts from the scribbles and swirls sizzlit. Finally, a touch of ribbon and glitter - and don't forget Rudolph's red brad for his nose! The pages came together quickly....too bad our dear Kentucky Wildcats didn't get their teamwork together more quickly! Oh, well, at least I got some scrapping done during the first loss of the season!

Shh...don't tell!

With Valentine's day coming soon, I'm trying to make a few things for my dear hubby in secret. I know that he certainly doesn't read my blog, so I think I'm safe! I loved this idea from Andrea Walford to make a little album with the glassine bags. They are beautiful like vellum, so I think I may finish off the bag outsides with some rub-ons before the big day arrives. I love the new embossing folders, too!

Hi, Ho, Hi, Ho, it's back to work I go!!!

Hi, Ho, Hi, Ho, it's back to work I go! Boo hoo....no more snow days for a while. And no more school days off until April (ah, the whines of a schoolteacher, huh?!) Oh, well....I'm still crafting away before I go to bed when I can. So, anyway, enough whining and on to the projects, eh?
Both of the projects on this post are inspired by Andrea Walford. The top card is made completely from scraps. I used some of the in colors from last year and the new bird punch to make this card. It's pretty straightforward - the bird wings all have dazzling diamonds glitter on them. I used my new scallop trim punch and the branches were cut out in both chocolate chip and kiwi kiss. I cut out the leaves and glued them on top of the chocolate chip branch so they looked more like a real branch.

As for the box...it got a little smooshed in the scanner....

Real Red, chocolate chip and very vanilla was the color scheme on this one. I used my I {heart} hearts stamp set for the hearts. The two larger hearts were sprayed with shimmer mist and the smallest heart was punched with a 1/2" circle punch and placed in a build-a-brad.

More sketch inspiration

Here is a final page I made for my Disney album. I used the sketch below to create it. I am ready to move on to more colors and choices, so whatever I do next is not going to stick to one patterned paper pack!!! I used the inside of the chipboard pieces from the calendar to create the glittery green flower in the bottom corner. Underneath the journaling spot are some leftover curly label punches and tags. I just layered them using different colored scraps that matched the colors in the layout.

I {heart} birthdays!

Here is a quick card I made for my sister in law's birthday. I mostly used scraps of Tempting Turquoise, Pixie Pink, Pink Passion and a kraft card base. I stamped the birthday cake using staz-on onto watercolor paper and watercolored with my blender pens. For the turquoise paper on the bottom layer, I made heart masks using my heart punches. Then I sponged pink passion over the masks. Finally, I stamped a few hearts over the mask using more pink passion. Quick and easy!