DragonsTeam Tag It On - Travel

Although Frankie was wee bit naughty, giving me the heads ups on this weeks theme, I resisted making my tag until the theme was published.  Pop on over to the blog Here, and check it out.

As usual, the rule is to use at least one real stamp and I used seven!  Jolly pleased with myself, I am. LOL

  

My tag was coloured using Aged Mahogany and Peeled Paint Distress inks on a foam blending tool.  The stamping on the tag was done with Black and Sepia Archival Inks, stamps from Tim Holtz and Crafty Secrets.

Pilot Edwin was stamped onto water colour paper with Archival and coloured with various Distress inks and a water brush.  I popped him up on foam for extra dimension.

Diamond Dust

I have discovered Diamond Dust and I just love it!  Sprinkled into a clear dimensional product, it give a real lift to cards, projects and layouts.   I used Chrystal Effects this time and I do find that because I printed my own PP on an inkjet, that it changes the colour of the ink underneath.  I do have other dimensional products that don’t do this so I must remember that for another time.

With the amazing snowfall we had just last week, I couldn’t help but use it on a winter time layout.

 

The PP is one of the Digital Collection ones from Websters Pages.  I love having a colour A3 printer although I would love it more if mine was able to print out a 12 x 12 borderless.  Never mind, I am learning to love the “frame” around the edge, lol

Tag It On – Childs Play

I have discovered a really fun blog that involves tags and challenges!  I pull up each new challenge post and think to myself - “I would love to do that one” – but somehow the week passes by and I miss the opportunity to make and link a tag for that weeks theme.

Huh! – Did it this week though!  Yay Me! You can visit Dragons Team by clicking here. The theme this week was Childs Play and this is what I came up with.

The rule is to use at least one real stamp and mine is from Paper Bag Studios.

Tag – You’re It!

I have been fluffing around making tags, of late. I find they are really good for practicing techniques or for trying something new.

I follow a really great blog Ink On My Fingers and the author, Hels, is just so funny. Pop on over and not only have a wee giggle but take a look at the great tags and cards she makes.

I thought I would share a few pic’s of my tags, just so you know I haven’t dropped off the scrapping planet for good, lol.

Tag background is Aged Mahogany and Dusty Concord Distress Inks. I did pinch the idea of using the vintage pen nib on wings from Hels so – Thank You Hels!

The die-cut phase and chair are from a Kerri Bradford kit and the tag and cardstock used for the rose are stamped with a great stamp I got from Scrolls Works before they closed down. Tag coloured with Mustard Seed and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.

I was having fun with my latest set of Tim Holtz stamps and masking on this tag. I’m not sure if I got the die-cut phrase from Keri Bradford or the Silhouette Store. The tag is cut from Kraft Cardstock and inked with Vintage Photo.

That will do for today but I do have more to share and hopefully I will get on to that before you forget I exist, lol

Thanks for stopping by.

Scrapbook Dreams – June 2011

The theme for the first of the June challenges over at Scrapbook Dreams was “Then and Now”

This threw me into a right tis, I can tell you.  However, after I calmed down a bit I came up with this layout.

 

The journaling reads “You sent Nana a request for a “Steve” Jersey so that you could play the character of Steve, the original presenter of the TV show Blues Clues.  She asked a friend to knit it for you and 5 years later you are still wearing it.”

“Steve” is often Liam’s Saturday persona. LOL.

Off The Page

Some time back, the lovely Shell, gave me a 7 Gypsies tray, bless her!  I had wanted one for absolutely ages but it has taken me this long to do something with it.

As you may know, I simply love using my Silhouette digital cutter!  I have also fallen in love with Keri Bradford’s This and That kits, made to measure for the 7 Gypsies tray.  She has several to choose from and with the buoyant exchange rate at the moment, I am now the proud owner of her Family and Lucky kits.

I chose to use the Family Kit for my tray.

Madly wishing I had a second tray, I altered a multi-photo picture frame, adding divisions with ice-block sticks and bits of another frame that I butchered.  I was so impatient (what a surprise, lol) that I didn’t measure a damn thing.  Even so, It turned out OK.  I used Mariposa Card Stack pages for the various backgrounds. I used the cut files from Kerri Bradford’s Lucky Kit for this one.

Surely, I must have been doing something creative!

I have done few layouts that I would love to share.

Scrapbook Dreams have 2 challenges each month.  The 1st on a theme or subject and the second using a sketch.  These were my efforts for May 2011.

 

The first challenge for May was to do a layout using “Action Shots”.  Haha – was this some sort of joke?  Action shots, my house, my family members?  I don’t think so!!  The issue was solved, however, when I had my gorgeous God-Daughter for a few hours one afternoon.  She can move pretty fast for a 10-month old, lol.

She came to the rescue, yet again, for the sketch challenge.  Do you have any idea how hard it is to take a decent sort of photo, of yourself and a baby, while said said baby is squirming and you have only one hand left to hold her with? I don’t plan on trying that trick again in a hurry, lol.

This was the sketch from Page Maps that inspired Shell for the 2nd Challenge.