Steampunk

Steampunk has become a new fascination for me.  It is a sub-genre of sci-fi (which I am a huge fan) and has recently made its way into the scrapping world.  It frequently has lots of Victorian and old futuristic elements.  It is very visually gritty at times and I tend to find it fairly appealing.  Recently I got the new Graphic 45 line Steampunk Debutante.   I have been having a lot of fun with this line and wanted to share a card I made for friend's 30th birthday.  I will more than likely be sharing a few more Steampunk inspired projects in the future.

Quotes

This week at Frosted Designs we have another great challenge going on and another chance to win some Robyn's Fetishes digital stamps.  These stamps are seriously so cute you just have to head over and check them out!  On to the challenge though....This week we challenge you to use a quote on your project.  I couldn't decide which quote to use so I made two projects.  The first I made a card with the digital stamp "Book Worm" from Robyn's Fetishes.  As a librarian I just couldn't Pass up the uber cute book worm stamp.  The quote says "A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life" -Henry Ward Beecher.

My second project was a Halloween layout of my nephew.  The quote says "When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the mood laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween'." -Unknown.

Photo Inspiration!

This week at Frosted Designs we have a great challenge and an even better prize.  Each week for the month of September we will be giving away either paper and digital stamps or just digital stamps from Robyn's Fetishes Digital Stamps.  These are so fun.  Seriously there are like so many stamps that range from adorable to beautiful to cool and fun.  Head over and check it out.  On to the challenge.  Once again we have a photo inspiration challenge going on.  We are using this photo

to influence our projects.  It is such a pretty photo with so much going on in it.  There are the textures colors, and tons of other elements.  For my project I was inspired by the pinks purples and greens and by the flowers.  This is what I created.

I used the August Little Red Scrapbook kit and Robyn's Fetishes "Poppy Fairy" stamp for this birthday card.

Capturing Mountains

I recently did a swap on a non-crafting related message board that I belong to.  The swap was to exchange local goodies to help someone learn about your area of the country.  Most people were sending food related items in their swap, but I was having some difficulty coming up with anything for Colorado.  We don't really have a local food unless you want to count Rocky Mountain Oysters and I wasn't too keen on sending those to my unsuspecting swap buddy.  That would just be kind of cruel.  I did end up sending some food from local all natural food companies here in Colorado, but I didn't think that was enough.  One thing that Colorado is really know for is our gorgeous mountains.  We are VERY proud of our mountains and pretty much think that they make Colorado on of the prettiest places on Earth.  So I wanted to send something that represented the mountains, but not just a photo or a rock.  What's a girl to do?  I finally figured it out... Why not make a set of blank cards with a mountain theme and some natural hand made papers.  So I set to work.  I had some hand made paper that I have had sitting around for years that I broke out and I also broke out my Bosskut Gazelle to cut out some leaves and mountain shapes.  I decided the best thing to do to make the mountains was to create a stencil with my Gazzelle and spray them on with Glimmer Mist.  I am really happy with how they turned out and I hope my swap buddy enjoys the cards.