A sketch and some stamping!

I am behind on blogging again.  First I did my first sketch!  OK so I am not too proud of it cause in all honestly it is pretty simple.  I just didn't have the program/s or knowledge to create a better one.  I plan on learning some more about sketching in the future.  Anyway I did this sketch for the wonderful ladies at Frosted Designs. 

And here is my take on my own sketch.  I had a lot of fun with this lo.  I loved this photo of my dad and my husband at the park, but there was a HUGE space between them without much of anything in the middle.  I printed the photo in 5x7, trimmed it to 4 inches tall and then ripped about a 2 inch chunk out of the middle and laced up the two sides.  I am really happy with the effect.  On top of that there is lots of paint and glimmer mist on this lo. 

Also this past week at Frosted Designs our challenge was to use stamps to create a background on a project.  I used some Scenic Route Stamps to create a birthday card for my brother in law.  I also used a Copic marker for all the coloring.  I am really starting to fall hard for those markers which is a dangerous prospect since they aren't cheap! 

Technique Week!

This week at Frosted Designs it is all about Techniques.  This week we want to see what everyone's favorite techniques are and see how you use them.  Head over to Frosted Designs to see all the awesome techniques and projects from the rest of the design team.  For my technique I chose to use one that I have been using a lot lately.  I went with masking.  Masking really is such a fun technique that really gives your projects a great look.  I used 2 different types of masking.  The first was on the background paper I masked with a Glimmer Screen and Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist.  The second type was using a Tim Holtz Mini Mask and Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink to the left of the photo.

Of course this is another one of my trash the dress layout.  I had so much fun taking them and I am having just as much fun scrapping them. 

Catching Up!

Yikes I am behind on my blogging.  Life got a little hectic and I haven't been able to post in awhile.  So enough with the excuses and on to the crafty goodness.  My first project was for Frosted Designs 2 Fridays ago!  I know that is like forever in blogging time!  We were supposed to use plaid and polka dots on the same project.  I made this birthday card for my father in law.

 

The second project I have is a layout I made with an old photo of my husband.  He is a writer and this photo reminds me of a photo on the dust jacket of a book.  This past Friday at Frosted Designs we were supposed to make a project using our own handwriting.  I hand wrote part of the title and the journaling.

How we met

In keeping with my Book of Me album I decided to do a layout about how I met my husband.  I got the idea from a challenge at scrapbook.com.  It was a fun layout to do as we have a fun story.  Also it was a great excuse to scrap a few random photos of the two of us.

Stars

This week at Frosted Designs our very fun challenge is to use stars.  I LOVE the star shape and this was a great excuse for me to use them as I seem to have been neglecting them lately.  What resulted was (in my opinion) a great final layout for my wedding album.  Yup, that's right...I am finally DONE.  I have even already gone back through and re-done quite a few pages.  This time I think I am for real done.  Here it is.

 

I used Basic Grey Black Tie and Crate Paper papers on this LO.  As you have probably noticed Blue is a theme for my wedding album.  I decided that I didn't want to create an album with a wholly unified look.  I am far too random for that, but I did want to create an album that had something tying it all together so blue was the thing I chose.  Blue is my favorite color, it was one of our wedding colors (along with brown and orange). and I tend to use it on almost all of my layouts anyway.  

Pet Peeves

Recently I decided I wanted to do a Book of Me album.  I thought it would be fun to tell the story of me.  For various reasons I decided a list of my pet peeves would be fun to scrap. 

 

I used Crate Paper Die Cut paper, Scenic Route Patterned paper, Thickers, Tim Holtz masks, Peeled Paint Distress Ink, Faded Jeans Distress Ink, Fired Brick Distress Ink, Vintage Photo Distress Stickles, Broken China Distress Stickles, and Rock Candy Distress Stickles for this layout.

Valentine's Day

This week at Frosted Designs we are making V-day projects with a twist.  You can't use pink or red in your project.  I decided to go with turquoise, black, purple, and blue on my project. 

 

I sprayed a gray back ground with Chocolate Covered Cherry and Turquoise Glimmer Mist.  I used my Signo pen to do all the doodling in white.  The heart is Tim Holtz Grungeboard sprayed with Turquoise glimmer mist and then covered in Rock Candy Distress Stickles.  The Wings are a Tim Holtz stamp with Zing Pewter embossing powder.  The rubons are Glitz Designs.  And Finally I added some detail work with Black Diamond and Turquoise Stickles.