Have a Wicked Halloween

Good Morning Crafters,
I realize that Halloween has past and Christmas is fast approaching, but I still wanted to show you some Halloween fun that I created. This card is made with a 12" x 12" paper folded in half and with a circle pop out. I think it took about five tries to finally get one to line up properly!

I used a tree mask and black molding paste for a spooky night time effect. I then worked in a bit of grey paint into the branches. The haunted house is cut from my cricut cartridge Art Philosophy, Close to My Heart.

Have an Artful Day!

Wanda

BAP October - "Life in the palm of your hand"

Hi Everyone,

Today I have a couple of layouts to show. This one is of our two day old kitten! Our house cat Carley ran away from home. We were devastated until 2 weeks later when see came back to our front door crying to get in. It didn't take too long to figure out she was pregnant. Four beautiful kittens were born on Oct 9th. We were excited and we have found homes for all but one already.

This layout follows the Prima BAP October Sketch. I rotated it clockwise.

Mitchell my son, is holding this precious baby in his hands. She was so small.

I really went to town using Prima's Fairie Belle Collection - La Spa , Prima flowers and pink and gold bead accents!

I fussy cut the Fairy Ballerina and then added pink, gold and copper beads to her skirt. 

I added pink Stickles on the Prima flowers and the tiny bird.

To make the splash I used a combination of pink and gold paint mixed with white glue. I painted this mixture on the page, set the large beads in place and then sprinkled micro beads to fill in the open areas.

It has been a real learning experience having these little kittens in our house. I think it has been good for Mitch to feel the responsibility of holding a 'life in the palm of your hand'.

See you soon!
Wanda

J-hop with Scrap365 Sketch365 September Challenge

Good Day All!
Today I am showing you a scrapbook page that, I think, perfectly depicts my son and his love/obsession with BMX biking. All winter he waits and waits to get his bike out and take to the streets, curbs, skate parks, wherever!

These photos I shot of Mitch doing J-hops in our driveway and on our front street. I love the look of focus on his face!

The layout is based on a great sketch I found at Scrap365 and their Sketch 365 Contest blog. I love, LOVE, LOVE their magazine. There designers and contributors are fantastic. I will link this up for the September Sketch Challenge just for fun!

Now, besides loving his BMX, he also loves his skateboard shoes. He goes through at least one pair every summer. Every pair is differently coloured and super trendy - according to Mitch and West 49 where he purchases them. The ones here are purple.

One pair of shoes he got where called 'Grenades' and they came in this fabulous box with a grenade punch out on the lid and cool printed tissue paper inside. Of course I kept it! And used the grenade punch out and pieces of the box and tissue on the page. How fun!

The 3 pictures on the side are the 'action' shots of him going down the driveway. I printed them on photo paper and torn the right edge of all of them to add to the grunge look.

I also cut out a tire tread from a card stock page and used that as a mask at the bottom of the page. I mixed gesso with brown and grey acrylic paint.

I put on cardboard cuttings from the box, flowers and metal findings and painted them all a dark olive green. The monochromatic background of the page really makes his red bike pop out of the page.

I used a chicken wire mask for the first layer. Then the grenade mask. Here I used some glimmer glam to make the colours have a shine. Then I took a black sharpie marker and put in some detail.

Well I'll sign off now and see you in a few days!

Keep crafting!

Wanda



Splash'n in the Tub!

Good Afternoon,

Today I am uploading this scrapbook page that I created before Christmas. My son just loved his time in the tub. He would splash and splash and then try to drink the water! His favorite tub toy was this little green duck. It had a hole in the bottom and we could fill it up and then squirt him (like a water gun) he would open his mouth to try to catch the water.

I had this fantastic paper with zoo animals on it. I cannot remember where I got it, as I have been 'saving' it for a special page for a long time. The only thing it was missing was the fish. So I cut out the other animals and using the same style, drew and painted three fish to splash around.

The water splashes are stickers that help show movement of the water.

I used two shades of taupe paper for the background, and a glittery navy paper for the water.

I added the waves with brown, blue and taupe paint - trying to match the style of the animals.

Finally, I journaled a bit on the side of the page. I was thinking of framing this and hanging it in our bathroom but my son (now 15) said it was too embarrassing! My poor teenager!

Have a great week everyone.

Wanda