Mr. Cool Shades!

Happy Friday All,
I am just back in town today from a business trip all this week. It was a nice break from the regular work routine, but no crafting in the evenings! How boring!

I will show you a layout I finished awhile ago. My son loved sunglasses when he was little. This layout is of him showing off a new pair that he recieved as a Easter gift.

I love Mitch in bright colors and this red fleece was one of his favorites.

I did a lot of cutting for this page. I enjoy fussing cutting. It is relaxing and I just let my mind wander! I also used an edger to cut the pattern on the inner page. I used a page slightly larger with the edge design and then spritzed it with blue shimmer paint for the background page.

For each picture of Mitch I cut him out and matted them on dark navy cardstock. I think it makes the pictures show much better.

Tonight and tomorrow I am at a Scrapbooking/Crafting club at my friends house. There are seven in attendance. It is a guaranteed recipie for laughter and creativity!

Have a nice weekend yourself!
Wanda

Sleep - My Sweet Baby, Sleep

Good Evening,
Tonight I want to share with you a page I made of my son when he was 7 months old. I love this photo, he looks so peaceful. If you only knew, Mitch never slept more that about 20 minutes at a time during the day and only about 2 hours at a time during the night!

I made the photo about 6" x 8" and used two pieces of paper back-to-back to roll back away from the picture.

I added lots of flowers and butterflies.

Sweet dreams indeed - my young baby!

I hope you can find some inspiration - happy crafting!
Wanda
 

Friendship Card - Spicy Supply Challenge - Ribbon

Good day friends!

I was at a girlfriends house for crop day and this was one of the projects I completed. I am very pleased with this creation. They are some of my favorite colors. I put some vellum through my cuttlebug to make a textured background behind the banner.

For the stamp I daubed on the teal and darker turquoise ink and then put on a bit of chocolate brown. Then I embossed this with clear embossing powder. I just love the way the colors blended.

The friendship title is a resistible chipboard from Close To My Heart. Using the same 3 colors as on the stamp I daubed all over the piece to get a nice marbled effect. I put teal ribbon on and thought it was a bit too powerful so I layered a white fibre ribbon over top (same as on the banner).

This one will go in my stash for someone special to receive. I also want to enter it into a competition 'Ribbon' Gingersnap Creations Blog on http://gingersnapcreations.blogspot.com/2012/01/gc134-spicy-supply-challenge-ribbon.html . Please send along your comments. I would love to hear from you.

Shabby Tea Room #97 - Gorgeous Gateaux

­­Good Morning Crafters! This morning I am attempting to link this card to one of my favorite blogs “The Shabby Tea Room”. Each week they have this great contest with both a photo and colors for card creating inspiration! As such a blogging beginner I can not tell you how tricky this seemingly simple task has turned into. First, I made a card and trust me when i say this was the easiest part.

Second, I tried to learn how to take a better picture, on some ‘macro’ setting, with and without a flash, zoomed in and out, standing on a chair, from all angles. I swear I took about a hundred shots. Okay, I’ll admit I am way too particular. Third, get the pictures into Photoshop to crop and zoom and all that good stuff. Fourth, try for just my second time to compose a blog entry with photos. I am starting to feel not technologically advanced enough for this. Finally, I have to try to figure out how to ‘link’ a picture to another blog.

Success! I think. Hmm, and I have only been at this for two hours. Surely, I won’t take this long every time?

My card is certainly inspired by the colors and photo at the Shabby Tea Room, but I really wanted an Asian feel. I just loved this collection of papers called ‘The Far East’ and the colors seemed just perfect.

I stamped with grey and then used silver embossing powder to bring out the shine!

The flowers and the lace fan were made from vellum and colored with markers. I also added a bit of silver marker.

I hope you like it. It has been a real adventure and I have had a lot of fun creating this card.