Friday Spyday #13 with Shaela

This is the last Friday Spyday of 2011.  Can you believe we are half way through this DT term?  It's amazing how time flies.  This week's featured card is by Shaela.  She uses such great colors and Flirty Anya is just too cute.
My base is Very Vanilla with layers of kraft and Mamarazzi by Bo Bunny.  The border punch is Martha Stewart and the sentiment is punched using the decorative label punch from SU.  The image is Oliver from TGF's OA Journey.  Isn't he just darling?  I love his little vintage vagabond look.  He is colored in copic and mounted on dimensionals.  The last piece is a coin from Tim Holtz. 
Be sure to check out the rest of the design team and play along with this week's challenge at the TGF Farm Fresh Challenge blog.  Thanks for looking!  April

Heart Journal - week 23

This is the last Heart Journal.  I can't believe I made it through all 23 weeks!  Honestly, I feel like it is a major accomplishment, so I am excited to share my last entry.  This week's theme is "A Letter to Myself."
I used Bo Bunny Mamarazzi for the base.  Isn't it fabulous?  I cut a photo/mirror from thin chipboard and used a square nestabilities to cut and emboss the center.  Instead of a photo, I put a piece of foil so to still reflect, but be distorted.  I have a hard time with my looks and have never had a positive view of me or my body, so I decided to reflect that.  On the left side is my title and along the film strip, I wrote some positive things for me to focus on about myself.  The tag next to the "photo" is stamped with $1 set from Target's dollar spot, in Jet Black Staz-On.  I added a silver eyelet in place of the one printed on the tag and tied some jute twine before mounting on dimensionals. 
So, there you have it.  Thanks for taking this journey with me and thanks for looking!  April

Monday Funday #13 - Sing-A-Song

It's another Monday Funday challenge at the TGF Farm Fresh Challenge blog and I get to host!  I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas (or if you celebrate another holiday).  Today's challenge is "Sing A Song" - create a project based on a favorite song or lyric.  I left it broad so there is a lot of freedom.

 

The card base is Whisper White with layers of Old Olive and designer paper from DCWV.  The image is Elf Anya and is colored with copics.  I mounted it on a die cut with nestabilites classic circles and lacy circles.  I tied some bells to twine and cut slits near her hands to look like she is holding the string of bells.  I also used a glue gun to add bells to her hat and the bow. 

peek at inside

Inside is some scraps from the card with the sentiment "Jingle Bells" stamped in Purely Pomegrante using Studio g alphabet stamps from Michael's dollar bin. 
I hope you all join in and take a break from the holiday craze.  Thanks for looking!  April

Friday Spyday #12 - Beate

Beate's card

This week's Spyday comes from a very talented lady at SCS - Beate!  She has many tutorials and gorgeous projects that wow me every time. 

I decided to draw from the colors and the scallops.  I wanted to use more than one kind of border punch and had a lot of fun picking which ones.  I also drew from the triangle piece by making a multi-pocket card.  I started with a base of 5x12, scoring at 4 and 8.  I then cut a diagonal piece off from the 4" score to the 12" end.  I added an extra pocket behind the shortest piece.  At the top, I punched a Martha Stewart punch on Whisper White; folding it as I stitched to give it a gathered look.  I used the pinking hearts punch in black along the slant.  I used a scrap piece of pink heart printed paper to make a background for the middle pocket.  The black pocket has a white border using the lacy scallop border punch from SU.  The littlest slant flap is embossed using the snowflake Cuttlebug folder. 
I made the wrap with a pink band 1.5" wide x 10".  The image is WS Joyce digi, colored with copics and a Santa hat cut from Cricut's Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge in bubble gum pink.  The floor is made by coloring with several E group markers, then drawing lines and woodgrain with a multiliner.  She is mounted on a lacy circle nestabilities, accented with bling.  The sentiment is printed on cardstock, punched with a 1 1/4" circle, mounted on a 1 3/8" circle, and popped up on a dimensional.  Inside hides three gift cards.  
Now it's your turn!  Head over to the Farm Fresh Challenge blog to check out the rest of the Design Team samples and play along.  Thanks for looking!  April

Heart Journal - week 22

We're in the last two weeks of Heart Journalling over at The Greeting Farm.  I can't believe next week is it and I will actually finish this....Merry Christmas to me!  This week's assignment - Music of My Heart.  We have been asked to create a spread featuring music in some way.  As for me, well, I have NO musical talent - that honor goes to my husband and daughter.  I can proudly say my daughter's ecclectic tastes come from me.  I love country, oldies, broadway, etc...pretty much anything that is not Death Metal or rap.  My MP3 features things like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Seether, Paramore, Brad Paisley, Van Morrison, and Disney - just to name a few. 
The color inspiration came from a Creative Imaginations sticker page I picked up on clearance at Michael's.  It has shades of cream, brown, maroon, silver, etc.  I started my spread by inking the base in CTMH's Brown Bag, then inked the edges in Blazing Red Staz-On.  Next, I went to my sheet music background stamp from Stampabilities and SU's Grunge Rock for the guitar.  I printed words to several songs that speak to me right now... A Thousand Years (Christina Perri - Breaking Dawn), Don't Think I Can't Love You (Jake Owen), All That You Are (Goo Goo Dolls - Transformers), and Get It Right (Glee Original Song).  They are inked and stamped with the same two colors.  The checker stamp is also from SU's Grunge Rock.  The finishing touch is a few stickers from the Creative Imaginations sheet.  Thanks for looking!  April