WOYWW 299

At the back left are some pieces I wound up not using on my layout about a $12 Meal at the airport. And some containers of vinegar (dye experiment) and a watered down white paint and a spool of white organza ribbon. Julia has been writing about her crop experiences which reminded me to have one at home... by myself lol. I finished two this month. I would have had a party, but that would have made more work : D.

I decided to take pictures of layout ideas to reference when I'm actually putting it all together. This one is about my grandpig on a cat tree with papers I've stamped and embellishments pulled from my experimental leftovers. Yes it'll be rocking some extra large grommets I purchased on clearance about 5 years ago lol.

Because I've been cleaning... not in the ordinary way ... gathering up the unfinished pages and putting all the pieces into a top loading album.  (which is why I needed the reference picture).

This week's snow picture. The pink line is about where the top of the pile was last week. The blue is this week. The dog has built up a little snow bar for herself. The other day she stepped off it and was in snow up to her neck (she's a shepherd mix thankfully or she would have disappeared altogether.

Head over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see more crafty spaces : D.  Episode 299!  That's a lot of crafty peeking : D.

Papertrey Ink November 2014 Blog Hop

Dachshund Through the Snow.  I used the Dachshund die from Come All Ye Faithful with Dark Chocolate cardstock. The antlers are from Come All Ye Faithful Additions, and red Stickles for the nose. The Movers & Shakers Spinner dies. Papertrey Ink November 2014 Blog Hop.

'Stache'n thru the Snow

Another snow globe made with the aid of Papertrey Ink's Make It Market kit: Tinsel and tags. The mustache is moveable with the aid of a magnet underneath the globe.

The tiny mustache is from Cricut Billionaire cartridge and is narrower than the width of a dime. It's glued on a piece of clear packaging. I used two cuts of the cardstock to insure it stood up to the movement with the magnet. The base is covered with white cardstock and Diamond Stickles with iron filings glued to the base. The snow man and tree are cut off the Tinsel and Tags circular die cut with a little bit of a base. I used the small banner and wrote 'Stache'n thru the Snow with Faded Jeans Distress Marker and is glued to the base with Glossy Accents. I used really inexpensive fake snow from the dollar store because it it lighter  and I felt it was less likely to interfere with the mustache moving around than the mica flakes (but I didn't test it).

Simon Says Good Old Days, and I used the snow globe with the fake snow and the tiny gold rick rack to give a vintage feel .

Polar Bear Love

I finally put the finishing touches on this layout I started a few years ago. I added some Pure Glitz Ruby Slippers around the edge of each photo, making the edges a little irregular. I am still amazed how much photography has changed, from the pictures of my childhood "DON"T touch anything but the edges" and carefully measuring the days adventures and possibilities against my allowance of film and now I'm drawing on them lol.

The paper had snowflakes on it, but I added more. Thank goodness for hide contour (I did this on my Gypsy). By  hiding the inner cuts, solid space is made for writing. I was a die-hard two page layout thinker, but I've converted to one page layouts so I can take them out of the scrapbook and put them in 12 x 12 frames.

This week Simon Says Family : ). 

A Tardis Snow Ornament

The sparkle doesn't show up much in the picture, but this is chock full of aurora borealis flakes so I'm thinking it's something different for the Simon Says Sparkle challenge. It's the Tardis in an ornament. The cardstock (except for the windows) is beige dyed heavily with a Faded Jeans Distress Ink bath. Repeatedly. A crystal seed bead serves as the light on top. I found a whole new level of love for my new camera when I found out it has a "shoot through glass" setting.

WOYWW 136 - Wintery Blessings : )

Not much much crafting has been going on this week. I've been working on re-organizing. I'm making a Ginormous Omelet with all the eggs I've broken lol.

 This was all on my craft table yesterday, shoved to the side. I need a sorting hat for all this lol. But since I don't have one, it's slow going. Bookcases have been shuffled and furniture is about to be re-arranged. My Cricut is buried under there except for a bit of the right side. I did find the bone folder I lost last week though :D.

Not pictured, but soon to be featured is an enormous photo box I'm making out of foam core board. When it's done I should be able to photograph double layouts and home decor projects without being at the mercy of the time of day or weather conditions.

And speaking of weather, last year we had a bit more snow than usual (this was taken in December 2010).

This year, we have a lot less. But I'm counting my blessings on the heating bills. If we have much more warmer weather here, we'll be mowing the grass in January lol. It's supposed to be a lot colder tomorrow and over the weekend.

WOYWW - 91

It's snowing again! However, it didn't get to cover the asphalt so whoo hoo lol.

I popped into Michael's while I was out doing errands and found some Glow-in-the-Dark YuDu ink. I lovvvvvve Glow-in-the-Dark :D. I also picked up some milled lavendar and mustard distress inks and some dusty concord distress stickles. I added two 2-tier lazy susans to my craft desk. Late to the fair today, but I made it :D.

If you are wondering is on other people's workdesk today hop over to the Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, take a picture or two and join in :D.

WOYWW 87, some redos and don'ts

I'm shuffling some things on my desk and took some pictures as I went :D. The first don't, don't use Chalkboard Paint on nonstick work space... it sticks and is the dickens to get off. 

I adore the itop snap series, but the snap daddies are difficult to find and shipping costs push them into true luxury items. On a hunch I scouted these out at my local Joann's and (although you can only see the top of it, they fit. So if I buy them on sale or with a coupon I have options for snappy happiness for less money :D. 

Under the snap package is one of my little experiments with photographs. The punch that did not want to work at all with the cardstock last week, worked wonderfully with photopaper. It was also good for stamping and using my small collection of copic markers. I've never used the Glossy Paper, so I have no basis for comparing photograph paper to it.

My favorite Marshmallow Glimmermist clogged in the middle of a project with a deadline, what's a crafter to do? Mini mister to the rescue (it really needs a little super-hero cape). I just poured some of the glimmer mist into the mini mister and spritzed away.

In general I was really happy with the snowman I made from homemade boxes, except the top lid was creeping over his eyes, so I cut it shorter with a pair of scissors. I also hotglued some sticks for arms which will have mittens on them. I'm thinking I'll also add a little stickles to the scarf and the snowflakes.

My second redo is a scrapbook layout I just wasn't happy with, so it had a major facelift. I added stamping to the background (a compass rose from a stamp set I had close to hand, I will try to look up the brand later).  I added a pocket for extra journaling. I just used those tags to illustrate the pocket. I think I'm going to use a larger tag with a close up of different aspects of the photograph, like the sister on the right looking like she's plotting to breakout, the sister on the left holding her hat for dear life and me (in the middle) looking like popeye. I made the layout for a challenge and it had to have butterflies on it.  There are four sisters in our family but the youngest wasn't born yet so I put the little butterfly without any holes as a representation of her.

The butterflies didn't cut out completely, but I decided to use that as part of the design taking out some of the cutouts.

I've been sooooooooooo good about not buying paper, but I caved when I saw this stack and it was 50% off. Some of the images are "iced".

Thanks for having a gander! If you'd like to see more work desks or better yet join in the fun hop over to Julia's Stamping Ground.

Hip to be Square

The challenge was to scraplift something from the Circle Blog. My personal challenge was to do it without going out lol. The project I chose was Kristen Swain's Snowman made with round paper mache boxes. I didn't have any of those so I made some square boxes out of kraft cardstock. I spritzed it with Tattered Angels Marshmallow Glimmermist, which got clogged in the middle so I poured it into a mini-mister and spritzed the rest Easy Peasy. I used Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Calico paper to make a scarf.

I cut the face out from the Snow Friends cart and covered the eyes and nose with Stickles. The snowflakes are from Gypsy Wanderings.

Feeling Frosty Challenge

I used the snowflake from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge.  For the shadow I used some of the 3M adhesive paper and made a stencil with the shadow cut and painted it on with white paint. Then I used a cream colored paper for the base and a shimmery eggshell for the layer cut. I used four brads from my stash and Stampin' Up Dimensionals for the snowflake layer cut and some really thick pop-ups for the mat. The card is made with Kraft cardstock from Papertrey Ink. The brown is from Anna Griffin and is shimmer also. Sadly the photograph doesn't pick up the subtle reflections.

WOYWW

Every year I vow I'm going to be more organized for the winter holidays and then life gets  ... hectic, yeah let's go with hectic lol.  We've had snow. The lovely scallop trail was made by the dog, I think she did a good job of it. My Christmas present is a snow plow contract :D.

DD made her first set of multiple cards and envelopes (using the kreate-a-lope). All I did was punch a few snowflakes and give her the information.

I've been making small gifts and sorting through my bead stash. Don't know why I like to sort when I'm behind the 8 ball of time, ok, it's probably a feeble attempt to maintain a facade of control but it's so much nicer on my golden barge sailing on De Nial. The beaded round bit is an i-top snap daddy that I covered with muslin and then beaded. It can snap onto the bobby pins or rings (sold separately). I bought the earring wires a few years ago, the picture doesn't show they are anodized a lovely blue green color.

My regular workspace is covered with Christmas cards which I can't show yet. I'm told they aren't late if they arrive by Jan. 6. Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

If you are curious about WOYWW or want to see what other folks are up to head over to Julia's Stamping Ground. Better yet, join in the fun too :D.

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Krafty Badges and an Embellishment

OK, I must admit, every time I think badges that line from Blazing Saddles pops into my head. But I do need these stinkin' badges. I found medium (22mm) Badge Daddies for the i-Top at Michaels when I was looking for a consolation purchase because there wasn't a speck of glow-in-the-dark glitter to be found.  They were only available in medium, which was the only punch I didn't have for the i-Top, so I had to buy that too.

I used kraft paper as the base for everything. The snowflake is from an unknown punch (it has a yellow glitter housing) with faux stitching with a 01 micro pigma pen and embellished with antique linen distress stickles. The I be-leaf in you is stamped with a leaf from Falling Leaves stamp set from Papertrey Ink.

The flower embellishement is made from a cut-out from each size of the i-Top punches with a small brad holding them all together. The paint is yellow fabric paint from Plaid.