Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Line Frame 101 challenge

This week's Papertrey Ink's  Make It Monday Challenge is to make a Line Frame. Here's my take on it. The circles are 1.75". With one of them stamped with images from the Tags for Spring stamp set with distress inks. I used my favorite Ocean Tides for the card base.

My Name is Earl

A layout dedicated to one of the sweetest cats I've ever known. Sadly he passed on in 2006 at the age of 14, long before I was ready to say goodbye. I just couldn't bring myself to write my name WAS Earl though.

I used some stripey paper and cut out four of the same stripes and then mitered the corners. The title is from American Crafts (foil). I added a little sparkle by covering the sides of all the letters with Viva Decor Hematite Glitter Liner. I used the same paper to make mats for all the photographs and the journaling. I made the large two photo mat into a pocket for extra journaling by adhering it with ATG tape on the bottom and sides only. Earl is cut from the font on the Birthday Bash cartridge. I welded the shadow together on my Gypsy and then just put the letters on top of that.

I made a hand cut heart to replace the dot for the i, and used Scotch Quick Dry to glue the key on. So far so good. Everything comes from the Club Ruby Designers' October kit.

Framed Home Decor

I love this tree on the Botanicals Lite cartridge. I think it would be an excellent mat for writing on too whether it be on a scrapbook layout or as framed home decor. It's just so darned versatile! lol

But this time, it's just decoration. The tree and it's shadow are glued together, but they are just placed in the frame with background paper so I can change the background easy peasy. You could also write a family tree (on the tree) or a poem, favorite quote. The possibilities boggle the mind lol.

Spinning Video Sale Alert :D

If you are interested in learning about spinning on a spindle, Interweave Press is having a sale on the Digital Video of Respect the Spindle for $0.10, yep that's right ten cents.  The regular price for this is $14.95. I'm just saying you can hardly beat that price with a stick lol.

WOYWW 99

Happy Wednesday everyone! I've been a busy bee, see previous posts as evidence if you like :D. I'm still on my Botanicals  Lite Cricut cartridge. So I'm playing with variations of a cut. to the left is a little doodle I take for a mental break. I'm liking the Zentangle designs, but I prefer to just do one pattern on  a bit of scrap paper and maybe use it somewhere rather than making something with a collection of patterns.

I took my massive pile of left over paper and cut it up in 3 sorts, large rectangular pieces, strips of paper and irregular pieces of paper. I listed to my ipod play along in alphabetical order so a song by the clash is followed by a brief podcast audio tour of a painting in some museum followed by birdsong. It's an auditory potluck and keeps me on my toes. Looking at the picture I see my container is still not properly labelled. It no longer contains scrapbook embellishments but acrylic blocks for rubber stamping. And huzzah I did stamp a card this week :D. Thanks for looking :D

If you are wondering what's all this WOYWW, hop over to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a gander, better yet, take a picture and join in :D

All About Me well I only had one sheet of paper, so it's a lot about me!

This was one of my Design Team Submissions at Club Ruby Designers (did I mention there is a free membership option?) . Everything except the Glossy Accents was included in the Club Ruby Designers' October kit. I started with the Halloween in Wonderland paper and the Viva Decor Hematite Glitter Liner. I put a dot of Glitter liner over every black square around the border, while I tried to decided what to do lol. Then I cut out the top of the keyhole and put a black and white picture of myself flipped backwards in a tribute to the looking glass. I'm taa-daaaing the "Welcome to CHA Super Show" sign last year, because let's face it, it's a wonderland for crafters. I used a cut out from the Botanicals Lite cartridge and skewed an circle into the appropriately sized oval for the title.

I used hearts for different categories of interests with spinners (from Tim Holtz) because I'm really interested in a lot of things and spinners could make choosing what to do a lot easier lol. I couldnt' get the title to "pop" enough for my taste so I used glossy accents to accentuate the cut out. The hearts were all cut from the Cake Basics cartridge and thanks to my Gypsy, I hid the inner contour to make the shadow with the diamond flocked paper and hid the outer cut to make the rusty hearts. I DID forget to add my favorite color though (it's RED) lol. I hand cut little banners and folded them  as titles for the different interests. Then I needed more room so I hand cut pieces of paper to fit in the border. I distressed the title layers and the rusty hearts with an open pair of scissors sort of like using a vegetable peeler.

April Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

This month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop is dedicated to the boys and men in our lives. Focusing on "masculine color schemes, fresh pattern combinations, understated embellishments and unique uses of images you may already have in your stash!"

I didn't have Up Up and Away, so I had to use two stamps from Club Scrap.  The It's Your Day sentiment comes from Papertrey Ink's Star Prints. The card base is Vintage Cream and the stamped mat is Simply Chartreuse.

The winner of the handspun embroidery thread from last month's blog candy is Monica K.