Made by Wendy Bellino: August 2017

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Fish out of Water

This fourth grader is a MESS!

He's a "balla" (baseBALL, footBALL)!

Kyle Football pic

His confidence overflows! He practiced his typing skills on the computer at my sister's office, since school was cancelled due to Hurricane Harvey.

Kyle typing

And, he's got style...Check out his new "do"!

New do and oreo blizzard

Click play, the video isn't sideways!

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This little Texan got his teeth cleaned at a new dental office for the first time. He's only had Aunt Wendy clean his teeth since he was two...sniff, sniff...I told him he was cheating on me!

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Club Scrap® Lagoon, Castaway and Textures Vol. 1 digital kits. Links are listed in the supplies list at the bottom of this post.[/caption]

Check out the pic upper left, he got to watch The Sandlot in the overhead monitor WHILE he was getting his choppers polished! I'm so glad he had a good experience with Dr. Sam, his office rocks!

I made a video of my ALSB (Assembly Line Scrapbooking) digital scrapbooking process. I challenged myself and narrated it unscripted.

Yassssss

https://youtu.be/w4V8Yt3mJUA

"Tweak" was the word of the day!

If you LOVE Club Scrap’s paper kits, you should really check out all the corresponding digital kits! All you need is your computer and a software program that works with layers, JPG and PNG file types. Club Scrap recommends Adobe’s Photoshop Elements (tutorials are geared to this program) and GIMP (a free alternative program). Click here for a quick video tutorial on using GIMP with Club Scrap’s QDDLs. I won’t lie to you, there is a bit of a learning curve when using digital scrapbooking kits. But once you’ve mastered the basics, learning new techniques is easy AND you can print your projects and use the kit elements over and over. If you can do it with paper, you can do it with these digital scrapbooking kits! Click here to receive a free mini digital kit download and try it out for yourself!

If you're not a digital scrapper, you can always print the images on card stock and trim for that perfect finishing touch on your pages, cards or projects. Here are a few samples from some of my previous posts:

It’s Christmas Thyme!

🎶You are my Sunshine!🎶

🎶I’m Walking on Sunshine!🎶

Digi Hybrid Art Journaling

Your next stop on the hop is Kelly or you can start at the beginning of the hop on the Club Scrap blog. Thanks for stopping by!

Wendy Signature with CS artist team

SUPPLIES LIST:

I link to sources for your convenience. Some affiliate links are used at no extra cost to you.

Click here for details about the Lagoon kit on Club Scrap's blog including a color swatch to download and links for the recommended fonts.

Club Scrap Lagoon Digital Kit

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Club Scrap Digital Textures Vol. 1 Digital Kit

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Club Scrap Castaway Digital Kit

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Sorry. Mermaids Only.

Look what we found

in the park

in the dark.

We will take him home.

We will call him Clark.

I was fascinated by this page in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish when I was a little girl. He looks scary, but the children want to take him home!

He will live at our house.

He will grow and grow.

Will our mother like this?

We don't know.

THIS mother would say, "Sorry, mermaids only!" The only thing I would want in a jar is this cute little mermaid!

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/250090585541615490/

A few weeks ago I made a shadow box card for my post Frame of Mine. I used that design to create this card, but added a piece of vellum over the cut out mason jar window instead of leaving it open. First, I stamped the mermaid image on pearlescent vellum with Versamark ink and heat embossed with silver embossing powder to make it opaque. I repeated the process on teal and black cardstock with some of the Lagoon images and fussy cut them out. I stamped the mason jar from the Club Scrap® Adirondacks kit on the front panel and cut out the center with a craft knife. I tacked the stamped vellum piece to the backside of the front panel, with the embossed side facing the inside of the shadow box, and glued the shadow box panels together. I glued a little LED light inside the shadow box to create the shadow behind the stamped image. Lastly, I arranged the cut out images on the front panel to create an underwater scene and added some embellishments.

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Don't miss the Club Scrap monthly blog hop Wednesday morning...There will be lots of nautical themed projects created by the Club Scrap Artist team! Hop and Sea!

Lagoon Blog Hop Photo

SUPPLIES USED:

I link to sources for your convenience. Some affiliate links are used at no extra cost to you.

Club Scrap Lagoon Deluxe Kit

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Club Scrap Lagoon Jumbo Unmounted Stamp Set

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Lagoon Starfish Rhinestones

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Lagoon Greeting Unmounted Stamps

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Adirondacks Art Nouveau Unmounted Stamps

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CHALLENGES ENTERED:

Club Scrap 08/17 NBUS Challenge

Club Scrap August 2017 Technique Challenge Heat Embossing With a Twist

Man in the Moon

Monday was the Great American Eclipse 2017 and we were "eclipsing" so hard!

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My crazy husband is the videographer. I wish I had money for every time someone asks me, "How can you live with this guy?!" I just shake my head and say that he makes our lives interesting!

I made an art journal layout to commemorate the day. Technically, I made it for the Club Scrap Artist Team Pinterest Challenge blog hop, but the idea came to me after the eclipse! Inspired by Pinterest’s newest feature, “Tried it”, the Artist Team challenge this month is to visit the Club Scrap Pinterest account, choose a Pin with a technique or tutorial that inspires us, then make pages, cards or other projects inspired by that Pin. Lisa was my muse with this pin of her underwater background!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/167970261085464864/

I turned the underwater background into a galaxy!

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Distress Oxide inks in Abandoned Coral, Black Soot, Faded Jeans, Twisted Citron, Fossilized Amber, and Wilted Violet. Club Scrap Nice To See You and Destinations stencils (no longer available). Sunglasses elements from the Club Scrap Tahiti digital kit. Just for Fun Rubber Stamps Man in the Moon stamp image. Club Scrap black shimmer cardstock.[/caption]

We weren't in the path of totality during the eclipse, but the sky looked smoky like when there is a controlled burn in Kisatchie Forest...EERIE!

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The dark side of the moon passed between us and the sun!

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Club Scrap Solstice stamp image (no longer available) behind the "man in the moon". Yellow and Xmas Red Stickles for a little moon sparkle![/caption]

I even made a video of my art journal process. Whew! The eclipse wiped me out!

https://youtu.be/RV92mV5digk

You next stop on the hop is Karen at the Club Scrap blog where you'll find the full list of artist team bloggers. Lots of "Pinspiration" on this hop!

Do more of what makes you happy!

Wendy Signature with CS artist team

SUPPLIES USED:

I link to sources for your convenience. Some affiliate links are used at no extra cost to you.

Distress Oxide Inks

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Club Scrap Nice to See You Stencil

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Xmas Red and Yellow Stickles

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Dylusions Creative Journal

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Just for Fun Rubber Stamps Harvest Moon/Man in the Moon stamp

World of Wizards and Witches

I'm definitely Zelda.

Dave Whamond witch cartoon

I follow the rules when I drive (and bike!) and it makes me insane when other people don't. Am I crazy? Probably. I get really crazy when drivers don't watch out for bike riders. I'm always on guard. Sigh...that's why I wear a full cranium cycling helmet that my kids say makes me look special and I wear the flashiest/brightest colored shirts I can find.

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So, I broke down and bought a new bike last week...

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I test drove a few bikes before "she" chose me like an Olivander's wand!

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That blue-green is one of my favorite colors and the fit was perfect! Now to give her a name...I kept my old bike, Esmeralda. She is more green. This color is a little more blue...I kinda like Bonnie Blue from Gone with the Wind. I like the way it sounds and you can say it fast too! Bonnie Bluuuuueee!

Today starts the new weekly challenge at Cupcake Inspirations and the theme is the World of Wizards and Witches!

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Frantic Stamper is our sponsor this week and they are GENEROUSLY offering a $25 gift certificate, to our randomly chosen winner, to shop in their online store!

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I had fun designing this spooky Halloween scene. The supplies used are listed in the captions below and convenient links are at the end of the post. I used some Strathmore Toned Tan medium surface sketch paper to create my background on. I really like the "tooth" of this paper, it really works well with colored pencils. They blend so easily on paper that is a little more textured and I think the colors are brighter than on smooth paper. I had to use my new Tim Holtz stamping platform to line up the stamp images and repeat stamping on the solid stamps. It worked like a dream! Look at the great coverage the Distress Oxide have when stamping on top of the other images! IMG_7411E

JFF Rubber Stamps Flying Witch, Harvest Moon, Bats, and Collaged Row Houses. Club Scrap® cardstock. Strathmore Toned Tan medium surface sketch paper. Derwent colored pencils and Distress Oxide inks.

I used the the tiniest pop-up tab from Frantic Stamper's Pop Up Card Bases Precision Dies set for the inside of my card.

Frantic Stamper Precision Pop Up Die Set

Frantic Stamper Precision Pop Up Die Set

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JFF Rubber Stamps Tiny Black Kat. Frantic Stamper pop up tab die, Concord and 9th Sophisticated Script font stamp set and Club Scrap® white pigment ink. Gansai Tambi watercolor splatters.[/caption]

I love that tiny black cat! Check out these links for more ideas for this tiny stamp... Les Chats Noirs, You Say Witch Like It's a Bad Thing!, Yes, I Can Drive a Stick!, Pepe Le BOO!

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And...have a look at what the rest of the Design Team Sweeties have created (blog roll below) and join the fun with a Wizards and Witches themed creation of your own on the Cupcake Inspirations blog!

Charlotte

Christine

Debbie

EK

Kim

Do more of what makes you happy!

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