Mermaid Kisses

Today starts a new challenge at Cupcake Inspirations and the color theme is orange, teal and white.

This week's sponsor is Inspired by Stamping and they are generously offering a $15 gift certificate to our randomly chosen winner! Thank you so much Joanna!

Orange is not my favorite color so I really had to ponder ideas for this theme. I kept going back to an art journal layout. I usually design my LO's in Photoshop Elements prior to creating on paper, but this time I liked the digital version so much I opted to skip the paper replication!

I wanted a mermaid on my LO, so I started out with a black and white photo.

I added a few elements from Club Scrap's Lagoon kit to turn her into a mermaid.

Hetty Sanders inspired the theme of my LO when she sent me an emoji of a mermaid in a martini glass. My ideas just started flowing and this was the final result!

(All elements used will be listed in the supplies list at the end of this post.)

Since I was on a creative roll, I made a shadow box card and an ATC using the color theme.

I added a wobble to the shadow box clownfish. I ♥ action wobbles!

Click HERE more color themed inspiration from the Design Sweeties! Be sure to leave these creative ladies a little ♥ on their posts!

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

Club Scrap Lagoon Digital Kit

Club Scrap After Five Digital and Paper Kits are no longer available...sorry!

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Dreaming

I like getting caught in the rain. A few weeks ago it started pouring while I was on my bike ride. The rain was cool and completely drenching, even my shoes were wet. It was GLORIOUS! Enjoying those moments of complete freedom is something we forget about doing as adults. Every kid wants to play in the rain, get wet, and splash in puddles! Try it the next time it rains...grab your umbrella and some rain boots and take a walk.

[caption id="attachment_10132" align="alignnone" width="2964"] JFF Rubber Stamps Girl with Umbrella Silhouette , Skyline Silhouette and Dreaming word art. Club Scrap® card stock from the Lagoon kit.[/caption]

The metallic silver embossing on dark card stock is so dramatic! I love the effect!



The stamps used on my card are part of the Summer 2017 stamp release at JFF Rubber Stamps here. There are some new fall holiday and winter themed stamps as well as mason jars and outdoor scenes. I am in love with the new Halloween stamps! If you like what you see, join in the new monthly challenge on the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps blog. They switched things up a bit this month…instead of a theme challenge, they are hosting a sketch challenge!



Make something using the sketch and link up here for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps! I’ll look for you in the gallery!

Remember...

"Some people feel the rain; others just get wet." ~Roger Miller

Do more of what makes you happy!

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Art Makes Everything Awesome

I love fall. The weather is crisp and clean, even the dog gets frisky! Fall always signals "back to school". I loved buying school supplies and getting organized. One of my favorite quotes about fall is from the movie You've Got Mail,"  Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address." Ahhhh, newly sharpened pencils...I love that smell too. I love the old pencil sharpeners that were screwed into the side of the teacher's desk. They were the BEST kind! 

BUT, the best part of starting school, was art class! Anybody remember these?



If you had these on the first day of school, you were the coolest! It even had a shapener in the back! I couldn't wait to try them out and mom set up a place for us on the dining table. I always remember my mom saying, " You can color things any color you want when you use your imagination." This was probably after I corrected my baby sister for coloring a tree blue or something. Things just clicked! I wanted to use every color in the box, My favorite colors were Cornflower and Burnt Sienna, I think I just like the way they sounded. I couldn't wait to bring them to school and whip them out in art class. The best part about "art" was that we could talk to our neighbor while we were creating. I always walked out of there happier and couldn't wait to come back the next day to start all over again!

This card makes me happy.

[caption id="attachment_10130" align="aligncenter" width="3067"] JFF Rubber Stamps canning jar small, paint brushes and faded art.  Club Scrap® card stock from the Lagoon kit. Paintbrushed colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.  Jar stamped in Versamark Ink and dusted with Kaleidoscope embossing powder, then colored with Distress Ink in Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass. Word art stamped with Distress Oxide ink in Black Soot.[/caption]

That was a lot of fussy cuttin', but I love how it turned out!



The new monthly challenge at Just For Fun Rubber Stamps starts today! They switched things up a bit this month...instead of a theme challenge, they are hosting a sketch challenge!



Make something using the sketch and link up here for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps! I'll look for you in the gallery!

Do more of what makes you happy!

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Fish out of Water

This fourth grader is a MESS!



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



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



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



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!

[caption id="attachment_9895" align="alignnone" width="864"] 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.



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!



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



Club Scrap Lagoon Deluxe Kit

Club Scrap Digital Textures Vol. 1 Digital Kit



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!



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!





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



Club Scrap Lagoon Jumbo Unmounted Stamp Set



Lagoon Starfish Rhinestones



Lagoon Greeting Unmounted Stamps



Adirondacks Art Nouveau Unmounted Stamps



CHALLENGES ENTERED:

Club Scrap 08/17 NBUS Challenge

Club Scrap August 2017 Technique Challenge Heat Embossing With a Twist

 

 

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Man in the Moon

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

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYEPc2agtGs/

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYEO_0XA3VY/?taken-by=wendy_c_b

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!

[caption id="attachment_9791" align="alignnone" width="4209"] 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!

[caption id="attachment_9705" align="alignnone" width="2097"] YES! I KNOW I stamped the wrong date! (Rolling my eyes...)[/caption]

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

[caption id="attachment_9706" align="alignnone" width="2976"] 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!



SUPPLIES USED:

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

Distress Oxide Inks



Club Scrap Nice to See You Stencil

Club Scrap Tahiti Digital kit

Club Scrap Bookbinding Glue

Xmas Red and Yellow Stickles

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Dylusions Creative Journal



 

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



 

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