Tidbit Tuesday-It's Technique Tuesday!

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It's my favorite Tuesday of the month--the Tuesday that starts off the new technique at Technique Tuesday!  This month's challenge is 3-D Punched Elements.  Mynnette has made a fantastic tutorial that you can see here.

Here is my card:

My niece just had a birthday and I am going to be mailing her a little box soon (everything I do seems to be late lately!).  Balloons just came to mind!  I made these on the Cricut because my 2 circle punches were too big or too small.  :)

Check out what the ladies have created for this challenge.  Their cards are awesome!  Hope you will join us!  Until next time my friends....Go Vote! Every Vote Counts! :)

Mirror Mirror-Who is the Steampunkish of All?

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I know I am not the most Steampunkish of all but it doesn't make me love it any less!  Gears, clocks, keys, oh my!  This is one of my first all out projects using a Steampunk theme.  So let me show you, and I will tell you more about it as you scroll down! :)

I am entering this piece into the following challenges:

LESSology: Challenge: #19 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall--upcycled mirror

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Just Add Pearl--Perfect Pearl Mist and Pearls on the Butterfiles

So here is my mirror.  Eek!  I am so happy at how it turned out.  The mirror itself is 14 inches long plus the frame around it.  I upcycled the mirror.  I bought it at Goodwill for $4-Score!! :)  There is a mix of pictures taken from inside and outside.  Experiments with lighting-what can I say?  :)

Here's another picture of the mirror. :)

Here are the gears that go up both sides of the mirror.  They are from Tim Holtz die cut.  I painted them with gold dabber and then rubbed black stamp ink on them.  Some have a little bronze distress stain.

Here is the right side.  That pocket watch is Jolee's.  Rubons are from 7 Gypsies and well as the hooks you will see.  There's a lot of Tim Holtz Ideaology on here also. :)

I put a few butterflies to bring in a feminine element.  For the butterflies I used music paper cardstock, Martha Stewart punch, Want2Scrap pearls, distress inks, Perfect Pearls mixed with water.

The hooks are from 7 Gypsies, the gear is from Bead Landing (the ones my husband bought me in my last post), and Tim Holtz philosophy :)

Here are more of those cool gears mixed in with Ideaology and a butterfly.

Here is the top of the mirror.  The 3 men are one of Tim Holtz's stamp.  I used black embossing powder than spray them with blue Dylusions spray.  Then I sprayed Perfect Pearls Mist gold on them for some shimmer.  They were very blue-so I added some bronze distress stain and some Perfect Pearls powder and water (gold and silver).  Then I inked the edges so they would stand out.  I used 3 pop dot squares stacked on top of each other (2 times) to adhere them to the mirror.  

I air balloon is from Hampton Art.  I stamped it on dictionary paper then mounted it on black cardstock.  I sprayed silver Perfect Pearls Mist on it.  The gears in the corner are rub-ons from 7 Gypsies.

Here is the bottom of the frame.  The little light bulbs are actually burned out light bulbs from the microwave. The first time my husband changed the bulb, I said can I have that?  It's really cute!  It looks like he had to change it again, because when I found them there were 2! :)  So they are recycled!

Here is the original mirror-taped off-ready for a new look.

Here are my original supplies.

Here is the mirror painted white.  I did a second layer but you could still see the old color come through.  At first I wanted the mirror to be shabby chic and girly.  But I couldn't get an even white all the way around and I am a bit impatient.  I saw a Steampunk blog hop and I had my gears so I changed the theme of my mirror.  Then I painted it with the Gold Dabber by Ranger/Tim Holtz.  I took the top off and painted it with a paintbrush.  

So here is another picture of my mirror (and me!).  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...like what you see! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Gears

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The weather is so crazy!  My heart goes out to all of those up in New Jersey and New York City and other places effected by Hurricane Sandy.  Stay safe.

Today's tidbit is about these cool gears that my husband got for me for my birthday.  He said he found them in the jewelry section of Micheal's.  They are from bead landing and 18 come in a pack with 2 different sizes and colors (gold and silver).  

I wanted to share because sometimes I just wander around the scrapbook section and forget that jewelry or even the kids crafts have fun things too.  Can't wait to use them! :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a Happy Halloween! :)

Memories from Way Back

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It's no secret that I love to scrap.  Generally, I scrap events and pictures within the last few years.  I have lots of pictures and time keeps moving forward so I don't ever run out of things to scrap.  LOL!  Which means that I don't usually go into my old boxes (and boxes) of photos from way back when.  (Though I probably need to but that's another post for another day.)

So at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge the 1st challenge is to scrap about high school, or a high school reunion. Click here for the challenge.  With having a son, holidays, everyday life, my husband-I just hadn't even thought about scrapping about high school or anything as me as a kid.  The photos aren't as plentiful as they are now-and don't get me started on quality!  As I looked through the photos from high school wow-35mm just isn't 5, 10 or 12 megapixels is it?  :)

But the more I thought about this challenge, the more I wanted to do it.  We have to scrap about ourselves (which I do-just present me-not past tense me).

So enough of my talking! Here is my page.  Scroll on down, and I will tell you more!

This is me in the 11th grade.  I had a bunch of band pictures, but not of me.  That year I was the historian for the band, which meant I took pictures of everybody but not that many of me were taken.  So I was quite happy that I found this one.  Although I'm not smiling :( and this scowl probably was plastered to my face a lot-yay for teenage angst ;)

Here's my journaling square.  I did love this outfit.  I bought it at a store called Maurice's at the mall.  In marching band I played bells this year.

1993 was the year.  Written next to it is that this photo was "probably Sept or October page done 10.26.2012 by katy)  I do sign my pages-usually on the back though.  I had to have roasted in that sweater. Hopefully there was a cool breeze!  ;)

Supplies Used:

Background paper-K&Company

Cuttlebug embossing folder on blue scrap paper

Picture mat-white cardstock with Distress Stain and Perfect Pearl Mist

Washi/Tissue Tape-Tim Holtz, Reflections

Rose button-Bazzill

Tag-Tim Holtz

Green Letters-Thickers

Sticker Numbers-Colorbok

The 2 black lacey circles in the 2 corners are made using the Inkidinkado stamp system my hubby gave me for my birthday :):)

Thanks for stopping by!  And thank you Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge for a reflection I probably would not have made otherwise! :)  Until next time my friends...sometimes it's good to look at those 35mm pics from long ago! :)

Witch Card

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I have another Halloween card to share.  I used some stamps I bought about a month ago from Great Impressions.  The witches are super cute!

I am submitting this card to the Great Impressions Blog Challenge: Fall.

Supplies used:

Sentiment, Main Image-Great Impressions stamps
Orange Embossing Powder-Zing
Twine-Maya Arts
Various scrap papers in my bin :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time...have a good night! :)

Boo! Card

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I made this card using the sketch at Let's Scrap.  There's not much time left (I always do this!) but there will be a new sketch tomorrow.  :)

Here's the sketch right now:

Here's my card.  The trick or treaters are from My Minds Eye and the spider is from Jolee's.  The green spider web paper is from some bargain Halloween paper I bought from Target.  

And those cool eyes?  They are from Michael's.  This is the first time I have used them.  Spooky!  

Here's a close up of the trick or treaters.  

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

ABC Challenges: ABC1-New to You--The googly eyes from Michaels-I bought them a few weeks ago and this is the first time I have used them.

Unique Crafters Challenge: Halloween Themed Projects.

Until next time my friends..."always feels like somebody's watchin' me" (Rockwell)   :)

Little Round Pumpkin-Tidbit Tuesday

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Today's tidbit is about scraplifting.  I did this with this cute little pumpkin.  It's is sooo cute!  Here let me show you, and then I will tell you all about it!

I get the Weekly Scrapper email which is through the Scrapbook Expo folks.  It has products, trends, tips, and all sorts of other fun stuff.  I think I get an email daily.  So one of the emails is a tutorial on how to make this pumpkin.  There is an apple tutorial as well.  Go here to see the tutorial.  I didn't have the exact supplies, but I had the ink and paper to use that were the right colors.  The tutorial is easy to follow.  Amanda Corbet made the pumpkins and did the tutorial so I want to make sure she gets the credit.  :)

The leaves are different than what the original had.  I used a Sizzix die that had swirls and a little flower on it. (The flower will be for a different project.)  Then I used green Stickles on the swirls.  Both sides of the swirls since this is a 3-D project.  :)

The Halloween sentiment are 2 stickers from Authentique that I put on black cardstock.  One side is orange and the other is white lettering.

Here is a different angle of my pumpkin.  It's a 3-D thing.  I send my nephew a little Halloween goodie box, so I am going to put this in there for their card.  If I can depart with it!  LOL

I am going to link this up to Cut It Up: Eek! Boo! Ahh! Challenge #4.  The swirls are from Sizzix Flower and Vines #2.

I am also linking this to Unique Crafters Challenge: Halloween Themed Projects.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a bootiful evening! :)