Water Day ULD Layout

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Today's post brings together an awesome embellishment company and a couple of awesome challenges!  Since today is the first of the month--it's a new challenge at Scrap It Girl.  Yay!  And this month we are all about arrows!  And speaking of a great embellishment company-it's my turn at the Unique Laser Designs Blog.  :)

So let me show you the coolest arrows out there!  These arrows are made by Unique Laser Designs.

I also used a brick from the brick stencil and a small border swirl I.

               

 

Here's my layout.  Most of the papers, feathers, and letters are from Bella Blvd.

For the arrows I painted them with Tim Holt'z Distress Paints.  The colors I used were: mustard seed, chipped sapphire, picked raspberry, peeled paint, and spiced marmalade.  The green arrow paper is pop dotted up so I glued one half of the arrow on the paper.

Here is the Happy Brick that I used.  The other bricks I will save for a different day!  The heart is from Fancy Pants.  (Yes those big 12 by 12 things of felt pieces.  I still have lots.) 

Here's where I put the swirl.  I was inspired to put the swirl there because of the sketch that I used.

Here's my journaling square.  I used a Fiskars punch for the side.  Look-more fun ULD arrows! 

Here is the sketch that inspired this layout.  I am linking up to Let's Get Sketchy July Week 4.

Thank you for stopping by!  Remember to link up to our Arrows challenge at Scrap It Girl and check out Unique Laser Designs!

Until next time my friends...have a great weekend! :)

Summer Romance with Great Impressions

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It's my turn today at the Great Impressions Blog.  And I have a card showcasing summer romance!  :)  I really wanted to use F515 Lg Eiffel Tower.  And somehow this card popped into my head.  Then I used the sentiment A137 Je t'aime for a perfect sentiment.

I embossed both images with Ranger's platinum embossing power.  For the hearts I used light modeling paste, Stampin Up Pretty In Pink Re-Inker, and a Heidi Swapp embossing folder.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Find more inspiration from our Pinterest boards!  Until next time my friends...Have a beautiful day!

Lego Fun Layout

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Since there is a 5th Tuesday in July-something special happens at Stick It Down!  You can choose any layout (single page, double page, or a card) sketch this week!

I chose to do a single page sketch.

I used papers and lego stickers from a scrapbook kit I bought when we were at the theme park.  The title has letters from doodlebug and brads from paper pizzazz.

I pop dotted some of the legos here.  This was a whole sheet of yellow bricks, and I thought it would be cool to make a frame out of it.  I punched a red file tab on the side also.

Here is the original sketch:

We can't wait to see what you create!

Until next time my friends...have a wonderful day! :)

Favorite Things Friday--Patterns

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It's time for another Favorite Things Friday at Scrap It Girl!  It's so much fun to see what other people love and what they use!

This week it is patterns.  Do you like polka dots or stripes?  Do you like chevrons or flowers?

I love text!  So I am immediately drawn to paper if there are some typed out words on it.  I also really like dictionary paper.  :)

Stop by Scrap It Girl and share with us your favorite pattern!  Remember we are still doing our Red, Navy, Kraft, and Cream challenge! 

Until next time my friends...have a great weekend! :)

Beach Frame

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I am super excited to show you my project for the Great Impressions Blog.  This week we are showing you fun summery creations that you can use your stamps for!

I used 3 stamps to make this beach frame.  They are: F549 Hot Air Balloon, D421 Lucky Enough, D404 Blowing Bubbles.  You can find these and other awesome stamps at the Great Impressions Online Store!

This is how the frame started.  It's a paper mache frame from Joann's.  I didn't take any pictures of how I did the background.  I used Distress Paints Broken China and Salty Ocean over the whole frame.  Then I made sand.  I used Tim Holt'z technique here to make it.  I substituted a couple of items on the recipe-due to brands.  But if it said glitter I used glitter.  However, I did use the antique lined distress embossing powder because that is a main component in the sand making.

I stamped the hot air balloon on acrylic with Ranger's Archival Ink.  I cut out the balloon and one of the clouds.  I wanted you to see the the difference between the original stamp and the parts that I used.

I also stamped the balloon on white cardstock and colored it with Copics.  I cut out the balloon and the basket.

 Here is the balloon on the frame.  I used pop dots under the paper parts.  I also have one of the clouds that I colored with a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen-white.  It dried nicely on the acrylic!  Yay! :)

Here is this super cute crab blowing bubbles!  I colored him with Copics and used salty ocean and scattered straw distress ink in the background.  I used Stickles on his bubble and when those were dry, I fussy cut him out of the cardstock and covered him with Glossy Accents.  The other bubbles are from a Heidi Swapp stencil, transparent embossing paste (by Wendy Vecchi) and some Stampin' Up glitter sprinkled on top.

I would like to submit this beachy frame to the Simon Says Stamp: A Mid-Summer's Challenge.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...time to get my toes in the sand! :)

A Tale of Two Baskets

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Happy Monday!  Today it's my turn show you fun things that you can do with your Unique Laser Designs embellishments.  For more information on the project below check out the Unique Laser Designs Blog!

These are two little baskets that I bought at the thrift store for 50 cents each!  The funny thing is that I bought one in March.  And this past weekend I bought the second one at the same thrift store!

I added gesso to each basket.  Lookin' good already!

I used the daisy, tweety bird, and bird cage on one basket.  And I used the gears from Gears Set C on the other basket.

So here are the baskets completely finished!  But wait--how did I get from the gesso to here?  That is where you will have to go here my friends.  I show you how I painted each basket-and there are close ups too!

Thanks for stopping by!  If you are inspired to make baskets be sure to leave me a link!  I would love to see them!  

Until next time my friends...hopefully it's the best of times! :)

Cute Cowboy

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I am so excited to be apart of the House of Cards Team!  Each week we showcase a different style-but we all have the same challenge.  Personally, I love to see the different takes on challenges.  Everyone is so creative!

The challenge is to use a bow or more.  I am on the Cute and Fun Team.  So for my Cute card, I used this super cute Cowboy set from Stampin' Up that a friend of mine gave me (awesomeness!).

I used a shattered kraft core cardstock by Tim Holtz for the background.  I used Copic Markers for the coloring.  For the inking around the image and sentiment I used spiced marmalade and faded blue jeans distress inks.  The twine is from Queen and Company.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope that you will play along.  We would love to see you cards with bows! :)

Until next time my friends...have a good day partner! :)