Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Cousins

Hello Nesters!  Dawn here, with a quick page walkthrough.  As a little background...this summer my cousin and her two boys were able to come down for a visit - and I have a ton of pictures from that week waiting to be scrapped.  With the start of the school-year, and vacation, and the never-ending cold that we keep passing around our family, I've been having a hard time fitting in time to sit down and scrap.  (Anyone else like me?  It always seems that my crafty time gets pushed to the back-burner when life gets crazy.)

My husband finally told me to sit down and work on a page - the chores will wait.  (I really do love that guy!)  I happened to have the September "We Are Family" kit from Scraptastic Club sitting on my desk, so that's what I used for this page.



This is actually the kit + add-on (you can see the full contents at the website if you're interested).


I pulled out a couple photos (to be honest, I just grabbed these from the top of the stack) and then selected any paper from the kit that I thought may work (I ended up only using three sheets though).


I narrowed my photos down to two.  I don't often scrap a landscape and portrait photo on the same page, so I chose the two portrait photos and returned the landscape to the pile.

I also started playing with paper placement.  I usually spend a few minutes moving my patterned paper around before I glue anything down.



Once I was satisfied with my paper placement, I inked my edges and starting adhering the paper to my layout.  I added pennants from the die-cut sheet to both sides of my photos and then put a strip of washi tape along the tops of the pennants.


Here is the page with the title and a few stickers added.  I wanted to keep this one simple, so I just added some enamel dots to finish things off:

  
It was really nice to sit down and finish a page.  Now, I just need to motivate myself to complete the three other half-done projects sitting on my desk!  :)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

What I Did on Vacation

Do y'all remember having to write those paragraphs back in grade school?  

Last week (and the week before last), my family took a much-needed vacation.  Since I've been sorting through hundreds of photos to send to Snapfish, I thought I'd share a few pics from our trip.

First, we visited Main Street...



Then we met up with these characters...


And my husband got cozy with this goofy guy:


 My boys had lunch with some of the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood...





That last guy liked us so much, he even gave us some dessert*:



We got to see fireworks over a castle:



We even went on a safari to meet up with this fella:


It really is the most magical place on earth!


*True story: while walking through Fantasyland, a cast member approached me and asked if we had time for a story.  We stopped, and she told us that Winnie-the-Pooh went looking for honey, but he found something else, and that he'd like to share his find with us.  She then handed me 5 spoons wrapped in napkins.  A second cast member then walked over with this giant sundae and told us it was a gift from Pooh.  We love you Winnie-the-Pooh!

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Paper-piecing, Paint, and Pumpkins!

Last week I mentioned how much I love autumn.  Well, today I'm back with more!


I started with this adorable stamp from Unity, some more paper from the Witch Hazel line, and watercolor paint (along with a couple Copic markers and StazOn ink in jet black):


I stamped my image a couple times on each sheet:


Initially, I wasn't sure if I wanted to use the music note paper as an accent; after stamping once on that page, I knew it was going to be too busy for this piece.

I chose one of the ledger stamped images as my background and trimmed around it.  I then colored in the fence, grass, and pumpkin stems with watercolor ink:



Next, I cut a ghost from a second stamped image on the ledger paper; I cut the pumpkins and patches for the ghost out of the orange print:


I adhered the patches to the ghost with liquid adhesive and then adhered the ghost and pumpkins to the background with pop-dots:


I used the Copic marker (in toner gray T3) to outline the background image and used the colorless blender to soften the lines.  Next, I stamped the sentiment on the same ledger paper and trimmed that.  Both pieces needed a little something to define the edges, so I took an edge distresser (circa 2006?) to scruff them up a bit.


Because I really wanted my image to pop, I adhered the background paper on top of the glass:


To finish it off, I pulled out the pop-dots and attached the image + sentiment to the background:


And it's done!  Maybe it's me, but that little ghost just makes me smile.  :)

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