Labrynth

After about 8 months of no scrapbooking, I took out all my favorite messy craft supplies and created a page called Labrynth.  Boy did it feel good to get scrapbooking again! I cannot express the kind of joy that I got from it.  I felt so much excitement and so much creativity that had just been screaming to get out! 

The main thing I wanted to do on this page is create a strong contrast.  Keeping the background dark and the foreground bright.  I used distressing techniques to make the rough edges and used inks to make it look aged.  A small piece of toille print for the top corner has a columned structure on it similar to the one in the photos.  The photos are matted with a yellow print that I toned down with distress ink, so it matches the look of the other papers. And I finished it off with ribbons and flowers to match my color pallete.

The journaling says "Epcot 2012", "English Garden Maze", "Adrian told Alexandra that this was called a Labrynth!".  The photos were taken at the England pavillion at Epcot Center.  The children loved this little area off from the main path.  They played for more than an hour just chasing each other through the maze.

Scrapbook Expo West Palm Beach, FL 2012

I had a great time at Scrapbook Expo West Palm Beach. It was so amazing! So many beautiful things! I was in heaven. Here is the list of must see booths:

 1. Scrap That! is the best booth to visit. Tons of $1 items, and 25 cent papers! My favorite items were the tombow liquid glue, at a bargain!

2. Tall Mouse Crafts - For their $1 fine glitter! Some booths sell it for $6 a jar, but this place had glitter for just $1.

3. Strictly Scrapbooking had all the high end prima flowers and embellishments. Great sales too like 3 for $10 for products usually $7 each.

4. Rubbernecker Stamps had the most amazing stamps for great prices, like $3-$7 each!

Mon Ami Gabby Birdcage Ribbon

5. MonAmiGabby for her amazing ribbons, bling, diamond mesh, and flowers.  I was most excited about seeing her booth again!  I am such a big fan!  Check out this amazing Birdcage ribbon that i bought from her:


6. ScrapMart had great deals on diecuts and embossing folders. I got some Tim Holtz texture fades embossing folders for just $5!

7. The Rubber Cafe for Faber Castell mixed media art products, the best glue ever, and stencils.  I purchased the Faber Castell fine point pens for journaling since the colors are amazing bright. And I absolutely love Melissa's demos!  Plan to hang out at this booth for quite some time and be amazed the whole time!

8. Krazy Kreations for their sticker sheets for diecuting and glittering, and for their amazing metal sheets.  And they had these little boy and girl stamps that were the cutest kids stamps I have ever seen!

Here is the link to the album of photos I took, lots of very amazing layouts and projects


So if there is a Scrapbook Expo near you, be sure to go!  Its worth it!

It's almost my time to meet Tim Holtz!

I am so excited, I am finally here. In just a few minutes I'll get to greet Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi! I'm just outside the classroom, waiting for the doors to open. I am so thrilled!

Heading out to see Tim Holtz

I am so excited the day is finally here. I'm heading to whim so doodle to take a class with Tim Holtz today. Check out these goodie bags that I made for my All Things Tim group members that I'm meeting today for the first time. It's going to be so much fun I can't wait.

Proud to be Artsy - Webster's Pages, Melody Ross & Prima Flowers

I seldom make a layout about myself, but I started a challenge last summer to write a layout about why I scrapbook, what it is I like the most about what I do.  This is why I made this Proud to be Artsy layout.

The journaling is on a little tag and it reads:
"It takes my breath away when colors coordinate just perfectly.  Frilly Fibers excite me.  Glimmery items just thrill me.  Art is Emotion!"

That says it all!

This layout is created with Webster's Pages Life's Portrait line papers.  I cut the border freehand, distressed the inner edges and inked it all over.  I finished it off by attaching some delicate light blue lace to the bottom along the ridges using brads.  The inside paper is must brighter for contrast.  The picture of myself is circled with three embellishment clusters and anchored at the bottom by layers of lace and ribbon.  The title, Proud to be Artsy, is a textile tag by Melody Ross, and the flowers around it are all Prima flowers.  I colored three white flowers using various inks in colors match my layout.  Then a big blue flourish sits above it.  On the opposite edge of the photo is my journaling tag.  I started with a plain manila tag and then inked it in the same colors to match.  I finished it with ribbon at the top and lace at the bottom.  Then added flowers all around it.  Then at the top are three roses over a Webster's pages canvas tag.  I finished it off by stamping the word Artist vertically using a Tim Holtz stamp, and tracing the inside with a gelly roll glitter pen.

Products Used:

Webster's Pages Lifes Portrait - Love Yourself Paper
Webster's Pages Designer Trim - Delicate Pink
Prima Innoscence White Flowers
Melody Ross Designer Collection - Textile Tags

My Adventures at Scrapbook Expo

Scrapbook Expo came to my part of town for the first time ever, and I was so thrilled to take part in this event.  It was very exciting to see all these companies and manufacturers come to sell all the latest products in the industry that I love.  I had the best weekend!

I started the weekend working as a teaching assistant in the Tattered Angels class.  These classes were mindblowing!  So many great techniques, so many beautiful effects, so much shimmer and shine.  The first class I was in was called Glimmer Mist 101 and it was a technique class where they teach you tons of different ways to get different looks from the Glimmer mist products.  Each student left the class with a three ring binder full of over 25 pages of techniques that they got to play with during the class.  This was an excellent learning experience, and everyone in the class had a blast.  Our teacher Nanette was awesome and super fun.

The second class was using the Heidi Swap Fascinations products.  These were products with resist built in and it was like magic in the making.  As you sprayed and wiped, different images just appeared like magic.  The papers were treated with resist images that made the most awesome effects.  It was surprisingly easy to make something look spectacular.  This class was also taught by the gracious Nanette.

After class time was shopping time!  I loved walking through the vendor area and seeing all the awesome products that I had only seen online until that point.  Manufacturers like Creative Imaginations, Pazzles and of course, Tattered Angels were there.  Plus rows of other vendors with stuff from multiple manufacturers.  I went to my hotel room with lots of new goodies to play with.  And play I did.

The next morning, I entered the Expo's Creativity Contest and submitted the desktop plaque that you see above.  It looks like they liked it because I won third place!  I won a Slice die cutting machine, a $149 value!  My very first electronic cutter!  I was over the moon!

That afternoon I worked at at one of the booths for a company called Eyelet Outlet.  This company had a huge variety of colored and shaped brads like nothing I had seen before.  It was amazing to see all the really cool brads.  Plus they are the manufacturers of Quicklets, an eyelet that you can attach with just a pen, no special tools needed.  Really easy. 

I really enjoyed myself working at the booth.  I demo-ed the products and met so many wonderful people, just as excited about papercrafting as I am.  It was so much fun.

At the end of the night, I got to work at the crop.  It was so much fun to be part of the party, for free!  Tons of giveaways, tons of fun.  I had a really good time. 

Can't wait for the expo to come back next year!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Finale

Thanks so much for visiting this month and reading my Breast Cancer Awareness Month posts. I am finishing up the month with the last pages from the grungeboard minibook that I made for someone special.

Please join me, if you have not already, in my fundraising activity benefiting the Susan Komen society.  Click on this link and give to their efforts to find a cure.  Any amount will do, even if you can only give very little.  You too can make a difference.  Please give what you can.

Breast Cancer: Live to Remember

Continuing on with my series of posts in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I am posting another page from my grungeboard minibook.  This page says "Survive to Remember".  It is not until long after you conquer the battle against Cancer that you get to recognize how significant and positive it was to go through that experience.  You become a stronger person because of it, and remembering what you went through, and what you won the battle against becomes a testament of your courage and determination. 

Please join me in my fundraising activity benefiting the Susan Komen society.  Click on this link and give to their efforts to find a cure.  Any amount will do, even if you can only give very little.  You too can make a difference.  Please give what you can.

Breast Cancer: New Perspective

One really positive thing that one gains from being diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness is a new perspective on life. Suddenly things that were all-consuming and top priority in life may not be all that important anymore. You start to measure your success in life not by monetary gain, but by the relationships that you have made, the family that is standing beside you showing support, and the friends that send positive supportive messages.

It becomes so clear suddenly, what really matters in life, and what you hold most precious. Celebrate your riches, celebrate your ability to see things anew. Celebrate your new perspective.

Please join me in my fundraising activity benefiting the Susan Komen society.  Click on this link and give to their efforts to find a cure.  Any amount will do, even if you can only give very little.  You too can make a difference.  Please give what you can.

Don't forget that there is Blog Candy being given away on this blog! I am giving away two stazOn ink pads. One in Timber Brown, and another in Jet Black. Just comment on this post for one chance to win, donate to my Susan G. Komen fundraiser with the link above for a second chance to win, and subscribe to my blog using the links on the right for a third chance to win!

Breast Cancer: Finding that inner Strength!

Continuing on today with my posts for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I am showing off a new page today of the album I made for Sherry Goodloe. This page is dedicated to finding the strength inside oneself to put up a fight, even when things become unbareable! It is so important that a patient in cancer treatment, or anyone dealing with anything difficult in life, to really find that inner Strength and let it hold you up.

Please join me in my fundraising activity benefiting the Susan Komen society.  Click on this link and give to their efforts to find a cure.  Any amount will do, even if you can only give very little.  You too can make a difference.  Please give what you can.

Don't forget that there is Blog Candy being given away on this blog! I am giving away two stazOn ink pads. One in Timber Brown, and another in Jet Black. Just comment on this post for one chance to win, donate to my Susan G. Komen fundraiser with the link above for a second chance to win, and subscribe to my blog using the links on the right for a third chance to win!