Little Bits

I am in love with my children as every parent should. Patrick is just the happiest and warmest snuggley little bits. 

The papers are from Basic Grey Clippings via Boys' Rule kit. I kept this pretty simple rusty hinge and wild honey distress in on the hexagons. I inked the twine in rusty hinge. Some circles and stickers.

The Beach

I had some pictures for a walk on the beach however, Patrick was having a fearful day looking out at the water. Since he refused to take his eyes of the surf and Myles refused to to be so still I had no pictures of them together. 

I was practicing misting on a sea shell motif. The chipboard is from K&CO. I used broken china and weathered wood on the page and spun sugar on the cheese cloth. 

It's not a great page - but I like the diamond shapes of the pictures and the ghost ship stamp.

Christmas Cards 2012

I was out at the craft store one day and discovered a sentiment stamp that almost brought tears to my eyes and made me giddy at the same time.

"The best gift of Christmas arrived in a very small bundle with no bow"

It was the perfect Christmas card sentiment in beautiful script. 

So I had an idea for a Christmas card and little in the way of design. I began by coloring some child pageant stamps I bought on clearance early in the year. Then I received the perfect die in my Amazing Grace kit to place Mary and Joseph with a nice filigree stamp that matched. I inked Mary and Joseph's oval in antique linen and spun sugar distress inks. The background paper is Basic Gray Nordic Christmas with some white enamel accents. 

The baby Jesus stamp fit perfectly in the motif from Spellbinders Ironworks accents. He is inked with spruce and forest moss. Then I spun the edges of the die across Versamark embossing ink quickly to obtain a random coating. (In case you are tempted the distress ink tool wont behave with embossing ink to feather in the ink on the edges.) The die was then spun gingerly through a shallow dredge of gold tinsel embossing powder and heated. 

The back of the baby Jesus ornament and the tag are sprayed with a heavy concentration of gold perfect pearls on kraft paper. Once heat dried I stamped and embossed in clear. I used fired brick and spruce distressed inks with clear embossing powder. I didn't post before on the cards because I wanted the recipients to start receiving them as surprises. :)

The Flying Unicorn KOM

This month I treated myself to a kit that is less boyish. I had this good picture of the hubby and myself and I wanted to create a good layout of us. Most of the layouts I do are of the kids.

I the papers are from FabScraps and I borrowed border punches from my friend Jenn at the crop yesterday to complete the background. The lace corner is a spellbinders die from my Amazing Grace kit. I inked it with weathered wood distress ink and gold distress stain. Underneath the lace corner is tarnished and copper mica flakes. This is a new material for me but I like the random look of it. 

The flowers came with the main kit and the embellishment add-on. They include Prima, Melissa Francis, KaiserKraft and FabScraps. I loved going feminine on this layout, so fun. The chipboard is  Fabscraps I inked it in faded denim distress ink, embossed in broken china distress powder and then clear and picket fence glitter. I even was able to add some crystals and pearls. :)

Catching Up

I haven't posted since August. :(
I have been busy, I created a private birthday present for my aunt.
I have about five layouts to upload. I made Christmas cards and a mini album.
Oh yeah I changed jobs. Similar function different company.

So today I have some tags from a tag exchange that I participated.

I really loved the G45 Nutcracker Suite paper collection. Not sure my affinity to the Nutcracker but I love it.

This tag I use two mists Perfect Pearls Smoky Blue and a Ditto turquoise. Molding paste on my crafter's workshop 6x6 frames template and silver pearls paint to highlight some of the frame. The ballerina is fussy cut from G45.

This tag is G45 Nutcracker with clear glitter embossing powder over the Christmas Tree, Distress Barn Door stain on the background. 

I love the plaid in this tag. so I kept is simple.

Distress Broken China stain, G45 Nutcracker papers, distressing and inking. 

I fussy cut the darling Clara from the front cover of the papers.

Sugary sweet K&Co dimensional cookies and the cutest gingerbread man. 

More K&Co cookie stickers and clear sparkle embossing in the tag over vintage photo distress stain. I randomly embossed the edges of the Christmas element with tinsel gold.

I just love the swirly tree stamp. 

Pamela Young's Layout from Pamela's World of Scraps:

I used my Boy's Rule Kit from July with a couple pictures of Myles swimming.

I love the Fancy Pants Shoreline pattern, I used the gloss accents to outline some of the light blue scrolls. The pinwheels are two patterns pasted together leftover from Patrick's layout. The background card stock was a light blue and I used a mist from Ditto Caribbean blue with distressed inks broken china, weathered wood and old paper. Truth is I went too far with misting I originally intended and ending up fixing it with distress inks and then re-misting for more sheen. (Looks like the bottom of a pool or a real mess) The twine is from my first Boys Rule kit and the shell buttons I picked up at Joann's. The chipboard is LYB except the sailboat that is Tim Coffey, K&Company. 

This one was alot of fun. I also love the tag that says Sandy Toes and Salty Kisses...too sweet. 

Boy's Rule July Kit

My July kit from Boy's Rule is awesome. It had Myles favorite color orange in abundance in the Fancy Pants Wave Searcher Shoreline. The little Yellow Bicycle embellishments were so cute and I love the Flags. So I have made 2 layouts so far and have many more materials left to make a couple more.
I stumbled across Pamela's World of Scrap blog and lifted two really neat layout ideas. First my Patrick:

I used the red and yellow smooch mist by removing the cap and using the end of the sprayer tip and tapping with my finger flicked on the ink. I used the papers from the kit and an embossed flower card stock from Bazzill with Tim Holtz broken china, peeled pain and wild honey swiped on the flowers. I really like the tile squares look. Some of the LYB chipboard and the flags and all done.