Magical Challenge ~ Creative Scrappers# 192

Here is my version of Creative Scrappers Challenge # 192

SEE  - I told you Scrapbook Challenges were addicting!!  ( well at least for me!)

OKAY - here is the Sketch I used for inspiration  ( 'cause we all need a little from time to time! LOL!)

So - I took this in a little different direction....

I hope you like it as much as I do!  I am so happy with how it came out!

Instead of Stars - I went with Hearts <3 !  I used more of the paper and embellies from My Mind's Eye, Stella and Rose collection, some Bazzill, and these ADORABLE fabric THICKERS from Amy Tangerine!!  In keeping with the stitching detail on the letters - I decided I needed to do a little hand stitching on this layout too!  Of course I had to add some BEADS from ArtC's Natural Bead collection!

I just LOVE all the colors in this collection!  You can get a good look at the distressing on all the edges - I again used Ranger Distress Stain in Rusty Hinge - you can really see it here on the photo - COOL huh!?  Oh - and this is a good close up of the hand stitching too.  See the little flap I folded over and did a Zig-Zag stitch on?! FUN!!  The tag you see is sprayed with Tattered Angel's GLIMMER MIST in Golden Terracotta and Sunflower - I used a PRIMA Swirl mask to get that cool look!

Here is another close up of the stitching and beading, and the cool canvas letters! Oh - I used Ranger Distress Stain in Barn Door Red to give the color and dimension to the red hearts too!

Here is an angle shot -to show you the dimension.  I added the center photo with HELMAR ZapDots - LOVE THEM!!!

So   - THANKS for stopping by - I hope you liked my take on this sketch challenge, and that I've inspired you to CREATE SOMETHING!!  ( get out your needle and thread and "have at it!" LOL!!)

(( HUGS)) ~ Sherri

I won a Guest Designer Spot for Helmar!

Happy Sunday Everyone!!

I want to THANK everyone who voted for my entry in the HELMAR Guest Designer contest last week!

I am so HAPPY and EXCITED that I WON!

There were many beautiful entries, by lots of talented artists, and I am HONORED to have received the most votes.
(If yours was one of them - I sincerely THANK YOU!)

I LOVE working with Helmar adhesives - and can't wait to be a Guest Designer for them!  ( So watch for more info to follow!)

If you didn't see it yet - here is the project that I submitted:

This is a REVERSE Canvas project.   I took an 8x11" canvas and turned it over, creating a frame.

I covered the wood with Gesso -quite thickly in spots. I even used a pc of chipboard as a stencil to fill in and create the frame's texture.  It was colored with Glimmer Mist, and Glimmer Glam, along with some Black Soot Ranger Distress Ink.  The 2 flowers are white cardstock that I also colored with Glimmer Mist and glued them together with Helmar Scrap Dots.   The letters for HOME are sprayed with Glimmer mist - and edge with Oil Slick Black Glimmer Glaze.  I stitched them onto the canvas, after gluing them first.

Here is a close up of some the detail - along with the handmade paper flower.

I hope you like this project - STAY TUNED - I "feel" a REVERSE CANVAS CLASS is going to be coming to  Scrap-a-Doodle Doo early next year - THINK SNOW, SPARKLE and FUN!!

Be sure to add yourself to the EMAIL option on my Blog, to be sure you don't miss out on any class info or opportunities!!
THANKS for stopping by!
Sherri

PLEASE VOTE for your favorite - it could be mine!

Hi everyone - I am in a Facebook contest to become a Guest Designer for a great Adhesive Company  -HELMAR.

The voting count looks close, and voting closes tomorrow at 9am.  The project with the most votes wins, and I would love it to be mine -BUT the rules state that I can't tell you what project I made.  SO - I am asking if you have a minute to please take a LOOK at all of the beautiful entries, and type in the word VOTE when leaving a comment under the one that you like the best!! 

I've already voted for my FAVORITE  - I'm hoping that you like my project and VOTE  ( only once is counted.)  Please feel free to tell your friends and let them know what one you LIKE too! ~ Oh  - and feel free to LIKE Helmar when you are there too - they make GREAT GLUES!!


Here is the link to the photo page for voting!   &lt;&lt;----Click here


THANKS!
Sherri

Playing with Dollies ~another Trifecta

So - I love a good challenge and this one was a tough one!  The girls at the Design Dollies BLOG have done it again and enticed me to take on all three of their weekly challenges and enter this week's TRIFECTA!
The BEST thing about about "playing" along with the DOLLIES, is that I get to use up the mountainous "stash" of scrap cr*p that I have accumulated - and it helps me to really get creative!

Here is this week's challenge:

FIRST - the COLORS ~ Black, Yellow & Silver hmmm a bit of a challenge in itself -but wait - there's more!

SECOND - the   ELEMENTS: Nautical but Nice!  OK -not so bad, but you don't think of Black, Yellow and Silver when you think of of the Ocean / Sea / Sailing...... This IS going to be a tough one!!

(at this point - it was Tuesday night- and all I am waiting for is the SKETCH that is issued on Thursday -so I begin pulling out pictures, papers, embellishments that fit the colors and elements and wait in anticipation to see how I can make it all fit!)

THIRD - the SKETCH (below) arrives!


HMMM.....  - the photo I want to use is horizontal - and I only have one that I want to use
-- this IS REALLY going to be a CHALLENGE!!

So....  here is my entry - What do you think??

About the photo - as you can see - it was taken on our Magical Mediterranean Disney Cruise from 2007.
I am not an "up to date" scrapper - and I will NEVER be finished with all of the photos that I have.  I scrap photos when "the mood" hits me - I have to have a feel for what I want to do - I don't scrap to scrap and "get it done" - I scrap to honor -and embellish the photo/story with "stuff" too!  

This photo is from a crazy day filled with LOTS of amazing memories.   The four of us did our own excursion in Villefrance, France.  I spent months and months researching what to do here ( surprise surprise!!!! ) and found a way to get on a public transportation bus, to take us to the beautiful EZE, France on the Cote d'Azur.  Once we got off the tender, and into the port of Villefranche, we walked along the road, seeing some "sights!"  the beautiful and colorful homes and cafes, as well as the naked sunbathers, are memories that we will have for a lifetime - the naked ones were burned in our minds and something we wish we could forget - as they were NOT bathing beauties - but everyday Grandmas and Grandpas - even Grandpas wearing Speedo's too! OH MY!! LOL!

Well, it was a HOT HOT and sweaty day -and we made our way up and up the zig-zag roads (see the different levels behind us in the photo?)  The whole time my 3 non-adventurous men complained about the heat, and me not knowing what I was doing or where we were going ( yes, I did ask someone for directions!) Once we got on the bus, we ended up having to go from Villefrance, to the main bus station in Nice ( the opposite direction of Eze,) then onto another bus back past Villefrance and onto Eze! I enjoyed every bit of the "fun" (beautiful scenery -on the way to Nice and on the way back!) while others in my party didn't see it that way! 

It was all worth it as our day in EZE is filled with wonderful memories, this is a place I would love to go back to one day - hey, it's the French Riviera - who wouldn't!!  Oh - and we didn't end up taking the bus back to the port - (the Explorers would have none of that again!) we took a Mercedes taxi back - but of course! LOL!!

I don't have any names of the papers that I used -I've had them for years - other than the base with Bazzill Black  ( which causes this layout to be able to be entered in another challenge in a facebook group that I belong to called "paint it black!" ) but I can list some of the ingredients that I used:
Dew Drop  Brilliance "Platinum Planet" Ink, on the edges, along with Tattered Angles Glimmer Glaze " Mellow Yellow " and "Oil Slick" also TA Glimmer Mist Chalkboard Glimmer Mist "Banana Pudding" ( in the bottom right corner) - Helmar Scrap Dots to adhere the buttons and the metal flower -which was from a broken piece of jewelry (thanks to my friend John!) the diecut "Vacation" title has been sitting in a draw for @ 3yrs waiting for a new home, and the silver word Adventure was made with Thickers "Rockaby" that I recently purchased to add to my stash - YES, I am a scrap-a-holic and I'm proud of it!! LOL!!

I hope you enjoyed my story and my layout!

Thanks for looking -- Please leave a comment if you were here - just a "Hi" would be nice!

Sherri

A Sketch, Red, Sky Blue, Celery Green, White & Candles = another Trifecta!

So - I found some time to create another layout to enter into the Design Dollies Challenge I was able to incorporate all of this week's Challenges - COLOR: I used ONLY the colors White, Sky Blue, Red and Celery Green, ELEMENT: Candles!, and their SKETCH.

Yes, the photos are from a 2009 Birthday Celebration - but, I didn't want to scrap these great photos, until I had the right "feel" for the layout to honor them.  You see I, like many people, started scrapping late in my son's lives, so I will NEVER be "DONE" with scrapping!  This seems to upset many people, or cause many not to even begin scrapping and honoring their photos and memories because the task seems so overwhelming - BUT - I look at it as an ongoing OPPORTUNITY and don't feel "pressure" to get "DONE" because if and when I am all done - what the heck am I going to do???? ( sleep maybe? LOL!)

My Grandmother "Mom-Mom" as she is affectionately called, and our youngest son Jake, share the same BIRTH DATE, September 27th.  There are "only" 76 years between their Birthdays, and we have CELEBRATED the last 16 years with a joint family Birthday - both of them wouldn't have it any other way!

There is always cake, fun, laughter, and this Happy Birthday Cake Hat somehow started to appear a few years ago, and has continued to be part of the celebration!

We are so BLESSED to have our Mom-Mom in our lives, and to have our AMAZING and Loving son Jake too!  I hope you like the layout!

Here you can see the Electric Blue Glimmer Mist ( and their Happy Faces!)



3 cardstock candles



Products used:   CTMH white cardstock, misted with Electric Blue Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Lime Pastel Cats Eye Chalk, Green and Sky Blue Cardstock (scraps,) K&Co. Que Sera Sera collection ( patterned papers, ) Prima white flower, Bazzil green flower, Maya Road chipboard alphas, painted with Luminarte "Radiant Rain" Poppy Red Twinkling H20 dauber, the blue and red rhinestone "bling" was found goodies in my "stash" ( that's why I like playing with the Dollies - I use up thing's I've had for a long time and put them to good use!)  Oh - the "candles" on the bottom left corner are rolled up pieces of cardstock with a piece of string glued into the middle!  Please feel free to "lift" the idea! ;o)

I hope you like it!
Sher

BRUCE! and yet another challenge!

WOW - I think this is my third TRIFECTA  submission to the Design Dollies Blog in the last 3 weeks!
I LOVE playing with the Dollies! They post a  COLOR CHALLENGE on Mondays, an ELEMENT CHALLENGE on Tuesdays and a SKETCH CHALLENGE on Thursday ~ and when you combine ALL 3 in one layout - you "hit the Trifecta!"

I LOVE the challenge of incorporating all elements in to a project - and usually try to only use "stuff" from my "stash" - BUT - I was fortunate to spend this entire weekend, scrapping with my "Doo Crew!" at our FAVORITE local Scrapbook Store  SCRAP-A-DOODLE DOO in Ramsey, NJ! ( Hi Stephanie, Mama Doodle, Karrie, Pattie, Donna, Janice & Marianne! I had a BLAST with all of you this weekend! *If you read this post - then please leave a comment and I know you were here!)

Sooo, while I was there - I snagged this great background paper that I've been eyeing for a while ( Bo Bunny's Mama-Razzi )- and a little can of the cool Tim Holtz film strip embellishment, as I think they worked perfectly for this layout! Pattie had a piece of Black and White patterned scrap paper, so I colored in the white spots with RED, AQUA and Yellow.( Thanks again Pattie!)

So - the challenge was -

COLOR: Red, Yellow, Aqua & Black  - CRAZY COMBO huh!


ELEMENT: Wee Little Ones -- The blog stated: "This is OPEN TO INTERPRETATION! This could mean little tiny people, very small embellies, something wee in your photos/images, mini ornaments or mini cards, or whatever. just stick to the theme and you'll be all set."

SKETCH: - kind of simple - and SO NOT "My Style" ~ BUT - I am always trying to "push" other people to create "outside their comfortable box" So - I gave it a try! ( that is why I LOVE playing with  the DOLLIES! ~ it's all about challenging MYSELF too I think!




SOOO..... Here is my submission:

These photos are from the Bruce Springsteen concert that Phil and I went to last October,
with his brothers and our sister-in-laws.
We tailgated in the shadow of both the "old" Giant's Stadium, and the NEW Meadowlands Stadium. 
It was one of the last concerts held in the old stadium, and BRUCE was great and we had FUN! 

Here is the black and white paper that I "retro-fitted" to meet the color challenge!
I used "wee" letters, sprayed with Dragonfly Glimmer Mist, added some "wee" red rhinestones too! I cut out the white swirl that was printed on the paper, and slipped the photo underneath to add some layers!
( OK - I'll let you in on a little secret -- shhh.... please don't tell, but the yellow strip that begins the journaling not only plays on the color challenge, and accents the yellow square with the Title, it also "hides" an opps! as my first attempt while writing the journaling was missing the "e" in "one" ~ REMEMBER one of my Mantras - There are NO mistakes in scrapbooking - only opportunities to embellish! - and THAT is what I did!! )

I adhered the Tim Holtz Film Strip (cool huh!) with itty bitty black brads, and the black Prima swirl and yellow glitter dots really go great together I think!

So - I hope you like my submission and one day hope to see you "playing" along with me over at the
DESIGN DOLLIES BLOG  as you can see - it's lots of FUN!

Those Dollies are making me loose sleep!!

And I love it!! -- well - not the tired feeling I will have tomorrow - BUT
the FUN I had doing this layout challenge!

( I think I am hooked on challenges now - SO WATCH OUT! and get me some No-Doze!)

You can check out the challenge on their AWESOME Blog:
http://designdollies.blogspot.com/2010/08/july-winner-new-challenge-and-august.html

Basically - make a layout using Olive Green / Purple / Cream - that's it!

Soooo ..... Here I go!  I pulled out my scrap crap in those colors last night.

Here is the pile of goodies - I call it "All that and a Bag of Chips!" 

Well - I didn't end up using everything - but then I did end up using some other elements that called to me while I was creating! Olive Vine Glimmer Mist was one of those items - of course!


Here is a layout with 2 photos - each of me with one of my 2 wonderful sons.  These are actually from Christmas 2007 - but I loved our smiles in them and held on to scrap them until I could figure out what I wanted to do with them.

I am very pleased with the results - Let me know how you like the finished entry for this challenge!

Here are some close ups and details:

I covered chipboard letters with paper, and inked them - oh - I didn't have an "N" left in the set -so I "modified" an "M" and the last "S" is from a different set of letters too.

Can you see the purple mesh?  I was from a bag of onions and I've saved it for a few months until I found the right Layout for it -- YES, I am a SCRAP-A-HOLIC - but that is why they call it "Scrapbooking"  right? LOL!
















OK - last close up - the one flower looks yellow - but it is actually cream.  The crinkly Green frame was fun to make and distress, oh - and I've had those beads for a while and I'm so happy I got to use them!

Thanks for looking! Now it is time for bed!

Sherri
=D

Scrapbook Etc. All About Me Challenge

The Challenge was "All Abut Me" - as scrapbookers (me included) don't usually scrapbook ourselves this took me "out of the box" and my comfort zone a little. (I do like the picture - especially since my son Jake took it!) 

BUT - I decided to have fun with this layout  - and, as I am sure you can tell - it is all about COLOR, TEXTURE and STUFF!  - LOTS of my Favorite Things!

Glimmer Mist - My "Elixir of Life" ( Lime Twist, Tiger Lily, Deep Purple and Pashmina) appears on the chipboard letters, date slide, and on the deep purple paper towel flower, lots of Prima Flowers, some Adirondack Alcohol Inks on the word DREAM and on the IMAGINE tag in lots of FUN colors!

Notice the Age on the title-well there is no hiding it - it is what it is -BUT-the little tag on the last number says "and holding"-- & I think I strategically placed it on the number so it kind of looks more like a "0" than a "9" - don't 'cha think?? LOL!! -

Like I said - I did have fun and I think I'd like to teach a class in the future to "allow" others to give themselves the opportunity and permission to scrap and record what is important to them,  or their favorite things when the photo that they use was taken.

Watch for info on a class in the future!

Please head on over to Scrapbooks Etc., here is the link -

http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/photos/scrap-challenges/on-assignment-feb-2010/1884700043/?photoId=1881500110

 feel free to post a comment there ( and/or here too!) and if you do - click LIKE by my entry - maybe it will help to get me published!!

Thanks for stopping by!