Sneak Peek - CKC mini Album & Canvas!!!

Hi Everyone - I've been having scrap withdrawal since I was on vacation, and then playing catch up with life, over the last 3 weeks, but I am so looking forward to the last weekend of July where I will be assisting my favorite Local Scrapbook Store - SCRAP-A-DOODLE DOO  while vending at the VENDOR FAIR at the CKC in Valley Forge, PA!!

I added the finishing touches on this ADORABLE mini album using THE HEART OF TEXAS Chipboard album and these awesome papers by Mollie & Mac.

Here is a SNEAK PEAK of the adorable Mini OVATION VINTAGE ALBUM that I have designed for them to sell!

It features beautiful papers in Navy, Cream and Burgundy, Ribbons, pearlized buttons and complete instructions for assembly.

Scrap-a-Doodle Doo will have LOTS of kits and great deals at the event - so mark your calendar - and try to attend this FUN SCRAPBOOKING EVENT!!

Please stop by "THE DOO" booth and say HI if you make it!  WAIT until you see the COOL purple shopping bags we will have!!



It's the perfect album to store and share fun family memories - it would make a GREAT gift too!



OH - here is a BONUS PEEK for you too!



This CANVAS kit will also be available for sale, and includes complete instructions too!


HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
Sherri



April 9th BoBunny Day SNEAK PEEK!

Hi Everyone!

Here is a Sneak Peek of my 8"x12" Canvas Project, that you have the opportunity to make at

Scrap-a-Doodle Doo's BoBunny BONANZA All Day Event, on April 9th, 2011 ( details and info below)

It is just ONE of THREE projects you will make that day!  Seats are LIMITED, and going FAST,

so PLEASE contact  Scrap-a-Doodle Doo for more INFO and to RESERVE your seat!

I've used the HOT NEW BoBunny TIMEPIECE Collection for this project, which you will make from

start to finish at the event ( along with 2 other projects from our 2 other Educators)

Check out the distressed Prima Flower, Black Beaded "HOT" dangling, glitzy trim!, and of course the BEAUTIFUL BoBunny Time Piece Paper Collection!

MORE "Hotness!" We'll use pages out of an Antique book, make a crumpled paper flower, and use the BRAND NEW Tim Holtz Distress Stains in SO MANY different ways!  You are going to LOVE this stuff! There will be painting, tearing, distressing, chipboard, even "ouchless" cardboard!!

This PROMISES to be an AMAZING DAY filled with CREATIVE GOODNESS!

I don't know of any other opportunity in the NY/ NJ Area offering a chance to spend the day making 3 completed and BEAUTIFUL Projects featuring the latest releases from Bo Bunny and learning new techniques that you can take with you and apply to future projects too!

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!

So please join me and 2 of my fellow Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo Design Team Educators, Adina Medina & Anna Zuniga, and spend the day with us and the rest of the Crew from Scrap-a-Doodle Doo

- as we team up to teach a FULL DAY of FUN classes!

Date: Saturday, April 9th 10:00AM to 6:00PM

Place: The Doubletree Hotel in Mahwah, New Jersey

Cost: $125 per person - which includes 3 projects and lunch!

SEATING IS LIMITED so PLEASE Reserve your seat ASAP!

So what are you waiting for? 

CLICK here - on Scrap-a-Doodle Doo's website

and reserve your seat on line!

Or contact the Store at :

Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo

 

37-C Swan Street

Ramsey, New Jersey 07446

www.scrap-a-doodledoo.com

Phone: 201.818.7060

Hope to see you there!

Sherri

Gift for my Grandmother!

What does one get their Grandmother for Christmas - I am sure I am not the only one who had this dilemma!


Our Mom-Mom is such a sweetheart, and I LOVE her VERY MUCH!  She is ALWAYS supportive and
proud of each and everyone of her "clan" and thinking of her always makes me smile.


She had this photo from a magazine that her brother sent to her, and mentioned to my Mom, that she would
like to have it framed.  Well, my Mom told her she would bring it to me to see if I could do something with it.


The caption under the photo reads:


A wise old owl sat in an oak, the more he saw
the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard
why can't we all be like that wise old bird?
                                                     - an old proverb


This photo and saying remind her of her brother and I wanted to do something special with it for her.


So I made a canvas for her -  it measures @ 12" x 16"

First I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist - Sunflower, Electric Blue and Brick

Next I added a piece of Basic Grey's Curio~ Camelia paper, and added as spritz of Glimmer to it too! This paper has special meaning, as Mom-Mom has a Magnolia tree in her yard that was always our Pop-Pop's favorite!

Here is the finished piece.  The "Listen and Heart" Letters are Tim Holtz Grungeboard, the flowers and rhinestone swirls are Prima, the owl and wings and large chipboard swirl are Tattered Angels. The photo is on a black cardstock mat, on top of a mat made from Basic Grey Curio~Muslin and the edges were treated to some yummy Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo.

the embellishment by the photo is an Artisan Element by Pink Paislee which was colored with Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glaze, as was the Tattered Angels Swirl the Owl is sitting on.

The LISTEN charm and chain are by Tim Holtz, and the dangling beads are from an old necklace!

Mom-Mom LOVED the canvas - I hope you do too!

Drop me a line / leave me a comment - let me know you were here!

THANKS!
Sherri

Project #3 ~ A Woman of Valor

This 12” x 16” Canvas was a gift to my wonderful boss (he calls me “Scrappy” LOL.) He recently lost his dear Mother, and I made this as a special present for his Birthday. ( Look at the bottom right of the corner – there is a shadow of his Grandfather – taking the photo with his little Brownie camera! – so cool!)

I first used a stencil on the upper and lower right corners, and applied a thick coat of gesso to the openings. I also did this on corner of the small frame too, as well as brushed it randomly on the Glimmer Chip swirl, and the corner chipboard flourish too. After it dried – I applied color spraying Glimmer Mists, and using a paint brush for the GLAM and MISTS too! ( I found out I LOVE applying GLIMMER MIST with a brush! This stuff never ceases to amaze me – there is SO MUCH you can do with it!)



Oh – check out the black edge around the old photo – I applied OIL SLICK GLIMMER GLAZE with the paint brush in the bottle. Didn’t it come out GREAT!! I love the way it cracked and really makes the photo look very old.


I used the following Glimmer Mist colors on the canvas, papers and embellishments: CHALKBOARD Cotton Candy, - OLIVE VINE, SUNFLOWER, BLACK CHERRY, CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRIES, COSMOS, SUNFLOWER, and GOLD. I also used DIRTY MARTINI and CHANDELIER GLIMMER GLAM too!

I was so pleased with how this came out - Let me know what you think  - won't you?

Thanks,
Sherri

NY State of Mind...

"In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Let's here it for New York, New York, New York...."

Here is a canvas that I will be selling to a friend who "commissioned me" to make it for her to give as a gift.

Her requirements were - "not too big"  ( it is 12"x12") Blacks, Red, Silver & Bling -a place for a 4 x 6" photo.

I "painted' the canvas with Ranger Distress Inks - Fired Brick and Black Soot + water, then mixed black acrylic paint and Ranger silver distress crackle paint in with Gesso, which I applied over the top of Glimmer Screens in the 2 corners.  I removed the stencils and let it dry very well. Then I sprayed the canvas and the cardboard heart that I had peeled with Red Velvet and Raven Glimmer Mist, and I sprayed the NY paper with Graphite.

So - here is what I came up with:

I LOVE all of the textures and layers on this canvas - the Prima Black Swirls, the antique buttons, the small glass beads and glitter - the raised layer of the Gesso mixed with paint, the shiny yet cracked (Ranger Distress crackle paint in Silver on the  NYC chipboard letters, the softness of the red Webster's Pages ribbon flowers, the grungy look of the peeled corrugated cardboard heart, the bling of the  Jolie's Statue of Liberty that I painted with Silver Smooch as it was Gold and Black, and I needed to make it Silver and Black! 

I hope she likes it --- Please leave a comment and let me know if you like it too!

Dreams....

Here is another canvas that I created this weekend. It is 8"x10" canvas and will be a gift for my niece's birthday in June.  Shhhh - it's a surprise!! I Glimmer Misted the canvas with Lime Twist, Patina, Frozen Lake and Golden Terracotta.  The photo of her is a 4x6 in a Technique Tuesday frame that I Glimmer Misted with Lime Twist, Frozen Lake, Patina and Golden Terracotta.  I added a little Ranger Rock Candy Distress Paint on many places all over the canvas to give it a wet shiny look too.

The seashells are from Topsail Island Beach, NC where we vacationed this year and where the picture was taken.

 

Aren't these AWESOME new Prima Flowers!! I just HAD TO HAVE THEM and use them when I saw them.  They match perfectly don't they! 

The swirl is chipboard coated with Mud Puddles and sprayed with Golden Terracotta Glimmer Mist. YUMMY!

The photo looks a little dark here - but is was take through the screen of a beach tent, and has a very soft look.  See the cool tiny glass beads on the top that I sprinkled on the Rock Candy!

I LOVE how this corner turned out - It is a styrofoam letter "D" that I painted with

Acrylic Paint - (Lettuce) and sprayed with Glimmer Mist - Patina and Frozen Lake.

I added some MudPuddles broken seashells, and blobs of Rock Candy Ranger Crackle Paint.

I took a Tim Holtz Key that says DREAMS, put a pearl paint daubber to it -wiped it off and then lightly painted it with a teal SMOOCH paint - I think it turned out pretty neat - don't you??  I think I got the fish net from Jen Star many years ago when I took a class from her at a LSS that is no longer in business (thanks Jen!) and have held it in my "stash" since then! I am SO GLAD I did - as I think it works very nicely - don't you?! Oh - this side has a torn piece of "By the Sea" paper by Creative Imaginations that has been sprayed by Glimmer Mist ( of course!) and edges with teal SMOOCH!

What do you think?  Is it your favorite corner too?

More "SCRAP" ing here - the starfish was actually used at our cousin's wedding ( that my niece was in) with our name and table number attached and placed in a box of sand for seating. I saved it for a few years and I think I found the perfect project/place for it!   This is a picture of my niece and her Sister, Mother & Father, walking along the beach. I just LOVE pictures of people walking away from me -- really I do!  I don't know why - maybe it is because they are not posing - or giving a forced smile and I can just capture the "moment" without their knowledge. Is it just me? Well - we all had a great time together on this relaxing vacation - and the Tim Holtz charm received the same pearl paint and SMOOCH treatment and I hope helps her to remember that time and that she is able to "SIMPLIFY" some of her life as the charm says.

I hope you enjoyed view this as much as I enjoyed making it!

Thanks for looking!

Brothers Canvas

Here is a canvas that I made while away at an AWESOME weekend Crop - Hosted by Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo of Ramsey, NJ.  I designed the word Brothers on my new Gypsy and cut it out of grundge board with my Cricut!  Just lovin' the Pinecone, Cinder, Brick and Gold Glimmer Mists that I combined for the beautiful colors!  This is one of my FAVORITE pictures of my handsome sons Jake and Nick.  Seeing their SMILES makes me SMILE!  I hope this makes you SMILE too!

The Key is from a Tim Holtz collection - it says Memory

I cut the square felt black scroll embellishment and used it as a mask in the bottom left and top right corners of the canvas before adhering it to the opposite corners of the 8x10 photo.

I added Glimmer Misted a Grungeboard swirl and put some Prima black crystal flowers,

I created the top swirl with a Tim Holtz mask by spraying the canvas with Cinder Glimmer Mist first,

then masking it and spraying the Brick and Gold over it -- I wanted it blacker -so I then added black paint to the mask and "stamped" over the image to make it darker - than I added a few swirls of black rhinestones and pearls to bring more attention to it.

Another small Grungeboard accent in the top right corner - some more swirls of shiny rhinestones and  pearls by Prima, a little chenielle burgundy and black fuzzy fiber and a clock embellishment from the jewelry section. The paper used is a 12 x 12 piece of "Vagabond" by Kaisercraft, and the small striped accent is the back of another piece of that paper glued to a white chipboard accent by Technique Tuesday.

Bottom right corner - another Tim Holtz Grundgeboard accent (hinge) and a Tim Holtz "Muse Token" that says "Forevermore" that I painted with a cranberry paint dauber.

Aren't MY BOYS Handsome?  Did they make you SMILE!

I HOPE SO - and I hope you like it!

Here are photos of my previous canvas

My Family Canvas Jan 17, 2010

This is a project that I complete at Got Memories 3 Weekend! I am now officially addicted to GLIMMER MIST - it is now my "Elixir of Life!"  Most items on this canvas project were purchased from my FAVORITE Local Scrapbook store:  Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo, Ramsey, New Jersey

I used a combination of Olive Vine, Golden Terracotta, Gold and English Ivy Glimmer Mist and sprayed them on a Canvas that I first inked with Ranger inks and blended with water.  Then I started Layering! ( My 2nd favorite part - after Glimmer Mist!! LOL!)

In this corner is a photo frame ( with a picture of our Portuguese Water Dog Lily) that I placed a Tattered Angels Glimmer screen over the botton left corner - then coated the top of the frame with Mud Puddles ( a sandy paste)  I lifted the screen off - and when it all dried, I sprayed it all with Golden Terracotta Glimmer Mist - I added a touch of black RANGER INK paint dauber to some spots to make the detials 'POP" and a cute PRIMA flower in the upper right corner just set it off! - Don't ya think!  The Tim Holtz Key  says "Heart" and look at the Prima Swirl - just adds a little "bling!"

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Below is true "scrapbooking"  The cardboard was something that a big pad of chipboard letters I purchased a few months ago was wrapped in  - I just LOVED the texture of it -and saved it for "just the right project" - I think it found a nice little home here in this corner - after a few spritz of Glimmer Mist  - of course!!

The beads hanging from the chipboard swirl ( a laser cut from my Carol at DC Designs/Chip off the Old Block ) was also sprayed and dipped in glimmer mist "residue" that was left on my splat mat for this cool combo -that was also "touched" with dabs of Ranger's Rock Candy Distress Paint, and a piece of hemp was tied to a few beads from a necklace that I broke a few years ago - and "saved" - because you just "never know" when you can do something with it -- I think I found out just what I was waiting for, as I incorporated lots of beads hanging from this canvas -- More DIMENSION!  I LOVE IT!

The word FAMILY and the swirl on top were also cut by DC Designs - and covered with paper from Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo.    I added a Tattered Angels LOVE Bingo Board and a Tile - both which were sprayed with the "Elixir of Life" of course!    I added some PRIMA flowers - LOVE THEM! and a few more swirls of bling - there is  Tim Holtz "Wonderful" coin hanging from the bottom by a TH fastener too.

I am going to add a few more small canvases and hang them from the bottom of this larger canvas, as soon as I get around to it!  hope you like it!