Good morning! I have one last project to share for Red Carpet Studios before we take a short hiatus. Today's movie in inspiration is Mall Cop 2. The twist is to use mists & paints & gesso because the movie is about art thieves.

Here is my project. I am not a mixed media scrapper, but I do use my mists frequently. I splattered in a few places across the layout. I had a few photos of my son's last day of school in 2010. Not ordinarily something I would consider truly significant, but we moved a week later. It was the last day  at his school, at this bus stop, and with these friends.

I love 2 page layouts and was thrilled to see a great sketch at ScrapMuch? this month. 

I kept pretty close to the sketch. I divided my background papers in to 3 different ones, and used the small photo spot for journaling. 

Thanks for stopping by my creative view today. There is always lots going on around here. Come back again soon.

Supplies: CS-American Crafts, PP, brads, chipboard & stickers-Simple Stories, enamel dots-MME, mist-Tattered Angels

Super Star Smile

Good morning and Happy Passover and Easter. I'm up for my first challenge on the Red Carpet Studios blog. For inspiration, I chose a movie that is dear to my Baseball loving heart:

The challenge is to create your own "field". In other words, create your own background for your project. I had a lot of fun with this one. 

I recently discovered how fun the Silhouette sketch pens are to use. I used them to sketch this incredible cut file created by Jennifer Chapin for Paper Issues. I sprayed mist over the sketched stars, then added some gold star what tape to give the appearance of defined lines between the colors. This really created the burst effect I was looking for. I stuck with the patriotic colors for the papers, adding in a multi color stripe for interest, and vellum to keep it light. A few labels anchor the embellishments, and done. 

While visiting family last summer, we found my younger son loved to sit on the raft while we pushed him around the pool. We also discovered that he liked yanking the flags out of the flower pot and swinging them around. I think he just liked that he could hold his pile of toys, and be with all of us at the same time. 

Thanks for looking at my creative view today. Stop by again as I always have more to share

Supplies: CS-Bazzill, Silhouette, cut file Jennifer Chapin for Paper Issues, PP-Echo Park, Studio Calico, mist-Tattered Angels, labels-October Afternoon, Freckled Fawn,  resin, wood & washy-freckled Fawn, sequins-Studio Calico, Michaels, brads & bling-Echo Park, MME, alphas-Freckled Fawn, American Crafts

By My Side

Good morning! It's another busy Sunday around here. First up is a new challenge at Red Carpet Studios. This week's movie choice is The Lucky One. Your challenge is to use gold and the word "lucky" somewhere on your project.

I know my first inclination should have been to be more supportive of the St. Patricks Day theme, but that's not really my style. I came across this photo of my son and I. It made me think of the day, and what we were doing. We were on a boat on our way to San Juan Island. It was a miserable, cold, rainy, summer day. It was not a good day to be out on deck. So, we sat inside at the table the whole trip.  The more I thought about it, the more I realized, yes, he pretty much was always by my side. Truthfully, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I had a bright and colorful paper collection, unopened and waiting to be cut up. I loved the circle paper. All tucked in and nestled against each other, much like my son and I. All of the sentiment stickers I chose tell my feelings about him, in general. Some are definitely a bit on the sarcastic side. There are some tags outlined in gold tucked around the page as well as gold paint splatter. Layered over the tag on the left side on the photo is a sentence made up of stickers "lucky 2 B, you & me"

This is also inspired by the STENCIL challenge at Scrap Our Stash.  I used stickers, twine, Echo Park, number, chipboard, inked edges, labels

Thanks for stopping by my creative view today. I've got another post up today for Picture This

and you can find it HERE

Supplies: PP-Echo Park, chipboard-Echo Park and unknown, alpha, flair and gold tags-Freckled Fawn, stickers-Echo Park, Simple Stories, twine-The Twinery. mist-Heidi Swapp

When I Grow Up

Good morning and Happy March. 20 days until spring. Yippee! This is the beginning of an absolutely insane crafty month for me. It just so happens that lots of extra crafty surprises all came uo in the same month. So let's just begin shall we?

A new challenge is up today at Red Carpet Studio challenges. This week, our challenge is inspired by the movie Public Enemies. The theme is the Good Old days and we are asking that you use a distress technique on your project.

Distress huh? ok, I accept. Long ago, I learned to sad the edges of my paper, then use brown ink over it to give it a distressed look. So that's what I did here. It is really subtle, but I promise you it is there. I used an older sketch by Sketch n Scrap from one of my Pinterest boards. I thought this would be a good one for distressing because it has several layers.  I chose papers in primary colors and embellishments that all lend a hand to growing up, school and celebrating.

These photos were on an old disposable camera that I found and had developed. They are from 2005! This was Pre-school graduation day for my son. They were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up and to "decorate" their traced selves in that way. This is the only time that I can remember, that my son has ever answered this question. It is not likely I will ever forget it. 

Thanks for stopping by my creative view on what will surely be a wild and crafty month. Come back again to see what else I have to share

Supplies- PP, stickers, alphas & washi-Echo Park, tags-MME, Jillibean Soup, Brads-MME, chipboard-Crate paper, clip-Queen & Co, wood and arrows, Studio Calico & Basic Grey, ink-Colorbox.

Back to the Future

Since I have so much to share, I thought I'd write two posts today. So if you are looking for today's Picture This reveal, please go HERE

Now for this week's challenge at Red Carpet Studios. We are asking you to create a project inspired by The Movie My Fair Lady, with the added required elements of it being girly with lots of layers.

Well, this was a nice treat for me. I do buy "girly" product, in the hope that I will have time (err, make the time) to do more pages about me or with me in them. I do love pink things, and shiny things. I just don't get to use them that often.  

You want girly, I can do girly. Any excuse to use this paper collection that I love. I grabbed some of the neutral as well as colorful papers and just started layering them until I got a look that I liked. I ws so happy to be able to use flowers, that I challenged myself to use the largest die cut in the group. It was perfect for the lower corner. Two smaller embellishment clusters and done. It was easy and fun to  put together, not to mention to play with these supplies.

This is a photo of a long lost friend of mine. We met when we were 6 years old, stayed friends throughout high school, even after she moved away, then lost touch. This is one of the rare cases when I can say, thanks to Facebook, we recently found each other. While on vacation last summer, we met up, and caught up, and reconnected. I thought this title was perfect to reflect this. 

Thanks for taking part in the journey through my creative view. Come back again soon, there's a lot going on this week.

Supplies: CS-American Crafts, PP, Die cuts, stickers & brad-Basic Grey, washi-Freckled Fawn, alphas-American Crafts, Basic Grey, enamel dots-Doodlebug Designs, bling-Queen & Co, mist-Heidi Swapp

SnowScape

Please go HERE for today's Paper Issues Swag Bag Post

Please go HERE for today's Picture This post  

Hey there, I'm here today for several Sunday reveals. This first one is this week's challenge at Red Carpet Studios. This week's movie inspiration is Winter's Tale with the challenge to use paint or gesso and a winter theme.

I used to take a lot of photos of my backyard after a snow storm. I wasn't are I would ever do anything with them though. Now that I no longer live there, I have a different perspective.  These are photos from 2010, the last winter in this home, the last photos I have of our snowy backyard. 

I needed a simple design, so I scoured one of my Pinterest boards and found this sketch from Sketch-N-Scrap. I had a few winter themed papers with embellishments making this easy to put together. The doilies liken themselves to snowflakes, working well on the page. I used a small amount of paint, the splatters in the background. I like the contrast of the red to brighten the page. 

I'm glad you came by today to look at my creative view. It's a busy week, come back gain soon

Supplies: PP, Echo Park, Carta Bella, Stickers-Carta Bella, Bling-unknown, mist-Studio Calico, Doilies-BoBunny

The Book Of Life

Hello again. Red Carpet Studio has a new challenge today. Create a project inspired by this movie poster. Easy enough right?

The Book of Life

I pretty much went no further than "Book". I had set aside this cork title with this photo several weeks ago. This was the perfect opportunity to finally put a page together. I have finished a few other page about my son reading and his love of books. To make this one different, I used the speech bubbles to house the titles of some of the books he read at this age. I think that will be fun to look back on. 

I love cork. It goes great on boy page. It's timeless. And what a bonus it's part of this paper! I purposely stayed away from green elements for this page so the green of his shirt would wind up being the focus. Although this is a school themed collection of paper, I liked the lined papers as a way to work with the idea of reading. The speech bubbles became a large part of the design, which led me to keep the rest of the embellishing fairly simple.

Cant wait to see you adding your projects over at Red Carpet Studio.  Thanks for looking today. Hope to see you taking a peek again at my creative view.

Adding link to Paper Issues current Issue- Popping the Cork 

Supplies: PP & stickers-Simple Stories, brads-Making Memories, Simple Stories, washy-queen & Co, Twine-Doodlebug Designs, cork-Fancy Pants, Freckled Fawn, clip-Target, mist-Studio Calico

Our Dog Roxy

Hey there and good morning! What a wonderful way to begin the week. A new blog post and my first reveal as a new team member for Red Carpet Studios. Are you a movie buff? Each Sunday, Red Carpet Studios offers a new challenges inspired by the Silver Screen-MOVIES.  Challenges are open to any type of PAPer crafting project. This week's challenge is inspired by:

The Two Faces of January

The challenge is to use items in "twos". 

My project below uses two pieces of patterned paper, two photos, two alphas, two shaped paper clips, 2 brands of enamel dots, and two colors of spray mist. The striped paper is the reverse side of the blue paper.

We had just adopted Roxy and she seemed to be in every photo we took for a while.  She was our first dog and quickly became part of the family. I chose to use generic papers and use the embellishments to help tell the story on the page. Using limited products helped me to put this page together quickly.

Thanks for looking at my creative view today. Join me again, as I have more to show you this week.

Supplies: PP-BoBunny, clips & resin-Freckled Fawn, flair-Queen & Co, washi-Belle Blvd, chipboard-Basic Grey, enamel dots-MME and Freckled Fawn, tag-LilyBee, Alphas-Cosmo Cricket, American Crafts