Love is a Family- GD for Inkido

I'm guest designing again for Inkido and I created this layout  below.

I designed this soft pinkish layout using a family photo. I used many shabby chic elements to decorate the layout to match up to the shabbiness of the Inkido papers. However I couldn't design this layout without adding a touch of mixed media mediums and techniques.

I used 2 different chipboard pieces here which I cut to fit in between my embellishments. I used the Music Notes and Shrub set 2 which I primed in gesso and then covered in glass bead gel for texture.

Inkido Products:

Beautiful Memories: Pink Memories

Is this Love?-- Hope

Cartas de Amor- Royal Red

Other Products:

Liquitex Heavy Gesso

Branch stamp: Hero arts

Chipboard vines and music notes: 2 Crafty

Golden Glass Bead Gel

Flowers: Inkido, Recollections, Green Tara, Maya Road, IAMROSES

Golden white gesso

old music sheet

Wooden icon butterflies: Prima

pearls: Queen & Co.

Ranger black archival ink

Banner: Heidi Swapp

Resin clock and light bulb: Prima

Black alpha: Prima Sunrise Sunset


Inkido is also having a design team call!!

and here is their Christmas collection. You can buy it in the store HERE.

Thank you so much for visiting me today!! 
have a fabulous week!!

Live in Happiness- Shimmerz Blog Layout

"Live in Happiness" 

This is the message I want to pass on to my kids. It is what I feel when I scrapbook and when I use Shimmerz and Prima flowers.  It is total bliss and I hope my kids find something like this when they grow up. Something that makes them this happy. I hope that their happiness remains from childhood, the way it is in this photo. My daughter is jumping and splashing in the puddles after a heavy rainstorm. She's so free here, the way it should be!!!

I journaled about this feeling on both sides of the page.

I used Dazzlers colors to create my chevron background. The small chevron was masked with Sour Apple and the large chevron pattern was masked with Gummy Berry Blue.

 

Then using the lid of the Dazzlers container and the lid of a Shimmerz spray container, I stamped circles on the page, using the same two Dazzlerz colors. I used a paint brush to paint the rim of the lid and then used it as a stamp on the page.

I sprayed the white Prima flowers with Lime in da Coconut Coloringz and also sprinkled it on the page using the dropper inside. I also dripped some Sea Foam Shimmerz spray on the page.

Finally I sprinkled some Before Dawn spray and made some dimensional dots using the new Witchy Poo Dimensionz paint. I also used the Before Dawn spray to cover the wooden title in black.

You can get all the products I used today HERE at the Shimmerz Shop. They have a variety of colors and a special deal right now if you want to purchase some of the new Dimensionz products. and... just to make the deal even sweeter, if you mention my name during checkout at the "instruction to merchant" box, you will receive a sample of either a Dazzler or Texturez of your choice. You can even purchase one of the ones I used right here.

Thank you so much for visiting me today.

Wonderful Journey- November Prima's BAP

Its that time of the month to play along with the Prima BAP and this month the sketch is fabulous!! I had so much fun creating with it as I hadn't had the chance to play in a while. I hope you come and join us this month, too.

I turned the sketch 90 degrees because I wanted to create flow down the side of the page, using some mists. 

I framed a picture of my daughter at the beach using one of the Prima resin frames. It is one from a series of favorite photos I took during our December trip to Florida last year. It is sadly my last one and we are not going this year again, so I won't have as many beach pictures to scrap in January as I did last year. I might have to dig out some pictures from old trips as I love creating beach sceneries in my pages.

I just love combining turquoise and teal colours as they are my favorite. I also used one of my favorite masks again to create ocean waves in the background."

Prima Products:

570019- resin frames

566371- Tatiana Oceana

571450- Charlotte white

571719- Lil Missy

960438- Elementals Scales mask

950080- Delight wood embellishments

564049- Engraver Resist Canvas

558925- Welcome to Paris chipboard

591695- Pastel Blue chalk edger

555375- Prima Fairy Belle canvas alphabet

other products used:

Golden Light molding paste

Shimmerz: Teal, Sea Foam, 4 Leaf clover

cheese cloth

pearls

Golden gesso

Liquitex Heavy gesso

I hope you come and play with Prima's BAP this month.

Have a wonderful day!!

I Love You Always- Scraps of Elegance November Kit reveal

This is my first layout for the Scraps of Elegance November Kit reveal.

The Kit is called "Thankful" and it features the beautiful Family Tradition papers from Websters Pages, the Close Knit papers from Crate Paper and the Bella collection from Ruby Rock-it. All these collections were perfect for my family photos.

The kit has some Yummy embellishments and I used the Websters Pages papers and some of the Crate Papers to create the layout above with this picture of my husband and I.

I used the monthly sketch as an inspiration for this layout.

I really loved cutting out different elements from the papers and layering them in my layout.

The flowers and embellishments really complimented the page perfectly.

Materials

Papers: Websters Pages, Crate Paper

Flowers and leaves: Prima

Butterflies: Renea Bouquets

Golden gesso

Liquitex heavy gesso

cheesecloth

Metal Cameo- Websters pages

heart lace: Websters pages

Shimmerz: Caribbean Sunset, MudPie

I hope you had a great weekend!!

Dream in Color- Scrap Around the World November Challenge

Welcome back to Scrap Around The World Challenge SEVEN,

hosted by Design Team member Leonie Neal-Dawson from Australia!

We have some SUPER AWESOME prizes for you this month & we are SURE

 you will ALL want to play along for a chance to snag some of them!

To be eligible for judging please include in your blog post:-

1)  Our mood board image.{you may show the sketch image but ONLY IF YOU USE IT}

 2)  Our name "Scrap Around The World" & a LINK BACK to this current challenge.

Please link to YOUR BLOG POST NOT your entire blog & please turn off word-verification 

if you would like some of our Design Team members to comment on your entry}.

Materials:

Coordinations white card stock

Shimmerz: Lime in da coconut, Chickadee, Jenny B Blue, Sea Foam, Rock-a-fella

Prima Flowers

2 Crafty Chipboard: Clock frames, Hearts, Dream Title, frame

Alpha: Websters Pages

13 Arts gesso

Golden Light molding paste

Prima raindrop mask

Prima Turquoise Stone chalk edger

BoBunny stamp

Now onto these wonderful prizes:

1st Prize - Imaginarium Designs Chipboard valued at $50.

NB:- Prize may vary slightly from what is shown.

Imaginarium Designs was created in late 2010 in Adelaide, Australia, as we saw

 a need for some unique designs in the industry.  Chipboard is such an amazing 

medium to work with...perfect for scrapbook pages, projects, cards & so much more!

 Our designers are everyday scrapbookers & cardmakers who work in the

 Papercrafts industry and design chipboard specifically for everyday projects. 

We make sure every design is perfect & fits pages & cards just as it should! 

We design & produce chipboard daily & pride ourselves in custom service & unique 

designs - nothing is too small or too hard! Our incredibly talented Design Team is full

of awesome local & international talent & we cant wait for you to see our designs!

Just click above to be directed to our website.

2ND PRIZE 2 Crafty Chipboard valued at $30!

2 Crafty offers affordable & versatile laser cut chipboard products to the Australian & International Craft market.  2 Crafty’s products are manufactured in Australia & are suitable for scrapbooking, cardmaking, altered art, invitations & mixed media. With over 700 designs every area has been covered!   

2 Crafty’s owner Vanessa stumbled upon a demonstration of a laser-cutter at a Sydney craft fair in 2006 &, although her background was Human Resources & Payroll her creative mind recognised unlimited possibilities!  

So began her journey into the world of craft wholesaling!!

 Vanessa provides the highest level of customer support & is happy to discuss personalized orders with customers via their local scrapbooking store.  2 Crafty has a fabulous blog & Facebook page updated weekly with projects created by it's international Design Team.  Check out the 2 Crafty website for products available to wholesalers & ask your local store to order products for you if they don't have them in stock.

3RD PRIZE - Scrapmatts Chipboard valued at $25!

Australian Made Laser Cut Chipboard to compliment your scrapbook pages, cards & paper-crafting projects. Scrapmatts has a Ning site that showcases an amazing talented international design team who post daily 
on the blog there, a gallery, customer challenges & an online store. Come join in the fun here!

Below is just one example of some of the awesome products they stock HERE.

4TH PRIZE - YOUR CHOICE of Purple Pumpkin products, to the value of $15.

Purple Pumpkin manufactures high-quality embellishments of a fun & funky nature!  They are

 Australian based & specialize in fabric buttons, handmade flowers,resin, twine & washi tape.  

They have a great blog that is constantly active & they hold monthly challenges open to all, with 

Guest Designer positions up for grabs as well as awesome prizes of Purple Pumpkin loveliness!  

They stock a huge range of embellishments, washi tape, motex tape, etc in their online store HERE. 

Below is just ONE EXAMPLE of the many products stocked in their online store.

5th Prize - 3 packs of Prima blooms donated by Design Team member 

Eila Sandberg - to be eligible for these you must first be a Follower of 

her blog so please follow the link & sign up - you won't be disappointed!

Eila is one uber-talented scrapbooker who also has a well-earned reputation 

for being one of the sweetest & kindest people in the business & is loved

by all for her encouragement & giving heart.

Random Prize - This amazing Prize Pack from Bo Bunny!!!

The story of BoBunny Press began with a young girl named Jan Lanoy. 

She was raised in the Ozark area of Arkansas, then headed west to study art in college. 

In 1974, she married Don & packed away her paint box while she raised three sons.

As the family moved from Arkansas to Texas to Taiwan & then to Utah, 

Jan satisfied her creative side by restoring houses. 

Her children claim she can do anything with a drill & hammer!

That old paint box wasn't reopened until 1996 when, at the urging of her sister, 

Jan started designing scrapbook papers. She still vividly remember standing

 outside a local craft store in Layton, Utah, terrified to show off her first 2 designs.

Now, 16 years later, BoBunny Press is an industry leader with its innovative paper

 & embellishment lines. Starting with 2 designs in a single store, BoBunny products 

can now be found in over 39 countries around the world.

Long a favorite of card makers and scrapbookers, BoBunny papers, stickers, 

albums, brads, buttons, trinkets, jewels, ribbons, stamps & kits are always

 hot topics on consumer message boards. 

Each item still carries Jan's personal attention to detail and colour, but she's no 

longer doing it all on her own. Her team of graphic designers, each with different styles

 & expertise, help to create the variety of product lines that BoBunny is known for. 

Whether your taste is whimsical, elegant, classic or playful, there's something

 for everyone with BoBunny.

The deadline for this challenge is Saturday 30th November 2013.

Have a wonderful day!!