Inky Smiles Sketch 011

I was having a real hard time trying to take a photo of this. And with that said, I'm sorry about the great "blurred" quality of the photo.

Here's an 8x8 page using Erin's sketch. The stamp is from The Rummage Bin, Cornish Heritage Farms. Background is acrylic paint. "Boy's Life" sentiment is a sticker. "Genuine Article" is Stampin' Up! "110%" is Catholic Rubber Stamps.


Here's the sketch!

I hope to get some cards done with this sketch. Until then, be well!

The Very Best...

I did this for my hubby the first year he became a father. Please keep in mind I had no idea what scrapbooking was. I just knew I wanted to make something that could be a kinda keepsake. I started out by gathering all the baby magazines phrases that I wanted to use and all the photos. Secondly, I knew I wanted it to be 3-D, so, I gathered shadow box frame and embellishments. I also got some glue, rubber cement *gasp* and cardboard from discarded boxes and I went to town. Here's the end result!

So, what do you think about my very first scrap page ever? When I took it down to clean the glass so I could take pictures of it, pieces started falling off the backings. You see, I glued, with rubber cement, all pictures and magazines pieces to the cardboard and used decorated edged scissors to cut them out. Then glued all those pieces to the cardboard backing. If you look real close, you can see yellowed edges around pictures and cut out words. Not very archival, is it?

I did the journalling in white ink, in my own hand writing. The white chalky background on the green paper was supposed to be a heart. I just used white coloured pencil to colour in the area to form a heart.

Not a single stamp was used in this lay out. A lot of magazine and catalog words and pages and a few stickers. Colours are crashing left and right. None of the stickers are really the same theme. I used them because I have a thing for Peanuts Gang. And it took almost 5 months for me to finish.

In the end, it did turn out quite nicely, if I may say so myself. My hubby loves it. We had it up on a wall in our living room for a very long time. Then after I found out about scrapbooking, I moved it into The Pit aka my studio to keep me from being ridiculed of using non archival stuff.

I'll keep and cherish this forever. If the pieces falls off, I'll keep fixing them and putting them back up, just because!

Have a blessed day!

The Caffrey Clan

I found the page I was talking about the other day. The one I made for my friend, Lea's 40th birthday. Lea's sister was collecting "Lea's Friends" pages to make an album for her before she moved to the great state of Illinois. Not the best piccie of us but that was what I had on hand at the moment. Here it is!

This was done back in 2003. My son was only a wee thing then. You can probably tell also by the un-professional look of it. I stamped a light yellow cardstock with a flower stamp by Stampin' Up! with silver ink. I wrapped the piccie with scrap pieces of the yellow cardstock, foil and moss coloured grosgrain ribbon and a metal-edged key tag is hung from the ribbon. Then mounted that on another scrap piece of torn moss cardstock that was distressed around the edges. And attached that on the base paper by sewing it on. I kinda did the same with the moss cardstock and foil strip, also sewn on. And here, you can see I have always been fascinated by all things metal. I had to have those washers used somewhere. I tried to contrast the hard metal look with some yellow beads. I stamped our surname on square metal-edged tags and hung those as title on a piece of steel cable attached to the base paper with two silver brads. And that's pretty much it! Hope you like!

Until next time! Be well!

Beach Bums

These are my only two completed 12x12 scrap pages ever. And they only took me about three months to finish. But I do have two more pages that need journaling. I also have a mini page (not quite done) that I did for my book bag that I carry every where with me these day featuring my little buddy, Ty. I'm still waiting for a stamp I ordered from my stamping club to arrive and I'll show it to y'all. There is also a quick 8 1/2 x 11 page that I'm not sure if I can locate. I did that for a friend's 40th Birthday. I also did a layout in a shadow box for my hubby for his first Father's day gift. That was eight years ago and long before I knew what scrapbooking was. I wish I could scrap more. But with the kind of time I have, scrapbooking will have to wait. *Sigh*

Hope you enjoy!