Blog Candy

It's time to get excited about some fabulous Blog Candy. Visit Terri Conrad's blog for Websters Pages paper designs and see the latest papers she has designed for some amazing projects. I love the beautiful artwork Terri creates and I can't wait to see her home decor line to appear in stores. Thanks Terri for your inspiration.

College Prep Anyone??

Look, it's not even July and I'm posting twice in the same month. :D I've been assigned to teach a "college prep" course at Live.Love.Scrap and we are making clipboards fashioned in your favorite college. Since I am a graduate of University of Dayton, I of course had to make one with those festive colors. The store had the Wright State paper in stock so I felt compelled to show that one too. I used alcohol inks on the metal clamp. Painted the edge with Kaiser's acrylic paints...I love that paint, it's so great to work with. I sponged color ink over the dry paint to add the secondary college color. I used a sponge roller and some gel medium (Golden) to seal the paper and paint and even the metal clamp (this is a really great effect and eliminates the brush strokes of a brush.) A little ribbon and a little bit of embellishments and you're finished. The survival kit uses the left over papers and can be filled with anything you feel is appropriate to have in case of an emergency..i.e: sewing supplies, bandaids, quarters, sharpie marker, matches, candles or anything else you can think of. It's a small space though so you have to be a little choosy with what you fill it with.

Have a great weekend everyone, thanks so much for stopping by.

FOUND MY CAMERA!!!

Okay, it's a little hard to post anything new to your blog when your digital camera is missing. I've been playing in my studio and coming up with new, fun projects to celebrate the summer. The first picture is of a CD case I developed to download projects onto for a job interview as an art teacher. I wanted something I could leave behind after my interview. I didn't get the job, unfortunately, but I do like how this little number turned out.

The next project is a birthday mini book I designed using he new birthday paper line from Imanginesce. I liked the tiered cake using stamps and pink embossing powder as the icing. Lots of fun using the accent stamps and all the embellishments to jazz things up a bit.

Hope you enjoy your weekend.

Card Designs

This weekend I had to create a make and take for the weekend crop. I ended up making a teabag folded flower and putting it on a card. As always, some croppers participated and some did not. The ones who made it, loved the card and the technique. The second card is from Taylor's Cupcake Challenge. Her sketch challenge inspired me to create this bright birthday card. The paper is from last summer and I didn't check the name before I started. The stamp is from Denami. I used stickles to color in the flames and the white icing. The green icing is over colored with a glitter pen to add just a little sparkle. I would love to get a card that is this bright and cheery. Have a great weekend.

Bright and Cheery

This spring's new paper lines are so bright and cheery, I just had to make something fun. My latest class uses these butterfly papers from Imaginesce and the felt die cuts from Kaiser. The paper mache box is from Melissa Frances and it comes with an accordian book. However, I cut the accordian book apart and made tag shaped pages for this particular project. I used my Spellbinder rectangular scallops for the frame borders. I think this is a fun way to celebrate spring. I have found that the lighting my studio space is not a very good way to photograph my projects. These photos were taken at Live.Love.Scrap and the bright white background and overhead lighting really made a difference in the quality of the photos. I have been very remiss in my blogging duties. My laptop has been down and I'm at the mercy of my DH's computer. I miss not being able to catch up on my blog entries or my browsing of my favorite blogs. I'll post more this weekend and show you all my winning from the Daisy D's contest. I WON FIRST PLACE!!! My monkey chair captured their eyes and won me some great loot from Daisy D's.

Until next time....have a great day.

Envelope Challenge

Hero Arts had a recent challenge to design a card with an unused envelope or envelope pieces. I decided to use my new "ticket" stamps and make some mock raffle tickets and stuff them inside a mini envelope. I had a hard time coming up with a sentiment so I decided to leave it off altogether. I used Webster Pages paper for the background paper, some velvet and satin ribbon and a little bling. The butterfly is a Hero Arts stamp as well. Hope you had a great weekend.

Dream a Little Dream

Today I spent twelve hours celebrating the anniversary of Live.Love.Scrap and their two years in business. Since teaching there, I have had the opportunity to create some fun and unique projects and learn from others as well. We had a great time gabbing and scrapping and trying to get some projects done. Though, I think we did more gabbing than creating. But...I sure had fun in the process. Today I'm posting a word book that I created using the wooden book from Kaiser Crafts. I stamped and embossed some of the damask patterns and the paper on the other pages are from Paper Salon - Karen Nueburgers line. Since she designs pajamas normally, I thought it was fitting that this dream book carry her papers. I think it's got a real lyrically feel to it and I am pleased with the end results. Thanks for stopping by today.