January Swirlydoos Challenges

Happy New Year!!

I am very late this year with starting my blog posts but I had a few personal goals I needed accomplished at the beginning of the month. I have accomplished those goals so I am very very happy right now. Like always, even though I am not blogging much I am still scrapping behind the scene. I have quite a few projects that I havent blogged about.

So to start the year out right, I jumped right into both the round robin challenges at Swirlydoos. For the regular layout round robin challenge our topic was a new item you had to blog about. I choose to take a picture of the new doll that I received from my grandmother on christmas day. This doll was bought years before I was born for hir first granddaughter and she forgot to give it to me. It was definitely a special moment for me this holiday. I used the January 2014 Dusty Attic Sketch for the inspiration of my layout with two of their beautiful chipboard pieces.

For the card RR, we had to create a monochromatic card, with embossing (wet or dry) and a pin. I had the lovely opportunity to scraplift Sherri card for this challenge.

For both of my projects, I used older kits from Swirlydoos. Thanks for looking.

I cant believe its December

Wow... It seems like time is going so fast. I am blogging slower than I am creating right now so I feel very behind.  Swirlydoos has already started the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge. I was very excited when I saw the blog post and I had wanted to give the challenges a try. Unfortunately, they are on Day 5 right now and I was only able to complete days 1 and 2 so far. The challenges are posted every morning around 4am so its nice to see what the Design Team has created for the day.

For Day 1 challenge, we were required to create a tag that must include Santa, metal and the color red. I tend to run away from tag challenges so I decided to give this a try.  For my tag, I used the only christmas kit I own from December 2011. I was able to contain all the items needed just from this one kit. For my background I always try to use as much mixed medium as I can on a project. I used gel medium to attach the Tim Holtz tissue paper to the manilla number 8 size tag. I used my prima bubbles stencil to add viva decor modeling cream in pearl. Then I added the rest of the embellies that was included in the kit.


"Dear Santa" - Day 1

                                           
For Day 2 challenge, we were required to create a tag using the color white, silver and wings. For this challenge, I had the opportunity to use some mixed medium and some products I never opened. To create my background, I used gesso to paint the manilla number 8 size tag. I added modeling paste with the prima crackle stencil. I sprayed abdominable snow glimmermist over the background when everything was dried. For my dressform, I used a chipboard created from the tim holtz dress form die and altered it with brushed pewter distress stain. I love that distress stain. I do not know why I never used it. I took silver ribbon, silver stickles and part of the title bling to create the dress. Then I added a few embellies from my stash to finish the tag.



"Bringing Christmas Joy" - Day 2

 If you have time, please stop by the Swirlydoos blog for Day # 6 for the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge.  

"Birthday Girl" - Swirlydoos and Blue Fern Studios

Oops, I almost forgot to enter this layout in the Blue Fern Studios November Sketch Challenge. I created this layout for the Swirlydoos November Round Robin Challenge approximately three weeks ago for round 1. For the Swirlydoos challenge, we were required to use a photo that had food included. So for this challenge, I was inspired by the blue fern studios sketch and the chippy used for my daughter first birthday photo. 

For this layout, I used an older BoBunny Swirlydoos kit that had the Gabrielle papers and combined it with the October kit which included the BoBunny The Avenues papers. I altered the chipboard with aged teal stampendous enamel.

Supplies:

Papers: BoBunny Gabrielle and The Avenues

Flowers: Petaloo

Chipboard : Blue Fern Studios

Mixed Media: Shimmerz Teal Me No Lies, Tattered Angels Vintage Pink,

Tools: Crafters Workshop, Martha Stewart, 

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Happy Birthday - Swirlydoos

Hi Everyone,

Here is a card that I am finally able to post that was created for my mom's birthday. It was also submitted for the Swirlydoos Card Round Robin for September. This card was also sent with a writing desk that I altered and I added homemade notecards, blank cards, and a couple store bought items I know that she would use... or at least set out as decoration. LOL.

For this card, I went to an very old Swirlydoos kit that contained the Prima Almanac paper line. I love this line alot. In a future post, I will show a few pictures of the homemade note cards in her writing desk.



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Just for you - Swirlydoos

Hi Everyone,

Here is a card I created for last months October Card RR for Swirlydoos Kit Club. I had a wonderful team of Swirlygirls creations to lift for this card. We were required to make at least one homemade card and an embellishment. So I made my own ribbon flower with lace trim. For my homemade embellishment requirement I created a pin thats attached to the flower. This card has more sparkles than I can capture on the photo due to the fairy dust glitter on the dusty attic chipboard frame. For this card, I used the October Swirlydoos kit which inclued the Bo Bunny "The Avenues" paper line.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

Swirlydoos Nov Cards RR

Today, I am posting a creation I made for the first round of the CARDS Round Robin Challenge at the Swirlydoos Kit Club. This card is for Team 4 and I am very excited to see how my card will be lifted for the next 2 weeks. For this card, I used an older Swirlydoos kit called Brass Shilling which contained the Kaisercraft 75 Cents paper line. I also used a new product that I am falling in love with... the Shimmerz Tezturez in Patina.  For the twist, we had to add something metallic so I added the gold metallic ribbon.

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"New Beginning"

Well, I had the opportunity to finally scrap since the kids started school. We are still adjusting to the our new schedules with homework and activities. To give myself a little push towards some scrapping time, I signed up for the September Round Robin and September Card Round Robin Challenges at Swirlydoos Kit Club. I was very excited to scrap and I finished both assignments....



But... Im only allowed to show one today. Today, we had to post our "New Beginnings" layout. In this layout, my new beginning was a fresh start of a new trend my husband and I committed too. For this layout, I added a bunch of symbolism and hidden journaling for us to remember this day forward. I used an older kit from Swirlydoos that had the Glitz Vintage Blue paper line.  The only art medium techniques used on this layout is on the prima frame using inka gold and twinkling H2Os.

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