Rebeca Stovall's Photos of Insects

This layout is a bit of mixed colors, photos, and for me - appeal level. I cannot decide if I like it or not.

I was trying to use a lovely college print I had of some photos of insects. The issue was that there were so many colors! So, I tried to go for a "all" color theme... but I'm not sure it worked out so well.

Also, see below for detail on the title:

I think I like it... but it just seems a little off. I kept thinking I spelled something wrong....

Oh wells, as always -

Products:

• Basic Grey Designers Cardstock Pack
• Cardstock: white and black
• K&Company: Tim Coffey paper
• Little Yellow Bicycle: Generationz - Orange Metallic Wings
• Chipboard letters
• White paint
• Fiskars boarder punch
• Zig Calligraphy pen: black
• Med blue ribbon
• Stapler
• K.i. Memories: Softies - Bloom

Jane Austin Forever

I don't do this very often - but this is actually a page that is not an image I took. Rather it is representative of the page subject - namely, Jane Austin (who doesn't love her novels!?!).

This was a fun layout that allowed me to use a great photo. BTW, for those that don't know this is an image from the latest movie based on Pride and Prejudice.

Also, I got to use my Post-it Brand craft paper. Here is some detail of the title - the "forever" green and brown layered title is made from the Post-it fully adhesive material.

Here is some additional detail of the flower cluster below the title:

Products:

• Post-it Brand: Fully Adhesive Craft Paper - Cocoa and Jungle
• Little Yellow Bicycle: Traveler - Ticket to Ride
• American Crafts Thickers: Delight - fabric white
• Paperchase: Novelty Stickers - Butterfly
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: Chocolate
• Unknown manufacturer flowers: white, brown and blue
• Unknown manufacturer brads: lt blue, blue cloth
• My Minds Eye: Life Stories - journal card

Love

I wanted to use up some of the scraps from a couple of past layouts I've done - and I just love the color combo that developed. Yellow, green, blue and brown!

Plus, I just love this bling flurish - here is a little more detail of it and the cluster of flowers:

Products:

• Lt green lrg scalloped cardstock
• Post-it Brand: Craft Paper Full Adhesive - Cocoa
• Jillibean soup pattered paper
• Sandylion: Kelly Panacci - Dotsalot-green
  
• Making Memories: Passport - Passport 12x12 Stripe
• Creative Impressions Felt Butterfly
  
• Various manufacturer flowers: yellow, blue and brown
• Unknown manufacturer brads: lt blue brad, lt blue button brad, "machine washable" brad, and flower bling brad
• Hand made pearl stick pin
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: Chocolate
• Queen & Co. Felt boarder ribbon
• Lt blue sm ribbon
• American Crafts Thickers: Rockabye - Foam White
• Unknown manufacturer paper clip
• Hand crochet lt green flower
• Basic Grey: Origins - cloth brad

In a Tree

I really like the color combo on this layout and how I was able to use up some fairly large embellishment items I've made/have.

Here is some detail of the upper left of the page - where I have a small handmade embellishment made from Shrinky - Dinks!! Yep, you read correctly. I punched a Martha Stewart butterfly out of black shrinky - dink material and a circle out of white shrinky - dink material. I shrunk both, then reheated the circle and "pressed" the butterfly onto it to adhere it. Of course, do remember that shrinky - dinks do shrink quite a bit... so although cute this embellishment isn't much larger then a USA currency dime.

Here is a little more detail on the lace ribbon flower and large chipboard butterfly.

Products:

• Cardstock: black and white
• Simply Luxe Designs: Simple Pinstripe - Lime
• Sandylion: Kelly Panacci - Dotsalot-green
• ColorBok: nocturne chipboard pieces
• Md ribbon: drk green
• Hand crochet flowers: lt green
• Bling jewel brads
• Bling: lt green
• Shrinky - Dinks: white and black
• Martha Stewart Butterfly punch
• EK Success Circle 1 1/2" punch
• Basic Grey: Origins cloth brad
• American Crafts Thickers: Patchwork - fabric black
• Velvet mini brads: lt green

Family - Blue

I wanted to do a pretty simple layout for this great shot of my sister-in-law. I also wanted to stay with a simple soothing color.

Blue it is!

With just a spots of patterned paper and the elegant ribbon and journaling to frame the whole thing - I think it turned out pretty nice.

Here is a little closer detail on one of the circles I embellished.

Products:

• Cardstock: white
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: black
• Various manufactures patterned papers: cut with a EK Success 1 1/2" Circle punch
• Drk blue lace ribbon
• Basic Grey: White Chocolate Chip Micro-Chip Stickers
• Sm lt blue ribbon
• Unknown manufacture - tiny silver key
• Silver eyelets

Ryu

I really liked this fun shot of little Ryu kitty!

Products:

• White Swiss Dot cardstock
• Lt green large scalloped cardstock
• Jillibean soup pattered paper
• Simply Luxe Designs: Simple Pinstripe - Lime
• Unknown manufacture: recycled pattered paper
• Unknown manufacture: Dye-cut sayings
• Copper brads
• Martha Stewart Butterfly punches
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: Chocolate
• Basic Grey: White Chocolate Chip MicroChip Stickers

Missed a Challenge

So I missed posting this layout for a Colour Q challenge that occurring a while back. *sigh*

Oh, well. I's still a very pretty layout!

Here is a link to the Colour Q Challenge # 13.

Here are some detail images.

Gotta love the metal embelishments - most are from Tim Holtz collections.

To accent the dragon fly I used a little more bling... never too much bling!

Products:

• Cardstock: rose and pink
• Lt teal Swiss Dot Cardstock
• DCWV: Once Upon a Time Paper
• Dream Street Papers LLC: Remember the Moments - Jacob
• Various manufacture flowers: lt blue and rose
• Various manufacture bling: teal, hot pink, and clear
• Various manufacture brads: copper, white velvet, and jewel
• Various manufacture ribbon: white lace (two different kinds), velvet rose rick-rack, and black small poof ball
• Zig Calligraphy pen: black
• K&Company: Tim Coffey die-cut cardstock and acetate
• Tim Holtz Metal Accents - clock and coin
• K.i. Memories: Softies - Bloom
• Basic Grey: Dark Chocolate Chip Micro Chip Stickers

OMG - So cute!

Okay, I was just blown away with the cutest ever embelishments I saw today! Little ribbon dolls!

Above you can see some I made... yes they took F O R E V E R...

So, here is the deal, I would have simply purchased these tittle lovelies if I could have found them. Turns out the cute idea is actually Rachel Young's... but the little stinker made them only digital embelishments! ARGE! I wanted the real thing.

So, those of you that know me understand the next 3 hours of ribbon sorting, cutting, adheiring and creation that occured. And just a few sticky fingers and a few yards of ribbon later (and the two dolls the didn't "survive" the experience) I have 4 lovely little dolls.

For those of you that cannot tell, these cuttie pies are Disney female characters - Snow White, Ariel, Jasmine, and Mulan!

Oh, I just love these little things.

Well, happy crafting - now I just need to figure out what to do with the little ladies! LOL

Geoffrey Satisfies a Colour Q and Shabby Chic Challenge

I took on two challenges and combined them again! This time I was very excited about the color combo from the Colour Q #33 challenge!

And it seemed to just go great with the lovely inspiration from the Let's Get Shabby Challenge #11 with this beautiful quilt!

Here is a bit more detail of the layering I had going on with this page. I think the date and title on this page are my fave... of course after the pic of my brother-in-law.

Products:

• Cardstock: kiwi kiss green, soft suede brown, and white
• Little Yellow Bicycle - Generation Z: Yellow Grunge Dot
• DVWV Taj Mahal Stack (blue patterned paper)
• ColorBok Specialty Journal Stickers
• Basic Grey Chipboard Stickers - Delilah: white chocolate chip
• American Crafts Thickers: Cinnamon Foil
• Lace: soft suede brown
• Md velvet ribbon: lt yellow
• Sm satin ribbon: Bermuda bay blue
• Various manufacturer brads
• Fiskars boarder punch
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: Coffee

A card for Mojo Monday

From scraps of the recent layout I did, I created this 6"x6" card for the Mojo Monday 139 challenge. I just love the colors here and I always like a chance to use up scraps!

The "Treasure" is actually one of my first stamps I every purchased! I love this stamp and have used it multiple times - this time it is with embossing powder to really pop!

Products:

• Cardstock: white and black
• Basic Grey Papers: Marrakech: Palace Blue, Masala Bella and Chamomile; Pattern Paper: Ambrosia
  
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: black
• Various manufactures flowers: blue, white, and orange
  
• Prima Rose
  
• Embroidery floss: lt blue
• Stampendous Embossing Powder: PEARLustre Sapphire

Gail's Flowers

This layout was inspired by the layout below by Kimmy Jaster who is a XOXO Lipstick Chicks Design Team member for their Challenge #9 This challenge is sponsored by Color Me Miki.

I just loved the layout and not only did I take inspiration from the "sketch" but also the flowers and butterflies!

Here is some detail of the flowers and title.

BTW, I rarely use substitute letters in my titles/journaling/etc. But today I made an exception... yes, that's right.... I used a 3 backwards for the E on this title! I really liked this font and I always run out of E's!!

Products:

• Cardstock: black and white
• Basic Grey Papers: Marrakech: Palace Blue and Masala Bella; Pattern Paper: Ambrosia
• Lace: white
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: black
• Various manufactures flowers: blue, white, orange,
• Prima Roses
• Bling flower brad
• American Crafts Thickers: Tinsel Foil Black
• KaiserCraft Basics Rhinestones: lt blue
• K&Company Tim Coffee Die-Cut Cardstock and Acetate
• KI Memories Softies: Bloom
• ColorBok Small Chipboard Letters

Ryu

My sister-in-law says I can fit a butterfly into any layout... and well, I think she might be right!

I just love to add butterflies to any papercraft I do. haha

Nothing new here, this layout was a cute one I did of our cat Ryu - who if you cannot tell is playing with my camera strap and so I figured she was going to get her picture taken.

Here is some detail of the title and the ceramic "hearts" that I added to the page.

Ryu is Japanese for Dragon (okay I know she is just a kitten... but she is a tough little kitten) so I decided to keep with an Asian feel to the layout. Nothing does much better then a red, black and white layout.

Products:

• Cardstock: white and black
• K&Company: Tim Coffey Designer Paper
• Me & My Big Ideas: Specialty Cardstock - Coastal Culture
• DCWV: The Mariposa Stack
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: black
• Mark Richards: Metal Stickers
• Ceramic Heart Beads
• Creative Impressions Felt Butterflies
  
• Sanding block

Love Layout

This layout was inspired by the layout below by Zoa Barker who is a XOXO Lipstick Chicks Design Team member for their Challenge #9 This challenge is sponsored by Color Me Miki.

I just loved the square bling circle for the layout... in fact, circles definitely took on a whole new element on the layout I created!

Here is some detail of the title. The trick to cutting glitter cardstock on the Provo Craft Cricut is definitely to use multi cut.

Products:

• Cardstock: black and white
• Glitter Cardstock - Copper/Brown
• Sandylion Sticker Designs Paper: Kelly Panaccii - Full Circle
• Mark Richards: Crystal Stickers - Mosaic, Rust
• Making Memories Big Grommets: white
• Basic Grey Micro Chip Stickers - White Chocolate Chip
• Provo Craft: Cricut solutions cartridge Home Decor
• Zig Calligraphy Pen: black

Well Hello...

This lovely layout was inspired by the layout below by Aliana Erickson who is a XOXO Lipstick Chicks Design Team member for their Challenge #9 This challenge is sponsored by Color Me Miki.

Hopefully the similarities are evident!

Here is a little more detail on some of the flowers on the layout.

This is a hand crochet flower - yep I made it! I've been seeing more and more knit and crochet flowers available for embellishments in the scrapbooking/paper crafting world. I went to buy some the other day and... they were WAY TOO EXPENSIVE! Really, I knew I could make them for less. So, I decided to teach myself from some online video tutorials and I think it came out pretty well. :)

As always, Products used:

• Cardstock: drk brown and green
• Basic Grey: Orgins - Sea Salt (2 sheets both sides)
• Various manufacturer flowers: cream, brown, green, and orage
• Various manufacturer brads: epoxy and bling
• Ribbon: med brown, orange, and sheer
• Martha Stewart punches: butterflies
• Zig Calligraphy pen: Chocolate
• American Crafts Thickers: Foam Giggles Cream
• Tim Holtz Distressed Stickles: Peeled Paint