Say It Loud!!!

Happy July my crafty followers!!! Can you believe it's July already?!?  Christmas and New Year will be here before you know it... Better get started on the Christmas cards!! Hahaha!!!

Well, I am VERY excited to bring to you today some FAB-U-LOUS projects I've been working on.  I can only share two of them today as the others are not fully done yet... And I wouldn't want to bore you any how!!!

Say it Loud with Heidi Swapp "Sugar Chic" Line

So, I've got a secret to tell you... I have a fascination with Heidi Swapp!!! And I don't know anything about her!!! Just that I am IN LOVE with her whole line of papers and embellies!!!! These papers worked wonders for my sister's Senior Year album but I decided to put them to use again for my "Make It Loud" challenge over at Colorful Creations.  I also used the July 1st sketch from 2 Broke Girls,  and combined this with the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" Blog Hop at Frosted Designs.  The theme is girly... so girly it is!!!!  

This is a photo of me and my babies at Sea World earlier this year...  Here is the sketch:

And my page:

Is that LOUD or what?!?!?  I had sooooo much fun playing with this one!!!

I started by laying down my background papers... and yes, I combined patterns and colors with no guilt!!!! Then, I cut a nine inch circle from chipboard, cut several strips of the black and white patterned paper, and used mod-podge to adhere it down all the way around the circle.  I also added zebra-stripe rhinestones around the circle, as well as liquid pearls.  It's not just loud... It's busy too!!!! Hahaha!!!  I outlined everything with a large Black Sharpie, cut various embellies from the paper line, added some liquid pearls around the page, and voila... A page that screams "Look at me"  from a block on Google images!!! Hahahaha!!!!

Tim Holtz Style Faux Metal Tag

Okay gang... This is one of my ALL TIME FAVS!!!!! I saw this technique on the Tim Holtz blog several months ago and bought the foil tape, but never got around to trying it out.  I sometimes make tags for my husband that he uses as bookmarks and thought this would be a PERFECT time to put it to use!!  Here's the finished tag:

I started by cutting several strips of Ranger Foil Tape, in various sizes and not straight by any means.  I laid them down, overlapping in areas, and went to work!  I used a ball point pen to create the faux rivets on the "seams".  Then, I covered the whole tag with various alcohol inks until it got pretty dark.  I sanded off most of the color, but leaving enough to see it there.  I added some gears cut from Grungepaper and the "Sprokets" Sizzix die, and tons of Tim Holtz embellies.  I've had a lot of fun playing with the photo tape lately, so it's only natural that I would add it here!!!!

I finished it with metal gears, spinners, "word" trinkets, and crinkle ribbon.  Like I said... This is one of my FAVS!!!!! I absolutely LOVE the finished product!!!!

I will have some more wonderful ideas to share soon... So don't go far!!!

Well gang... Thanks sooo much for stopping in!!! Have a LUCKY day :-)

SYS Challenge #6 and SNS #30!!!

Happy Friday!!! It's yet another gloomy day here in sunshiney Florida!!! It's been raining for three days and I'm hoping it will let up sometime soon!!! Anyway, I wanted to share a few things with you that I was able to finish this week :-)

The first is this week's challenge #6 over at Scrap Your Story!!! The challenge is to create a layout with the "Spring" theme in mind.  You can use flowers, spring colors, easter, etc.   GET CREATIVE!!! Of course, I myself went with the traditional Easter photos from this year!!! These were taken at my dad's on Sunday afternoon with the girls in their ever so beautiful atire!! 

I also used Sketch #30 from Sketch N scrap, and combined this with numerous other challenges that I will list below!  So, here is the sketch to work with:

And here is my layout: I pretty much stayed true to the sketch with only a few variations! I didn't have any sunlight to photograph it so I used my DSLR camera in hopes of a better photo.  I will upload a better one when the sun comes out to play!  

Aren't these girls just precious?!?!?  Yes, that would be me with my amazing pose for the camera in the top left... I am officially a goof ball!!!  I have had sooooooo much fun playing with the Heidi Swapp "Sugar Chic" paper collection!!!!! The papers are absolutely AMAZING and one of my fav collections to work with so far!!!  I also have fun playing with canvas, which I was able to sneak in on the bottom right.  I inked it to match the colors of the page, then stamped it and added "stitching" rub-ons to the edges.  

I used various flowers, grungeboard swirls (which I embossed white and placed inside the flower cluster), Thickers, and chipboard letters which were also heat embossed to the colors I wanted.  I am very pleased with this entire layout and cannot wait to actually photograph it in the sun for a better view at the wonderful colors!!!! 

Other challenges for this layout:

Libby's Song Challenge at Colorful Creations

Monique's Bling Challenge at 2 Broke Girls Challenges

Stacy's Let's Get Cooking CHallenge #5 at Sketches4All

Well gang, thanks for stopping in and have a LUCKY day!!!

P.s. There's still a little time to join in on Sketches4All Scrap A Thon Blog Hop going on so stop in and check it out!!!