Urban Scrapbook's Monthly Challenge Kit - April

Hello April, and with a new month, I'm happy to share this month's kit, now available at Urban Scrapbook.

The papers and extras are from My Minds Eye "hello gorgeous" collection.

The colors from the paper drew me to a picture of me and my daughters. Good times and a great day!

You can check out the rest of the pages designed by the wonderfully talented ladies at Urban here

Thanks for taking a look, see you soon...

Urban Scrapbook's Monthly Challenge - February

February already?! Normally, I would be out of the country by now, but holidays had to take a back seat this year due to financial and personal reasons.
Urban Scrapbook's February kit is chalk full of romantic "Valentiney" goodness
The paper line is Graphic 45

First, as always, I chose my picture, keeping the color scheme in mind.  I have 2 Jack Russells and I love them to death, so I found this great photo on Pinterest. How adorable is this? I want a whole ranch full of Jacks.

next, I cut the paw print heart on my Silhouette machine. The cut file is this one
I ran part of it through my big shot with an embossing folder then sanded the edges and embossed part.
It was looking too "blah" so I focused on the birch trees, I found my birch tree embossing folder and ran it through the big shot a few times to give me a nice background, highlighting the raised part with Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain and Smoke distress inks
Finally, I added some die-cuts on the left hand side (Memory Box, Spellbinders) and embellished the rest of the page. I should mention too, the rose on the bow was made with the tattered pine cone die (Tim Holtz)

You can pick up the February kit at Urban Scrapbook. They will also be posting the design teams pages throughout the next weeks. You can see all the ideas at the Urban Scrapbook blog. See you soon with some Valentine projects...

Urban Scrapbook's Monthly Challenge - May

Hello my friends,

This month's kit at Urban Scrapbook is a beautiful collection from Prima. The gorgeous wood patterned paper is perfect for a rustic or nature inspired photo. The complimentary colors in green, purple and a metallic rose gold really make the the page shine.

I used my Silhouette machine to cut the feather and birds, saved the cut outs and mounted them on top for extra embellishments  on the page.

"Bird Song"(Graphic 45) was stamped in archival ink over a lightly gessoed chipboard piece included in the kit.

I would love to say I took the picture, but I didn't I found it on Pinterest. However, I have been to Hanoi Vietnam and it reminded me of the song birds hanging in the storefronts. Here is the link to the picture...

 http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/600x/be/ba/da/bebada2b3402c92fa36e9ffda6a891de.jpg

Distress colors used were: peeled paint, antiqued bronze, milled lavender

I splattered some Color Shine spray on the page as well in Chartreuse, Purple and Bronzer.

Thanks for stopping in. You can check out the other design team's layouts on the Urban Scrapbook blog. I will be back with some more artsy inspiration for you. Happy May!

Warm and Cozy Christmas

Hi Everyone,
We received our December kits from Urban and once again, we were allowed to think outside the box and have fun designing any type of project.

Hahahaha, anyone that knows me and my passion for 3D paper art won't be surprised by my December submission

The paper line this month is from Carta Bella  "Warm and Cozy".  Gorgeous thick cardstock in rustic rich tones.

Here's what I did:
I constructed a shadow frame using 12x12 chipboard.  The sides are 2 inches deep. I covered the chipboard with mossy green paper and trimmed out the sides with paper from the kit.

Now that I had a base to work with, I went crazy with the Silhouette machine using papers included in the kit. I have used the following cut files from the Silhouette store:

3D Deer Head ID 36565/6 Megan Hardy designs (2 parts)
3D layer quad bow ID 52257 Jamie Cripps
Moose Frame ID 3611  Joel Pilcher
Old Skis ID 34771 Silhouette
Classic Sled  ID 23704  Jennifer Wamback
3D outhouse ID 46032  Marji Roy
Trees   ID 53331  Marji Roy
I also used  a couple of SVGCuts projects on here as well
witchy hat
I adapted it to become a Santa hat
The thermos is from Camp Smore kit thermos
but cut at 50 % size

The "wreath" around the deer head is a combination of Tim Holtz' Festive Greens  and a Martha Stewart punch 

Can you spot the frosted stars on the background? They were made with frosted film, die cut with Tim Holtz' stacked stars and stamped with his sweater background stamp. I used white Stayz on ink

Stickers from the kit help fill out the scene, as well as the mini blueprint stamps for the lantern and the snow shoes.

Tim Holtz' movers and shapers bell and another silhouette cut file bell.

Thanks for stopping by, I'm sure I missed a few things, but I had so much fun creating this Warm and Cozy December project. You can check it out at the store if you live near by. Come on down, we love new customers!

Here's a link to Urban's blog.

http://urbanscrapbook.blogspot.ca/?m=1

Urban Scrapbook November Kit

Fratres per Vitam

"Brothers for Life"

Hi everyone, I realized I hadn't posted our November kit layout yet. This month features the Legacy line from Simple Stories with a family theme.

It always starts with a great inspirational photo, and this one was taken by a dear friend during their scotch and cigar smoking poker night. Yes it's a new photo, but the vintage feel of it was perfect for the layout.

I used my Silhouette machine to cut the title and the caduceus. The rest of the embellishments are in the kit this month. 

I decided that the overall layout was really dark, so I sprayed a little white distress ink over a stencil to pull out the white in the photo. 

I hope you liked my tribute to work brothers. EMS is a great family. They are who they are.

Urban Scrapbook September Kit

Oh, I have been a bad blogger...the weather outside was just delightful in August. It was hard to tear myself away from the new deck and bottles of wine last month. Haha.

Our kit this month at Urban Scrapbook is gorgeous. The pretty paper line "Indian Summer" from WeR Memory Keepers,  inspired me do create a dreamcatcher layout.

It started with one of my favorite photos. I tracked it back to www.79ideas.org for New Home Collection by H&M  

I can see myself being a rogue traveller enjoying the good life by the ocean in a vintage VW bus. Oh a girl can dream...

I cut the photo with a Silhouette file and matted it on a slightly offset shape to make it pop.

The dream catcher is another file cut and inked to match the layout. The little VW bus diecut is from Tattered Lace.  I rolled some paper beads and cut out some of flowers from one of the sheets included in the kit.

The metal feather (Maya Road) was painted and attached with a decorative jump ring (Tim Holtz)

The debossing folder, banners, letters, and leather cording are all in the kit this month. 

Enjoy the good life and get scrappin'.