Cupid's Tree

Love is in the air, or at least in the trees.
I seem to be on a birch tree theme lately. I made this table centerpiece entirely out of paper (except the chain)

It started with a piece of birch bark paper that I made into a "tree trunk" (ok it's a box, but just go with it). Next, I needed some branches, so I ripped pieces of a paper bag, twisted them and then wrapped the twisted pieces with masking tape.

There are various cut files used on this project, I made the Cupid and Co file (here) into a Print 'n Cut. Mainly because my Silhouette machine decided to have a loud and painful death. 3 weeks without a Silhouette was absolute torture. The sign was printed on white cardstock and over stamped with Tim Holtz' large background stamp.

I used Spellbinders dies to make the sign post (multiple layers glued together). The heart and snowflake die cuts are from Memory Box.

I had these awesome silver balls (from Michael's craft store) in my stash, so I used them to line the "ground"

Thanks for taking a look today. I appreciate all the visits. 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...

Love is on the Blog

Sneek peek at my Valentine Cards... Stay tuned

12 Tags of 2016 - January

Hi there,
Here is my tag that I made for the January remix from Tim Holtz' blog. you can check out the steps here
The tag is huge, so I was able to stamp the cityscapes across the width of it.

the only thing I did a little different was to use the Ink transfer sheet on the globe, it gave it a nice permanent white line and I smudged in some chalk on the continents.
I was going to use the "January" title on my layout (see last post) but I decided not to. Instead, I cut it out and used it as a floating layer on my tag.

travel the world and enjoy the journey

12 Tags of 2016 - January Remix

I resolve to make the 12 tags of 2016 this year.  I don't typically make resolutions because I don't need to disappoint myself by the middle of February (hahaha).

I thought that instead of tags, I would make 8x8 layouts. Scrapbook pages are the same concept as cards, just bigger - with a focal point picture. Scrapbook layouts can be made into cards just by substituting a photo with a design element and decreasing the size. (The cards I make are usually 5x7 or 6x6) Makes sense right?

Here's the supplies I used...

And here's my layout...

I absolutely love that picture of Central Park NYC I found on Pinterest. I used it for one of my January layouts for Urban Scrapbook's Monthly kit this month too.

You can see Tim Holtz' January tag on his blog -  http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2016-january/

I think it's going to be a lot of fun doing the "remixes" this year. So many techniques, so little time.

Urban Scrapbook's Monthly Challenge - January part 2

I had so much fun doing the first layout, and I had great paper and stickers left over, so I made another layout.

I cut around the snow flake in the bottom left corner and slid my striped paper underneath. Before I did that though, I cut the striped paper with Tim Holtz' on the edge die (snowflakes).

Guess what was left as scraps? The blue border,  which I used as the title mat.

Then it was just a matter of layering my stickers and adding a little glitter to the page.

Photo credit: twitpic.com/8sm37s

Urban Scrapbook's Month Challenge - January

Welcome to another Urban Scrapbook's monthly layout kit. Oh Bo Bunny, how I love you.

The kit is full of wintery goodness - stickers, chipboard and sparkly papers. The colors are gorgeous too. Hurry down to Urban to get your kit, they sell out fast.

I began by fussy cutting the mugs out of one sheet. Then I took the pale blue/aqua paper and stamped it with the large sweater pattern (Tim Holtz). I used Chipped Sapphire D.I.

I added some white pigment ink (Ranger) over the burlap just to wash it out a bit. It was still looking a little plain, so I cut the Holiday Knit dies for a border on the top and bottom

The chipboard snowflakes were embossed with blue powder, with a layer of clear UTEE over that. I dabbed Picket Fence distress paint on top, heated it again so it would melt in.

Then I just started layering and adding Vintage Platinum glitter around the picture and borders.

A loopy bow and snowflake charm complete the page.

Photo credit: from Pinterest (design seeds blues and browns)