Father's Day Cards

Hello friends! It's Friday! Since Father's Day is a few weeks away, I wanted to share some quick and simple Father's Day cards that I made for my dad and my father-in-law.

I don't make cards very often and it's such a great way to use up paper scraps and save a little money too. I created both of these cards from the Carta Bella Well Played Collection patterned papers with some sequins added in from Fancy Pants Designs. I found a wood title in my stash made my Heidi Swapp so I painted it with some Tim Holtz Barn Door Distress Paint.  I love the dabbers on these paints. It makes painting wood easy peasy.  The label sticker and mini alpha stickers are from Teresa Collins.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a fabulous weekend doing something you love. 

Lil Pumpkin Layout

Hello followers! So glad you came by to visit.  Today I am sharing a Halloween layout using the Halloween Cut Files and Printable from The Cut Shoppe.

I used the Happy Haunting Printables for the Pumpkin Patch 3X4 card and the spiderweb.

The Pumpkin cut file was from a free cut file, back in September, for The Cut Shoppe newsletter subscribers only so if you aren't a subscriber to The Cut Shoppe Newsletter, now is the time to subscribe to be in the loop for all the happenings and free cut files.

For the title, I used the A To The Z Alpha cut file and dry brushed some distress paint over the alphas to make it stand out more.

All the patterned papers and stickers are from the Doodlebug Designs Ghouls And Goblins Collection.

There is a giveaway and sale on these 4 Halloween Cut Files and the Printable so be sure and visit The Cut Shoppe Blog for all the details.  The sale and giveaway is on now until November 3, 2014.

Thanks for stopping by and sadly this is my last design team post for The Cut Shoppe.  It's been so much fun but in the future, I am sure you will see many layouts of mine using the cut files and be sure to check out the new design team, which will debut tomorrow.  I can't wait to see what these talented ladies create.  I'm sure it will be great.  Thanks for stopping by and Happy Halloween!

Creative Scrappers Sketch #268

Hello everyone!  Today I wanted to share a layout I created for a challenge at Creative Scrappers.

I love Creative Scrappers sketches and I really love Sketch #268 and had to play along.  Circles are one of my favorite things to create with on a layout.  For this layout I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out 9 circles in the white card stock and also cut out another sheet of card stock of the flower circles.  I used the Doodlebug Designs Springtime Collection of patterned papers and stickers and made each circle its own little "layout".

Here is the sketch #268 created by Jenny Evans

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have time to be creative.  

Easter Eggs Layout

Hello scrappy friends!  Today I am sharing an Easter layout for Susan K. Weckesser using some of her fabulous papers from the Live In Color Collection as well as Susan's stencil.

 For this layout I started with a piece of white card stock and used a toilet paper roll and sprayed through the roll with Heidi Swapp's Colorshine Mists in Peach, Blush and Seafoam and then went ahead and cut some eggs with my Silhouette Cameo.  I also made a basket with strips of paper from Susan's Live In Color Collection and used my envelope punch board to create the bow.

 I then went ahead and assembled the basket of eggs and used some foam dimensional squares to pop up the eggs and then outlined the eggs and basket with a black archival ink pen.  I had a pleated velvet ribbon in my stash that I thought would be perfect for the basket handle.  I added some sheer ribbon on the handle and tied a bow.

For the title I used some Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Spun Sugar and painted two stipes and then added my chipboard title.

For the grass, I used Susan K. Weckesser's stencil and dabbed it with the Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Mowed Lawn.  I then painted some flowers and "stencilled" them with an extra egg die cut that I had previously cut with my Cameo in white card stock.  One of the flowers I "stamped" with the already stencilled die cut.  Finally I went around with edge of my layout with a large rubber dot stamp dabbing it with a yellow paint dabber, then a green one, a pink one and a blue one.

I hope you enjoyed my Easter Eggs layout.  Have a wonderful, creative day!

Supplies Used:

Adhesive - Beacon 3 In 1 Glue
Cardstock - American Crafts
Chipboard Letters - Basic Grey
Distress Paints - Tim Holtz (Mowed Lawn and Spun Sugar)
Envelope Punch Board (We R Memory Keepers)
Patterned Papers - Susan K. Weckesser Live In Color Collection
Mists - Heidi Swapp Colorshine (Blush, Peach, Seafoam)
Paints - Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabbers (Sailboat Blue and Sunshine Yellow)
Pen - Marvy Uchida
Ribbon - American Crafts (Sheer Yellow) May Arts (Pleated Velvet)
Rubber Stamp - Inkadinkado

Stuck?! Sketches April 1 Sketch

Happy April Fool's Day!  Today there is a new sketch to play with at Stuck?! Sketches.

I really had fun with this sketch and created a layout of my son and husband.

 I really enjoyed making a grungy, masculine layout with some really great papers from the Garage Days Collection from Kaisercraft.

  I added some Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Weathered Wood to a stamp and also made some splats with some Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Rusty Hinge.

Have fun with the sketch and play along and upload to Stuck?! Sketches for a chance to win a great prize.  Also, check out what the team created with the sketch.  Have a great day!

Live To Create Mixed Media Layout

Hello friends!  Today I would like to share a simple mixed media layout that I created with Susan K. Weckesser's beautiful Live In Color Collection.

I love color and Susan's Live In Color Collection is so pretty and it makes me hope for Spring.  It's so easy to create mixed media art with because it already looks that way.

For this piece this is the process I used to create this layout:

I took a 12X12 piece of white card stock.
I used some Tim Holtz Distress Paints and painted the sky and grass.  Then I used some Ranger Paint Dabbers to paint the sun and clouds.
Next I fussy cut the house and title out of Susan's Live In Color Paper Collection.
I then took Susan's stencil and some modelling paste and went around the edge of the background and then I doodled and doodled with a black archival pen.
For the flowers I "painted" with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists
and then I took a piece of Crack Tape/drywall tape and "stencilled" with some modelling paste in the clouds to give them more dimension and "fluffiness".
The mountains are nearby so  I thought I would make it realistic and I used Susan's stencil and modelling paste to create some "peaks".
Finally I adhered some sequins to give more texture and dimension and then my journaling which I cut from Susan's papers.

 Here are some more detailed photos.

I think I will frame this and hang it in my new studio because it definitely is my motto.  I hope you enjoyed your visit. Thanks for stopping by.

Lee-Anne

Supplies:

Acrylic Paint Dabbers - Ranger
Cardstock - American Crafts
Chipboard Letters - American Crafts
Distress Paints - Tim Holtz
Modeling Paste - Golden
Patterned Papers - Susan K. Weckesser
Pen - Marvy Uchida
Sequins - Teresa Collins
Stencil - Susan K. Weckesser

Scrapbooker's Paradise Challenge #10

Happy Friday and Happy Valentine's Day!  Today at Scrapbooker's Paradise Design Team Member Linda Pekrul is hosting Challenge #10 and the design team and everyone can play along.  The challenge is to create a layout, card or altered item using at least 5 of the following:  doily, flowers, ribbon, charm, pearls or other bling, stick pins, stickers, chipboard, die cuts, buttons or brads.  For my layout I used flowers, buttons, die cuts, ribbon, pearls, sequins, and stickers.  Since it's Valetine's Day, I wanted to create a romantic layout of my daughter and son in law on their wedding day.  I used the Kaisercraft Key To My Heart Collection of patterned papers, stickers, and die cuts.

On a white piece of card stock, I cut out a large heart design with my Silhouette Cameo and used some ribbon to lace the heart.  Then I added some sequins to the heart and backed it on the red polka dot patterned paper.

I also cut some vellum heart shapes and layered with some die cuts, Prima flowers and a button.  The flowers were painted with distress paint or misted.

I hope you are inspired to join our challenge at Scrapbooker's Paradise.  All the details are on the Scrapbooker's Paradise blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Guest Designer At Boys Rule Kits

Hello scrappy friends.  I am honored to be asked to be a guest designer at Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits for January and February.  If you aren't familiar with these kits, they are exclusively put together to scrapbook masculine layouts.  This is my first of four layouts using the Boys Rule January/February 2014 kit and I really enjoyed creating with it.  It has some really cute stickers, overlays, arrows, chipboard and puffy hearts and arrows.  Here is the first layout I created of a family friend's adorable four year old son.

I really like color and this one has lots of bright colors.  The only thing I used from my stash was a white piece of card stock, and some Tim Holtz Distress Paints and a texture stamp for some more interest.

The photos are courtesy of Rockwood Photography and this layout was inspired by a sketch designed by Sue Sykes for the Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine Sketchy Challenge for January 2014.

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you have a wonderful day doing what you love.