Scrapbooks, Etc. adhesive challenge: It's All Good

The Scrapbooks, Etc. challenge was to use adhesives in new ways. I had a lot of fun playing with my adhesives trying to find new ways to use them. My favorites, obviously, were heat embossing with them. Here is what I came up with. First, a close up of all the embossing I did. I rubbed glue around the edge of my bracket paper to emboss and also embossed glue dots (the gold dots) and Kokuyo dot n roller. I also glittered a button.

This is the final product, about all the little things in life that make me happy!

And a couple detail shots showing how I painted glue over a template I made on my Cricut to make a mask...

...and then I inked over the mask to make my background paper and title.

Thanks for looking!

Sketchy Thursdays: 9/17 sketch Cute & Crazy

Here is my interpretation of the 9/17 sketch on Sketchy Thursdays. I admit, that at first I was motivated by the giveaways for these sketches, but I'm having fun discovering inspiration through the sketches. For some reason this one took me all day and 3 tries to get a page I was happy with. First, the sketch:

And here it is, me and my crazy family!

I used rub-ons on the letters to help communicate the emotions I was going for. The ampersand was an interesting technique: I stuck a Pink Paislee glitter sticker on some white paper and decided against it, but when I removed it the bottom layer of the chipboard backing stuck to the paper. It looked too good to throw away, so I cut around the edges and sprayed with my new snow angel glimmer mist.

Moxie challenge

I did another challenge from the Moxie Fab World blog.

Create a paper crafted project (card, gift bag, tag, layout, home decor, etc.) that incorporates some kind of household item as its focal point. I chose a grungeboard key and lock. They are actually pretty gold and silver looking in person. I sprayed them with Glimmer Mist...a favorite product of mine. This is actually my first time using my sewing machine on my paper crafts. I've always loved the look but never dared try it. After stamping my image, I sewed and then added the doodling and ended with liquid glass over the image. Very cool effect!

Cricut gypsy giveaway!!

I found a great new blog named Cutting Above. It focuses on scrapbooking, especially for those of us with Cricuts or other electronic die cut machines. They are currently having a Gypsy giveaway to celebrate the blog's debut and the gypsy grand opening on HSN. It will be airing on September 24th, starting at 12:01, I believe. Here's a link to the post on that blog with more info: clicky Good luck!

Sketchy Thursdays: My Sweeties

I don't usually get into doing sketches, but this sketch from Sketchy Thursdays was absolutely perfect for a photo I had hanging out on my desk!

It is all from the Pink Paislee Sweet Cakes collection, except for the button embellishment I put together from various products I had on hand. This is the first time I ever took a photo to go with a piece of scrapbook paper I wanted to use! The journaling reads: "8.14.09 Our family est. 1998 Happy Birthday to us!"

Recycling containers

I recently bought some super cute prima flowers in this tin and decided the tin was too cute to go to waste, so here is my final product. I am currently using it to store a family photo puzzle my dad made for us. I'd consider that a treasure!

And yes, those are wings on the back. I wanted to try something a little different, aka, not flat on the tin. I think I accomplished it! :D

Sketch from Sisterhood of Scrap

I am not usually a sketch kind of scrapper, but I decided this one from Sisterhood of Scrap fit my needs perfectly. See, I did a scrapbook for my daughter a couple years back, but left the title page blank. I also skipped about 20 pages of journalling. I learned my lesson later and don't do that anymore! She was looking at her book this week and I noticed all the unfinished pages, so I decided to just finish the book. My style has changed completely since I made that book, so as I went through it, I didn't redo any pages, as tempted as I was, but I at least embellished a few. I didn't do any lumpy bumpy in that old album, so I had to restrain myself on that part (it is a strap hinge album and those are better for flat scrapping). I tried to stick basically to my old style in making this page. It is much "more" than I used to do, but still less than I do now. Nevertheless, the sketch was a great match! I may just have to try a few more sketches. I might just get hooked!

Details:

Striped paper from DCWV, letter stickers from Cosmo Cricket, pink paper from Creative Memories, scalloped paper from Bazzill, rub ons from DCWV