Sean

EEEEE!! I am so excited to be sharing with you my first ever design team page for Punky Scraps!! I am so honored to have been chosen to be part of their unbelievably talented team. I strongly urge all of you to run, not walk, over to their site to check them out. Every month there are three challenges, one is an inspiration challenge, then there is a sketch challenge, and lastly a recipe challenge. So there is something for everyone and if you play you could win a fabulous prize from one of our amazing monthly sponsors!! So without further ado here is Challenge 28 which is the sketch challenge. This is the sketch this month:

So cool right? Here is my take, it is titled 'Sean'

This is of my nephew Sean and I made it for my parent's scrapbook. I used the September Scraps of Darkness Passages Kit which is absolutely fantastic. I am forseeing lots of grungy pages in my future and I couldn't be happier!! I used molding paste and various mists to create those circles. To get the circle shape I used a used up tape roll. Waste not want not and all that. Here are some closeups:

To get the shadowy big circles I just pressed the Mix'd Media Ink (that come in a circle ink pad) down on the page. I added buttons and brads because I love lots of embellishments. =D

I hope you guys like it and I hope that you all stop by Punky Scraps to play along!!

Harry Potter Land & Innertube Fun

So today I have two pages to share with you. The first is my layout for this weeks Little Shop of Sketches reveal. I got to design the sketch again this week. I'm really excited about it. This is just my second sketch ever. Here it is.

I was in the mood to do something playful, fun, and kinda clean since it had been a while since I had done something like that. However as soon as I was finished I thought that the page was lacking somewhat. I think it's cause I am much more attracted to the distressed, multi-media, technique filled pages. My boyfriend said that he liked it much more than my usual style so I guess to each their own right?

This was taken on my birthday last year when we went to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure to visit Harry Potter Land. I had a great time even though I thought the ride was a little overrated and the line to get a wand was absolutely ridiculous. My favorite thing about this page is the masking. I used an old birth control pack to get the design. My boyfriend thought it was ingenious but gross. LOL I think that pretty much anything can be used for scrapping in one way or another. =)

Remember if you want to play along just upload your layout to the Little Shop of Sketches Ning site!!

The other page I have for you guys is my entry in September's Round Robin over at Scrapbook.com. I am in week two and I was to lift from Krista's (aka Puppet) page 'Every Party Needs Hats!' The twist this month was rainbow. Now I have to say that I love rainbows, I just hate using those colors together (despite the fact that I actually have used this color scheme on two other layouts, I know I am kinda a hypocrite ;) ) . However I wanted to see if I could use those colors and not have it look super bright, fun, and looking like it belonged at a kids party. I am pretty happy with the results.

So I grunged up the design by adding inking, misting, distressing, and black. This layout made me realize that I hate scrapping with the color red. I don't know why but I always avoid red colored paper and I pretty much have to be forced to use it. Weird. However all 6 colors are here. Yellow is around the page, the mat is blue, the edges of the mat are orange, the flowers are purple and green, and the first part of the title is in red. These picture are of my friend and I tubing down this river in North Florida. It was always a fantastic time doing that but you had to be sure to get out before sundown cause then the gators came out.

Here are some close ups of the flowers. The small flowers were white and I misted them with purple and green mist and then dotted them with black stickles. The big flowers are dotted with black mist.

That's it for me, I hope you guys are having a great week!!

Woo Hoo!!!!

Guess what!! I am one of the new Punky Scraps Design Team members!!! I am so freaking happy about this. This challenge blog was definitely one of the reasons (if not the only reason) that I finally created my blog. I just wanted to play along with all the challenges, and now I am so happy to be able to inspire others to do the same. So come check out the site and the challenges and meet the whole team. There are 6 new Punky Rebels and the talent on the teams just blow me away. I am on Team A so I will be able to jump into the challenges next week so stay tuned for that. The challenge that is up now is Challenge 27- Tartan anyone? You have to make a layout based on this image:

I am so sad that I missed making a page for this but I am thinking I still might just for fun and because it is seriously a cool pic. If you play this month you could win a kit from Little Yellow House Kits. Be sure to check out Punky Scraps!!

Our Granddaughter

This page that I have to share today is really special for me. I made it for my parent's scrapbook, hence the title of 'Our Granddaughter'. The page is of my parents and my niece Shea. I'm really proud of it because I drew everything on it except for the pic (of course) and the alphas (my handwriting is ATROCIOUS). I made this for the doodle challenge on scrapbook.com where the twist this month was to have a completely doodled page (except for the title). Let me tell you that I practiced the design before I put it down on the page and even then I had a huge eraser by me at all times. It took a while but I really love how it came out. And yes I know that I keep putting black on baby pages. I just don't know why and I can't help it. I hope she turns out to be a punk princess because otherwise I might have some explaining to do.

I did this using black and purple pens, faber castell's pastel pencil in yellow, their pitt artist pen in green, and stickles. Here are some close ups of the flowers:

Thanks for looking!!

Contemplation

So this is my take on Sketchy Thursdays 9.1 Sketch. I used the Scraps of Darkness Envy kit. I titled it 'Contemplation'.

This is a pretty simple page for me. My boyfriend LOVES my simpler pages so when I do a page of him I try to take that into account. Though I realized it is almost impossible for me to not put stickles on a page. I might have a problem =)

I thought this might be the last page I did with the kit but I think I can squeeze out at least one more. I am so sad to see this kit end. It was definitely my favorite so far.

Us

So here is yet another page using the Scraps of Darkness Envy kit. To be honest when I started this page I didn't really like the direction it was going and kinda left it alone for a while. Then the other night I was bored and restless and started playing with paints and voila! This page happened. It's titled 'Us.'

I fussy cut the edges and put them on a light green paper that had leaves on it. Not that you can tell after all the paints and mists. I punched a design on some paper and used that as a stencil. I color it I used black acrylic paint and molding paste. I then went over it slightly with some purple acrylic paint, sprayed various mists over it, and added some crackle accent. Here's a close up

I didn't like the flowers all white so I added drops of green and purple mist on them.

These cool frames came in the kit but they were white, I painted them black. I also framed the picture with lavender liquid pearls and mystic green stickles.

I added the butterfly and flourish, but to have the flourish fit with the page I went over the rhinestones with ink and stickles.

I was mainly inspired by the colors of my blog for this page. I just had so much fun creating this!

Hoping & Wishing

The page I have to share with you today is my entry for the Scraps of Darkness August Round Robin. I am week three and had to lift Cheryl's amazing layout which can be found here. My page is titled 'Hoping & Wishing' and I used the fabulous August Envy Kit from Scraps of Darkness.

So I have been wanting to do the rolled paper in the shape of a circle for ages now and this was a great opportunity. I really like how it came out. Double sided patterned paper is a MUST for this effect. I gesso'd the edges, then went over them with some magical micas, mists, and ink.

The twist this month was to have a handmade flower on the page. This is the flower I made for my 'Fan Flowers with a Twist' tutorial and I haven't gotten around to putting on a page yet. Good thing too because I was very last minute in completing this page and while making flowers are fun they are very time consuming.

I am just in love with the effect I got on my pink paislee mistable embellishment. I think it's my favorite thing about the page! I just randomly brushed some magical micas and then dotted it with some Tattered Angels.

This picture was taken of me on my boyfriend's and I vacation. We were driving down to the keys. I think it speaks to how I have been feeling lately. I have definitely done a lot of hoping and wishing in recent times. Thanks for looking!

Pure Love and Strike a Pose

I have two layouts to share with you today. That's right TWO! I have been crazy prolific in scrapping lately, it's been awesome! Anyways the first one that I have to share with you is my entry to this month's Round Robin at scrapbook.com. Here is the layout I lifted: My Angel, My Papa by Cheena and here is my page titled 'Pure Love':

I used the August Scraps of Darkness Envy Kit. I am not really sure I am good with the final product. I don't think I like it very much. Regardless here are some closeups.

The next page I have to share with you is titled 'Strike a Pose' and is my take on August's sketch challenge at Scraps of Darkness. Of course I used the Envy kit for this as well.

When I had everything lined up and ready to glue I realized the page was missing a little something. So I pulled out my brand new faber castell pastel pencils and colored in the patterns on the paper. It took a while but I really love how it turned out. I love those pencils, I only have 4 colors because they came in the mixed media sets I got for my birthday, after this page I am seriously considering investing in them if money ever stops being so tight.

Ok lately I have become obsessed with Dusty Attic. How did it take me so long to figure out its awesomeness?

The last pic I have to show you is of the kaisercraft posies. I am having a fabulous time using these. They are so crazy versatile.

That's it for me today. Let's hope this productivity continues for a while. It sucks for the cleanliness of my scrap room but it's great for the utilization of my supplies and the happiness of my being!!

Kiss Me Forever

So I am really excited about today. It is reveal day over at Little Shop of Sketches and guess what!! The sketch this time around is one made be me!! It is my first sketch ever and I am so incredibly honored that the ladies liked it and used it as our inspiration for this week. *Happy dance*

BTW it took me FOREVER to figure out photoshop (I have an old version, 7 I think) but once I got the hang of it I was hooked and now I think I am addicted. Be sure to check out what the ladies did with this on LSS's blog, the pages are so fantastic! Here is my take titled 'Kiss Me Forever'.

I used the August Scraps of Darkness Envy kit. I so love this kit. I am happy to report that even though I have gone through a chunk of it I am still inspired like crazy by this kit and I have so many more ideas for pages. Usually I burn out after 4 or 5 pages and while this is the third page I have shared with you I actually have two more done and still more ideas for more! So that should tell you right there how amazing this kit is. Here are some closeups:

Isn't green the best color ever?

Remember if you play along with the sketch to upload your page to our ning site!!

Sunset

That's right!! TWO posts in TWO days!!! Go me!!! Ok Now that the celebration is over let me share with you my page.

It is titled 'Sunset' and it features pics my boyfriend and I took of each other while we were down in the keys for our vacation. I am scrapping my pages differently lately. Usually I try to go chronologically, but the other day I scrapped one pic from our vacay and now it seems that I can't stop. I don't mind because honestly those pictures are the best that I have and therefore the most inspiring so I am just going to go with it. 

This page was done for Challenge 25 at Punky Scraps. This challenge was a sketch challenge and I decided to honor the super beautiful but simple sketch by creating a simple page. Let me tell you how hard that was for me. I kept wanting to add things, so finally I just put the page where I couldn't reach it until the urge went away =D. So there we go. Only one challenge left and seven days to do it in.

I also created this page with my Scraps of Darkness Envy kit. Well obviously not the paper as it is just white cardstock, but the embellishments (which used to be white but I misted them black) and the paint that I used around the border.

So do you think I pulled off the simple look? Or does it just look unfinished?