New NSC Challenge for June is Up

It's time for June's Negative Space Sketch Challenge over at Soul Scrappers.  Below is the sketch and my sample LO.  You have 3 weeks to get a LO done.  If there are at least 8 participants a scrappin' goodie is sent out to a randomly chosen winner!  Hope you will join in this month. 

Have a great day and Happy Scrappin'!

Hues and a Burlesque Queen



Studio Tangie: Artist Box, Journal Anthology 7,

ATC Requisites collab w/Sherriyd
Studio Rebecca:Elle
Paprika: Venice Masquerade
Fiddlette Designs: Calliope Catches the Moon
Anna Aspnes: Dotted Korners N Edges No. 1
Gina Cabrera: Restoration
Traci Stroud:I am Beautiful
Font: The Alice

It's time to share another art journal page.  Here I played around the changing hues and blending modes.  One of the things I love about digital scrapbooking is that I can change the colors of elements if needed.  The day I worked on this page I was feeling an affinity with the color orange.  If the element I wanted to use wasn't orange then I hit <ctrl>+U and played around with hue and saturation until I got an orangy color.  The eyes were originally a teal blue.

I love these puppets from Paprika's "Venice Masquerade".  I've had the kit for a while and was so happy I finally got to use them.

 Do you have something in your stash you love but haven't used yet?  Why not make today the day you finally use it?

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'!

Memento Inspiration

Becky Higgins:Turquoise Edition,

Anna Aspnes:Distress Tools No.10

Pink Reptile Designs: Wanderlust

Over at From Screen 2 Scrap this month's movie inspiration is "Memento", which is one of those hidden gems if you like mystery movies with twists and turns.  I must confess we had to watch it twice to catch some of it, but it was worth it.

The extra criteria is to use a photo in a polaroid type frame, white cardstock and have a black title. Deadline is the end of this month so there's still time to get a LO done.  They're very nice and love seeing new people join in their challenges. So let's do it!

Have a Happy Craftin' Day!

ARTastic Challenge for May

This month over at Artastic Challenge Blog they are highlighting the painting The Cricketer's by Sir George Russell Drysdale. All you need to do is draw inspiration from the painting and scrap about an outdoor event. I was inspired by the color palette of orange, green, biege, although now that the page is done I guess I leaned heavily on the "green" part of that palette...lol.  I used the kit "Sunkissed-Sunset" by Jennifer Labre and modified a template from Simply Tiffany.  You have until the end of May to get a LO done. Plenty of time to stretch those scrapbooking muscles and join in the challenge! 

 Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'!  

My First Ali Edward's Class

Studio Rebecca/Studio Tangie Collab: Steampunk Je T'Adore.
Studio Tangie: AJF Mad Hatter, FiveSevenandTwo,
AJC12 Parcel 12

Ali Edward's 31 Things class started today. The 1st prompt arrived and I started journaling.  But when it came to the LO, I didn't have a photo I wanted to use and was having a hard time with the template for the album.  Anyone whose seen Ali's pages know she has a very clean, linear style.  I was having a hard time trying to fit into that style.  So I ditched the template and went for it. And here's the result.  It will be interesting to see if there are any others taking the class that won't be using the album templates.

Thanks for sharing in my journey!  Hope you have a fun day :-)

The Fun Doesn't Stop nor Do the Challenges!

Credits: Paula Kesselring/ViVa Artistry collab-Child Play
Studio Tangie: AJF Oysters, Dream Spilling
Anna Aspnes: Torn Edges-Curled Paper

It's time for the Word Challenge  over at Soul Scrappers. There's also a giveaway this month, click on this link to find out more: May Prize Pack.
And don't forget I have a Negative Space Sketch Challenge going on until May 28th.
For the Word challenge (can you tell the word if Fun?)  I chose this picture of my son in a ball pit.  I mean,really, what could be more fun than that?!

And speaking of fun, I hope you'll join in all the fun we're having over at Soul Scrapper.

Happy Scrappin'!

Snapshot 2012-Week 9





Studio Viva Artistry-Altered Girl Talk

Studio Tangie-AJF Rockinghorse Fly

Over at Scrapbook Graphics they have a Time Capsule Project called Snapshot 2012. This past week was Snapshot 9-  Snapshot 9 Health-Wellness. ViVa Artistry was hosting the chat this week and they are one of my favorite digi designers so I had to be there.  After the chat they sent out a challenge to do a LO about this week's topic.  LOs had to be done by 12pmEST the next day.  Not alot of time when the chat didn't end unitl after 10pm. 

So because of these two little things called sleep and work I only had about 20 minutes to do the LO.  I decided to do an art journal page.  I went to my ViVa Artistrry folder and they have a kit called "Altered Girl Talk" that featured these ladies.  I knew I had to use them. I played around some with blending modes and opacities and then added my journaling and called it done.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Craftin'!