Ford V. Chevy Scrapbook Page

A work in progress page 

to show off another Photo Of The Week entry.

The checkered flag paper is really heavy and glossy.

It has Lightning McQueen from "Cars" on the back.

It was expensive paper, but the only checkered paper

 I could find. I do not like the way it "waves"

on this page, it isn't oriented correctly for me. 

I really wanted plain black and white checkered paper,

even drove nearly an hour away to check Michael's 

to look for what I wanted with no luck . 

The "ribbon" of speedometers/flames was trimmed from

another piece of racing scrapbook paper. I'll show the simple

page I made with the rest of the paper in tomorrows post.

I'll make a "tag" with the date on it to stick under the paper clip

and hand write (ugh, I dislike my writing....) the journaling

on the "file folder" tag that I made with the 

envelope punch board from Stampin' Up!

I'll  print out the ADRL logo and 

attach it to the page somewhere, too -

just waiting for the ink cartridges

for my printer to arrive at some point today ! 

The layout is loosely based on a sketch from

pagemaps.com 

Cat and Dog Buddies Scrapbook Page

This is the second page in my 

Photo Of The Week 

scrapbook album I 

am slowly working on.

I sort of followed a sketch

from pagemaps.com

The colors and papers are not my favorite, 

would not have been my first choice but they

are all I had on hand. They were bought at our

local Big Lots store years ago, no idea of the manufacturer.

The stripes and paw prints were trimmed from another patterned 

piece of paper in the set.

The ribbon was from my stash and matched perfectly !

The tag is punched with the new tag topper punch

from Stampin' Up!

Bow Wow stamp set from Stampin' Up!,

water colored with classic inks.

Circles die cut with Nestabilities dies.

Meow Meow stamp set from Stampin' Up!,

water colored with classic inks.

Circles die cut with Nestabilities dies.

Letters die cut with my old Cricut Create machine

and the Don Juan cartridge that came with it.

I really ought to invest in additional cartridges and 

use that machine more ! 

This was the first "fancy" page I made for the album. I had already put together a few simple pages on my own (I will be sharing them as well), but thought I needed inspiration to make some of them more special. I don't scrapbook, so I was having a tough time thinking of how to fill the 12 x 12 pages when only using one photo. I also didn't want to overwhelm the photo. A quick search online led me to http://www.pagemaps.com/pdfarchives.htm where I downloaded some of the sketches to help. 

Iris and Barn Wood Scrapbook Page

Simple page for my Photo Of The Week Album.

The barn wood paper is from and old 

Die Cuts With A View stack.

I brayered gray ink over it to tone down the 

yellows in it (it's still too "yellow" for my liking).

 I don't have any light gray barn wood paper.

I guess I could have made my own........... 

The photo is mounted on gray card stock that I distressed

the edges of.

The journaling is done on Naturals card stock, 

has ink direct to paper from an ink pad along

the edges. The iris is an old stamp from Stampin' Up!

and water colored with classic inks. 

Paper Punch Camera Tutorial

It took me nearly three hours (!) to come up with this camera embellishment, lots of trial and error to figure out the dimensions of the pieces. I am pleased enough with the way it turned out to think it wasn't too much of a waste of my time ;)  Since there are no crafty stores nearby, I try to make do with what I already have.

My camera I based the die cut project on.

I should have die cut more rings for inside the lens....

There are tiny photos in the film strip on the completed page

This page will be the first in an album I want to make

to show case the photos I have submitted,

and some of which were printed,

to our local newspaper.

The card stock base has a grooved texture to it.

I have no idea of the brand or style/color since it

was bought at our local Big Lots store as a bulk package

several years ago. I will miss the crafty section at our local

store, I found many good deals there over the years.

I cut the tops off of the newspapers some of my photos

were printed in and adhered them to the base.

Supplies used to make the camera:

black, gray, red card stocks - camera body and lens

textured black card stock - grip on camera body

acetate - lens

rhinestone - AF light 

silver "nail head" embellishment - shutter release button

black grosgrain ribbon- camera strap

fun foam - die cut into a circle to pop up the lens when it was attached to the base

white Signo gel pen - details

assorted circle dies - lens

circle punches - buttons

corner rounder punch - camera body

scissors - to cut red piece

word window punch - dial on top

scoring board - to make grooves on the dial on top

envelope punch board - to make pop up flash portion of base

double stick tape

clear drying liquid glue

Here are a several photos to help show how I made the camera body and lens.

I started with a 3"x 4"piece of card stock for the camera body.

I punched it at the 3" mark and the 1 1/2"mark,

making the pop up flash portion off center on purpose.

There is a handy built in corner rounder on the punch board !

Use your favorite trimmer to cut off each end. 

I used my guillotine cutter, cutting off one end then

flipping the piece over to cut off the other.

 Here is how I make a grooved edge die cut piece.

These are perfect for use as tires if you don't cut out

the center portion and add a silver circle for a 

wheel in the center. 

 Making the inside of the lens

(I should have added extra rings or drawn lines).

 Making the top dial piece.

Various other paper punched and hand cut pieces

as well as writing with a white gel pen to

embellish the camera more. 

Thanks for looking =) 

VCMP at OWH

http://operationwritehome.org/vcmp-master-list/

It's a virtual card making party at

Operation Write Home

this weekend !

6 different challenges each day 

for three days in a row !

I haven't had time to participate 

this holiday weekend, 

but I did take a moment to look

at all of the fun challenges posted so far. 

Under The Sun Tour 2014 Photos

The BIGGEST show to hit our little town - ever ! Despite the four big name (okay, so maybe they aren't as popular as they once were........)  acts playing and the absolutely gorgeous weather, there were only approximately 2500 concert goers last night. The tickets were general admission and $28.50 each, perhaps that had something to do with the small turnout? That was fine with us though, we don't like huge crowds.

All of the bands sounded great and put on a good show. We were enjoying it so much, it seemed to end too soon. 

I took my little point and shoot Fuji camera and managed to get a few decent shots. Yes, I will make a scrapbook page at some point =)

After the show, we met one of the guitarists from Smash Mouth. He shook our hands and chatted for a minute, giving each of us a pick and taking a photo with us. A neat end to our fun and memorable night at the Under The Sun Tour concert !

Sister Hazel

Uncle Kracker

 Sugar Ray

Smash Mouth 

THANK YOU 

for making a stop in this small town and 

for putting on a great show, guys !!!!!

The Heat Is On

Heat index expected to reach triple digits today !

The local meteorologist is predicting a 105 degree heat index.

Sounds like a perfect day to hide out in my craft dungeon.

I have more than enough projects to work on, that's for sure.

The extended forecast looks wonderful,

cooler temps and LOW humidity - ahhhhhh!

It might feel chilly along the river while

watching the 
Under The Sun Tour 2014 on Wednesday
and the fireworks on the 3rd =)

Three Fawns

As I was coming around the corner of my house today,

I heard noise on the hill so I stopped.

I looked up and saw a momma deer,

 looking right back at me. I noticed movement

in the weeds behind her thinking it was a fawn, 

then I thought no,

I think it is two ! Twins! 

When I got in the house and looked at the photos

I was able to quickly snap since I had my little

pocket camera with me already,

there were THREE fawns !
I've never seen "triplets" ! 

I like how they she chose to stop

by the brown tall weeds, 

camouflaging the three babies.

Or perhaps it was just random since 

it was the area of the terrace where

the growth is shorter.

Embellished Photo Frame

I repurposed an old 18 x 24 wooden frame 

and gave it to my parents!

The old frame was painted with tan suede spray paint.

I cut a piece of burgundy mat board to fit the frame

and added my photos / embellishments directly to it with

super sticky double stick tape and hot glue. 

The photographs were wrapped with scrapbook page protectors

cut to fit and wrapped around the backs because I was

originally going to leave the frame open.

Because they were stuck so well

and I didn't want to risk damaging the photos

trying to remove the wraps which would 

require having them printed again,

I decided to use them as is.

The photos are matted on two pieces

of card stock.

I printed out our names using the Lavendaria font

onto cream Naturals card stock then

hand cut them into banners.

The larger flower is made with a die cut, card stock and inks

from Stampin' Up! 

The tiny flower brad was colored with a Sharpie marker.

The double layer small flower at top was made from two

small flowers gifted to me earlier this year, 

manufacturer unknown.

The bottom printed flower was found at our local

Big Lots store a few years ago. It came complete

with brads. I should have used two of them,

looking at the photo of the completed project that single

layer looks bare. 

The leaves were die cut from Always Artichoke card stock

using Spellbinders dies. I should have added some inking to them, too.

                                                                F A M I L Y pennants:

Chalk Talk dies, Stampin' Up!

Alphabet die, Stampin' Up!

Triple layer flower punch, Stampin' Up!

Silver circle brads (I painted them) , Stampin' Up!

twine, unknown

dimensionals

various card stocks and paper

Because of the embellishments on this piece, I needed to create spacers before adding the glass (I had it custom cut at a local glass shop). The frame had just enough depth to allow me to do this  (sorry, I did not take any photos of that !). I really wanted to use clear acrylic type spacers like I did when I worked at a frame shop many years ago, but had to make do with cutting and gluing thin strips of chipboard. I thought it was odd when I asked at the one and only local frame shop about buying some from them and was told they don't have any. Perhaps they don't sell supplies to the general public so they get our business to pay them to mount items. Anyway, my makeshift spacers worked well enough as did my finishing job = duct tape! Yes, because I made this a sort of shadow box frame but without enough depth to add points/staples/nails to hold the mat board in place (not even enough depth to add the extra backing piece), I cut long 1" wide strips of duct tape and covered the gap between the edge of the mat and frame, holding it in place.

I added two screw eyes and picture wire to mount it and two pieces of foam tape on each lower corner
to protect walls.


Thank for looking =)

Happy Summer !

Are you doing anything special to herald in the official start to summer on this Saturday, the longest day of the year ?   It is going to be one of the hottest we've had so far this summer. The heat and humidity moved in this past week, blech. We've been spoiled with a fairly mild spring. In fact, last weekend the humidity and temps were low and it got kind of chilly overnight. It felt like fall !

I took a walk around the flower beds with my camera yesterday. Several of my plants did not come back after the harsh winter while those that did are behind in blooming. The weeds and the bugs are terrible though, the extreme cold and amount of snow was saw last winter did not but a damper in their populations! 

I haven 't heard how the crops are doing here. 

FINALLY, some cherry tomatoes starting !

A few of the perennials that made it back and are now blooming,

or getting close to. 

I put annuals out in pots two weeks ago.

They were all bought on clearance. 

Here are just a few of them.

These or sooooo pretty ! No tag to know exactly what

type of petunia they are. I paid $3.

These were marked petunia, but I had no idea what color

since there were no blooms. I paid $2.

Another cool looking petunia. 

This particular plant was already blooming when I bought it.

I paid $1.

Zinnias, $1 each. 

Verbena    50c

Not sure what these cute little flowers are. 

They were in a large hanging basket I found on clearance for

just $3 !  I had no idea what they were going to look like

 since there was no tag in the pot and no blooms on the plant.

 Since the plant looked healthy and full and was only $3,

 I took a chance. 

Looking forward to my red, white and blue flowers to fill out!

There are some geraniums that I will be surprised at the color of

(two small but healthy looking plants for 75c each).

I have a few white begonia plants, 6 pack for $5 . I almost didn't get them

since they were such small little plants and "expensive" compared 

to some of the others I came across.

The Impatiens were my most expensive purchase at $5 

for the large pot of fully blooming plants. 

I do NOT have a green thumb an honestly do not care for 

working out in the yard (critters!!!! heat and humidity !!!),

but the front porch always looks nice with some color on it

throughout the summer months. 

Now to keep my eyes out for some new buntings on clearance

at the end of the season; mine are fading :(

Thanks for looking,

enjoy the extra bit of daylight today =)