1974 Newspaper article for Making wine Layouts

Here's a link to the first wine layout: 

Wine making layout 

This layout has a shortlist of supplies.

The patterned paper is by Provo Craft, Color-Aid, and Studio G.

The grapes were created the same way as above LO and chipboard are by Paper Accents.

The green label and pennant die-cuts are by Cricut.

I used number stamps by Stampin Up and below are letter stamps by Lawn Fawn 

Thanks for looking

Here are some other wine cards.

Fine Wine Card

Deep Red Stamps Sentiment

Wine card

Bubbles Stamp by Deep Red Stamp

And last Wine Card using a different stamp set but the same paper pack of patterned paper.

Thanks for looking

1970's Making Wine Layout

There are so many different...things about this layout that I don't even know where to begin but I'm going to try until my hands hurt and won't let me type anymore.

Here we go.

This LO sat on my desk waiting for the perfect thing for the center. 

I found a vellum sentiment. Yay!

Scroll down to picture 2.

I ran it thru my Xyron machine and it was at the end of the roll which made the adhesive splotchy and it had cardboard from the roll stuck to the vellum. BOO! That's not the word I used. It was more like some F's, some SOB's, and a favorite one that I have to say way too often, Are you F-n kidding me? 

Anyway, what sucks about this whole thing, is I checked the roll before sending the vellum thru and everything looked good to go. Umm, not so much.

So, the next picture.

I sent this photo to Ali, along with 2 other other mess ups that will be posted in the near future and she calmed me down. Thank you Ali.

I looked in my stash, which you all know, it takes forever to go through your stash to find that one thing. Plus it makes a hurendous mess because you pull out of fun things that you forgot you had. SMH! 

So I finally found CM stickers that matched the colors of my layout. I used two of them. But most importantly, this circle went over the tear. Yay!

Patterned paper by K and Co

Rust-colored cardstock is by Color-Aid and off white cardstock  used on the Cricut die-cut is by Bazzill

Chipboard wine and glasses by Paper Accents

They were painted with Ranger Industries copper paint

Letter stamps by Michael's for the wine label 

Journal box by Creative Memories. It was pink and turned rusty colored with the help of Distress inks.

That is Mimi's (My precious MIL) handwriting. 

Side note: In the beginning of this project in 2014, she was helping me. She had just gone into an assisted living home and I was newly disabled. At that time I could still drive and pick her up to do things. It was good bonding time.

Anyway,

Chipboard grapes are by Paper Accents. I painted it with white Distress paint as the base and then I watercolored with distress ink. 

The last thing to this layout, I used 

Bubble stamp by Deep Red Stamps

Deep Red Stamps Men are like wine

to create a little card for a pocket page but I ended up scrapping these photos instead of doing a pocket page.

The circle sticker is by CM

All together one more time.

Thanks for sticking with me during this busy month. 

Going forward, you will see me posting more layouts than cards. 

I need to get them off of my PC and onto the blog/web.

Thanks so much for looking

Manly Monday Go Team

My guy card today is football theme. The blue and white cardstock is by Recollections and the patterned paper is by American Tradition Designs. The helmet is chipboard by Paper Accents that I painted with Making Memories blue paint. The football stamp is by Mark's Finest Papers. I stamped it onto Strathmore watercolor paper and colored it in with Peerless watercolors. Then I fussy cut the image out and placed it under the sentiment which is a dry embossed white cardstock with an embossing folder by Darice.

Thanks for looking.

AU Football layout

Another layout done for the nephew book. There is a bunch of Cricut cuts on this one so I'll start there. I arranged the stars on the Cricut Craft Room to be evenly spaced out because I was using it as a stencil. I cut the stars background by using the Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge. I did so in multiple colors for future layouts. It took me some time to plan it out and I really liked the look. I used the Creative Memories Total Sports cartridge for the year. The name in the bottom right area had to be blurred out but it was cut out using the Don Juan cartridge. 

I noticed on the pictures that everything orange was from AU. I looked up the AU logo and found it was for Auburn University. I liked the look of the logo but was having trouble finding this font in my collection of cartridges.

There was no short supply of problems while trying to find a similar look. I ran into simple things like the opening of the U wasn't wide enough to fit the A inside. I tried manipulating the letter by stretching it in all the right places and was unsuccessful. It looked weird. Then I noted the tops and bottoms of the letters are square not rounded like in the layout below. Another thing going on with this long process was I wanted a shadow to go behind the letters and that wasn't always an available option as shown here. So I ended up using the Lyrical Letters cartridge Jumbo font. I made two of the same size and off centered them behind. It doesn't look exactly like the real logo but I really gave it a Girl Scout try. 

Moving on, the football helmet is a chipboard embellishment by Paper Accents that I colored orange Smooch Spritz. I was having trouble getting them unclogged to work properly. I opened the bottle of an orange spray, poured it on the helmet and worked it through with my finger, Worked wonderfully and took much less time then mixing some red and yellow paints together to make an orange acrylic paint. 

The orange paper is by C-Gull and I placed it on the this funny angle for something different. The blue starry background was sprayed with a blue Smooch Spritz.

Thanks for looking.

SB.com-Sports

SB.com-Cricut with hat

Men are Like a Fine Wine Card

So... with hesitation I'm posting this card that I made. It doesn't have any wow factor to it but it's a good card. Here it goes. The patterned papers are by Die Cuts with a View {2 totally different stacks}. 

The grapes chipboard is by Paper Accents. I painted the base layer with white distress paint and then I mixed the paint with distress ink and water to get the purple color. I took a paint brush and used the mixture to watercolor these circles where I thought the grapes would be. I experimented with different distress inks and the amount of water verses the amount of paint and came up with 4 color different purple colors. I did a bunch {pun intended} of these grapes with the intention of using them someday and I thought they were perfect for this Deep Red Stamps sentiment stamp which you can find at 

Scrapbook.com

The wine bottle and cork are stickers by EK Success. The wine bottle is added with dimensional adhesive except for on the top because it lays on the chipboard. I stamped the sentiment with Hero Arts black ink.

http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1647853/tp/1/-Keep calm and use what you have

http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1647387/tp/1/ Use your stamps

http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1645897/tp/1/ Sticker challenge

http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1647159/tp/1/ Friendship card

Princess Feather Portrait Tag

Sassy Studio Designs is sponsoring the Glitter N Sparkle challenge and as you know I am the GDT this month so I made a tag for the challenge.

I'm using the Princess Feathers Portrait image which is new as of yesterday. Hopefully you hopped with us to see all the new images and for your chance to win them {scroll down to the next post to hop}

I printed her out onto Ranger watercolor paper and colored her in with a water pen and distress markers. Then I fussy cut her out and inked the edges with distress ink. I stamped and heat embossed the tag, by Paper Accents, with a Hero Arts stamp and with gold embossing powder by Stamp N Plus and copper by Ranger Industries. I inked it with distress ink and then sprayed it with water mixed with Perfect Pearls. The jute at the bottom is by Tim Holtz and it is fed through a corrugated flower button. The feather on the left is by Maya Road and I covered it with green Metallic Fx by Dreamweaver Stencils. The thanks alphabet are also by Dreamweaver Stencils that I first inked with distress ink and then ended up covering with the same Metallic Fx. The portrait is adhered to a vellum die cut with the vellum by The Paper Studio and the die cut by Sizzix.

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://www.scrapitgirl.com/ Watercolors, Paints or gelatos

http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/ Thanks

http://a-crafty-mess.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything goes

http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything but a card

http://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/ Any holiday

http://myartisticadventureschallenge.blogspot.com/ Christmas, Winter or Thanksgiving

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ No DP

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/ Any holiday Thanksgving

http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.ca/ Grateful

http://treasuredtimesrubberstampschallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ Use 2 or more colors

http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ Something old {flower}, Something new {letter dies}

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2014/11/friday-challenge-thanks-with-twist.html Thanks with a twist of trim/Jute

http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.ca/ happy Thanksgiving

http://www.blogquickquotes.com/ Gratitude

http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://stamplorations.blogspot.ca/ Anything goes

http://thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/ Thanksgiving

Hot Air balloon card

I have a fun digital stamp card today using Copic markers to color it in. I used the following colors on my card:

B32, B34 and B00

R89, R46, R24, R22

BG32, BG11, BG34, and BG10

G00 and G000

E13, E25, and E33

The aqua cardstock is by Stampin Up and the blues by Sunborn. I did something new for the embossed edge on the left. I had a regular cloud embossing folder that could only be used for a crosswise card and I really wanted to use it for my background but had already adhered my image to the die cuts that wouldn't fit on the card crosswise. I took my piece of blue cardstock and placed it into the cloud folder to the top of the paper and to the very left of my Cuttlebug. With the cardstock hanging outside the embossing folder I grab a border embossing folder by Tim Holtz with Sizzix. It's about 1 1/4 inches wide and fit perfectly on my cardstock just below the clouds and then through my Cuttlebug.  I thought it was the perfect scene for my hot air balloon. What do you think?

Die cuts by Spellbinders, ink by Ranger, chipboard by Paper accents which I painted with Stamp N Plus powdered chalk and paint, pearls by Want 2 Scrap, and the sentiment is by Pebbles.

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/ Summer Fun

http://inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.com/ Summer colors

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.com/ Summertime

http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/july-2014-challenge-lets-go-digital.html- Lets get digital

http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/ Summertime

http://liastampz.blogspot.com/ No Patterned paper

http://oddballstamps.blogspot.com/ Shoe us your coloring skills

http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2014/07/chipboard-challenge-181.html Chipboard {Top 3 pick at this challenge}

http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://twistedtuesdaychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Pearls and lots of layers

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/ Summer

http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

Sassy Lager image for the Chalk Ah Lot Challenge DRiNK UP!

Back again for week 2 of the month-long challenge at Chalk Ah Lot. It's theme is anything goes with chalk and sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs. My card today features Lager Pin Up Sassy which I colored in with Copics and die cut her out with two Quickutz dies. I used a Sharpie poster paint pen for the air bubbles in the glass and Liquid Pearls by Ranger for the head of the beer. 

The image is layered onto a Paper Accents chipboard shape that I covered with Gem powdered chalk mixed with paint. Both of those products are by Stamp N Plus. The background cardstock is by Stampin Up. It is greyish with flecks throughout. I used a Tim Holtz stencil with Lime powdered chalk mixed with paint and used a stipple brush to apply the mixture. I love that it dries so quickly. By the time I cleaned the stencil and my brush the paper was ready to be worked on. 

I stamped a sentiment onto a Design Objectives label die cut with Hero Arts ink and attached it to the card front with brads by The Paper Studio.

Challenges:
http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Sassy Studio Designs AG
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/Anything goes
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/ Anything goes
http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/ Something that begins with S {Stencil}
http://scrappers-delights-challenge-blog.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes with Layers
http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Use a Stamp {digi}
http://cccdigicreations.blogspot.co.nz/-Digi/Die cut
http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup Anything goes