prosaic: adjective

 characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual

 

 dull, unimaginative

 

everyday, ordinary

pronunciation

( As a side note, I have to say I got tickled yesterday in church when our Preacher coincidentally used the word for the day that I had posted on Sunday. He was talking about the acrostic that we use to remember the colors of the rainbow...do you know it? )
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Hi everyone, it's time for the Frosted designs Monday Inspiration girls to give you a last burst of creativity for the new challenge...are you ready? Now they gave us a LO sketch, but frankly after all the scrapping I did for NSB I was totally out of pictures. Can you believe it? So I converted the sketch into a card.

So I am hoping that if I put my card right next to the sketch, then you will see how I adapted it. Not always the easiest thing to do, but it is doable.

The playing cards came from a museum in Charleston, SC and I've had them like forever. They are too flimsy to actually play with and I never knew quite what to do with them. So glad I hoard  save everything! lol See, that reinforces me to not throw anything away!

The last of my black felt butterflies....sigh....

Colorbok - butterfly

CARDSTV - sentiment stamp

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Ranger - Distress Marker
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My discussion over at Journal of a Lazy Dieter is about the affects of caffeine on your body. I HAVE to cut out the tea and chocolate, heaven help me.

Looking at Words: a photo contest

 Submit a photo you've taken that illustrates a Merriam-Webster definition in an interesting way
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How do you scrapbook? I am a chronological scrapper, everything in order. 

If you are a chronological scrapbooker, how do you begin the album? Mine have been elvolving but still consistent with how I go about it. I always list the year on it but the first page establishes a feeling/theme that I feel is relevant for that year.

Here is last year:

2012 - which focuses on my photography, I took a class that year learning on how to take better pictures and how my camera works. ( Also trying to learn new things including new scrapbooking styles...look at all that white space! That was a big leap for me! ) I also included my word of the year..focus. Love seeing that little detail.

2013 - seems to be reflective on how far I have come. It's about the achievements and the fact that I keep evolving! 

Thanks to Tracy Weinzapfel and the
May 2013 Creative Dare - DEAR ME...

This was truly a mind bender...I thought and thought and thought....I even had the all the elements, just not the words.

Tracy says this:

" Take a break every now and then and pat yourself on the back.  Applaud yourself for doing what needs to be done.  And be careful not to spend so much time looking at how far you still have to go, that you forget to appreciate how far you've already come."

And I thought and thought and thought some more...and finally I came up with this. It's not a letter but I think it's perfect in it's own way. 

I had to include my business card.

And I loved adding in a real paintbrush dripping some paint off it onto dreams.

Faber Castell - black gelato, Pitt Pen

Crafters Workshop - brick stencil

Golden - Molding Paste

LiquiTex - colbalt teal paint

ColorBok - butterfly

Prima - bling

business card, paintbrush - my own :)

and entering this lay out in:
Anything but a Card - #19 Color Inspiration

sesquipedalian: adjective

having many syllables : long

 using long words

pronunciation

( I do love sesquipedalian words like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, just some are too hard to say and to spell! )

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It's time for the Monday Inspiration girls over at Frosted Designs!

 We would like to see your cards, layouts and off the page projects using only 3 colors.... black, white, and one other color of your choice!

I did another lay out!! Don't faint....lol 

After checking, I see that my last one was made back in November so I had better get caught up!

 Now what do you do when you don't really have anything to journal about? I used a poem from e.e.cummings and wrote fun facts about tulips around the edge of the LO. .

I also like that I got to use a small piece of ephemera, the top of the Biltmore ticket stub is used as my title. And my subliminal sub title which is God - everything - yes, because God is everything!

 entering this in:

 PageMaps 7th Anniversary sketch contest

Cut out the banner from the Cricut and adhered it to some twine.

 

 Used a French knot to secure the large overlay to the base. .

 Sprayed some mister on the overlay and let dry before placing the bling down. Because I sprayed onto a slick surface you really have to be careful and make sure it's completely dry. You can see where I added a little extra glue to the bling because it re-activated the spray, although in my book, that wasn't such a bad thing.

And attached the small journaling circle that I cut out with a stick pin which I outlined with a pen so it pop. I had to paint my date on top of the journaling sticker so that it would show up.

Cricut - Country Life cartridge

Prima - bling

Hambly - overlays

Colorbok - black felt butterfly

Maya Road - hat pin butterfly

Faber Castell - PITT pen

American Crafts - Slick Writers

Higgins - waterproof ink

DCWV - white paper

I hope you play along with us, I am looking forward to seeing what you create!

factotum: noun

a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities

or

 a general servant

pronunciation
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Short...sweet....and clean!
Yep, that's my post for WOYWW today. ..taking a short break from crafting....just so I can sit back and enjoy the clean desk 'cause I know it won't last for long ♥
..lol..so don't faint, it will be back to it's normal mess next week!

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entering this card in:

Pause Dream Enjoy challenge #3 Mainly Red
Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #101 sketch ( which I turned on it's side )

Colorbok- fabric butterfly
Cricut - French Manor cartridge, p. 74
brads - misc. ( colored in white hearts on brads with marker )
Faber Castell - PITT pen
American Crafts - Marvy Marker

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Skipping around chanting...

"I'm having a give away, ♪♫♪ give away, ♪♫ give away...come join me and play along...♫♪♫"

 

LOL..maybe I need to skip the caffeine...

 

Click HERE and good luck!

 

overhaul: verb

to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition

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I brought home one of my wall hangings from the Art Mob, intending to tweak it a little bit as I was not happy with it. This is what it looked like when it came home:

 

It got a lot more than tweaking, it got a complete overhaul, and now this is what it looks like!

I'm not sure what happened to my thought process when I began removing ( ok, ripping and tearing them off is a more adequate description ) items, but I think the Fall air and rustling leaves might have something to do with it! lol Whatever the case, I do like the changes better, but then it's a whole new piece! The only 2 things I kept were the Maya Road flowers and the Really Reasonable Ribbon bow. The letters are from Sandy Lion and Colorbok, the flower stems from an old arrangement and I used a brick stencil that I got from Donna Downey. Inks were all from Tim Holtz.

entering this into:

Anything but a Card - Challenge 4, Halloween or Fall Theme, or just Fall Colors

( obviously I chose the Fall colors )

hoarded: noun

A hidden fund or supply stored for future use

 

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It's no exaggeration, that I love Page Maps sketches. I always find inspiration in them. This one is for the Moxxie Card Contest.

 

 

I love vellum, and this card has 2 pieces of it.

 

Fall Leaves - NRN ( it's old but still have several sheets in my hoarded stash! )

I did use Helmars V2 spray to hold it down while I stitched over the edges.

Adhesive Backed Vellum -  Colorbok ( which is the way to go with vellum, then you don't have to worry about which adhesive to use under it, I wish all vellum came this way!! I cut this piece in a circle to soften the background of leaves.) I then stamped my Hero Art's Fall background stamp onto it.

 

I wanted to add some texture to it, so I added twine.

 

The circle of twine was created by winding the twine 3 times around a peanut butter jar lid, adding drops of glue on top of the twin to keep it held together, let dry before removing it. I used my Aleene's Tacky Glue and held it with my hand, it only took a moment to set up. In the mean time, I laid a line of glue around the outside of the circle and let it also set up before laying the twine on top. Worked like a charm!

 

Then I  altered an embellishment so that it would fit my card.

 



Next I had to trim the top of the cornstalk from Outdoors and More because it was too long for the card, and outlined the cut off edges with my Pitt Pen to make it blend in with the image. I also cut off  2 leaves on the right side of the stalk so that they could be laid up and over the twine while the cornstalk itself laid flat on the paper.





 

Then I needed some dimension.

The scare crow came from Best Creations and I used Helmar Liquid Scrapdots to elevate him up to the same level as the twine.

 

The last touch was adding the sentiment.

 

I used  a stamp from CardzTV, Make a Wish set, sanded the banner and used the back of my scissors to curl the banner, under and outer curl. In other words, a nice wave to the banner. Stamped with Stazon.

Orange paper from My Minds Eye.

 

Also entering this card into

Try it on Tuesday - October Challenge #1, Autumn Colors

Divas by Design - Challenge 56, Anything Goes

Art with no Boundries - October and Halloween