Florida Memories Layout

Although I never thought I'd get into the "Tim Holtz look", I'm having so much fun with the challenges and the crafters at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space that I find myself really getting into it!

The first of her weekly challenges is a 12x12 layout with a travel theme, handmade background and title tag, 3 Tim-Holtz-style embellishments, fiber, and one large photo. I worked on it all week!

My layout is about our trip to Florida last year, and the walk I took with my husband down through Venice. This photo is of me goofing around on the big gorgeous trees on the boardwalk. I matted it on a frayed piece of material, but wanted to give it an "aged" look, so I folded it up a bit and then sprayed it with Antique Linen distress ink (got the idea from this great post at iCopic). For the background, I started by clear-embossing a plane stamp from my stash. Then I distressed the whole thing in Antique Linen and Mustard, and stamped some more planes in those colors. For a final touch, I used my Stampin' Around wheel that I won from my very first Stampin' Dymonz blog candy! I used Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint (blue and green).

I used the template I created for my Dimensional Tag to make a shaker on one side of the tag. I stuck some shells and shark teeth in there (Venice is the "shark tooth capital of the world").

I didn't have any ephemera, so I grabbed a classic postcard from the internet, printed and distressed it.

I stamped the shells onto the "bottlecap" pieces with StazOn and then colored them with Copics (after drying them).


Inspiration:
Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space Challenge #1: Scrapbook Layout, Tim Holtz Style

Supplies: Stampin' Around Wheel by Stampin' Up!, Shell stamps by Hero Arts, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Recollections cardstock, Fiskars papercutter and tear edger, Crop-O-Dile II, pop-dots, metal embellishments from Li'l Davis Designs

Poets vs Dragon

While shopping during the Holidays, we saw this cute dragon dog toy and thought we'd entertain ourselves by watching our dogs chew out the 11 squeakers. What we didn't expect was our dogs taking so long to disembowel it; our Walt (the dark one) can destroy a toy in under a minute if he's feeling like it. It was a bit pricey, but I said Ooh, wouldn't that make a great scrapbooking project! and so we brought it home. The dogs are used to having their picture taken by now, and I was able to get some great shots over the past few weeks.


The stuffed dragon also gave me a great excuse to use the Stampin' Up! Chinese-y stamps I haven't had occasion to use yet. I couldn't believe how great the fortune cookies came out after I colored them with copics! And yes, that's an actual fortune from a cookie we got from carry-out: "Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today."

The base paper is a lovely, pre-glittered piece Mom sent me that I've been saving for such a project; I cut the frames and circles on my Cricut. The round stamps were lovely on their own, but for fun I embossed with them with gold.

I whipped together the title piece in SCAL, and "printed" and cut it on the Cricut. The layout sketch is courtesy of SplitCoastStampers' weekly scrapbook layout sketch challenge, which really brought all the elements together.

Inspiration: SBSC269

Supplies: HP Brochure paper, Recollections cardstock, stash decorative paper, Cricut personal cutter, SCAL software, Tim Holtz scissors, ZipDry glue, 09 KutUps dingbat font by Clever Someday, Memento ink, MeltArt embossing powder, Marvy heat tool, rubber stamps from Stampin' Up!

Scrappin' the Garden

I realized recently that I have almost no scrapbooking examples on my blog. It was only recently that I focused so completely on cardmaking; for the longest time, I mostly made memory books. Of course, most of those got sent off to family, so I have few examples in my home either. So I decided to make a memory book of our garden this year. As inspiration I used the If It's Groovy Birds challenge.

I used a paisley for the birds, my new favorite trick. I also incorporated the info stakes that came with our plants.




Inspiration: If It's Groovy November challenge: Birds
Cutting files: Design Elements and A2 Cards for All Occasions from SVGCuts.com
Supplies: Recollections & Core'dinations cardstocks, ZipDry glue, Fiskars papercutter, Cricut personal cutter, SCAL2 software, HP printer & ink, Adobe InDesign & PhotoShop, Michaels brads & ribbon, Grumbacher pastels, Pebbles Inc. pom poms, Pergamano reverse-action tweezers, AquaNet hairspray, Xyron sticker machine (sticker machine!)