Shopping Our Stash #83: All White or Cream

I love tone on tone cards and the "All White or Cream" examples the design team made for the Shopping Our Stash Challenge #83 are just gorgeous! There so much texture going on there so I decided to use an embossing folder on my card too. I definitely "shopped my stash" and used a chipboard shape and some brads that I've had for a long while. The sentiment stamp set is very old but the fowers are more current. The cream colored background mat was a scrap from my scrap drawer (yay!). I'm sorry about my picture being angled but it does border all the way around! I popped up my flowers and added 3-D flower ribbon for more dimension. Hope you like it!

Supplies Used (All CTMH except for the Cuttlebug Argyle Embossing folder) -

Stamp Pads: Bamboo, Cocoa

Paper: Scrap from Roxie, White Daisy Cardstock

Stamp Sets: (Retired) Birthday Script, (C1494) Card Word Puzzle

Embellishments: (Z1336) Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems, (Z1333) Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems, (Z1800) Colonial White Rosette Ribbon, (Z1151) 3D Foam Tape, Dimensional Elements Frame, Colonial White Brads

Tomorrow, I'll post more of my journaling cards that I'm premaking for my Project Life, CTMH style album.

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Busy, Busy, Busy!

The second session of my Kids' Scramping Art Camp is well under way. It is a lot of work but really fun! The girls are busy, busy, busy and doing a wonderful job on their various projects.

Do these look familiar? We started off with card boxes again on Monday. I love how they all put their own creative slant on them. I had precut some elements like rose spirals with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge. Even though rolling up the roses isn't necessarily easy for little hands, they did a great job with it. Liquid Glass was also a big hit. I showed them how to use it to make dew drops on their roses. They used it for that and to put other details in, such as the veins on the leaves or just extra dimension here and there.

It was cute that they all happened to wear flip flops on Tuesday. I couldn't resist taking a picture!

On Tuesday, we worked on making jewelry. Blogger is automatically turning my picture around, sorry!

Wednesday was all about painting and monograms! We painted and decorated large monograms.

We also made a framed chipboard monogram collage--the girls either stamped, sponged, glittered, or did some sort of combo on each of their chipboard monograms and then they put them on some cardstock. This was eventually put into a frame they had painted.

One thing the girls enjoyed was finding out that you could use a pencil eraser as a stamp to make polka dots!

 

Our last technique today was to use the waterbrush. I showed them how to stamp with a lined image and then how to squeeze a closed stamp pad and use the open stamp pad as a palette to pick up some color.

Whew! I just love it that they are all interested and absorbed by the activities we are doing!
I am also going to be a vendor at the Tri Delta Crop for a Cure coming up this Saturday! I love this crop. It's a fun group and a great cause. I guess it's busy season again!

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Kids' Summer Scramp Camp 2012

The first week of my little camp has gotten underway! I try to offer a balance of free choice and "follow along" projects so that I can teach techniques but also give the kids some freedom to explore. After all, it's not fun if you're totally restricted in your creativity, right? Our first project was decorating a card box. I precut the Roxie papers using the Art Philosophy cartridge on the Cricut and with a paper trimmer to fit the card boxes, but the girls could decide which side of the paper to use and how to place their elements on their card boxes. They also chose how and if they wanted to add their pearl stickers and what color button to use. So while it was somewhat guided, there still was some free choice.  What I love to see is how different the projects turn out even with all the same or similar elements. I didn't get pictures of all the boxes but here are a few.

Tomorrow we will work on making some jewelry with scrapbooking papers. I hope they turn out well!

Now that school has ended for both me and my kids, I'm hoping I can post a bit more often. I have some projects just waiting to get photographed. I think it's also helpful to me that I switched back to the older Blogger interface. The new one is not intuitive for me! Although I do know that I will have to switch back to it soon, I figured I will use the old one while I can.

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Roxie Mojo 205

I fought my natural tendency to hoard and actually cut into my new pack of Roxie papers yesterday! I really like the Mojo Monday sketch for this week so this is what I used for inspiration.

I used Close To My Heart's 6" x 6" Kraft Die Cut cards for the first time as well. I mainly make standard sized cards but it was fun working with this size. So here's my take on the sketch.

The Kraft cards have a little scalloped edge that folds over the front. Here is a picture of the card with the scalloped edge showing.

And here's a closer view with it a little flatter.

I've been having fun with my new Cricut cartridge and cut out the "label" on which I stamped Happy Birthday with it as well as the spirals for the roses. Lisa Stenz has a great video tutorial about making the roses and rolling the edges down with a toothpick (it's a little easier if your flowers are larger). You can see her tutorial by clicking here. Anyway, in the midst of all this earthquake and hurricane hubbub, there I was yesterday, in my happy place, making paper roses! Very therapeutic!

I also cut my leaves with the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge but I bent them here and there and then sponged ink on them to give the look of veins.

Supplies used: (Z1474) 6" X 6" Kraft Die-Cut Cards & Envelopes, (D1475) Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set, (X7140B) Roxie Level 2 Paper Packet, (Z1616) Designer Ribbon Green Collection, (Z1686) Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection, (Z1387) Wooden Designer Buttons, (Z1333) Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems,(Z282) Black Hemp, (Z2105) Black stamp pad, (Z2111) Chocolate stamp pad for sponging, Green textured paper

I am happy to report that we were not woken up with an aftershock last night (for the first time since the earthquake occured). We were, of course, lucky that the earthquake did not cause any damage...as far as we can tell. I hope we can say the same for Hurricane Irene in a couple of days!

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