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Today I am grateful for friends and neighbors who watch out for others.  Thanksgiving is tomorrow and a friend didn’t know what my plans were but decided to bring me a pie to help celebrate. I am grateful to those who hearken to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. #GiveThanks

Today I am grateful for friends and neighbors who watch out for others.  Thanksgiving is tomorrow and a friend didn’t know what my plans were but decided to bring me a pie to help celebrate. I am grateful to those who hearken to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. #GiveThanks

 

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Today I am grateful for being able to see.  My Mom taught me when I was very young, she encouraged my poor attempts until I got better.  Sewing is one of my escapes; it allows me to be relaxed & creative.#GiveThanks

 

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Today I am grateful for Ward, Stake & Church leaders who still do their callings.  Who care enough to guide people.  Prepare lessons and messages to help the Saints stay strong & true.  #GiveThanks

 

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 Today I am grateful forFamily.  All my family in both sides of the veil.  The guidance and comfort they bring.  Knowing we can have long gaps of not speaking but still come together and be a family.

Grateful God believes the eternity of families and has given us that piece of heaven on earth.#GiveThanks

 

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 In this simple picture there is so much to be grateful for.  The morning sun rising to bring warmth to the day.  A flock of birds that remind us God knows us & watches over us.  Phone lines that help us stay connected when the distance is too much to get together.  Power lines that provide heat & electricity for warmth & lights.  Local businesses who have managed to stay alive and continue to provide services to community even with restrictions.  Trees resting for winter that still provide a place of rest for the birds, shade and a reminder to us all to stand true & strong.

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For the Guys - Geometric

I was watching a scrapbook video where the individual was going through paper pads.  A paper that caught my attention was one tat was columns of diamonds with lines about a quarter an inch apart which added texture and interest.  I originally thought I would re-create columns of diamonds to use on a layout of my brother's graduation from law school.  I was g  through fabric scraps and came across blue & gold that matched the colors on the commemoration booklet.  On copier paper I created my diamond so I could use it to cut out diamonds out of my fabric scraps.

THis was going to be a 2 page layout.  Not a lot of pictures but lots of information.  For the Left page I created a pocket of two rows of diamonds to hold the large booklet.  The pocket base is blue foil which enhances the gold shimmer & brings the blue forward.

On the right side page of the layout I added two rows of diamonds to replicate the pocket design.  Next to them a placed a photo mounted on blue foil.  These chairs are empty symbolizing waiting.  The bottom half of the page is the commemorative pamphlet for the graduating class.  On the inside upper flap I added the pictures of the graduates marching across the stage to get recognized. On the front of the Commemorative pamphlet I added a blue foil arrow which would become the base for journaling

 

Scrap Academy Mood Board Challenge

For Scrap Academy this last week they had a Mood Board Challenge.  I like Mood Boards, they have so many interesting helps.  For this particular challenge you had to pick 5 minor details after studying the mood board.

This mood board has lots of small details.  One of the first things I noticed was the black/white floral pattern on tea cup - it reminded me of a piece of paper I had in my scrap booking supplies.  In the picture with brooms I picked up the yellows & greens of the oak leaves in fall.  With a close up inspection the upper middle picture I discovered that the little girls coat was a dark brick red - I din''t have something dark enough but close to.  The twigs behind the pumpkins intrigued me and began bringing the layout together.  I decide to use the Acorns & browns as my final  mood board item.

I had beautiful fall photos from a shoot taken of my niece.  Her top would be beautiful with the color scheme I had chosen.  I decided the black/white floral would be used as a border strip down either end to bring in the tea cup pattern.  I decided to try embossing paste & dyeing.  I used 3 different shades of brown & a black alcohol marker.  I stamped the color on my black & mixed with embossing paste.  I couldn't get th ecolor dark enough but decided it would make an excellent  twiggy border along the bottom of my layout.  I used my pine needle layout & spread the embossing past through it to get a twiggy base.  To add some more twigs I used mu dark brown & black alcohol markers to trace branches using another stencil on top of the dried embossing paste.

I used my oak leaf stencil to trace oak leaves on to scraps of yellow green paper.  Using scraps of light & dark brown I created mini acorns to add to the bases of my oak leaf to add interest & texture.  BElow is my finished layout using this mood board.

 

Easy Ink Blending

For this class I decided to do Faux Watercolor Swatch Tags.  I pulled out my medium tag maker stencil. & scrap white card stock in several weights.  By making Swatch  tags  they could be used on my layouts as well as help become re familiar with all my ink colors.

For most of the tags I used two colors.  U used make-up pads as my blending tool.  I would wrap the make up pad around the tip of my finger, dab into ink pad then barely touch it to water.  Then I used a circular motion to add the color the tag.  For my re-inkers.I placed one drop on the make-up pad, barely touched water  then applied with circular motion. 

Some of my lighter weight papers didn't work as well with the water so it was great experience.  I realized that as I did the tags by color family that some of my inks had ended up in the wrong color family so I could rearrange color families properly.  I was actually shocked by how many different shades in a color family I have with some color families. 

Color Families:

1.  Pink - Red

2.  Orange & Brown (alot of my browns ended up having orange tones)

3.  Yellow

4.  Greens

5.  Blues

6. Purples

7.  Metallics, Black & Gray

 

Clean & Simple Boutique Cards

After watching all the Clean & Simple Boutique Cards  I pulled these supplies to enhance My November Rosess. These poor Rosses were so confused, these pictures were taken in Utah in Mid-November.  They were beautiful for so late in the season.  

I decided how I wanted the 2 photos to lay on the page.  . I decided I needed to stamp a partial background.  I found a Rose stamp that was perfect for Heat Embossing.  I stamped the image in Clear ink then Heat Embossed with Altenew Peach Parfait.  In the final layout there was two section of Heat Embossed Roses.  After Heat Embossing the pencil lines used for stamping guidelines were erased.

Using a color book page of roses I traced a my favorite with a Hot Pink Gel pen.  I cored the Rose using 7 different Pink Colored pencils.  I used the three darkest in the center; starting with the lightest. Used the three lightest on the out side edges and the three medium color for the center petal sections. I decided to layer Hot Pink Foil behind the flower to help accent the center of the Rose.  Then I decided to heat emboss a Butterfly in the center of the Rose using Altenew Peach Parfait.  I discovered quite quickly this doesn't work.  The Foil shrinks and comes un-atteched from the main design.  I ended up cutting another piece of foil but learned my lesson

I loved the interior of the envelop and thought they looked beautiful with my rose picture.  I used the flap from the envelope for the corner under the Rose.  Across the top I cut an 1 in strip to help ground the corner pice.  To help bring in the Hot pink Foil I added a 1/2 in strip down the center of the Rose border.  While digging through Color blended Tags I found a perfect tag that complimented the Roses, Fussy cut out the Roses on top of the Stationary; added to the bottom of the page which brought the Rose pattern paper across the the layout.  For a title I used Hot Pink Glitter letters.  To bring the Hot pink across the page I used tiny Hot Pink glitter flowers from the Alphabet sheet.

 

All About Layering Experiment

The Experiment:  Use Altenew Tulip Layering Stamp & PAint a Flower Daffodil Stamps to create the leaf base of an Iris.  I know Altenew has an Iris Layering stamp but Irises aren't my favorite flower & I don't use them in a project enough to justify buying the stamp.

This year has being crazy & I spent alot of time studying the Flowers in my Aunt & Uncle's yard.  They have a row of purple Bearded Iris that are in the same bed as the Tulips.  This year the Irises came up first,lasted a week and were gone..  

I began by using the the Daffodil Cluster From Altenew Paint a Flower Daffodil Set.  I stamped the image on piece of regular piece of copier paper.  I then proceeded to cut out the Daffodill flowers; these were used ro mask the stamp so I would get the image I wanted.  The image was then stamped with Clover Meadow on a piece of scrap paper the same color as my background paper.  I decided at this time more leaves would be needed to make Iris leaves.  I drew them in using Altenew Alcohol Marker  G715

For the Iris Stem I used the tall stem from the Tulip Layering stamp.  I stamped using Versatile Clear embossing Ink Pad.  The stem was heat embossed in Clover Meadow.  This gave finished the base for my Iris flowers.  At this time I wasn't sure I even liked the design it just looked like a mess at the bottom of my paper.

To create my Bearded Iris Flower I resized a coloring book page image.  I colored it using 3colored pencils, light. medium & dark.  I used Altenew Alcohol Marker W603 to bring out details of Floral.  To further enhance the details I used a Q-tip to add Versatile Clear Ink to the details .  I heat embossed with lilac powder.

I wasn't sure I liked this layout until I added the pictures.  I am quite happy with how this layout turned out.

 

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All About Layering 2

When I looked at Altenew's Tulip layering Stamp I felt the open Tulip could be used for a rose.  I had some beautiful Autumn Rose pictures from this last October.  I am not normally a Rose person but when they are stubborn & bloom out of season they make me smile.  With these pictures in mind I set out to pick colors & experiment.

I chose three different sets of three colors in the red, orange & yellow color families.  Trying to bring out the flowers in the pictures.  The colors are in base  to outline order, the first Tulip is Mango Smoothy, Taffy, Sorbet, the second Tulip is Coral Bleu, Orange Red, Tulip & the third flower is Peach Parfait, Baby Pink, Blush.

Using my Altenew Re-Inkers, Mango Smoothy, Coral Bleu, & Peach Parfait I used a makeup pad to apply color to stamp.  If you want a lighter color slightly wet the spot on the pad where ink be.  After experimenting I felt I was ready to begin.  At this time my focus changed slightly.  Now I would be using the Altenew Tulip Layering Stamp as Tulips.  I discovered the following picture from April 2020 and decided to do a story of a Tulip Border.

The colors in this photo go dark to light across the page left to right.  I love telling the story of bloom opening.  The morning sun shines across this patch of Tulips adding texture & interest.  Starting with base and moving up to outline my colors for this row of tulips is:

1.  Holiday Red, Tulip, Cranberry

2.  Orange Red (satmped twice), Holiday Red, Tulip

3.  Orange Red (stamped once), Holiday Red, Tulip

4.  Coral Bleu (painted & stamped twice), Orange Red, Tulip

5.  Coral Bleu (watered down & stamped once).  Baby Pink, Blush

The leaves are also tri layered.  They were done in Seafoam, Clover Meadow, Clover Meadow.  The following image shows the difference between level 2 & level 5 and how using tri layered stamps add interest & depth.

For te Makeup Pad Technique I have mentioned several times here is a clearer explanation.  Re-Inkers are designed to bring new life to an ink pad.  I find them useful for mixed media scrap booking as well.  When you have nk in a bottle and no pad you get creative.  Makeup Pads are cheap.  Ink Pads can be a pain to store & come in so many different shapes & sizes..  I will put a drop or two, depending on how dark I want my color, onto the pad.  If I want it extremely light at this point I just dab my wet stamp cleaner pad lightly.  After I get the color I want I paint the stamp in either a swirl motion or up & down motion until I get the color on the stamp intensity I want.  I then stamp my image.

This beautiful Tulip border is now ready to be added to a scrapbook layout or card front.  It can be cut apart or used as is.

 

 

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All About Layering 1

For All About Layering 1 I, used the Lily Layering stamp from Altenew.  I used Close to my Heart ink pads & Altenew Alcohol markers. My inspiration was my 2020 Lily Bed pictures.  For accents I added green & yellow to help balance the layout and bring in my favorite lily colors from my Father's lily bed..

I stamped six lilies in the following color combinations:

Green Lily - I used layer 2, from the main tulip image,  stamped in Sweet Leaf.  Center of flower was stamped in Clover Green..To finish the Lily I used a Crayola Colored Pencil Light Green to color of the image.

White Lilies - The first one did not turn out.  I used Grey Flannel for the base color.  With the third layer I stamped in white, oping it would pop, it didn't..  Using the second and Versatile Clear Stamp I prepped for heat embossing.  The second layer was heat embossed with Kaleidoscope. It turned out to dark.  I outlined it with Altenew Alcohol Marker G775 and Red highlights with R378.

The Second white lily turned to be probably my favorite.  I stamped the base in White Daisy, the second layer was in Grey Flannel & third layer in White Daisy.  I did a second third layer in Versatile Clear & heat embossed with Kaliedoscope.  I outlined the flower with Altenew Alcohol Marker W603.  The Stamen was stamped with blush.

Yellow Lily - Using Altenew Re-Inker Mango & a make-up pad I I colored the base image.  Layer 2 was stamped with Taffy.  The Stamen stamp I cored with Altenew Alcohol Marker Y608

Orange Lily - Base layer was stamped in Taffy.  The second layer was stamped in Sorbet.  Stamen were colored Altenew Alcohol Marker G775.

Pink Lily -  Base was stamped in Blush, layer 2 in Amethyst & layer 3 in Iris.  The stamen were stamped in Honey.

Leaves - Leaf base for 6 leaves is Sweet Green.  The second layer was done Versatile Clear ink & Heat Embossed with Clover Green

Below is the completed layout.  All 6 lilies were used and the ones I hated have grown on me.  All in all it is a simple layout but the lilies help to enhance the pictures.  Thanls for following on this first class journey.

All About Layering 1& 2

 The first 2 classes are All About Layering Stamps.  There are different stamps introduced in these 20 lessons..  Most of the Altenew layering stamps are florals.  I’m not big on florals. I do have two - Tulips & Lily.  Of all the layering stamps I looked at these were my favorites and came up with many ideas.

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I look to my other stamps to see what else I have that are layering stamps.  In my Close to My Heart Collection I found 9.  

Now I was over halfway and had many options for creating.  As I was sitting staring  at all the stamp sets laying on my table I saw a possible layering opportunity using  two different sets to stamp stem & leaf base with a colored fussy cut flower top.

As I was looking at the Program requirements I realized I had jumped the gun.  I don't need to do a project for each lesson but a minimum of one per a class show casing what I have learned.  Depending on inspiration for each class there could be multiple layouts per a class.  Please come join me on this journey 

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