All That Scrap For Me

I'm posting again already :) ... I'm quite proud of myself LOL. This little card was special ordered by a friend of mine. I take a lot of pride in my work and hope that I have earned a new customer. In case you didn't know, I have my own company, Fancy Paper Company in which I create specialized cards, invitations, scrapbooks, etc. This card is also serving another purpose ... Katie Cotton, owner of Paper Makeup Stamps , has set up a new Facebook business page for Paper Makeup Stamps . She's got a little contest going on to feature her stamps. Whichever card receives the most "likes" under the Feb Fan Favorite Contest will receive a $20 gift certificate! I've submitted my card and would very much appreciate you "liking" my card. Please click HERE to vote and "like" my card ... voting will end March 6. So, the details of my card are pretty simple. I found this general sketch on the Split Coast Stampers website. The brown card base is p...

Hey y'all! Wow I am so falling behind on my goal to post more on my blog this year! Here's a little post for the monthly Sketch Challenge being put on by Shannon White over at http://scraplady324.blogspot.com/ . She creates her own unique sketches and provides them to a group of her fellow scrappers. This was the sketch for the month of February: This month, I took the traditional approach to scrapbooking and made a 12 x 12 layout. Since we do not have any human children (yet!), I of course had to scrap my furry baby girl, Freckles. I had lots of fun with this sketch. She loves chasing lasers and these are a few pictures I was able to snap quickly before she ran off after it. Be sure to check out Shannon's blog so you can see all the samples using this fabulous sketch! Happy scrapping!! :)

Shannon White over at http://scraplady324.blogspot.com/ is hosting a Sketch Blog Challenge each month. She creates her own unique sketches and provides them to a group of her fellow scrappers. This was the sketch for the month of January: I decided to do this sketch using digital scrapbooking since I'm just getting into it. I had so much fun!! I can't wait for next month's challenge :). Make sure you check out Shannon's blog HERE .

So, one of my goals for 2011 is to learn how to digitally scrapbook. I don't think that I will go total digi as I've got too much money invested in my current supplies. Also, I like to "touch" and work with actual product and just don't get this doing digital stuff. Anyway, this first layout was done using completely free stuff I found on the internet. I have no idea where it came from as I downloaded it a while ago. This is a super simple layout since it's only my first try. Anyway, just thought this was a fun way to ring in the New Year. Freckles (dog below) and I send you all a big Happy New Year wish!!

Hello! Thanks for stopping by my little spot of craftiness. I’m very excited to be a part of the December Fan Club Blog Hop for Paper Makeup Stamps . If you’ve been hopping along today, then you probably got here from Simonne Clay’s blog SemSee’s Sparkly Scribblings . If you haven’t stopped by her place yet, be sure to do so as her creations are amazing!! If you’ve gotten lost along the way, just take a peek at the listing below to get back on track. Without further ado, here’s my little creation for Paper Makeup Stamps … This was so much fun to create! The sentiment is of course by Paper Makeup Stamps and is the May the Spirit of Christmas Wordart . I absolutely love this sentiment! This will surely be one of my “go to” stamps this year for my Christmas cards. Other details of this card … I used the Stampin’ Up Snowfall Printed Window Sheets for the base of my card. For my layers of cardstock, I used Bazzill Dotted Swiss Cardstock . I’ve been turning to this cardstock a lot lately ...

I absolutely love this time of year. I really like seeing the color changes in the leaves. So, naturally I was drawn to this canvas class with the gorgeous fall colors. This class was offered by the only remaining scrapbook store in Greenville, SC - Scrapnesia . The fabulous Katie Cotton , owner of Paper Makeup Stamps taught this class. She is an absolute master at airbrushing with the Copic markers and I was really happy to learn how to do this project from her. Now, of course I can't tell you exactly how we made this as this was a class I had to pay for and that wouldn't be fair to Scrapnesia or Katie. The leaves were cut using the Cricut. She made a stamp out of the Cricut stamping material which allowed the stamped image to match exactly to our diecut leaves. The stamped sentiment is from Paper Makeup Stamps . The flourish bling is Say it in Crystals by Prima. We used the YR family of Copics to make this canvas wall hanging. It measures approximately 8x8 in size and took ...

So, one of my very favorite things right now are the embossing folders by Cuttlebug, Sizzix and QuicKutz. They are wonderful at adding just a bit of pizzaz while keeping it quick and easy. So, I thought it would be neat to play with an embossing folder at one of my card classes I teach at a local scrapbook store, Scrapnesia. I have tons of these little folders and it was hard choosing the perfect one for this project. I've been using these little fleur de lises on several other projects so I decided to stick with this theme. The original intent with this project was going to be to use paint on the embossed piece of paper and then use my sanding block and alcohol inks to antique the piece of paper. However, I learned a very valuable lesson on my first attempt. Kaisercraft Acrylic Paint and Ranger Alcohol Inks do not play nice together!! My tube of paint was pink and my ink was brown. After I painted and sanded the embossed paper, I went to apply the ink with the ink applicator a...