We're Almost There...........Oregon Bound!

Looking forward to cool temperatures, walking along the beach and stuffing ourselves with seafood!

Digital scrapbook pages using the new Club Scrap kit Dream in Color. Isn't it Gorgeous?!

Club Scrap Die Cut BlogHop

It's time for a Club Scrap Bloghop, Yeah!!!!! For my project, I used the Tim Holtz Ideology butterfly die with Milestones purple paper for the butterfly skeleton and Raku print for the filler of the butterfly wings. I also used a homemade polymer clay bead colored with Perfect Pearls and some beads and wire from my stash for the body of the butterfly.

Here is the order of the hop:


http://www.pagesofpictures.com
http://chrissiecreations.blogspot.com/
http://scraphappysistersink.blogspot.com/
http://www.capecodscrapper.blogspot.com/
http://www.creatingwithconnie.blogspot.com/
http://orezonia.blogspot.com/ (you are here)
http://squirrelyart.blogspot.com/
http://wbellino.blogspot.com/
http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/


Hop on over to Nancy's blog to see some more Club Scrap diecut creations.

GrungyMonday6

Well, I put it off as long as I could and then decided to combine this challenge with our May Lottery challenge over at PAO. This week we're in the wayback machine and using one of Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas as our foundation. I used some white paint along with the Weathered Wood and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks. I made a packing tape transfer of a vintage image and added a TH phrase stamp and tissue flower topped with one of my own handmade dictionary paper flowers. Hop on over to Studio L3 to check out all the cool entries this week. mmmm......I'm having trouble adding links today and will need to troubleshoot.....sorry for the bother.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to both my mom and my grandma. Love this picture of us standing around gabbing and drinking coffee together in my mom's kitchen.

And a Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Have a great day!

I am a Butterfly

Club Scrap's new May kit Papillon is just spectacular. I was cruising the picture files and came across these favorites of me and my dad in Golden Gate Park in 1966. I immediately thought I looked like a butterfly flitting to all the flowers in the garden. What a perfect set of photos for this quick drop layout that came with the digi kit. Enjoy your Wednesday everyone!

GM5 Elements in a Niche

I am both tickled and honored to be a guest designer, along with Helen for this week's Grungy Monday Challenge. And the odd thing was, when Linda asked me to do this particular technique, I had already been planning on trying this for a unique way to display an atc swap. I guess we were on the same wave length. It all started when my friend Diana linked me up with this cute little book you can make from one sheet of 12x12 double sided paper. I thought, what a great way to hold all the atc's from a particular swap......and then I thought, how about putting 2 together and getting it to fan out and then mount on something so you could display it on the wall. I immediately thought of foam core and a niche and then I got Linda's email and I was off and running or crafting as the case may be. The 2 books I made are with some very old (10 years old, I think) text weight scrapbook paper and then glued (my first choice when gluing paper is Best Test Paper Cement--when they say it won't curl or shrink they mean it!) together in the middle. And, of course, I didn't measure that paper first and wouldn't you know one side was only 11.75 inches long so I ended up with 3 pages that were a little short on the outside edge. These are the edges I punched holes in and laced some fuzzy fibers through. After I got my niche made as per Tim's instructions, I covered all with Ideology paper and glued my book in. Now, it was time for the bling.

I edged the whole frame with some denim edging from Trims & Trinkets, not even glued, just pinned in with white headed straight pins directly into the foam core. The butterfly is from K&Company and the sparkly butterfly trail is pieced together from Recollections bling.

And finally, I used the letters from Club Scrap's Refresh collection to spell the word breathe in between the alphabet beads that spell out Elements (the title of the atc swap). These were all strung on a very thin bamboo stick taken from a placemat. All of the atcs loaded into the little book have an Elemental theme--Fire, Water, Air or Earth.

I hope you all are enjoying the Grungy Monday Challenges and don't forget to visit Helen my co-guest designer and the folks at All Things Tim. As always, I love it when you share your thoughts with me here.

Quilting in the Desert

About 3 weeks ago I went on a 4 day quilt retreat with my friend Maryann and did we ever have fun. I don't think I've ever sewn quite this much nor laughed so hard for so long in my life. I stayed up waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late, I mean 9 o'clock is my bedtime and I was up till midnight at least 2 nights. The theme for this retreat was "Life's a Beach", so we started off making beachy little name tags and drink holders and thinking about what we might like to make for the silent auction. I had already made a beach raggy bag, but I spent some time wandering around getting ideas for other lovely beach themed items.

I took along my Aloha Shirts and Bowties quilt to hopefully finish and I did! yeah! Just need to layer and quilt now and it will be complete. Roger has already claimed for his Oregon quilt so I guess I better get on it before we leave for the summer.

And then there was the entertainment.....................Three of our quilt members dressed up in bikini t-shirts and regaled us with little beach ditties every evening. I told you I never laughed so hard or so long.

And on a run into Oracle (very cute, quaint, desert town) for lunch we spotted this beautiful old stone church and stopped to take pics. Even the cemetary behind the church was beautiful.

I still have a few more pictures to scrap, but this was a good start. All the layouts are done with Club Scrap digi kits. The first is with the new Welcome kit, second with Expressions, third with Blossom and the last with Adobe. Enjoy your Easter week end everyone!