SYC: Twine

This month the SYC challenge is to make a project using some form of twine. I used some May Arts Jute string and tied two bows. One bow in the tag's hole and another at the top around the black Postagram logo. The supply list is below, though two of the papers are "vintage" in the scrapbooking world, so I wasn't able to link them. This is really a layout that is made up of a lot of layered scraps, including the two die cuts. I had them laying on my desk for a quite a while, so I finally gave them a forever home. :)  

Supply List:

*May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap	*American Tag ALTERED ART TAG SET Paper Art Collage 21001 Ticket Tags Label Sale	Distress Inks	Ink Blending Tool	Bazzill Kraft	*American Crafts Dear Lizzy NEOPOLITAN 6 x 6 Paper Pad	*American Crafts Amy Tangerine SHAPED PAPER CLIPS 16 Pieces
*American Crafts Amy Tangerine DAYBOOK Die Cut Cardstock Shapes	*October Afternoon KEY CAPS Sticky Keys Stickers SS291	OA Tin Pins	*Studio Calico HEARTS & ARROWS Wood Veneer Shapes 331051	*s5-019 Spellbinders Nestabilities LABELS 8 Eight	Echo Park Paradise Pad

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Thanks so much for stopping by today, please stop by the SYC blog and see the wonderful creations they have waiting for you!

 Inky and glittery fingers for all!
 -Gaby  

Entered into Simon Says Stamp and Show's Layered Challenge!

SYC: Embossing!

This month the challenge at SYC is to make a project with embossing! It can be dry and/or heat embossing. I chose to use heat embossing and a bit of resist with mists. I stamped the Lawn Fawn Chevrons in Versa Mark, sprinkled some clear embossing powder over it, tapped off the excess, and heat with my heat tool. Once cooled I spritzed October Afternoon's Art Box mists over it and dabbed off the excess that pooled on top of the embossing. Then I unscrewed the mist's caps and sprinkled and splattered some more of the paint. I also misted the Studio Calico wooden cameras with the white mist and dried with my heat gun. The tags were really cool and had that vintage carbon underneath to make an impression copy of my handwriting. Once I was done with the writing I smudged the carbon into the tag some more for extra vintage goodness. Reminded me of when I was a kid in the late 80's and used to play in my mom's office. I attached the tags with my tiny attacher and some ATG glue. Finished it off with the Instagram Stamp included in the Adventure stamp set from Studio Calico stamped on some Lawn Fawn paper and punched out. My pictures are from Postagram for Instagram and I just adore them! If you click through my link: http://sincerely.com/u/scfdwf you'll get five Postagrams free!!

I hope you liked my layout and will try out the challenge this month at SYC!! I know you all have heaps of embossing tools you have been neglecting! Get them out and have fun! Get to it ladies and show me what you can do with all your embossing goodness!!!! Click the blinky below to see more inspiration!



Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Bazzill Fig Cardstock	Lawn Fawn Chevron Backdrop	*American Crafts Zing! CLEAR Embossing Powder 27170	*October Afternoon ART BOX Sprinklers SI933	*Studio Calico CAMERAS Wood Veneer Shapes 331033	Studio Calico Adventure Stamps
Lawn Fawn Petite Paper Pack	*American Tag ALTERED ART TAG SET Paper Art Collage 21001 Ticket Tags Label Sale	Distress Inks	*EK Success 2.5"" CIRCLE Punch 54-30046	*Precision Heat Embossing Emboss Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200	*Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY ATTACHER Stapler Tool Mini Staples TH92800

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*Entered into Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes Challenge!
*Entered into Craft your passion challenges: Challenge 114 ~ ANYTHING GOES !

SCY: Chipboard!

This month at SYC the challenge is to use chipboard on your project. I used chipboard from October Afternoon for the large camera at the bottom and chipboard from American Crafts for the heart at the top of the page. I cut out two pieces of cardstock and ran a strip in teal woodgrain washi tape down the crease of them. I painted a brown frame with mists and a paint brush and layered my photo on a piece of cream cardstock I distressed with vintage photo ink and stamped with a Hero Arts news print stamp. Punched out a circle on a piece of Kraft and placed an October Afternoon tin pin with the same camera on it and also fussy cut some Kraft around the chipboard camera.. On my Cricut I cut a doily in Kraft cardstock and adhered it down and trimmed off what was hanging over the edge to make a half circle. Then layered on the chipboard heart on top of the doily with a flag I wrote on. Added some journaling at the bottom and added a thickers title on the right.

Now it's your turn if you'd like to take part in this month's challenge! Create any project you'd like and include chipboard, that's the only rule! Have fun and use up all those spare scrap items you've been hoarding! :)

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

SYC, Use Only Paper!

This month the challenge at SYC is to make a project entirely out of just paper! I cheated a little and used Thickers, but in the end they're made out of paper ...so that counts, right? I started out laying down three pictures of me last summer when I had a frizz explosion on a 12x12 piece of Kraft cardstock. My husband and I were meeting friends down in Wilmington, NC and I was running late. I knew I wouldn't have time to let my hair air dry curly. So I went against my better judgment and blow dried my hair knowing once I went out, it wouldn't be long till my hair frizzed out. So I took a picture before I left the comfort of my central air conditioned house, one when we got the the restaurant, and one when I returned home. Anyways, that's the back story to this layout and my evolution of frizz! Gosh, it is tough being a curly girl in the South!!

After adhering the three 4x6 photos I cut up different scrap paper in two by four inch pieces on my paper trimmer. I inked the edges lightly with Hero Arts ink in Wet Cement to give them all something to tie them together. Then I adhered them down laying each on top of the other piece. This gave it a little more dimension. I cut a die cut in Cream out on my Silhouette and then cut a tiny strip of Kraft cardstock. I took the tiny piece of Kraft and adhered it to the die cut and then rounded the edges. I took a white gel pen and wrote summer sideways on it, then took the Thickers and spelled out my title. Underneath the pictures I placed a cream strip that I cut with a punch. Then I took the gel pen and journaled a bit and then took a black marker and wrote on the punched trim, "Humidity is a curly girl's worst enemy!"

I hope you liked my layout and will try out the challenge this month at SYC!! I know you all have heaps of paper you have been hoarding or scraps that are taking over your crafty nook! Get to it ladies and show me what you can do with paper!!! Click the blinky below to see more inspiration!




Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Pleased to announce I am now on the SYC Design Team!!

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I was soooo excited to find out I had been chosen for the SYC design team!! I have waaaay too much scrapping materials! I am even too ashamed to let my crafty friends see my little craft nook because I have stuff laying everywhere!! It's not my fault I keep telling myself, you only have a quarter of an already small room to work with! Sure, that may be true but it doesn't mean I have to become a hoarder with my paper or my buttons. I like how with the SYC DT you have to use up your old stuff, you can't buy new stuff! I must admit I still buy things that aren't consumables like stamps or die cut templates. For now the only consumables I buy are adhesives and my Studio Calico kit, but hey, I'm under contract!! lol Seriously though ...no more stickers, no more washi tapes, no more buttons, no more mists, no more twine, and for goodness sakes no more PAPER!! I have a Doodlebug paper cube and it's completely full, what is wrong with me?? Gah! I've also been consumed by cards as of late, which is awesome, I love making them! However, my poor scrapbook hasn't had a new page made for it since December up until now!!! This will now change!

So for my first ever SYC DT project it was to use washi tapes! Yay, I only have about a gazillion of those laying haphazardly all over my craft nook, easy peasy! I lined them up on a piece of scrap cardstock I had laying on my floor (srsly, what is wrong with me?) and layered on top of some of the thicker washi tapes so that they were nearly all the same width. Then I cut flags at the bottom, alternating between larger deeper flag cuts and smaller flag cuts. I used that as a mat for the adorable picture of my cat and my husband. Before I added the photo I sprinkled mists all over the cardstock and the washi piece I made with drips and splats. Then once that dried I added the photo and the chipboard & stickers. I journaled a little then decided I needed more embellishment, so I made my own with more washi tape, cardstock, stickers, buttons, and twine. All of course I had on hand! Egads!!!

Click the link below to check out the SYC blog! Lots of inspiration and awesome ways to use up all the stuff you've been hoarding for that Zombie scrap apocalypse attack that will surely come! You know the one where she that has the most scrapbooking materials lives the longest? Right, lol!



Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Baby Sister.

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I took a wee break from making a gazillion and one Christmas cards to do a page for my 2011 album. I didn't really have a plan going into this page, but I liked how it turned out in the end.

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I have been dying to use the baby girl tickets from Jenni Bowlin and I finally found a good spot for them with this page. I Copic colored in the hair bows and added some cheek circles with a light pink Copic marker. I had a left over die cut woodgrain embossed heart I made for another page, but made it the wrong size. I kept it and thought I'd finally use it to add a touch of "boy" to this girly layout for my nephew, Keegan. I layered everything on top of a Jenni Bowlin bingo card for May. I also painted with Jenni Bowlin's malted milk paint with a dry brush and misted over the paint in blue to make the frame pop a smidge more.

OK, back to making more Christmas cards! It's scary when Thanksgiving has passed and you've only made a small dent into your Christmas cards! I'm such a procrastinator!!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Favorite Christmas Layout

Shimelle Laine asked her blog followers to post our favorite Christmas project that wasn't new. This is an older page that I made to scrap our Christmas card. I've only been scrapping for two years so I didn't have much to choose from, but this is definitely my favorite.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Mixing different letter stickers/thickers on a layout.

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Two Peas is having an event called, 14 Days of Tricks and Treats. Each day they come up with a different "trick" to use in paper crafting and award a treat to one of the Peas who comment on the daily posts. For day 11 they asked you to mix up your title by using different stickers and thickers rather than just using one type. On this layout I used some Amy Tangerine thickers, October afternoon rocket age letter stickers, and some Sassafras letter stickers from a past Studio Calico kit. This is a great technique to use when you're running low on letters from different sets.
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For the overall layout, I just cut a bunch of random papers, journaled and stamped on two tags, and attached some Studio Calico chipboard butterflies. The super cute orange heart and camera sticker by the title is from Amy Tangerine for American Crafts. After everything was adhered I masked off the pictures and misted the whole page with Perfect Pearls mist.

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my blog post!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby