Dragon Boat Races

Good Morning,

I have actually posted 3 different post today so scroll down to view all of them. I live in Youngsville and there is a development called Sugar Mill Pond that is along the same lines as River Ranch just a little smaller scale. I have only been here 5 years and this subdivision started after I moved here. They are always having different activities and anyone is invited to attend. Since I live right across the highway we go to some of the activities. Every year they have what is called Reaux for Miles Dragon Boat Races. It's to raise money for the Miles Perret Center. I had never gone before, but this year my husband and I decided to go. It starts very early in the morning and there are all these groups there to race to help raise money for this center. It's wonderful to see the boats gliding across the calm water. Some teams are very serious and some are just there to have a laugh. But one thing is the same across the board, they are there because they care!!!

I enjoyed taking pictures that moring and knew I would have to do a layout. I used Bazzill dotted cardstock, K& Company paper for my matting of the pictures, I put together different swirlie stamps in the bottom corner, stamped a few dragon flies, stickled on top those, bling, and took different fibers and twisted them together for the dragons fire. A couple of the dragonflies are stickers that I put on black cardstock cut them out and then used the Perfect Pearls to give it a stained glass look.

Take Flight

My son, grandson, husband and nephew went with my dad to a Corvair meeting in New Orleans. One of the members flew in for the meeting which was held at a hanger. Even though the weather wasn't that great he took the boys up in his plane for a quick flight around the area.

I had a great time doing this layout. I used my Cricut for the title Take Flight and I cut out the plane using the new cart Stand and Salute. I tried to duplicate the plane as best I could. I was even able to read the numbers off of the picture and put it on the plane. The background paper is Little Yellow Bicycle. The only thing I want to do is add a tag somewhere for journaling.

Glitz Girls @TM

Hi Everyone,

I am sorry it's been a while since I have posted. I do not know where the summer has gone. My grandson stayed with us all summer and we had been very busy trying to keep a 7 year old entertained. I was trying to post all of my layouts in one, but I guess I had to many pictures. So I will have a few different post today. First I know I am behind but for those of you that didn't get to go to TM crop weekend in July you missed a really good one. I was only able to go for the classes and not the crop but the classes were awesome!!! I have not put pictures yet on the layout taught by the TM teachers but it came out great. I still have to finish my canvas b00k taught by Donna but the techniques we learned in that class, all I can say is WOW. The Glitz Girls class was really fun. They are very cool. I had to bring my grandson with me to the store for this class and I must say he was very good. For the first half of the class no one know he was in the kitchen area playing, he was so quiet. He took the group picture with us and I told him that later on in life he will come to appreciate that photo. HAHA Enjoy the layout and more post to come.

Flower Power DT Challenge

No meeting this month!! BUMMER We just had to turn in a layout.

Can I just say that this is probably my favorite layout for my challenges so far. I know the pictures do not do this layout justice. Normally I do not praise my own work, but I really enjoyed doing this layout.

I just LOVE the new Heidi Swapp resist chipboard and invisibles. If you have the little ink pots, these two together are a match made in Scrapbook heaven. haha Then throw in the fact that I had one of my cute little grand daughter's in the layout. Once I decided what pictures I wanted to use, it all came together pretty easy.

For this challenge we had to use Heidi Swapp Resist Chipboard Sheet, Invisibles, and Chipboard shapes. The 4 challenges I used were:

1. use ribbon or strips of ribbon

2. Curl, fold paper and ink,distress.

3. Use lace

4. Create a 3 dimensional embellishment

I used Bazzill shiney cardstock for my bottom layer, then I painted the resist chipboard sheet with Cerulean Blue ink pot, let it dry some, then wiped the whole thing with a dry paper towel, where the swirls are the paint is wiped away, leaving the white. Matted my pictures with Bazzill white card stock.

For the ribbon ruffle, I sewed two layers of ribbon one on top of another with a gathering stitch and attached it with double sided red line tape.

The daisy border was cut on the Cricut (Walk in my Garden) I cut out a green card stock base, inked the edges, then I cut out the same daisy with the Invisible sheet with the polka dots. Used the ink pots on this also, Lemon Yellow and Frost White. Wiped them off, curled the edges of the flowers and pop dotted them to the base layer. The centers of the flowers are some epoxy stickers I had in my stash, from I don't know where. But I thought they finished the daisys great.

The title was cut out with the Cricut (Cutting Up) and pop dotted. The butterflies are HS chipboard shapes and were done with the ink pots also. I stuck pins in them for their antennas and pop dotted them on the layout.

The tag on the layout is something I had in my stash. I wrote Sara's name and the date(that's my journaling) But I did add some ribbon and a Heidi Swapp Crystal.

I had some lace that looked like little daisy's, so I cut them the length of each picture, pop dotted them on top of the pictures and added some bling to the center of each flower.

I hope ya'll enjoy the layout. Have a great day.

Lisa

Design Team March Assignment

Well I have to say that this month flew by. I just could not get into this assignment. I am usually finished my layout not long after our meeting. Not this month. I finished the layout today, actually this afternoon. OMG .... I am usually never at the last minute. I had a hard time picking out pictures. But our grandchildren came last week and we had fun. Pulled my camera out and got a few shots in.

This month I had card stock, ticket embellishments, Buzz & Bloom chipboard, and Bazzill borders in my kit. I used Best Creations Paper, I love this paper it is so colorful. I inked, chalked, flocked, and used ink pots. I made my own scallop paper using my Cricut and the words in my title are also cut using the Jasmine fonts and my DS. The scroll chipboard is flocked (bling added) and the birds were painted with the ink pots and the wings are stickled. I used the ticket embellishments and the Bazzill borders to make frames around my pictures. The tickets were painted with the ink pots and the borders were chalked. The centers of the flowers are brads, I put glossy accent on top and covered them with beads. I added a few buttons and the wire swigglies are clips stretched out a little.

I hope you have a great day. Bye

THEN & NOW Design Team Challenge

Well, I am so glad I can finally post this layout. It's been ready for a little over 2 weeks. I did it early because of the Mega Crop. On the 10th of March, my husband & I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. So last month when Melissa gave us our assignment I thought I would do a layout of us. I had the Teresa Collins paper line (red, black, cream, and white), so not my colors. But I am very pleased with the results.

The title was cut out on the Cricut using the Storybook cart and I chalked around each letter in black. I distressed the edges of the clock and the corner cut outs. Then I inked all the edges and the card stock buttons with Staz On Black.

Here is a list of the challenges and products used.

We had to use at least 4 out of 10 challenges. These are the ones I did: used circles in my design, layer, layer, layer, tore paper, and hand cut a design out of pattern paper.

Products: Teresa Collins (paper, transparencies, chip board stickers & buttons), Bazzill cardstock, Heidi Swapp flowers, Say it in Crystal Bling, Ribbon, & Doodlebug Sugar Coated Brads.

TM Mega Crop Layouts

This is a layout and a tag I did at the Mega Crop. I do like the way both of these came out. The layout is of pictures I took on our vacation last summer in Tennessee. On our way up to Klingman's Dome the wildflowers were in bloom on the side of the mountain. I saw Tim Holtz do this technique on QVC awhile back. So I tried it on these pictures. I made a black and white, and colored copy of the same pictures. Glued TH fragments onto the color picture with glossy accents. After it was dry I cut around the fragments and glued it onto the color picture in the same spot. I really liked to effect it gave. I used Basic Grey for the matting, letters, and tag. Bazzill cardstock, brads, and I chalked the letters. I cut the flowers on my Cricut using the Walk in my Garden cart and cut 3 sizes of the same flower for each. I pop dotted in between each layer.

The tag was done with the BoBunny Birthday paper and sticker sheet. I added the brad, ribbon, and fiber to give it a dimensional look. I pop dotted the paper and stickers. After I stickled everything, on both sides. I will use this tag for my grandson's birthday coming up and then put it on a layout for his birthday party.