Websters and Pencil Lines

I really loved this sketch by Pencil Line. It took me a while to decide what photo and papers to use but I decided to go with my Websters Winter CHA stash.  I got sad when I saw that I barely touched that stash because I bought the complete 3 lines when it got released the first time in Two Peas. It cost a lot - because I wanted it to get here sooner so I paid for Johnny Air (3rd party shipping) to get it faster.  And because it is new, there were no discounts given at all...

So that's a lesson learned for me especially that Summer CHA is soon coming. I have to remind myself that I can only use as much so do not buy the entire lines! I actually normally don't buy the entire line except that I just find it really hard to do that with Prima and Websters because their goods are sooooooo pretty!

Sorry to babble about that so here is the layout. I used Webster's Pages Life's Portrait collection and some Silhouette die cuts too. I did misting again on the LO which still scares me by the way but I just do it anyway and so far, so good. :)

The title is a Silhouette die cut which I glued onto a websters pp too for a clearer backdrop so it stands out from the page. The die cut is in white originally, I stamped it with the Hero Arts friendship background stamp, heat embossed it using clear powder and then inked it using distress ink.

The trim on here is in color white and I misted it with Glimmer Mist Turquoise Blue. The border masked I used is also a Silhouette die cut I just misted it with GM Red Velvet and added Melissa Frances Blings in lime green to match the color of the title.

The photo mat is a frame from one of the websters paper and I wanted the color to pop more so I heat embossed the white portion outlines using glue pen and then inked the rest with fired brick to match the color of the mist I used.

The corner for the photo is a Prima stamp and then I just added that cutout lantern from a websters pp too. 

PP:  Webster's Life's Portrait
Alpha: Silhouette die cut
Embellishments: Trims, Melissa Frances Blings
Inks: Disress inks, Glimmer mist Red Velvet, Turquoise Blue), Ranger clear embossing powder
Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, Silhouette die cut used as mask, Hero Arts and Prima Stamps

Thanks for dropping by!

Cheers!

Cathy

American Crafts Letterbox!

Everybody was on the Color Room last week and I had to jump in too because the color pallete is just so pretty. And like my OA layout the other day, the colors are totally out of my comfort zone but I really liked how it turned out! And i'm loving pastels more and more!

Here's my take and I also used the sketch over at Pencil Lines (Sketch 182) and their sketches are just perfect for anything!

These frames are too cute! They are also from the same paper line and I just cut them out. The felt flowers are also AC had them for a while now and it's perfect for the color palette so I just stitched 2 hearts together.

Got a chance to use my Inkadinkado lamp post stamp again. I heat embossed it in black too. The prima trim at the bottom of the photo is also cream in color so I sprayed Glimmert Mist Patina on it to match the pallete.

These are flowers from the pp which i cut. The bottons created a center push so i sort of crunched the flower a bit and used pop dots.

This is a new stamp from Hero Arts which i just got. Inked it with Staz On and I painted the flowers and basket with Glimmer Mist too. The center of the wheels were buttons and I just covered the wholes with liquid pearls in matching light blue color.

Materials Used:

American Crafts Letterbox papers, OA journaling cards

Martha and Fiskars border punches

Inkadinkado and HA stamps

AC Thickers, MM buttons, AC felts, Prima Trim,

I think that for now, I will actually switch to pastels! I know how shocking that is and it's surprising me too!This is so not me but I am truly enjoying it. Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

Cathy

The Glossy

So glad I finished this LO before the deadline over at weScrap. There is an ongoing DT call and the challenge for this week is to create a layout with our headshot or what models call "the glossy".  Didn't get a chance to take a new headshot so I used this pic from our pre-nup. We also need to write 5 facts about ourself and below is my take. I also decided the recent sketch posted at Pencil Lines - it fits my photo perfectly and the die cut paper too!

Used the new Websters PP here. I just love the color of the paper and the die cut design - decided to put it on top of a kraft paper and outlined the die cut paper with liquid pearls.

Close up of the trims and the cut I made on the paper so I can insert the picture.

Close up of the title which is sort of a collage of the 5 adjectives about me. Centered on the letter O - which is a bare chipboard which I painted green, stamped and embossed with white powder. I used different alphabet stickers, chibpboard to fit all the words in the big letter O.

Materials used:

PP: Websters PP, Bazill Kraft CS, DCWV CS

Alphabets: AAS chipboard, MAMBI, Jillibean, Websters, Pink Paislee, K & Co

Liquid Pearls, MS boarder punch, Prima trim

Go and check out the events over at weScrap to see what the others did for this challenge.

Cheers!

Cathy

Cave... More Prima

Here's one more layout I completed last week using Pencil Lines' Sketch. And of course I used more Prima papers! They are so pretty and wonderful!!!

The flowers were painted with Shimmerz - the effect and the shine is really pretty in person!

This is a naked chipboard which I painted using MM's manila color and then each letter is stamped using two different stamps on each side. I really love how it turned out. And the scroll chipboard is also bare - covered it with Prima pp and mixed gel medium and pink paint and applied it on the sides for texture.

This is the frame cut out from the prima pp and the stamp underneatch is also a prima stamp, I just added pearls on the tips of the flourish. The lace is also cream in color but I just misted it with walnut ink to make it brownish.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers!

Cathy

Glimpse...

There is a great challenge over at AMM about a day in one's life. I kinda did a page about this once before but an idea stuck over me when I remembered I had this small moleskin notebook that I retired last year because it was already full with last year's daily notes and to do's.  So I went ahead and tore a page from the notebook (kinda nice to recall what I did on a specific day last year) and used that on the page. So it's a glimpse of a day in my life in 2009.

Here's the layout - I also used Pencil Lines Sketch 172 and my old Sassafrass papers. I didn't know I had so many of them until I grabbed it. I have like about 20 of them and I have never used any Sassafrass papers on any of my LO. I kinda suprised myself there. :)

 So this is actually my first Sassafrass layout and I kinda loved how it turned out. And there are actually no other embellishments on here other than the papers (except for the alpha of course). I cut out a lot from on the papers which had the frames and the flowers on it. 

Here's the close up of the alpha and the layered cutout pieces. I also added stickles on the Thickers Alpha.

Close up of the cutout flowers and the notebook paper I tore. This was my to do list on August 25, 2009! :)

 

And lastly the bottom right portion of the LO.

Hope you're all having a great V-day weekend! DH and I are headed to "Miyabi" for our V day celebration tomorrow!

Cheers!

Cathy