Summer Boat Ride

I really loved the challenge posted I saw yesterday over at the American Crafts Blog. What is it about? Ink pads and that means Stamping! I love incorporating stamps onto my layouts and whenever I see an opportunity to do so, I take it and this one is no exception. I actually used 4 stamps on this layout and also used our sketch this week at Scrapbook Challenges.

These photos are from our first family Boracay trip back in 2007. I remember we had to take a 2-hour bus ride to get to the docking station that will take us to the island. But now, there are already flights that take you directly to the boat station. It was a fun family trip (Gio's side) because the entire family was complete - grandma, parents and grandkids.

Close up of the title work and the embellies I used. The question "Are we there yet?" is a 7Gypsies stamp.

Close up of the gelly buttons and tag from a local store here. And the 2 stamps on the side of the photo's are Tim Holtz Stamps. The big flourish is stamped using 2 colors of distress inks.

One more stamp here...

That's how much I love stamps! Four in an LO and I think this is the most stamps I've used on one LO. We want to go back to the island again sometime soon but it's hard to get everybody's schedule in sync nowadays. That's why these memories are to be treasured...

Materials Used:

PP:  AC Letterbox
Alpha: AC Thickers
Embellishments: Jelly buttons, Chipboard and Tags from LSS
Inks: Disress inks, Staz On, Colorbox Chalk Ink
Tools: Martha Stewart round d page punch, 7Gypsies Stamps, Tim Holtz Stamps

Cheers!

Cathy

American Craft Letterbox Part 2

Yes, I'm back for more. I actually finished this along with the LO I posted yesterday. That's what I'm lovin about clean simple layouts too! It's quick and simple yet pretty too. I'm really stickin to this... maybe use all of my old stash and scrap old photos too! And I think I really would. :)

This is also inspired by the sketch over at The Scrappiest (Sketch 60). I always love Liz' sketch!  This is a photo of me and my family during my Mom's bday celebration last January 4. I love my mom and she's really special to me and this is for her.

The flower is a newly bought Martha punch and I'm telling you it is amazing and super super cute! I SO like that effect and I hope they create more of these!

I used the frames from the paper and used them all here.

The title at the bottom is actually a Silhouette cut out which is originally in white but I decided to put glitter on it and seal it with Judikins glaze. I loved how it turned out and I'm loving my Silhouette more and more.

The parenthesis border is a Inque chipboard which I covered with AC papers too.

Materials Used:

AC Letterbox, Cardstock

Pink Paislee alpha sticker, Websters alpha sticker

Glitter, distress ink, Inque chipboard

Martha Stewart border punch, Judikins Glaze

Thanks for looking and Happy Friday to all!!!

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