New Things

First thing, I would like to say that I am once again on the Cookin' Up Creations Design Team. I am so happy that Tammy asked me to stay on for another term.

With that said now to the second thing. Over at Cookin' Up Creations for the month of January we are doing Scrap your stash challenges, Telephone Scraplift & I am hosting bingo.

Third thing,  Lawn Fawn is our sponsor this month. The January Blue Plate Special Prize package is a stamp set of the winner's choice from Lawn Fawn. How awesome of them - thank you so much Lawn Fawn!!!

I am sure that our amazing DT will come up with a few more fun things to do through out the month so be sure to join us at Cookin' Up Creations

Some Layout to share

I've been working on some Cookin' Up Creation challenges. You can see the list of challenge in the earlier post. Here are some of the layouts I created for them.

First one is my current challenge on the Cookin' Up Creation site.
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary : For this challenge we focused on the grow part of the nursery rhyme. I challenge you to grow your embellishments. Make a growing embellishment (well sort of). Bust out those punches, die cuts or machines and paper scraps and follow this easy directions and create you very own growing embellishment.


I made some flowers and butterflies (I made copies my oldest daughter’s favorite book from that time; Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Then I misted them and created my embellishments the maroon flower and butterfly HP & green LOTR) for my layout.
This is my layout.

Close up the flowers & butterflies

For this layout I used the following products: 

Cardstock: Black & Cream - DCWV, Pattern Paper: DCWV - Snap Shot stack, Stickers Letters: Recollections Punches: Scallop Circle & Small Butterfly - Fiskars USA, Large Butterfly - McGill, Die Cuts: Label & Black Scroll - Cricut - Lacy Labels, Other: Copied Book Pages from Harry Potter & Lord of The Ring, Brads, homemade misters in Maroon and Leaf Green, Adhesive: Tombow & Glue Dots

This Layout is for the Hey Diddle Diddle Challenge: Use a Crescent shape on your page. 

For this layout I used the following products: 

Cardstock: Dark Blue, Medium Blue, Sunflower & Cream - TLC (top line creations) , Pattern Paper: Lt. Blue (star one) - Starry Blue- The Paper Company, Cream Wrinkle, Cream Plaid, & Medium Blue circles- TLC, Blue Plaid - SBW (Scrapbook Wizard paper stack # 2) & Vellum,  Stickers Letters: Lt Brown & Black Sticky Keys -Monenta, Blue - Thickers, Deco Scissor:- small Scallop-  Fiskars USA l, Die Cut: Moon TLC, Adhesive: Tombow & Glue Dots, Other; Paint chips - Walmart, Paint:  Cream Paint drops - Plaid, Stamps: Chevron & swirls - Michaels ($1 section), Ink: Studio G.

This Layout is for the Humpty Dumpty Challenge : Use a Tiled photo (cut, show the space and re-make your picture) on your page. 

Close up of the title and mister

 Close up of phote tile

my favorite of the 

little cardinal is staring @ the squirrel 

like you better share!

 Close up of my stamped bird and seeds

For this layout I used the following products: 

Base of layout: Back side of a double sided pattern paper - not sure who, Cardstock: Green - Bazzil, Pattern Paper: Pink & Red Dot - MME (My Minds Eye) Red (back of the pink & red dot) - MME, Striped - DCWV - Pet Stack, 

Stickers Letters:Tall Black Thin one - EK Succes, Small Black - Recollections,

 Deco Scissor:- small Scallop - Fiskars USA Punch: Boarder Punch - Fiskars USA, Stamps: Bird & Small Circle - Studio G, Ink:Black - Ranger Archival, Walnut Stain - Tim Holz, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell,  Paint: Paint Drops - Plaid Acrylic paint in Dark Red and Green, Adhesive: Tombow, Aleene's Quick Dry Glue &  Glue Dots, Other; Corrigated Cardboard, Trimmer - Fiskars USA

Over at Cookin' Up Creations we're having all sorts of fun with Nursery Rhymes. I have today's Nursery Rhyme Challenge. I chose If All The World Were Paper.

If all the world were paper,

and all the sea were ink,

if all the trees

were bread and cheese,

what should we have to drink?

I chose to focus on the Ink & paper part of the rhyme. I challenge everyone to use misters on their projects. It could be a paint or dye/ink mister. 

Here is the layout I created for the challenge

Items I used on this layout are the following:

Carstock: Tan - Darice, Light Pink -DCWV

Pattern Paper: Coffee Bean - Paper Pizzaz, Floral, Stripe & Dot - MME

Stamps & stamp Press: Fiskars - Latte Love, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell

Letters: Cloud9/Colorbok, Ink: Ranger Archival- Jet Black & Tim Holtz Distress ink - Walnut, Paints: Plaid - Brown, Pale Cream, Rhasberry & Black, Washi Tape: Target. Adhesive: Tobow, Pop dots: Recollections, Thread: Coats & Clark, Trimmer & Deco Scissors: Fiskars, Other: Coffee Sleeve - Joe Muggs - BAM

I hope you stop by and join us in all the challenges. If you do the challenge posted above link me.

Mix Media Tag Challenge

Over on the Fiskateer site Lead Fiskateer Cheryl has issued a challenge. It a Mix Media Tag Challenge. She has created some beautiful tags to inspire the Fiskateers to create their own. Post the tag in the gallery and link it to her blog post and she'll enter your tag for a chance to win some Wonderful Fiskars Punches.

Challenge is as follows as per Cheryl: create a tag using 5 tools & 3 mediums.

I took her up on the challenge and created this tag.

Mix Media Tag full view


Showing close-ups of upper corners

Showing close-ups of the lower corners

Showing Dimension

Here are the details of the items I used:

Tools
Fiskars: Craft Knife, Deco Scissors, Mirco Tip scissors, Squeeze Punches: Jenni Bowlin Butterfly,Grandma Doily & Blue Ribbon, Border punches: Notebook Paper, Upper Crest & Effervescence, Stencil: Delta- Decor Accents, Stamps: Making Memories Foam, Chipboard Pieces: Tim Holtz(swirl) & Colorbok (circle word), Floss: DMC Yellow, Printable: Ticket (http://maybemej.blogspot.com/), Fabric: Recycled Denium

Mediums
Tag: Watercolor paper, Coffee Filter (doilies), Recycled Items: Junk mail envelope (homemade washi paper), book page (butterfly & side of tag), Grid paper(mini banner flag) & mesh(butterfly), Vellum(butterfly, homemade washi paper, mini banner flag & back of "so i") , Fiber paper ( homemade washi paper & tag side), White cardstock (stamped flowers), Mini Flowers: Prima, American Crafts & punch, Paints: Accent - Crown Jewels Acrylic Metallic(Empress Blue & Queens Emerald) & Plaid -FolkArt Acrylic (Periwinkle) Glitz mists: Homemade glimmer mist (Teal & Yellow) Glitter: Ranger-Stickles(Eucalyptus) & Studio g/Hampton Art (Teal & Cream). I believe i got it all. LOL!

This was a cool challenge - Thanks Cheryl!!!