Playing with the Liftateers!

So, Over on the Fiskateers site Groovy Deb. Started the Liftateers. This group of scrappers lift a layout that Groovy Deb has picked out for them to be inspired by. She does this every week. This week the inspirational layout is from Fiskateer- Susan#2377. You can see it here week 31 .  She recently asked if I would like to play along with them. I agreed and this is what I came up with. I made my layout 8x10 so, I could put in the a small album of family pictures. The girls are my daughters with their cousin.

The title: Mama's Sweet Girls is because that's what they(the grandchildren) all called my mom. When this picture was taken my mom was still alive. When She saw it; all she could say was "My sweet girls - Mama's sweet girls". She loved them so very much. She was blessed with 3 granddaughters before she passed away. Now, she has 4 girls and 6 boys. I know in my heart she would be over the moon with joy with all of them.

I made the Polaroid mat for the photo. Then, I used ink to distress it. To give it that vintage feel. 

Close- up of title and embellishments

 I used the following to create this layout: Cardstock: Bazzil Purple & white, Patterned Paper: Background & Butterflies(cut out from paper)-Masterpiece Studios, Ribbon: Heidi Grace, Lace, Sequins, Flowers: Felt Flowers American Crafts, Bling Flower - Darice, Bling: Heart - Creatology, Center of Flower-Studio18, Chipboard Letters: Thickers, Paint: Folk Art Metallic, Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Tea Dye, Punch: Fiskars Embossing Border Punch - All A Fleur, Trimmer: Fiskars- Rotary Trimmer, Adhesive: Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue & Elmer's Tape Runner & Homemade Shimmery spray.

Thanks for looking. Give Lifting a try -- better yet join the Fiskateers and the Liftateers! Tell them Annie sent you by :)   Leave a comment. 

Wow - Whoot-Whoot!!

I found out I won the Surf n Swim Collection from Trinity Paper Arts. I am so excited can't wait to play with it.

The winner of the Surf N Swim Collection is.................

Annie Fiskateer #1326/SCDT memberMar 28, 2012 08:56 AM

Mini Notebooks

The kids and I made mini notebooks and sketchbooks. I saw one version of mini sketchbooks that are made of up-cycled cereal boxes and watercolor paper on Scrapbook Soup. So, I made some of those for the kids.

I made this one - It contains upcycled box, stamped images, paint  and watercolor paper for the pages.

This one is the same as above.

My eldest daughter made this one. She hand painted the design on the cover and pages are watercolor paper.

Then, the kids and I made a different version - on this one we used leftover scraps of paper from other projects and copy or watercolor paper. 

This one was made by my son Liam - the pages are from old sketch paper.

This one I made it has sketchbook paper I cut from an older pad.

This one is made from scrapbook paper and the pages are reg. copy paper.

These are made from index cards, leftover scrapbook paper, binder ring, a rubber band and mini pencil. The top one was made by Rowynn and the bottom one I made. I hope to post a small tutorial on these soon.

Welcome, welcome to the 76th annual Hunger Games! Here is a message from Annie, "As you all know I posted a challenge with my Hunger Games inspired projects. Since I didn't get any comments linking me to anyone's project, we will base this year's Hunger Games on comments." Wasn't that lovely? So, let's begin.

The tribute from District 1 winning a special prize is Soufiane!
District 2's tribute is Kelly Sas!
Amy J. is District 3's tribute!
Plus, Jennifer Ashley DeGough is participating as the tribute from District 4!

The Hunger Games is over and Tracy M. comes out triumphant because she commented on every post! She even commented on District 2 twice and became a follower. That means that she will get an extra special prize!

A Fiskars Limited Edition Jenni Bowlin Butterfly Lever Punch plus a little something more.

Here is our final message from Annie, "Congratulations to everyone who got a prize and thank you to everyone who commented whether you are a tribute or not. If you did get your name called on reaping day may you please email me your address so I can send you your special prize as soon as possible."

Thank you for coming and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Blog Update

Please pardon my dust I am updating my blog. I hope to get this done today and add a few new things. Thanks

Giveway!!

Trinity Paper Art is giving away 3 collections. So that mean 3 winners!! Check out their blog Trinity Paper Arts for all the details. Loving the Surf and Swim collection myself being here in the swap aka FL!

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!!!