Flower fun!

As spring approaches, our surrounding blossom into newly refreshed life. It is much to cold and snowy here for flowers yet so I went to work having fun creating my own little indoor blossoms!

I added a little twist to my layers. Leaving the bottom layer straight still giving a nice clean feel. I applied a coat of Ranger Distress Rock Candy to a couple of the birdhouses, and Ranger Glossy Accents to the bird. I dry brushed a dab of Ranger Distress paint to my Jillibean Soup corrugated flowers. While the paint dried, I created a paper rosette to use as one flower center.

I adheared a button tied with a burlap string for the other flower center and attached to a denim flower cut from a pieces of hubby‘s pants. I love the added texture from the Jillibean Soup Bean Seed leaves!

My favorite flowers on here are some I created by using my Jillibean stamp and some burlap!! I put the button sticker onto a chipboard circle to give it more dimension.

I hand stitched around the Jillibean Soup Sprout. Again using my Ranger Rock Candy paint, I dry brushed a bit around the edges of the numbers. I created the charm by hand cutting a heart and adhering it to silver mirror cardstock.

I cut around the heart leaving a silver edge mimicking a metal frame. Once cut, I applied a heavy coat of Ranger glossy accents to mimic a glass cover. Using a pieces of craft wire, I formed a ring and tied a piece of Jillibean Soup Bean Stalks through and tied to the number three.

Another rosette flower.

I used pop dots through out the layout for dimension and added interest!

I hope you enjoyed wandering through my garden today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Dirty Scraps Blog Hop

Hello!!

Welcome to Dirty Scraps first blog hop ever. Are you ready for some Trick or Treats? Well…no tricks here but we do have lots and lots of treats!! Let me tell you, there are some spook-tacular eye candy and prizes along the way. In order to be eligible for one of the boo-tiful Grand Prizes on the Dirty Scraps blog, be sure to leave a comment at each blog AND become a follower of Dirty Scraps blog. Each DT member has a prize giveaway…you need to become a follower of the DT members of which goodies you would like to win…chose one or chose them all!

…in other words,

become a follower of Dirty Scraps and leave a comment everywhere if you want one of the big prizes on Dirty Scraps…

AND become a follower of the DT members whose giveaway you would like to win!

I am giving away a banner I created with the Maple Grove line from We R Memory Keepers. In order to win you must leave me a comment and become a follower on my blog!

I would love to send it your way! :)

Begin the hop at Dirty Scraps
Marlene
Laura Jean
Kelly
Amy

Vicky
Jodi (you are here!)
Shawna
Pinky

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We have not one but TWO Prize packages from LIZ

*Thank you Liz*

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thanks for hopping along with us!

time for another ScrapFit challenge!

Before we get to the challenge, I am so sad to say that this is my last reveal for ScrapFit. :( The past year has quickly flown by, and now it is time for me to step down. It has been a wonderful experience! Kelly, thank you so much for this incredible opportunity, I have really enjoyed it!!! To our fans, thank you sooo much for your support and for making ScrapFit a success!!!

Now, on to the challenge!
ScrapFit Challenge #24: Lift a layout, card or project from one of the Design Team Members. How fun is that!!!
Our sponsor for this challenge is Thoughts 2 paper! Liz so generously donated kits for the DT members…..Thanks Liz!!!!

I am wishing now, that I had stuck with her X’s and O’s, but I like the end results anyway!

I chose to lift a layout of Katie’s! I just adore this layout she crated displaying her love for her hubby!


Have fun, and Lift away!! You have until midnight July 31st to get your creation posted to ScrapFit!

another super fun project!

I bet I took 50 photos of this project at different places and angles. I had a really hard time getting decent photos without glare. The photos really don't do it justice. Anyone have any tips?!
This is an Acrylic Shadowbox Frame from Darcie's. It comes with the backing, 3 diecut layers of chipboard, and an acrylic cover. I love the fact that it had the diecuts come in separate layers making it easier to add dimension to the project. I placed the leaves between different layers and used pop dots so they are floating at different levels. I also propped the house up on pop dots. I added a length of ribbon and bow to hang it.
I used my June Featured Kit from Life Preservers to create this project.

Here are a couple at an angle hoping you can get a feel for the dimension.

Non kit items: ribbon; distress paint; distress ink; lace; button; pearls; acrylic shadow box frame, cricut; Storybook cartridge

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!

In celebration, the Design Team at Life Preservers has put together a fun blog hop full of challenges (4 to be exact!) and eye candy!!

Lisa and I have teamed up to bring you a fun sketch and the opportunity to celebrate Earth Day! If you follow my blog, you know how I love to use recycled items on my layouts!! With that in mind….
My requirement for your layout, is to add at least one recycled item...packaging, tag, cardboard, whatever you can scrounge from your recycling bin. For the other half of our challenge, visit Lisa’s blog for the super fun, cute sketch!

For my example, My recycled items consist of Prima packaging (they have the prettiest packaging ever!) as my photo mat; Hubby’s old blue jeans (heart); and a milk jug (butterflies)!! Yep, really!! I pulled an old Life Preservers kit and compiled all my goodies together based on the sketch found on Lisa’s blog.

To participate in our blog hop, visit each of the Design Teams blogs. As you complete the challenge posted, link your creation to the applicable blogs in their comments sections. (You can link this from your gallery on Life Preservers if you would like. ) For each challenge that you do, you will be entered into a random drawing for a prize from Life Preservers.
The teams are: Melissa & Andrea - Challenge #1
Laura Lee & Gabrielle - Challenge #2
Sharon & Rhonda - Challenge #3
Me (Jodi) & Lisa - Challenge #4

Thank you so much for participating in Life Preservers first annual NSD Blog Hop. Please hop on over and visit Lisa to see what else is in store for the hop. "

Here is the blog hop order:

1. Melissa

2. Andrea

3. Laura Lee

4. Gabrielle

5. Sharon

6. Rhonda

7. Jodi (You are here)

8. Lisa
oops, Lisa is having trouble with her blog today. Skip Lisa and head on over to Life Preservers!
9. Life Preservers

Being May 1st, is it time for ScrapFit Challenge #19! The challenge is to use older items from your stash only...nothing new! I used papers and goodies from an older Life Preservers kit! I just about killed that kit now! Love that feeling!! You have until May 14th to complete this challenge! Don't forget to link to ScrapFit!

Have fun! And thanks for stopping by!!

More October Afternoon goodies!

I’m here! I’m here!!

A couple weeks ago, I started this project using the October Afternoon goodies in the Alternate Kit from Life Preservers. I finally got a chance to work on it again.

I perused the local thrift shop and found this old book for 50 cents! I loved the theme of the cover and thought it would be perfect for a mini I wanted to do using my school photos.

After removing the pages from the book, I used my Crop-O-dile, to punch holes.




Here are some of the pages. I am missing photos from a few years. I will add more pages as I aquire those photos.

a close up of a few of the techniques I used.

non kit items used: cork stickers, metal charm, letter pebbles, acrylic letters, trim, lable holder, punches, marker, Distress Ink, stitching, Distress paints, cardboard, stickles, chipboard, gemstones, pearls, felt, burlap, buttons, staples, badges, tab, coffee cup coaster, floss, grunge paper, rubons

March Alternate Kit from Life Preservers

Did you all have a wonderful Easter?! Ours was fab-U-lous! Our son has been overseas for nearly two years. He arrived back in the states last week, and we were able to pick him up at the bus station Easter morning! Coincidence that he arrives on the day of resurrection, the time when we are reminded of Gods love, grace, and forgiveness?! I think not! The lord has shown me all along that this was the path the he had chosen for Brett. Once again, I believe Gods timing is perfect!

As you can imagine, I’ve been a bit preoccupied! However, I did squeeze in a bit of scrappy time! With my scrappylicious new March Kit from LP sitting on my desk, well I just couldn’t resist!! This Kit it is stuffed with marvelous papers and goodies from October Afternoon! I just love OA! *swoon* I was able to put together a couple layouts so far. I have photos printed and papers cut for a little project, hopefully I can get it put together by the end of the week!

I just love this photo!! This photo of my great-grandmother was taken for the paper commemorating her 40+ years of service as the school cook. She insisted that she make homemade bread for the entire student body. The school never bought a loaf of bread until after her retirement….now that is an incredible commitment in my book!! I’ve not yet added journaling, as I want to make sure I get dates and more details before I do!

I created the flour sack by cutting my sack shape out of cardboard, then gluing burlap to the cardboard. Once the glue was dry, I trimmed the burlap around the cardboard.

The bowl was created from a Caribou Coffee Sleeve.

The oven mitt was hand cut from felt.




For the title, I put Crackle Accents over the sticker letters. Once the Crackle Accents had dried, I rubbed Walnut Distress Ink over the cracks to give more of an aged look.

non kit items: distress ink, Crackle Accents, burlap, coffee sleeve, felt, marker, black pattern paper (from previous kit), Cuttlebug embossing folder, Stampin' Up border punch, EK Success border punch, stitching

I just love the blue/green combo of these papers! Using my Cuttlebug, I embossed the green cardstock to add more texture rather than adding more embellishments. The clock is cut from one of the OA Wildcards. The little guy is a chipboard shape from Maya Road. I covered it with burlap using the same technique as the flour bag on the layout above.

non kit items:Distress Ink, Maya Road chipboard boy, burlap, felt, button, Cuttlebug embossing folder, transparency, marker, Creative Memories corner rounder, Crop-A-Dile II (punch holes in scallops)

thanks for stopping!!!

been busy!

I’m back!! For the past few weeks, I have felt in a bit of a scrappy slump. Thanks to Von and my October Life Preservers kit, I am feeling creative again!! Wohoo! Von's kits are always just the pick-me-up I need!
I tried and tried to come up with ideas for the Maya Road Sheer House mini album in the project kit. Beings the farm girl that I am, it kept screaming “barn” at me, soooo barn it is!! Take a gander and let me know what you think!!
*don't forget, you can click on the photos to enlarge them*



I tried to stick with just the Pink Paisly papers and punchouts from the kit as closely as possible. To create the trim on the barn, I cut stips from the excess on the punchout page. For the cow, I cut the white body parts from the punchouts!











Thanks for stopping by!!

glub glub, gasping for air!

Wow! What a wild and crazy scrappy week it’s been! Talk about tension and pressure!! The final layout for the TS contest is due today! Tomorrow is the deadline for the LP Design team call. AND our challenge for the LP contest this week is to scap all we can for points!! I still need to post last weeks BSH layout but I want to make a couple alterations so it won’t happen until later in the week!

Here is my final lo for the Treasured Scrapbooking contest!




One photo
Orange - button, ink, flowers
Green - button, ink, pp (leaves)
Two different alpha in title
5 buttons exactly
Ticket
“if I could change one thing about myself…”

Journaling reads:
Lord, when I look at my reflection in the mirror, I see so many flaws. What I lack in height, I more than make up for around my middle. My face is too round, and my hair too shaggy. The more age becomes apparent, the longer my list grows. The deeper I look into my heart and soul, the more imperfections I wish I would outgrow. I sometimes have difficulty remembering that You created me as I am, a 100% unique design. There are so many things that I don’t like about me. I struggle with who I am as a person. You loved me even before I was born. You
gave me certain qualities so that I may serve a specific purpose. If I could change one thing about myself, I would have a hard time passing the opportunity. But those modifications would alter the person who you intended me to be. Help me accept myself, and to grow to see myself as the shining masterpiece as seen through your eyes. I struggle with remembering that I am important. Even the sparrow is cared for under your watchful eye.

“Why should I feel discouraged. Why should the shadows come. Why
should my heart feel lonely. And long for heaven and home. When Jesus
is my portion. A constant friend is He . His eye is on the sparrow. And I
know He watches over me. His eye is on the sparrow. And I know He
watches me. I sing because I'm happy. I sing because I'm free. His eye is on
the sparrow. And I know He watches me (He watches me). His eye is on the
sparrow. And I know He watches. I know He watches. I know He watches me.”


All papers and elements were inked and distressed.


To create the orange flowers, I cut scalloped circles then snipped petals. I lightly brushed on orange distress ink, gradually getting heavier on the ends in some areas. I finished by lightly brushing on hot pink ink, adding a flower and brad.


The denim flower - I cut denim from Dh’s old pants into circles. I cut a smaller circle of lace, then added a flower and button.


The branch was cut from cardboard. I then glued on the burlap. I frayed the edges and inked with distress ink.





The bird is grunge board covered with corduroy. Again, I frayed the edges. I added a pearl for the eye, and a bit of trim for the wing.

I hand wrote the tag and inked.




The leaves -I stamped two types of leaves onto pattern paper then cut them out and inked. The other type was cut from cardstock and pattern paper using the cricut. I then inked those also, finishing with the emboss folder


I strung the beads by hand onto wire so that I could pose them how I wanted them.


I embossed the heart on the journaling tab





Thank you for your support, and best wishes! Keep your fingers crossed for me!! It could be a couple looooong days before they post the winner!!