Showing posts with label Kim S. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kim S. Show all posts

Sunday, November 14, 2010

I Am Thankful For...

It's that time of year to celebrate our harvest, express gratitude and appreciate to our friends/family, eat turkey, and watch some football. No matter what your reason for celebrating Thanksgiving we are all truly blessed and should be thankful for people we have in our lives, the material possessions, and the harvest that we are able to share with others. This month's challenge is to create a project about "What I Am Thankful For...". Use it as a title, journaling, or even inspiration to create a project.

Here are some of our design team examples:

Penny tells us, "These are my holiday table place setters. They each hold a little thank you charm, some wheat straw a pumpkin and Mr. Turkey being the guest of honor does deserve a thank you. Everyone one gets one kids with a box and a flower or an Indian, Cricut makes it easy. Each item was cut at its regular size 3 inches and then matched with a bag or a box to attach to the back filled with plastic forks for the little tables, tags that say whose is whose, a few pieces of candy/nuts to hold them over until it's time to eat, and a little puppet playing of the gift of Thanksgiving-- after all the parents are stuffed."




Kim is most thankful for her little kids, Ashlea and Jon-Christopher. She altered a simple inexpensive 5 X 7 wooden frame for this project. She measured and cut strips of Wild Saffron paper to cover the frame, added some matching embellishments, inked up her chipboard letters, then finished off with a bit of bling and ribbon. To get the ghosted photo, she set her printer to fast draft and printed on a sheet of bamboo cardstock.


Kerri is thankful for all the good things in life, the smiles on her children's faces, love, laughter, and youth.

Hope you have some "thankful" inspiration to go off and create your own project now. Please send a link (or a photo 200K or less please) to your projects at practicalscrapperslayouts@gmail.com with "I Am Thankful For..." in the subject line. Submissions are due on November 22nd, 2010.



Friday, March 26, 2010

Sketch Friday!

Here is this week's sketch by Lucy Chesna. 
Here are some examples from our design team to get you started:

 Marjorie

Dianne

 Kerri

Robin

Kim
let's see yours!

Monday, December 28, 2009


Kim's card using more scraps from AC Bailey and some Fancy Pants rubons.
I love that she inked her ribbon!



Julie's altered daily planner is perfect to get inspired and motivated
for the start of the new year.


Dianne used doilies to make festive snowflakes for her front window.


Crystal made snowmen using Doodlecharms and Stampin Up Sweet Treat Cups for the tummies filled with marshmallows. Go to her blog for all the details!

Monday, December 14, 2009

Decorating for Christmas

Kim’s fresh altered tin star using AC Bailey papers.


Julie’s 12x12 layout displayed in a Creative Memories frame, embellished with magnets and clips that came with the frame.


‘Joy’ and glitter altered tin by Crystal.


Erika’s Christmas tree candle holder with bling.



Red and white papers and fabric ornaments by Dianne.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Altered Projects and Paint

Black dollar-store photo frame becomes vibrant, gorgeous baby frame!


Magnetic board with bright, painted, distressed flower.

Advent box made of little matchboxes!
(check out her video tutorial at the link!)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Acrylic Paint Cards


If Kim's card doesn't inspire, I don't know what will!! Someone commented that paints are intimidating and I will agree. But they can also be very liberating! They require you to throw a little caution in the wind, and just go with it. They are fun, and as you can see, they can produce some beautiful cards. How fun would it be for someone to receive a painted card you made?! I think that's called ART.

If in the past you've made a card or LO using paint, and you love it, post it on Mr. Linky along with the new stuff gals are sharing too. We would love to see what you've created that might help us to dig into these paints that have been sitting here for way too long!

- Angela