Another challenge in da bag!!! with my pal Brooke

I have to admit that I am really really REALLY enjoying

these challenges - totally out of my comfort zone.

Both ways for sure.

BROOKE'S CHALLENGE TO ME:

this sketch

stamp title

ribbon

3 pp

glitter

I really love the sketch and again, took it right down the middle.

There are 3 PP in there Tim Holtz papers and for

my critter a TH die. 

A bunny.

I must've bought at least 5 bunnies this year.
 As for the glitter well I decided to keep it really low key.

😂

I had to use an animal and this was just too much fun.

And it was a new never used die.

Quirky.

The photo is a drive by of a ghost town on I-10.

Love how it turned out and I'm okay

with someone in the future wondering why there's 

a rabbit with a glitter carrot.

MY CHALLENGE TO BROOKE:

This sketch (which I LOVE)

journaling strips

frames

5 pp

nuvo shimmer powder

AND IN HER OWN WORDS:

Authentique "Summer" papers. Nuvo powders through stencil in blue blitz and solar flare. MM, 7 Gypsies Authentique and TH stickers. Sizzix, and other various dies.

Framed the journaling strips AND used the frame from cutting out the tags on the corner of the pic

I ADORE her page. 

I ADORE my page.

These pages are so different yet ours.

Got another one lined up.

Stay tuned.

 

Glitter fun - not!

I did whine about this on FB -  what was I thinking

about using glitter.

It totally goes everywhere but where I want it

and I'm still cleaning it up.

I also used some modeling paste to make circle/dots in order to make

the background just a tad busier.

And the glitter does add that something something, I just

need to figure out how to get it under control

if that is even possible.

 I also did some stamping and used up some more stash.
I do love having those twine bows and they
appear to be a signature now.
In fact, I feel my pages look weird if I don't have twine on it.
You love twine?

 And then I did something different for me 

at this point in time (meaning I have done this in the past-
remember deckle scissors?? - to disasterously ugly results that
will never ever see the light day)
I cut out a photo.

Yes I did.

And it worked perfectly - Owen is flying off the page.

Actually they both are flying off the page.

It was fun to do and easy to whack - not a bunch if itty bitty things going on
to turn it into a "fussy cut".

And the title - couldn't be helped.

Basic Grey, Studio Calico, Paper Issues Swag Bag.

I love those Evalicious circle arrows

and my homemade enamel dots (are you over them yet?) LOL.

And glitter :|

#scrapbooking

The start of an Art Journal

Yeah Yeah I know you're saying another one well let me tell it did NOT start out with this in mind. I was going for a "snow" album and the Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass Album - Frosty Memories fit the bill.

And it started out blank. And as I surfed the net looking for some inspiration it seemed that there was a lot of glimmermist going on.

Sadly I do not have a lot of glimmermist so I thought watercolors may do the trick.

So I started with snow flakes on the back cover and I used a 2way glue because I wanted to remove them after I had painted over them.

I was also going for some sort of hombre look that didn't quite work out. I did without thinking use primary colors. So blue, red and yellow turned into other colors depending on how messy I was with the water.

 And I got messy. What's the fun without the mess? So I blended and swooshed and pulled off the snowflakes.

And seriously it didn't look too bad.

I decided why not some glitter. And that turned out pretty good.

I basicially mimiced the same on the front cover because why reinvent the wheel when something is working. 

I got to this point and the $64 question of the day was....

NOW WHAT.

In reviewing the photos I printed out it didn't in my mind seem to want to work, however, I high hopes.

Continuing on with the same technique (watercolors) basically, I did the inside cover and the first page using a die cut as a template for dots on the first real page.  I decided I was loving this and having a real good time with it all, I confidently continued on..........

Stay tuned to the same bat channel tomorrow for more....

Maddawg's Madcap at SNC...

 GLITTER.

I know glitter can be scary because it has a mind

of its own and goes everywhere.

And because I'm challenged in ways like that I

can assure you it need not be that way.

 I have the Martha Stewart glitter and its packaged like

a little salt shaker with cute little bottles of glue

that goes where you put it.

So you shake it out over the glue and tap it off.

and wa-la a bit o' the glitter on your page.

You don't need a lot. 

Sometimes just a little to make your point.

This banner is made out of gelato when I was playing

with the product with my pal Holli. 

I also played with some embossing dies and added

the glitter with some mist splats.

So the maddawg madcap is GLITTER IT UP!

SNC is a friendly bunch just hanging out

scrappin' and chattin'

and challengin'.