Prima sunkiss mini album

 I wanted to make a mini album for Simon says stamp challenge anything goes. The album was a piece of cake compared to the rest - LOL!

Besides starting a blog about my work, I also got me a facebook acount...

To document the album I took more then 20 pictures and that's not even with specific details, but just the pages in the album?! So I got the brilliant idea to make my first youtube-video... What was I thinking?! This is a lot for a techno beginner!

But here it is folks:)

I BOW TO ALL OF YOU WHO PUT SO MUCH LOVE INTO YOUR VIDEOS - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!!

The album is made of Neenah super smooth desert storm paper. The size is adjusted to mainly fit primas sun kiss 6x6 paper pad.

All pages are pockets with inserts and the tabs are from a stampin up punch. They where all lightly distressed with vintage photo. I also stamped throughout the album with prima stamps and the inks I've used that coordinated with the papers are:

Adirondack Hazelnut

Adirondack Butterscotch

Archival in olive

Distress ink bundled sage

I've used Prima's sunkiss paper, but also used some pads I had in my stash. So I took some of the brown paper from Bo bunny's Gabrielle collection and some paper from Bo bunny's welcome home with home or family since it was for a newborn baby boy. I also loved the farirys in Primas nature garden, so I mixed some of them as well.

I hope the video works, hopefully it will do the album more justice to show the pockets and inserts etc...

If you have any questions or if it doesn't work I'd love to hear from you!

Cheeky nurse card

Hi everyone!

Just a quick entry to some challenges here. I believe I will qualify to three challenge blogs.

Simon says stamp vintage challenge hey girl

TGF retro fresh stars and stripes

TGF FFF die and/punches

My card is a 5 X 5 inch base and I had a really cool double sided paper with stars on one side and stripes on the other from Maja design Skärgårdsliv. Unfortunately I could not find any other paper to match the red, then the Mariposa paper. So with tears in my heart I had to cover it with Maja design. In order not to waste any of the Maja design paper I die cut the strip left over with the first place award ribbon from MFT. I hope that will count as my stripes for the TGF challenge.

Fingers crossed that these stripes will qualify!!!
If you look closely you'd see that there are tiny stars
among the stripes and stripes in the background of the stars as well.
So it's more stripy then you'd think from a first look.

I stamped the sentiment and die cut it using parts from the well worn greeting set. To have an outline around it I traced the die and cut it with scissors from scraps of the Mariposa paper left. Then I die cut a leafy flourish also by MFT. All the flowers are from IAR and sprayed with LSG creme bruleé starburst spray. I also used a pearl spray from "my" collection handmade from a youtube tutorial by Luvleescrapping, I mentioned it in one of my earlier posts.

You'd think I could have made a sketch challenge as well, but I'm a bit short for time and didn't dare to overload my creative stream to much. Maybe next time...

The olymipcs are running, so the next couple of weeks I should hopefully be able to scrap with a pure conscious as hubby-to-be will have loads of sports to watch - LOL! 

I also finally got my hands on the Cheeky geeky stamp. OMG that has really been a challenge. I wanted it ever since I first saw it, but it's been out of stock everywhere. I thought self portrait right away - me and my glasses, as you can see - LOL!!

Thanks for stopping by! 

If anyone has any questions about any of my work, please don't be shy - LOL!

P.S I also got a facebook page, so really putting myself out there - LOL! I'm not sure what to do with it though... Any ideas?

Words of wisdom for a young lady

This week Simon says stamp vintage challenge is "Hey Girl". So Bring out the ladies!

OMG I had so much fun with this challenge and it probably took me longer to decide what I wanted to make, then to actually finish the work. Right away I got so many ideas for this challenge and of course not enough time!!! It was some time ago I sent my BFF a fun card, TGF cheeky collection came to mind. I have some layouts that need to be done, several mini albums that I should get started on, I could make something with G45 papers, the list goes on... So the challenge this week was actually to choose - LOL!

Recently I've gotten some printable vintage "photos" and I've been dying to try them out. This is the first time I use something like this, so it's also my crafting evolving. I've seen Racho113 done some wonderful art utilizing printed images of vintage girls and now I got the chance to try it myself. So next choice which picture?? They're all girls!!! I had sweet babys, adorable flower girls, vintage ladys, bridal ladys, marie antoinette - now that's a girl, right?

I decided to make a tag, since it has been a while and I love making tags. Unfortunately, I have such little space to store them, I rarely make them - unless I gift them. 

Anyway, I used a ranger no 8 manilla tag. For background I stamped parts of the large background stamp from the papillon set in Adirondack dye hazelnut, In the same ink I also used the word definition stamp from the lost and found set. I then distressed the edges of the tag with vintage photo. Then I ATGed my image randomly at the tag, which I also lightly distressed with vintage photo to hide the stark white cutting edge. I continued to stamp some script from the mini ornates set in Archival coffee. Because I still wanted the picture in focus I stamped the script on a piece of scrap paper and then stamped across the image without reinking.

The sentiment is from the lost and found clear stamp set and I stamped it in Archival coffee. I inked the edges straight from the ink pad in vintage photo in order to have really darkened edges. Perhaps I should to and get myself a walnut stain... Another step out of my comfort zone. The filmstrip is made with the same stamp set as the sentiment, but stamped in Hazelnut and distressed with the inking tool.

To top it of, I glued some IAR flowers and tied some ribbon at the top. It came together much faster then I imagined and I believe I will make more of these. We'll see if this may not be the only entry this time - LOL!

Products used:

Manilla tag no 8

Distress ink - vintage photo

Adriondack dye ink - Hazelnut

Archival ink - coffee

Papillon cling mount set

Lost and found clear stamp set

Mini ornates cling mount set

IAR rosebuds

IAR R2-roses, brown mix