Getting ready for CHA!

Photo 2 - 2012-01-26, a photo by rbarakatmusic on Flickr.

Just experimenting with my new iPad- making sure I know how to upload before I go!

All great achievements require time...

Don't you love when you are playing with things and it just works?

I was really just trying things,

I was worried for a minute - things looked a little weird

but it all worked out in the end.

It's not perfect and I am tempted to fix it

but I decided it doesn't need to be perfect!

(kinda goes with the quote don't ya think?)

I used a pack of stickers for stencils, then colored the canvas with Gelatos.

I doodled with PITT Artist pens.

Stamped more images with Stampers Big Brush & the Rubber Cafe stamps.

I did the same thing with the tag then covered it with embossing powder on top.

After I melted it with my heat gun, I bent it so it would crack.

I like this technique because I have no patience to wait for crackle mediums to dry!

I covered the black flower with Oh So Fine glitter.

Supplies:

6x6 canvas, Glitz stickers, Gelatos, PITT Artist pens,

Stampers Big Brush, 7Gypsies tag, Love my Tapes- ribbon,

The Rubber Cafe Stamps.

Blog Hop with Clear Scraps!!!

Hey there bloggers!

Welcome to the New Release For The New Year Blog Hop!!!

Its that time again, Clear Scraps proudly

introduces the new lines for Spring 2012!

This blog hop shares what our design team

 has done with the latest and greatest Clear Scraps creations!

Clear Scraps is so excited to announce

 the newest addition to our designs

"Send It Clear" a collection of

easy to create cards that have a

 unique and special flare. 

Here is a sample I made with the new cards! 

First I ran it through my Cuttlebug with

and embossing folder. Then I used a little gesso, 

inks & Gelatos. Below in the inside of the card. 

The Grand Prize today is a set of

4 beautiful Send It Clear Cards

(to be shipped in Feb.)

along with a set of

Clearly Accent Embellishments!!

 (your choice)

You do not want to miss the opportunity to win big!

We also have new "Clearly Accent Embellishments"

and new Mini Albums, this year is a must have-must see year.

The New Release For The New Year Blog Hop

begins today, the January 19th

and ends on January 21st @ 11:00pm Eastern time.

Winners will be posted on January 23rd, on the Clear Scraps Blog!

There are FOUR ways to enter!!

#1 Hop & comment on all the blogs

#2 Follow the Clear Scraps Blog

#3 Follow the Clear Scraps Design Team Blogs (all of them)

#4 LIKE the Clear Scraps facebook page!

(leave a comment on the Facebook page, so we know!)

These are really cool cards to work with, 

 good luck

and thanks for stopping by!

Now get to hopping!

Here is the complete New Release For The New Year Blog Hop order-

Clear Scraps

Cathy S.

Leah C.

Rita B. Your are here : )

Pinky H.

Tonya D.

Irene T.

Adora C.

Clear Scraps Facebook Page (Bonus entry)

Shine...

"Shine" Whatever you do, be your best! Baby girl works

so hard at ballet and she is still loving it after all these months!

Baby girl always stands out - all the little girls wear pastel pink

and baby girl struts her stuff in purple!

I admire her tenacity, a  very good quality to  have.

Whatever you do you can "shine" you know, do your best, give it your all!

On this layout I enjoyed making things pop off the page.

The colors and accents are perfect for baby girl.

Of course lately I can't seem to do anything with lace ribbon tape from Love My Tapes.

Look at these flowers - don't they look real?

They are papers from Donna Salazar - I cut them in a spiral,

inked the edges and tightened them up a bit before adhering

them to the page with foam squares. I cut the leaves, inked the edges,

folded and rolled the edges.

Supplies: Love my Tapes lace ribbon, 

 Donna Salazar & SEI papers,

Want to Scrap bling, Thickers

(you can find these at ScrapGal)

So I have a question, is there something that you shine at?

 

birthday banner...CHA peeks

Hey there bloggers.

 Here is another fun project on it's way to CHA for Clear Scraps!

The base is the Birthday Banner, there is actually another star

on this banner but in my disaster of a room I competly misplaced it! LOL!

So I changed up and decided to use it on the cupcake.

As soon as I adhered it I found the other star!

Isn't that always how it goes?

Anywho I could have pulled it off but decided I liked it the way it was.

I had a lot of fun with iridescant gel medium -

I changed the color by adding my

Gelatos - I scribbled them on a paper plate,

put the gel medium on top and

mixed it together - I really like the soft color!

I used a stencil, spread it on then lifted the stencil.

Here's another view of the center...

I used Rangers Paint Daubbers on the edges.

The paper was adhered to the surface with heavy gel medium.

That would be a fun surprise to have this on your door!

Supplies: Clear Scraps Birthday Banner,

Faber-Castell Gelatos, Heavy Gel Medium,

Liquidtex Iridescant Medium,

Ranger Paint Daubber, Donna Salazar Paper

CHA sneaks...faith

A year ago today we took a leap of faith

and moved our family

949 miles

17 hrs and 17min

1526 KM

from CO to TX.

It seems like yesterday. This year has flown by so fast!

We thought we would be in corporate housing a couple of months, we were there 6 months!

3 bedroom apt + 3 kids = chaos

3 bedroom apt + 5 kids (older kids came home in May) = disaster!

It felt like forever waiting for the house to be done and our old house to be sold. We left behind our friends, family, church and  it was hard being in limbo all those months. But I will say that once we moved into our home, things turned around and time has flown!

We are blessed.

We are still settling in, but it is good.

A new home, new friends, new church as my dear friend J. would say

"It's all good."

so even if it takes a while...sometimes it's totally worth it,

you just have to have a little faith.

 

This and more of my work will be on display at CHA at the ends of the month in CA.

Clear Scraps will debut a ton of new "Expressions"small and large and they are so fun!

For this "Expression"  "Faith" I used alcohol inks, glitter and a permanent marker.

Please go see it in in person in the Clear Scraps booth

 if you are there because my pictures do not do it justice!

I will be doing make and takes in the Faber-Castell booth on Tues and Wed come say hi!

Stay tuned I will be posting more sneak peeks for CHA!

Supplies:

Clear Scraps XL Circle and Expression

Paper, Crafty Secrets

Ranger Alcohol Inks, Rubber Cafe Glitter and adhesive,

Sharpie perm marker, sticker (my stash- dont remember)

Multitasking!

           OK so I admit it -
I cannot sit and

watch a movie or TV show without doing something else at the same time!

...Well unless I am sick or something!

So I got some new goodies in the mail

from the Rubber Cafe and I had to play!

Of course I also had to pull out my

Gelatos and Big Stampers Brush markers.

We were watching some  movie but I was also busy

doodling and I am loving these products! EEEK!

These are stamps - so gorgeous!

I used several Big Stampers Brush colors on top of each other.
For two of the butterfly stamps I stamped first with color, then with glue.

When it was dry (but sticky) I added very fine glitter and rubbed it in-

I wish you could see how gorgeous this looks in real life!

I didn't worry about getting it perfect or anything,  just having fun!

Oh...are you noticing new colors on my page?

That's right Design Memory Craft has come out with

new colors for CHA!!!

WoooHooo!

To get the look of this back ground

I used the Gelatos like a crayon, scribbled a bit then scrubbed with this fun little tool

the spongy white one...

I repeated this with different colors and every once

in a while misted with a little water. (Just a little - enough to blend colors)

What is super cool about the Big Stampers Brush is that they don't bleed do you can

stamp first, them color or add another stamp after you have colored your background.

(Oh I used the brush one to brush off extra glitter!)

I think I need to pull out my art journal  & multitask more often!

Supplies:

Rubber Cafe

Stamps - Vintage Treasures, Large Paisley Butterfly, Blossom Branch

"You're so fine" Glitter - Blue Skies, Canadian Blue, Diamond cool Highlight

Scrap Happy Glue, Lil Inkers (tools)

Design Memory Craft

Big Stampers Brush - Manganese Violet, Cobalt Green, Light Green

Gelatos - *Pistachio, *Grape, *Lavender, Grape, *Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy

(*new colors) 

cherish

I was thinking about this layout today
and how times flies so quickly.

(I made this layout in May 2011, but I don't remember
 if I shared this on my blog, the pic is 2010.)

Today we moved baby girl into a different room, she is so excited.

We are finally ready to start decorating, painting and
actually making this house is ours!

We moved furnitue & made lots of plans.
 Baby girl cracks me up because I did most of the

work and when I was too tired to finish SHE said
she was exhausted and needed a rest!

Supplies: Ta Da Creative Studios paper,

flowers - Prima & ZVA, Cosmo Cricket Alphas, ZVA bling,

Bazzil cardstock, ribbon unknown