~ Never Enough Bling ~

When in doubt, bling it out!! Sunday I made a vow to not get on the computer for the entire day, so I cleaned some of my house, watched some tv, played with my kids and worked on a couple of layouts. Both of the layouts I was working on were at this point of "now what". I mean they were both pretty, but they were both missing something in my eyes. So like I said, when in doubt, bling it out!! And so it began.... out came the wire, the beads, the stickles, the rhinestone flowers and imagination.

This first layout was done with some beautiful Websters Pages paper. I cut the butterflies and the little well off on one piece of pattern paper and applied it to this page. I used stickles to enhance the butterflies. I also wanted to bling up my floral spray so I alcohol inked some beads and made some page jewellery. Look how awesome the dark blue and gold look together. I also stickled on parts of my flowers.

I love this page. The paper came from a royalty free photo off the internet that I blew up to a 12x12 size and printed it out. All the blue is a gorgeous pearlized paper that has a metallic look to it. So anyway I had this done and ended up with some vines and a big blue circle. Boring! I had to break out the bling... Let's start with the Prima berry spray that I cut up into pieces and wound around bits of my floral spray, then I had these gorgeous rhinestone flowers in different sizes and colors that I stuck all around the circle, above and on the photo, and at the end of my ribbon. By the way that little fairy is a Harlee Quinnz stamp that can be found at their online store.

Let's not forget this awesome butterfly. I LOVE this butterfly and pretty soon it will be made available to purchase in one of Katies Kreations 4 U 's Etsy kits.

~Creating a Fairy Land~

I like drawing, but I am not the best at it. However, I still like to sit down with my kids and draw pictures. The other night I drew this scene of a fairy forest and had to make some 12x12 paper out of it. I added sparkles in the branches and bushes for added details as well. I really didn't add a lot of embellishments to the page except for my butterfly page jewellery and some Tim Holtz grungeboard flowers. I think it turned out so sweet with this photo I took of Brooky. She makes the cutest little fairy with or without wings. The paper and the butterfly can be found at my Etsy. TFL!!

Newest Harlee Quinnz Layout

I wanted to make a fall layout with this gorgeous Harlee Quinnz Butterfly Garden paper. I think this one turned out pretty well considering the photo has spring colors. I did quilling for the vine and I must admit I got the idea from Gabi P, a designer from My Creative Scrapbook. The flowers I used for the vine are sold in a kit at my Etsy shop. I did the tulip myself out of HQ papers. The green cardstock is all grunged up using an exacto blade and running it from side to side across the paper. (Don't slice through it, but go side to side with the blade). I made transparencies out of the HQ stamps and also used HQ trim to tie around my tulip.

This layout is currently out for publication!

Some More Etsy Stock

Last night I was thinking while laying in bed. Trying to rack my brain on some cute page jewellery ideas. Well I came up with bead strands that were bendable, so you could shape them however you would like on your pages. I also thought of a crystal butterfly from these chandeliere beads that I had. Ok so they aren't real crystals, but they sure look neat. Check out what I made to sell on my Etsy.

My ETSY is Officialy OPEN!!

Ok so I decided I needed to open an Etsy, so I did and I added some super pretty fall items along with some page jewellery as well. I just love fall, so I couldn't resist putting together floral kits and vines!! YUMMY!! Stop my My Etsy here!!

~*~ October Swirlydoos Bliss ~*~

Oh yes it's here and it's gorgeous!! The October Swirlydoos kit called Autumn Splendor. I have made so many layouts and I still have more goodies left. This months colors are all the wonderful colors of fall. Check out some of my latest Swirlydoos creations.

This is my daughter Rylee standing under her bed curtains that she has. I kept this one rather simple because the paper speaks for itself. I did notice after I took the picture that my "t" in true got a little crooked. Sorry about that.

This is Raine when she was about 12 years old. I actually did this for a sketch challenge on sb.com. Loved the design so I had to do it. I added a bit of my own flare though. This is all kit items except for the three flowers I layered.

Here is my gorgeous hubby pondering his next move on the treehouse he is building for my kids. I used all kit items, except for my favorite Maya Road sheer letters that I acohol inked in gold.

My sweet Rylee again in her elf get up. All items are from the kit except for the vine above her photo. Isn't this paper gorgeous!! I actually tilted it sideways!! Look at that flower, LOVE IT!!

Ok here is the Beggahuna sketch challenge of the month layout!! I love how it turned out. All items are from the kit except for the lettering. I put in some hidden journaling with a verse from the bible behind her photo. Another great sketch this month!!

~*~ Harlee Quinnz ~*~

So I am sitting around the house with my kids today. Since we are taking a break from homeschooling I thought I would post a couple more Harlee Quinnz layouts.

This first one is of Brooky dressed up like a little fairy without any wings. That wonderful 2 year old attitude got the best of the wings lol. Anyway I used a couple of papers from their Butterfly Garden line and a couple of stamps from the same line. The flowers are mainly Prima with some added little bunches I stole off a swag in my house. The Prima swirls are cut up and layered throughout the flowers. I love corrugated cardboard, so I wanted to throw some in on this one. I crackle painted, stickled and glitter misted it (as usual).
Thanks to a friend of mine from Scrapbook.com, I was given these photos to create a stogy layout with the Scents I Remember line. This line has some fascinating papers in it that you can do a lot with. The black cigar transparency was also made from a stamp in that same line. Harlee Quinnz also has some cut outs called ephemera which I used on the flower.