It's almost time to move on to the December kit, but before that happens I have one last page from the November Purple Haze kit to share. This page has a photo of my daughter, Rylee. She reminds me of Blake Lively in this photo. I took this shot of her while she was looking at herself in the mirror.
This is my second page doing the Dusty Attic and Websters Pages product swap. I had a blast working with Websters and was able to break out some of those older Christmas pics!! This layout shows a picture of my youngest daughter, during Christmas of 2008, opening up a present.
For this page I used items from the Websters Botanical Christmas collection, including some papers, Dazzle Me Gems and their matching Fabric Ribbon. The Dusty items were the Typewriter Font Alphabet Set, Corner Flourish 2, and the Lacing Tash chippies. The little roses are from a tutorial that Gabi P did quite a long time ago and I love doing them still.
I created the shabby chic look by painting the chippies with white acrylic paint and letting them dry. Then I sanded over the tops of them.
Dusty Attic and Webster's Pages got together to show off how lovely their products go together by doing a product swap, so I got to play with some yummy Webster's and some new chippies from Dusty!! How fun is that?! This is the first of two layouts that I did using both products and I will be posting another one on the 1st!
This is a photo of my daughter I took last year. She was memorized by the Christmas tree and it was such a magical moment for her. You can really see the true Spirit of Christmas in child.
For this I used papers, fabric ribbon, and dazzle me gems from the Botanical Christmas collection. The Dusty chippies I used were the Christmas Tree #2, Cameo Ribbon Slides, and Typewrite Font Alphabet Set.
For the tree I first sprayed it lightly with water and then took my little cutterbee knife and sliced upwords to create the texture. Then I inked it green and added some drops of silver liquid pearls and red rhinestones.
I had fun with these cameo sliders by giving them a different spin. I just inked them and used some of the Websters fabric ribbon and dazzle me gems.
Dusty Attic if sponsoring The Color Room this month and we are on our second palette this week!! It's a great one too, with very pretty neutrals. Here is my take on palette #84. I used a pic of myself and I call this The Pose because it's my best side and I tend to try to do a side shot like this if my pic is taken.
It's so dark and gloomy here in Oregon as usual, so my pics are not as true to color as I would like.
This is the lovely Dusty Attic chippie I used for this page. This is the Scroll #6 DA0578 and I coated it with Smooch Spritz and went over with gesso and chalk inks for highlights.
The tag reads, "Rylee took this picture of me during the Summer of 2011."
"Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind that's running round
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about.....
Riding with the wind"
~Jimi Hendrix
This month we are getting down and groovy with the November Scraps of Darkness kit called Purple Haze!! This is another absolutely gorgeous kit filled with so many beautiful papers and embellies!! I am also the current Pandora's Box artist which means I did a tutorial on a full layout I put together which you can see below. Let's get started!! Here's the kit pic!!
This first one is my take on the Charlotte's sketch! The photo is of my daughter, Rylee, smiling, which doesn't happen all that often in pics :)
Clusters of embellies are one tip I give out a lot!! They always look nicer in packs :) The background is layered with cheesecloth that I spritzed with some pale green mist.
I used two of my pins which are included in the Romance Add On!
These letters are painted with Gesso and detailed with Stickles.
This next page is my Pandora's Box layout. The photo is of my youngest daughter. Here is the video if you want to check it out. I apologize for some of the extra boring parts lol.
After the video I did add a few extras to finish it off. I figured the most important part was the foundation along with the main embellies :)
My next page is of myself that was taken this summer. I used a few Dusty Attic chippies to add to this one.
These little birds nests by Prima are so cute, but a little chunky, so I cut the entire bottom off of mine. It sat on my page so much nicer after that.
These are the Sweet Pea Border Strips that I coated with Gesso and Distress Ink.
The last one for today is of my daughter, Tyler. I added the Dusty Attic Garden Frame on this one.
I used my EK Success Dahlia Flower Punch again. The hearts are Prima and beautiful!!
For the chippie I coated it all with Concord Grape Distress Ink and then painted some mint colored acrylic paint onto the inside area. I then wiped it down with a paper towel and used some Purple Chalk Ink to blend it out towards the outer edge.
These little Dusty nameplates are so cute. I used some of my kit paper along with one of the Bo Bunny rubs to make my title.
Well lets see.... I am a mom of 5 awesome children and a grandma to 1. I'm married to a loving and supporting man, who puts up with my creative urges. I love scrapbooking, photography, and spending time with my family.
