Just Cruisin'...

Hello!  I can't believe I'm up to 3 posts in 2 days...look how productive a little vacation time makes me!  :)  Today I am sharing a layout I created using the most recent Sunday Sketch over at Citrus Twist Kits.  If there is one thing I love it's layers...and I really loaded them on here to give this page some dimension and to include as many of the great October Afternoon Travel Girl line items as I could (paper and embellies).  Here is my layout and the sketch I used to create it.

Thanks for having a look!

xoxo,

Shawna

The Greatest Gift...

We're still cropping over at Birds of a Feather in honor of the Kit Co's 3rd birthday!  One of the challenges I created for the crop was a challenge to scrap the best gift ever...literally or figuratively speaking.  Here is my page in honor of that subject.  There isn't a better gift I can think of than the honor of motherhood.  Happy Hump Day my friends!

AAG August 15th challenge...white space!

Time for the mid-month challenge at About A Girl!  This challenge is all about leaving white space on your layouts.  Lucky for me, I recently discovered that I could print my instagram photos in 4x4 through the Walgreens app on my phone, so I am stocked with little square photos with fun edits that are perfect for these type of layouts! Here is what I came up with.

I picked a sketch from the Scrap Friends sketch archive and reached for my trusty Heidi Swapp mists.

These Heidi Swapp mists get a whole lotta play in my scrappy rotation lately.  The colors are fun, bright, mixable, and versatile. They might just be my most frequently used product this summer.  And the coordinating products I get in my Citrus Twist kits never disappoint.  Always plenty to mix and match from past months too!  Here are a couple of close-ups.  Scroll to the bottom for a list of materials.  Thanks for stopping by - your comments mean a lot! xoxo

Materials

Papers
Alison Kreft Composition & Color - True Story (Webster Pages)
Summer Love - Popsicle (Cosmo Cricket)
Mambi Cards
Studio Calico Sundrifter 6x6 paper pad
Studio Calico journaling card

Embellies
Heidi Swapp mists (teal, chartreuse, cherry red, yellow)
Basic Grey stickers - Knee High Bowties
Studio Calico die cuts
American Craft flair button
Thickers letters
sequins

Case file #84...swing with me

Happy Wednesday!! Another great case file at CSI this week! (Just like every other week…Debbi never fails to deliver a fabulous color scheme and challenge!) This week had a nautical theme, which is right up my alley since I am pretty obsessed with all things nautical at the moment! Along with the awesome Scene, we have a wonderful sketch from Emma Stafrace to work from, and I stayed true to the shape, changing some elements here and there.

Here is the case file and sketch:

And here is what I came up with. I wanted to give the feel of the beach, where this photo was taken, so I used a lot of different textures on this one.

For the frames, I covered one with Liquitex molding paste to give it a textured seafoam/wavy feel, and I covered the other with Tim Holtz distressed denim ink to get the weathered navy look.

I created the background by spritzing the paper with a chartreuse mist, then layering gauze and jute over top of it. I also used the jute as a mask over a white tag and used some chartreuse mist on that. I added various trim – rope, twine, which I wove through the fussy cut anchor stamps, and this really cool floss with little green squares that I have had in my stash for years. Finished it off with various wood and chipboard embellies and a couple of stamps, and voila! Case closed. :)

As always, thank you so much for stopping by and taking a peek! If interested, a list of materials used is below. Have a great day!

Materials:

Paper:
Patterned Paper Unknown – leftover sheet from an old paper pad

Kraaft
Embellies:
White Thickers letters
American Craft white frames
K&Co. nautical chipboard embellie from many years ago
Little Yellow Bus "happy" stick pin (without the pin piece)
Michael's anchor stamp
American Craft white tag
Citrus Twist handmade embellie "Blissful"
Citrus Twist exclusive polymer stamp "Soak up the sun"
Studio Calico wood embellies
Heidi Swapp mist in chartreuse
Liquitex molding paste
Tim Holtz Distressed Denim ink
Colorbox white ink
Colorbox navy ink
Jute
Gauze
Various thread and twine

CSI Case File #83 - The Legendary Dunroamin' Gang

It is that time again!  This week's CSI case file is perfect for those summer vacation photos that you need to get scrapped and I was psyched to find that the color scheme worked well with this photo of these little goonies, captured in a rare moment of (something akin to) stillness.  Hehehe. :-)

And here is the case file I was working with:

And some close-ups.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look! xoxo

Hello Sunshine!

CSI Case File #82 is up and ready to be solved!  This is my last contribution as a Special Investigator.  I had a blast solving these case files and am so grateful for the opportunity.  The color scheme for this case file was vibrant and fun and just screamed summer.  Again, my Citrus Twist kit goodies came in handy and besides a couple of detail embellishments, I used the June kit for just about everything.  Here is my finished layout:

And here is the case file, and some closeups of how I solved it.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Your visits and comments are much appreciated!  Have a great weekend!

Nail polish doing double duty.

So I pulled out my latest Citrus Twist  goodies (June's Boardwalk kit) today and started working on the latest sketch challenge over at Scrap Friends.  I started with grays, blues and greens but it felt washy. (Washy, people.  Not washi.  Washi is good.  Washy not so much.).  Anyway, I needed a bold color to brighten it up.  Didn't have any good bright thickers for title work, and none of my peachy tones seemed to work...started tapping my fingernails on the table thinking "hmmmm...what can I use?"  The answer was right in front of me my friends.  Literally on my hands.  Well, on my nails. Nailpolish! Really pleased with the final product.  I'll be pulling out my bucket of nail polish more often!  LOL  Here is the sketch I was working off of. (This layout totally morphed into something not very closely resembling the sketch, but the thought was there and that counts for something right?)

And here is my layout.  I polished my thickers with some Cover Girl nailpolish in a really fun lipstick pink and then splashed a little on here and there for dimension.

And here are some close-ups.  This was too much fun.  Thanks for stopping by! :)

These 2...CSI Case File #80

Happy Friday!  The team over at CSI has just revealed another fabulous case file!  This week is also the reveal of my second Special Investigator layout for the month.  Still feeling so honored to be featured with such amazing artists and having way too much fun with these challenges!  Stop over and see what the other Special Investigators and the Design Team have created by clicking here!  This week the challenge incorporates an absolutely gorgeous color palette to work with...perfect for scrapping my summer mini-vacation pics from our trip up North!  Here is how I cracked the case:

And here is the awesome scene I had to work with:

A few close-ups:

Thanks for stopping by - I truly appreciate your visits! xoxo

CSI Case File #73 - You & Me Together

This week's case file over at CSI has a fabulous color scheme and this layout was a blast to put together.  Here's the scene:

And here's my take on it.  I'm really loving my Heidi Swapp masks and have been incorporating them into layouts a lot lately.  This time, I layered the mask. Used inks and mists and some great ombre thread and buttons that I got with this month's Citrus Twist kit.  Thanks for looking!

Always Thinking...

My kid is a thinker.  If she doesn't have a furrowed brow wrinkle by the age of 16 it will be a miracle.  Since the day she was born she has always studied everything with a scrutiny I've never seen in a child her age.  She approaches every bit of new information with such seriousness - a pretty stark contrast to the rest of her personality, which is anything but serious.  But when she comes across something she is interested in, or gets lost in her own thoughts, the brow furrows, the lips tighten into a line, and I swear you can almost see the wheels and gears turning in her brain.  This photo sums up that piece of her perfectly.  

I was inspired by yet another awesome Sanna Lippert tutorial where she created her background with paint and a brayer.  I didn't have a brayer so I used a paint brush.  I added in some chevron masks with spray paint and pulled out my scraps of paper to use them up.  Not even the holes left over from the hole-punched vellum went to waste on this one. The embellies are from my May Citrus Twist kit, with the exception of the buttons, which are American Craft.  Thanks for looking and Happy Monday!  <meta name="p:domain_verify" content="8df407bc94197f5fdaca5730a29196a1"/>