Art Canvas - Jessica

This was my third "girl" but couldn't post it till I gave her to Jess today! Jess does amazing 3D art on her scrapbooks so I thought this phrase was appropriate for her. (Check out her blog here.) Red and black is one of Jess's favorite color combos, the purple boots were just meant to be!

Cessna Girl

This mixed media art piece is being donated to The International Cessna 170 Association for their fund raising auction at the 2011 convention. The background is an airport sectional and the silhouette is a Cessna 170. The piece is 8x10 on canvas.

I love how the name of one of the places on the map is "Field of Dreams"!
(click picture to enlarge)

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Lucky Charms

I wasn't even going to scrap this photo even though it's cute.
I knew that kelly green paper would be difficult to locate in my stash!
Then I found a scrap lift challenge at The Scrap Room and one of the girls had a St.Patty's day layout with lots of different papers and the title "Best Lucky Charms". Also, in my last box of purchases there was this glittery shamrock thrown in as a freebie. So that was it, I decided to go ahead and scrap it! I used the sketch by Scrapbaby! at Memory Lane PA.
This is my layout:

This is the layout by Melanie Call that I used for my scraplift:

I didn't scraplift the design, but it was more the color scheme, title, and banner that inspired my layout.












This is Jessica's sketch (I turned it):

Honestly, all of the product except the Shamrock is from deep in my stash and scraps so I don't even know who the manufacturer's are. The Shamrock is by Making Memories.



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Spring Fling

Well, sometimes a layout just won't come together and this is one of those times.
You can't love every layout you do, just put it in the album and move on!

I do love these pictures, though! We had a very rare 74 degree day five days ago and took Quinn and Jacob to the park. Today we had snow! It's still grey outside so hard to get a decent picture.

Sketch by Sketchy Thursday's (I turned it):

I put some netting under the flowers - it didn't help - lol!

close up of the journaling.

Paper and Chip alpha are My Minds Eye, Lush Pink;
Leaves are Prima; Lace & Pearls are Recollections;
Sakura Gelly Roll glitter pens


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My 2nd She Art girl - Robin!

See this post for an explanation of She Art and my first girl!

This is my second girl - for my daughter, Robin -  I have tremendous respect and admiration for the way she begins each day anew, never dragging forward any "junk". She is amazing and I love her so much!

The heart in the upper right corner really is not that prominent,
I think the light was just bouncing off it when I took the picture.

My Guys

Great Gran'dad Gordon (my dad) and Jacob (my grandson) at Gran'dad's 80th birthday party.
This layout entered in the Guest Design Team Challenge at
Sketchy Thursday's - one of my very favorite sketch challenge blogs! The sketch is below and they requested spring colors.

Here is the sketch:

 Patterned Paper: Kaiser Craft: Ever Blooming "Birds of Paradise"
                            My Minds Eye: Ooh LaLa "Soiree"
                            My Minds Eye: So Sophie "Birds of a Feather"
"Delightful Adorable" Tag: My Minds Eye: So Sophie
Die cut tag w/date: Prima packaging
Scallop journal tag: Fancy Pants "Summer Soiree"
Title: "my Guys": Fancy Pants "Like Father Like Son"
          word blocks: Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type
Ribbon: Unknown
Brads: Kaiser Craft
Sparkle flourishes: Local Memories
Distress ink: Tim Holtz "Vintage photo" and "Broken china"

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"She Art" = FUN!

I am taking an on-line workshop by Christy Tomlinson of Scarlett Lime. She is an incredibly talented mixed media artist and the workshop is how to create what Christy calls "She Art". We are creating mixed media art on canvas featuring girls. I used an 8"x10" canvas.
This is my very first one and I am over the top pleased with how she turned out. I made it for my boss, Dr. Sandy. I've included a picture of her here also, I'm so pleased with the similarity! One of the things Dr. Sandy says a lot to her patients is "Your thoughts create your reality" so I included that on my canvas.
You really should go visit Christy's blog, her work is amazing. I am so inspired by her and am having a blast taking her workshop.

Close up of the face:

Picture of Dr. Sandy:

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Quinn's Fishy Face

Of course I had to scrap this picture!
My sweet Quinn making her fishy face!

Entered at the MLPA challenge using Jess's awesome sketch:

Patterned paper is by Fancy Pants Designs, Love Bird collection;
Wave border is Autumn Leaves sprayed with Tattered Angels Pearl mist;
Tim Holtz distress ink "fired brick";
Letters are Sizzlits "Fruit Smoothie"







I cut every other space on the patterned paper die cut,
then scored the ones I didn't cut, bent them up and
pop-dotted them for dimension:

I sprayed the border with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl
to give it some shimmer and I traced around the fish with
a Sakura Gelly Roll pen in silver:

 



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She's got a ticket to ride!

Here are Quinn and Sandy on the antique carousel 
at Menlo Park in Perkasie PA. 
Look at Quinn holding the ticket in her little hand- so cute!
I made the title block a ticket - hee hee! - pretty proud of that!

This layout entered in the sketch challenge at Memory Lane PA,
the stitching challenge at Paper Variety, and the ticket challenge at
Chicken Soup (thanks for the link, Tina!).

The sketch by Jessica aka scrapbaby!

some closeups: (you can click on them to enlarge if you like)

Product list:
Paper, chipboard, border sticker: Crate Paper, Brook Collection;
Distress Inks: Tim Holtz; Silk Flower: Prima; Floss: DMC #726;
Letters: "SHES"- October Afternoon, Mini Market
              "TICKET" & "RIDE" - American Crafts, Remarks;
Music score: vintage


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BoBunny February card challenge

This card entered in the BoBunny February Card Challenge using this sketch:

Also entered at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
her challenge this week is to use a sentiment.
I used BoBunny's beautiful Noel collection.
I kept the card "flat" as it will go to Operation Write Home
for one of our troops to send home.

Here is the inside (it is the reverse of the base paper)
with space at the top to write a note.

Valentine gift tags

I made these gift tags from the Making Memories Love Struck garland kit.
I entered them in the LOVE contest at Design Dollies!

for the Snyders: (Bryan, Jacob, Robin)

for the Kilborn's:(Quinn, Sandy, Joel)

Awesome (Zachary)

This is my brother's son Zachary in the summer of 2009
I've had this picture already printed in 8x10 for more than a year now and the perfect sketch finally came along! I knew the instant I saw this week's sketch at Sketchy Thursdays that I wanted to reverse it and that I wanted to use this photo! (It's scary the things that I remember that I have, and what goes on in my head with them!)

Patterned paper: Fancy Pants "Rusted Sun";
Ribbon: BoBunny "Annasophia";
Letters and blue dots: Cloud 9 Design "Rain dots";
Sun and Flip Flop Icons: Microsoft Word Clip Art;
Surfboard Icon: Unknown patterned paper from stash;
Distress Ink: Tim Holtz

Here is the sketch (I had to flip flop it (ha!) to accommodate my photo):

Angled close up to show dimension of pop-dotted icons and epoxy letters:

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Sweet Aunt(s)

Here is Sandy holding Robin's son Jake and Robin holding Sandy's daughter Quinn. 
My girls are so enjoying being mommies and aunties and raising their kids together!

This layout entered in a sketch contest at My Sketch World.

All of the patterened paper, rub-ons, die cuts, and stickers are
Fancy Pants Designs "Lilac House";
"sweet" is Cosmo Cricket Tiny type;
Felt bird and branch are Maya Road;
Brown pearl is Recollections;
Pearl Flourish is Kaiser (so glad I picked that up on a whim at Memory Lane PA on Friday night!)














Here is the sketch:

A close up of the flourish:

 

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I appreciate your comments!

Miracle (Jacob's birth 5.4.10)

This layout is for the MLPA facebook sketch challenge.
Added challenge is that the picture be from 2010.

Base paper: My Minds Eye from the Laundry Line collection
Patterned paper: Bella Blvd from the Estate Sale collection
Brown cardstock: Bazzil; 
Bling flourish: Gem Art;
Butterflies: jenni bowlin studios; Font: Sizzlits Cherish
Photograph: Bella Baby Photography
















the sketch by Jess aka scrapbaby:

a close up:

Adah on her 4th birthday!

Happy 4th Birthday Adah!
(my sister's granddaughter)

 The paper, stamp, and cake die cut are all Imaginsice "B-day Bash" collection. Rhinestones are Basic Grey; Distress Ink is Tim Holtz; Pop dots are EK Success.

      
















Here is a close up:

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This layout is entered in prompt 24 birthday layout challenge at Scrap That Baby, the banner challenge at Frosted Designs and
a sketch contest at My Sketch World
where the added challenge is for the layout to be a birthday theme.
Here is the sketch: