Queen of my Heart - Take 2

I loved that tag so much decided I needed another for a l.o.
and who else would be queen of my heart except for Ms. Isabella.
The paper is from the February Kit of club Scrap. Cardstock was plain I just stamped a bunch of different stamps trying to grunge it up a bit. Sewed some beads on there also.

Queen of my Heart

When I want to create and I feel stuck what do I do? I lift. I went to Tim Holtz's amazing site see here:Tim Holtz
Where he freely shares his techniques. I know the point is to use his stuff but I haven't gotten my hands on any grungeboard or the distress crackle paint,so I improvised. I recieved the January kit from The Embellishment Studio
and it included these cute little winged heart chipboard (one piece) I hand drew and cut the crown and I used gold UTEE,acrylic paint and crackle medium,lots of stamps from Club Scrap and others, Marah Johnson paper.
Entering this one to Caardvarks




This card will be reappearing in a l.o.
I also made a pink one will share that one later when I finish it.

Sweetheart Card

This card will be submitted for 2 challenges. One is Caardvarks(see here) XOXO Love Fest Valentines and secondly My Inner Martha (see here). Go check them out if you're up to a challenge and for lots of eye candy too.

The card was inspired by Lauren, see All the Good blog names were taken, whom I happen to cyber stalk. Take a look at her awesome blog. Her creativity/art is amazing! I love going to her blog for insipration.

The card is for a little girl whom I'm sure will love all of the glitter on it.

The card is a 3 layer card plus 2 hanging embellishments.



The cardstock is from Club Scrap, the buttons from the paper Studio, the stamps are from Club Scrap, Autumn Leaves and Rita Marie. the Pink stickles and the lace I picked up at The Embelishment Studio.

To be loved is to Live Forever in someone's Heart

This was inspired by another challenge from "My Inner Martha"
The challenge:
LACE!
"I don't know about you, but I have gobs of lace. I just got a giant box of it from Freecycle. It is challenging for me to use, though, so I shy away from it. Not this week!! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to use lace on a card, layout, or project. Be creative!! It doesn't have to be the typical ruffly girly lace... And yes, I'm sure with a little creativity you can even figure out how to use it on a boy page."

I choose to accept. I've been distressing, sewing and doing lots of painting today.

This was the original

I made this Collage/frame for my mom. Those (really bad) pictures are of her parents. I know she misses them, so I made her this little gift.
The pink and cream lace are from The Embelishment Studio, the 3 pink flowers belonged to my grandmother, the cherub my mom gave me several of those. The beads and sequence are from my wedding dress, vintage white buttons, prima flowers, the cross I picked up at Michaels. The Quote and the cards stock is from Club Scrap.



I made a similar embelishment and I really liked it but it went in my scrapbook and stored away in a bookcase. I thought why not make one to display.
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I Love you today & Forever Card

Another Challenge from "My Inner Martha"
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to take an item from your stash that you can't find a use for and alter it for a card.

I chose to accept it and this is what I came up with. I used the leftovers of a HS chipboard and an old tag. Lots of distressing, inking and layering.



This is the end result. The paper are scraps from my 2 Spotted Dogs January Kit

Altered Notebook

I'm supposed to be at a scrapbooking retreat this weekend but there is a snow storm so instead I'm home - scrapbooking.




I altered this notebook for Izzy. He loves golf and is on the "golf team." That's why I used that paper. I used those large brads on front and back covers to hold the notebook closed with a rubberband. I did alot of distressting and altering.

El Senote

31 OF 31
In the last 31 days I've created 35 complete layouts, 2 cards and one project.
Yes! What a productive month.

This layout is in response to a blog I came across (see here)It's called my Inner Martha. Thanks Lauren for the reference. She has several challenges posted. One is a sketch. I took the challenge and changed mine a little bit.

I wanted to journal about the historical value of El Senote but the pictures called for something else.
Historical Mayan sources define this natural well as an important ceremonial center and pilgrimage destination between the 5th & 16th centuries A.D.
It was pretty amazing to sit there with my DD and take pictures.



and this embelishment came about as a neccesity - there are other tourist standing right there. I had to figure out how to hide them with out cropping it.

Some of the layering that I love!