The Color Room-Palette #7

This week's palette was a big stretch for me since I'm not a giant fan of pastels.  I do, however, enjoy how my interpretation came out. 

This layout features my beautiful daughter, Megan.  This photo was taken at my mom's house on the lake.  I really love this photo and thought the natural hues in the pictures would lend itself nicely to this palette.  I apologize for the bad photo.  It's harder than you think to get the lighting right so that the colors show up as they should.  

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Tools used:

Martha Stuart Edge Punch (on terra cotta strip)

Cricut (circle, bird, butterfly, flowers, title)

Cricut Gypsy

Quickutz Revolution (vine)

Tim Holtz Destresser (circle)

Cuddle Bug Swirl Embossing Folder (bird, flowers)

Dymo LetraTag label maker ("girl" in title)

Materials used:

Tim Holtz Distress Ink to ink all edges

Cardstock

My Minds Eye patterned paper

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (butterfly and bird)

Pearls

I like to shop for materials at www.scrapbook.com.  

Visit The Color Room to see other artist's interpretations of this week's palette and some other amazing work.  Another favorite place for me to visit for inspiration is Scrap That!.

The Most Romantic Week Ever

This is the first page of a series that I will be working using photos from when I spent a week in Dallas in December 2009.  That would be about 6 weeks before my sweetheart would move here to North Dakota to be with me.  These pictures were taken at the Ritz Carlton in Dallas, where he surprised me with a nights stay on the concierge club level.  The week in Dallas was incredibly romantic.  More pages to follow!  

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I used my Cricut and Gypsy to cut out the silhouette of the couple, the heart, the butterfly and the black border on the bottom.  I used my new Martha Stewart punch for the frame around the photo.  I also used a Martha Steward punch for the peek through paper on the right hand side of the layout.  The peek through with the border punch was a challenge by Karen W. on the "Scrap That!" site.  I simply tore a piece of the paper away, chose another paper to tuck behind and punched that paper with the border punch.  I also used the tear away technique on the top and right hand side of the pages, but instead tucked some old sheet music back there that I found at a thrift store for $1.  Yeah!  I was so stoked to find that sheet music.  I inked the torn edges a bit with Tim Holtz Distress Ink.  I also went crazy with the Stickles glitter glue, which you really can't tell by this photo.  I used it on the butterfly, the black border on the bottom and also the heart and chandelier at the top of the page.  Other tools used included my Quickkutz Revolution for the title, my Dymo label maker also for the title and Tattered Angels Glimmer mist.  I used a bit of ribbon from Hobby Lobby with a metal charm by Making Memories tied around the photo.  I used pop dots on the smaller photo, silhouette and chandelier.  

I found The Color Room!

Blog hopping to some of the most inspiring scrapbookers around, I discovered The Color Room-and WOW!  What a place to gather some inspiration!  Sure, there is loads of talent on the site, just like every other scrap blog or site I visit, but this place is more than just an artist strutting their stuff.  Every week this site puts up a new color palette and sketch to really get the creative juices flowing.  The site just kicked off, and there are already over 1,000 members!  Me, being one of them.  The unfortunate part is that I stumbled upon it 6 weeks in.  I wish I would have been around from the start.  Even so, I'm glad to have found it.  This week's color palette is simply fantastic!  Take a sneak peak of the palette below, along with the sketch, followed by my interpretation.  I hope you'll join the fun!  I've been enjoying seeing what all the talented artists are coming up with out there.   

I used a photo of my sweet, adorable nephew Adrian for this layout. I'm too embarrassed to admit how long the piece of art took me to create. 

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Supplies used:

Tim Holtz Grunge Board for "precious" and the dark brown heart

Tim Holtz Distressing Ink

Tim Holtz Distressing Tool

Quickkutz Revolution, boarder die cut, circle die cut, heart die cut

Prima Flowers

Cuddlebug Swirls Embossing Template

Xyron Design Runner

Making Memories tiny letters

Tsukineko Walnut Ink

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Patina

Basic Grey patterned Paper

Bazill Cardstock

It's A Boy!

On April 19th, Charles and I had a doctor's appointment for an ultrasound where we would find out if our baby will pee standing up or sitting down.  To our pleasure(especially Charles') we found out our baby will pee standing up.  His name will be Draven Charles Roberts.  Here are a couple of layouts that I did with the photos that we received.  


The first layout is using a photo with a picture of his profile.
I used some Basic Grey chipboard for the word "boy" and stamped and inked it to give it more depth.
I also used Tim Holtz Distress ink,
The clock is a Tim Holtz time piece and game spinners
The paper clip is by Tim Holtz
The "love" ticket is by Tim Holtz
The metal onsie is by Making Memories
The "1234.." rub on is by 7 Gypsies
Patterned paper by My Mind's Eye
I also used a stapler and a Dymo LetraTag maker and my Gypsy and Cricut.

This next layout is using some of the crazier photo's we received.  It was so amazing watching Draven move around in my tummy.  He was very active, and appeared to either be a)chatting up a storm like his daddy, or b)getting ready to let belt out the coolest rocker scream you ever heard.  Also, just like his very musically talented daddy.  Both photos are of his face, but one with his mouth wide open in mid sentence, scream, or yawn.  Charles is so excited to teach Draven how to play guitar and have him take piano lessons.  Charles figures with a name like Draven, he's destined to be a rock star.  No pressure, Draven.  :-)


I used Basic Grey patterned papers form their last Halloween line.  I also used
Tim Holtz Grunge Board for the word "future" and also for the small skull, crown and arrow.
Tim Holtz white crackle paint on both white skulls
Tim Holtz "hope" and "dream" tickets.
Tim Holtz distress ink
Glimmer Mist in Graphite
Rock Star ribbon by DCWV
Heidi Swapp tape
My cricut (indie art and Hannah Montana cartridges) and gypsy and Dymo label maker and my stapler again.
Charles also donated one of his very cool Fender guitar picks to round off the layout nicely.

Shopping Inspires Me

I've scrapped a total of 3 pages in the last few weeks.  For some reason, I had the need to buy more stuff.  Because seriously, I don't have enough.  This hobby, addiction, obsession has become...what's the word....ridiculous?  After 11 years of scrapbooking, I can't seem to resist the beautiful Basic Grey papers, Tim Holtz embellishment or wonderful glimmer mist color I don't have.  I've gone on and on about this problem before, but I found the need to talk about it again, because I simply can't get enough.  It's obvious, shopping inspires me.  Everything from the bright, vivid colors to the deep, rich earth tones gives me visions of scrapbook pages done in my head.  Everything new and fresh inspires new ideas.  Now the challenge is to put it to use along with the rest of my stash.  Scrapbooking weekend ahead.  Yay!  :-)

In the Creative Groove!

This is my first project of any sort since my last scrapbooking retreat at the end of February.  I've been inspired by this photo of Charles for quite some time, and now that he actually lives here he inspires me even more.  Not to mention the tiny baby boy hanging out in my uterus that is no longer making me feel like vomiting every minute of the day.  :-)  So, here it is!  It symbolizes the American dream of becoming a musician who has "made it".  Whatever that means in today's music world.  The word "hope" is hanging by a thread to represent, well, hope....hanging by a thread.  :-)

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I first sprayed my white card stock (even thought the card stock looks blue, it's actually white) with blue glimmer spray to give it a graffiti feel.  I stamped two of my stars (top and bottom stars) with an embossing ink, and then dusted them with perfect pearls and hit them with my Martha Stewart heat gun for a minute to keep the perfect pearls from falling off.  I used white acrylic paint to brush over the metal "hope" word stick.  Using a tissue, I wiped off the excess paint to reveal a more prominent word.  Otherwise the word was the same color was the rest of the metal.  I brushed Denim Blue alcohol ink by Ranger Industries on the 3 metal pieces with a piece of felt to give them a blue tint.  Alcohol ink is fabulous for plastic and metal pieces because the color doesn't rub off.  I cut the word "DREAM" from my quickutz revolution using the Diesel font and used one of those nifty label makers for the word "american".  I cut the stars and guitar using my Cricut Expression and Cricut Gypsy.

I then adhered my guitar die cut, my stars and photo using a regular glue stick and the metal pieces with metal glue. The last items I adhered was my title.

Photo credit:Tyler Roberts using a Nikon D90

Creativity is lacking...

Nothing new to post in quite some time.  I did attend another awesome retreat at the end of February, but due to being pregnant, haven't really had energy to post anything.  I will be back on track, soon!  I've begun to feel more energized now that I'm in my 2nd trimester, and visions of sparkly Stickles and scrapbook pages have begun to creep back into my mind.  Mostly, I'm daydreaming about all the fun things I'll get to create with a brand new baby!  :-)

Stay tuned!  I'm not done scrapping!