November Sketch

Hi Everyone!

My turn to provide the sketch for this months challenge :)  So this time I have chosen to use  one of  Trina McClune's gorgeous sketches to inspire you!

Heres my take on the sketch.

I have used an old Heidi Swapp mask to create my heart shape, and used three different inks to colour it, then randomly stamped around the outside and the inside.  My chipboard word is inked with embossing ink and then heat set with white, and then bronze embossing powders.  The photo is my husband, the little cutie :) on his first day of school with his sister.

If you love this sketch, you'll find more superdooper ones on Trina's blog - trinamcclune.typepad.com

Please have your sketch uploaded below to the gallery by midnight November 30th to be into win! The winner will be picked by our lovely Trina :)

Products used:
Prima En Francais paper, flowers and chipboard embellishments
Imaginarium Designs chipboard word
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Aged Mahogany, Walnut stain, and Stormy Sky
Darkroom Door stamps
Cherry Lynn leaf dies
Prima metal fence and wooden banner
Other stamps from Kaisercraft and  Pink Paislee

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DT Inspiration

Hi everyone,

Here is my last full layout using the MME Miss Caroline range -- this range has just about sold out in the shop and only the products linked below are available now.  So make sure you get some of this lovely range before it all sells out!  

If you look closely, I have done a little masking with texture paste and the Crafter's Workshop Chicken Wire Mask. Again, the very popular banners are such an easy way to add embellishments to your layouts and so versatile as they can be made out of any piece of patterned paper.  The little chipboard cogs are by Imaginarium Designs are the perfect addition to any boyish layout.  Here  I  wound around some red twine around the cogs to give them a mechnical feel and tie the cogs into the theme of my layout about Liam and his creations.  There are lots of new chipboard in the shop and it is such an easy item to add to your layout and here I have just inked them up with a little grey ink and glue dotted them to my page.  

Products used:

Dolled Up Favorite - Decorate Paper 

Dolled up Favorite - Madras Paper

OA Boarding Pass - Venice Paper

Fly a Kite - Soar Accessories Sheet

Fly a Kite - Spring Accessories Sheet

ID Chipboard Cogs

Thanks for following along with my posts this month!  I hope you have enjoyed what I have had to show you using the MME range of products.

//Michelle

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OTP Inspiration with We R Memory Keepers

Hi Everyone!

I thought I'd show you what I made with the rest of my kit using the Family Keepsakes range.  The one thing I don't think we as scrappers are very good at is documenting things about ourselves because we are so busy documenting the stories of our children and family life, that sometimes we forget to step out from behind the camera.  With that in mind, I decided to create a mini album about our house and the story behind why we bought it and what we have changed since we moved in 8 years ago.  But like our house, I wanted to start it from scratch, another words I wanted to make the entire album, instead of buying a premade one I just had to decorate.
Theres a blog I follow called Follow the Paper Trail by Laura Dennison.  This lady creates some amazing albums and OTP items, has a show on UStream showing you how to make them and you can also find the patterns and/or kits for sale in her etsy shop.  I have bought a few of her patterns and this album was one of them, its called a Stack the Deck album.
The pages are made from envelopes, so I needed to make some to tie in with the papers I had left over, so I chose some old Daisy D's papers and made them.  I then used the papers and chipboard stickers I had left over from my kit, as embellishments and yes Ive even used more Prima packaging as accents again too!  Comes in very handy that packaging, grin!  The covers are made from some extra thick black chipboard Ive had left over from ages ago.

With the second to last photo I created a flip tab, so I could have a journalling spot underneath the photo and then decorated the rear of the photo.  And before you ask I did make a card with the left over scraps from the envelopes grin! (still sticking to that resolution!)  The album is now in the shop for you to have a look through.

Happy Scrapping Everyone!

Other items used:
Cherry Lynn flourish die
Melissa Frances resin frame
Petaloo flowers - Canterbury Collection
Prima Cinderella vines
Imaginarium Designs chipboard fence
Martha Stewart edge punches and leaf punch
Tim Holtz mini bulldog clips
Basic Grey rubons
Donna Downey foam stamps

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