Mother's Day Card

Here is a card I made my mother for Mothers Day. This card was inspired by two things, my mom and the challenge over at I am Roses. I love the color teal, so when I saw the challenge so many ideas just started floating in my head. I had recently purchased the Rose stamp from LaBlanche stamps and had not had a chance to play with it.

For the card, I used Webster's pages Vintage Vogue Collection, as it had the perfect color scheme of teals and pale pinks/ salmon. I then took a doily and several smaller I Am Roses flower and colored them using a mix of teal and pale pink shimmer sprays. Since I wanted more definition around the doily, I then went back with a darker teal color for the edge. I find that this technique allows for the the stamped image to pop more. I colored the stamped image with pearlescent chalk colors, by Pebbles. Lastly, I framed the doily with Recollections strand pearls.

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To the Moon- October Afternoon Rocket Age

Here is another layout I did of my nephew. We were actually at the Canadian Museum of Natural History in Ottawa, in a kids inspired submarine. I thought the picture looked like he was in a rocket ship windows.
For the layout, which is an 8 x8 layout, I decided to layer some of the pattern paper. I took some Tim Holtz grunge stars and painted them with Distress Stain in Broken China, and then covered then with some stickles. Lastly, I added the rubber charms and buttons from the matching October Afternoon line. I love the colors of this layout, they match my nephews smile.
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May IARCC - "MOB" layout

When I saw the IAR challenge, I was super excited, teal is my favorite color. It was actually the main color in my wedding color theme. That being said, my mom had decided to go against my wedding color, and wear purple. She said she loved the fit of the dress. Ohhh well, that's my mom, she was definitely the Mother of the Bride.

On this layout, I used some Bazzill background as the base. Then I cut up some older DCWV, The Four Seasons stack. I then, used a technique I saw on YouTube channel PrimaDonnaCrafts. I then selected a variety of I Am Roses flowers, and placed then in a cup of water, so that I can roll back the petals, so that I can remove some of the dimension from the flowers. This will allow them to fit better in my 12x12 album. I then colored them with the following Lindsay Stamp Gang colors, French Lilac Violet, Open Arms Amber, and Breakfast Club Blue. Some of the purple color comes from the naturally died flowers, that's had in my stash. I also used some handmade flowers, which I received in a swap, dont you find they match perfectly with the color scheme. Lastly, I added some Tattered Angels Chip Letters, which I colored, and then I randomly scattered some pearl and clear bling all over the layout. Finally, no layout is truly finished without Prima bling.

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"Hugs" Scrapbook Layout - Mrs Caroline Paper line

Earlier this year, I decided to join a kit club. A friend of mine has been scribed to My Scrapbook Nook kits, for a couple of years now, and I'm always impressed with the kits, when we get together and scrapbook. I had finally decided to take the plug. Their kits are great for children inspired pages. Since I take so many pictures of my nieces and nephew, this was a great kit for me to get. And I must say I have not been disappointed, yet. Their kits are soo fun and bright to play with.

On this layout, I decided to try something new, I used a mixed media technique. This technique includes taking bubble wrap,and and painting it white, then applying it to in random to the base pattern paper. I then layered some more patterned paper. I also applied some of the matching rub ones, randomly, to the layout. The picture is of my niece and nephew hugging each other, they always love hugging each other.
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