H2O fun with stamps

Good Morning all,

As you know from my last post life has been very full lately with the arrival of our first grandchild, beautiful princess Leila, and spring has finally arrived here in the midwest so I have been doing alot of work outdoors.  But I did manage to steal a day away in my studio to play with some new products that I recently purchased.

I just wanted to do a quick post to show you my latest favorite product.  Luminarte twinkling H2O water colors.  They come in a variety of colors

And they are blended with beautiful Mica powders so the colors are brilliant.

Pair this with some new stamps from Rangers and Rubberneckers and the creativity starts flowing. 

 for the Ranger stamps I took 3 white flowers that I had and used the H2O's to paint the flowers to match the colors I used in the tags

Thank you so much for stopping by

Jennifer

It's been a while

Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted anything since November of last year.  I have been so caught up in my world that I have failed to update anything.  Well, it's spring and that's a time for everything to be woken up from the long winter (which unfornately is still in my back yard) But I want to start out this blog post with a wonderful little gift I was recently given by my daughter Rachael and her fiance Chris. 

 My first granddaughter Leila Mckenzie. She is very beautiful and will be featured in many upcoming posts.

Now onto my first Leila project.  A while ago I bought a pattern from Laura Denison at http://followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com/ to make a wardrobe that housed a very cute little mini album at the front.  and here is what I came up with.  Please note I do not follow directions very well so I usually use the patterns for inspiration so this is very much my interpretation of Laura's beautiful design.

The front - I covered the case with this luxurious black velvet paper that I get from Michaels that I love.  I then criss-crossed some beautiful pink satin ribbon and glued these pretty pink ribbon roses on each intersection.

The side view - Laura is genious at taking ordinary cardstock adding some ink, a little distressing and some highlighting and creating pieces that look like they are made out of leather or other fabrics.

The inside view - this is where this project not only transforms into a perpetual calendar but houses 12 monthly tags that I created to mark each month.

January -  March and May

February - May and Septempber

June - July and September

October - November and December

Of course I hade to save the very best for last April because that's when my little Leila bug was born.

As always I appreciate you all for stopping by and looking at my work.  I hope you find some inspiration and would love to hear your thoughts and come visit your blogs and maybe along the way make some new friends

Thank you,

Jennifer





The Blue project

I  would like to start todays post just saying thank you to all of our military personnel and their family members. What you do for our country  is priceless and appreciated.    And now onto this weeks project.  As you can see my previous blog entry was the first half of this project.  This page was really inspired by som Mon Ami roses.

As you can see the rich navy blue color is just gorgous and thought it would be a great way to challenge myself and come up with a layout using a blue color scheme. 

 

The other piece I used from Mon Ami was this beautiful lace that I bought at last years scrapbook expo.  This lace was just so intriquete and beautiful I knew this would be perfect for this layout.  I highlighted by adding a flat backed pearl to the center of each flower on the lace.

 

 

The paperline I used is from Fabscraps another of my most favorite things

 

 

I also had this beautiful feather that I thought would play into the earthiness that I wanted to bring out in this piece.

 

It also allows me to tie this other embelleshment into the layout.

 

finally I needed a picture that would be dramatic enough for this layout........and I think this photo I found on Pinterest is perfect.

 

Here is the finished piece.  Thank you for stopping by and taking a look.

 

God Bless,

Jennifer

 

I was in a very creative mood this week and created not 1 but layouts inspired by Pinterest.  Now for all who are not familiar, Pinterest is this crazy, addicting and fabulous website, where you can put all your favorite things in one spot.  I have often thought to myself I could create the creates layouts with some of these picures and sayings that I have collected.  Here it is I hope you enjoy.

 

For all that know and love me you are familiar with my love of pink pretty things. So of course I based the first page on PINK!  I added  alot of little favorites such as pieces from Primas new Romance Novel line.

 

 

                                                                Lace and butterflies............

 

And of course, lots and lots of beautiful flowers.

 

and flowers...............and

 

yes you guessed it................more flowers.  most handmade by me  but I also used some I am roses, Mon ami and of course Prima creations because they are so beautiful

 

 

Well my fearless followers, since this posting seems to be running long (because I have so much to share on it)   I have decided to post the details of the ""blue" layout in morning......So I hope you stay tuned and enjoy...............

 

God bless and good wishes, thanks for stopping by.

Jennifer

Mein Kindern,

Hello everyone, guess who! Yes, I am officially back from the world of broken arms and creating up a storm.  I really wanted to do something special after my longgggggggggg absense (thank you all for staying tuned)  So here is a layout and details of the canvas collage that I did with my favorite pictures of my children.  Enjoy.

 The first thing I needed to do after finding the perfect photos for this projects was to balance our the hard and soft backgrounds to represent both a boy and a girl.  For my son, I layered chipboard pieces that I made using 3/4" wide strips from my leftover box and cut them roughly into 1 1/4 in pieces (the rougher the edges the better the brick workl.  I glued them down over the picture and then used artist paste as my mortar.  After that dried I took a mixture of Starfish glimmer mist  with Fired brick distress ink and painted it on using a small brust.  The effect was exactly what I was going for.

For my daughter I used some lace to soften her side of the collage layout.  For my primary inspiration I used Prima's new line Romance Novel.  This collection was created by a wonderful artist Marion Smith. 

 To stay with the theme of Romance I used a technique that I created to make a rose vine running up the middle of the layout.  I used a few diffterent rosebuds to make it more interesting.

 To really highlight this I laid out a foundation of diffterent flowers from Iamroses and Prima.

And of course one of my own.

 

And of course I had to use some Tim Holtz

The collection has some beautiful chipboard elements that worked perfectly for this layout.

 

 

I think the final result is exactly what I wanted and can't wait to display it.

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look. 

Happy Thursday!

Good Morning all,

I wanted to do a quickpost for all of my faithful followers to let you know the reason for my lack of a recent post.  A few weeks ago I unfortunately broke my left arm which has resulted in a cast from my fingertips to my shoulder.  I have been unable to get into my studio and create anything so please be patient and bear with me though this time because once this thing cones off I have alot of pent up creativity to release so watch for alot of great things to come.

Thank you,
Jenn

Live, laugh, Love

Hello Faithful followers, it has certainly been awhile since my last post so thank you for your patience.  I decided to branch out into a little different piece this time.  This a multi media layout I made on canvas.  I really had fun stepping out of my creative zone and learning a new technique or two. 

I started with a , forgive the pun, blank canvas.  I added the picture I wished to focus on, added some dimension by adding the brickwork (made by cutting chipboard 1/2 by an inch or so. After allowing the glue to set up I added a paint treatment that gave a very stucco like feel to the piece.  This also served to blend the picture and brickwork onto the canvas.  after adding a layer of white acrylic paint coat over that I just started adding everything and anything that reminded me of my children.  As you can for my daughter I added a crown (which was actually a broach I had and I just added the blue jewel for color)  Because every princess needs a crown.

The piece I used to represent my son is pair of wings from the Tim Holtz Ideaology collection set together with a blue flower from Mon Ami Gabie. I like this piece so much because it will hopefully remind him always that he is my angel.

and some gears also from Tim Holtz , since I have the die to cut these now I have really had alot of fun playing with different materials.  As you can see here I used cardboard

I had to add a butterfly and some feathers.

I finished it off with these cool metal corners that I found at Michaels, sorry I don't know the names right now but it is a really cool like of metal pieces that, as you can see, can be inked to match your project.

Thank you for stopping by, until my next post, I will bid you auf wiedersehn.

Jennifer