Punky Scraps 61 April

Punky Scraps says it's springy time.  The directions for this month:

As it´s Easter time - I would like you to use as much yellow as you can + some feathers or other Eastery stuff.

I had to use yellow!  It's not my favorite color, I have to admit to you.  It's one of my least favorite colors.  I had to put in some blue to go with my yellow.  The photo is from 2005, taken at the Keukenhof in the Netherlands.  We had had a wonderful warm week of spring, and then it was so chilly on our trip.  It's a good thing that Germany taught us to take raincoats and umbrellas on every trip!

 

Corned Beef and Cabbage

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Corned beef and cabbage, any one?  That is the recipe for the month at The Paper Mixing Bowl.

http://www.papermixingbowl.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-2013-recipe-challenge-corned-beef.html

Here's what I did.  I used the Main Ingredients: Corned Beef, Green Cabbage and Pint o' Guinness as color inspiration.  For my Utensils I used Wee photos, stayed predominately green, placed a heart charm, and used the peony mask from Prima with modeling paste and green acrylic paint. I also stamped the background and the flowers with embossing ink and used gold metallic embossing powder.   For Lace, I laced plain brown ribbon through my punched paper because I thought the punched paper looked lacy enough.

How about the journaling? Well, I used the words "lucky" and "family."  I feel very lucky when I think about my family, however, I don't tend to write very much about them when I know that I will be posting on my blog.  I know that I would embarrass myself, kids or husband.

The flowers are from the Tim Holtz Sizzix die, Tattered Flowers.  Which there is a contest on over at his blog, and it is open until March 22nd.  I made my flowers with stamped and embossed paper, green mesh fabric, and muslin fabric that I used fabric stiffener on, followed by gold Glimmer Mist.

Challenge #61 at Punky Scraps

I'm a few days late posting this, so I must apologize.  Our inspiration for March was this picture:

with the directions:  It's nearly spring time, my favourite time of year.  It's fresh, it's bright, it's colourful and it's my birthday.

That means your inspiration for this months challenge is this bright, fresh, colourful party photo!



Here is what I came up with:

 

I call it, "Time for Spring."  Really.  I would love to be sitting outside for my morning coffee but everything is still covered in snow.  I found the photo online and "borrowed" it.  And those dots?  They're chipboard, each one individually stuck down on that patterned paper.  

 

Red Velvet Cake at The Paper Mixing Bowl

This month's recipe at the Paper Mixing Bowl sure is yummy.  Red Velvet Cake!

I believe that I met my requirements for this recipe.  I used the colors Red Velvet, Rich Cream, and Steeped Tea.  

This LO is definatly layered!  I used stamped muslin, the Red Velvet paper, matted photos, and finished off with the swirly Dusty Attic chipboard. 

 For the frosting, I used Art Athology's Chocolate Sorbet and a Prima Mask.  The chipboard is also painted with Art Anthology sorbets. 

My postage related item are stamps. I tea dyed the muslin for the "spill something" requirement and I also used a splatter stamp on the LO.  Hearts and flowers are present.  My LO is contains more than one photo. 

As for the pairs, I even made a pair of pears!  In the optional journaling requirement, it said to use a children's Valentine.  I made my own with the pears and it said "Together we make a perfect pair."  Yup, I'm just that dorky.  Thanks for stopping by!

"13" 3rd Eye Challenge!

 

http://3rdeyecraft.blogspot.com/2013/01/13.html

I have not been playing much lately.  It's been work, work, work. Going to school, earning clinical hours and the two design teams that I have been on have been filling my time.  I wanted to do the challenge at my favorite stamp site!

The rule for the submission was to: make LO, card or other project using "13" as a number or use 13 things. For example You can make album with 13 photos, card with 13 flowers etc.  I used a canvas board and included 13 keys.  I used the 3rd Eye stamps "Olivia" and "keyhole."

Thanks for looking!

Punky Scraps Challenge #60

Challenge  #60 is ready to go at Punky Scraps.  Nat provided us with two gorgeous options to use for this months challenge.  There was a neat and clean image:

And there was a flowing, arty image:

I chose to follow the flowing, arty image.  However, I missed the instructions:

It's the month of love so let's go with it this year......pink, flowers and butterflies with a vintage twinge.

Okay, I used the arty sketch and didn't go pink and girly. Our fellas need love, too! I used the arty inspiration picture, which gives my LO its form. I loved that snake looking thing wrapped around the woman's figure and it inspired me to use the springy wire on this page. And gears and sprockets are like butterflies to boys, right?