Shelley Scraps

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Nautical Clown book ~ Why yes!

Hey, guys! Shelley here, with something fun and fresh!

I made this altered album with the Nautical line by Samantha Walker! It just seemed so perfect for this fun little clown book! The book itself is by Heart of Texas Studio. On the front, I used Dyan Reaveley's stamps to make the colorful clown, the border, and the heart flowers. My daughter, Macy, had her 2nd grade musical in May, and I had these great photos of her in her clown outfit!

On this page, I used the Nautical paper called "At the Beach" ~ but I used the multi-dot side and the Sea Stripe paper to accent. I used Maya Road aqua ruffle trim and zipper trim.

On this page, I used the "By the Sea" ~ red dotted side for the background. To embellish, I used a few of the 12x12 Nautical stickers along with some eye candy, and pretty crochet brads!

Here, I used "Ocean Wave" paper ~ Red stripe side, for the background, along with a die cut umbrella from Nostalgia die cut cardstock shape painted in Silks Acrylic Glaze in Sky Blue, eye candy, and twine. It's raining bling!

For this page, I added the borders sticker from the 12x12 Nautical sticker sheet!

I hope i have inspired you to look at your themed papers in a different way!

Thanks for looking!!

Monday, June 4, 2012

Evan's baseball album

To make the front of this album, I cut some old baseballs up. Basically, I just tore the covers off. I then cut them up in to small pieces, and glued them down with ZipDry on the front of the chipboard album. The metal letter ,we got at Michael's in the $1 bin, then painted it red with spray paint. The same is true for the metal Tim Holtz corners and the rings of the album.
Myself and my best friend made every player on our team one of these albums. It was a lot of work, but totally worth it, as we love the boys!

I took pictures of all the boys all season so that we had ample photos, and then I edited them, and printed them. We decided to go simple on the inside of the album this year. In years past, we have gone crazy with the embellishments! We pop-dotted about half of the photos...the rest we left alone.

We matted every photo. The paper was baseball paper by Moxxie. It matched our team, the Bombers, perfectly!

For the scalloped page in the book(we prefer the rectangular ones for obvious reasons), we painted the bottom and used a little baseball stamp for embellishment.

Isn't he cute?

I think he got those pants that dirty just to see if I could get them clean!!

Low five!!

We usually resist the temptation to put a sticker or other embellishment on the photos, but we made an exception for our Bombers logo on this page!

Our team won 1st place at this tournament! Look how proud they are!

Hope you enjoyed looking!!

Monday, May 21, 2012

Team Shock Bag Album

My daughter, who is 7, plays softball. Her team name is SHOCK!! I designed this bag album for her team, then the mothers got together and made the albums for them. For the front, I cut apart a softball, added ruffle trim around the edge, then glued it down. I used twine and a funky button closure.

Here, I used a wide ribbon, wound it around a wooden bingo piece, then stuck a crystal star stick pin to embellish.

Here is a pic of the back of the album. Team SHOCK sure is intimidating!

A simple crochet flower with a paper flower on top, along with a softball brad gets the job done.

On this page, I sprayed a chipboard scroll with ink, then used a flower to adorn the edge. Doesn't Macy look tough?

It IS true, that Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend!!

Paper flowers, ribbon, and little bling look great on this page!

This shot was after one of Macy's home runs!

I painted this baseball sticker yellow with Luminarte, a product by Creative Imaginations.

Here is another baseball made yellow with Luminarte! Check out Creative Imagination's Blog at www.creativeimaginations.typepad.com. I'm on their design team!

Same Product 3 Ways: Shelley Hamilton

Hi guys, Shelley, here! I made this fun little hanging with the Song Birds collection.

I covered the chipboard bird with paper from the 6"x6" Song Bird pad. I used leaf and vine diecuts from the Song Birds line. I made the flowers by diecutting banana leaf paper, stamping them, then finishing them off with glass beads.

The banana leaf paper gives such an interesting texture for the flower petals. This beautiful green color really brightens up the project!

On this page, I used the Debbie Mumm Songbirds diecuts with Sunburst Luminarte H20's on the yellow butterflies and Mediterrannean Luminarte H20's on the blue one. The Luminarte makes them sparkle! I also used Silks paints in Solar Gold on the small flower, and Sky Blue Silks on the little dots on the blue butterfly. To finish out this "Peaceful" project, I used Swarovski eye candy crystals in several different colors. Thanks for letting me share this project with you!