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!  

Classes with Dyan Reaveley

Here is Dyan Reaveley, Macy, and me!  We had a great time in her tag class!

Here is one of the other projects that I took the class for  This one is Dyan's...I'm still working on mine!

Peeps Easter Album

 Peeps paper line by Creative Imaginations!  Isn't it groovy?

Book by Heart of Texas Studio!

  To make these easter eggs, I cut apart May Arts rosettes and sprayed them with Luminarte!

 

 Macy in the tree!  Here, I used a wooden bird by Maya Road to embellish!

  Evan in a tree at my mom's house!  The little Peeps bunny looks just like the real one---all sugary and sweet!

This was a fun one!  I hope you enjoyed looking at it!

Me at TCS Make-N-Take Madness on Saturday, March 31st

  
Here was my project that students made when they came to my table!  We started with a piece of stamping-quality paper(white).  We then used LaBlanche stamps and permanent ink on our paper.  The students then edged their image with Vintage Photo Distress Ink on the outside of whatever they had decided to make colorful(mine was the clock and the owl).  They then used water paintbrushes and Tim Holtz Distress Inks in all colors to paint as desired.  That was super-fun!  Then, I had them paint Versa Mark on the part of the image that they wanted to me glossy.  Then, we used Ranger Fine Embossing Ink on that part of our tag.  We didn't shake off the excess.  We then heated from the bottom of the tag with an embossing gun.  The embossing powder melted into a nice shiny pool of wonderfulness!  I then had them sprinkle the tiniest bit of glitter over the still-wet powder to give it a little sparkle.  We then put Maya Road metal corners on the tag, and stapled it to a piece of burlap that we had edged with Vintage Photo distress ink and a blending tool.  We punched holes in the top and put metal eyelets in the holes.  A piece of seam binding finished the project.  After the embossing powser had completely dried, we bent it for a nice crackled image!
     Everybody was great, and we all had a fun time!!!

Happy Trails Western Album

     I'm teaching this "Happy Trails" Album as a class at The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, Texas.  Dates are Sat., May 12th at 2:30 pm and Wed., May 16th at 10:30 am.  Cost is $42.  Call 972-923-3151 to sign up!
     The album is by Heart of Texas Studio, and has several types of pages including leather and acrylic.
We will be using all four Verday paints by Ten Seconds Studio on several mediums.
Come take this class, and you might want to pack a lunch, as it's expected to be a long one!!!

Evan - 4th Grade - 12" x 12" Layout

Products Used:

My Mind’s Eye Dilly Dally “Curious” Petals Paper

My Mind’s Eye Dilly Dally “Best” Vines Paper

My Mind’s Eye Dilly Dally “Best” Checkered Paper

My Mind’s Eye Dilly Dally “Hello” Flannel Paper

Fiskars Border Punch

“My Fav Things About You” Tag by My Mind’s Eye

Brown gingham trim

Martha Stewart Letter Set Punch

EK Success Corner Punch

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Tim Holtz Distress Marker in Aged Mahogany