Lump, Bump and Clump!

May 30, 2013

Why Me?

We have all see Marmaduke (a talking dog movie) or the Facebook advertisments about animals with captions that represent what the animal is saying, right? Well, this is Flo, a female dog who has an 8 yr old boy as her owner. Instead of nail polish and hair bows, she is forced to do boy things, like dress as GI Joe. I can not believe I had time to grab my camera, turn it on, and capture this horrified look on her face. This post should be an advertisment, "free to a good home!" But it is not! I need to keep her so that I can scrapbook with pink embellisments! Here I used Wishbone, Lucky You, Pretty Poppies and Little Trinket paper from Dear Lizzy - Lucky Charm paper line. The stickers, chipboard, die cuts and tags are from that line too. I started with drawing a grid formation on my base paper. Cut my title, then scattered small items where I thought the looked good leaving plenty of room for my Flair, all three of them because I could not decide! On this layout I used.......Hunter 2 Flair(couldn't resist), Whatever Flair and Minimal 1 Flair.

Thanks for taking a peek and see you soon!

Mary-Ann

Father's Day

I am over at the eP blog today sharing some of my very simple, fast Father's day cards. I need to make several cards for this holiday and I was determined after being late for Mother's Day, that I would NOT let that happen again. (shhhh, I still have two mother's day cards to be mailed!)

I LOVED the Strong collection from Authentique. Here I used the 6x6 paper pad and embellishments. The papers in this collection allowed me to create three different cards that look like they are three different lines but they still all coordinate beautifully.

For the first card, I layered several patterned papers and a couple Stamp Blocks and Circles. I inked all my edges with Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo. This helps soften the edges. I added a FarmHouse Paper Company Trinket key and May Arts ribbon. See that great big delicious brown button? That gem came from an antique store in Maine. I just love how rich it is. Of course, I added some Scotch Foam Mounting Tape behind some elements to bring dimension to my card.

For my second card, I layered some of the beautiful blue papers. Again, very simple but the layering makes it look richer and more detailed. I added a couple tags and twine that I had on hand. I again used foam tape for added volume.

I needed this tag to add to my dad's present. I used an Inkssentials Surface #5 Black tag an covered it with the newsprint paper. Added a strip of the GORGEOUS woodgrain. I added punched circles that but thought it needed something more. I dug out my Idea-ology - Tim Holtz - Remnant Rubs chopped them up and added small pieces in different locations that helped embellish my tag, still keeping it simple. Adding ribbon, Black Shine twine from The Twinery and foam tape finished off my tag.

With just a simple, gorgeous pad of paper, I made three completely different cards. I hope you are inspired to start your cards a bit early.

Mary-Ann

May 28, 2013

York's Wild Kingdom

Last year we decided to take a weeks vacation but do day trips all around us. We would travel for the day and come back to our own beds at night. One of those days we went to York's Wild Kingdom in Maine. You can see from the photos that they had fun, I did too but I was just always on the wrong end of the camera. I participated but have no proof! So, I added pink to this layout as an homage to my participation.

This layout is created using Studio Calico's May kit - Planetarium. I love it! Love this base page. I think I should buy this in excess. It already has the words on it and I added my clouds using the Amy Tangerine stamp included in the kit. I stapled my Michaels sequins around my clouds. I dug deep and found this old, really old Luxe Design circle rub-on. The word banners that you see are from the strip on the bottom a page that you typically cut off! I layered papers, and layered some more using Elle's Studio, Amy Tangerine, Studio Calico and Crate Paper. I loved the pink chunky stars that were in the kit but not sure where they are from! I brought in some items from my own stash like, Dear Lizzy Thickers, Tim's Tiny Attacher, a Dear Lizzy tag, My Mind's Eye enamel dots that perfectly accent my "Love Life" pin from A Flair for Buttons - (My Life Words 1).