Superbowl Mini Album

My local scrapbook store has asked me to teach a 45 minute mini album class on Superbowl Sunday.  Now that is a challenge, a mini album in just 45 minutes??  This is what I came up with.  Now, I must go and do some pre-cutting to get this class down to 45.  Anyone wanna help?

I would show you the inside but that would give it all away:o)  Sign up for the class by clicking here or call the number below!  There are three other 45 minute classes that day and FREE lunch!

Ink About It

6 Carlisle Road

Westford, MA

978-392-0321

Hope to see you there!

Mary-Ann

Believe

I don't know where December went or the first part of January!!!  We did have two snow days that postponed back to school, so maybe that is where the time has gone?  Snow days = NO time for mom!!  When I was planning my layout to share with you today, I decided I would choose my all time FAVORITE  photo from Christmas and use up some of my leftover stash from Fancy Pants, Merry Little Christmas.  I have also been watching a ton of tutorials from other design team members and think I did a pretty good job of incorporating mixed media with my traditional style of scrapbooking.

I started with a clean white cardstock base.  Added Gesso, rubbed distress inks into my stencils, dropped some splashes of inks and Distress Paints.  I still needed something more.  I used the same technique I used on my Fall Swim layout (click here to see). I sprayed colors onto my mat, added a little water, turned my cardstock face down on this pretty mess of colors, rubbed it a lightly and voila, smudgy drippy awesomeness.  The splotch looks a bit bright and large here  but most of that gets covered by my paper layering.

Then I began layering.  I cut my title and deer embellishment with my Silhouette.  I tucked a Fancy Pants Glassine Bag behind my picture and tucked my journaling in here on a really large tag I had on hand.

To create these droplets of silver, I used a dry paintbrush, dipped it into my Brushed Pewter Distress Paint and let gravity drop the liquid.  If you let them air dry, they will be slightly raised to the touch.

Hope you have enjoyed my creation.  I look forward to seeing you again real soon.

Mary-Ann

PS:  Head on over to the Eclectic Paperie blog,  find out which items I used and where you can purchase them!

December Daily 9-11

December has passed by me quicker than I would have liked.  My house is cleaned and now I am in a re-organizing mood.  There is no stopping me.  With that, I have very little time to do anything else.  We had a revolving door here for about 2 weeks straight.  I am soooo tired of stripping that guest bed:o(  But, I would not like the alternative.  Clean bed means no company, that's not good.  Anyway, I have a new cabinet for my scrap room and I can not seem to get it organized the way I want.  I will, eventually.

Here are a few of my December Daily pages....  This is December 9th.  Most of my DD is created with the Studio Calico goodies.  I did bring in some random leftovers from Webster's Pages, Simple Stories, Teresa Collins and lots from October Afternoon.  Oh, and some really yummy Freckled Fawn!

This deer head has to be one of the cutest.

December 10th.....

I added this fair to the top of my page protector.  Love the white embellies on the blackness of my background

Ok, I LOVE this tree:o)

December 11th.....

Shoot, I forgot to add my really cute stickled numbers for the date, until after I photographed everything, now it is too dark!  Darn New England.

I LOVE these deer!  Can you tell I am lovin' deer?

TFL,

Mary-Ann

Dec 7th & 8th

I am WAYYYYYY behind with my December Daily (DD) but am keeping up with pretty much everything else.  I have come to the conclusion that I will not be baking for me neighbors this year.  I always do.  I am running out of time.  I have heard that from so many people this year.  Where did that week go after Thanksgiving.  I need it back!!

Here is December 7th.  Not all days are about Christmas.   I tried to make this about the other activities that my boys partakes in.  There is so much crammed into 25 days its cray cray!

He also went to a Festival of Trees.  Apparently you buy tickets, drop them in a bucket and hope to win that tree.  He didn't win his favorite, thank goodness, what would I do with this tree of Spongebob stuff??

This picture makes me happy, a bunch of boys having fun.  At someone else's house!

December 8th......

I was bored at hunting and fishing store.  I felt that something was behind me!  Dickey took a break from his craziness and hung out with Baby Jesus for the day.  The picture of Roman and Santa is one of my favorites.  This was taken back in November but needed to be included in the DD.  

Thanks for stopping in to see my fun DD.  Hope to share more soon.

Mary-Ann