Happy 4th fo July!!

What a wonderful, long, hot and humid weekend!

I"m so happy to have all this time to work on my daughter's Disney Honeymoon album:

Her favorite spot of all is the world Showcase in Epcot.

Here is Brittany and her husband Donny spending some time at the American Adventure spot.

Of course, I had to incorporate a Mickey in there somewhere.

My main inspiration was this sketch from Creative Embellishments this month:

 

I added some Creative Embellishments chipboard banner pieces after I inked them.

We were also challenged to add a stamped image to your page.

I realized at this point that I did not have any 4th of July stamps or even any stars!!

How is that possible???

I managed to add a small banner stamp and attached some micro star confetti.

And added another line to my shopping list.

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Be proud of who you are

Happy Sunday!  It's a hot one today.  We survived an early morning baseball game with a big win!

And I still had time to enjoy a quiet afternoon at my desk.

I put together this page for a challenge from Creative Embellishments.

For the background, I chose an off white sheet with a very subtle pattern.  Then I used a quick and light spray of a wood colored Misting Spray.

I used some texture paste on some piece3s of chipboard and then went over them with some Liquid Pearls.  

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To fill in some of the empty spots, I added a few buttons.

This is inspirational photo for this month's challenge along with a few gears to complete the challenge:

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Take me out to the Ballgame

 I swore I was not going to scrap anything this month unless I worked on some unfinished projects.

Well, I finished up a painting project, so I gave myself a treat and worked on a page.

I thought about this one all morning.

Since I told myself this was going to be my only page this weekend,  I wanted to take my time with it.

My first inspiration came from this month's Tic Tac Toe board from Stacy:

I chose to use the journaling card, a tag and some circles.

I used a few baseball stickers as my circles.

My second point of inspiration was the June sketch from Rochelle Spears:

A lot of these elements have been around for a long time.

I took the time to go through everything in the stash and carefully choose a few items that I could use.

Then, as I binge watch Criminal Minds, I worked on matching things up.

The baseball equipment  and  Mickey Mouse were a much older set of stickers from Jolee's.

Ive been missing working with Disney, so this was a quick opportunity for me to get it out of my system for a while.

It may or may not have worked...

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Family

I LOVE this collection from Simple Stories - Vintage Ancestry:

I played Tic Tac Toe with Stacy for this page:

I use stickers - twine - enamel dots

My favorite part was the grid that I made using a marker to draw light lines and then filling each spot with stickers.

So happy with how this one turned out!

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Love and Strength

 

Good morning!

Benefits to waking up at the crack of dawn - getting a page or two done!

I put this together using a kit I scored at Hobby Lobby, who is having a HUGE clearance sale!

This kit cost me a whopping $1.49!

I fussy cut the flowers and added some pop dots.

Here is the sketch I used = #225 from Sketch N Scrap:

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Hello there!

 Our pet tortoise is the best pet we have ever had!  He is so fun, for as much fun as a tortoise can be.

He's so low maintenance and just so - chill.

I used this sketch from Rochelle Spears to get started:

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I've been dabbling in mixed media lately.

For my background, I dusted off some older bottles of Tattered Angels misting sprays.

This is a mix of 3 different colors.

Instead of spraying them directly on the paper, I spray them on a sheet of plastic, sprayed with a mist of water to get them to mix and then laid my paper on top.

This gave me the look watercolor look and not the "sprayed" look.

I like this technique - although its still a bit messy...lol.

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Yeah, that’s my boy!

This month's sketch from Stick it Down was a great one photo page that came just in time for this great picture of my son and I:

I used the Cocoa Vanilla Legendary collection, lots of pop dots and Nuvo Drops.

Here is the original sketch:

I can't believe how quickly this came together!

It helps when you're inspired by a great sketch.

Stop by the Stick it Down blog to see how the whole Design Team was inspired!

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