Precious Memories Baby Album with Deflecto

Howdy everyone! Today I want to share a new product from Deflecto Craft Solutions with you. 

In my box this month I received a package of 5x7 Flexible Pouches and I knew right away that I was going to use my Cinch and make a mini album with them.

 Thank you Marilyn for the photo- I totally forgot to take one before I started creating!

I used some new Graphic 45 papers for this project along with a few items from my stash. I made the covers using book board that I cut to size.

 I love the weight of these, they are super sturdy for my photos, but I was still able to punch 3 at a time for my album.

I used Blue Fern Studios and Dusty Attic chipboard, Melissa Frances rhinestone pin, Offray ribbon roses, Petaloo flowers, and May Arts ribbon to embellish the front of the cover.

I created some bead charms for the spine of my album using beads and findings Connie Crystal. I love the touch of bling this adds and it looks like I spent so much time, when it was so quick!


Thanks so much for stopping by today! What have you crafted lately?

Girl Scout Adventures- ColourQ #238

Hello to all my blogging friends!

I am so loving this spring weather we have right now in 

Dallas- It is only going to last another day or so though. Boo!~

Today I have a project to share using the new Palette at ColourQ

I have to admit I struggled with these colors, even though I like all of them 

except for Elegant Eggplant- I am just not a purple kinda girl!

Here is a look at my project

I made a double page layout this time around, as I had several photos I wanted to use.

Of course- these photos are way back in the day before we all had digital,

so they are the prints I have from my old 33mm!

I have used Kraft paper, Bazzill CS, and I even broke out some of my stash

of Daisy D's paper- I just love that yellow! 

My chippie is Dusty Attic and I have heat embossed it. 

I used a MS punch on the edge of my cardstock.

Sorry about the fuzzy pic- my lens are I were just not on the same page today!

The little tiny flowers are from Iam Roses- and I inked them eggplant.

I used two different punches on the white cardstock, then used an embossing

folder on just the corners for some texture.  I inked the raised bit to make it stand out. 

Of course, I have added my journaling- remember adding your own handwriting to

your pages is so important! If you want to know why- see this blog post

on Why You Should be Using your Own Handwriting. 

Be sure to link up over at the ColourQ Blog- you have until

next Monday to play along. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Have a wonderful week!

Day at The Zoo- Sparkle N Sprinkle

Well,, it is a rainy afternoon here in Dallas, so I guess that means I should

spend the afternoon in my craft room, right?

Today I have a project for Sparkle N Sprinkle to share with you using

the new Ellie The Elephant #553 stamp set that was just released the 1st of April.

It is so cute!!

I have used Bazzill cardstock along with Echo Park papers. I sprayed my entire background 

cardstock with Iridescent Memories Mist- I am so loving that product- then stamped a border

across the page using Brocade Backgrounds and heat embossed with Cappuccino.

I stamped my Ellie the Elephant onto smooth white cardstock, and colored with

PITT® Pastel Pencils from Faber-Castell Design Memory Crafts. 

The flowers are from Spring Backgrounds, which I stamped and heat embossed.

I then covered the image with VersaMark, srpinkled with  Stickum Powder and heated; 

once it was nice and sticky and covered with Bubblegum Glitter- with the Stickum Powder the 

glitter will stay in place perfectly! The sparklers in the centers are KaiserCraft.

I cut my banner with my Cameo, and gave it a good spray with Iridescent Memories Mist too. 

My chippie is Dusty Attic and I have heat embossed it with Black Detail. I also used

my Cameo to cut my title, using 2 1/2" Tear-ific Tape applied to cardstock, then burnished 

with Meadow Spark GL. 

I am linking up a the following challenges:
Scrap Our Stash #13- Spring Colors
Lasting Memories- The Little Things

Thanks for stopping by today!

Frosted Designs Sketch w/Twist Challenge Take Note

Hi everyone,I hope you have had
a wonderful week and are ready for the weekend!

It is my turn to host the challenge over

at Frosted Designs!

  This month we have a fabulous sketch with a twist. 

The sketch has been provided by Lisa Hidy, my wonderful

team mate!! Love it!!!

~AND~

The TWIST is to use BUTTONS AND BLING on your layout.

You gotta use both!

Here is a look at my take on the sketch

 My papers are Pebbles, Inc., and I have also used Dusty Attic & UmWow chippies, 

Wendi Vecchi Stamps, Memories Mist spray ink, Heidi Swapp Stencil,

I used bling under my title and the arrow on the right to call attention to my photo.
My buttons are little, tiny ones on the corner of my kraft tag under the photos.
 I did a lot of misting, stenciling, painting, stamping, etc on my background.

 Soooo,, if you haven't ordered a whole bunch of the Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals Sets- you should hop right over to the Frosted Designs Store and do that. Because these things are AWESOME. For this look, I traced a stencil, then mixed a little bit of water with the Magicals powder and painted right on the paper. 

A-maz-ing! (you have to sing that!)

 For the flowers I stamped with Wendi Vecchi's new stamps (love them!) and
colored with Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals. I mixed the dry powder with a small amount
of water, then painted like watercolor.

Here you can see my Buttons & bling- I love these little, tiny buttons!
I used Sparkle N Sprinkle Tuscan Sun EP on my title chippie.

My DD2  and the two other cuties in the photos were Camp Counselors at
Girl Scout camp for YEARS! They are great friends- with the strangest Camp Names :o)

You have until March 27th to link up your entry over on the blog.
 So be sure to join in the fun!

I am linking up at the following challenge:
Scrap Our Stash- #6 Sprinkles

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Have a WONDERFUL weekend!!

Supplies use from the Frosted Designs Store:

Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals Prairie Wildflowers

Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals Industrial Chic

UmWow Studios Arrow Mash Chipboard

Dylusions Ink Spray- Calypso Teal

VersaMark Watermark Ink Pad

Shades Of Spring Kit- Distress Paint Juniper

December Mixed Media Paper Kit- Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine

The Deconstucted Layout #1

Howdy everyone in blog land!

It is day #13 of The Caribbean Crawl 2014

and today we are in Antigua. We have hired a private yacht to

tour us around to a few islands so we are with a very small party the

next few days.

Today is the very first in a new series I will be doing for Frosted Designs

Have you ever seen a layout and went,,

"I wonder how they made that?"

The Deconstructed Layout will feature a tutorial on one element of a layout,

showing step outs on how that one element was done.

Here is the first layout with tutorial,,

Now,, who has ever seen Anita make a layout with a plain sheet of white cardstock as the base???

Anybody??? Nope- I don't think I have ever done it before. 

The little bit of pattern paper I used is from the Shades of Spring Kit

flowers are Prima, Stamps are Wendi Vecchi, and chipboard is Dusty Attic.

To make the awesome bricks below my photo, I started with Molding Paste and a stencil. 

When that was dry, I inked the paste straight from the ink pads using 

the Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink from the Shades of Spring Kit.

Next I sprinkled dry powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang- Industrial Chic Magicals Set 

right on top using a dry paintbrush. VERY LITTLE powder is needed. I then spritzed with

water to get the color to show up. Super cool- huh?

Then I cut the individual bricks out and glued them down. I used a brush marker to outline them.

How did I get them so straight? Well,,,, I am so glad you asked. 

I almost never use washi tape on layouts- but I use it ALL THE TIME 

for holding things in place, marking my place, and for marking locations on layouts. 

If you look at this photo, then the top photo- you can see how much difference the 

black outline on the bricks helps- it really makes them pop!

Thanks so much for stopping by today to see me!

Sparkle N Sprinkle Reveal March 1

Howdy everyone! 

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's March 1 Reveal.

This month at SNS are featuring five versatile stamp sets.
Two of the sets are perfect for Christmas.
Many of our customers said they promise themselves to make Christmas cards a little bit each month, all year long, but they fail to find the time. So this month's technique kit uses the pretty Red Cardinal drawn by Rosiland Solomon.

The Winter Cardinal stamp set is available by itself on line.
It is also included in Jazzy Jill's Technique Video for the month.


The first of the month also means a new challenge at SNS Creative Challenges where the theme is always 
"Anything Goes with Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking."

My project today uses the new SNS Crystal Medallion!
I LOVE my DD2s Senior Portrait- we are

all about the bluebonnets here in Texas!

#864 Crystal Medallions

Also being released this month:

Born to Shop #554

Winter Cardinal #518

Iris Frame #532

Springtime Spunky #537

Five Winners (one for each new stamp set) will be selected by Random.org during the Designers Mystery Party. Winners will also get to choose one Glitter and one Embossing Powder to go with their new stamp set.

How the Mystery Party works:

On Five of the participating blogs below, a Commenter will be selected to receive the prize. 

No one knows who the five Mystery Designers are, so you may wish to visit each blog to leave a comment.

The winners will be announced on March 3 on Facebook, the SNS blog, and on our blogs:

April Williams
Anne Temple
Anita Scroggins (that's me!)
Donna Ellis

Shona Erlenborn
Eret Pank
Mayra Duran-Hernandez
Emmy van den Heuvel
Belinda Shupe
Marie Berquist
Jazzy Jill

Each of the five stamp sets are available at 20% off.

Promotion valid through March 3. 
You may also phone the SNS Shoppe to place your orders.

I have used Bo Bunny papers and Bazzill cardstock for this layout, along with 

#491 Tulips, #GM2014 Peruvian Lily, EP422 Cappuccino,

EP121 Cotton Candy and EP137 Shimmer.

I stamped my image with VersaMark and covered it with Pearlescent Chalk from Pebbles. 

My sentiment is from #491 Tulips, which I stamped on plain white cardstock, die cut

with my nesties, die cut a second layer of cardstock that I covered with 2 1/2" Tear-Ific Tape,

then burnished with GM2014 Peruvian Lily .

My chippie is from Dusty Attic and I have heat embossed it using 

EP422 Cappuccino and EP137 Shimmer.

This little chippie from Blue Fern Studios I painted white, then coated 

just the tips with EP121 Cotton Candy.

For this butterfly, I printed the image on 99602 Embossable Clear Acetate,

roughly cut around it, then applied #SAT11 2 1/" Tear-ific Tape to the back.

I then fussy cut the image, and used my Tonic knife to cut the paper backing

just along the body of the butterfly. Remove the rest of the paper backing,

and sprinkle with glitters- I used G1028 Carnation and G1090 Cyclamen. 

Remove paper backing from body, then adhere to layout! 

Really easier than it sounds here- I promise!

For full details and instructions, hop over to 

My Gallery at Sparkle N Sprinkle.

 Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Cherish - Frosted Designs Mood Board Challenge

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY!!

Do you have plans for the evening? 

The hubs is working until late this evening so my plans are to finish

off some of the things on my To Do List before vacation next week!

Today I have a project for Frosted Designs to share with you

Today's Challenge is "Love is,,," with a mood board.

Here is my project,,,

This photo is DD1 in her very first office. I love that she is all grown up

and doing so well. Isn't that what we all wish for as parents??

I have used the Shades of Spring Kit - the Clean option AND the Messy option :o)

The "Cherish" is from Adorn It- included in the kit- and I have inked it with Picked Raspberry

Distress Ink, also in the kit. The other chippies are from Dusty Attic and Kaisrcraft.

The fabulous flowers in the corner are from the kit,

 and I added some bling from Maya Road.

I used Um Wow Studios chippie banners and painted them with the

Juniper Paint Dabber from the kit.

Here is a look at the challenge Mood Board

Love these yummy colors!!

Be sure to hop over to the blog and check out the fabulous

inspiration from the other ladies on the team

and get all the information to link up your project!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a fabulous weekend!

May the Flamingos be with You!!

Anita

Service Project with ColourQ #205

Hello scrappy friends!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

I have been absent a bit lately as you may have noticed.

I have been having some issues with my tonsils, and 

I am so sad to say, they have to come out. Yes, at my age I

am having my tonsils taken out. Ouch. 

Still waiting on the DR to schedule, but we think this

will happen next week. :o(

Do you "like" my Facebook Page ?
I have some great candy up for grabs when I hit 300 likes
over on my page. I am only a few away from that, so please stop
by, like my page and share with your friends!

Anyhoo- today we have a new palette up over at ColourQ

These colors were a bit of a challenge for me,

blue and gray are not high on my color list!

Eventually it all came together. Here is a look at my project,,,

My background paper is Kaisercraft, all my other papers and 

die-cuts/stickers are from Authentique. 

These chippies are from Dusty Attic; I heat embossed them with a couple of 

different powders for an aged look. Flowers are from I Am Roses.
I also took the wire stems I cut from the flowers, coiled them into little vines
and added them to the flower clusters.

The alphas are from Authentique, the chippie is from Want2Scrap 

and it has been heat embossed as well. 

I really wanted to use this die-cut arrow, but the letters were more of a 

rust color- I took a journal pen and went over them to make it match. 

I am linking up at the following challenges:

Southern Girls - Warn Fuzzies - whats more warm and fuzzy than

cute Girl Scouts handing out Valentine cards? Seriously!

The Paper Girls - use wire

Be sure to link up your project over on the blog 
before noon next Monday!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Anita