Knock Out!

This layout is from a sketch on the Practical Scrappers blog. When I was 3, I fell in our garage and hit my mouth on the cement step going into the house. I knocked my front tooth very loose. I went to the dentist the next day and had it pulled. I had a gap in my mouth for years!!

I wanted to capture the story and originally thought I would use a large tooth shape as a background for my photo. Well, it just did not look right because the tooth needed to be white and the colors didn't look good. I also changed the photo a couple of times, finally picking this one because I liked the dress ~ more important it goes with the paper I chose (he he).




I started by putting a square on my gypsy mat the same size as my photo. It is an odd size ~ 3.75 x 3.75. Then I took a scallop square from Accent Essentials and sized it to mat my photo (4.5 x 4.5). This was the paper that I HAD to use!! Then I grabbed the letters from Ashlyn's Alphabet and the tooth from A Child's Year. Using the 12 x 12 mat as my guide, I sized the letters and tooth so the title would fit where I wanted it on my page.




Finally, I made a corner by using a heart swirl from Mother's Day, copied it and rotated it -90 degrees. I anchored the swirl with a heart from Home Decor. I positioned the three pieces together and welded them. I them moved the corner piece to the scalloped frame and sized it. I arranged the pieces on my screen in quadrants by color of paper I wanted to use. I deleted the square that represented my photo and cut my paper.

I originally thought I would use paper, but I used ribbon as a background for my photo because that is what I had on hand (in other words Practical).

Graduation Card

I made a LOVE card in February and saved the file. I am a packrat so I save almost everything, but I am really glad I saved this one!!









I added a page and sized the numbers 2010 to fit the rectangles. I saved the file with the numbers THEN I deleted the letters LOVE and cut out all of the pieces.

When I was finished, I did not save the last changes so the LOVE is still in the file.

I cut out the card in my friend's high school colors. I embossed the rectangles with the nuumber folder on my cuttlebug. I used pop dots to assemble the card for depth. I added some gold gems and ribbon. I used Base Camp for the letters.

Straight From The Nest ~ Gypsy Circle Project

Hoot Hoot Hooray!!

This is the circle project I designed on my Gypsy for the first Gypsy Challenge, but my cart would not link so I had to send it back. It took a while to get my label no thanks to my magical "spam" folder I did not know I had.


I finally got my replaced cart and cut out my project. I inked the edges with brown stamp pad ink and used gold stickles for the eyes. I am now sure if I will use this on a card or in a layout ~ I just loved the owls in a circle like cheerleaders!!

Gypsy Swap Projects: Butterfly & Dragonfly

I made 2 different projects for the Gypsy Swap. This is a swap where we will share gypsy files. The projects are limited to Gypsy Font and Gypsy Wandering only.


The first one I made is a circle of butterflies. I first saw this on Capadia Designs blog a while back and wanted to try it. Because these butterflies are a little square, I added a circle flower to the center. I embossed the top layer of the butterfly bodies in my cuttlebug and then inked the dots and the edges with a purple stamp pad. I added the center of the butterfly and covered it with purple stickles. I probably could have just used the stickles....




I used pop dots to adhere the butterflies to their base to give them dimension. I also used the same stickles on top of the brad that held the flowers together.


My second project is a Mini Dragonfly Book. I welded the dragonfly to the scallop frame. I used metallic cardstock that I found at Michaels. I used gold for the cover and back, dark brown for the dragonfly and scallop frame, white for the wings and body and gold for the spine. I used a tan cardstock for the inside pages.


I used alcohol ink to make my own glimmer spray with Cranberry from Tim Holtz. I sprayed the wings and body, turning the wings pink and making the gold darker than the background. I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch through the pages and a binder ring to hold it together.

Cute and Some Deisgner Showcase!!

My friend Audrey Frelix is having a Designer Showcase each week on her blog. I am one of her Team Fairies ~ I get to select my favorite project each week and that desiger will receive an award for her blog! Consider entering some of your work!

Showcases are held every consecutive Monday at Audrey's blog Cute and Some. Click HERE for the link! You may begin signing up with Mr. Linky to be a participant on the Monday and up until 8 p.m. EST on the Friday before the Monday of the showcase. No projects will be accepted after that time.


PURPOSE OF SHOWCASES:
The purpose of these showcases is to feature your projects to be seen by others, and to reward you for your contribution and participation with visable recognition for your work(s); to offer support, and to inspire other crafters. THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE OR A CONTEST! But, again, an avenue to have your projects shown outside your blog.

LID Sketch Challenge

Here are the sketches from the LID (Lay It Down) challenge from the Cricut Messageboard.





I created this 2-page layout that highlights our front yard landscaping projects from last summer. We lost a tree during a storm and I finally got my birthday present installed ~ a drilled rock!




The Timber layout shows the fallen tree and the clean up. We came home from Tyler's baseball game and dinner out with friends to find our tree had blown over in the storm. Luckily it did not blow into the house or on our neighbor's car! I used Don Juan for the font on both pages. The tree branch border around the photo of our replacement tree is from Home Decor. I added the flower to help tie the two layouts together.






For Sketch #2, I made a hidden spot for extra photos. I didn't really need the photos to tell the story, I just wanted to keep them together. I used the yellow flowers with brown buttons in the corner to resemble the black-eyed susans that I planted beheind the rock.

Gypsy Hop & Skip Project

This week's Gypsy Challenge is to use the Kerning feature in a project. The Kern button is on the Advanced Menu at the top K_E. The Kern feature will move items closer or farther away from each other. This is an easy way to "squish" items together for welding. We are to create two sets of kerned images, one set double the distance of the other.

For my project, I used the Kerning feature to move my items away from each other.

I wanted to celebrate my self-appointed Gypsy Queen status after winning the contest at Michaels for selling the most Gypsys company-wide in March. Now, I usually don't draw unnecessary attention to myself but I am extremely proud of this because I have helped so many lovely ladies learn how to use their Gypsies.

I made a banner with flags from Lyrical Letters. I sized 2 at 4.36w x 2.68h and three at 2.82w x 1.74h. Inside one of the large flags, I added a G from Ashlyn's Alphabet and a crown from Gyspy Wanderings. I kerned them .20 Next, I added my name from Ashlyn's Alphabet to the other large flag and kerned them .10.




I added the same crown to the small flags. Hint: size one flag and center the crown in it, then duplicate it twice. The duplicate button is on the Advanced menu next to the eye button ~ it has two squares that overlap a corner.



I cut out a second set of flags without any cutouts to use behind my first set. I cut this layer out in lime green. I used purple and orange for my coutout flags. These are the colors of my scrap nook!! I tied the flags together with ribbon to create my banner. I embellished with crystals and stickles.