Get your Fiber

Club Scrap’s PSL Summer Camp has once again begun. I am deep in the throes of making layouts to fit the various challenges. This week’s requirement was to use fibers on all layouts. Here are the layouts I posted for this week.

These are the oldest photos. Teresa’s birthday lunch at High Hand Conservatory in Loomis last August. It was my last time with Mallory before she headed off to Arizona for graduate school.

Next is a layout about Roy’s birthday celebration this February at Burgers and Brew in downtown Sacto. Both of his kids and their spouses were in attendance.

The next couple are from our trip to Cambria in April. This first one covers our stop at the James Dean Memorial Junction in Cholame. This is the site of James Dean’s fatal crash on September 30, 1955. It’s a lonely place now. I can’t imagine how lonesome it seemed in 1955.

While in Cambria, I noticed creative mailboxes everywhere we went so I had to document them. Of course.

Once we were home and I reviewed my photos of Hearst Castle, I discovered that I had taken quite a few of the lamps throughout our tour. Here is a sampling of some of them.

And this last one for this week is about our trip to Mission San Rafael last month. At this time, I still had one more to see. As you now know, I have now completed the Mission Trail.

All layouts completed with Club Scrap materials exclusively with the exception of the Magic Scraps flair buttons on the Happiness layout and the purple lace on the Illuminations layout, courtesy of Nancy, my Squirrely friend.

Happy Birthday, Sis!

Just a little card, created at the same time as the one for Fourth of July, for my little sister’s birthday. I won’t say what number it is but it’s my favorite number and there are two of them. Have a great day, Sis.

Cardstock used is all from Club Scrap. Kits used are Refresh blue and Americana red. The pennants are a blue from ??? (I can’t recall at the moment and the card is already across the country). The twine is from Martha Stewart. Stamp from Club Scrap’  Raku kit sand the stickers are ancient ones from my stash (USE YOUR STASH).

For those of you with Stampin' Up connections, I've heard there's a new double punch for pennant lovers. I cut mine with my trusty Silhouette. I'm sure Cricut users have access to a pennant shape also. Thanks for looking.

Windows to the World

I also neglected to post a recent layout used in the June Monthly Layout Sketch Challenge at Club Scrap. This one covers some cool paper sculptures Chrissie and I visited while waiting for our flight at Outagamie County Airport in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Club Scrap Monthly Card Sketch Challenge

I posted this card over at my other blog and just plain forgot to post it here on my scrappy blog. So Happy Seventh of July to you as well as a Merry Birthday to Ringer Starr, drummer extraordinaire.

This is my interpretation of the card sketch. I chose the Eight of Hearts from the ALCM deck, using Refresh blue and Americana red. The pennants are the dot paper from Gratitude (which I dearly love). The twine is from Martha Stewart. The stamp on the circle shape is from Fiesta. White edges are inked with Antique Linen Distress ink.

As you may have noticed, I’m taking a bit of a summer break from card making, Squirrely challenges and Grungy Mondays, however, I will soon be stepping up again with creating layouts, my first love. Club Scrap’s annual Summer Camp started yesterday so I will be creating layouts as fast as my little fingers will glue. I hope to put together quite a few so keep your fingers crossed for me. With bicycling and other summer activities, it may be difficult to keep up a good pace. But I am looking forward to getting back to doing some serious scrappin’.

Squirrely Challenge – Graduated Color

This week the Mother Squirrel challenged us to use a Technique Junkies technique called Graduated Color from the April/May 2011 issue. I made two cards using the technique and was much happier with those results than the ones from my Grungy Monday 09 attempts.

All supplies are from Club Scrap. The cardstock used is from Stratosphere and Raku. The paisley stamp is by Michael Strong for Club Scrap. Graduated color achieved using pigment inks. I used my paisley embossing folder from Provocraft to texturize the background panel.

Thanks for looking.

Club Scrap June Card Sketch

I made another card for the Club Scrap June Card Sketch. The original sketch included a Z-fold technique. I made this card to post showing that the sketch could also be used for a flat front card. And this is the result.

Of course, the stamp is from the May kit called Papillon which still makes my heart go pitty-pat. All cardstock is from Club Scrap (kits used are Written Word and Retro). Tim Holtz sheet music embossing folder used on panel. Pearls are from my stash. Manufacturer unknown. I used pigment inks on glossy cardstock to get an image that pops using the Squirrely Challenge of Gradient Color from Technique Junkies.

Grungy Monday–Week Nine

This week I struggled with the Shabby Chic technique as taught to us by Tim Holtz on Day 10 of the 2007 Christmas Tags.

Linda at Grungy Monday at Studio L3 has challenged us to create art with this technique. Whatever. I’m not happy with mine but it is finished and I have to go with it. These concepts are always so much better in my head than once I have actually finished the project.

This week I interpreted Savoy Truffle by George Harrison which first appeared on the White Album. It was a song about Eric Clapton’s chocolate addiction and how he had to have all his teeth pulled out because of it. Lovely thought. Anyway, I’ve always liked the song, being a fan of chocolate myself. Just hope I don’t eventually have to have all my teeth pulled. Of course, Eric was much younger when that occurred than I am now. And I think he had a few more bad habits, as well.

You know that what you eat you are                                                                  But what is sweet now turns so sour

Cardstock used is from Club Scrap’s Chocolate Shoppe kit. Adirondack Paint Dabbers used were Pool, Sunshine Yellow and Sunset Orange. Chocolate stamps are from Stampa Rosa, Stampin’ Up and one unidentified one. Thanks for looking.