My first Acrylic Mini Album

Thanks to Jaz over at Day 6 of the Webster's Pages

12 Days of Christmas Crop 

I finally put together an acrylic mini album.

I used a Fancy  Pants' 8x8 Mixed Media Bracket Album

& Webster's Pages Nature's Storybook pps  mainly .

Most of the diecuts are the K&CO Que Sera's.

With Q&Co pearls for some added dimension.

Learnt to use Staz On ink todistress the acrylic pages here.

The last page is chipboard

which I misted on with 4-5 colors-

Walnut ,avocado , English Ivy Garden, Lemon Meringue , Khaki

Webster's Pages 12 days of Christmas Crop

My acrylic stand project here was inspired by 

Iris Babao Uy's project where she used a glass frame

 & displayed it on a wooden easel. 

( click for a large image )

First time using Adirondack's metallic mixatives on an acrylic surface.

always fun to try out something new.

Other supplies used : Prima Holiday poinsettas , K&CO Brenda Walton's Christmas dimensional stickers , MM Glitter bling sticker for the photo frame , Q&Co Gold pearls.

Little Shop of Sketches - sketch 57

Yup, so "fawn'd" of my 2 little muses - Konami & Nintendo ! ;)
Thanks to Metal_Minish for allowing me to scrap them !

I thought of the Sass "Fawn'd of You"pps the instant I saw the boys atop this fawn sculpture .

I used the images from one of the pps as cut outs in the end ,

& mixed them with some Jenni Bowlin, Pink Paislee  Amber Rd ,

Collage Press Knave of Hearts., The Paper Studio

Still having a blast using my own Shimmerz type paint with Perfect Pearls + Mod Podge !

I can have painterly flowers all the time now - way to use up some older Primas !

If you play along with the Little Shop of Sketches,

Link them back to this post or – if possible - upload them in the gallery and who knows, maybe you’ll win some of Tanya Leigh Design products!

The Scrappiest layout sketch 39

For The Scrappiest this week, I had  fun with some BG Nook & Pantry .

Other supplies : Prima Sugar Coated blossoms , 7 Gypsies velvet leaves, 

Hambly swirl overlay 

Try the sketch and you will be entered into the chance to win the oh-so-cute kit "Grandma's Attic" from Jen's House Of scrap. Email your LOs to thescrappiest@frontiernet.net.

Christmas projects in progress

Webster's Pages has a

12 days of Christmas Crop in progress right now !

& their timing is just perfect to get some Christmas projects /gifts done

- not too early , not too late !

I reckoned with at least 12 projects to choose from

I would be able to do something festive

during this time and true enough -

Day 3 's fun project by Wendy Kwok -

creating a photo frame with a  fave technique of mine too - distressing paper with water -

was a  fun project on a lazy Sunday afternoon here.

Head on over to Webster's Page's Ning site to get the full instructions for this photo frame project !

Di Hickman's card sketch Nov #2

It's all about Christmas cards for me

with this month's card sketches by Di .

Supplies: MM Glittered cardstock, Melissa Frances trim, Making Memories' Foam stars , 

Fiskars Apron Lace Border punch

Twisted Sketches #23 / Kid Lit Challenge #8

This week with Twisted Sketches #23 -  the twist is "to use a Punch" - any how, any way!  

That's easy enough - I used 2 MS punches here - the loopy punch & a scallop . 

& a new challenge site discovered - Kiddie Lit -

a challenge blog with challenges inspired by children's literature. 

This month's challenge is to : 

Use GREEN
Include PLANTS- leaves OR flowers (either in your photos or in products)
Include a SECRET -hidden journaling or pics, or the word SECRET in your title.

For the journaling I used part of a poem : 

by Joseph Kallinger

I discovered a secret of life
in a single line of poetry.
That was a week ago.
Today, I celebrate a new week
yet have forgotten
what the secret was.

& a new happy  discovery I just made here - I can make my own Shimmerz type paint right at home !

We can't buy the Shimmerz brand at the moment in our stores here & I have been wondering about them.

I stumbled on a youtube link to get me started .

The ingredients are so simple - mod podge + Perfect Pearl Powder for me .

Supplies : 

Photography by Metal_Minish of

http://nerdscrap.blogspot.com/,

Such Sweet Tierney Buttons

Prima Blooming Retro pps & pearls

Pink Paislee alphas