020618 CKC February Mini Kit

This month I jumped on the CKC mini bandwagon.

Frankly the inspiration kits scared me a bit!

They are so much like how I used to scrap,

and I worried that a full month kit might languish on the shelf.

Aren't they gorgeous, though?

Noel Mignon Weekend in Paris Classic Kit

Noel Mignon Weekend in Paris Daily Diary Kit

One piece that I own is this cut apart sheet from a custom Wild Hare Kit. 

This just looks like fun! So I used a Melissa Frances pair of resin wings to make a flying giraffe...

American Crafts/Maggie Holmes Carousel "Carnival"

 I had a BIG birthday last October that needed a page, hence my "Happy Birthday to ME!" mini kit.

I got so inspired that I fussy-cut the card elements that I wanted before I had photoed the kit - oops! 

One of my elements layered a wild-eyed carousel horse card underneath an elegant vintage framed Parisian lady transparency, perfectly representing mixed feelings about my sixth decade birthday. The sentiment came from an old forged card I had included just for that purpose.

My gold glitter came out grungy, but 60 is a little grungy!

I gave my flying giraffe a little add-on golden crown, a stickpin from Prima.

I tricked out this cute carousel with some bling & a little twine. 

I added the border at the last minute & it just brings the whole page to life.

It is a hoarded favorite Felicity Jane Caroline kit paper - I even saved the middle!

Lots of fun (for an old lady!) on this page.

The mini kit option really does inspire. 

Go for it!

Thanks for stopping by!

080115 Archi-Scraps August Challenge

Just when I think the inspiration can't
get any better at Archi-scraps, we get one like this:

And look what I found over at Pixels & Paper!
The lovely domed roof plus the perfect color scheme tied these two
challenges together nicely - definitely a happy creative coincidence.

The P & P ladies are pining for the prospect of sun & warmth during the midst
of winter Down Under, but this took me in the totally opposite direction...
I had this photo of Chloe in her Frozen princess dress & new Elsa hair/hat begging to be scrapped.

I just happened to have purchased some of these Melissa Frances domes recently
& couldn't imagine anything better suited to the "see-through" challenge.

The next piece of inspiration on my desk were these Simple Stories "Enchanted" wood veneers.

Add in a sweet photo of Chloe & it's the perfect match up.

 

 

I painted the Simple Stories wood veneer castle with Ranger's Claudia Hellmuth 

Studio/Blank Canvas paint & then immediately sprinkled on Crystal Fine 

Martha Stewart glitter. I then added some tiny blue gems to the turrets 

of the castle & when the paint was dry I put some Zig Blue Glue on just 

the pennant & added Lapis Lazuli Martha Stewart glitter to help it stand out. 

I sprayed just the top of the dome with Dylusions White Linen Ink Spray,

just a fine mist sprayed high over the dome in my spray booth box. 

It took a few coats before I was happy with the coverage, and I did have to 

use a baby wipe to clean up just a tad on the lower part of the dome. 

After I had glued the dome to the base I put a bead of Glossy Accents around 

the outside edge & used Martha Stewart Sterling Tinsel Glitter to finish it off nicely. 

I'm afraid I've knocked some of it off in all the photo shoot handling! 

The finishing touch was to hang a few snowflakes from the top.

The Archi-scraps clear challenge could have been accomplished in a number of other ways.
There are a lot of transparent overlays out there, ghost alphas, even simply
cutting/punching a shape out of vellum to reveal a clear "window" through to the background!

Can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with.
Make sure to add your project to the Linky at both/either site,
depending on where the inspirations took you!

Thanks for stopping by!