Tutorial Thursday

Ok, ladies. I'm always looking to create and use form my own stash. I'm oh so guilty of loving the newly released items but in order to make those purchases work.. I try to use what I have and can do myself! I have seen these flowers done with paper, fabric and soo many other things. Well, in the efforts of using form my own stash.. I looked around in some of my many many drawers and I had a few packages of cheese cloth. You know what I'm talking about right.. almost feels and looks like gauze, it's about 2 dollars for more than I can ever imagine using. great for crafts, cooking and cleaning. Well, I had some and decided to play with it. This is what I got.  

This is cheese cloth!

This is what you will need. A glue gun or Helmar's 450 works well too with no burning of the fingers.. however.. I'm out! boo hooo. A piece of cardstock and Mist or watered down paint.

Place a daub of glue in the center of the cardstock. make a ball with the tip of the cheesecloth twisting it just a bit.

Continue to add more glue along the way, then twist the cheesecloth a bit and wrap snuggly around the center piece.

Continue wrapping until you have no more cheesecloth. I enjoy doing it this way on a square and then trimming off the excess so that I'm not pressured to have my measurements of the gauze perfect. I just like to wrap it along until I have a size I like.  

Trim the excess behind it to your liking.

Begin misting the flower. I mist the flower afterwards so that I use less mist, as the cheeseclothes will take the mist but if layed out and sprayed you'd waste alot of mist.. as it goes through the mist onto the paper.. this way its concentrated on the flower itself.  

Mist until your hearts content. This one I just did pink but you can do multiple colors.. maybe all over the flower or a two tones flower.

I then used some of this cheap wedding pearls. i like the pearl color so I won't be altering the color of them. Just clipping off the ends.

Add them to the center.... soo pretty! I love the look of the cheese cloth alot!

This another thing to do with the cheese cloth. Spraying it all and then using it as you like on a layout. I sprayed this cheesecloth blue and used it last night on a layout.

Funky Boy Layout

So, I sat down last night when I couldn't sleep and began this layout for my sons book. I love it.. very funky and distressed and messy and just well.. I love it! With all the great girl products out there I find it harder to scrap for my son.. but of course it still has to be done! haha I love to do it.. just sometimes find it frustrating.. this layout just kinda came together on its own. 

I honestly didn't favor these pictures. However, I have learned as I'm sure many of you have that the older the child becomes the less opportunities there are for pictures. The simple fact he's in school all day.. makes it harder. Therefor I went ahead and scrapped them.. I liked them just didn't find them fantastic! Check out the pics!

Finally a good day to take some pictures outside. I adore the dirty rsuticness of this layout. So different from the pretty girl stuff I also adore.

Lets Hear It

Ok ladies I'm interested to hear from you all. What do you want to see on my blog? What would you like to learn more about? What types of techniques and tutorials would you like to see? Or just general things.. let me hear it. Not often you can make a blog custom to you but I'd like to hear from you all and see what you'd like to see.

Wandering Wednesday

Ok, ladies it's wandering Wednesday.. where shall we wander to today.....remember all of these blogs are just blogs I wandered upon.... greatness from them all! Lots of different styles and fun and motivation and inspiration!

Ok this first one is a blogger who is very bold both in her art and in the things she says! I LOVE IT

http://oneyearartjournal.blogspot.com/

Are you a card maker? If so these blogs are right up your alley. The cards are very sweet and fun and just sooo yummy! Both have very distinct and different styles.

http://cstoen.blogspot.com/

http://cherishmyfetish.blogspot.com/

Do you love to distress things?!?!?! If so this blog may bring you great inspiration! It did me when I wander up on it. Love it.

http://byondbzr.blogspot.com/

This blog next up I found gave me great inspiration. All of the colors and different things just made me smile!

http://followyourmuse-totem.blogspot.com/

Another lovely blogger with great layouts! I just love the variation in her layouts! Check them out.

http://ashleyvanetten.blogspot.com/

Ok this last blog I have followed for a few years.. but once upon a time it was introduced to me and I feel more than obliged to share it with you all.. as her work is simply amazing... even if you find it's not your style you can't help but appreciate her as an artist!

http://www.ingvildbolme.com/

Ok, ladies that's all I have for today. Remember more great blogs next week!

Tricks and Tips Tuesday!!

Ok ladies here is the how to video and what not! Enjoy. Bascially, the other day I spent a day obsessing about how I have to HAVE a K&C Company SMASH book. I began to add up how much it was going to cost me to get everything I knew I HAD TO HAVE!!! hahahah You all don't know what I'm talking about at all do you! hee hee. Well after a bit of soul searching I figured it would be insane for me to spend as much as I would have... soooo I decided to try to make my own! Turned out much better and personal to me than I believe the smash book would have. I played around with it last night.. and OMG... LOOOOOVE IT! Check it out! Let me know what you think! Here is the link.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14938729