Full of Wonder Mixed Media Layout by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, I hope you're having an awesome week so far.  Today I'm sharing a mixed media layout of my niece Emily. I recently took this photo at Easter and the expression on her face is so precious. She's just oozing with sweetness.   I thought that the tag on the right from Marion's Mad Tea Party Collection said it all "Wonder, For the Curious At Heart the Wanderous Mind, and the Adventurous Soul"

I decided on Marion's Motley Collection  & Junque & Gems, because there are so many elements that can be fussy cut from this collection. The festive color palette was perfect for my sweet Emily! 

I used scraps from recent projects, and took this opportunity to fussy cut the elements that could be used as stand alone pieces  then cut banners from the rest. This is a great way to eliminate scraps.  Individually these small elements seem insignificant, but when clustered together, they really make a statement.

 

I used a neutral baby blue paper for the background, and then applied a few mixed media techniques to give it texture and depth.   I stuck with the hot pink tones so that my photo would really pop.  

I'm seriously in LOVE with Gold right now, and decided to spray paint some generic paper doilies with Krylon's Metalic Gold Spray Paint.  I love how they look inside my embellishment clusters, and the gold matches this collection perfectly! 

I placed my title in the bottom left hand corner inside another embellishment cluster. Her eyes were so bright in the photo I decided to include that reference in my title   "Blue Eyes Full of Wonder".  The title card was part of Mairon's Scarlet Digital collection.   

We would love to see what you have created with Marion's gorgeous lines. Don't forget to #MarionSmithDesigns when you share your Marion Smith Designs Projects in Social Media.  

Thanks for stopping in today. 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomoms.com 

DESIGN TEAM CALL REMINDER:   - deadline for submissions is May 30, 2014. Here is the link with all the details!

This One's For The Girls

Well hello there paper peeps! Sarah reporting here on this chilly Sunday, and I don't know if you've seen the new "Motley" collection but it is just beautiful! Such a mix of gorgeous colors and flowers, perfect for those springtime layouts! Awhile ago, I borrowed this old picture that my dad had of some of the women from his side of the family, I just adore it! All the ladies are in pretty farmgirl type dresses, you can tell it's summertime, and there are trees in the background and it's just a cool picture. I've been wanting to use it for some time now, and I saw Motley and knew what I wanted to do with it! I actually made a layout to go in my garden themed mudroom! (The mint green and cream striped paper is actually from the other new collection, "Never Grow Up.")

 

I am going to journal on it, but I want to get some more info on these women before I do!  I know the one all the way to the right is my grandma, so cute! I included a tag for hidden journaling as well ;) It's on the left!

 

 

Martina McBride has a song where she sings, "this one's for the girrrllss," and I love it! This picture makes me think of that song. I'm pretty sure these women were related, but I wonder were they  truly friends too? Did they hang out? Did they giggle and have fun together? Did they all gather in one of their farm kitchens and make Sunday dinner together? I love to think of things like that! I'm sure they shared each others hardships. Women need to help each other and uplift and support one other, no matter what era we live in!  That is so important! Like Martina says in the song, "Yeahhh we're all the same inside, from 1 to 99...This one's for the girls!!"  Celebrate the women in your life!

 

 

 

Marion's also got some fab new stamp sets out! I used the one that looks like a little piece of chicken wire, I thought that would be fitting ;) plus it adds some cute texture! (#lifemoments stamp is Tim Holtz).. Also, from the Junque & Gems line, I used a little clock charm and tied it onto the tag... just thinking about how these ladies were here at one time ;) There are so many cute pieces in those little bags!

 

Oh my goodness, I absolutely love this little turquoise paper with the pink rose on it!! It is goorrrggeeoouus!! I couldn't wait to cut it apart lol!

 

I think this will make a nice décor piece in my mudroom, don't you think so?

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today, and be sure to check out the new "Motley" and "Never Grow Up" lines, lots of pretty papers!

 

Love, Sarah

 

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For a Little Lady

Hi everybody, 

My today's project is very girly because 

of my niece's birthday which is coming soon.

She is like a little princess and she loves everything that's girly.

I made this set for her, a box and a matching card.

I hope she will use this box to keep some of her treasures.

For this project I used:

  I used this as background and of course a lot of gesso.

I cut out roses from these sheets:

and the girl I used came from this one:

Now I just can't wait to see if she'll like it.

Thank you for stopping by and please visit us often :)

xoxo

Aneta 

Spring Shadowbox - by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, I hope your week is off to a great start. With the weather so frigid everywhere, I wanted to create something that reminded me of spring.  I dug through some old photos and found this 5x7 of my niece Averie, and a 9x9 Shadowbox that I've been hoarding. 

It all started with a mixed media tag. I bought some of the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft glaze and wanted to experiment with it.  I love to experiment on tags, and then I try to make something with the tag.   On this tag, I used modeling paste and a stencil to get the hexagons.  Then painted the entire card with a soft green paint. Then I mixed the glaze with a gold colored acrylic, wiped it across the entire tag. Waited a few minutes then used a baby wipe to clean it off. The glaze actually stayed in the recessed areas, and helped to provide shadows on my tag.    I then started playing with some of the left overs from other Marion Smith projects, and used Marion's Hot Air Balloon stamp to create a pattern for the balloon on the tag.  The little girl and the saying were cut from the Mad Tea Party collection. 

Since the saying talks about seeds that grow I decided to build a little garden scene for my little girl to stand.   I used a vine as my base, then made a few flowers to cover the vine.

I removed the glass from the shadow box, and built my floral spray to spill out over the frame's edge.  I stitched together some punched scraps from Marion's Mad Tea Party line to create the banner that I placed across the top of the frame.

I just love how this frame turned out, and it is going to look fabulous on my wall. 

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

You Sparkle

Well hello there! I hope you are all having a wonderful January! Personally I feel like after Christmas, it can get warm again ;) Buuut that's not really the case here. So. One of the first papers that caught my eye in Marion's new line Garment District was a delicious minty green paper with this beautiful white dreamy pattern across it, and it just made me think of a wintery snowflake page immediately! I mixed it with some other papers I had on hand in my stash along with some cut out pieces also from the Garment District line and here's what I came up with;

 

That is my darling niece. She is just the sweetest thing and lights up room when she enters it! I did just a little layering and tucked in some snowflakes die cut out of white sparkly paper, sprinkled some Color Shine, and stenciled some gesso in a few spots just to give it some dimension.

 

 

 

Also something new that Marion has are these beautiful resin roses! I just love them! They also have gigantor ones coming soon too, so those will be fun to play with!

 

I hope you enjoyed my page today, I figured I'm stuck with a lot more Winter here so I might as well make it sparkly & pretty right?!  ;) Make sure you get your hands on some of this Garment District line before it's gone, it's so beautiful!

 

Have  a wonderful day!

 

Love, Sarah

 

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Cotton Tail Layout - Tonya Gibbs

Today I wanted to share with you a layout that I created using Marion's Grand Mini Album and Life Planner downloads. 

These are some of my favorite photos of my nieces.  We took them at Easter last year.  The bunny was such a sweet addition to the photo shoot, and Addie kissing the bunny was just the sweetest moment ever!

Designed  by Tonya A. Gibbs http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

I really wanted the focus to be on the photographs for this layout.  So I tried to avoid too many embellishments and color.  Since their dresses had so much pink in them, I decided to avoid pinks in my paper choices.  If there is a dominate color in your photo, try to chose papers and embellishments that do not contain these colors.  It will help to send everything to the background and make your photo pop!  

I placed the photos into the photo frames that are available in the Life Planner download. These frames alone make this kit worth having. I just love their odd shape. I used patterns from both collections to create my own washi tapes.  Then finished off the layout with lace to soften up the harsh lines of the journal pages, and embellishments.

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya A. Gibbs
http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

In love with Vintage Telegram!

Hi Everyone!  I have been creating with the Fabulous Vintage Telegram collection and made a quick layout with the Digital papers and elements!  These elements are so pretty and have so many possibilities!  I wanted a girly look to showcase this photo of my daughter, Jensen, so Vintage Telegram is perfect!  I am in love with all things Vintage-- especially the typewriter!

The Vintage Telegram papers and Elements plus:

Jodie Lee  Antique Junk Brushes and Carina Gardner stitches brushes 

Mirella Script font

Hope this inspires you to go grab some digital goodies and make yourself a Page! 

Blessings,  

Colette Nederhoff 

Layout | She's Growing Up So Fast

My God daughter is such a doll. She's sweet as pie and just the nicest child I've ever met. I'm pretty biased to be honest.

She recently had a photoshoot and the pictures turned out so beautifully. Once I saw then I knew I had to scrapbook them. This is the second layout I've done and each layout turns out better than the one before. Click here to see the previous layout.

I just live these two pictures of her. They capture her personality so vividly and she's made these exact faces at me many times. These pics help me cope with the distance between our homes.

Those beautiful roses were fussy cut from Marion's new Scarlet Printables. The blue background paper and pink damask are also from Marion's Scarlet Printables. Simply stunning and so easy to work with. 

This embellishment cluster are a mixture of items from the Scarlet Printables (Butterflies that I fussy cut from the background paper, and the gorgeous roses that I also fussy cut from the embellishment sheet) as well as frames from Crate Paper The Pier collection. That "3" stamp is from Unity Stamps. 

You can purchase the Scarlet Printables here. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Angee Carter

www.alwaysangella.com