Altered Cabinet Cards

Jeri is hosting a deco book swap on Paper Traders using altered cabinet cards and the theme "Time".  For the backgrounds, I trimmed around the people in the photos and then layered in papers from DCWV's Tattered Time paper stack.  Since the theme required to use a timepiece in some manner, I layered wings behind various clock faces and attached spinning clock hands with a brad; each card also features a grandfather clock.  These are pretty simple paper collage - no fancy techniques - but I think the end result is still good.  Once Jeri receives pages from all the participating artists, she will take one page from each and bind them into books for us.

Spiders Hate Orange

There's a new blog challenge happening over on the Paper Traders blog.  The theme this time is "Spiders Hate Orange" and it was a fun excuse to play with my new MyMemories digital scrapbooking software again.  I made this page using various elements from many sources (itkupilli, House of 3, etc.)  You can get $10 off your own copy of MyMemories Suite v2 Software plus $10 in free products from MyMemories.com if you use my Promo Code: STMMMS53179

I'm excited for Halloween coming up because it's such a fun holiday!  I've already purchased my Caramel Apple Pops and if I don't get many door ringers, there will be leftovers for me  =)

Jump on over to Paper Traders to get in the Halloween spirit and play along.  Happy haunting everyone!

Imaginary Garden

This is the last spread for the current round in the Paper Traders Round Robin Journal swap.  We'll be starting a new round after the first of the year.  This last book that I worked in belongs to Heather and she chose a beautiful theme: Imaginary Garden.

For this page, I used the watercolored paper she had included in her book, sponged ink around the edges, and glued a printed floral napkin over the top.  I then added dimensional aspects with silk flower petals and punched paper flowers.  Finally, I used my fingertips to spread glitter glue to highlight certain flowers.  The butterflies and birds were actually rub-ons.  Since hummingbirds are a rare thing for her to see up in Canada, I think she thought it was a real treat to have them in her book.

Halloween Flip Book

Connie is hosting a Halloween Flip Book swap over at Paper Traders.  We made a twinchie (2" square) page for each section of the body: head, middle, feet.  For the middle, she asked us to put some kind of Halloween image instead of a torso.  I used vintage paper dolls for mine and added spooky features - blackened eyes, witch hats, etc.  For the center piece, I used the MyMemories digital scrapbooking software to collage a little Halloween image.

When Connie receives all the pages from the other participating artists, she will bind one page from each into a fun little flip book!

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Bleached Background Papers

Unfortunately, these did not scan very well but they're really quite pretty.  I made these background papers for another swap in our Paper Traders group.  We stamped images onto black cardstock using bleach, then added color back in using various inks, and touching it all off with some metallic stamping - a really easy and fun technique!  You'll have to test your paper before you get started as not all cardstocks will yield good results.  I tried several (some of which didn't bleach out at all) and finally bought a few pages of Bazzill paper, which worked well.

Game Day

It's time for another installment of the Paper Traders blog challenge!  The theme this time is "Game Day" and you can interpret that any way you want.  I used some baseball images layered over an actual San Diego Padres ticket trimmed down to ATC size.  There's plenty of time to get in on this one so come play with us!

Autumn is almost here

I have noticed that the leaves on some of the trees are starting to change here in Southern California.  The weather's still quite warm and I'm looking forward to some cooler days.  It's hard to believe that Autumn will be here soon... this year had going by so fast!  This is my third season banner, which we're making in our Paper Traders group.  I am swapping this one with Barbara Staradumsky and as soon as her banner gets here, I'm swapping it out for my summer one as I look forward to the changing season.