Quirky Digital Layout, 365 Photo and I WON something!

Hmmm, I’ll go backwards from today’s blog post title, just to be contrary. 

I WON!

Oooh I ♥ Plumb – so can’t wait to listen to this newest album.  A huge thanks to Kristin at her 152 Insights To My Soul blog for sponsoring this contest.  (lovely blog, by the way, Kristin – inspiring!)

My 365 Photo for today is:

And finally, I just had to whip up this digital layout using KimB’s fun “Quirky” kit which you can find HERE at The Digital Press.  It is PERFECT for strange little me…

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credits:

KimB – “Quirky”

What a hoot!  I feel like this kit was just made for me.  I felt the shop help thought I was rather “quirky’ today – but they all enjoyed the fun of snapping pics of me in the plate window in the store.  Yeah, its just a Mom-Daughter thing we have got going on in our family *wink*

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Retro Sketches Card using KimB’s Simple Pleasures Digital Kit

Wow, SO happy to be here on National Scrapbooking Day!  I am doing a major overhaul of my bedroom closet today (my big fat GOAL for the day) but in between lingerie and socks I’m taking breaks to be creative. 

Today I fell in love with the Retro Sketches challenge #163 and so am combining it with KimB’s Simple Pleasures Kit from The Digital Press.  The best of both worlds!  I love that digital scrapbooking kits contain lots of “digital stamps” (or “word art”)  I love my real rubber and acryclics, but sometimes a digi is the ticket.  Even better, I love to do combinations.

 

I used some extra bits I’d had printed when I made my Hybrid Seaside Frame using Kim’s kit last week and I’d sized all the bits to fit onto a small canvas (thinking of my 5.5 x 4.25 cards).  When I saw today’s Retro Sketches theme I jumped to make this card.

 

Don’t you love how crisp the digital stamp prints out?

This is the inside:

 

I used a small rivet in the corner of the tag and tied crochet cotton through it.  Honestly, crochet cotton is the easiest thing I’ve ever used to tie nice and tidy bows and I keep my eye out at the thrift stores.  Also, if you know someone who crochets, just ask for a snippet or two, it doesn’t take much to make tiny bows.  Much better than embroidery thread.

I sparkled the seashell up with some shimmer embossing powder and added a small Recollections gem to mimic a pearl. 

I hope y’all get some time to play on this National Scrapbook Day!

365 Photo of the Day:

Mmmmm MORELS! 

Its that time of the year again – had my first feed yesterday.  Sautee’d lightly in real butter – ah, paradise for my tastebuds I say!

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Hybrid Project using KimB’s “Simple Pleasures” Kit!

FINALLY!  I’ve been working out how to print Kim’s beautiful kits onto a paper that I’m pleased with and I’m happy to say that our local KSPRINTING 

I just love Kim’s Simple Pleasures kit  at The Digital Press – and I pulled together a project in my head right away.

I started off with a 5 x 7 inch photo frame that’s been languishing in a cupboard and came to light during a purge.  The moment I saw it I knew I’d use it. I chose a french blue acrylic craft paint and then went over it with a coat of white.

So I printed the pieces of Kim’s Simple Pleasures kit to a large print and had such fun fussy cutting all the bits out for my project.  I laid everything out in Photoshop first so I knew all the elements I wanted to have “pop” were sized perfectly first.  I could have possibly used my trusty Silhouette Cameo to do my cuts only I’ve still not worked out exactly how to do that.  In the future, perhaps.  for now I’ll do it all the way we used to do paper cut out dolls when I was a kid.  Its kind of soothing, really.

Here’s my finished project and some close-ups of the details.

Don’t you just love it?  I used a whole lot of double sided foam dots to elevate elements to different sizes.  I appreciated the word art – it made for the center of focus while I built the theme all around with bits and bobs.  I also added some dimension to the text using Diamond Glaze.

Looks like he’s flying right into my scene.

I couldn’t resist making a tiny banner for the corner.  I had printed off some of the digital papers and just trimmed and snipped and then glued them to a bit of crochet thread.  I use crochet thread a lot!

I’ve always been a sucker for seahorses.  Ever since I was a little and always wanted to buy one of those kits you saw in the back of comics for growing your own “seahorses” – which I believe were really shrimp. 

I trimmed this pretty aqua starfish to nest in the corner and added the relax ontop.  A few sequins in different colors pull everything together.

And the last little ‘bling-thing” is this pretty shell.  I ran the edge through some diamond glaze and then added some pink glitter.  And of course, though this is not an oyster, the pearl accent seemed perfect. 

I highly suggest you hop over to The Digital Press and scoop up Kim’s Simple Pleasures kit – there is so much more that you don’t see. 

365 Photo of the Day

I saw this Northern Flicker “sleeping” this morning, but I fear it has an injury.

I think it may have a broken wing. 

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KimB’s NEWEST Kit and a HYBRID “Say What” Kit PROJECT!

Today’s “365 Photo of the day is taking a backseat (will appear at the end of this post) due to all this kafurffle and excitement of showing off a small hybrid project I created from KimB’s “Say What” Kit which you can find at The Digital Press right HERE.

I am falling in love with digital scrapbooking all over again, all the while wanting to keep my hands on the “real” paper feel of things and being able to envision creations that are bumped up into a 3 dimensionals. 

This is my first project so its very simple.  I had to sort out some printing issues but that’s all taken care of and the right side of my brain is already galloping off into creative pastures!

 

I chose a card for my 1st project because KimB’s “Say What” kit just made a big statement to me and I knew instantly how I would do this.  This is a standard quarter fold 4.25 x 5.5 folded card. 

 

Kim’s kits are super high quality and print out flawlessly!  I absolutely love the boldness of the line art and the colors are superb!!

 

After I cut the telephone element out I adhered the it to the card base using a bit of glue and some foam tape.  The finishing touch is the added glitter onto the flower in the middle of the dial. 

 

I tucked a little tiny cell phone element inside the card.

And now I can hardly wait to work on my next project using KimB’s next newest kit:

 

Simple Pleasures : The Kit

Simple Pleasures : Journal Cards

Simple Pleasures : The Alpha

Simple Pleasures : The Word Art

Or you can get it ALL:

Simple Pleasures : The Collection

And don’t forget to slip over to KimB’s BLOG to scoop a FREEBIE today and check out some of the phenomenal layouts and hybrid projects created by other members of Kim’s Creative Team!

And lastly, here’s my sweet little 365 Photo of the Day!

Woke up to this little fella checking me out this morning!

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Digital Scrapbooking Kit sale NOT TO MISS!

KimB is offering these GAW-JUS kits for 1/2 price at The Digital Press just for a small window @ 50% off through TUES 24th - THUR 26th.  Don’t miss out.  I specially begged a pic of my niece’s son for this event:

SHOP HERE! (the digital press)

I specially begged a pic of my niece’s son for this event:

There is so much more to these kits that I’m positively itching to play with them more! 

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