Ladies Own the Night*******

Hello everyone!! I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend & are looking forward to summer! I know I am!!! I'm here today to share a fun layout I did using lots of goodies you can find in the Frosted Designs store! If you know me at all, you know I like to mix and match collections, and that is what I did today!! I used pieces from Basic Grey, Carte Bella, and Bo Bunny to come up with this  layout! Here are some pictures:

  

 Here are a few close ups:

 I used the creme brûlée dauber from my Lindy's stamp gang try me set to pearlize my background for the 'night sky' . 

For the title & other elements on my page I used stickers from the Bo Bunny Zip-a- Dee-doodle combo sticker sheet. I also anchored some of the elements to my page with some Trendy Tape in black chevron & the steampunk gold one. I love how they look together!

I colored the Um Wow layered clouds with a combo of Faber Castel gelato in gold & some more creme brûlée. The tiny stars are wood veneer by Studio Calico, also colored with gelato & a wet brush. I love how it turned out against the pink! 

I hope you have enjoyed this whimsical layout. Here is the list of products I used that can be found in the Frosted Designs store. Happy shopping!!!

Product Used:

( background paper) Wildflower collection by Carte Bella

Bo Bunny Zip a Dee Doodle combo sticker sheet

Studio Calico tiny stars wood veneer

Um Wow layered clouds

Faber Castel gelatos gold & silver

Lindy's stamp gang Creme Brûlée 

Prima everyday vintage sugardots

Trendy tape- black chevron

Trendy tape- steampunk gold

Thataway travel stickers 

Bama Girls...are wild at Heart

Hi friends!! This is Katie and I am back again today to share a layout I did using the new 'Wildower' range by Carta Bella. I love  this line, the Aztec-influence patterns are so hot right now coupled with some pretty florals and woodgrains, this line so versatile! If you haven't had a chance yet to check out some of the new store items...go now and make you Christmas list!! Here's the  link: http://frosted-designs.com

I started my page by using some poppy colored cardstock to ground my photos and another strip of the patterned paper over the floral. Then I cut off all the mini strips that come on the bottoms of the pages an  glued those down as accents. This is what it looked like before I embellished:

After that I had fun embellishing with some of the stickers that came with the pack, along with a mix of wood veneer hearts that I colored, flowers, buttons, and ribbon.

 For my title, I mixed a bunch of different thickers and alphas.

I love the love you wild, love you dearly block cut from.one of the papers.

I hope you enjoyed my share today! I had a lot of fun making it and can't wait to play more with this range. You can find the supplies I used at the Frosted Designs store! Have a great week! Until next time scrappy friends-VV

messy background+inky fingers+chevron stamp+ utee=pefect friends

Good evenin' all my crafty pals out there in blog land...I am here tonite to share a layout that I finished late last night, it seems I was bit by the scrappy bug and i just couldn't go to bed without finishing it!! LOL so I was up until 1:30am but I'm totally happy with how it turned out. I got these pics from one of my best friends, and bridesmaids in my wedding, Leanne. she gave me a big bag of stuff the week of the wedding and had a whole envelope of pics she'd printed up for me from this past summer's events and random stuff! Also some christmas stamps and other scrappy goodies, which I can always use!! So i thought it only fitting that I do a layout about me and her...these are from a boat ride we took one summer afternoon in a friends' pontoon boat down Rabbit Creek and Dog River, course I wasn't ready for the first pic, but I had to include it on the layout cause it was funny! Here's my instagram:

 And here are some more pics I took today outside right before the sun went down, and some close ups:

 The first thing I did was 'mess up' my background. This is kind of a new technique to  me, although I have experimented with it before I haven't really dabbled in gesso or anything yet, but would LOVE to! I used a large chevron stamp that I just bought from Micheal's and inked it up good with StayzOn ink in jet black. I went over the same spot several times and then laid my vertical paper strip in place. After that I cleaned my stamp, and inked it with Top Boss. Over that I sprinkled some UTEE and before I heated it, I used some Smooch Spritz in tea party and then heat embossed it. I really like how the UTEE separated the metallic color in the Smooch. To add even more interest, I used one of my tiny Prima stamps which was a perfume bottle and randomly stamped it all over. 

 After I completed the background, I added my pictures and then started building my clusters.

 I used flowers, felt, a TH fragment, washi tape, vintage buttons, dew drops, vinyl embellishments by American Crafts, a resin rose, tulle flower, stickers and ribbon to build several clusters around my page. Here is a close up of the large one at the bottom:

 I also used one of my many Purple Pumpkin fabric buttons. I really like how you can see the background texture through the tulle flower. 

 And here are a few artistic pics

 Ok friends, that's all for tonight! I hope you enjoyed seeing how I made my messy background. Now back to scrapping, grabbing some popcorn first!! Until next time, Peace y'all~VV

{True Blue Friend} :SF June theme challenge

Hello everyone! I am back today to share with you another layout for June using our color theme for this month which is blue and white! First I want to give you a little mini tutorial about how I created the background for this page and also my inspiration for this page and my 'jumping off point". I actually was really inspired by a LO we have hanging up at Scrapping Frenzy that was made by Suzanne. We were given the same paper in our June DT kit so I took some of the elements from her page such as layering and painting, and translated it to my page. Also I found this photo that was taken in June of 2006 the year one of my best friends graduated from Harvard when the other bestie and I traveled all the way to Boston to see her walk in person! (and visit a bit of course!) It was such a great trip I have alot of memories from it!! Okay, well on with the layout, here is the inspiration LO by the lovely Suzanne Austin!!

For the background, I used some light blue craft paint mixed with crackle medium and dry-brushed it across the background. I wanted to add more 'blue' to the page so that's what I came up with. When that was dry I traced over the paper design with stickles in 'true blue' and 'orange peel'. I let it dry overnight and this is how it came out:

And, going on the layering idea that Suzanne did in the inspiration layout, I used several kinds of items to give it lots of layering for a really funky look! Including some Tim  Holtz paper, cardboard, cream colored cardstock, a crochet doily and lots of other stuff! I really like how it turned out:

 And here are some close ups, just so you can see all the detail!! (My favorite part)

Ok, well that's all I have for you today! I hope you were inspired to funk up the background of your pages and get a little messy with some paint and stickles!!! Enjoy the weekend :D

Scrapping Frenzy Supplies: 

Ruby Rock-It "The Summerhouse" background paper, Reminisce cardstock stickers "the freedom collection", Moxxie "God Bless America" blue paper, cream colored cardstock, Stickles- orange peel, true blue, and TH collection faded jeans, Colorbox fluid chalk ink cat's eye 'brown' and 'butterscotch', Glossy Accents, sticky thumb pop dots.

Other supplies: 

Tim Holtz' 'Lost and Found' paper, Prima flowers, Recollections- teal button, teal resin flower, blue/gold flower, and metal brad.  Air mail sticker, orange glitter ribbon, blue crochet doily-Purple Pumpkin Crafts, paper clip flower-Pier 1 Imports