All about Mountains!

Hi friends! I hope you've had a good start to your week. I have been off for the last 2 days and have been super busy...cleaning house, getting ready for showings, going to check on our new place that we get to move into in less than 2 weeks! I did get a little time to myself too, yesterday I went for my first solo hike since we've been in Oregon, just a short easy one in Mt Tabor park, but it was very refreshing and renewing, felt good to get some sunshine on my face! It has been super wet here latley. I also got a little free time today to start my next art journaling page. I was once again inspired by Sundays with Sandee over on the FD blog, if you haven't had the chance yet to watch her videos, you have to check them out! As soon as I saw  her pipette painting tutorial I knew I had to try it. I ordered a few more supplies from the Frosted Designs store, and in less than a week I was on my way! I also challenged my Aunt Vicki, who is my lifelong creative inspiration (very much like my mom!) to try it out. We are supposed to share our creations next week when we do our monthly facetime chat. I couldnt wait till then to share cause I was so proud of how it turned out, so here it is:

Also it doesn't hurt that this is probably my favorite Dr. Seuss quote of all time....

"Today is YOUR Day, Your Mountain is waiting, so GET on Your WAY!"

I used basically the same technique as Sandee did for my rough lines. I didn't remember to gesso the paper first or anything though so intial ink colors spread a little more than I hoped. At first I didn't think I would like it, it took a long time to try and I think I used too much water, but after I went back over the lines several times with a fine tip marker it grew on me. I also gesso'd the back of the pages cause they were worn so thin from me painting and smearing..that also took a while to dry and i tried my heat gun...needless to say I'm not a super patient person! LOL! I had to cover over a few places on the back too with tissue tape just to make sure the front wouldn't tear through....not really sure what I will end up doing with those pages, but I will know next time to gesso first!!

This is what the back of the page looks like, the inks bled through even after I gesso'd. It kind of made a need look but for functuatlity purposes I had to add the tissue tape.

It was good to experiment and try a new technique. It really gets your mind going. I have a few more projects to finish before I can start packing up my scrapping stuff. So excited for a bigger place where I will actually have an entire room to myself again instead of a dedicated corner of the laundry room. Plus I will have a large window above my desk!!! I am soooo excited for that, I just hate packing. The only good thing is that we hardly have any stuff compared to what we had in Alabama, we did a major purge before our 3000 mile trek so it should be easier this time. We get the keys on March 14th. Guess I better get going since I'm under a deadline.... see you next time! Thanks so much for stopping by todayI love all your comments!!!

Here are just a few pics I took on instagram during my hike, it was absolutley gorgeous yesterday and I am glad I got to enjoy it for a few hours outside!!! These are all from the base heading up to the 'summit' of Mt Tabor which is just a few miles from my house. It probaby took me about 1.5 hours to get to the top and back down on the easy trail which has partial stairs. It was alot of fun and I can't wait to go again on my next day off if i am not up to my ears in packing!!!

Happy Tuesday Y'all!

Good Day, Sunshine

Hi friends! I am back to posting again on a regular basis I hope. I realize all the time how scrapping and being creative is my release, and how important it is for me to make time for it, so I have promised myself that besides design team assignments, I am going to make a little extra time this holiday season to craft! Which shouldn't be hard to do because the winters here in the Pacific northwest are much, much colder than Alabama. It will be my first Oregon winter! So far I have really enjoyed the seasonal changes here. They have been gorgeous!! I will be sharing some photos later this week of some of the fun stuff we've done this  fall, not to mention the awesome foliage:)

Ok, onto my share for the day. Pardon my pics, I didn't get great shots of these because it was so dark out the last few days, I had to take them inside and artificial lighting is never the best for details :) that and well I guess  I really need to invest in a light box!??

I did this layout using some of the fabulous products from the Frosted Designs store, Fab Scrape Shabbylicious line, Heidi Swapp stencil, dylusions mist, and UM WOW chipboard pieces covered in gesso. It was a pretty simple layout, I was working with a sketch from an old  issue of Scrapbooks, Etc. Which I had been saving for this particular photo.

That's about it for today! I hope I started your week off right, with a little sunshine:) I will be back for very soon for my first try at 'workdesk Wednesday' an  then later in the week with photos from fall. I have missed my blogland friends. Feels good to be back! Please leave me son I've so I can go check out your blog too :)

Until next time, scrappy friends :-) VV

{super-mini 4x4 album} :Sunny Dayz!!

Good evening, blogland! I'm here tonight to share a super-cute super-quick super-mini album that I made this afternoon as part of my shares for the 'Meet the DT' party this Saturday at Scrapping Frenzy! We are supposed to make a board of some sort, talking about what products we like, what we like about scrapbooking, etc. and also bring some projects. Well everything I turned in is still up at the store, so I haven't had a chance to photograph it and share it here, but I wanted to have a new project or two to share, so I had to come up with something! I was digging thru an old storage box and I found this pretty basic old school mini album kit by We R Memory Keepers. I think I might have won it at a crop a few years ago. It came with 3 sheets of 6x6 paper, 2 chipboard covers, some 4x4 plain white papers, 2 paper flowers, and 2 binder rings. So I thought man, this would be super cute to add stuff to and make a super mini album! I love making minis but this is the first time I worked with this size- 4x4, and I loved it! I was able to complete the entire thing in about 4 hours this afternoon with breaks in between! I really like how it turned out. I wasn't exactly sure what photos I was going to use at first I just started pulling out papers and embellishments from my stash that I thought would complement what it already came with. So this is what I came up with- the title of it is 'Sunny Days':

 You can see how fat it is with all the embellishments!! It stands up on it's own!

 I had these old letter stickers in my stash and to re vamp them a little I smudged some glossy accents on top of them to make it look a little more dimensional.

 I love the look of the yellow baker's twine tied thru the buttons!!

 And my fav, a baker's twine bow! looks so great next to a few flowers and some buttons, of course!

 This is my favorite 2 pages! I love this picture of  Jimmy and I and also I like the cluster I did.

 oops! this one is upside down!

 And the back of the super-mini!

That's all for tonite folks! I hope to have something else to share in the next few days- this is going to be a creative week I can already tell! Glad I got the MOJO going again! If you live in the Mobile/Daphne area, come by Scrapping Frenzy on Saturday morning from 10-2 and have a little party with us! It's all about meeting the new design team and sharing techniques and projects! I can't wait! Goodnight y'all~ VV

Supplies List:

We R Memory Keepers 4x4 mini album kit- 3 patterned papers, 2 chipboard covers, 1 sheet vellium sentiments, 2 paper flowers, 2 binder rings

floral paper- unknown from stash

Tim Holtz distress ink in 'antique linen'

Tim Holtz paper distressing tool

DCWV textured cardstock mat stack- neutrals (yellow, light yellow, green, cream)

Colorbox chalk ink cat's eye in dark brown

Recollections- yellow paper roses, yellow rose cabachons, metal buttons

vintage buttons, clear postage stickers, blingy flower stickers, chipboard tag-from stash

stickles-yellow
large layered flower w/ corduroy button- K&Company

caramel colored gel ink pen

brown/white ribbon, blue dot ribbon, and fuzzy ribbon, metal anchor buttons-from stash

yellow and white baker's twine- Scrapping Frenzy

XL Vintage Girl button- Purple Pumpkin Crafts