It's Raining It's Pouring

One of my CHA projects was to use this adorable heart shaped album by Maya Road with Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker's new It's Raining,  It's Pouring collection of papers and stickers. 

I started out by painting all of the chipboard pages with red paint and then punching holes in the scallops of the front and back cover.  The little images on the cover are die cuts cut from one of the papers in the collection. 

To make this project even more fun, I knew I had just the right photos for it.  Even with the pages covered with either patterned papers or full photos, I still painted the edges of the heart shapes with the red paint so they would look finished.  I also "glued" the papers and photos on with Mod Podge because I find it to work the best for me and then I also did give a light coat of the Mod Podge to each page. I find it just seems to finish off the project and it also makes it safe for little hands.

I just love every single pattern in this collection. So many of them are perfect for any "rain" related photo but there are other prints that can stand alone for any project. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Hearts and Sea World

I know that post title makes no sense whatsoever but my post is two parts and those are the two parts, that simple!

I wanted to share my Card Positioning Systems card for this week, that is the "HEART" part. The Stamps of Life sponsored the sketch this week and so I was able to play with this amazing set and I combined that with a simple piece of gray Core'dinations cardstock that was embossed with dots!

I stamped the little frame and the scribble heart of white cardstock using white ink and white embossing powder.  That was then colored by rubbing it with stamp pads and spraying it with ChalkBoard Glimmer Mist. The white embossed design resisted the stamp pad inks and the spray. 

Now for the SeaWorld part of the post...

During the Christmas holidays in 2009, we went to SeaWorld with some of our family. I put together a very simple little mini album that would be easy for little hands to handle.  I cut the pages from chipboard and used little accents of Core'dinations cardstock and WeRMemory Keepers patterned papers. 

For the first page in the album, I used a picture that I took of the Holiday banners at the park and I added in the words to the photo before printing it out.  What an easy way to do a title.

I combined small photos along with larger photos so I could get in as many pictures as possible.

This is the last page, a photo of our group and the year.

And, these are in my yard today! For some reason, Pansy's grow really well here during the winter even with the cold days we have had this season. 

It is almost like they are growing like weeds. Just thought I should make someone out there a little jealous!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 199 – LOVE card

Materials:
Clear stamps courtesy of The Stamps of Life – hearts 2 love set
Cardstock – Core Essentials /Core’dinations
Copic paper
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Black Versafine stamp pad
White stamp pad – Joann craft store
White and clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Chalkboard Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Copic Markers
Circle and scallop circle punches – PaperShapers
Corner rounder punch - PaperShapers
Self adhesive rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.
Scrap Dots – Helmar
Sandpaper