Halloween is on it's way

I am not a big fan of all things Halloween, but I love the pumpkin patch visits and the colors, etc. 

 I loved these little images in the Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge and so I decided to create a little fall decoration with them.  I used a simple 5"x7" canvas for the foundation of my project.

I tore pieces of an old dictionary page and added them to the front of the canvas with Mod Podge.  This was painted with a wash of white paint.  I then added some color and accent by rubbing a brown stamp pad over the edges.  The tree, the bat, the moon and the sentiment were just cut out like they are shown in the cartridge.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

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)

Sharing some Flower Soft goodness

It's a blog hop day for the Flower Soft DT. The challenge for today is using Flower Soft to create a border.

I created a little Gratitude journal. It is about 5" square and I used my Bind It All tool to punch the holes and to bind my journal. My border is these super cute little flower stamps by Pink Persimmon and the middles of them are decorated with Ultra Fine Flower Soft in Citrus Crush. If you recall, I mentioned before that the best adhesive to use with the Flower Soft is Aleene's Tacky Glue and Flower Soft sells it in a great applicator with a tiny tip. The flowers were colored with Copic markers.

The inside pages are copier paper cut to size and I stamped these words on each page. My thought for my little journal was that it could be used at Thanksgiving for each family member to record what they are grateful for.

From my blog, hop on over to Jacque's blog for more goodness. There is a prize at the last blog in the hop, leave a comment there and become a follower of the Flower Soft blog.

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And, look what we are doing these days!

Baseball season has started for two of our grandsons.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

GRATITUDE JOURNAL
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper - October Afternoon
Flower, sentiment and flourish stamps – Pink Persimmon
Chipboard
Mod Podge – Plaid
Martha Stewart border punch
Bind It All binding system
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic markers
Ultra Fine Flower Soft
Sticker letters – David Walker
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s®

Cuttlebug Challenge and Disney Pics

I have to say that my two most used tools are any of my embossing plates that I use in my Cuttlebug machine and all of my border punches. I could literally use both of these on every single thing I create!!! I have to make myself use other things now and then. The Cuttlebug Challenge Blog challenge for this week is to use a Cuttlebug embossing plate on an altered project. I use my embossing plates so much but I have never participated in one of their challenges before. Core'dinations cardstocks were just created to be use with the embossing plates so putting together this fun little box was easy.

I used one of the Black Magic papers that has a green core. I just ran pieces through the Cuttlebug with this embossing plate and then sanded the papers. I attached my papers to the little box with Mod Podge by Plaid and then I also coated all of the box with that same Mod Podge. I just love the shiny look this gives these great papers. I created my little flower top by tearing circles from my scraps. I did paint my box with black paint first so that my box looked very finished after the papers were glued in place.

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Now, on to what we did last week. It was my granddaughters 12th birthday on Thursday and she could get into Disneyland for free on her birthday so I tagged along with my daughter, my grandson, my granddaughter and my youngest daughter drove down to enjoy the day with us. It was hot and we were sweaty but that didn't stop the fun of sharing this magic place with kids!

This huge statue is just outside the Disneyland Hotel. This was our first stop for breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen. What better way to start your birthday?

And, yes, Goofy needed to stop to give hugs. Let me tell you that Dathan was just not very sure of these big, furry creatures!!! He did give Goofy a high five though.

Do you see those little eyes peeking out from under that big steering wheel? It is always fun to stop for photo ops at the various, fun, cars in Toon Town.

As the sun was going down, I managed to get a few pics of the castle. We did get to watch the fireworks later but it was almost impossible to get a good view with the HUGE number of people all trying to do the same thing.

Since we drove down the day ahead, we had some time to get in the hotel pool. This was our grandsons first time in a pool and while he wasn't sure about this at first, you can see he warmed up to the idea.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)