Scraps and Ink

Laugh At Yourself

When was the last time you had fun? I don't mean ordinary fun. I mean, gut-busting, PIMP, laugh-so-hard-you-cry FUN?

When Andy and I get together with our friends, we have THAT kind of fun! Every summer for the past three years, we have been to the Savor Idaho Food and Wine Festival with our friends, and we ALWAYS have an extremely good time, and a LOT of fun. Probably the kind of fun that is frowned upon in certain circles, but we just don't give a damn. 

And we don't regret a single minute of it!

LAUGH AT YOURSELF

CLOSE-UPS:

MATERIALS LIST:

Patterned paper- KI Memories, Basic Grey; buttons and brads- Basic Grey, Prima, The Girls' Paperie; kraft tag- Jillibean Soup; chipboard- Basic Grey; lettering stickers- Kimberly Sabel; black pen- Faber-Castell; adhesive- Tombow Mono; other- sewing machine, black thread.

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy  

Sweet 16

Okay, so this photo was taken last year on Ashley's 16th b-day. It was a great day. :)

I just got around to scrapping it not too long ago. Isn't she gorgeous? LOVE this kid to bits!

SWEET 16

CLOSE-UPS:

MATERIALS LIST:

Background paper, banners, chipboard letters- Basic Grey; tags, fabric die-cut, epoxy/wood button- Dear Lizzy; black numbers- cut from cardstock using Pazzles Inspiration e-cutter; black pen- Faber-Castell; glue- Tombow Mono; other- sewing machine, black thread.

Thanks for looking!

later,

nancy

Time 4 Tea

So what is your fave tea? Green, white, black, herbal, Rooibos, Yerba Mate, Chai?

While I like a good, rich cup of coffee in the morning, I also simply CANNOT go without a warm, soothing cup of tea at least once during my day- usually in the afternoon. I have always loved the spicy aroma of Chai, but lately, my tastes have changed, and I now prefer a white or herbal with fruity notes. :) 

My current faves are Blueberry Bliss, and Pineapple Kona, both from Teavana.

TIME 4 TEA

CLOSE-UPS:

MATERIALS LIST:

Blue background- Basic Grey; yellow dot, other papers- Dear Lizzy; tags, labels, chipboard, epoxy brads- Dear Lizzy; canvas sticker letters- Basic Grey; clock die cut- The Girls' Paperie; pink border stricker- Crate Paper; washi- Bella BLVD, other; metal number, brads- Tim Holtz; black pen- Faber-Castell; glue- Tombow Mono.  

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy  

Key Lime

Some things just taste amazing.....like Key Lime pie, for instance. It is my fave!

Frozen treats are another bit of yumminess. Yes please!

And then, of course, everyone knows that dipping something in chocolate is a no-brainer when creating any decadent dessert. Come to mama! 

Sooooooo.....

One might assume that if one combines all of the above, creates an entire shop dedicated to this little frozen concoction, and places that shop in the heart of Key West, from which the very name of the citrus fruit that is the main ingredient in the treat you are peddling is derived from, then you have created a true "tri-fecta" of ultimate heavenly indulgence.

One would be very, very wrong.

KEY LIME

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Sweet? Too sweet, in fact. :(

Materials List:

Basic Grey papers from the Hey Girl collection, Dear Lizzy tags and brads, old Sassafras letter stickers, arrow cut from Jillibean Soup paper, compass and camera die cuts from The Girls' Paperie, my trusty Singer sewing machine with black thread, Tombow Mono adhesive, and Faber-Castell black pen.

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

DANGER- Falling Coconuts

The holidays hit and that's all she (I) wrote......literally!!!!

After a busy Thanksgiving season (we drove to Colorado where we had a great time with Andy's side of the family), Christmas hit like a whirlwind and we didn't really even have a chance to slow down! Then there were the parties and New Year's.....

Not to mention a BIG project I am doing for CardMaker Magazine and Annie's Attic (but more on that later). :)

Anywho, in January, Andy and I took a much needed vacation to the Florida Keys, just the two of us.

What a kick in the pants THAT was!!!! We stayed at the Marriott Key Largo Beach Club Resort (because Andy is all about staying in nice hotels). We snorkeled, chilled on the beach, had AMAZING food every. single. meal. drove all the way to Key West, and I even got a luxurious massage in a beach cabana!!!

Then when we got back to the mainland, we took an airboat tour thru the Everglades, and had the most amazing crab ever in Ft. Lauderdale!  

But never fear, I packed my trusty Canon Eos Rebel to all the above events, and have even managed to snap a few pics. 

That is where the above photo is from. The coconut sign was outside a restaurant that had "World Famous" key lime pie, and the background is a photo I took of the water when we were snorkeling. And yes....the water really was that color of blue!

Since I have a bad case of Spring Fever right now, I wanted to work on pages with happy colors, so it seemed fitting to do a few pages of the Florida trip.

HAPPY SUNSHINE

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Materials:

I used quite a bit of 'Basic Grey' for this. Also threw in some 'Dear Lizzy' and 'Amy Tangerine'. The brown compass beneath the blue epoxy/wooden button is ancient 'The Girls' Paperie'. Cloud washi tape is from 'Bella BLVD' and is my FAVE pattern right now!

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #15

Last but not least!!!

This is the last page I will be posting that I created for the Cocoa Daisy Fall Crop. It was not the last page I "created", however. It fell somewhere in the middle of the mess on my desk. :)

For this challenge, we were supposed to use circles.......lots of circles. I even used papers with circles...punched into circles.  And those title letters have dots on them, another kind of circle. Oh, and I sewed circles onto my page. :) Ha!!!  

COTTON CANDY

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Materials List:

Patterned paper- Dear Lizzy (background, green), Echo Park (turquoise, pink, orange, red, yellow); sticker border- Echo Park; lettering stickers- Basic Grey;  spray inks- Tattered Angels; circle punches- Fiskars, McGill; pens- Faber-Castell.

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #13

Before I share this page, I just have to say it is my least fave out of all the pages I made for the crop over at Cocoa Daisy. I just don't like this page. There I said it. 

I just was not feeling the mojo on this one. Yes, I like the brayer technique that Kim showed here, but I just do not love how mine turned out. Maybe too much pink/purple? I don't know, I just can't pin it down....

Anywho, here is my finished page.

MAGICAL

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Materials List:

Cardstock- American Crafts; patterned paper- Amy Tangerine (blue grid), My Mind's Eye (blue floral, blue diagonal), Lily Bee (pink dot), Teresa Collins (navy trefoil); stickers- Lily Bee (pink crown), My Mind's Eye ("M" & "K"); sticker letters- American Crafts; spray ink- Tattered Angels; gold doily- Wilton; border punch- EK Success; black pens- Faber-Castell (black), Krylon (gold).

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #12

For this challenge at Cocoa Daisy, we were given five color palettes and told to choose one to use on our page.

The list of palettes is here.

I chose the first palette.  The page also had to have at least two photos and something "shiny" on it.

I used two of my favorite photos of the girls from our last trip to WDW. And of course, anyone who knows me also knows I put a hidden "Mickey" on all of my Disney pages. Can you find it?   

FAVORITE

Close-ups:

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #1

This was the very first challenge posted over at Cocoa Daisy for the fall crop, but it was one of the very last pages I completed.

I really struggled with the challenge's directions to create "movement" with the journaling. The journaling needed to literally "move" and/or not be written in a straight line.   

Then I remembered taking these photos of Anna and her friends while they were ice skating and actually "moving" (hence, the blurry middle photo), and the page just kind of went from there! The title even creates movement because it can be read the same from either the top or the bottom and "moves" in a circle.  

ROUND & ROUND

The journaling is written in a spiral shape on a tag that tucks into the top of the page and can be "moved". So double movement points!

Close-ups:

Materials List:

Patterned paper- Pink Paislee (blue misted background), Best Creation (red circles), Grant Studios (grey polka-dot, light blue, red grid), Heidi Swapp- (black/white diagonal), lettering stickers- Bella BLVD; punches- McGill (snowflake), Fiskars (round/scallop); snowflake mask and mist- Tattered Angels; buttons- My Mind's Eye; silver glitter ribbon- May Arts; adhesive rhinestones- KaiserCraft; black pen- Faber-Castell.

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy

Cocoa Daisy Crop Challenge #11- ATC

For those of you who don't know what an ATC is, here is a good description:

 "ATC stands for "Artist Trading Card" and is defined as: miniature works of art about the same size as modern baseball cards or playing cards,[1] or 2.5" by 3.5" inches (63 mm × 89 mm), small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. Cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc.), wet media (watercolor, acrylic paints, etc.), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc.) or even metals or cloth. The cards are usually traded or exchanged."

 For challenge #11 over at Cocoa Daisy, we were asked to create an ATC using  the following:

• paint or mist
• stamping
• 3 patterned papers
• fabric or stitching

And here is mine:

Asian-Inspired ATC 

Materials List:

All products from Basic Grey- Konnichiwa collection. 

Thanks for looking!

Later,

nancy