rustystars&dustbunnies

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I have made 6 layouts in the last week! That almost NEVER happens. I shared a couple of the layouts with you a few days ago so here are a couole more...

Rockstar Attitude

Piper with her faux hawk on the first day of school. She is such a ham. She rocked the "hawk" the whole first week of school. Everybody thought she was awesome. :) The little tag with the "P" is where I hid my journaling.

**This layout is Crate Paper, American Crafts, BasicGrey, Studio Calico, Love my tapes, and Elle's Studios.

Next up...

a Christmas layout. I have had this background for several months, just sitting on the shelf. I had been playing with paints and punches one night, but after I made it, I wasn't sure what to do with it until this weekend. I think it worked out pretty good.

 

**This one is almost all Elle's Studio, I threw in some Doodlebug die cuts for good measure. Paints are Adirondak, spray ink is Tattered Angels, and the wood stars are Studio Calico.

 

Well, thats all for today. I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. See you soon!

Just a little cuteness for ya

This might be my favorite photo ever. I can't get enough of that face.

Elle's Studio launched a new site and they are throwing a party to celebrate. I have been having fun doing the challenges, they have posted on the blog.

The first challenge was to use an everyday object on your project.

I have been keeping some of these Playdoh lids for something (I'm not really sure, why) and I had this pic of the girls playing with said Playdoh so I got down to business, and this is what I came up with...

 

**The papers and fabric stickers are American Crafts- Amy Tangerine, the tags/banners are Elle's Studio, and the tapes are MT & Love My Tapes.

 

Their second challenge was to "go big" whether it be big embellishments or a big photo...

And here's my "big" layout...

**The background paper is Pink Paislee, the floral is BasicGrey, the tags are Elle's Studio, the doilies are from Wilton, and the Fabric paper is American Crafts- Dear Lizzy. Oh! and the tapes are from Target, and Pink Paislee/Heidi Swapp.

That's all I have for you, for now. But Elle's Studio has posted some sketches, so I am sure that I will be back with more!

Thanks for stopping by!

Another tutorial!

This one is on how to make a man's shirt!

You can make it as big or as small as you'd like.

I made mine to fit on a card...

You can find the full instructions on the Pretty Little Studio Blog. If you'd like to see this in video form, leave a comment and let me know! And if there is anything else, you would like to see, please don't hesitate to ask. I would be happy to oblige. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

a peek

of what I have been working on...

Stay tuned! tomorrow, I will share another tutorial with you!

See ya soon!

how about some more Epiphany Crafts projects?

For this card, I just used the punch to make the rays on the sun...

The papers are a mixed lot... We R Memory Keepers(clouds), Crate Paper(green, wood), American Crafts(yellow stripe). The alphas are BasicGrey and the tapes are MT, Target, lovemytapes.

 

And I just reaaallly wanted to make a little shadow box, so I busted out the Silhouette and went to town...

**shadow boxes are hard to photo :( just so ya know.

The papers on this are... American Crafts Amy Tangerine and My Little Shoebox. The fabric stickers are American Crafts Amy Tangerine. The tape and photo corners are Heidi Swapp/Pink Paislee. Oh! and the Twine is from The Twinery.

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Whoa nelly!

This morning, on the way to my grandfather's house, I noticed that I had a few new followers on my YouTube channel. I checked my typepad stats to see if people were coming from my blog and I was SHOCKED to see that I had already had hundreds of hits on my blog and it was only 11:30! In.the.morning.

I have Paperpunchaddiction.com to thank for that! They have discovered my Bow Tie Tutorial on YouTube and thought it was worthy enough to share with the world. Thank you very much!

And just days ago, Kerryspapercrafts.com linked me up because she loved my mustache cards(with bowties). And I want to thank her as well!

I really appreciate it, ladies! :)

So here are the cards that everyone seems to be loving lately...

and here is the original post.

Thanks again to Kerryspapercrafts.com and paperpunchaddiction.com. and thank you to all my new followers!

See you soon!

Epiphany Crafts review

Hey folks! I recently had the pleasure of reviewing some Epiphany Crafts products. You should stop by The Scrap Review and see what I thought.

Here is one of the projects that I made using the Epiphany Crafts punch and epoxys...

The papers/stickers/tag are all by Jillibean Soup.

Be sure to leave a comment on my review at The Scrap Review to have a chance at a drawing for some goodies!

Thanks for stopping by!

some Monsieur for you

Here's a project I made using my new stash of Monseiur from Pretty Little Studios...

you can read more about it on the PLS BLOG

 

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shut the front door

I used my Silhouette to cut out the door card. The stamps are Hero Arts/Studio Calico(sentiment) and We R Memory Keepers(frame).

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