Craft Scratch Fever

This is the falls in Winter. When I was a little girl I saw the falls from the New York side and this time I was with my hubby and we were on the Canadian side. Canadian side is the most beautiful. You can see so much more of the falls. If you are ever up that way during the winter months I highly recommend stopping at the falls. It was so cold I wanted to create a page that just made me feel cold. I cut out these snowflakes using Winter Woodland on white paper. I then embossed them with star dust, then added a thin layer of Ice White pearl pen, then added crackle glossy accents. Finally I added a few rhinestones for sparkle. I edged the white paper around the photos with Zutter distrezz-it-all. I wanted to try and add a feeling of snow drifts. I really need to improve on my journaling but I do have a few here. I cut out circles and added Martha Stewart sugar cube glitter to the bottom layer, some silver sparkle on the top. The paper on the corner ...

 This photo is a very special one to me. I have been hanging onto it now for 26 years. I took this photo while on vacation when I was 15 yrs. old at a place called River's Edge in Canada. I'm not positive of the name of this lake but its near or part of the Klinaklini River near Kleena Kleene. I had bought a Polaroid at a 2nd hand store, I loved cameras, and I took it with me. I went out early one morning and just stared out into the water for hours. I took this pic before leaving and it ended up being the only one I took with this camera as I had gone horseback riding later that day, fell off the horse and broke the camera. lol, so much for my new (almost new) camera. On the way home I remember deciding while looking at this pic that I was going to be a photographer.  I used paper from DCWV The Cafe' Mediterranean stack, both solid and patterned These flowers I absolutely love, I have had them for a while. I won them years ago at a crop but...

Rumble, my husband named this little guy and he has the shortest legs, biggest paws, and runs so funny, I just love watching him play in the backyard. His legs seem so short it looks as if he is always hunching down into the ground....I guess his legs are just running a little behind...lol. Kittens are so fun. The carts I used were New Testament for the tree, which was fit to page. The fence was from Heritage at 3 inches. The grass was from the Imagine cart Nursery Tails but I just used the image to cut on the E2 at various sizes from 2-3 inches. The cats are from Meow, sized from 2-3 inches. The lettering is from the E2 (already loaded) and I believe its simply called alphabet. The paw prints are from a punch and the stones I cut freehand. Thank you for visiting! -n- Happy Craftin!

The photo is of Grandma and my niece, Danni. Danni was leading Grandma  to the swings to play in the springtime. I have always loved this pic of the two of them and wanted to do something special with it. I manipulated the pic in photoshop to add a painting technique to it  and I really like how it turned out. I wanted really soft colors for it so I chose the Blossom Imagine cart. This cart has some very nice pinks, blues, greens and yellows, all very soft. I used this paper for everything on this page, including the brads. I used Home Accents for the word family and since I am out of chipboard I cut it out on the Imagine in multiple layers to give the same effect. I just love being able to use the regular carts with the Imagine and just fill it in with whatever colors you are using. It makes things so easy. For the scallop border I used a ek border punch. I dot the I in Family using Scribbles/candy pink. For t...

 This is my father in law, Bernie with his nose in the flowers. Always trying to make us laugh. It was a cute little place we stopped to eat lunch at in Old Town, NM where we went shopping for the day. My hubby and I went down to visit over the Christmas holiday.       You may remember this photo from last week. I had followed a sketch for a contest and didn't like what I ended up with, even though I loved the paper it was on, it just wasn't right...so I decided to withdraw my entry and do something different. The contest is over but I am much happier with the page I came up with. I used the Christmas Cheer cart, still one of my favorites. The top lights are cut at 1 1/2 in and the bottom at 2 1/2 in. I cut them using white card stock, then I colored them with chalks, heat embossed using clear embossing powder and outlined the edges with ink. The tops of the lights are embossed using detail silver embossing powder. I coiled green...