You Make My Heart Go Vroom

It's Thursday so you know what that means!!!  A new Sketchy Thursdays sketch:

Thought I'd play around a bit with this month's Torendi kit "Love Fool":

Using the black and white circles paper and some of the tickets I made:

Just can't seem to get enough of my Dymo!!!   And rub-ons are always fun.  The "m" in vroom is actually a "w" but thought it had perfect "movement" for the word. 

Can you guess what the heart is covered with?  Hot pink duct tape!!!!!!!  This pic shows just how many glossy and shiny elements are on this layout:

Head on over to the Sketchy Thursdays blog to see what the rest of the Design Team made for your inspiration.  We're also introducing our February Guest Design Team Member Sandra.  Be sure to check out her blog, too, and leave her some love!!! 

We'd love to see you play along with us, too.  Hook up your project to Mr. Linky in the Sketchy Thursdays sidebar for your chance to win a yummy prize from Ormolu!  Wow, you just gotta check out that etsy store.  Some serious yumminess!

Have a great Thursday!

Heidi

Details:  Paper & tickets from the Torendi kit "Love Fool"; Colorbok metal heart; Glimmer Mist; ColorBox ink; Dymo; duct tape; eyelets & alpha rubs on source unknown. 

Valentine's Day 2006

Man, I have sooooooooooooooo many pics the are so scrapworthy and I'm never going to get to them all.   You, too?  When looking through a box of "BK" pics (before kids) I came across a bunch of duplicate pics of the kids much younger made presumably for grandparents.  Pics I'd forgotten about.  Not sure why they were tucked into that box.  In there were these 2 gems staged for a VDay card for my hubby:

January 2011 issue

We all joke that that's the boy's "heartthrob" photo.  Just look at that adorable expression.  Can't you just see that on the cover of Teen Beat (or whatever THE teen heartthrob magazine is these days)? 

I made this layout for this week's SPCC color challenge:

I had this leftover piece of the yellow & white paper already trimmed up like that and thought it looked pretty cool so I left it as is.  To make it a neat rectangle I backed the one side with some yummy leftover Basic Grey.  Ever since spying the gorgeous turquoise and red hot air balloon and birds paper by My Minds Eye on a layout by Tessa I just HAD to have it.  Isn't it just so stinkin adorable??!! 

After fussy cutting out the birds and balloons, I used the leftover red background pieces to cut the hearts.  As you can see from the pic above, there's lots of dimension on this layout.  Of course, had fun with the sewing machine again (the thread is hot pink despite looking red in the pics). 

Can't seem to leave my Dymo alone, either.  Ran some pinkish Basic Grey thru and sanded the raised letters to make them stand out. 

Be sure to head on over to the SPCC blog to check out what the Design Team made for your inspiration.  This was such a fun color combo and you will not be disappointed with the samples.  Be sure to hook up your project to Mr. Linky for your chance to win an awesome prize from Miss Sam herself!

Busy, busy blogging day today.  The first day of the month AND a Monday so lots of fun business to attend to.  Off to make something for the Dollies and then SLEEP!!!  Hopefully I'll actually get some tonight. 

Thanks for stopping by!

- Heidi

Circles & the Wisdom of Elvis

It's Thursday so you know what that means...time for another Sketchy Thursdays sketch!

This week's sketch is sponsored by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker so I played with her U R My Favorite line to create this layout.

This is another photo taken a few months ago when I asked the kids to pose for me so I'd have current pics to show friends that hadn't seen us in a while.  This is the "sensitive" picture.  (See the other pic HERE.)

I covered a couple of chipboard circles with some of the Nikki Sivils paper.  I seriously did not plan for the hearts on the two circles to overlap so perfectly, but they did so yea!  The small oval punch I have, perfect for threading ribbon through, would not have punched through this chipboard so I used my Cropadile to punch several holes and then sanded it to create a smooth oval of sorts.

Here you can see the dimension of this layout.

As a wise Elvis once sung (the good Elvis, lol, of the Costello variety), "What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?" 

This is a Technique Tuesday chipboard ring which I rubbed with some pink ink, wrapped with some floss, and wrote on.  I'm a bit impatient and didn't wait for my ink to dry before I tried erasing some pencil marks causing the ink to smear.  But I thought it looked cool so I "erased" over all the lettering.   I love it when mistakes become good things. 

Head on over to the Sketchy Thursdays blog to see what the rest of the design team made for your inspiration and then play along with us.  Hook up your direct link to Mr. Linky in the sidebar by 11:59pm EST Wednesday 1/27 (my hub's 40th bday, oh my!) for your chance to win a sampler of Nikki Sivils' U R My Favorite line plus some more of her embellies. 

Details:  Nikki Sivils U R My Favorite collection:  paper & corduroy button; Bazzill chipboard circles; Technique Tuesdays chipboard ring; Colorbox ink; DMC floss; Michaels ribbon; Cropadile; Zig Millennium pen.

I also made this layout earlier this week using more of the Nikki Sivils U R My Favorite line. 

Speaking of circles, this week's Design Dollies sketch challenge also centered on circles:

I knocked this sketch on its side:

I was feeling in a playful mood so I drug out my Amercian Crafts Teen collection.  I sooo love that line!  (And some of it is featured in this month's Torendi kit "Bright"!)   I also used some pink prismatic and pink glitter papers from Colorbok.  What a find those were!  Two sheets each for 99 cents!!!!!!  Got them at Target and by the time I realized how cool they were (about a day later) when I went back to get more it was all gone.  :o(  Oh, well.  I also got some blue prismatic, too.  Can't wait to break into that one, also. 

I had this great pic of my daughter which I've been dying to scrap.  It may look as if she's throwing a tantrum but if you look closely at her hands you'll realize she's actually rocking out.  Look at her in all of her four years in a High School Musical t-shirt rocking out!  The words in the circle next to her pic say, "rock on".  There are also circles with the words, "lip gloss" and "nail polish" in them.  She's becoming quite the girly-girl, despite having a pretty tomboy-ish mom.  Which just goes to show that "girly" isn't necessarily taught, it just IS. 

I ran a strip of the pink prismatic paper through my Dymo machine for the title, "Four Going On Tween".  I rubbed over the raised letters with some black ink to make the letters stand out a bit more. 

Head on over to the Design Dollies blog to check out what the rest of the design team made for your inspiration and then get yourself hooked up to the Mr. Linky on that post for your chance to win a fabulous prize.  If you've been following the Dollies so far you know their prizes are awesome! 

Details - Paper: American Crafts, Colorbok; Dymo; Slick Writer; Zig Millennium pen; thread. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Be sure to check in tomorrow for an awesome offer from Torendi! 

Happy Thursday!

Heidi

Walkin' In a Winter Wonderland

I'm back with another Design Dollies challenge!  This one is the elements challenge - "winter wonderland". 

October/November 2010 issue

(Sorry for the dark picture.)  For the past few years every February we head up to Pinetop/Lakeside, AZ for some fun in the snow with a few other families for a weekend.  Last year was the first year both kids actually enjoyed it and they've both asked numerous times since when we're going back to sled.  

Of course, gotta use the sewing machine...

And can't neglect the dingle-ball trim or Dymo...

Unfortunately, I didn't place my gnome stamp very well.  It's hard to see his hat, but I thought the scene looked like it needed a stealth gnome in the procession...

Come check out what the DT made for your inspiration and play along with the Design Dollies elements challenge!  You know you have winter pics you just need to scrap!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Heidi

Details:  Fancy Pants paper; Dymo label; Stamp - nikoart.etsy.com; StazOn ink; Trim - Stampin' Up!, Basic Grey, EK Success, Prima, Michaels, Carolace, Wyla, many unknown; thread