Card Style Shabby Chic & Vintage Challenge / CPS 175

i guess i am stepping outside my comfort zone this week. this is not my usual type of card either. i did this one for the Moxie Fab blog: Card Style Shabby Chic & Vintage Challenge. did i accomplish it? i am not sure. i read their description: to use ribbon, buttons, distressing. so i just did some of those things.
i also used the sketch challenge from CPS.

paper: PTI cream cs
ink: PTI ocean tides, SU creamy caramel
stamps: TweetyJill : Retro Oceanside & Vintage By the Sea
accessories: versamark, clear embossing powder, sponge, ribbon, button & twine

Shower Gifts

lisa came over and we made these notebooks for gifts for her baby shower games. i used the embossing resist technique on this one. the stamp set i used is Vintage By the Sea from tweetyjill. the paper is PTI ocean tides, cream, and Basic Grey:Mellow pack.
i stamped the phrase in versamark, then the starfish, but i only had utee ultrathick ep. then i used a paper towel to add Memento bamboo leaves and pear tart ink.

these 2 are the ones that Lisa made. the stamps are from PTI Take Note set. the paper is PTI brown, and SU pumpkin pie.

and these are the other 2 that i made, again using PTI Take Note stamp set.

January Cracked Glass Car Class

This is my first class for 2010. I am doing a little smaller class this time, just 2 projects, and a little less cost too. We will be making some masculine things for our guys. The main image on the notebook is a stamp from Stampington called "The Car"(original name, don't ya think?). Kim also found some sprockets and gears from Tim Holtz that I just love with this project.
We will be trying out the cracked glass technique on the car image.
Three different colors of gears and sprockets come in a package.

The car below is in a stamp set from TweetyJill called Retro Oceanside.

My First Scrapbooking Page

This is another blog hop for Kim's Blissful papercrafting kit. You should have come here thru Serendipity's blog and Michelle's.

This is my first scrapbooking page. I used the BellaBella "French Flea Market" Simply Plaid sheet from the kit. I punched circles from the TPC Studio Ancestral Key Stripe and placed them half under the matted picture so it looks like a big scalloped edge. I used the flipside of the Key Stripe for the mat around the pic, there is a faint print as the pattern.
I stamped the seashells from the TweetyJill's stamps sets: By the Sea, and Retro Oceanside. It is stamped in Memento rich cocoa, desert sand, and sponged with Palette ocean tides. Then I distressed the edges with a bone folder and attached it to the Vanilla soaked tag. I put a strip of ribbon thru the hole, and wrapped the pre-tied string around the ribbon.

You can see in this pic that the cream paper has a sheen. I used my aquapen to color the sky and water of this ship image, which is also from the By the Sea set. Also seen here, is dew drops and leaf ribbon that is included in the kit.

Blissful Kit

Here are some more creations with Serendipity's latest papercrafting kit.

This card is a 5" square card made from PTI's ocean tides cardstock. The background paper is TPC Studio's Ancestral Key Stripe, and the flip side is the brown mat around the main image that has a nice script. The cream mat is a shiny paper. I used TweetyJill's stamp set called Song Birds that has a mix of birds and butterflies. I love the set because it is an unmounted rubber set with a cushion, that stamps so nicely with a clear block. I love seeing exactly where my stamps are stamping!
And this is the inside of the card. I always love a stripe at the top.

I got the idea for this cute little card set from Debbie Olson, I just love her set found here. It uses the Nestabilities Labels 8, with a 1/4" clear box cut in half between the TPC Studio's Ancestral Bird Flourish paper. I also used the Labels 8 on PTI ocean and speckled cream cardstocks to make the cards, and then folded in half. i used the next smaller nestie for the patterned paper, with its flipside on the fronts of the cards, and then stamped "thanks" script from A Muse.

i used the second smallest nestie to make the fastener, and then used a magnetic closure to keep it closed.

With the next few photos, I thought i would share one thing I learned in a photography class about composition technique; and how i chose which part of the paper that I wanted to use for the outside cover of my box. It is the "active space" rule. ( that i also learned could be broken.) Anyway, this is the space in front of a moving object. Like below, the space behind is called "dead space". Your eye naturally moves to where the object is going. Below, this bird is going nowhere.

The next 2 birds are actually going somewhere.

Working with the way your viewer will instinctively view your image helps create balance, drama, and anticipation.

So i went with the upper bird, for the cover. I hope this helps you with your composition.

Remember, you can get all these products at Kim's shop, Serendipity, in Henderson, KY.