Get Sketchy challenge #3 is my first for the weekly challenge blog. And my first truly personal project since March.

I’ve never done a layout from a sketch before, but this was interesting.

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This LO gave me no small amount of trouble, but I’m still pretty amped about how well it turned out.

Bottle caps! I’ve been dying to use these things since I started scrapbooking. I was without a hammer or mallet to flatten them, plus I really wanted them to pop off the page. I cheated and cut up Styrofoam peanuts to use as filler for the inside of the caps. and I still had to pull a scrapbooking no-no and used superglue in some spots.

The green snakeskin paper, wanted to tear while applying my E-Z runner adhesive. I got it figured out by using a re-positionable runner instead of the permanent

The mask – it was too 3-d for it to stick very well, so I had to use the black circle to stabilize it so it would stay better.

I also had major problems getting the plastic cross stitch canvas to stay.

EVALUATE THIS

“I didn’t think I was working for the man, until today. I hate my job: taking 3 months to start my 30 day evaluation, making me work the one day I asked off this year. Fuck That.”

A quick LO because I was feeling it and the Current Punk Rock Scrappers Challenge let me do it. Challenge 2 is I am a Corporate Tool and How.

more acrylics, orange and white on textured black cardstock. Black on the Capital E and the little e because I’m out of black thicker e’s (bummer). But I really like painting my thicker’s anyway.

in hindsight I should have made this one smaller.

This picture has been nagging me for a couple of weeks. And then I saw the newest Scrapping The Music Challenge – We Will Rock You – and wondered how I was going to participate. The genius that I am decided to be clever and do both!

I was also inspired by the most recent SiStv Forums FREE SHOP opened for a Special St. Patty’s Shop thanks to BlessedinTexas! I bought the items Purple Cardstock, 6×6 LO, and brads (forgot these, added [imgs 2 and 6]).

The picture is of me at about 1 year old (?) on a Christmas present Rocking Horse, that was made for me by my grandfather.

One of my favorite things is the painted cardboard that came from inside a package of lightbulbs. HOW NEAT! And the circles on the left took a while because I don’t have a nifty punch or cut tool. I pulled the acrylics out to paint orange/red/yellow on the cardboard, and the word ROCK. and of course the black and white on the purple cardstock background.

Inchies are so adorable!

I made 144 of them tonight because I didn’t use a puncher, but used my Fiskars paper slicer, and used the whole 12×12 surface of the page. Next time I’ll use a smaller piece of cardstock to cover.

Here are a few of my favorites from this batch.

So awesome

The Free Shop was open once again this weekend, and I had to participate.

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I wanted to grab things that I normally wouldn’t use, but went for things that I could actually do, and used them in different ways. Newspaper, bubble wrap, and brown/red paints.

I used red watercolor paint on a strip of newspaper comics. The bubble wrap was used as a stamp to apply red acrylic paint to the left side of the page. Brown paint (combined red and green acrylics with water) brushed onto textured white cardstock to make the background.

Journaling: “Daniel, Ashley, Erica, Nick. Pensacola FL. Cruising to a private beach to take photos and do fun spring break stuff.”

Inspired by and for the Introductory Challenge at Punk Rock Scrappers

Bleached out Photo of myself, torn edges. Star Sheer Sheet (Maya Road), Photo Decor Bracket, Amsterdam Acrylic Paints (in red, white, black), LAX black glitter chipboard thickers, red alphabet stickers by the paper company. Heidi Swapp runway mask used for the dots down the left side of the page.

Background paper is something that was given to me by Pegasus, was beautiful and allowed the rest of the LO to flow around it.

I am UNashamed! also written with glitter fiskars gel pen – ‘Irrational, foolish, free thinking, organized, happy, inspired, creative, funny, abnormal, gay, loving, whole-hearted, lonely, groovy, misfit, always smiling‘.

I think I’m addicted to acrylic paints, and I’m getting more comfortable with ‘white space’

This LO is for RSS Challenge 18, the prompt was Green and this is where it took me. Though I have another idea I want to try, this is my official submission.

Girl Scout Thin Mints have long been a staple in my life – the best there is in a mint cookie. The journaling reads “Cookie Season, Anticipated and Dreaded at the same time. Delicious bites of goodness peddled by girls and their parents – Intended only to make me eat.”

I am bad at diets, these things don’t make it any easier.

Daquiri Thickers in green, white and black were used and painted over with acrylics (stippled with sponge brush). Index card free formed into a shape that I don’t know the name for. Paint sample written on with black Sharpie “Om Nom Nom” Also, obviously used, cutouts from the Thin Mints box.

Another page I made to give away. This one was a bit limited in the fact that the recipient wanted Brown and Pink, and said that she ‘liked a lot of stuff on it’.

I don’t know where the idea to paint a tree came from but I greatly enjoyed doing it, going so far as to purchase red acrylic paint so I could custom blend the pink. I also used red to mix with green to make the brown paint, and then added white for the accent brown (though it turned out more green).

Amsterdam Acrylics, SiS Boutique pink buttons, various papers, my first time using ribbon, some paper clips (so that the photo can be changed). A Dymo plastic label, and lots of name writing with my fiskars gel pens. Also the little tree was cut from a paper bag with little miss muffet on it.

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‘Gives You Hell’ by The All-American Rejects has ingrained itself into my brain, as songs are wont to do. On the drive home I allowed myself to think about the person who would be singing this song to me. Layout hit me in the face and I had to do it while I was feeling the emotion, despite being so tired.

Journaling Reads: “So many years ago I thought you were THE ONE. I was naive (spelling error-crap) then. But still to this day you pop into my mind and I wonder What IF? And I can picture you singing this to me. (ANDITGIVESMEHELL)”

Used Retro Modern Collection pieces from Rainbow Sherbet, Orange You Glad, and blue cardstock.

Also used textured white cardstock, Amsterdam Acrylics in Orange and Black, Random embellies, white plastic canvas (scribbled over with black sharpie), a white Daiquri Thicker ? (colored with red sharpie). Journaling done with Orange and Black glitter Fiskars Gel Pens. The area around the photo has been sponged over with black stamp ink.

In particular a notice that I won the “Your Slip Is Showing” challenge over at Eccentric Therapy.

Previously posted The Color Of My Envy LO has now gotten two ‘prize’ packages sent my way.

One from the host of the ‘free shop’ on SiStv, and one from the fabulous Trina Curran of Eccentric Therapy. How fantastic.

Another odd bit – This month’s Challenge at Ready_Set_Scrap is Green! I will actually make a new LO for that.

In this case, Warehouse means something more like, office, downstairs den. It was freaking awesome because we got to be in the home of the woman who started SiS, and I got to meet her after watching her webisodes online (i feel that is redundant since that is the whole definition of webisode – right?).

I bought this stuff!

Pick Your Own Papers these were super cheap and I picked up some of what I would have bought online. Like The ‘I [heart] candy town’ Sour Apple Speedway and Sweet n’ Sour Hair Salon. Also SiS Songbird Medowlark modsheets, niji and image cardsfrom the Rainbow Sushi collection, Label Love‘s Christian and Marc, Hambly Screen Print Climbing Vine, a Maya Road Stars Sheet Sheet.

Photo Decors 8 giant brackets and a giant letter D for 2 bux! these will be used with much love. I don’t know why i love brackets so much.

SEI Stickers Ally’s Wonderland Alphabet Stickers. THEY ARE FREAKING ORANGE – had to have them – a buck

A $5 collection lots of papers in greens,yellows and blues, a transparancy, and some journaling rubons. So neat. The green paper under the transparency – thick and textured – feels a bit like it has bamboo or fabric in it as well as the paper.

Vintage German Hymnal Pages So neat, even though I can’t read German – possibly because of that fact. The top one amuses me because I’m about 96% sure it says ‘Hot Night in Paradise’ LOL

The Night Owl Collection I remember that I wanted this when I was shopping online, so I had to grab it.

The Night Owl Collection – open OH MAN! Orange kit, had to have it.

Urban Prep the last one, they took it off the display wall for me.

Urban Prep Open GREEN! and a super neat stamp, some stretchy clear ribbon?, metal numbers (http://www.sistvboutique.com/product_p/sis_otr_up.htm)

More Stuff Gold GlimmerMist (A trade with tracy because I had 2 bottles of Slate), Orange Glitter, buttons.

I am sad because even though I got a lot of stuff, I really wish I had grabbed the songbird kit. I could have afforded it, but I wanted to stay within my $50 budget. But all told, I only spent $45.

The drive home was filled with much laughter, that’s what she said, and yer mom jokes. Back at my apartment Tracy and I traded a couple of things, and she left me to go home.

I got 3 hours of sleep before work, which was more than I was expecting as I overslept.

I’m addicted to Thriving Ivory’s song Angels on the Moon, and decided I had to scrap at least the first line of the song. This is one of the few times that The photo was found after the LO was conceptualized.

Background is brown cardstock, covered in black spray paint and green fingernail polish (that i’ve had since St Patty’s 2 years ago).

Self Adhesive Felt embellishment by Queen & Co, was a pain to remove the backing. some spray painted flimsy chipboard brackets, and an old haloween/mardi gras mask from a party (also 2 years ago).

Title/journaling reads: “Do You Dream That the World Will KNow Your Name?”

LO done for a Love Challenge at Ready_Set_Scrap.

Another one without a photo for me, and I think I’m mostly okay with that.

Had the LO in my head and knew I wanted to use some sheet music. It was very fortuitous that the title of the vintage song sheet was “Someday I’ll Find You”.

Journaling Reads: I’ve dreamt for years that you are out there. I’ll dream those years again, ’till I find that lucky man. Someday.”

Background is grey cardstock edged in red ink.

(I had so much fun making this LO sprawled in the floor watching Mamma Mia! If it weren’t for the bad circulation I would do it like that more)

2nd version of this LO. I gutted the first and started over.

The explosion turned out better this time because I used a bunch of things to make it more chaotic.

Newspaper added to make the background a little less bland. Also sewed on some white cardstock scraps to make a border on the top & right sides.

Page reads: She stays beautiful despite the disaster of the world around her. I don’t know how she does it…

In this LO, I take 1 step forward and 2 steps back.

Seriously, I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either.

Info:
The story reads: She stays Beautiful despite the Disaster of the world around her.

Things I don’t like:
Disaster in black Thickers, to dark to really read. And I think the layout of the word turned out badly.

The background paper needed to be something less plain, but I felt I needed to use blue paper.

The decoration in the bottom right, was meant to be more of an explosion of stuff, but I got bored with it since I had put 2.5 hours into it and was hating how it was turning out.

Things I Like:
I used the bleach technique from one of the SiS Webisodes on the photograph and I love how it turned out. I then added whiteout roller paper to it and wrote on that. Reads: I don’t know how she does it.

The Beautiful part of the title. Blackboard letters covered with smiley face stickers. This turned out neat, even though it took up an hour of my time.

The metal swirl, pushed through two punch holes and then sewn down. Very random, but I like it.

Photos of my younger brother from 2005.

Journaling done on a sheet from a Creative Imaginations Journaling Notebook called Narratives by Karen Russell. Reads: Dustin goofing off w/tyler and laughing so hard none of us could catch our breath. Laugh more, Worry Less.

Layout inspired by old magazine clippings – Laugh and Overdose.

Doodling done with a white gel pen (Fiskars). Rub-on over the L reads ‘enjoy good times’ by Urban Lily.

Inspired by a thread in the SiStv forums to take three challenges and leave three.

I took the lamest challenges from the list: rubons, chipboard pieces, green paper

I wanted to include a picture of a couple cuddled in bed but couldn’t find one so this is what came out.

It’s a 6×12 LO on textured green cardstock. ALso used Silver Eyelets, Clears Shapes (Making Memories, Funky Vintage set), Green Letters (Thickers Daiquiri), heart shaped paperclips, Rub-ons (Fiskars, heidi grace designs). Edges patted with cotton ball/black ink.

I was worried that the Thickers wouldn’t show up well enough so I scribbled with a black glitter gel pen(Fiskars) to give it a background.

JOURNALING reads: At this point in my life the only thing missing is someone to love. So it’s understandable, especially at this time of year, that anyone in a relationship has my envy.

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