Pink Saturday and ATC's

span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Pink Saturday to everyone, looking forward to visiting majority of the blogs linking up and hope you will visit here.

Tuesday and Wednesday of this past week I spent in an ATC making frenzy with my youngest daughter, Kerri and my step-mom.  We were creating ATC's to swap at the 20th annual STAMPAWAY CONVENTION here in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 3rd.

The story behind "DIVE INTO SUMMER" is:  this was originally a 5" x 7" art journal page.  I liked it so much that I decided to copy it at 50%, so perfect ATC size of 2.5" x 3.5"  The original page I created the background using glimmer green, ocean blue and a lavender purple mix.  Next I applied the seagrass magazine clippings and the rhinestone seahorse.  The lovely little mermaid is an image from Saturated Canary by Krista Smith, which on the original did not have the glitter effect.  I gave the entire page a coat of glimmer modge podge.  After I made the copy I reapplied the glimmer modge podge, and cut out the images of the mermaid and seahorse which I have "raised" using foam pop dots.  I applied iridescent Stickles to the mermaid to really make her stand out an used H2O white paint for "pearls" in her hair.  The bottom of the card I applied a mixture of green Flock and copper glitter for the ocean floor. I wrote DIVE INTO SUMMER in a wavy motion to simulate the ocean waves.

This is 'Bon Voyage" which I made by making a partial copy of a piece of scrapbook paper I had, applying to an ATC blank card.  Next I stamped Bon Voyage in black ink and used clear embossing powder on it. The bird is from my Cricut machine an I had cut it out of white cardstock, then I used Ditto blue glimmer spray on it and backed it with black cardstock.  The branch is  also from my Cricut machine.  The birdcage is from a piece of scrapbook paper which I clipped out and used H2O gold paint on.  The butterfly is from a hand punch that I applied iridescent Sprinkles to. Both the bird and birdcage are raised with pop dots an I finished the card off with walnut Cats Eye ink for the edging.

I am So PROUD of Kerri, this was her original concept, I just helped fine tune it a little.  She came up with the green scrapbook paper for the background an used a piece of decorated acetate for the topper - she was going to frame the card completely with it, but that turned out to be "overkill".  She still liked the idea of framing, so after picking out an anime image she decided to "frame" her. She also added the little piece of music then asked me, "what else?"  We decided on the Tim Holtz tissue tape to edge it and the two little flowers and pink rhinestones to bring out more of the pink on her.

This one is also by Kerri, who happens to LOVE Halloween.  I had that wonderful spiderweb rubbestamp which she wanted to use.  First she used charcoal chalk on the ATC blank then stamped the web in black - she has since decided she will clear emboss the webs on the other cards - and she settled on this anime sketch. Kerri said she was pretty but looked a little "evil" too. She stamped the 3 spiders and used the red pearls to "highlight" them an also added the red pearls to the top and bottom.  A gold pearl as an earring finishes the card.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Pink Saturday and make sure you visit others at http://www.howsweetthesound.typeppad.com/

If you will be in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 3rd, come to the Sahronville Convention Center off of I -75 for the BEST stamp convention in the country an if you get there before they open at 9 am, you may find me outside waiting to get in an swapping these cards!!

New Art Journal Page

This page started out with a background of an art journal page from a magazine, there was a little text and some watercolors used, they appealed to me and got me inspired to create.

I added som paint of my own here an there, more like a whitewash, then added the piece of Washi tape down the middle and hand wrote: "Some days it's hard to get creative with an art" then used the word Journal I clipped from a magazine.  Used a clothing tag on top that i cut into a banner flag shape - which also served to get rid of writing on it not pertinent. I also whitewashed the tag, outlined the star and added the magazine clipped word. Used some DITTO red ink spritz in the center an below that a cigar "ring" with a fleur-de-lis on top and some paper buttons on the bottom, one with a safety pin through it.  This page came together slower than I had hoped, had some creative "blockage" going on, but finally finished it.

Time to work on another one!

Art Journal Page and Pink Saturday

Its Pink Saturday an I'm here to share my newest art journal page...

I used shimmer modge podge on the background and tried to do some masking with the fleur-de-lis and red DITTO spray - didn't come out exactly how I'd hope, but its ok, worked with it.  Added some pink Ditto spray up above, an washi tape, eiffel tower die cut, some anime images, silver sharpie and inked the edges. I also used parts of an old theater ticket for the center.

close up of the top of the page

close up of the bottom of page

Thanks for stopping by, please visit others' blogs who are joining in Pink Saturday over at Beverly's blog  http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Have a fun - pink Saturday!

Original Smashing Stickers

I've been having fun in my Smash book and have purchased a lot of Smash embellishments; as well as using my scrapbook stash.  My oldest daughter, Morgan sketches all the time an since we also have an Etsy shop, came up with a great idea.  I took some of Morgan's sketches, reduced them and copied to sticker labels for unique Smash stickers - which I am listing in our shop tonight: RoMoHoDesigns.  The cool thing - you get to color them in if you want using markers or colored pencils.   These can also be used for scrapbooking, as return address labels, cards, labeling items, mail art, journaling, etc.
We are also making more sheets with other graphics as well, coming soon!

Hope everyone's Monday is not as wet as our's is now.

SMASHING SUNDAY

So happy to be joining in on my first Smashing Sunday over @ http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/  I have two pages to share that I created today - the first is light on items whereas the second is overly loaded - crammed it in, didn't want to do a two-page spread.

This one is about the Zines I've created to list in my Etsy.com shop

I found the typewriter on a piece of scrapbook paper and knew I wanted to use it in my smashbook.  Since I type up the text in my zines, liked the idea of the zine pages "coming up out of the typewriter".  Used a pieced of decorative masking tape just because I liked it and felt it had a "creative vibe" to it.  Used my Smash date stamp to stamp on the typewriter today's date and added a few other embellies.

Here's my stash of what I had planned to use on the next page - the overly crowded page of my daughter Kerri, at the Reds game with me and her friend, Jamie.  Most of the supplies I did use on the page.

Kerri belongs to her schools singing group, OVATION, and every April they are invited to sing the National Anthem at a Reds' Baseball game.  I took a few pictures of her and the group when they were shown on the jumbotron - game out pretty well.  The picture of Kerri - on the right - with her friend, Jamie was taken by an employee there as was the one of Jamie and me in front of the Ohio River on the outside of the stadium.  Kerri had to go with her school and we met her in our seats after her performance.

I created the rosette with the Tim Holtz Sizzix die and added a baseball sticker to its center.  Put Smash polka dot tape down both sides of the page with some red and white polka dot ribbon.  (Red and Black are her school colors)  I wrote in the journal block sticker and used it as a pocket for our ticket stubs.

I asked Kerri to write on the Smash journal spot about all the food the girls consumed.  Tucked in our photo reminder cards behind our pic and added a few baseball them stickers and stars here and there.  I normally do not LOAD my pages this much, but just felt compelled to do so for this Smash page.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are having a fun SMASHING SUNDAY!!

Smashbook, Baseball and Pink Saturday

Posting for Pink Saturday over at Beverly's lovely www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com and for Show and Tell Saturday at http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com/ with my Smashbook page about my daughter, Kerri's baseball game as well as her singing group, Ovation singing the National Anthem at the Cincinnati, Reds baseball game last night, Friday, April 27th.

Used the pink baseball paper to represent the fact she is the ONLY GIRL on the team as well as in the BBA!!  Liked the black polka dot washi tape - carried on the "ball" team - used a piece of the K & Co. Smash tape of "who, where, when, why". Added a variety of baseball stickers - the main focus was the lineup card and a little journaling about the day.  (It was raining the entire came, very windy and cold, so didn't take any pictures- that's the beauty of Smashbooks, pictures aren't a "requirement".)

SO FUN SEEING MY DAUGHTER ON THE JUMBO TRON!!!!

ANOTHER FUN AND MEMORABLE EVENING AT A REDS GAME - 2ND YEAR KERRI AND OVATION HAVE PERFORMED FOR THE REDS AND SHE IS THE 3RD  OF MY 4 KIDS TO DO SO!

HOPE YOU HAVE A MEMORABLE WEEKEND!!

MY SMASHBOOK - sharing for PINK SATURDAY

My birthday was April 4th and my best friend, Hilda sent me my very first Smash book with extra goodies!  I immediately did the first page in the book using one of the pockets she sent to hold the birthday card from her.  The flowers I cut out from the wrapping paper she used, the butterfly was on the card's envelope and pulled the Smashbook sticker off the front of the book.  A simple page, but my first and I'm happy with it.

Also sharing my daughter, Morgan's set of original drawing stationery that we are selling in our Etsy shop.  I had posted another batch of these last month, but this is a different style of paper, etc.  She is already at work on new sketches.

Hope everyone has a fun Pink Saturday and a Happy Easter!!

Please hop over to http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ to visit other Pink Saturday posts!

One of My Favorite LAYOUTS

Did this page at the crop the other weekend, forgot to post it though.  Love this layout for its lovely simplicity of my beautiful daughter, Morgan. 

I layered the decorative paper on a piece of black cardstock to emphasize the green floral design - which I LOVE.  Morgan's picture is matted on white cardstock then black cardstock to give it more dimension and focus.

The birdcage I cut from a piece of scrapbookpaper then embellished with the bling,  The green rosette I created using the Tim Holtz Sizzix die and an old button. 

side few to see the layers of the flower

another, smaller Tim Holtz inspired tissue tape flower, button center with added rhinestone.  The three words I used to describe Morgan are run-ons

the birdcage is a rub-on and I added the bling to enhance it.  The butterfly is a sticker an I added the bling.

Linked to http://www.fingerprintsonthefridge.com/  Feature Yourself Friday, take a look for more inspiration!

Hope this inspires you to go do some scrapping, Happy Thursday!

The other flower I created is the Tim Holtz tissue tape flower he shows how to make on his blog, so easy and fun to do and so lovely when finished.  I used a flower button for the center of it an added a rhinestone to the very center.

Pink Saturday and More Mail

Its been awhile since I posted for Pink Saturday http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ , nice to do it again!

My daughter, Morgan, is always sketching; I grabbed a stack of her "doodle" pages while she was visiting from OSU and found this and the following images.  I played with my copier and decided to "create" stationery out of her "Les Femmes"...since I love writing letters to my pals, thought this would be fun and original to use. 

Talked to Morgan about it and we are also listing them this weekend in our Etsy shop: RoMoHoDesigns,  stationery sets of Morgan's original sketches...the "ghost" image stationery works best using Sharpie Ultra Fine marker, I only had green at the time, but black would be even better.

Going to have envelopes to go along with them, will probably put a small copy of  each "Les Femmes" in the corner of the envelopes with a little decoration around the edges, still debating.

Happy to have received Pink decorated mail from my pal Kendra in CA, love all that decorative tape!

An another piece from new pal, Abby - she did all the colorful drawings on this envie, put a smile on my face!

an this is the back side of the envie and...

This is the back of the notecard she designed, so creative!!

Here's to a wonderful Pink Saturday of loveliness and inspiration!

Saturday Mail

My best friend Hilda, LOVES, really LOVES Hello Kitty and this is the letter she sent my way - so adorable!!!  Had some cute stationery inside as well and some cancelled stamps for me.

My collaged mail art envie I sent out to Hilda; all magazine clippings and I LOVE the Chinese New Year stamps!

Envie I made with some found online design going to Kendra

Quiet Saturday afternoon, spending time surfing the net and just enjoying an easy-going day.  I think brownies are needed for dessert tonight, so time to go make some - yummy!