October Round Robin at Swirlydoos

The title for this month's Swirlydoos Round Robin is "Don't be a Tool."  The challenge is to use 5 tools to create your layout and paper cutter, glue gun, scissors do not count.

I followed Peggy and she used hexagons! lol! I've been trying to make her love them for over a year now. So, she used them on her layout and I followed suit.

Here's my entry.

Here’s my two boys on a recent hike. I used 5 tools and some past Swirlydoos papers as well as the black burlap from the October kit.

Tools used: Distrezz it all, Spellbinders tool in one, Big shot, McGill flower shaping tools, die punch (for hexagons). For this layout, I made my own flowers using a recent Hearfelt Creations stamp and die. The McGill flower shaping tools helped.

tfl!

December Round Robin

Week #2 is due to post their entries on Monday. I am posting tonight because I can! And, I'll be at work until late tomorrow. So, I followed QT this month. I stuck to her basic design and added my own touches. I only did one picture, a selfie from the Fourth of July 2012. Little did I know, this was the night Roger planned to propose but it didn't work out for him. The grand finale didn't last long enough for him to pop the question. 

I pulled out a Swirlydoos kit from May 2012 which kinda seems appropriate now. After all, the picture was taken in July 2012. I deconstructed the Creative Embellishments angel wings. After soaking them in water for 15 minutes I separated the layers along the edges of the wings. A heat embossing gun was used to dry the wings. Then I hit them with silver Smooch, glimmer mist in pearl and then randomly added some white and silver embossing powders. To add more sparkle I used the silver glitter glue from our December kit along the edges.

Ferro paste and a Prima stencil added some texture to the background. Some random stamping with butterflies and print stamps added to background. The flowers are from my stash. tfl!

Round Robin Week #3- Vintage Fall

Here's my entry for the Round Robin at Swirlydoos this month. This is a great challenge to help jump start your creativity. The challenge this month is to use fall colors, a mixed media medium that you have not used in awhile, add some texture (burlap, cardboard, etc.), and use a tutorial from Swirlydoos.

I followed Andie this month. She had a lot of flowers on her page and I loved that. Some of the flowers on my page have been in my stash over four years. Jax, my fluffy pup, even distressed some of them for me. He is such the scrapper!

I used Ferro in gold as my medium. I had not used it in awhile as some of my older bottles dried up. For texture I added a burlap banner. My tutorial was one posted by Ang. She showed us how to use paper strips distressed in different ways to add layers. I used distressed and edge punched strips along the outside of the background paper for some interest. 

Vintage Love

For the vintage twist I scrapped some picture of my parents before I was born. I hope they don't mind that I refer to their pictures as "vintage!"

Swirlydoos Round Robin-July, week 4

The Round Robin for July, Salute to the Uniform.

My team did not have player for week 4 so I decided to play again!

I was honored to attend a funeral for a Civil War veteran. His cremains sat unclaimed in a St. Louis funeral home for over 100 years. His family was located and now he lies next to his wife.

The twist: use old supplies. The papers I used are from the August 2012 Swirlydoos kit.

Round Robin July 2015

I rushed home to take a picture before the sun went down. So, here’s my lift of Krissy’s fab page for the Round Robin. I scrapped another picture of my pilot grandfather. The twist: I used papers from Looking Glass kit from June 2011 and some of the metal embellies are well over three years old. I had the same chippie but decided to switch it up in the end. I used Rae’s technique on the chippie with PP and embossing powders. I know this is a masculine lo, but that spot just screamed for that red flower! No joke! 

Round Robin June 2015, Week 2, A Salute to those in Uniform

I think the Fourth of July has us thinking about those who have served. So, this month's theme for the Round Robin was, A Salute to those in Uniform. I naturally thought of my Dad and Grandpa. This layout is my Grandfather. 

The twist was to use scrappy stuff that is over a year old so I dug out a Swirly kit from March 2012 and used some letters that were over 2 years old. The metal pieces are from a shopping trip we took while at Swirly camp 2-3 years ago. The metal chain is from the June 2015 kit. I deconstructed some of the chippie pieces. My tut for this is posted here. And, you can see more examples here and here. I used the same title, Let Freedom Ring, because I kept humming that song while making this! Nothing else seemed to work.

Round Robin-April 2012

 I used a Prima mask and Krylon Make it Stone for the texture required for the twist. I also used the texture paint on the TH birdcage cb diecut. I have had this stuff around forever and never used it. It is pretty cool!

I scrapped a picture of my nephew for this one and stuck to the main design that Kim used. I really wanted to have the torn paper element but they just didn't fit in the end. I liked the burlap tucked in the flower cluster so I used that on my lo as well.

 

Some flowers from the April kit and some from my stash. I added some leaves and burlap from my stash as well. All pp from the current Swirlydoos kit. tfl

 



March Round Robin

Lucky

 

 

This is my entry for the RR this month. Used the March kit and added some bling, burlap, flowers, leaves, and other embellies from my stash. tfl!



A second entry for March Round Robin

 

An old picture of my brothers, sister, and little me in our huge garden. I used the March kit along with some burlap, leaves, flowers,and bling from my stash. tfl!

January 2013-Round Robin- It's a winner!

Well, I was very excited to learn that the Swirly Girls voted for my lo as the winner for January. This one is now framed and hanging in our newly painted kitchen. Thank you for the honor!

 

Our Wedding Day

9-8-12

Challenge: scrap something that made you happy in 2012



February 2013- Round Robin

I have been a bad blogger! Too busy to post my recent lo's. And, yes, there have been some. Here is my entry for the Round Robin for February. The challenge was to do things in pairs. I was lifting a lift of a lift of a lift since I was week #4. This was a great Round Robin and always my favorite Swirlydoos' challenge.

 

 

I had fun using making my own molds. The turquoise was created from a mold that I made using Amazing Molding putty and Amazing Casting resin. Very easy. The pieces are white when dry and then can be altered to suit any lo. I will def being making more molds so I can have my own resin pieces to add to my lo's. tfl!



Round Robin for September--and, it's a winner!

Well, I totally forgot that I signed up for the RR Challenge at Swirlydoos. Thank goodness I was posting for the last week so that I didn't put someone else behind for their week. Kim hosted the challenge this month. She challenged us to use stuff from our oldest Swirlydoos  kit and scrap an old friend. I found a lot of papers from my April 2009 kit and scrapped Roger since he has been my BFF since 1998.

 

 

Thank you for voting this lo as the winner of the Round Robin Challenge for September!



Round Robin #2 for 2012

Yes, I had time to participate in the Round Robin challenge again in February. The twist this month was to include hearts in your lo. I chose to scrap a 14 year old picture of my dd. She was such a cutie.

All the papers are from the latest Swirlydoos kit. The flowers are from current and past kits. The large cb heart was covered with TH crackle paint; it's from a past kit. The leaves are Prima and an unknown company-both from my stash. tfl!



It's a winner!

Thank you to all the lovely ladies at Swirlydoos for voting my layout, "It's been a long time coming," as the January Round Robin winner. And, thank you to Tracey for the awesome prize!

Round Robin #1 for 2012!!!

It's time for Round Robin and this time I went first. This is still my favorite Swirlydoos Challenge.

The twist this month was to use the song "Old Lang Syne" as the theme for the lo. First, I copied the words to the song on white cs and this is the strip used behind the title. Second, the song is about old acquantainces so I scrapped a picture of me and Roger. We have known each other for 14 years now. He knows me better than anyone (sometimes I don't like that about him!). My dd should be credited for taking this picture.

So, I used pp from the December kit as well as flowers from the December Swirlydoos and past kits. The pinecones were made from cs using a TH die.I used a Prima mask to create the brick pattern on the cs. The green letters are from a past kit and the black letters were from my stash of Thickers. I used a sketch from Got Sketch as my inspiration. tfl!

Round Robin for November

Well, it has been a looong time. I finally made my way to my scrapbook room and found enough mojo to create this lo for the Round Robin this month. As soon as my sister-in-law published this picture to facebook I knew I wanted to scrap it if she would let me. I asked her if I could have a copy of the picture and she shared the entire album from her photo shoot with her sons. Thank you, Gina!

I mixed some copper UTEE, TH Distress embossing powder in Vintage Photo and Black Soot which I then used to emboss the DA autumn circle. All the papers were from the "Rendezvous" kit from Swirlydoos. The flowers are Prima and Petaloo from various Swirlydoo kits. The leaves are Prima. I added some old buttons from Swirly Camp 2010. The burlap and hemp is from Joanne's. The RR twist was to use a transparency so I included the "Enjoy the Journey" transparency in my flower cluster. tfl!



Round Robin #6

Well, this is really bad. I still have 7 lo's and 3 projects that I have not posted from Swirly Camp in Colorado. But, it was my turn for the Round Robin challenge so I am posting my lift of Camilla now.

Three of the flowers are Color Me Crazy by Petaloo that I GM'd to match the lo. The pp is Timepieces by Bo Bunny. I added some DA, Prima pearls, and leaves from my stash. This is my ds's junior picture. He is now a senior. My how time flies! tfl.



Round Robin #5

Finally! I did some scrapping. Wow, it has been a long time. I wasn't even sure I would get to finish today as our electricity went out while I was trying to finish my lo.

I made the big flower using the Tattered Florals die by TH and then followed Lisa G's tutorial. The other flowers are Petaloo with a few Prima buds thrown in for fillers. The chicken wire stamp is Prima. All the pp is from the May Swirlydoos kit. The picture of Kayla and me was taken last Labor Day while we were at Lake of the Ozarks. (Btw, I drove there this weekend and somehow still managed to work 21 hours at my pharmacy.) tfl!



Round Robin #4 for 2011

It is time for the monthly Round Robin Reveal. This week I followed QT and scrapped a picture of my dd on her 15th birthday. It is hard to believe that she is old enough for a driver's permit. Soon she will be driving off on her own just like my ds. Time goes by too quickly.

Everything is from the latest Swirlydoos kit except the small flowers scattered around the page. The two pp flowers were made with the Tattered Florals die by TH and the Sunburst punch by McGill. Lisa G. made these flowers and posted a tuturial at Swirlydoos. I lifted another DT member, Camilla, and fussycut the pp for part of the background. The DA was Glimmer Misted, then Smooched, and hit with various TH distress embossing powders. TH distress inks used on the cardstock. tfl!

Round Robin #3 for 2011

Ok, got mine photographed so I could upload. I did go with Pat's theme and I scrapped my granmother who passed away last January. She was a wonderful lady full of energy-- always. This is a pic of us in Mexico. We would go visit her in TX and then she would take us into Mexico, South Padre, or anywhere else we wanted to go. And, she could stay up playing cards longer than any of us! I included the 23rd Psalm because it was the Bible verses included on her funeral program.

Oh yeah, I did the twist which was to use three different kinds of ribbon, trim, or fiber. There are two different brown ribbons layered to create the strip along the left side of the lo. And, the green ribbon was from a Making Memories album. I just saved the ribbon from the packaging thinking it might come in handy one day. I also snipped the beads from the beaded ribbon we received in a past kit and used it for the butterfly bodies. tfl!