Tutorial Saturday with Jan

Hello from Swirly camp in hot & humid Lafayette, LA!

Hope you are enjoying your latest Swirlydoos kit. It is definitely a fun one!

Have you played with the Rust Effects Paste by Prima yet?

I went crazy with the rust on just about every project this month and still haven't made a dent in the jars. You can check out the SnapGuide tutorial here.

Here's a few projects featuring the rust paste.

These are Design Team projects I created for Swirlydoos Scrapbook Kit Club. If you’re ready to start getting perfectly coordinated, top of the line scrapbook kits delivered to your door, please visit us at www.swirlydoos.com. Mention my name (Jan) when you subscribe and you’ll receive 10% off your first kit, AND a coupon good for 30% off your entire purchase in the Swirlydoos.com store!

Ladies of the Manor

Here's a lo of the Swirly girls at Memories Manor earlier this month.

We had a blast!

 

Thank you to Maggie for the picture.

 

 



Used a sketch from Scrapbook Challenges Sizzling Summer 2014 for this lo of the "Ladies of the Manor." I used Rae's embossing with Perfect Pearls on the chippie we received from camp. What a wonderful technique and a great way to use the Perfect Pearls that I never use anymore! Thank you, Rae!

Spring Walk

I don't even know where to begin. There are so many layouts to post.

 

Here's a current favorite: my niece and nephew walking the boys.

They always get their puppy fix at my house.

 

I used a sketch and an old Swirlydoos kit for this one. Really love the Memory Box bubbles die

that I borrowed from Rae.

 



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!

My grandfather

Here's another Swirly Camp layout using the June Swirlydoos kit.

I scrapped this picture of my grandfather. He flew quite a few air missions during the war. I don't know how my grandmother lived with him being in constant danger. They are such strong Christian people and I am so proud they are my grandparents. Love you both!

The clock is a TH die. I added some TH filmstrip and a Michael's medal given to me by Peggy. (Thank you, Peg!) The large flower was handmade by using layers of pp cut with the Tattered Florals TH die. The long strip of black was punched with a MS punch. tfl!



Man at Work

Here is one of the lo's I created while at Swirly Camp in Colorado. Roger sent this picture to me as a joke but I told him I had to scrap it.

I had to print this one in b&w in order to make it work well with the pp. I used TH dies to make the gears and rosettes. All the pp is from the June Swirlydooes  kit. Actually, this lo used up all the scraps I had remaining. There is some misting and inking here as well. (And, just think, Rachel wanted this picture so she could throw darts at it.)



"Create" chipboard Prima Album

I promised to start posting all the things I made while in Colorado the first week of June, so here goes.

One of the classes we had this year was taught by our fearless leader, Krissy. It was a beautiful chipboard album decorated with all kinds of Prima goodies.

Here is the front cover:

This is the inside front cover:

And, here is the back cover:

Now, I need to decorated the 12 interior pages once I decide how I will be using this album.



Sneak Peek

Ok, first of all-WOOHOO!!!

I had to get that out of the way! Finals are over until next semester. I can officially say that I am a fifth year Doctor of Pharmacy student! Just 2 more years left! So, after my last final today I came home and started playing in ... you guessed it! I went to my scrap room.

As you know, I went to Swirly Camp at the end of April and had a blast. It was a much needed break right before I geared up for all of my finals. While at camp we received an enormous amount of scrap supplies. After all, it was National Scrapbooking Weekend! I had to buy another bag to bring to pack all of the extra goodies! Some of the scrapbook manufacturers provided supplies for us and requested that we share our projects with them so they could post them to their websites. How exciting is that?! I was able to start on some of my projects today and here is a sneak peek for you.

I used my favorite manufacturers for this: Prima, Webster's Pages, and Tim Holtz. Tombow provided the metal glue that I used for the TH feet and frame. Let me tell ya, the glue works great!