MONTHLY CHALLENGE MONDAY! - Pink Ribbon

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Every Monday I'll bring you up to date on the current Monthly Challenge with DearJulieJulie.

This month we are busting our stash of supplies to create a journal. I'm working on my Pink Ribbon journals that I want to put in the shop by the end of the month. 

When I first started this journal, I had planned to purchase a Pink Ribbon digital kit from Etsy. Then I got an idea - I'd make my own background paper!!

In today's video I show you how to create simple background pages using stamps, stencils and inks. Come play along!

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - September Stashbuster Junk Journal Challenge

If there is one thing I have a lot of, it is STASH!  The video I'm sharing today is JUST HALLOWEEN! (and not all of what I have for my favorite holiday season).

For Dearjuliejulie's September Stashbuster Junk Journal Challenge, she challenged us to do one of 3 things:
1 - Use A Digital Kit
2 - Use a Paper Pad
3 - Build our own kit

Well, I have been contemplating an October Daily Junk Journal for months and knew I had more than enough to create my own kit. Some items were still assembled from my last project (2017 album)

The other part of the challenge was that we could only buy 3 items.
I was thinking ahead. I had most of the new Tim Holtz Halloween items already purchased (Okay so only in my head but I had to wait til we went to Springfield. I can't help it if we didn't get to go until AFTER Sept. 1!! so I'm not counting those items.

However, I did go with items I didn't have in mind but found WHILE we were in springfield.
1 - awesome witchy napkins at Party City

SPOOKS & SPELLS 

I had a second napkin (counts as 1 purchase) that says 'it's just a BUNCH of Hocus POCUS'. They don't have that one on the website.

2 - SPELLCAST 6x6 paper pad from Tuesday Mornings. It's by Pink n Main and is discontinued. I like the cut aparts I can use for tucks and tags.

I doubt I'll need to use the third purchase. Goddess knows I have enough! lol

I feel like I should have a big BEWARE sign for this video post. Sadly, I couldn't find a free image graphic. So here you go...

Viewer Beware!

My goal is to get back to more regularity in my postings. Cross your fingers. 

Creative Blessings!

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Spring Stashbuster Journal semi final

Good morning, friends.

Today, I have the 'final' video for the Spring Stashbuster Junk Journal challenge with dearjuliejulie.
I say 'final' because there is still more embellishments I want to add. I noticed as I was adding things, I did most of the front half of each signature but not much to the back. I worked on them a bit yesterday and will continue to do so here and there.

Our April Challenge is ABC..

Julie has listed each letter of the alphabet and a coordinating item we need to include in 'whatever journal' we want to work on. We don't have to do a new journal.
Since my first book that I showed you back in February... the ABCs of Me needs reworked and all the components are out, I thought this the perfect challenge to finish that book. Beginning next week I'll be giving project updates.

dearjuliejulie also issued our first mini-challenge for the week. By Friday I need to have made a 30 pg mini junk journal to be included. Also, if I understand correctly, each of those pages represents a letter of the alphabet and something that we like coordinating with each letter. Hmmm. I have some thinking to do.

In the mean time, here's the final video of the Spring Stashbuster Junk Journal:

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY! - Collage Tags & A Sneak Peak

Good morning, friends!

We are nearing the end of the Spring Stashbusting Junk Journal Challenge.
Julie's co-conspirator threw out another challenge in the middle of mini challenge #3 week - to make 6 Collage tags!  Okay.. so after some thought, I dove in to my 'stash' looking for patterned papers in the rainbow colors (though somehow I managed to miss purple LOL)

So here are the tags I turned in...

I also have bases for yellow.

Technically, the challenge part of the journal is finished though there is more I want to add -like those purple tags. I do have a couple of yellow ones in the journal but want to finish the rest when I do the purple.

I'll be posting the video of my journal here on Friday... but here's a couple of sneak peaks...

1) the video is already live on my planner channel on YouTube.. we had to turn them in yesterday

2)here's a shot of the page edges:

I'll be back tomorrow with a Teapot Tuesday card.

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - #SSJJC

Happy Monday!

First off, I have to say I am sooooo enjoying just playing for the sake of playing and these junk journal challenges really have me digging in and USING my stash!

For Mini-Challenge #2 we were asked to make 6 items for our journal. Each must use the following parameters:

Something OLD
Something NEW
Something FAVORITE
Something BLUE

Well, OLD covers a lot of territory in my stash. NEW was something that was added to our stash PRIOR to March 1 (since this over all is to be a 'no buy' challenge - to use what we have). My FAVORITE was easy. BLUE was a bit trickier. I mean... when you're talking about St. Patrick's Day in a spring journal, where do you put BLUE.. except maybe if you add a rainbow?

So here is my collection:

Since I will have the girls all next week, I was determined I would not be uploading these on Friday when they're due. I'll have all weekend to think about what the last challenge components are then put signatures together next week. My plan is to introduce the girls to 'glue books' then they can work while I'm working.

Okay.. individual tags with a few details:
My FAVORITE- is the fibers on all the cards. NEW  is Stampin' UP! items.. the catalog images and the Gingham Gala dsp.

Transfer bunny. This was done using an image from the Spring Occasions catalog from Stampin' UP! called Fable Friends. I cut the bunny out, colored him with Stampin' Blends then heat set with my heat tool. Finally, used the packing tape transfer technique to add him to the card. Easter Greetings is also from that set. I glued that to a piece of cardstock for stability then covered in Dimensional Glaze and let dry overnight before adding to the base. The circle behind that is a piece of Navy Blue sparkly felt that has been in my stash for YEARS!  

this is the other tape transfer from the Occasions catalog. I used the squirrel and the Happy Spring, using the same process as for the first tag.

While getting the dimensional glaze unclogged I wound up with a puddle on my silicone mat. I used this 'egg' shaped gem to swipe up most of the puddle then adhered to the tag. The words are 'Chat Stickers - Seasonal' from Tim Holtz

Because this is a spring journal (and with a name like Kelly Shawn Fitzgerald) I have to include St. Patrick's Day. This is one of 2 items I created. The 'blue' is blended in that fiber. The tag is part of a package I got eons ago. Can't take credit for making that one ;-)

While we're talking St. Patrick's Day, this one uses paper from DCWV - French Country pad. The gorgeous glittery medallion that was a single sheet from Green Day by Reminisce. I added an acrylic shamrock to the center. That thing is near 1/4" thick! Here's a close up of the medallion:

This last one is an Easter Egg Hunt tag with 2 adorable bunny brads and some blue 'rain drop' rhinestones over a flowery meadow. 

I'm scheduling this a week ahead of time so I can't tell you any more about what our 'current' challenge is. I also may not have a post next Monday as I will have just taken the grandgirls back and may be recuperating ;-)

Creative Blessings!

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Spring Stashbuster Junk Journal Challenge

dearjuliejulie on YouTube has started our next junk journal challenge round. This time we're doing a Spring Stash Busting Junk Journal Challenge (#SSJJC) ... aka No BUYING for this one. We are to use what we have in our stash to make one (or more) junk journals.  The No Buying is our only stipulation. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say, I have plenty here to work with.

I just found the papers on Thursday that I want to use for the signatures so I hope to have those put together to show next week. In the mean time, this post is all about our first mini-challenge. We were challenged to make 6 embellishments. Our only parameters were the following:

Each embellishment must include:
     Metal
     Circle
     Lace
     Something from our right.

Well, since my ScrapRack is to my right, I had lots to pick from. My stamps and embossing powders are also to my right. All of the words were from Tim Holtz Seasonal Chat Stickers

Here's a close-up of each tag:

the bunny is stamped in Chocolate Chip then clear embossed

I've had this dress cut out for at least three years. 

The metal pin fastener is in the Stampin' UP! catalog

I cut the circle from an Easter Egg sticker

While the button is a circle, so is the base... with part of it folded in to 

show the book page on the back

This is the second one I used the tulip image on. 

These were in my stash from a swap I did 8 years ago or more.

The image is from a retired Stampin' UP! set

Bob left on Saturday. I've spent the weekend crafting so I can get some posts ready to go. I'll have my granddaughters at the end of the month and we'll be doing stuff. Not a lot of computer time for Grandma that week. ;-)

Tomorrow I'll have a couple of Teapot Tuesday cards to show then Wednesday I should be back on WOYWW. I've missed the past couple of weeks.