


Happy Tuesday - I thought I'd blog for a few minutes before I go to the book store to work and hopefully find some treasures. I made this layout as one of mine to submit for the Bad Girls DT call but obviously I didn't win. I recognized some of the names of the winners and really congratulate them. I know the competition was steep and they were the cream of the crop. Looking forward to seeing their layouts.
This was a fun layout - I had cut the purse out of an old Dwell magazine and did a little research on Andy Warhol (I had a hard time believing he did this drawing but it was an early piece). Once I decided to use the Bob Fosse lyrics, the whole thing just came together. I had seen cupcakes on other people's layouts but, in my NOT BUYING IT mode, I made my own from cardboard, felt, and brads.The sequin waste came from some items that I won from SATU from Crop Suey. After the layout was not picked for Bad Girls, I added the journaling on the cupcake base - enjoy the party, have FUN and submitted it to SIS and OLW. I have to admit the layout just makes me happy.
Last night I got a little crazy (or so Dan said) with puns about gnomes. I am working on a quickie layout fot Inspired by Amelie. The challenge this time is create a layout with the gnome so I had painted a small mountain landscape for my watercolor class and I thought about putting the gnome in the front and titling it Gnome, gnome on the range, and then I started thinking about There's no place like gnome and Phone gnome, and, well, you get the picture.
Off to eat some breakfast. Have a great day!
By the way, I changed my user name on Scrapinstyletv to ChrisA (old name was kalaiton).
I did this layout today for the SIS free shopping challenge - basically someone lists 10 items and then you pick 3 and add 3 different items to the list for the next person to select. then you make a layout using those items - my items were to make a paper house (the grass hut), no real photos (this pic came from an old magazine, I copied it and then wiped part of it away with a baby wipe and then added some painting), and 3 patterned papers (I used 6 pp). We have some great memories in Grenada - this little shack was on a little sandbar that you had to use a dinghy to get to and every Sunday afternoon we would go there and drink Carib beer and eat chicken, mac & cheese, and rice & beans (cheap enough for cruisers). So much fun, but now it's gone - they tore it down and built an exclusive resort.
I have also been catching up on the projects from Wilna's he{art} class and will show some pics tomorrow. I was determined not to spend any money so my projects are a bit different, and that's a good thing!
I did go shopping today - the Joann's in the next town south of us (we have no fabric stores at all) is closing so everything is on sale. I bought some paints, brushes, papers, charms, and silicone spatulas (strange to find them at Joann's?!). I then went to their Big Lots and found some cool foof a la and making memories scrapping stuff and some Starbuck's truffles. Yeah!