Baby Shower Decorations for a Friend

I was recently honored with the responsibility of decorating for my girlfriends Baby Shower. I have a few friends that live and breathe Sephora and she happens to be one of them.  I think she may live and breathe Walmart's or Toys r us after the twins are born, but for now Sephora is it. So we decided that it was fitting to incorporate Sephora into the decor for the Shower.  She is in the military so we were able to use the Armory as the venue, so incorporating camo into the decor was a must. We felt strongly about personalizing the decor as much as possible and I think we succeeding in doing so. All the detail was greatly appreciated by our guest of honor. 

I used my Silhouette for most of the decorations, although some of the designs were purchased from SVGcuts. What a blast I had creating these items. It was a lot of work but totally worth it. 

Hope you enjoy the pics. 

Cake Table

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Sephora Centerpiece

Stage Decorated for the Mother-to-be

First half of the word Twinkies...She is having twins and this the name she uses when referring to the babies. 

Second half 

I live for Vacations

Love, Love, Love creating this layout. We took this pic during our recent vacation in Punta Cana, DR. I wanted to add a lot of texture and color to this layout. I used stencils, gesso, flowers, metals, Luminarte paint and many other items I found in my pile of stuff. After I sprayed paint everywhere, I flicked paint onto the page with my paint brush to give it a grungier look. I'm happy with the final look.  We had such a  relaxing time during our vacation I was hoping to recreate that feeling with this layout. I hope you enjoy.

Recycled Magazine Frame

I made this frame from old magazine pages. This frame is about 30x15. This is so simple to make, and the end result is so beautiful. It totally lit up the room. I took one page of the magazine and cut it in four pieces horizontally. Each piece is rolled and glue was applied mid-way and at the end. After going through a few adhesives I found that glue stick was the best and the less messiest of all. 

Thanks for looking.

May Studio Challenge Blog

Well I have been trying my best to enter a few challenges here and there in order to get new inspiration. I can't tell you how many evenings I just want to stay in front of the TV and watch on demand. Then I remember that I have a full room full of wonderful stuff waiting to be used to create what I hope will be something just awesome. So with that being said I have managed this month to get a few layouts completed. I used the sketch from The Studio Challenge Blog for May as my inspiration and used all Graphic 45 Fashionista paper to create the layout.  Hope you all enjoy.

My Little Darlings

Hi Everyone, TFL. This layout was inspired by Finnabair's wonderful work. Her use of paint within a layout is incredible. I created this layout for the May "Scrap the Boys" Challenge. The challenge was of course to scrap boys and to make your layout grungy & artsy. The Pic I decided to use is of my two wonderful Grandsons'. The eldest Niko is holding the baby Skylar in his arms. I decided to make the layout grungy yet soft. The soft of course cause all babies are wonderfully soft. 

Stuck April 15th Challenge

Hello Everyone,

It has been a while since my last post. I have taken a couple of short vacations and have had a lot of traffic in my house lately which doesn't really allow time for my craft. Things are beginning to slow down and I am trying to get my creative juices flowing so that I am ready for the Scrapbook Expo here in Orlando in a week and a half. So I decided to try a challenge for  inspiration. I am using the sketch from . http://stucksketches.blogspot.co.nz/. Here is the sketch.

And here is my take on it.

Hope you enjoy.

Perfection

I created this layout a few months ago but with the holidays and the birth of a new grandson, things just got too busy. Today is Valentine's day so I figured it's a good day to post this Pinkish layout. It just makes me feel warm and happy when I look at it. As you can see I used a lot of paint and distressing ink to complete this layout. Every embellishment started off a different color, varying from royal blue to white. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for looking.

Canvas Layout

Here I am again trying to upload to my blog. I really must try to post more often. Everyday I tell myself to post my new projects, must somehow time runs away from me. But I am trying to make that one of my New Years' resolutions. So here I am posting a canvas I created as a gift for my cousin. She will in turn gift it to my aunt.

This is a 12x12 canvas. I used a piece of tissue, like you would use to put in a gift box, and glued it onto the canvas with mod podge. When it dried I used my distress ink pad and went over it lightly so that the textured areas would pick up the color. I usually start off with a array of colors from white to purple, and I just paint each embellishment to the color of my choice.

Thanks for looking.

Crazy Fun

My daughter seems to have some time to kill while she is on tour. She is a dancer and travels many of the Northwestern states touring for a Non-profit modern dance group. They perform for Public schools as well as other associations. But I guess it's not all work, they do manage to get some fun time in once in a while.

I created this layout using the sketch from http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/. I took a cardboard and just removed the top layer to expose the corrugated lines underneath. Used Gesso, paint, cardstocks, some distressed ink to get the look I was trying to achieve. Hope you enjoy.

My Husband and His Deer

 My husband in the last couple of years decided he was going to start hunting. I am originally from Chicago and can honestly say I did not know anyone prior to moving to Florida that went hunting as a sport. So yes, I want surprised, but hey whatever keeps him entertained. (FYI - Every few years he starts a new hobby.) So thank goodness he actually managed to kill something (sorry, I know that sounds horrible) but maybe he'll stick to this hobby for little bit longer than the others. Gotta love them!!!

Toni's First Halloween - White with 1 September Challenge

My beautiful baby girl at 9 1/2 months dressed to impress on her first Halloween ever.

It's kind of funny how when they are babies everything is pink. Today she is 24 years old and I can't pay her enough to wear pink.

This layout was created for the "White with 1" Challenge. I usually try to stay away from pink cause as I mentioned she does not like pink, but I really like it. Thank you for the challenge and forcing me to use pink.

Summer Vacation with Friends

This layout was created using a picture of myself with and my friend/neighbor. We had such a great time this year on a Royal Caribbean Cruise. This particular picture was taken on the island of Labadee. If you have not taken a cruise with Royal Caribbean I highly recommend you do.

I created this layout for the August Challenge at Truly Madly Crafty Challenge. Hope you enjoy it.

Girl with Mic

I created this layout for a Challenge put out by Bella Creations' June Nuances de Couleur group.  Colors to be used where Red, Black and White and the inspiration sketch was;

The picture used is of my daughter during one of her performances. In case I have not previously mentioned, she dances for the Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah. Most of their performance are very historical, serious modern pieces. This piece was a funny, theatrical piece. My daughter being such a character was perfect for this number. I hope I did the pic justice.

Hi Everyone...what do you think of my new look? I am still new to the blogging world so it is taking me a bit to figure out how to manipulate the look of my blog, it's still work in progress. It seems that the more I learn about it, the more I want to change it. So don't be surprise if you don't recognize it in a couple of weeks.

Thanks again for looking.

Niko and His Scooter

My little grandson loves to pose for pictures. He barely moved in any directions on his scooter but man was he ready for the pics. If I'm not mistaken no sooner did I finish taking pics he said he was hot and tired and ready to go back in. What a ham, but you have to admit he does look good. I think it took more time putting on his gear than the time he actually spent outside. Gotta love him!!!

Baby Pierre Plays

This layot was created for The Nerdy "Victorious" Scrapbookers Challenge #8, which is being generously sponsored by Blue Moon Scrapbooking. NVS was MIA for a little while they are back and we are all thrilled.

Time With Dad

What do you think? Awesome picture of my boys? The taller one is my son and the little munchkin, his son and my wonderful grandson. Wonderful story behind this pic; My son and his baby mama as they say today, are no longer a couple, but somehow they manage to put their differences aside to spend time with the kid. They took this pic at the movies while watching the film "Coraline". This layout was created for the "Magistical Memories August Sketch Challenge"

HE RAPS

I created the layout "He Raps" for my son Pierre. He is a local rapper in the Orlando area. I believe my son was born a rapper. My son was born in the mid 80's, approximately 5 years after the first rap song was recorded. You may be familiar with this song by The Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's Delight", I know it was one of my favorites. I guess it is possible I played that song to death thus creating my own little Hip Hop Rapper. Look at me taking all the credit. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Rapping, it is also referred to as MCing or emceeing, it's a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically, in rhyme and verse, generally to an instrumental or synthesized beat. My son spoke in ryhme since the first day he started speaking. Every word that came out of his mouth had a musical beat to it. I always thought it was funny how he elongated everything he said to make it sound musical. One word that always sticks to mind is how instead of saying "Papi" (spanish for dad) he would say "pappiti". It was difficult creating this layout cause it needed a nice urban feel to it which you don't get out of adding the normal embellishemnts like flowers and ribbons. So it tool awhile and this is what I came up with. Thanks for looking.

Nerdy Victorious Challenge #7

Here is my take on the "Nerdy Victorious" Challenge.