great CHEMISTRY!

Sooooo.....this card is way special to me.
Here's the story.....
I was at work, showing a friend of mine all the cards I like to look at on lunch and get inspired to work in my craft room when I get home. When I was on CASE this sketch blog, I saw THIS CARD by Sam Simpson

well.....
being that my profession is a CHEMIST.....
omg. i HAD to have this stamp set! THANK GOODNESS that Sam had the source of the stamp set listed on her blog!!!  I immediatly went to the papertrey ink site and ordered this set.....(along with a bunch of other stuff....wow they have great stamps!
So here is MY card I made right after I got my package (which was super FAST!!!!!!! great service papertrey! i'll for sure order again!)


I'm entering this in a few challenges.
 1. CASology: BLACK

2.  Seize the Sketch, # 7:

supplies i used for this card:

stamps: papertrey ink
ink : ranger, distress ink in picked raspberry, archival in black
ribbon: tim holtz crinkle ribbon
twine: waxy flax by close to my heart
dies: papertrey ink
cardstock: georgia pacific (white), black....unknow scrap from my drawer

thanks for visting my blog!

Cards from Tags....Day 2

Well...I did it, I really did it! I spent some time today crafting!
Every year when Tim Holtz does his tags, I want to play along. Sometimes I get a few of them done, but I never know what to do with the tags then. So I decided to adapt them into Christmas cards this year, (since I haven't barely made ANY Christmas cards!) Today, since I was feeling so down (see this post for more info) I decided it was time to start the healing process...and what better way than to make something. This is my adaptation of Tim's '12 tags of Christmas, Day 2'. His tag is below here:



Yes, I know mine isn't as fabulous, but I actually like how it turned out. I made 3 of this card, and well...I can add them to the very small pile of Christmas cards I have made now. Next, I will tackle his day one tag....that one is a bit more complex...I had to start small ;)
Thanks for reading my blog today ;)
Tracey

Genuine Beauty

Well, I took these fabulous pictures of the girls last week, and wanted badly to scrapbook them! I saw a challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show that was well...challenging! The challenge was to do something in the style of Tim Holtz! Normally....this wouldn't be a problem...but I had never attempted a layout in this style! The picture seemed to fit the challenge though, so I gave it a whirl! Here is what I came up with:


I don't know if I did Tim justice...but I did my best! And now I think I need to go back to cards for a bit...this was stressful! LOL! thanks for stopping by!
tracey

My new fav thing....Life Stories by My Minds Eye!

Yes...I have fallen in love with a line of paper....it's true. Here is how it came about.....I am on the design team for my local scrapbook store, All About Scrapbooks in the lovely Chesapeake, VA. My assignment for January is a Vintage Mini-album. So....when I went to the store to pick out my materials, I asked Tara, the product goddess of the store...what do I NEED to make this album??? She immediately, without hesitation, pointed me to My Mind's Eye Life Stories. I didn't even look at it very well, just trusted her (she is all knowing on this sort of thing!), grabbed both packs (it came in Lavendar Plaid and Green Plaid) and went with it. As I was checking out, I discovered the neat little journalling cards that went with the line, yeah...I grabbed one of every one of those too! Oh...the actual mini album I bought was by Maya Road...it is a binder style mini album with fun envelopes in it as well! Some Prima roses and American Crafts Thickers may have found their way into my basket as well....LOL!
After the madness of Christmas card making, I remembered...oh yeah! I have an entire mini album to make! ACK! This is when I opened the Life Storiespaper packs.....WOW! Mindblowing! This line is amazing! I quickly realized that this was going to easier than I thought, thanks to this amazing paper pack! It is chock full of journalling prompts that just make it easy peasy to do just about anything with minimal thought process! And since I was on a time crunch...this worked! As I got started, I decided the album would be a 2009 year in review, and a gift for my dad. He had asked me to compile the pictures from the year and give them to him....so what better way? As I got further into the album, it occured to me that I was going to have to PART with this! I am 99% sure that I will probably go and repurchase all the same supplies...as I am in love with this album! I'm thinking it won't take as long the second time around right? I've already done the creative process of thinking it up!
So what did I come up with? Take My Mind's Eye Life Stories (the whole kit and kaboodle!), prima flowers, American Crafts Thickers, add in Tim Holtz (it is a vintage album....gotta have some vintage photo distress ink, and GRUNGE!), and add it to a Maya Road album...and this is what you get! (yes, there are 19 photo's, and i SUCK at photography...I have not done this album justice with my camera!)

So what do you think??? Do you think my dad will like it?? I hope the store does too! Each of teh envelopes has even more fun pics from each quarter of the year for my dad....love those envelopes! The only thing I have to worry about now is that the store won't have any more of this fab paper in stock!
Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think...I am truly excited about this album!
~tracey