A Big Thank You!

It's hard to believe that it is time to reveal my final projects for Life Preserver's using the June alternate kit. 

I wanted to take a moment and say a very big heartfelt Thank You to Life Preserver's for allowing me the honor and pleasure of designing with their beautiful kits!   Your kindness and generosity are appreciated more than words can say.

After looking at these papers I felt like this one particular photo was going to be just perfect to play with!  My husband in one of his ever many daredevil moments!  I had never attempted a mosaic before so I decided this was the perfect opportunity! 

The kit has so many fun extras in it from Little Yellow Bicycle, I just love the transparencies!  I found the coordinating epoxy stickers at my LSS garage sale for a whole $1.  I was in the midst of this and thought the numbers were perfect for the jump countdown!  I zig-zag stitched on the exclamation mark.  The non kit items on here:  Tag, brads, gears, mini alphas and packaging.

Some dimension details:

I saw this sentiment in the kit and just knew I had to use it!  I could not resist!!!  So I decided to get a little funky and grungy with it. 

Dude, this cracks me up!  I used ric-rak and a little strip of tiny paper pleated with my staples for some dude appeal.  I found the scored star technique over on the GCD Studio's and had to give it a try.  What fun!

Thank you so much for stopping on over and spending a moment. 
Have a super scrappity day!!!

All Star Catch!

I don't know about you, but I'm not what you would call a fast or quick scrapper.  It isn't very often when a project just comes together for me rapidly, but when it does boy is it a great feeling!  That is what happened when I started working with my June alternate kit from Life Preserver's.  It has these amazing Paper Loft "Dude" papers and coordinating embellishments from Little Yellow Bicycle. 

When I saw these fun papers I had several photos in mind that I thought would be just perfect for the men in my life.  Here are a few recent favorite snapshots of our oldest son playing catch with Daddy.  I also had to add in my Tim Holtz filmstrip ribbon that I'd been dying to use.  Hint...   Helmar's Gemstone Glue is absolutely perfect to attach this invisibly to your project. 

I also used this project for my final challenge which I call "All Mixed Up".  Use a non-alpha in your title and mix fonts to create interest.

Another angle so you can see the "ribbon" effect.  I took inspiration from my girl Jodi and created the cardboard star, painted it with some Memory Makers evergreen, then wrapped it up in floral wire and then pop dotted it for some fun dimension. 

The buttons I used on here are from a recent find at Tuesday Morning.  I totally scored and some of the buttons just worked with the color scheme in this line perfectly!

I hope you are having a super scrappity weekend and thank you so much for stopping on over!