One of a Kind **Sous**

Using the Stuck On U Sketch as inspiration. I started off with one side of the sketch. I love this picture of my little guy and decided on complimenting his red vest with the red and white paper. I also did lots of distressing, layering and inking. My snowflakes are all die cut and I embossed a few also. 

Used some nice lace ribbon across the bottom of my page.

Here are some of my die cut snow flakes, embossed snow flakes and I added some pearls. After watching The Secret Garden Layout Class by Stacy Cohen at Miss Arts, I tried hard to re-create her concepts in my layout.

In taking one of Miss Arts class on layering I did do some background stamping. 

 

More pictures of stamping, buttons, and layers. Hope you are having a great Sunday!

**Flying Unicorn**Mojo Monday Challenge

Having three young kids, working full time, full time wife keeps me busy but crafting relaxes me! So it is a good addiction to have! Every Monday at the Flying Unicorn there is a sketch to get you going! This sketch is a tease to be honest. During the week I am swamped with family life that I don't normally get to play with the sketch so I just get to drool over it. So oddly enough, my mojo monday post normally happen on Sunday! I am thrilled to say however, that I am still sticking with my new years resolution of using up my current stock of product!

When working on pages for my boys I try to keep the heavy layers to a minimum. But did some inking, distressing and layering. I am trying many new techniques in the last couple of weeks as I have a membership at Miss Arts School!

I tried to accentuate the mittens from the page with Liquide Applique from my stash. 

I tucked in some journalling. Yep still working at adding or hiding journalling in my layouts.

Thought this caption was perfect for this page. He just loves the snow! Thanks for stopping by!

Snowflakes**Flying Unicorn**Sketchabilities**Practical Scrappers

I will call this my multipurpose layout. It started off towards one challenge at the Flying Unicorn then headed towards another when I realized I was using transparencies in the form of snowflakes! Which is one of the 10 challenges for February you'll find at the The Flying Unicorn. Sandi C is hosting the transparency challenge. I needed a sketch to start me off and found Sketch #64 at Sketchabilities to help me out! Which initially caught my eye as Practical Scrappers was having a banners without triangle challenge. So I decided to use snowflake brads and a combo of snowflakes and buttons for one banner and mittens and buttons for the other banner. Now I worked very hard on this page, lots of distressing, layering, punching, using transparencies and embossing, die cutting snowflakes yes it was a process. But what can I say, I guess I was in a mood.

So here I did some embossing with one of my snowflake stamps. Added some stickles and well you can see where I made a boo boo with my spritzing. I recently took a class at Miss Art's Demystifying Mist with Sarah Webb, and wanted to give it a go! Great Class.

close up of one of my banners. In the sketch it looked like one circular doily so I decided to use my die cut snowflakes instead. Julie Winks also had a class on layering which I tried my hand at. Also clustering! My bigest challenge I love the look but never know how to completely achieve it. Alos never knew what to do with those sticker letters but after Alyssa McGrew class Cluster Muster, I added those letters with dimension to all my layouts!!! Whooo Hooo

My second banner with the buttons and mittens. 

using one of my corner stamps did some embossing. 

Here one of my transparencies tucked behind my layering of snowflakes. 

and on my picture another snowflake transparency. It was a really funny moment when I realized that I could participate in the challenge at Flying Unicorn because I didn't realize I had transparencies! 

My last transparency snowflake that I added a little stickles to. You can also see my snowflake brad used to hold up my banners. Thanks for stopping by! Can you tell I am not a football fan...I'm catching up on all my blog posting.

School's In!

I discovered Miss Arts when I was perusing Sarah Webb’s blog, and came across the Miss Art’s Blinkie. I clicked and my world forever changed! As most of you know I am a busy lady! I work full time out of the home, married with three young children all under the age of 4! and I am addicted to scrapbooking/card making! Actually, scrapbooking and I just celebrated our two year anniversary together!

Since started scrapbooking I’ve always tried picking up things here and there. But let’s face it there are so many magazine’s, blogs, you tube video’s out there that at times it seems a little over whelming! You never know what you are going to get! What I love about Miss Arts classes is you know what you are going to get! Not only do you get the class description, products used,  you also get a brief video. I think this is perfect! As at times I’ve taken a look at the description and sat there and though uhhhh I don’t know...but see the video and well I then have to see what it is all about. I also love the format of the class, the format is for all learning types! I like how it alternates with videos, pictures and text. the broken video segments are great for me as most of the time I don’t have time to sit through an hour of tutorials but the manner in which the video’s are broken up are perfect.  I love the variety of the classes and teachers! They all compliment each other! As an example, the Simply Stylish Lesson 3 talks about misting which is fabulous but there is also the Demystifying Mist class which the various techniques are amazing and completely different!

Finding this site has been great! Everything is in one spot! I would love to see Miss Art add classes/tutorials on photography or photo enhancement. A class on tips for storage and organizing. A Copic, class/tutorial would be awesome!!!

What I especially enjoyed and not expected is the detail of the classes and teachers. I have come across a few sites that say they will teach you the tricks of the trade but in the end don’t tell you too much. Not at Miss Art’s! These ladies are here to help you grow your craft! You can find this in their pledge to you as a student!