Hoop A Loop

Totals for the Year: 58 Layouts, 6 swaps completed (63 actual swap items), a chipboard album, and 7 cards!

Blog Hop

I have been at the beach, so no blog hopping for me today. But you can check out my friends' LOs by clicking on the bloggy hop button on the right. Enjoy!

Crop LOs

It took a while to get the titles and stuff added but here are some of my crop LOs.

RTTC Round 2 - Week 2

Materials Used:

4 Numbers or Symbols (Felt Thickers)
13 Letters (Felt Thickers)
2 Pieces of Ric Rac (Blue and Yellow - Lightly inked brown)
2 Orange Star Brads
12 Flowers (2 are sprites so they had premade centers)
1 Sandylion Stacked Flower(See middle of yellow flower...I took out the center and added a rhinestone which is added in later)
34 Skittles (Blue and Clear)
1 Yellow Ribbon
1 Orange Ribbon
1 Staple (on tag)
6 Rhinestones
2 hearts
1 Paperfish embellie for tag cut out of the pp (Seemed too much like an embellie not to count him, plus he matches Reba's bathing suit)
1 Tag for journaling (Made our of Core'dinations paper (Sanded and Torn)
1 "homemade" orange photo corner lightly inked brown


Technique - Sanding - I used Core'dinations Paper to make the background piece of paper. I lightly sanded all of the edges to bring the blue color through. I also did the same for the tag using Core'dinations Paper but in orange. If you aren't familiar with it you can check out this link http://www.busybeescrapbooking.com/summercorecardstock.html

Colors used - Blue (Reba's bathing suit, pp, flower, skittles,Core'dinations paper, Blue lace paper, etc), Orange (Flowers, Ribbon, Star Brads, orange fish in pp, orange corner cut from Core'dinations Paper), Brown (Felt letters and numbers, Brown Core'dinations paper)

My Score = 23.67/25

Judge's Comments =

Perfect score from me. Love everything about this.
Adorable page! Perfect colors for that pic!
Awesome LO!! Love the paper perfect for the technique!! GJ!!
Great job using 82 embellies! I love that you used the color core paper and sanded it. This is one of my favorite LO's of yours.
Love the sanding. The colors go really well together, including her cute bathing suit! Great use of elements.

Rise to the Challenge Round 2 - Week 1

These are pictures from a photo shoot that I did with my darling little niece at Easter. I tried to get some good pictures of her but she kept wiggling away.



The Challenge:

Play with 7's by using 7 of each of the following 7 things on your layout:

* 7 card stock papers
* 7 buttons
* 7 flowers
* 7 pattern papers
* 7 brads
* 7 letters or words in your title
* 7 techniques - Inking, paper tearing, sewing, punching, embossing, stamping, doodling

Photos are free....along with the items needed to complete your techniques.

These are the ONLY things you can use!! Good luck!!

Materials Used:

PP: Pink words, orange polka dot, yellow check, pink stripes, blue floral, blue with flowers, purple floral (most of these are flowers)

CS: Green, blue, dark blue, white, yellow, dark pink, and light pink

7 buttons - Used as centers for the flowers and stitched
7 brads - Used as the middle part of each butterfly
7 Letter title - Wiggles

Techniques used: Inking (all flowers are inked in white which is hard to tell...journaling strips are inked in pink), Paper tearing (journaling strips - sister will journal later), sewing (stitched all the buttons and the swirls), punching (pink swirls near butterflies), embossing (hard to tell but the light blue flower has polka dots embossed on it since it was just plain cs), stamping (stamped swirly patterns and hearts on the journaling strips since right now they are blank and I stamped the "wiggles" title in white ink), doodling (I doodled the outline of all of the flowers in blue and I doodle a line around the left edge of the picture in purple and a dashed line around the purple circle in purple as well). Distressing - Photo mats

My Score 21/25 Points!

Judges' Comments: I would have liked to see some kind of multi-colored PP to tie all the colors together. The bright green base cardstock and the blue photo mat don't really go with the pastels you used. I love the stitched swirls.
Adorable page! Love your use of stitching, sewing the buttons down really ties the whole flowers together.
Adorable pictures, love the sewing! I like how the matting of the photos make them stand out more!
Great Job!! Great use of the techniques! Good job on the sewing & doodling! I really like that flower brads that make up the bodies of the butterflies!
it's a cute lo, however I think if the back ground color was more tame, it would have flowed better with the page.
Love how you used the brads. Doodling was unclear, didn’t add to LO.


Totals for the Year: 51 Layouts, 6 swaps completed (63 actual swap items), a chipboard album, and 7 cards!