Your Style

I have created a unique style for myself. I like to call it "glamor grunge." Alliteration and contrast, love it! Basically it's distressing a project but using sparkly elements, girly stuff, elegant swirls, etc. Here are a few examples of this style:

"Create" Altered Puzzle Piece
Products used: card stock, wood mounted diamond stamp, red ink,
white yarn, Tim Holtz grungeboard Elements Plain, Christmas Red Stickles,
Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle Paint, Tim Holtz black Distress Stickles,
Tiny Type alphabet, two rhinestones


"Visualizing Music"
I created this for a mini album featuring my art. I distressed this by using a
"grungy" image, tearing black paper to mat the photo, using black ink
to smudge the edges of the page, and used Walnut ink to grunge up
the flowers. Adding in the rhinestones and color helps "glamor" it up a bit.


"Maeven Electric"
Also for my mini album. The background and paper are what mostly
make this "grunge," as well as the hastily drawn faux stitching. I also
distressed the pink flower a bit.

I encourage everyone to try and create a unique style of their own. It doesn't mean each thing you create will look the same, it just means it will have your "signature" look to it. And that's a good thing.

Wow I sound like Martha Stewart..."it's a good thing." Off to do some insider stock trading! (Ok that really wasn't funny, but I try).

Your Style

I have created a unique style for myself. I like to call it "glamor grunge." Alliteration and contrast, love it! Basically it's distressing a project but using sparkly elements, girly stuff, elegant swirls, etc. Here are a few examples of this style:

"Create" Altered Puzzle Piece
Products used: card stock, wood mounted diamond stamp, red ink,
white yarn, Tim Holtz grungeboard Elements Plain, Christmas Red Stickles,
Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle Paint, Tim Holtz black Distress Stickles,
Tiny Type alphabet, two rhinestones


"Visualizing Music"
I created this for a mini album featuring my art. I distressed this by using a
"grungy" image, tearing black paper to mat the photo, using black ink
to smudge the edges of the page, and used Walnut ink to grunge up
the flowers. Adding in the rhinestones and color helps "glamor" it up a bit.


"Maeven Electric"
Also for my mini album. The background and paper are what mostly
make this "grunge," as well as the hastily drawn faux stitching. I also
distressed the pink flower a bit.

I encourage everyone to try and create a unique style of their own. It doesn't mean each thing you create will look the same, it just means it will have your "signature" look to it. And that's a good thing.

Wow I sound like Martha Stewart..."it's a good thing." Off to do some insider stock trading! (Ok that really wasn't funny, but I try).

Blogger Challenge

I just joined a challenge on Scrapbook.com, and here is my first entry for it!

I decided to use some of the suggested topics, so I'll just go in order.

1.) Is there someone you wish you could talk to one more time?

My grandpa died when I was 8, so I didn't get to know him very well. I dream of him every once in awhile and in my dream I always tell him how our family is doing, and what kinds of things I'm into. My most recent dream about him involved me showing him all my scrapbook stuff. I really feel that is God's way of allowing me to connect with my grandpa again. He never got to see me and my siblings grow up, so I would love to just talk to him again and get to know him better.

2.) If you could live in a different time period, past or future when would it be and why?

I would choose the time when my ancestors came to America. It would be so cool to meet my family from way back in the day. I would say future just because it might be easier to fit in, but I'm not sure if there will be a future. God may end the world tomorrow, so I'd choose to go back to the 1700s, 1800s just to get to know my ancestors. Family is important to me, so that would be really cool!

3.) List your 10 worst pet peeves.

• Hearing people chew.
• Loud, sudden noises.
• When people don't realize the right turn lane arrow is green and they stop and look left anyway.
• Having to repeat myself.
• When people talk on their cell phone in a store or restaurant.
• Poor grammar and spelling (i.e., when people don't use periods in their sentences it's so annoying do you know what i mean) So ANNOYING!
• Whenever someone wears WAY too much cologne.
• Slow drivers.
• People who end sentences in propositions.
• Being stuck behind a slow walking person in a store (when the aisles are too small to pass).

4.) What is your earliest memory and why has it stayed with you?

My first memory is of my grandpa. I was 2 years old and he walked in to my room because I had just woken up, and I was standing in my crib smiling at him. The blinds were closed and the room was yellow--ish from the sun outside. He smiled at me and that's where my memory ends.

5.) What is your most valued possession. Why?

My computer...and that's because I rely on it several times a day. When the hard drive crashed, I cried. When I found out how long it would take to fix it at Best Buy, I cried. Luckily I found a better shop in Indy that fixed it in a much quicker fashion. I hate being without my computer. I spend so much time on it, and I love it.

Wow, there's still five more questions to answer. I'll be taking care of those later :)

Blogger Challenge

I just joined a challenge on Scrapbook.com, and here is my first entry for it!

I decided to use some of the suggested topics, so I'll just go in order.

1.) Is there someone you wish you could talk to one more time?

My grandpa died when I was 8, so I didn't get to know him very well. I dream of him every once in awhile and in my dream I always tell him how our family is doing, and what kinds of things I'm into. My most recent dream about him involved me showing him all my scrapbook stuff. I really feel that is God's way of allowing me to connect with my grandpa again. He never got to see me and my siblings grow up, so I would love to just talk to him again and get to know him better.

2.) If you could live in a different time period, past or future when would it be and why?

I would choose the time when my ancestors came to America. It would be so cool to meet my family from way back in the day. I would say future just because it might be easier to fit in, but I'm not sure if there will be a future. God may end the world tomorrow, so I'd choose to go back to the 1700s, 1800s just to get to know my ancestors. Family is important to me, so that would be really cool!

3.) List your 10 worst pet peeves.

• Hearing people chew.
• Loud, sudden noises.
• When people don't realize the right turn lane arrow is green and they stop and look left anyway.
• Having to repeat myself.
• When people talk on their cell phone in a store or restaurant.
• Poor grammar and spelling (i.e., when people don't use periods in their sentences it's so annoying do you know what i mean) So ANNOYING!
• Whenever someone wears WAY too much cologne.
• Slow drivers.
• People who end sentences in propositions.
• Being stuck behind a slow walking person in a store (when the aisles are too small to pass).

4.) What is your earliest memory and why has it stayed with you?

My first memory is of my grandpa. I was 2 years old and he walked in to my room because I had just woken up, and I was standing in my crib smiling at him. The blinds were closed and the room was yellow--ish from the sun outside. He smiled at me and that's where my memory ends.

5.) What is your most valued possession. Why?

My computer...and that's because I rely on it several times a day. When the hard drive crashed, I cried. When I found out how long it would take to fix it at Best Buy, I cried. Luckily I found a better shop in Indy that fixed it in a much quicker fashion. I hate being without my computer. I spend so much time on it, and I love it.

Wow, there's still five more questions to answer. I'll be taking care of those later :)

Fun with K & Company Que Sera Sera

I was browsing eBay, and I found a wonderful embellishment set by K & Company. The line is called Que Sera Sera (which is from The Sound of Music as my dad informed me), but it has an old-world, fantasy, Latin feel to it. It is so much fun to work with, and I hope to have the entire collection from the Que Sera Sera line soon. I made several ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) for scrapbook.com's Anything Goes ATC Swap #2, and they were so much fun to make. With such a fantastic line from K & Company to work with, they were anything but complicated even though they look like they took hours. Each one took less than one hour. Here's what I created:

"Que Sera Sera!"

"Explore Life"

"Imagine"


"Brighten"

I realized that all it takes to really take a card from ordinary to extraordinary can be going outside the lines -- literally. The rectangular shape becomes unique and organic by letting cutouts flow over the edges.

Next up I show you the steps I took in creating a new original Christmas card. Stay tuned :)

Fun with K & Company Que Sera Sera

I was browsing eBay, and I found a wonderful embellishment set by K & Company. The line is called Que Sera Sera (which is from The Sound of Music as my dad informed me), but it has an old-world, fantasy, Latin feel to it. It is so much fun to work with, and I hope to have the entire collection from the Que Sera Sera line soon. I made several ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) for scrapbook.com's Anything Goes ATC Swap #2, and they were so much fun to make. With such a fantastic line from K & Company to work with, they were anything but complicated even though they look like they took hours. Each one took less than one hour. Here's what I created:

"Que Sera Sera!"

"Explore Life"

"Imagine"


"Brighten"

I realized that all it takes to really take a card from ordinary to extraordinary can be going outside the lines -- literally. The rectangular shape becomes unique and organic by letting cutouts flow over the edges.

Next up I show you the steps I took in creating a new original Christmas card. Stay tuned :)

Thank you, Shayla!

I'm really loving the Scrapbook.com community. I posted a thread in the general forum expressing my need for empty ribbon spools to house the 25 un-spooled rolls of ribbon I have coming, and one member, ShalyaCreations, generously offered to send me 25 empty spools. That entailed taking all the leftover ribbon off the spools and storing it elsewhere, taking a photo of the spools I'd receive, and having it sent to me in the mail.

How's that for scrapbooker camaraderie?

Check out her gallery at Scrapbook.com: [shaylacreations]

She also has a blog here at Shaylacreations.blogspot.com