In The Cat Cave

I was lucky enough to attend a Mixed Media class with my friend, Cathie Reed at our local scrapbooking store (LSS).  You heard that right, we still have a local scrapbooking store - it's called The Paperie.

Cathie showed us two layouts where she used a new splatter brush by Tim Holtz combined with some Colour Bloom sprays by Prima.


There's several layers on these layouts and of course, they are backed on watercolour paper. It may be difficult to see but there's some gesso and molding paste, Stampendous aged glitter, vellum, etc.

After I had played with the colour combinations for about 45 minutes... (only to go back to the very first combo I had chosen) I was inspired to do a quick video.


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Have a great day!
Cathy

Happy 45 years Nancy and John Caines!

Today marks 45 years of marriage for my in-laws and believe me they have lived a wild ride.  No family dinner is incomplete without a story - always leaving me shaking my head and wondering whether my father in law, John is speaking the truth or pulling my tail.  It's clear to see that both Nancy and John have and always were in love.  Despite being different in many many many many ways, they make it work.  In fact, my husband and I's relationship is very much like theirs.  Our personalities are very similar. (In this case it might be true that a man marries a woman similar to his mother).  And if Ryan and I could be so lucky to live a wonderfully crazy 45 year ride in tandem like they have then we will consider ourselves to be very lucky.


Here's to you and many more years of "wedded bliss"!


This week the TGIF Design Team is bringing you a sketch challenge.  This is an awesome sketch - easy and totally up my alley!!  I can't wait to see what you make!

Cathy

Happy Heart Day!
Cathy

This die cut is brought to you by Stampin' Up! along with the sentiment.  It's a bundle that is not really how you might describe my style.  However, when I have lost someone, the last thing you want to do is create a card.  Yet, you always need a card... for those terrible moments.  The perfect card.  And for me, this bundle makes it easy. Something that can never be easy.

I used this bundle for a swap that I did with some amazing girls: Jeanna Bohanon, Jennifer Frost, Cindy Schuster, Mercedes Weber, Krista Frattin, Allison Okimatsu, Kaitlyn Zumbach and Marisa Gunn.


As I played I had other versions  but the idea is the same.  I cut several die cuts out of water colour paper.  I then used by aqua painter and refill inks to colour over the dies quickly.  I let them dry.  In addition, I used the Stampin' Up! stencils on the base of the card with Molding/Modelling Paste. You gotta love it.

Have a great day,
Cathy

Back again with a quick birthday card as part of the TGIF Challenge Blog's Design Team. Every week we bring you inspiration to create.  This week's challenge is a colour challenge - and, its pretty awesome.

The next layout I created was a Project Life layout.  It is actually from Valentines Day of last year.  I tend to leave pages for a long time until I feel inspired to create them.

Are you curious how I keep everything organized while mixing Project Life and traditional pages?  Here's some of my secrets as I describe them in a post for Creative Scrapbooker Magazine.


Can you see where I placed valentines in the glassine bag on the bottom row?  Of course, I only kept a few.

It's great timing to do this layout - I hope to inspire you to create your Valentines layouts.

Enjoy and I'll be back next month with more layouts for Simple Scrapper!

Cathy

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Cathy