Skate, Spin, Soar!

Hey, it's Angie. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. Ours was wonderful....filled with my kiddo's and some amazing friends. Now it's time for cabin fever to kick in....and that being chased with spring fever. So our challenge is something pertaining to winter blues. I have a friend who's daughter has fallen in love with ice skating. So I thought that I would make her a wall hanging for her room. I got excited because I used my "celebrate with flourish" for the first time. (Even more exciting Jen didn't have to help me with the little details!)

This is the first of 2 skates cut. I cut them at 3 in...in misc. blues and white. I didn't like how plain they looked so I "glammed" them up.

I used my heat embosser and powders to make them sparkle...add a sparkly gem and there you have it. For the saying I talked to her Mama and we came up with "Skate, Spin, Soar" I used the storybook font on my gypsy and welded them together.

I started to put the sign together and it needed something more. I used plain white doilies and some alcohol inks as a mat for my skates.

Now for the assembly. I used a dark piece of blue cardstock. I inked the edges white to give it a frosted look. I also went against the normal and set it at a diamond instead of a square. When I started putting the pieces together I realized the words needed a bit more so I embossed them with a light blue powder and used a silver alcohol ink to give it a bit of a pop. I placed them all and then put them into a white frame.

I didn't like the plain white frame so I again pulled out alcohol inks in blue and silver and spruced it up a bit....so here is the finished project.

So there it is....my wall plaque. Get out and do something keep to fight those blues. recipe cricut cartridges...celebrate with flourish, story book Tim Holtz alcohol inks....blues and silver misc. papers in blue and white. heat embossing powders....blues and white 12 x 12 scrapbook frame

Let's Roll!

Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway.  I am honored to be here today as we think back on that awful day on 9/11/01.

I have so many memories from 9/11:  The twin towers getting hit by airplanes, the soot covered people running in the street, the Pentagon getting hit, the president flying over my house on his way to Offutt Air Force Base (15 miles from me) ~ this one freaked me out a little, my husband getting stranded in LA on a business trip, and many many more.  I went out in my back yard that afternoon and planted tulip bulbs in my own weird way I was hoping to plant a little "life" in honor of all of the life lost that morning......

One of the memories that really stood out to me was United Airlines Flight #93.  I was so proud of the people who took over their airplane and took their own lives to spare others.  This plane was on another suicide mission.  These everyday people became heroes that day.  My project today is dedicated to those brave men and women aboard Flight #93 when Todd Beamer said "Let's roll!"

I started out with paper from this Nantucket Stack by DCWV.  I found it at Michaels.

I went to Birthday Bash (my favorite banner cartridge right now) and put theses banners on my mat sized at 3.00w x 4.13h.  I needed 12 banner flags, so I cut out this page twice.

I used this red and white polka dotted paper from Nantucket.

I am trying to use more patterned paper, but the plaid was just too busy.  Good thing the paper is white on the back!!  I just turned it over!  The stars are from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 3.04w x 2.88h.

I cut out the words from Birthday Bash at 1.5 inches.  I used the semi colon for my apostrophe ~ I used Hide Contour to hide the dot.

I cut these out from blue cardstock.

Here is my screen shot of my stars.

I found these starburst shapes from Mother's Day Bouquet and sized them to 3.00w x 2.86h and cut them out in yellow cardstock.

I inked my stars with red ink.  I used my ATG gun to glue down the starburst.  I pop dotted the stars to the starburst and used my ATG gun to glue the letters to the stars.  I added the blue ribbon to connect the banners.

I cut out 01, 9/11 and 11 from Storybook at 1inch.  I welded 9/11 together.

There was no "/" in Storybook, so I took the letter I and used the slant feature from the Advanced menu at 0.30 to create one.

And here is my banner all put together.  Thank you Bobbi Jo for having me here and showcasing my work for such an important piece of history!

To all of the service men and women and their families ~ thank you for all you do for our country!!  The heroes (each and every person who died) of 9/11 will never be forgotten!

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Mini Album!

Hi Jen from 3catsandabug.  I have the world's GREATEST In Laws, so I wanted to make something special for my MIL's birthday and this is what I came up with.  {Click on the picture to view it larger}  I used several cartridges for this: Mother's Day 2010, Celebrate with Flourish, Picturesque, Elegant Cakes, Straight From The Nest, Gypsy Wanderings, Story Book,  Tinker Bell and Friends and George and Basic Shapes.



The Fence was cut at 4 X 4 3/4 and the grass at 1 3/4 X4 1/4 welded

Happy was cut at 1 1/2 from Elegant Cake and decorated with stickers.

The butterfly corners were cut at 1in and the butterfly at 3.  The letters and numbers were cut at 1 1/4 and 1 1/2.

BDay was cut 1 1/2 and 1 1/4.  All the paper is K and Company, Tim Coffey's Cottage Garden and on this page matching 3D stickers. 

The banner was cut at 1 1/4 and the floral was cut at 4 1/8, embellished with brads and stickles.  I also used a Martha Steward punch and some ribbon.  Mama was cut at 2 X 5 1/2 and also embellished with stickles.

The flowers were cut at 1 and the butterfly at 2.  The vase and other butterflies were stuff I had in my drawer.





The scrolls were cut from StoryBook at 1 1/2 and the Happy Birthday was from Gypsy Wanderings at 4 1/2

It was all put together using the Cinch and 1in wires.