Move It!

This is another one of the canvases I did for a PATCH student.  In case you missed the info about these canvases, you can refer to this blog for the back story!

This young lady showed to the song "Move It" from Madagascar.  She wore the cutest costume and did such a great job with her horse!

I started the canvas with homemade glimmer mist made from CTMH Create a Shade Paint (retired), water, and Sky re-inker.  I stenciled the animal print with CTMH Pear ink with a stencil made from the Cricut Stencil Cartridge.  The polka dots are homemade texture paste tinted with CTMH re-inker.  I used a stencil cut from the CTMH Artfully Sent Cartridge.

I found the Madagascar image on the internet; I printed and cut it with my Cricut.  The Zebra is cut larger and popped off with 3-D tape.  The arrows are from a stencil I had in my stash and the groovy tape is Duck tape!  The title is cut from CTMH Ruby and Honey card stock.

This is going off to the Exotic Animal Challenge at Cut it Up!  Doesn't get much more exotic than those Madagascar characters!  ; )

If you would like to see more of these canvases, here are links to some of the others:  Yankee Doodle, Ode to Joy, Happy, and Let It Go.

Thanks for stopping by to see my exotic animals!

Trip to the Wax Museum

Ah, yes, a trip to the Elementary School Wax Museum to see my nephew portraying Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley.  The assignment was to choose a famous Hoosier and portray his/her life in a wax museum.  The portrait page of this layout is inspired by the sketch over at Stuck on U Sketches.  There are still a few more days to play this sketch if you are interested!

The embellishments were cut on the Cricut from these cartridges:  Heritage and Art Philosophy. I inked, stamped, etc.  

CTMH stamps include:  Distressed Backgrounds, Sweet and Lovely, and Universal Backgrounds.

I've included the 2nd page of my LO so you can see all the fun at the Wax Museum!  ; )  The sign below was cut from Art Philosophy and the letters were printed using the writing feature on the Cricut.  

Most of the papers are from CTMH.  I threw in a couple of scraps from my stash.  

Now I leave you with a little poetry by James Whitcomb Riley.  When you grown up in Indiana, you learn this poem!

Little Orphant Annie

James Whitcomb Riley

Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay,
An’ wash the cups an’ saucers up, an’ brush the crumbs away,
An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep,
An’ make the fire, an’ bake the bread, an’ earn her board-an’-keep;
An’ all us other childern, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an’ has the mostest fun
A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!
        
Onc’t they was a little boy wouldn’t say his prayers,--
So when he went to bed at night, away up stairs,
His Mammy heerd him holler, an’ his Daddy heerd him bawl,
An’ when they turn’t the kivvers down, he wasn’t there at all!
An’ they seeked him in the rafter-room, an’ cubby-hole, an’ press,
An’ seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an’ ever’wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found was thist his pants an’ roundabout--
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!
        
An’ one time a little girl ‘ud allus laugh an’ grin,
An’ make fun of ever’one, an’ all her blood an’ kin;
An’ onc’t, when they was “company," an’ ole folks was there,
She mocked ‘em an’ shocked ‘em, an’ said she didn’t care!
An’ thist as she kicked her heels, an’ turn’t to run an’ hide,
They was two great big Black Things a-standin’ by her side,
An’ they snatched her through the ceilin’ ‘fore she knowed what she’s about!
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!
        
An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue,
An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo!
An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ the moon is gray,
An’ the lightnin’-bugs in dew is all squenched away,--
You better mind yer parents, an’ yer teachers fond an’ dear,
An’ churish them ‘at loves you, an’ dry the orphant’s tear,
An’ he’p the pore an’ needy ones ‘at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns’ll git you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!

Chaps

This is Chaps!  He loves Christmas and I do mean Looooooves Christmas!  He likes the company, the tree, the manger, and his visit from Santa that results in a new toy every year.......because he's been such a good boy, of course!

Chaps, I'm sure, makes many wishes during the holiday season.  I'm speculating treats and toys are his wished for items!  ; )

 I was inspired by the color dare over at Color My Heart as well as the sketch from Scrap Our Stash.  The colors are from the beautiful paper pack Heartstrings.  I didn't get that one, so I had to improvise and pull the closest papers I had to those colors.  I must admit, I'm out of Cranberry, also!  Geeminetly, I need to get to my CTMH daughter and get an order done!  hahaha

Anyway, I had to sub in Ruby.  I pulled paper from Chantilly, Seaside, and a scrap from last year's Christmas paper!  I embellished with some CTMH Ruby and white polka do ribbon, Chevron Washi Tape and a few stamps from A Happy Hello.  His name is stamped from the Curlicue Alphabet.

Cuts are from Winter Frolic, A Child's Year, and Photo Booth Props.

It's a short post.  I wanted to get this in under the wire at Color My Heart!

Thanks for stopping by to meet Chaps!

What's in a Name?

What's in a name?  What is the inspiration?  Hmmm........  Create a layout aboutYour Name is a challenge over at Scrapbook Layouts.  I decided this would be a perfect addition to my Wildwood Crush Book.  I love this book; I know I've said it before, but it's the perfect art journal/scrapbook for me!  The pages are thick and they already have some background interest.  They'll take gesso, paint, ink, glue, texture paste, etc.

About my name, and this is where enTWINEd comes in for the first time.  My name came from a story book character.  However, it's hard to believe I wasn't named for both of my grandmothers since they are Catherine and Kathryn.  My great, great grandmother was also name Catherine.  That name seems to be woven throughout my family!

Ok, so about this LO.  It was the perfect opportunity to use some scrap strips from old papers as well as some new pieces:  Free to Be Me, For Always, Hopscotch, Chalk It Up.  I also used Cranberry, Kraft, Flaxen and Black.  

The buttons, flourishes and flowers were cut from Art Philosophy.  My name, ruler, and piece at the top right are from Artbooking.  The silhouette is from Suburbia.

I enTWINEd several stamps for the background; the sets include:  Assorted Edges and A Happy Hello.

My embellishments:  Black Epoxy Bubbles, Mini Medley Black, and the new Flaxen Thick Twine which is literally enTWINEd into the gate at the top of the right hand page!  

Hey, what's all this enTWINEd stuff about?  Glad you asked!  It's the recent challenge over at Heart 2 Heart!  There are many ways you might interpret this challenge, so head over and check it out!  

She Said, "Yes!"

She did say yes, but which she are we talking about?  Luckily, both of them said yes!  When Lucy's daddy proposed to Katie, Lucy was excited about the wedding and all; however, taking engagement pictures was getting a little boring.  That's when her daddy snatched her up and she became the center of the attention again......and what little girl doesn't like that?  ; )  I must say, she's sort of been the center of our world since we met her!

This LO was inspired by several challenges.  One of them called for a plaid.  Ok, I love plaids,,,,,,but,,,,hmmm........I can't seem to find one that matches the colors I want to use for my other challenge.  Ok, what's that saying, "Necessity is the mother of invention" or in my case creativity.

I started with a piece of White Daisy CS and went to town creating a sort of plaid pattern using black lines, and stamped rows of arrows from This Moment and the the border from Assorted Edges.  This gave me a plaid background for my Cranberry heart.

My heart was cut from Artbooking and creates the background for my pic.  The second heart was cut and embossed with the Chevron embossing folder.  I embellished it with black carpet thread and a button from the Mini-Medley Black collection.

The flowers are cut from Art Philosophy; the heart borders and XO's are from Artbooking.  The little hearts along the side are from those cuts.....well, except for the little red heart.  That was just sitting on the desk crying out to be used on this LO.  hahaha

I finished embellishing with Epoxy Bubbles and Flaxen Extra Thick Twine.  I also added a tiny bit of Arrow Washi Tape.  I stamped the words irresistible and wonderful from You're the Bomb stamp set.  The purchase of that stamp set provides a donation to Operation Smile!

My colors include:  Cranberry, Archival Black, Daisy White, Flaxen and Kraft.

My LO is off to these challenges:

Color My Heart:  Cranberry, Flaxen, Kraft, Daisy White, Black
Heart 2 Heart:  Love the CTMH Way -- Love the CTMH Cartridges!
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge:  Valentine's Day
Pile It On:  Use a bow
Stuck on U Sketches:  Heart shape, Locket and/or Key
123 Get Scrappy:  I chose the diagonal row:  Plaid, Red Background and Hearts
Craft Hoarders Anonymous:  How I Love Thee

Thanks for coming by today!  This is my 8/20 LO's for the month at Scrapbook Layouts!  I might make that goal of 20 this month!  ; )

Said No One Ever!

These little girls are a hoot to take to shows; they love their ribbons and the miniature horses!  It seems they always end up with the same ribbons for the day, so they are both happy.


I started with 3 pictures and the sketch from Sketches in Thyme.  I used the Cricut to cut the horses (Old West Cartridge) and the 3 rings.  Now this is sort of symbolic since taking 6 year olds to horse shows is sort of a 3-ring circus!  ; )


I stenciled some Lagoon colored stars and Pixie (pink) colored hearts.  I stamped some Gypsy (purple) flowers around.

Before adhering the rings, I embossed them with 3 different folders.  I added a few flowers and dots around the page.

My colors were chosen based on the bottom row of the Color Bingo game at 613 Avenue Create.

All CTMH products are from Katiescorner.  Inks, paper, card stocks, and flower cuts are from the Art Philosophy cartridge.  Stamp set is Assorted Edges.

Thanks for stopping by; make it a creative day!

My Guys

Yep, these are my guys!  The two men I love the most along with my dad, of course!  This pic was taken while I was running around trying to get ready for Keith's graduation party.  I remember we only had a few weeks, and these guys were supposed to be cleaning up the yard!  Keith had just gotten this new 4-wheeler and wanted to ride so he got his dad to ride with him.  I think he knew if his dad was riding, I couldn't say anything!  ; )

I used the journaling spot to write Keith's "To Do" list which had the things he should have been doing instead of riding, but I snuck in 'take dad on a ride' on that list!  hahahaha

My LO was inspired by the sketch over at Stuck?! Sketches.

The paper was from FancyPants.  It was a very old sheet in my stash.  It was a bit dark for my picture, so I gesso'd over it a bit to tone it down.

The tire tracks are from a CTMH stamp as well as the EPIC; the latter is from Reel Life.

The gears were cut from Artiste and the ATV from Dude!

In addition to going over to Stuck?! Sketches, this is my 4/20 layouts for Scrapbook Layouts.

My Valentine

 Sometimes my LO's are inspired by themes, sometimes by music, and other times by sketches.  Then there are times when it's inspired by all of the above!

This LO is sort of a look back.  I love those lyrics; they are from Wayne Watson's song "What Are You Still Doin' Here?"  If you've not heard this song and are interested, here is a link.  This song pretty much sums up what we both feel!

Kelly and I have been friends since we were 12 years old.........that's about 40 years now!

We eloped, so we had pictures done soon after we were married.  The more recent photo was taken a year or so ago.

Now, if you see pics later of me in a wedding gown, it's because we later had our wedding blessed in church.  That's a whole other story........ So, on to this LO!


My sketch came from Sketchabilities.

I started this LO with a blank piece of Colonial White CS.  I stamped with a background stamp in Chocolate and Flaxen.  Then I grabbed some gesso, pearl metallic paint, and Chocolate re-inker and painted lightly over the entire piece.  Next, I pulled my music stamp and stamped that image around the page.

My cuts are as follows:
Vines:  Heritage
Lower right hand embellishment:  Heart cut from vinyl: Home Decor & Flourish: Teresa Collins December 25
Border and Hears:  Art Philosophy
Clock:  This cut was scanned into Design Space from the stamp set Key Moments.

CTMH Stamp sets include:  Key Moments, Fabulous You, Universal Backgrounds, and Love Life.

Ink colors:  Twilight, Chocolate, Flaxen, Slate, Archival Black, and Desert Sand

My LO is going off to:

Sentimental Sundays:  Wedding/Anniversary
Fantabulous Cricut:  Valentine's Day
Sketchabilities:  Sketch

This is also my 3/20 for the February Scrapbooking Layout Challenge on Facebook.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Music: Noel, Noel

I know it's time for Valentine's Day, but I'm scrapping some Christmas pictures right now.  What makes this even more interesting is this pic is from Christmas 2013.  Of course, the truth is there are pictures from much further back I could be scrapping!

The paper is Yuletide Carol from CTMH; I love the music paper.  The beautiful scroll/flourishes on the Ruby paper really adorns itself.  That makes this layout pretty quick!

The lace was colored with Chocolate re-inker mixed with alcohol and paint.  The black/script flowers were cut from a pattern from Art Philosophy; that fabric is CTMH as well as the antique gold pieces.

The lace and heart up in the corner along with the button and champagne colored flower are from Dress It Up, but I think these are retired.  I got them from a garage sale!  There's also a little strip of tulle gathered behind the photo.

Thanks for stopping by to check things out today!

Inspirational Challenges:

613 Avenue Create:  Anything Goes
Pile it On:  Music

This is also my 2/20 for the February Scrapbooking Layout Challenge on Facebook:  The challenge is to complete 20 layouts during February.  This is a closed group; however, I think anyone who enjoys scrapping can join!  Hey, they accepted me!  ; )

Home in the Country!

I just adore the 'country girl' who adorns this page!  She is like a 2nd daughter to me.  She works with me in my therapeutic horsemanship program, was in my daughter's wedding, and basically grew up with my kids!  I'm going to frame this layout and give it to her.

I was inspired by the picture to use CTMH Gypsy colored flowers.  Now the fun thing about these flowers are they are really the rowel off of the spurs from the Cricut cartridge Old West.  The horseshoe and barbed wire are also from that cartridge.

The paper is from CTMH Wanderful.  There is also a banner cut from CTMH Seaside.  Ink colors include:  Gypsy, Sweet Leaf, Honey, Saddle, Slate, Chocolate and Indian Corn Blue.  Stamps sets include:  Universal Backgrounds, Sweet and Lovely, Scandinavian Wishes, Genuine Country, Remarkable Wreath, Kudos and Family is Forever.  

Cricut cartridges include:  Old West, Art Philosophy, Ornamental Iron 2, and Pretty Pennants.

My country girl is headed off to these challenges:

613 Avenue Create:  Anything Goes

Scrap Our Stash:  WASHI  Ok, there's no washi tape, but here is the breakdown:  Wanderful paper, Art Philosophy cuts, Stamps and Seaside paper, Hat and Heart, Inks.  

Heart 2 Heart:  Home is Where the Heart Is and every country girl will tell you, her heart is in the country!

Now this is also my 1/20 for the February Scrapbooking Layout Challenge on Facebook:  The challenge is to complete 20 layouts during February.  This is a closed group; however, I think anyone who enjoys scrapping can join!  Hey, they accepted me!  ; )

If you are interested in the products I used, you can head over to my daughter's site (KatiesCorner) to do some shopping!  There is a promotion on the scrapbooks this month.  I ordered a couple yesterday and can't wait to see them.  

Thanks for visiting!  

  

A Little Sunshine and Sarcasm!

CAS, CAS, hmmmmm.......oh yeah, clean and simple.  I remember now.  I haven't done much in that style lately......at least I don't think I have.  I have a skewed image of exactly what my style is.  I think I dabble so much I really don't have a style....or maybe that IS a style!  I don't know.  

Anyway, maybe this is CAS?  

For me, CAS is hard!  There are those immaculate white cards out there with a lovely sentiment on it and they are gorgeous.  Yes, I've tried that.  Cut the CS.  Great.  Stamp the image.  Super.  Adhere it to the card base.  WAIT!!!  Where did that smudge come from???  It wasn't there a minute ago.  Yee gads, now I need to add an embellishment.  Ok, still clean and simple.  Whew, saved..........what the..... I didn't smear that glue when I added that tiny embellishment to cover the smudge.  How did that happen.  Ok, I'll save it by removing this tiny...... crikey, I just tore it.  Think, think.....alright it's not a lost cause, I can add..........  

Before it's over, it's turned into shabby chic or something!  ; )

You get the picture of my attempt at a CAS project!  The color dare over at Color My Heart helped me out on this project.  Not much to say; it was pretty........simple!  

Slate Fundamental CS for the base cut with Artfully Sent.  The cut sentiment is from Artbooking and the sun is from Art Philosophy.  I stamped using the Curlicue Alphabet on Daisy White.  The hearts on the sun are from Whooo's Your Valentine.  I heat embossed them.  

And now for the embellishment list........(this is usually a long list for me) 4 little Epoxy Bubbles.  

I think this will be the Valentine for my son.  I think he'll like this since it borders on his school colors.

So, there it is and it's off to:

Heart 2 Heart:  CAS

Color My Heart:  Daisy White, Slate, and Canary

StuckOnUSketches:  Warm and Cozy Die Cuts

Card closed

Kokopelli goes CTMH

  

Ok, over at Heart 2 Heart we are challenged to use our "Birthday Color."  There is a color assigned to each month and my color is Sunset!

Being a musician by trade, I really have a certain affinity for Kokopelli.  I'm not sure what it is about this guy, but........

This past Christmas my daughter got the most wonderful present from her in-laws; she received 3 or 4 large boxes full of stamps, buttons, stencils, ink pads, etc.  They had been to a garage sale and a woman must have sold all her crafting supplies in one lump to them!  Woo hoo, lucky Katie.  

It turned into lucky me, because she is sharing!  So for this card I used my 'new to me' Kokopelli stamp with all CTMH goodies.  

CTMH Sarita and Hopscotch

 Kraft card base

 Baker's Twine Sunset

CTMH Ink colors 

CTMH Aqua Dots

My little Kokopelli is marching off to Heart 2 Heart for the birthday color challenge.  

Seriously

Sometimes all the planning in the world doesn't prepare you for a 4 year old at a wedding!  But, that's ok because the sentiment says it all!  Life really doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful!  

This page was inspired by a few challenges:

Color My Heart:  White Daisy, Archival Black, Indian Corn Blue and Silver

Pile It On:  Hearts and/or Flowers

Sentimental Sundays:  Anything Goes opt New Beginnings (wedding)

613 Avenue:  Anything Goes 

Cricut Cuts are from:  Art Philosophy and Home Decor Vinyl Wall Art.

All fabrics, card stocks and paper (For Always) are CTMH.

Flowers were made from the wedding flower-girl petals and left over gems, beads, etc.  

CTMH Stamp sets include:  Curlique Frames, In the Background, and Seal-Love

The homemade stencil was cut from Pretty Pennants.

I made my embellishments, printed the pics, and
laid it out onto the card stocks.

After placing it all, I decide where I want my stenciling,
stamping, and made adjustments.  As you can see
from the final projects, I never stick to the
original plans!  

Close ups of the embellishments.  The little camera
is from the CTMH Base and Bling collection.
The blue flowers were actually used in the
wedding!

This fabric is from CTMH.  It was part of the
For Always collection.  The buttons were from
my stash.  The gem is also CTMH along with the silver
shimmer trim in the 2nd photo!   

This layout had a couple of "new to me" techniques.  The floral border on the blue was done by stenciling a tone on tone.  I've done this before, but I've not done so much of it on one piece to achieve a border.  I also did something a little different on the white page.  I stamped the flowers from In the Background stamp with Daisy White Ink.  Then I smudged over it with silver pigment ink.  This is a technique I want to experiment with further.  I liked parts of it, but other parts got a little darker than I may have originally intended.  I'm always learning; that's what is so fun about this for me.  Sometimes when crafting, I need to remember the sentiment on this page!  ; )

Thanks for coming by today!

Perfect Soup Weather!

Close to My Heart has a Weather Inspired Card challenge on their Facebook page.  I thought I'd play along!  My daughter and I went out for lunch today; it was perfect weather for soup and sandwiches.  So the weather inspired my lunch and this card!  haha

Since this is for a CTMH challenge, I decided I only wanted to use CTMH products.  I couldn't find a spoon and cup/bowl image for my card.  I was determined, so I created my own from the images you see on the left.  These cuts are all from Art Philosophy.  I welded the key and ornament and then did a little fussy cutting.  I also welded the droplet to the vase and cut off the top of the vase.  My steam is one of the flourish cuts.  

My soup is cut from the Hopscotch paper and then inked over in Chocolate ink.  It looks a little like a rice soup!  

I have done some images like this before with CTMH shapes.  If you are interested, here are links to those posts:  Cricut Cuts with a Twist and Charlie and Snoopy Make Me Happy!  

Everything is from CTMH

CS and Papers:  Colonial White, Hopscotch, Cocoa, Fundamentals, and Whisper

Inks:  Slate, Colonial White, Sky, Chocolate and Twilight 

White Embossing Powder and Twilight Marker

Stamp sets:  Love Life and Cup of Cheer

Cartridge:  Art Philosophy

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the weather here!  ; )

Boiler Up!!

My wonderful son gave his dad and me tickets to a Purdue basketball game for Christmas.  I have never been to a college game.  Yes, I went through 4 years of college and NEVER went to a sporting event.  It's true!

So, this was a new experience for me.

We had a great time and I even got into the game.  I have yet to learn the school song.  You'd think after two kids going there and a husband who graduated from PU I'd know that song, but......

I have to say, I was probably more into the pep band!  They sounded great....especially for a school full of engineers and ag students!  There are no music majors at Purdue.

Anyway, we had to document the afternoon with a pic of Keith, and when there's a picture, there's a scrapbook page!  hahahaha  Next time we are taking pics at PU it will probably be graduation.  Wow, time flies!

Thanks to Stuck?! Sketches for a great layout that was perfect for my pic and tickets!