Loves Rubberstamps "Sensational Sunday" Blog Hop featuring TGF "Surfer Ian"

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $10 Loves Rubberstamps store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love for the Designers! You have until Saturday, August  17, at 8pm CST. Have fun and we hope that you enjoy the hop!

If you've arrived here from Lydia's blog you are right on track! If not, I have posted the whole blog hop list below just in case you get lost along the way!

Is everyone having a great weekend so far?  It's finally been a relaxing Saturday for me.  With no big events going on and out of town family leaving earlier this week, it's been nice and calm.  However, I know it's the "calm before the storm" with school starting in a few weeks and back to hectic schedules! Yikes!!! LOL  I still have Back to School shopping to do, soccer and baseball practices starting up again and holidays here before we know it!!!  Okay, I think I'm getting a little ahead of myself but  just sayin'! LOL Well as long as I get some time for crafting which is my #1 stress reliever these days, I'm good to go! :)  Anyways, this week I did something a little different for your Sunday inspriation.  I decided to make an 8x8 scrapbook layout and here it is...

I actually started a mini album of my son, Ryan's,  Jr. Lifeguard program last year.  He's already completed his session this year but of course I'm still playing catch up!  So I had a few extra random pictures and decided to make a scrapbook layout which I have not done in soooooooo long!  It totally reminded me of how I miss making layouts and capturing those special memories.  I do have Project Life to get started on but I think I will still continue to make layouts from time to time.

So the star of my project is of course my handsome son, Ryan! :)  But the other star is this adorable image from The Greeting Farm called "Surfer Ian".   After stamping cute Ian up with my Memento ink in Black Tuxedo, I colored him up with my Copic Sketch markers.  The fun papers I used for this layout are from Fancy Pants called "Wave Searcher".  It is such a fun beach collection and as you can see I also cut out some of the images from the papers such as the Tiki Statues, the banner, the beach sign, journal card and the wave peeking out behind the pictures. I edged all of the papers including the cutouts in my Tim Holtz distress ink in Broken China.  I wanted to add some additional embellishments so I used some La La Land Die cuts in the Wave Border and the Sun from the Sun, Cloud Island set.  I also added some shell and starfish Jolee's Boutique dimensional stickers throughout the layout.  I added some twine and button on the top corner as a hanger for the small banner. 

Please be sure to check out the Loves Rubberstamps store to find crafting supplies used on this project.  Also check out the Loves Rubberstamps blog to see what the rest of the design team made and to also have a chance to win some vouchers from the store.

I'm entering this into the TGF FFF-Anything Goes Challenge

Hope you all like my inspiration project and thanks so much for stopping by!

Your next stop on the hop is Ivonne!

Here is this week's roster:

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog

Dangina

Athina

Shanna

Lydia

Marcy--You are here!

Ivonne

Mixed Media Art Layout

Happy Saturday and hope everyone is having a great weekend!  I wanted to share my 1st Mixed Media layout this weekend which I made for a challenge!  It was a lot of work but so much fun using paints, stencils. water color pencils and glitter sprays!  It definitely got messy at times! Lol!  I started out by layering some random CC paper on 12x12 heavy chipboard.  I distressed around the paper and also added white paint from Martha Stewart in "Wedding Cake" around the edges.  I used the Crafters Workshop stencil called "Mini Flowers" and stenciled this with white gesso on each corner of the layout.  I then sprayed over it with Tattered Angels "Sweet Clover", "Vintage Pink" and "Gold" glimmer mists.  I wanted to define some of the flowers a little more so I used my watercolor pencils in teal and blue to quickly color in some of the petals for those flowers.  I then used my water paintbrush pen from Lindy Stamp Gang to paint over it to blend the colors and give it a softer look.  The second stencil I used was a small butterfly from TA.  I sprayed the same glimmer mist colors over the stencil and then stamped the corresponding butterfly stamp over it as well.  I used some additional MS acrylic paints  in "Peppermint Bark" to edge the title and to use in some random stamping with a Studio K mini background stamp.  I also used MS paints in "Sky Blue" and "Scallion" with some bubble wrap to stamp randomly in spots around the butterfly.  The corrugated board behind the pictures is from a box I cut up.  With the piece I used, I took off the top layer so that the corrugated part was exposed. I painted over this with the white paint and then again glimmer misted on top of it.  I also added a layer of TA Glimmer Glam in "Chandalier" to give it even more glitter and shine.  The flowers are from I am Roses and Recollections.  The music paper was just from my stash.  I tore a piece of it and then added it below the picture. I sprayed over it with TA "Gold" and also edged it a little with some TH distress ink in "Walnut".  I'm also going to give this to my mom as part of her birthday present so I hope she likes it.  I hope you all like it too! :)  Have a great rest of the weekend and thanks so much for stopping by my blog! :)

Beach page from Scrap Journal

Hello! I feel like I haven't really been doing many cards lately and I've recently joined Bona's group on Facebook where I'm creating a journal using scraps.  I've completed a few pages of my journal and wanted to share this page because I really like the way it came out.  I also love this picture of my son, Ryan boogie boarding at the beach.  He was so happy when I caught this on film! :)  I painted some of the background in a few different acrylic blue paints from the Martha Stewart collection.  I layered pieces of my "scraps" from the Bo Bunny "Barefoot and Bliss" collection.  The crab and shell were some Tattered Angels chipboard pieces which I shimmered up with TA "Patina" and "Moonlight".  I used some Tim Holtz distress ink in "Broken China" too.  I love the way they came out.  Hope to share more projects soon!  Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by! :)

My Scrap Journal

Rainy days are perfect for scrapping! :)  I joined Bona's Scrap journal group on FB recently which I'm totally excited about!  This journal group uses all "scraps" to make a journal which is an awesome idea.  I'm such a paper hoarder and hate to throw away anything so this is perfect for me! :) I've had no time this week to craft but was finally able to get my cover for my journal completed last night. I used all the leftover scraps from the Glitz "Pretty in Pink" collection.  I can't believe with all the projects I've done with that paper recently, I still have extra!! I'll have to make another card or something! Lol  The banner, butterflies, scalloped borders and birdcage die cuts are from MFT.  The pink flower on the top corner is from Kaiser Craft, the rosette trim on the side is from Frog Feathers on Etsy.  The 2 small brown clay rosettes and pink daisies are Recollections.  Everything else is I am Roses.  The brown daisy I sprayed with "Chocolate Truffle" from LSG.  I also used powdered mica in Rose from LSG to paint up the small rosette holding the birdcage.  I sprayed the crochet  flowers with "Cherub Pink" from Tattered angels.  I like how that came out with a subtle hint of pink. So enjoy your weekend and thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs, Marcy