Winter.Snow.

Well, it certainly been a long time since I last blogged. Sometimes it feels life's activities get in the way .... and also my very busy 2 year old. This was a class I took from Urban by Roxanne of course. This year Roxannes theme for her classes is using sketches. She of course also still incorporates new techniques into each layout. Roxanne gets her sketches from a well-known websites, Page Maps by Becky Fleck. The sketches are organized by month and by sketch type. They are very easy to navigate and you can also view a sample page beside each sketch. This one is the 12x12 double page sketch from March 2011. The paper line she used was "The Yellow Bicycle"...beautiful paper. Details that made this layout unique were the little handmade pine cones (which I had a little bit of trouble making) and the many different ways we inked and embossed the snowflakes. Very fun class to take. 

Roxannes interpretation of Becky 

Fleck sketch and put together 

by Rhonda Witzke

Adore..

Brrr....I am SO ready for some nice weather and SOON!! This has definitely felt like the longest winter ever! 
That has been pretty much the consensus that I have been hearing from everyone! Everyone is ready for summer..... I wonder if mother nature knows that spring is suppose to be in 2 weeks...I think she missed that memo.

Well Timm and I found out that Raydn likes embossing powder, Raydn got into my room and found the bright glittery blue embossing powder and dumped it all over himself and then went to find dad. All I heard was "honey, Raydn has glitter ALL over him!"... I never knew that he was so good at unscrewing lids..oh those fingers, get into everything. I'm sure it won't be the last thing he does. I finally got child locks for my ribbon draws and cabinets so it keeps him out. He sure wasn't impressed though ;p

This layout "Adore" turned out totally differently than the picture I had in my head. I was going to go with blue and ended up more green. I used dark blue, olive green and gold glimmer mist on the flower,  the big iridescent leaves and the ribbon. Glimmer misting has got to be one of my favourite techniques to use, there are just SO many pretty colours. I liked the technique that I used on my last layout with the pearls on the grungeboard so I thought I would try it on chip board. Again I used the green and gold pearls. My new cricket cartridgesarrived, so I used the cartridge "serenade" for the bird cage and lettering.... such a great cartridge. I love my cricket, it seems as soon as I got it I can't stop scrapbooking. The best gift EVER!!!
The only thing I forgot to do was I wanted to gold glimmer mist the bird paper before I put anything on it....opps! Thats the 2nd time I did that.
This paper"twigs" by The Yellow bicycle was awesome, I feel in love with it as soon as I saw it. So cute!!!

Well I hope everyone survives this cold weather and stays warm. I had to laugh when I heard on the news that someone suggested if everyone turns on their bbq's and opens the lids....maybe it would kick global warming into high gear. lol. Well one can hope. Hehehe. Take care everyone!

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