Memories...

Can you believe it? Spring is here (lets hope)!!!! Put away the touques, mittens and winter jackets....lets hope mother nature doesn't make me a liar now! I can't even begin to explain how wonderful it has been to be able to play outside again. This weekend especially; we had Raydns  play-date (11 kids) in our front driveway with all the summer toys (chalk, bikes, quad, games and bubbles) , it was amazing!! Raydn had such a great time. I learned in the last week  though that my little man is a little puddle jumper...and a pro I must say. He was soaked head to toe because he would sit in the puddles..needless to say his outside attire now consists of rain pants, rubber boots and a rain jacket. What a kid!

On Thursday night I also had the "Year in Review Class" for March with the lovely Roxanne.  I must say the layout was amazing and there were some really cool techniques. We used Rangers color wash and boy oh boy is it a messy product. Ya stained fingers...not really great for the gel nails ;) Color wash reminds me of glimmer mist but without the glitter and it is more concentrated in colour. Such an amazing product though, we sprayed it on the corners of the paper and also on all the flowers. It gave the flowers a antiqued look, depending on how close you spray it, you could have concentrated areas or just by spraying water makes the colour bleed and lighter. When it dries it looks amazing. No 2 flowers looked the same. We also used a product called Mya Resist which was pretty cool. With this product you draw it on your paper, let it dry then spray over it (in this case we used color wash). After your paper is dry you rub off the mya resist and viola...you have the design in the colour of the paper below...pretty neat stuff!!
It just amazes me to how Roxanne comes up with these neat ideas.....pretty talented lady!!

Did you notice that these pictures weren't of Raydn....lol. There is a first for everything! These pictures were taken at Pierce lake and a lake way up North in the Canadian Shield (I can't remember the name of it though). Such a great feeling to sit on the fishing boat and watch the sunset....breathtaking!! The bottom picture (below) was of my first shore lunch...another great memory...ahhhh the taste of summer!

Below is the color wash sprayed over the mya resist. Very cool look!

Designed and created by Roxanne Olsen

Put together by Rhonda Witzke



Spring

Hello all... It has been a really, really long time since I have been on here. The last month and a half have been pretty crazy at the Witzke house. Raydn was sick 3 times (so a very tired Mom and Dad), then Timm and then me. We also made a trip to Medicine hat to visit family and Raydns play group has been insanely busy!! That has not left any time for scrapbooking. This layout "Spring" has sat for literally a month on my scrapbook table (well not quite but it has felt that long)....I quickly finished it today and so glad because by this time I lost all interest in it....on to something new :)
On the bright side, as I am sitting here writing this, the sun has actually peaked out.....I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!! It has felt like 3 months of overcast. Snow, snow go away!! I think I will have to take advantage of this day and go enjoy a walk with my favourite little man :)

Designed and created 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!

Designed and created by Rhonda Witzke

Say Cheese...

It was the perfect Sunday to be scrapbooking, got 4 inches of snow in the past 2 days. Nice day to be inside. Fortunately, on Saturday it was only -2 so we got some snowmobiling in on the field across the street with Raydn.....some much needed fresh air!!! When you get a day like that lately, you have got to jump on it; there has not been to many. Another reason why I got this layout done, Timm was actually off the whole weekend (that has been rare) and Raydn was occupied.
In this layout I used old potpourri ( it has no smell), I was looking for a "rustic" look....to go with the outdoor pics and was super excited when I found the potpourri. I ended up glimmer misting them with olive green glimmer mist to match the paper. This shows you can scrapbook with just about anything lol. On the first page, I braided some brown and green ribbon onto the picture and tied the bows within the potpourri. For the lettering I used grunge board, inked them with distress ink and then brushed them with some perfect pearls (green and gold). I also added the perfect pearls on the picture edges, on the tops of the potpourri and on the buttons.

Page 1- My intrepation of a Swirlydoos sketch

Page 2- My own to match

These pictures were taken in Edson, AB by one of my good friends while we were camping July long weekend 2010.  She is currently setting up a business "Krystal Clear Photography"....super talented girl!!! Not afraid to get in the trees and dirt to get that perfect picture!!! Its amazing how she got him to pose (well....he HAS had a bit of practice). This was such a fun day!!!!

I also have to post the layout I did by Roxanne (Urban Scrapbook) last week. All I can say that I have NEVER used so much glitter in my whole life. When I got home, Timm had a good chuckle because I was SO sparkely. You should have seen my work station...not pretty..or VERY pretty depending on how you look at it. Very interesting in all the different ways she used it though. I love glitter but the thing I dislike about it, is it usually still gets everywhere after its applied. I learned ways where that does not happen :P  I also learned a double application technigue to apply 2 colours of glitter within eachother. Super cool!

Happily Ever After...

You know as much as I love to be in the house scrapbooking, I would absolutely love some warm weather!!! Trying to keep a 18 month old busy some days is just not very successful. You can only take so many pictures that look the same because Raydn's wearing the same winter jacket and you have the same white background!!!  Time for some heat to melt the snow and bring out the suntan lotion.... but right now I think I even settle for spring...less than a month away :) Time is not moving fast enough... Speaking of time..

For me, its hard to believe that my husband and I will be married for 5 years this July and this is first wedding layout I have done of us. Our wedding day was a VERY hot (+30) day (dreaming about it right now..), in these pictures we were dying from the heat but I say we held our composure rather well...I think the champagne helped a bit though. lol.
This layout is what you would call an experiment.......I tried some sewing and some different techniques. Haha, you could say that sewing is definitely is not my forte. Couldn't sew a straight line if my life depended on it, also the "sewing machine" I have is about a foot long by maybe a foot high (a mini one), so I am limited to where my paper fits on it. Never less I had fun trying anyways :)
I also tried a technique I had learned last year..I took tissue paper, stamped it and then glued it onto my paper with "rock candy crackle paint". What happens is, your stamped tissue paper becomes really shinny. The only thing with this, is when it dries, your paper becomes warped ....well mine did because I crackle painted a rather large area. 
Ahh yes..flowers..I am going to try REALLY, REALLY hard on my next layout NOT to use flowers. I just love them though, I can't help it and I have to try not to make a clump of them on my page (I know I do that quite often too..).  On theses flowers though, I pressed them on black ink and then mini misted them with water so the ink would blend and run creating a softer look.
One reason why I was so excited to start this black and white layout (our wedding colours), was all the black and shinny bling, bling I found. I used jewels, black/silver stars and  black chandelier jewels...a nice touch.

Designed and created by Rhonda Witzke