Grungy Glitter Technique

Good morning everyone!

I found this new-to-me technique while working with some chipboard. I always felt glitter was so pretty it needed to have a full and solid coat but did you know that sometimes a little goes a long way? I thought I would dive into a couple of techniques over the next few projects that would add just the right amount of glitz.

In this LO I also used some Bronze, Ritzy Ditzy Glitz and spritzed the bottom corners of the center pink paper to add more "Grunge".

For a good solid coat of glitter on chipboard I have always used Wonder Film. It makes a spectacular finish. But on this layout I was distressing a lot with my inks and felt it I wanted a distressed title due to the subject matter (this is a pet that is no longer with us). So I took out my Helmar Gemstone Glue (It wont cloud Gemstones and I figured it would be a good glue to use with glitter) put a little pile of it on my splat mat and started painting it onto my letters with my finger. Making sure to get different thicknesses and not always getting the edges. Dusting it immediately with chocolate Glitter Glitz made this title just the way I want it. Still tons of glitz but with a kinda grungy, distressed look around the edges.

I am so organized now in my scrappy space that I have been able to make my projects so much faster. Finding everything I need where it should be saves so much time it allows me to play with my products a bit more. Below I am showing you some of the ribbon and doily flowers I made for this LO. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Scrapping and hope you get some time to be creative today! Share with me the link if you do. I love to see peoples projects!

~ Grace ~

Glitter makes everything Better! Designer Purse Invitation

"Glitter makes everything Prettier, Mommy!" explained my sweet 5 year old daughter after I noticed multiple dashes of red glitter throughout the house. She had taken the glitter from her craft box (not my good PK Glitz Glitter, thank goodness) and had sprinkled it in places like the hallway, the bathroom counter, her daddy's computer keyboard, the guinea pig cage and about eight other locations in our home.

I am telling this story because yesterday was my daughters 6th birthday. Even though she got in trouble that summer day, she was right, Glitter makes everything Prettier... especially P K Glitz Glitter! I added that last part.

Here are my darling diva's birthday invitations to prove it!

There is so much P K Glitz products in these. I used the P K Glitz Sticky Paper with the cricut to make the logos, which are her initials "TL". I glittered them with Black, P K Glitter Glitz. The "Your Invited" on the front of the invitation insert was done the same way only with Silver, P K Glitter Glitz. I used the Quickie Glue Pen by Sakura over her name where it was signed at the bottom of the invitation info. I glitzed it up with some Silver, P K Glitter Glitz and POP! it went...

I used 1/8", 1/4" and 1/2" P K Glitz Sticky Tape. The 1/8" was used on the silver paper buckle then glittered with Silver, P K Glitter Glitz. The 1/4" was used to adhere the pieces together all around the purse. The 1/2" Sticky Tape was used to adhere the thick black satin ribbon around the top of the purse. This product, and the multiple sizes it comes in, made this project so easy to assemble since I made 20 of them for her to hand out.

See, Glitter does make everything prettier!

~ Grace ~

Windsome Eyes

Happy New year! I am going to as of this date, and my first Layout of 2009, upload all of these to my blog as well as the descriptions.
This is my beautiful darling daughter on a wonderful day out on the lake. She loves the camera and was posing for me while we were out on the boat. The trip was so wonderful. We spent the weekend with dear friends and our little family.
I was inspired by a challenge on Scrapbook.com for this Layout. It is a great weekly challenge I participate in a lot so you will hear me mention it over and over again on this blog. The Challenge for this week was the start of a new round of the ABC challenge. Each week three letters of the alphabet are used to inspire three elements of a LO. They could be a technique or a shape or anything the hostes can think of that would be used on a LO. This weeks letters were ABC:

• A – Alphabet, you must use letters as embellishments on your layout. You must use at least five random letters, but there is no max limit. The letters cannot spell a word. (Your title and journaling do not count.) - Letters Used are STZGF All in and around the flowers and flourishes.
• B – Black, you must use paper with the color black on it. - I used an embossed black for the two circles behind the pic corners.
• C – Chalk, you must use chalk in some way on your layout. - This is not my best chalking job but I used them in my LO by taking a light brown chalk to the flowers to tone them down so they coordinate better with the PP I chose.

The title was inspired by another challenge called Word of the month Challenge for Jan - the word is:

• Winsome (win-some): – adjective - sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging: a winsome smile.

The journaling reads:
Your eyes glisten like the sun on the ... breaking waves of Lake New Hogan, CA.

The Details:
Top Right:
The background was created with a black marble rub-on from EK Success. Here in the pic you can see the detailing of the large flower/alpha cluster. These alphabets are from the Target 1$ bin for their valentine line. The flowers are also 1$ from the dollar store and the gold brad centers are from Stampin' up. The gold flourishes were cut from a 3" wide christmas ribbon left over from a present.

Bottom left:
In This detail you can see the secondary patterned paper from a costco paper pack. This shape was free handed with three sides shaped like the brackets {}. I perfer to freehand a lot of my shapes to customise the size of them as well as making my layouts unique to me. I inked the edge of it with a navy blue. You can also see in this pic the smaller flower cluster. This is Created the same way as the larger one just placed to bring your eye down to the title. The "windosme" was created by inking chipboard black and blinging it up with a few blue stars. I also used my favorite pen ever... the Zig Painty gold and silver oil pen. This was just to soften up the edges of these leters.

Bottom Right:
Here you can see the black embossed paper that was used to qualify this layout for the ABC challenge. I lightly ran a gold inkpad over the top of it to catch the embossed design and give it a litte glimmer. It was then outlined with the Zig Painty. Also notice the picture was framed with a blue and white ric rack.

Thank you all for looking I hope you enjoyed it.

Update: This LO won the ABC challenge 1st place. Top 3 in the Jan Rub-on challenge out of 38.