My Life on Paper: Southern Ridge Trading Company

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween! Cut Shoppe Giveaway and Sale!!

Good Morning and Happy Halloween!!

I'm sad to say that this is my very last post for The Cut Shoppe. I had a blast being a part of that team and I just love working with their cut files! They really are awesome!! Speaking of awesome, a bunch of girls from the team got together to give you all some Halloween inspiration over at The Cut Shoppe Blog! There's also a giveaway there too!

For my layout I used the Bumpy Night cut file for my title and I cut it out with AC POW Glitter paper. It cuts amazingly in the Cameo!! I cut the title out twice. Once with the glitter paper and once just with black and offset them when I glued them together to give the title a bit of a shadow. I love this effect.

I love this small black chipboard spiderweb from Southern Ridge that I placed just behind my photo! It's so intricately cut, it's just so cool!

The giant spiderweb is part of the Tangled Web background cut file. I enlarged it and cut it out in black and then backed with some fun orange wood grain paper!

How cute are this ghost and bat?! They're from the same pack of goodies from Southern Ridge as the spiderweb! I painted them each and added some glitter to them and I love how fun they look!

You'll want to head over to The Cut Shoppe now and check out all the other AMAZING DT's Halloween layouts! When you're there, be sure to enter the giveaway, and there's also a SALE going on on all the Halloween cut files from now until November 3rd!!

Have a great Halloween!! Don't forget to keep your pets inside today!!

Blessings

Friday, October 17, 2014

Glitter Deer

Happy Friday Everyone!! I was up on the Southern Ridge blog the other day sharing probably the only Christmas card I'll make this year!! lol

lol I'm not a card maker, but when I saw these awesome chipboard deer from Southern Ridge I knew I wanted to make a Christmas card with him!

Now, I'll tell you all a little story about how this adorable deer came about...I started off wanting to paint him white...so I did...then I didn't like it on the background, so I thought he would be cool to be embossed with pewter embossing powder! So I went about making him...then my heat gun sparked and died :( Sooooo...I thought I'd try my Jamberry heater....it wasn't hot enough...but I've embossed with an iron before...only I don't own one! HA! The jig is up! I don't iron my clothes!@ lol I DO however own a flat iron...so...I thought I'd try that! I tested it out on a scrap piece of paper and it worked awesomely....but a piece of paper is a lot thinner than a piece of chipboard...sooooo....I tried it anyway...and it worked....kinda....but a little bit TOO good! lol it melted the embossing powder in places...So now I'm left with a pewter, whiteish dripping mess of a deer! lol My last resort was to cover it in glue and use this amazing Distress Glitter that I am ashamed to say I've had since it came out and haven't opened! Well, I think it kind of saved the day don't you?! I'm in love with my little deer again! And it doesn't look like the bad guy sidekick to the Terminator (ya know...melting molten metal? no? lol)

The background was done using Hero Arts Daubers and just dabbing them on the background randomly...I think I'm in love with it! lol

Well there you have it! I hope you like it! :) Have an awesome weekend!!

Blessings

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Clique Kits Pep Rally and Southern Ridge DT!

Good Morning Everyone!!

I hope you're as excited for the Clique Kits Blog Share as I am!! I have loved playing with this kit soooo much! It's so full of awesomeness I can barely handle it!!

I have a bit of a funny story about how this project came about...yesterday, I realized it was the 23rd of September...which means the blog share is the next day...THEN I realized that I hadn't made anything for it yet! AAAKKK!! Soooo, once the kids were in bed I got to playing with my kit and deciding what I wanted to do...well, you know when you're in a hurry and nothing ever works out for you? Yup! That was me last night! I couldn't get my pictures to print, and my computer was totally glitching out on me! Then at midnight, the baby woke up...so I went downstairs to our bedroom (because that's the only place he will sleep!) to nurse him...and guess what?! I fell asleep too!! I woke up again at 4 am when my husband's alarm clock went off! HA! So, in true hardcore scrapper fashion, I woke up to finish my project!! LOL!! This seriously could only happen to me!! LOL!!

I definitely think it was worth getting up early for...what do you think?! ;)

I wanted to make this for my oldest son Ethan. He is such an amazing big brother! I also know that now I have to make 3 more of these too! lol I got this fabulous wooden frame from Southern Ridge Trading Company. I am totally in love with it! It even comes with the squares that were cut out so you can use them for another project!!

Here are some close ups:

Not everything was from my kit. I used some Epiphany Crafts chevrons, the wood veneer, frame, and chipboard pieces are from Basic Grey and there's a couple little cards from my stash :)

This alphabet that I used is a brand new one (not even released quite yet!! You can look for it in the store tomorrow!! You're welcome for the sneak peek!! lol) from The Cut Shoppe!! I'm in LOVE with it!!!