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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Another Scrapbooky Silhouette Sunday

Hi there!  I had planned on only doing Silhouette Sunday every other week because of my Squigglefly Design Team's cards needing to be published to the Squigglefly blog every other Monday, but I did find time during an extreme cold spell that kept me indoors to work on some scrap booking.  I hadn't really decided what I wanted to do with the pictures that were next in my stack to scrap so I decided to do something with the photos of Burger my wire hair fox terror (um, terrier), AKA my juvenile delinquent.
Erin over on the DCWV blog provides a sketch once a month and I decided to use that to create my page.  As are most of my pages, it's pretty simple.  I wanted some fun and funky colors  but I didn't want to go too bold and overshadow the pics of The Burg.  I used some white core paper and used my sanding block to add some grunge and I heavily distressed the edges of the photo mats.  Burger is just so mischievous and, I swear, part goat ---- he can climb almost anything and eats almost anything, so those elements seemed perfect.  I cut lettering with the Cameo and also used the sketch feature to put paw prints on the brown paper.  Nothing fancy at all, but the page really worked well to mirror my boy.  Thanks for stopping by!

Friday, January 27, 2012

Knit Happens!

Hello again!  Thanks for coming back for another sneak peek.  Today I have a cute and funny Squigglefly image called Knit Happens by Fawn Palmer.  Have you ever knitted, crocheted, or sewn something and it came out ALL WRONG? This image captures that moment so well :-)  I printed my image and colored with Copics and messed around with the basket of yarn and messed it up.  So the only way I could save the work I had already finished was to re-size and reprint.  Enlarging the basket, cutting it out and popping it up off the card base with some Pop Dots allowed me to cover my mistake; it also gave the card a different perspective, making the perplexed knitter appear to be standing somewhat behind the basket of yarn.  Sometimes mistakes turn out to be your ticket to a better composition!  I distressed the background paper, added "What?" to the card front and some knitting needles and ball of yarn from my cut files to the inside along with the Knit Happens sentiment and called it finished.
One of the Design Team members has put together a fabulous PDF tutorial on how to re-size your digital images using Serif Page Plus. Check it out here!  Charlene did a fabulous job and makes the process very easy to understand.


Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget, tomorrow is release day at Squigglefly.  Stop by and check out all the fabulous new images being released.  Hugs, Shawna

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Sneak Peek with a Pig

Squigglefly's releasing new images on Saturday and I have a sneak peek for you with Dancing Pig.  I had so much fun creating with this little porker.  She is colored with Copics and I added some silver bling to the dots on her dress with a Viva Glitter pen.  I also added little flower brads to "hold her down" -  she is so happy! And do you want to know why she is so happy?  HAPPINESS .......... "is knowing chocolate is good for you.  But that's a distant 2nd compared to having you for a friend." Thanks so much for stopping today.  I will have another sneak peek for you tomorrow.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Scrapbooking with the Silhouette

Hi all!  Another Silhouette Sunday and today I have a scrapbook page.  I almost saved it for later in the year as it is an Easter page, but as far behind as I am I will probably have a more current Easter page to show you by that time.  :-)
I just love the picture of my oldest son with my youngest grandson and Zachary  was very excited to be coloring eggs with daddy!
Even though this is an Easter page and I always think pastels for Easter, I didn't want the page to appear girly so I went with a palette of browns with a little bling and one pop of color.  I think it was successful.
The mat with the gold fleur de lis pattern and the turquoise circle were so easy to size and cut with the Cameo.  I am loving the 12" platform!!!  The journaling box is simply a smaller cut of the mat  file and I used the sketch pen option to add the information on the paper before cutting it out. To sketch you simply replace the blade with a sketch pen, choose your font and wording and away you go.  Easy peasy!
Thank you so much for taking time out of your weekend to visit Paper Kisses and Inky Wishes.  It means a lot to me.  Hugs, Shawna

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Spammers

have gotten hold of my Paper Kisses and Inky Wishes url and I am forced to ask those of you who are inclined to comment on my blog to deal with having to use word verification.  I didn't want to do this, but I don't want a lot of spam either.  Perhaps at some point down the road I can eliminate it.  So sorry!
On the bright side, there's still time to play along in this week's Squigglefly challenge (Buttons), and I am sure  Rhonda's Rowdy Rascals are hard at work gearing up for next week's challenge. Enjoy your weekend!

Monday, January 16, 2012

First DT Squigglefly card

for Holley Hobbyists!  The theme is buttons. The card could include any winter themed image that needs a coat OR go totally in the other direction and include any fun card that uses buttons on it or button type embellishments such as button brads, button stamps, button images, button printed ribbon, etc.  Being the renegade I am I chose to go totally in the other direction and not only use a FUN image, but also an abundance of buttons. 
I adore these new images from Squigglefly's new artist Fawn Palmer.  I was raised in a small farm environment and old Daphne reminded me of a brown Swiss cow we had named Mable.  Lordy, that was LONG time ago....................  I went all out decking my card out in buttons, but HAY! Why do anything half-heartedly, right?   




Love untraditional Valentines. If you are so inclined, get in on the fun and join the challenge at Squigglefly this week.  You could win a free image.

Have a wonderful week and don't forget to check out the Squigglefly blog next Monday and see what Rhonda's Rowdy Rascals have come up with.

Friday, January 13, 2012

New digi release at Squigglefly tomorrow

Tomorrow is Saturday and that means Squigglefly will be releasing new images.  Today I have a sneak peak for you; a darling image by new artist Monica Estilll entitled MouseHeartSwing  I LOVE this image; it is just so sweet and was quick and easy to color. I hope you will stop by  Squigglefly tomorrow and check out all the great new images they are bringing to the store.  And if you are new to digital stamps, remember they have some great video tutorials to help you get your feet wet and learn all bout the wonderful world of digi's.
Have a wonderful weekend!  Hugs, Shawna