A Page in Time!

(You can see in this picture I left it in the protector when I photographed it, it doesn't look all swirly white in real life)

My daughter Chesne went to the Seabreeze Prom here in Daytona. Her

picture was so beautiful I just had to make a scrap page with the New Presto Papers, my brayer and the New smooch sprays.

I started with layer of Barely banana- why you say? If you look at the picture... in the far left corner

it has some bushes among the greenery that is a light color. So I started with a very light layer of color, then I put a layer of Kiwi Kiss for a muted green because I knew I was going to have to use a bight green to draw out the stripes in her dress. So the next layer was Green Galore...WOW!! can you say bright! I was freaking out a bit... then I thought okay time to start smooching to bring this together.I started with the gold and vanilla blending it in with my sponge....still alittle bright then when I added the silver smooch spray and sponged it all over and alittle more vanilla on top of that it blended in and brought that deep vintage look I was going for that help draw out and blend with the black mat and the black in the dress.I can't tell you how long it has been since I have a picture that inspired me to scrapbook in what I call long form, you know I love my scrap tins...quick fast immediate gratification. But with these Presto Papers they are so awesome it really inspires me to create this page.

I was inspred by the post from Patty's Stampin Spot with Patty Bennett. I love the page she did of her grandmother! Go to http://pattystamps.com and check it out. My little girl is growing into a beautiful young woman. the best part is she is as beautiful on the inside as the out! God has blessed me beyond measure!

This photo lets you see a little closer view of the color scale and depth.
Without the shadows from the sheet protector.

I used my Seriff lowercase letter die cuts to do her name

Isn't this so elegant and beautiful!

This is so much fun!! Strongly suggest for a great time get all the smooch sprays and a pack of the presto papers and you will get inspired!!

May Technique Class

Our group is embarking on our series of technique classes. This is our technique book where they will paste the directions to the technique on one side and make a small version of the techniques to put on the other side .
This is the first card we made using several techniques, but focused on the Smooch Sprays and brayering. We brayered the image from the Presto Patterns DSP(SMC pg. 15 #117175) with Old Olive Ink, then spritzed it with the gold and vanilla smooch sprays.
Accessories:
CS: Old Olive, Whisper White, Presto Patterns Speciality DSP
Ink: Old Olive
Big Shot: Top Note, Lots of Tags sizzlits label
Stamp Set: Elements of Style (SMC pg.5 #118611-w )$27.95 order now and get a FREE set of brads!!
Accessories:Brayer, sponges, smooch sprays, color catcher, heat tool
Everyone loved playing with the smooch sprays. I gave each person a 4x5 piece of Presto Paper that they could test drive the smooch sprays to see which ones they would like to buy.

Then we did the bleaching technique!

Card stock:

Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, whisper white

Ink: same used the ink to paper water coloring technique

Stamp Sets: Elements of Style and Water color Trio

Big Shot: Sizzlits lots of tags ($21.95 pack of 4 labels IBC pg. 197#114508)
Two Tag die: (pg.198 IBC #115954) for the tag on the front which can be used as a book mark when taken off the card.

Butterfly embosslit ( OMC) ( can still be ordered)

Punches: Oval Scalloped, Cropadile

Ribbon: Dusty Durango & 1/4" choc chip

Deb Brown, Lynn Boyle & Sandra Heck working on their technique books

Debbie Forguson & Leslie Sharpe smooching & brayering their Presto papers!!

Deb Forguson's beautiful card, learning the new bow techniques which is featured on page 5 of the SMC. Love this bow, super WOW effect to add to your card.

Sandra Heck is the newest member to our group! This is one talented lady! She is a natural stamper. She participated in our card challenges on her 2nd class and boy they were beautiful.

I love her card here, very beautifully water colored. So glad to have you with us Sandra. She is the first member of the BIG SHOT #3 club which will run from July - September . Want to Join? Email me for details!!

This is another version of the same brayered Presto Paper card done in Melon Mambo
and smooched with Vanilla. The new Island Floral Big shot die cut is displayed in this picture along with he NEW Island Oasis paper from the SMC pg 27 #117173 $9.95. It has a matching stamp set perfect for making Luau party favors and invitations!!

I used a piece of whisper white card stock brayered it in Melon Mambo & used the Vanilla smooch spray which added a frosted sheen to it. Then I used my heat gun to make sure it was dry and then I stamped the image from Elements of Style stamp set in whisper white craft ink and embossed it with white EP and embellished it with Melon Mambo polka dot ribbon.

This is another sample of smooching and brayering the presto papers. I used Old Olive to brayer the base and then added gold and silver smooch spray to get this look.

This is my favorite! I used River Rock(a previous season in color that WILL BE RETURNING to the new catty coming out in JULY!! I can't wait. Then I used the silver and gold smooch spray and sponged it in. Heated it and made sure it was dry I used my embossing buddy and stamped the image from Elements of Style(SMC pg 5) in gold Encore ink and embossed it in gold EP.

Used the same technique on this top note then stamped image in choc chip CRAFT ink and embossed it with the CLEAR embossing Powder. Boy it really pops!

I did not brayer this image, I just sponged the silver and a dab of gold and vanilla smooch sprays to make this base, then I embossed it in gold. I must have made 10 birds before I got them the color I wanted. This is my version of the card from page 5 from the Summer Mini Catalog.

I think every one really enjoyed themselves, I know I certainly do every time we get together. I realize how truly blessed I am.

Hope you enjoyed a visit into our class and hope you will join us some day!