Thursday, June 16, 2011

My Girl and Quite Contrary

Hello! I hope you're all having a great week! It's supposed to be 108 here today.. ugh.. I think it's time to get in the pool and cool off! It's been awhile since I've been able to craft for fun and I've really wanted to do more scrapbooking, so that's what I did the last few days (I am a slow scrapbooker.. lol!).

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I pulled out one of my favorite photos of Sabrina from earlier this year, cropped it and converted it to black and white. I paired it with some My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Mary Mary. I've loved this line since it came out a year (or two ago?), but I kept hoarding it. I finally decided to stop hoarding and use them as these are some of my favorite colors. For sketch inspiration, I used the latest My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge #24. Along with the sketch (below), we were to use song lyrics as our theme. I chose My Wish, by Rascal Flatts.

Detail shot of the journaling, which are the lyrics to My Wish:


I used Verve's Dream Big, stamped the words and die cut with a Spellbinders Standard Circle die and matted it onto a scalloped circle die cut. I used a ticket from the Mary Mary Sweetie Pie collection and stamped the date using Papertrey Ink's Calendar Basics.


Here's a detail shot of one of the tatted butterflies. They were made by my cousin, Jessica, who owns and operates Snapdragon Lace. She is very talented and her tatting is just amazing! She is just starting to carry small tatted flowers, butterflies, motifs, etc. for scrapbookers and card makers. You can see some of her designs HERE. I added the trio of rhinestones to the butterflies then added them to my page with some foam tape.


Here's a look at the sketch:

Remember me saying how much I loved this MME Quite Contrary line?! Well, imagine my excitement when the patterns were released in fabric! I managed to get my hands on some of the prints earlier this year. Right around the same time, my SIL, Mary, had made her daughter (my niece) a couple of really cute fabric bags. When I told her about the fabric that I had just bought, she told me to send it out to her and she made these 2 great bags for Sabrina and me! Isn't she the best?!

Here's a look at Sabrina's bag:


and mine:


Finally, here's a shot of the 2 of us with our new bags:


Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies ~
Stamps: Dream Big (Verve), Calendar Basics (Papertrey Ink)
Paper: Quite Contrary Mary Mary (My Mind's Eye), Cardstock, Green vellum
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Versamagic Wheat (Tsukineko)
Accessories: Ticket, Letter Stickers - Quite Contrary, Rhinestones - Lush (My Mind's Eye), Standard Circle Nestabilities and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Double Scallop border punch (Martha Stewart), Tatted butterflies (Snapdragon Lace), Handmade lace, Ribbon, Button, Divine Twine, Foam tape, Thread, Sewing machine.