Victory Monthly Memories Club

Can't wait for Saturday! My ladies will be getting together to crop and finish up these six fun Victory scrapbook pages. I need to go pick up my photo collage and prints of the crazy camping we just did for page 5 and 6! How cute are those tiny tents?

I did some rolling on the title for page 1-2, inking the letters in Chocolate and Barn Red ink. Then I fussy cut the letters and attached them to the layout with 3-D foam tape. I accented the letters with Liquid Glass.

I stamped onto the Cork Shapes with Outdoor Denim ink, then sponged the edges with Chocolate Ink. The cork takes ink so nicely!

Here's a close up of my tiny tents. These are 1 1/2 inch squares of B&T trimmed into a tent shape!

Hope to see you cropping with us on Saturday! 

Retro Sketches Victory!

Welcome back! Continuing on today in my theme of challenges completed but not posted in time, another Victory card. This time I used a sketch from Retro Sketches - I just LOVE their sketches. I'm working on this week's sketch too...we'll see if I get it done in time!

I used the scripty scroll image to stamp on the corners repeatedly in Bamboo ink - that is gonna be one of those images I want to keep on a block all the time! I stamped the star background on the front panel too - it lines up so easily when you can see through the block and stamp! I paper pieced the shield, tickets, and sentiment set (again). I'm loving how paper piecing the images cleans up this very distressed stamp set and changes the look!

Here's a close up of the paper piecing. The shield and sentiment images were stamped once in Outdoor Denim and once in Olive. I trimmed out the middle stripe of the shield from the Olive image and adhered it onto the Outdoor Denim shield. The Outdoor Denim sentiment was trimmed out and applied to the Olive sentiment. The ticket was stamped in Outdoor Denim ink twice, giving me one 1st and one 2nd generation ticket image. I trimmed out the lighter center ticket and adhered it to the Outdoor Denim ticket. The star was inked in Olive and rolled on the tips into Outdoor Denim. Lots of fussy cutting - just the thing for toting around in my Project To-Go box (which is actually my Pemberly card box - no sense leaving that lovely thing at home! It's just the right size for toting small projects around to work on while the boys are doing their thing at the play park.)

I was happy with how my Sparkles turned out. I have a lot of Sparkles - clear, self adhesive gems. But they were too pretty for this project...so I mixed some Liquid Glass with Desert Sand Reinker and dropped it onto the Sparkles (still on the liner) and let them dry for a bit. Then I added round drops of clear Liquid Glass over top and let them dry overnight - and I got these amber looking stick on gems that matched my project!

So one more fun - just-missed-the-posting-deadline challenge completed. I figure getting any stamping in last week was a victory for this busy mom. Glad you took a moment to stop by!

Mojo Monday Victory!

Oh my - last week was so super busy! Between Mother's Day, my 6 year old's train/lego birthday party, in laws visiting, and consultant kit hoopla (thanks a bunch, ladies!) my normally busy life became a whirl of activity! I got all of the consultant kits processed, and am starting shipping product components today. I did whip out a few cards too - but I never got around to posting them, so I actually missed all my challenge deadlines. Oh well - at least I got a chance to stamp!

Here's a card I did using the sketch from Mojo Monday...then didn't post in time to link it up! Good intentions....

I used paper from the Victory paper packet, and the stamp set from the Victory WOTG. I embossed the background with a Herringbone Cuttlebug folder. Then I got down to business with paper piecing.

The tickets n the background - paper pieced. The Shield on the front - paper pieced. The My Hero sentiment - paper pieced. Oh my gosh it was so much fun (says the girl who loves to fussy cut). I was worried that working with these distressed images that the piecing would be harder, but it worked out just fine.

For the hero sentiment I stamped it twice in Outdoor Denim. I trimmed a mask out of the second image (since the original sentiment is actually "built tough") and used that to shape and stamp the My Hero piece. I overstamped the My Hero portion with the star background in second generation Olive ink. Then I adhered the pieces together and trimmed it out, adding the banner trim to the end of the sentiment.

A few more of these, and I'll be all ready for Father's Day! If only the Post office wasn't such a challenge... Thanks for stopping by!