a little Spritz crazy ;)

I had fun with this Sketch 304 from Scrapbook Challenges this week! I used some photos from Marissa's 16th Birthday day out shopping...we went into Cloverdale to find some cowboy boots and of course we found some other goodies as well...

She used some of her Birthday money to buy this hat...because you know, she just had to have it!!!

I loved working with these papers from Crate Paper's 'Pretty Party & Portrait' collections...I went a little crazy with my spritzers...I wanted to distress it a bit with ink, I think I did ;)

The calendar was cut from a full sheet of patterned paper and the embellies are popped out of a die cut sheet that was available with the 'Pretty Party' paper collection.

Thanks for taking time out of your day to visit me here, I hope you can find something to scrap with this sketch...I've added the double paged sketch below too...enjoy!!!

I think I might even get busy with this double page sketch too!

June's 'get messy' challenge

Firstly, this was quite a stretch for me to say the least, challenge, yes...I cracked open my jar of Gesso, that I've had for a very long time but haven't used until today!

I'm so glad that Carmen hosted this 'get messy' challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges. 

Here's my layout:

I've smeared the gesso on the patterned paper and then added some more and scrapped a grooved tool through it...left it to dry for an hour as I had some thick splotches.

You can just barely see the shimmer in this frame which was hand cut from a sheet of patterned paper.

Don't you just love seeing the texture and dimension that this gesso adds to this layout ?

You can also see the faint bit of spritz that I've added with a smoosh spritzer...it had some shimmer to it as well.

Here's the sheets that I've hand cut to create some embellishments to go with this paper collection from SEI...

So glad you've popped in today, I hope you try to mix things up a bit with paint/gesso/inks and 'get messy' !!!