Silhouette Cutting - Purple Pigs

My friend (though, I think of her as a sister) called last night and asked for some die cut pigs - I have no idea what she wants these pigs for, but I'm happy to oblige.

Pulled up the Silhouette store and went on a pig hunt.  Found two that I liked.  One is a little cartoonish and the other reminds me of one of those diagrams you'd find at the butcher's to tell you where the cut of pork comes from.

Here are the two designs I chose.

Now, Ms. Laura wanted some purple pigs (does anyone else have trouble figuring out what parts to cut what color - it took me forever).  Here they are cutting on the Silhouette - sorry for the light coming in the window.  We're actually seeing sun today.

And after putting all those little pieces of the cartoonish pig together - those eyes are a pain - here are the collection of Ms. Laura's purple pigs.

And on this one, I actually tried to get a little fancy and do some shading.  Patience and more time and I think I could have done it justice.

 

One thing I realized though, is I could cut out all different shapes like this on Copic compatible paper and then do some real shading and coloring.  Good to know.

Another thing I realized is that before I sit down to make a layout, I really need to look through all of the images I own for the Silhouette.  This will definitely help me to increase using the machine which would eventually justify the buying of the Cameo.

Scrapbook Layout: LOAD, Day 6: Sketchy Sunday

Today's LOAD challenge was to use a sketch provided by Lain.  This is my finished product.  I'm not sure how much it follows the sketch, but this is typically how it goes for me.  I'll look at a sketch or something I want to scraplift and then somewhere along the way things go awry and the end product looks nothing like the original inspiration.  I guess that's good in some ways, in others, lifting is supposed to save time, doing it this way, doesn't save a bit of time.

Again no process video since it was the continuation of National Scrapbooking Day (or weekend in my house).

The pictures are from our trip to Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge- documenting mom's love of birdwatching.  It was so neat to be working on this layout and have her right next to me to fill in all of the details.

Scrapbook Layout: LOAD, Day 5: Ebay Search

Today's LOAD challenge was to go to Ebay, search on your name and use whatever comes up in the search as inspiration for your page.

When I did my search, this is what I found:

I decided to use the gears as the embellishment on my page.  As it was National Scrapbooking Day, Laura and mom came down to scrap with me.  Laura brought her smaller box of pictures and it was this one of WTK and a train set that Laura picked up for him at a yard sale.  A train set that she calls the most annoying thing ever.  I loved how clear the blue of WTK's eyes are in this picture and decided I would steal this picture from Laura and scrap it.  It definitely went with my gear embellishment.

Lots of Echo Park on this page and some Tim Holtz gears.  Lots of scraps.  I cut out stars for a layout I did about GEP earlier this year and on this page I used the negatives of those stars.  Added some short journaling some train themed stickers.  I painted some of the background paper over with white to provide a place for the title.

No process video for this one - I created it while my scrapping girls were here.

Scrapbook Layout: LOAD, Day 4:

LOAD, day 4's challenge was about focusing on other senses besides sight when thinking about scrapbooking, today, about hearing.  I chose to scrapbook a page about the call of the Bald Eagle - if you've never heard it, I suggest going to you tube and looking it up.  It's not what you'd expect, that's for sure.

Journaling reads:

The bald eagle’s cry is rather surprising. Given its majestic look, its large size, its imposing beak and talons, one would expect its call to be the mightiest of the birds of prey. However, when they lean their heads back to call out, what emerges is a soft, timid cry. Filmmakers may use a bald eagle when they need something that looks powerful, but will often use the red-tailed hawk’s piercing cry when they need something that sounds powerful. 

On a trip to Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge, Stew, Mom, Dad, and I got to experience the Eagle’s call first hand.  Stew almost caused Dad to wreck the car he yelled out to stop so fast.  I was irritated with him for all of one second, before I realized exactly what he was pointing out.  High in a tree just hanging out and watching the world him or her sat a gorgeous adult Bald Eagle.  We got to experience this sight for a long time as the bird remained comfortably observing for awhile.  She (I’m assuming the bird was a she due to the size) would watch as other birds flew near her, but never too close.  As Eagles sit on the top of the bird food chain, I don’t think anyone wanted to disturb her.  We heard a call in a distance that I didn’t recognize, but our bird did.  She replied immediately and I knew what to expect, I’ve listened to recordings of the Bald Eagle’s call and I’ve heard them at the bird rescue and at the zoo, but to see this majestic creature in her nature habitat and to hear her call as clearly as if she were right next to us was a sight to behold.  Once the other eagles came around, she didn’t stick around long.  She flew off in their direction – but we considered ourselves blessed for the time that she did spend with us and for the ability to watch the eagles soar above us.  There were four there in all.  Stew didn’t manage to get the call recorded, but he did take some stunning photos – especially this one as she flew away.  (April 14, 2012)  

First paragraph of the journaling comes for the following website:   

http://racphoto.com/Birds/Hawks/BaldEagle.html

Process Video is below:

 

Scrapbook Layout: LOAD, Day 3: Warning Animosity

Day 3 of LOAD was all about using holiday colors to scrapbook a non-holiday layout.  I took the easy way out today.  My beloved Flyers are orange, black and white - Halloween colors, so I chose to do a layout about a game that my husband and I attended in February.  We played against the Pittsburgh Penguins and lost - but in the end we got the last laugh.  We're still playing and they're now sitting at home, thanks to us.

Go Flyers!

The video to watch me put this layout together is below:

Layout Share: Summer Fun

Layout Share

Some layouts I've made in the past few months....