Top Twelve of 2012?

Happy New Year to my friends who are already ringing in 2013 and wishing a fun celebration to those still waiting upon its arrival! :)

I'm jumping in, a tad late and less organized than last year, with my post of favs for 2012. Since I create all types of projects, however, I couldn't necessarily narrow it down to just 12, thus the question mark in my title!!  I'm really, really close though so I do hope you don't mind the couple extra eye candy goodies to peep out. 

In no particular order here are some of my fondest projects created during the past year 

Love the randomness of this LO documenting my daily life and favorite things: splatters of tar gel, bold colors, clouds, washi tape, chipboard, doodles - oh my!!!  Surely a Scarlett LO :)

Love this card for the embossed stenciling technique I used with Pan Pastels to boot!  The sunburst makes me happy as well!  Again lots of color, doodles and clouds - paired with some messiness.

This is a fav for the pictures first of all - love that I captured my daughter at 12 still playing with bubbles!  The background was totally fun to build up and I really like that it has an actual bubble wand on the page.

These artsy cards are made completely of scraps!!!  Lots of bold colors, doodles, clouds....yeah you all know me and my style by now, LOL!!!

Really love green - my favorite color - and I adore these shots of my boy's hand holding this itty bitty frog.  I'd been holding on to them for soo long and getting them scrapped was an achievement in itself - to like how it all turned out?? Even better!!

I often warm up my creative self with tag play - this was one I really liked and have hanging up in my space on a jump ring along with some others I'm inspired by - just a reminder to let go and have faith!

Ahh, my heart, my Vito.  Gone but never ever will be forgotten.  We didn't lose him in 2012, yet I was able to finally scrap about him this year.  This page is dear to me.

This is an arch I had published in an issue at SNR magazine.  I don't have many pictures of my hunni and I so this is kind of a fun way to show off one of my favs of us. I like the grungy textures and shower of sequins! :)

This double pager was done for my GDT gig with the gals of the Inspiration Elevator Challenge group - I was very honored to be their first guest and was terrified I wouldn't be able to meet the challenge but alas I did and I lurve this!!  The photos are interchangeable and I swap them out often to reflect the current haps of our family!

My first stab at bookbinding - woot! woot!!  It worked and I am hooked beyond belief - stay tuned because I will be giving some tutorials on the ScrapFX blog in 2013!!!  Lots of ScrapFX goodness all up in here!!

Love my cowgirl boots - what more can I say???  Well I can say I love ScrapFX stencils as well - all the purple chevrons were made from the rockin' Chevron stencil they have.

A photo taken with my iPhone then played with some photo apps, blew it up, printed it at home and mounted it on some wood and created to my heart's content to make my hubs an anniversary present.  We fly kites on our land a lot and see tons of rainbows so I adore the piece that sits in the center - really suited us.

Proud of the felt embellishments I handmade for this LO - I am typically not the sewing type whether it be hand, machine, or otherwise so these are truly an accomplishment! 

Thanks to all my wonderful followers and readers for your lovely comments and support throughout the year!!  It means so much to have had you by my side through the good times and the not so pleasant ones as well.  For the notes of encouragement, cards, and tokens received, prayers that have been lifted I am ever grateful.  In many of you I have found friendships I never could have imagined!  How blessed am I!!  I look forward to another year of friendship and love and making many new ones as well!!

Creatively this year was amazing for me in many ways.  I learned to fully embrace my style and really mix in my knowledge of goops/mixed media with my scrapping!!   I made my first manufacturer team, ScrapFX, and adore every minute of creating for them, with the product, and with a super group of gals! I delight in scrapping away with my chickies in Norway at Skissedilla!! I had the opportunity to GDT with some lovely ladies and spots.  I've had tons of fun taking part on Instagram with other creative peeps.
But most importantly I've learned its important to do what you love and stay grounded while you do it - I give God all the glory and praise for blessing my hands with the talent I have!!!  I'm looking forward to taking all I've learned in to 2013 and growing.

Thanks so much for joining me in this teeny bit longer recap - I wish you and yours many blessings and good things for the New Year! Scarlett

Ringing in the New Year with CropStop!!

Hey, Hey, Hey!! Happy Weekend to You!  I told you I'd have some exciting news to share and from the title of my post the cat is out of the bag!!!

I was so kindly invited to kick off 2013 as the GDT for CropStop - YaHooo!!! How cool is that??!  To see my little intro post you can go here and to check out all the goodies the store has to offer you can go here.  I am WAY excited and have already started crafting up a storm with one doozie of a project complete....mwhahahaha... and others in the works....mwahahaha......

Steampunk gear flowers with a glitter shine all attached to a lovely corner piece vine!  Chipboard pieces are all ScrapFX - seriously smitten with those teeny tiny gears - stay tuned to the ScrapFX blog for full reveal coming soon!!

This isn't an official CropStop project but it does feature an official Couture Creations embossing folder - the Damask one to be specific.  Oh my word do I love these folders!!!  Its been some time I must admit since I've really gone to town with my embossing folders and these have gotten me hooked beyond belief - quality is superb!  Deep embossing - and well.... you're just going to have to stay tuned because I'm going to have oodles of fun sharing and ideas for all you CropStop fans and readers of my blog! Can't wait - my posts go live on Thursdays so I will see you there!

Have great weekends and I'll be back soon with some ScrapFX goodness, a new Skissedilla sketch, CropStop creations, and more!  What an exciting time it is!! : )

Blessing to you and yours. Scarlett

Animal Kingdom - Skissedilla #190

Evening Everyone. There is a spectacular new sketch to play along with up at Skissedilla!  Did you see it yet?  No?! Well check it:

 

My take this week involved a little of this

A fabulous ScrapFX alligator all decked out with some Liquitex White Opaque Flakes that were colored and then I put my gel pen to work - add in a cutie lil' Amy Tangerine elephant stamp (yes I bought the stamp set almost purely for this, LOL), and some KI Memories smile washi tape and I'm a happy scrapper!!

And this

 Another fun ScrapFX animal - this time a cutie lil' birdie (decked out with a metallic pen and a Sakura Souffle pen) sitting atop another Amy Tangerine stamp, some fun Heidi Swapp Color Shine splatters, over some stenciling, and a some sequin leaves.

Of course there is this fun bit too

ScrapFX birds make me giddy, especially when you can add a feather to the bum!  This one was painted with Color Shine and the legs and beak touched up with my glaze gel pens. More Amy tangerine goodness here along with some splatters and fringed washi tape.

And since there was an awesome animal theme going on....

I had to add in a cutie lil' ScrapFX monkey!!! Oh yeah - perfect thing to hang out here instead of the two photos mixed with my all time favorite wahi tape from Freckled Fawn!! 

All these shots together make up this

A wonderfully bright and whimsical documentation of our trip to the Animal Kingdom in Disney World.  The kids and my hubby are standing by the Tree of Life which was a-maz-ing!!!  So many beautiful carvings I tell you what!  Unreal.  If you ever get the chance to go make sure this is on your must see list for real - we could have gazed at it for a good long while!

The background of this page is made up of a few simple layers - I used some  yellow ink through a Crafters Workshop Chicken Wire stencil around the edges, and another Crafter's Workshop stencil with light molding paste - this time the woodgrain one - for a layer to go under my photos. To finish it off I stamped some clouds around the page with a very, very light colored ink and splattered some Color Shine.  

Thanks so much for dropping by!  I'll be back again tomorrow with some uber cool and fun news!!  YAY!!! : )  Until then, take good care - Scarlett

Queen Bee - Playing with Beeswax

Merry Christmas to you and yours!  I hope you had a wonderful celebration with family and loved ones.  Ours was delightful, wrapping up today with one last visit to a grandparent's house. 

I had hoped there would be time for blogging before all the festivities began but I decided I wanted to leave my last post up for awhile instead.  Forever in my heart those babies and families will be.

Now its time to share a beeswax project! Starting with this sneak:

Since this picture went up on my blog in August of 2011 it has been my most popular post!!!  I must say, it is quite the sneak, right?  All sorts of texture goodness oozing everywhere.  It was created for the Rubbernecker stamp event at Scrapbook News and Review.  I can't even tell you how many projects I made for these events and for this magazine over the years I've yet to share!  Thanks to Ashli (soapHOUSEmama) of the PurpleMailbox I'll be making a very valiant effort to do this - I mean its all stuff I'm really pretty proud of - so thank you Ashli for reminding me of lost treasures!

Isn't this stamp just fab-u-lous??!  It actually wasn't even one of the ones up for grabs for the event!  The kind owners at Rubbernecker heard of my heritage and love of these stamps through the grapevine  and said by all means I could go ahead and use them - so cool!

 As I was trying to decide on some last minute ways to gift some foodie presents tins came to mind - but one cannot give just plain ol' tins especially when one is crafty right?  So as I looked around my space - this lovely lady gazed back at me - altered tins it would be - and that meant sharing this project finally for you!  

The stamped image was colored with some Lindy's Stamp Gang pigment powders - also courtesy of the SNR events and since I stamped the image on kraft cardstock I didn't have to worry about the skin tone color.

This all started on a band aid tin.  I wrapped it up in Echo Park paper and then began adding my beeswax.  In between layers the stamp was added, along with the bee sticker, a doily, and a border sticker (Echo Park) - these will be more visible in the last pictures to come. The last layer of wax was added along with the crown.

I wanted the honeycomb pattern to pop back out, it had disappeared quite a bit once covered in wax, so I grabbed some carving tools and replicated the pattern by carefully taking away some wax while it moderately warm. Next came a nice thick layer of colored tar gel - one of my very favorite mediums to play with!  Its not very user friendly at first, maybe even intimidating - there is a steep learning curve but once you get the hang of it - fun stuff I tell ya'!!  I drizzled to my heart's content and then embedded some beads into it as well.

*On a side note to tar gel - I wrote an entire series devoted to this and string gel (a similar medium) and shall share installments coming up to teach you - my wonderful readers - the joys of this medium if there is interest so let me know

In hindsight I wish I would have covered the top of this tin with paper - or more beeswax.  There is a portion of my being that likes the remnants of what the tin was before peeking through and portion of it that doesn't - such is life.  Overall this is hands down a favorite project of mine eva'!!  It incorporates all things I love in one piece and used up an old tin I'd been hanging on to for ages.

Thanks for stopping by - I'll be back again soon with a new page and sketch to share from Skissedilla!

Take good care - Scarlett

Scrapping A Tribute - Prayers Forever

Hi There.  As we head in to this last weekend before Christmas arrives I imagine many of you, like me, are busy with last minute this and that - or maybe you're quite organized, just soaking it all in and enjoying it.  Whatever the case may be -  there is still a pang aching in my heart....

I still find myself tearing up at times and cannot fathom what this Christmas will be like for the families of the little angels and the brave adults who cared for them.  I don't ever want their memory to be forgot or my prayers for their families to cease - I know their grieving will be surpass any press coverage given and my days will become easier swifter.

I chose to do this tribute page for my contribution this week at Skissedilla - #189 - because for me creating is a release like no other - therapy if you will at times - but its also a way to get a message out there through art. 

As you hug and rejoice with your loved ones on these coming joyful days, please take some time to remember those who are missing their angels in heaven.

Blessings to you and yours - Scarlett