More Hybrid. All the Cool Kids are doing it.

I told you, I am all about hybrid! It is just so easy to open a file, plop down my digital papers, then my photos and some drop shadows, journaling and then maybe some other digital elements if I feel like it. Print it off and voila! Mix with traditional papers and embellishments. Easy peasy!

I love this because it is so bright and fun. The Hybrid portion is the pictures, the green digital paper and the journaling. I then used some Prima Marketing and Daisy D's paper, a little Bazzill Cardstock and we're good to go!.

Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Rue 88 by Iron Orchid Design for Prima Marketing,

Blueberry Damask by Daisy D’s Paper,

White Out by We R Memory Keepers,

Mr. Funk by Ashley Olson for www.the digishoppe.com
Die Cut Arrow: Scenic Route Paper Company
Chipboard Letters: Center of Attention by Heidi Swapp
Brad Nails: Making Memories
Metal Bookplate: L’il Davis Designs
Buttons: Craft Supply, (adventure) Junkitz
Fonts: Century Gothic:

And all of you have a great Sunday! With that, me and Jake are off to play. Can't waste a mild day like this!

Making cards.....

Today I played around with making some cards. I haven't made cards in quite a while and I thought it would be the perfect thing to use some of that Prima embossed chipboard. I absolutely love the stuff. It's very pretty stuff. The designs are so sweet!

Patterned Paper: Rue 88 and Romantica by Prima Marketing

Embossed Chipboard: Iron Orchid DesignsPrima Marketing

Flowers and Jewelled Centers: Prima Marketing

Stamps: Build A Frame by Iron Orchid Designs for Prima Marketing

Lace: Prima Marketing

Brad Nails: Making Memories

Chipboard Letters: Heidi Swapp and American Crafts

Pens: Sakura Souffle Pens

Ink: Staz On by Tsukineiko and Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Industries

As you can see, I made a love themed card and a thank you card and I am quite pleased with both of them. I did a bit of stamping with those lovely Build A Frame Stamps by Iron Orchid Designs and a my new favorite supply Twinkling H2Os! Follow me, I'll show you what else I did with my cards and particularly that gorgeous embossed chipboard.......


On the "love" card, the embossed chipboard was lightly washed with my Twinkling H2Os. The more water you use on them the less intense the colors appear for a nice "washed out" look. This shows up particularly well on the heart in the top right-hand side.

The embossed tag has the same paint used, however, once it was dry, I used my white Sakura Souffle Pens to color over the embossed portion of the tag, just like the card in this post. I loved this, so I had to try it for myself!

After I did that, I applied my rub on and stamped a border with Prima Buid-A-Frame stamps.

On those flowers, I painted them with the Twinkiling H2Os with the same technique that I showed you in this post right here. I love the look of this technique because it really gives the flowers some extra depth and detail.

On my thanks card, again, I gave it a wash with those fabulous Twinkling H2Os, only this time I used less water for a more intense color. And again, I used my grey Sakura Souffle Pen on the embossed portion, but I took it a step further. I gently distressed the embossed portions with actually turned a darker grey for a two-tone effect, as you can see in the above photo.

I finished off the chipboard by distressing the edges to let some of the brown of the chipboard to show through.

And lastly, I just had to show you these Prima Flower Centers just because I love bling! They are so dainty too.

Now go rush to the store, you got some playing with chipboard to do!

A couple toots, some really cool stuff, I am excited about a Little Toot and Sitting on Pins and Needles!

Today is such a cool day for me. It's an exciting scrappy day. So much so, that I mentioned a toot in my title twice, LOL.

I am busy working on some projects for submissions and I am seriously embracing hybrid scrapbooking. You know this summer, I really got into the digital stuff and it just really went from there. Now, I have always, since I started scrapbooking, done journaling and the odd bit of graphics on my pictures and enjoyed playing with photos, but now I have really embrace digital papers and seeing how they will mix with my much accued paper stash. Gotta use that up and get my fingers inky or it just wouldn't be right.

And now to the point of all that.

So, I am stalking the Prima Blog (I'll explain that too), when I come across......

Prima Hybrid!

Holee heck, could it get any better than that? Love Prima, am lovin' hybrid and they come out with this??!!?!? WOOT! Love it and it is only a CHA Winter sneek peek!

So now onto the stalking.....

Why the stalking? A few of you gals know that I entered the Prima Design Team Call because seriously, I love their stuff. I never really realized how much Prima I have actually used on pages and projects until I started prepping my entry for this call. And I am LOVING the Iron Orchid stuff. Even faired not to shabbily on this contest back in March of last year!

Seriously, to sum it all up into one big statement, I'd love to land on their DT because I love their stuff. Please send the good vibes and I promise if I don't get a call, I won't pout.

Well, I might pout a little, but only to the confines of my couch and a box of chocolate.

However, I must must must wish luck to all the ladies that entered along with me, and good luck to the people pouring over to the entries. I am sure you don't have an easy task.

Look to the left of this entry, and you will see some links to great scrappy blogs. I like to include great links for you to follow, but also because a lot of those great links are to my friends. Again, surfing my friends blogs the other day and as usual, I am reading up on Leica Forrest's blog because she always has some great things going on 'round there. Lo and behold, she listed me as one of her favorite blogs. What a sweetie! I think I had an in though, I am orginally from Saskatchewan. Nah, but I always cheer for my home province scrappers. Kidding aside, Saskatchewan has some scrappy talent.

Go check Leica's blog out, you'll go back again and again, I guarantee it. She a bubbly, talented fun-loving gal.

http://10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/leica_forrest/

Since I already got you cruising the net, I'll send you somewhere else too. The girls over at Maya Road have been so busy with CHA that they searched for some inspiring projects from various scrapbookers.

Today, I got a little note from design team member Lisa Pace telling me they featured two of my projects on their blog! Cool!

It is the purse mini album I did in my last post and this Christmas tin and mini album

And I have to send a big kudos for this tin. My girly-friend Anam Stubbington inspired me to do this tin because of a project she created using the same tin and mini album. Now, Anam, I was going to link it, where did you put it online? Tsk, tsk! I can't find it!

note to readers about the previous statement (pssst, lean in here): just know that Anam's work kicks butt and I fully recommend that despite not seeing her version of that tin, she has some really neato stuff on her blog that you should check out anyways.
http://anamstubbington.typepad.com/
Thank you. That is all. :)

That is about the size of it! See you later!