Scrapbook Expo Haul

Today was the first day of the Ontario, CA Scrapbook Expo.  I attended with my gal pals, and fellow paper crafters Christalle and Melissa.  This was Chris' first Expo and she was excited to see all that was offered.  (She just received the Cameo a few weeks ago and can't wait to start crafting with it.)  Below are pictures of the items I purchased from the different booths. (I photographed them based on the booth purchase.)

Below, is a pic of all the bling & pearls I bought at Scrapbuck.com. They had a great deal, buy 10, get 2 free.  That means, 12 items for $10 (plus tax).  Sweet!

I don't recall the booth that I bought this from, but the "Liquid Pearls" were 1.99 each (I bought silver, opal and rouge).  I also bought Stickles in "Starry Night" and "Orange Peel".  The Sew easy floss was a steal at $2.50 for the 3 colors.

At the Stamps for Life booth, I picked up these Distress Ink Pads ($4.85 each) and the Staz-On cleaner ($4.50/bottle). 

From Scrapbookpal.com, I bought more pearls and pop dots (micro, mini & regular sized).  I even found these great Snow Globe gems in pink/silver and black/silver, very pretty.  Each package was $1.00 each!

At the Scrap-mart booth, I snatched up the Sew Easy tool ($7.50) and heads ($2.99) each. The Copic blending marker was $5.29, not so great, but I grabbed it anyway.

From Clearscraps.com booth, I snagged these Staz-On ink pads, they were $7.29 each or 5 for $30, um yah, can you tell which way I went?  The acrylic tags were $0.99 each or buy 5 get the 6th free- I got the 6!  By the way, if you are ever looking for acrylic, this is the place to go to.  I always buy my acrylic supplies here, not that you would know since I have yet to do a project using my acrylic pieces.  I don't know why, but I hoard my acrylic!  One day, I will use the pieces.  Also, the head guy says that his acrylic is thin enough to run through the Cricut using the Deep Cut Blade.  They have a blog you should go visit, lots of inspiration throughout!  I love it!  Here is their blog site:  Clear Scraps Blog.  

Okay, so that's everything I purchased today.  Hopefully you have the opportunity to attend an Expo.  I get to check out the one in Anaheim in late February next time.

Happy crafting friends!

Best Foot Forward

Ingredients for this fun little card:

• craft card stock, cut at 5.5"x8.5", folded in half
• Stampin Up inks: Mauve Mist, Caribbean Cool
• Distress Ink in Antique Linen, Tea Dye, blending tool from Ranger
• Ivory card stock
• Background paper for the dress (sorry, I no longer have the packaging for this paper. It came in a blue box at Jo-Ann's around Spring 2010, it had 180 sheets of patterned paper.)
• "Art Philosophy" cartridge for Cricut. Use "shape 2" on pg 36 of hand book, cut at 1.5"
• Crystazzi crystals in ss20 (you'll need glue to adhere these)
• "Celebration" stamp set from Close to My Heart
• "Old Letter Writing" (#S4878) large stamp from Hero Arts
• "Autumn" stamp set from Close to My Heart ("best foot forward" sentiment), hand cut

Lightly ink the "writing" stamp for a faded/weathered effect.  Using the blending tool, use the Mauve Mist & Antique Linen inks to give character to the background. Do the same to the dress, printed paper piece & the sentiment. Using the Caribbean Cool, ink up the edges of all the paper pieces.  Use pop dots to adhere the dress to the printed paper, then glue down the other pieces.

Here is a close up of the card, showing you the slight coloring from the blending tool/technique.

Thanks for looking.

Autumn Fun

To create this fun little layout, I used the following items.

• "4 Seasons" 8x8" sheets by Paper Pizazz (background & phrase)
• Leaf from "Celebration" stamp set from Close To My Heart
• Stampin Up inks: Real Red, Creamy Caramel, Kiwi Kiss, Groovy Guava, Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa
• Yellow ink square from Studio G
• ColorBox Chalk Ink in "Blush Rose"
• Pentel Sunburst Gel pen in White 
• Bic Mark-It pens for the tree
• Stickles in Copper
• Studio G glitter glue in: dark brown & yellow

Each of the leaves were stamped onto heavy card stock in white, then hand-cut. Using Aileen's Tacky Glue, I adhered the leaves onto the background. Draw a tree using the Bic markers. (3-4 colors were used to make this tree.)  Faux stitch the border with the white gel pen.  Stickle/glitter glue random leaves and the leaves on the phrase.

*Quick note: I accidentally ripped the paper out of the stack poorly, but like how the tear gave the image a more rustic & rough feel to it, not quite so put together.

Thanks for looking.

What a Tough Guy

This "tough guy" was created using: kraft card stock cut at 4.25" with the Martha Stewart Circle cutter.  "Edward" stamp from the Greeting Farm colored in with Stampin' Up colored pencils. Background stamp is an argyle print also from SU, used with "Antique Linen" from Ranger's Distress Inks.  "Tough Guy" stamp is from Studio G in "Tuxedo Black" from Memento (I also used this ink pad to ink up the edge of the card).  The mini hearts are from Close to My Heart's "Sentiments" acrylix stamp set using "Mauve Mist" from SU.  The 6 black dots are "Black Diamond" Stickles.