Polaroid Perfect

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As many of you already know, Tim Holtz is my all time favorite. I admire his creative style and love that he sets no limit to his imagination. I've been wanting to create this project for a couple of weeks now but had been searching for a Polaroid camera and was lucky to find two at my local antique store. I had designed a Polaroid film die cut for my AccuCut Locker Album Die and it was perfect. I was so lucky to have met Tim at CHA. This is my second time meeting him and he's the sweetest person ever. I precut this Polaroid die cut knowing I was going to add our picture to it, but it wouldn't be complete without his autograph too. I made sure it was die cut with light weight chipboard because I wanted to distress it after using his Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink. I altered the Polaroid camera with my favorite Crowded Attic collection by Tim and loved how it turned out. I didn't want to cover the entire camera, so I only adhered the design paper to the top and front of the camera. I embellished it with some of my Tim Holtz favorites which were the Fractured Doll, Word Key and Cork Vial filled with his Ball Chain. I had several vintage Domino pieces and added two Scrabble pieces to spell out his initials...TH. I also added two dices that I hot glued on top of one another and added a mini bird cage charm. I then fussy cut two butterflies from the paper stack and added one on top of the camera and one on top of the bird cage. My favorite part is our picture together which I adhered to the camera to look as though the picture was just taken. I'm so happy with how it turned out and this is definitely one of my favorites.

Locker Album Die Projects from CHA 2012

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Here's my three projects I created for the Winter CHA 2012 AccuCut Craft's booth. The Locker Album Die is my very die I designed for AccuCut, therefore this was very exciting and fun for me to create. Below are the three projects I created.




The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a locker at school, are books. This is what inspired me to bind this album as a book. As you can see the Locker book doesn't close all the way because its intended to be a display. I gathered pictures of Ariana and her friends in High School and embellished the Locker book using Pink Paislee's Daily Junque collection along with the coordinating die cuts. I had fun layering each pages with the design paper, dies cuts and embellishments. I also incorporated the die cuts from the die. My favorite piece would have to be the Polaroid film. You can use just plain white card stock or add design paper to make each film unique. This is definitely a wonderful keepsake for Ariana to look back at and enjoy.




When designing this die, not only did I design this as a School theme album but also a Sports theme too. Here I create a Locker album of my nephew Jacob that's been playing Flag Football these past several years. The paper collection I used is DCWV High School stack and Page Kit. I love page kits. Its always fun to have coordinating stickers and die cuts to go with the design papers. I really loved the pictures my sister had taken of Jacob. Its always nice to create with action shot photos.





My niece Alyssa's in cheerleading and I wanted to create a 3D Locker. This is was my very first 3D Locker I created. I add pictures on outside, but also wanted to add a mini cheerleading outfit inside the locker. I placed AccuCut's Clear Plastic Sheet on top so you can see the outfit inside. I placed a 3M plastic hook to for the outfit. I purchased an adorable cheerleading outfit from Build A Bear which turned out to be a perfect size. Not only will Alyssa have a keepsake of her in Cheerleading, but also a cute lil outfit to look at.

March IARCC

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Come join us and participate in the I Am Roses GREEN, GOLD & GLITTER contest at I Am Roses Challenge Blog. Be sure to stop by the blog for all the details.

For my project, I created a layout of my daughter Ashley. She lost her other front tooth the other night and loved how cute she look with her two missing front teeth. I used the Coral Couture Stack by DCWV and adhered one of the beautiful design papers that had tons of glitter on the images onto a 12 x 12 medium weight chipboard. I distressed the edges using my favorite Tim Holtz distressing tool then distressed the edges with Ranger's Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink. I took a number 8 round paint brush and dipped the brush into my Wake Me Up Before You Go Go Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst spray and took my bone folder and tapped the end of the brush to give a splatter background and love how it looks. This is one of my favorite background techniques and will share a video soon showing how I create this background effect. I then layered Ashley's photo with some pre-cut design papers strips and also a die cut from the paper stack. On top of the CUTE sentiment, I adhered a beautiful distress white frame and some Recollections bling on the side that I picked up at my local Michael's. On the R21 - 1 White Flower, I sprayed Lindy Stamp Gang's Starburst Spray in Grab a Guy Gold. I sprayed three different sprays for the R40 - 70 White Flower using LSG's Starburst Spray in Marigold Yellow Orange,Winter Jasmine Gold and the Glitz Spritz in Cactus Gold to add extra gold shimmer. The T 25 - 152 White Puffy Semi Rose Bud was sprayed with LSG's Winter Jasmine Gold and for the ZQL 0- 151 White Leaves I sprayed my favorite LSG's Ponderosa Pine Olive. For the finishing touches, I added some light orange trim and layered an off white trim on top. The butterflies I fussy cut from one of the die cuts from the Coral Couture stack. Don't forget to join the fun and look forward to all your projects.