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It’s Day 7 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique for this day of the Scrap-A-Thon was to use a stencil. The stencil I used was from TCW (The Crafter’s Workshop) and it is called Stripe Explosion. The stencil reminded me of rays of sunshine, so I decided to use some …
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It’s Day 15 of the CalvinBall2019 Challenge and yet another layout with pics of my dogs. I can’t help scrapbooking my beautiful girls … they are so sweet. The focus of this layout is a butterfly cut file from Paige Evans. I backed each butterfly with a different pattern paper … this takes quite …
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It’s Day 6 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique for this day of the Scrap-A-Thon was creating a background. I used a stencil, some distress inks and a makeup brush to create a sky, sun, clouds and some buildings. The 12×12 stencil that I used was from TCW (The Crafter’s …
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It’s Day 14 of the CalvinBall2019 Challenge and I finally finished this layout. Some layouts come together very easily and others seem to take forever … this one is one that took 3 days (off and on) to create. And, yes, it’s another record breaker, this layout scores 39 points. I wanted to use up …
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It’s Day 11 of the CalvinBall2019 Challenge and I created a new layout. Another record breaker, this layout scores 33 points. It gets easier every day to get a higher score because I’m getting more familiar with the rules and new rules are added almost every day adding more categories to get bonus points. This …
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After a week-end get-away to the Gulf Coast, I’m back scrapping for CalvinBall2019. We got back this morning from the Gulfport, MS, so I only have one layout for today. This layout is my highest scoring so far at 29 points. The bonus points help a lot and more are rules are added every day. …
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Yet another Scrapbooking layout for Calvinball. Only one for this day but I started 3 or 4 more that are not finished yet. After completing this layout, my score is 92 points. Whew!!! The leader in Calvinball 2019 has 571 points, so I need to pick up the pace!!! The mixed media background of this …
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It’s Day 5 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique was using paints which was another new technique for me. I used some acrylic paints in aqua and lavender and a brayer on some white cardstock and then added some gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine. This created a really pretty background …
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Another Scrapbooking layout for Calvinball. The floral cut file is from Paige Evans. I first learned about Paige Evans from watching Missy Whidden on Youtube. Paige Evans has some amazing cut files available in her store and you can use these with a Cricut, Brother Scan-n-Cut, Silhouette or any electronic die cutting machine that can …
It’s Day 4 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique was using the Gell Plate. I have a Gelli Gel Printing Plate; but I have to admit, until today, I haven’t used it. I’m loving this class, because it made me use my Gelli. Every time I saw that Gelli …
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