QQ Challenge - White Space

Hi all! Hope everyone is having a good week this far. I am feeling a little better but you wouldn't know it by the way it sounds. I completely lost my voice overnight :( All the congestion moved from my head to my chest. Vicks for me tonight :)

Over at the Quick Quotes blog they are hosting Friday Challenges. This week for the holiday they gave us 2 weeks which is awesome since it normally takes me a week to think up of something to work in a challenge! This weeks challenge was "White Space" and I have to say I LOVE the way my page turned out!!! I also have a confession. This is the first page I have scrapped for myself in over 3 years! I tend to scrap for gifts and my classes and never make time for myself. My boyfriend points this out all the time. I keep buying things and he keeps asking me where the scrapbook from our Florida trip is. (We went in August 2010). So I'm a couple (4) years behind! So it is time to get motivated!

I used an Adirondack paint dauber in snow cap on the white paper in the area I wanted to glimmer mist and let dry. I glimmer misted using a brick mask in fully purple then took a paper towel and rubbed over the areas were the paint was to make it a lighter purple and give it a distressed look. I layers a couple pieces of Tim Holtz tissue tape right below my picture. I cut out 3 butterflies, the saying (both from Sentinmentals) and the strip to go behind my picture out of Quick Quotes Julie Je t'aime paper line which is one of my favorites! I inked the edges  of the cuts and the side of my white 12x12 with Quick Quotes Powder Puff ink in Purple Passion. Their ink really is the best to work with. I added the phrase and glitter dragonflies from Quick Quotes chipboard. I felt like my page needed some more bling so I pulled out the new American Crafts glitter ribbon that I bought at the Mini Meet in Toledo last week. I love it! It doesn't flake off like I thought it might. I took a white flower and used the same glimmer mist to make it match. Folded it in half and glued it behind the picture. It needed a center and I wanted to pull in the teal from the paper so I added this cute swirl clip I had in my stash. Then found 3 buttons and 3 bling brads to match. Whew!

The picture is of my mom and I from the Mega Meet in 2011. We decided to take one class together since we didn't get to see much of each other during the day since I was working at the Quick Quotes booth. We LOVED the class and got someone to take a picture with out half-finished projects. Mom of course has finished hers by now and I haven't touched mine since I got home :( I am adding that to my to do list!

Hope you enjoyed my page and make sure to stop by the Quick Quotes blog to check out the rest of their great inspirations!!

Until next time!
~Liz

Prize Bags

OMG its been a week since I have posted! I need to not do that. LOL

Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I had a great, relaxing fun weekend. I refused to work on any of my to-do list for my birthday so it is making for a semi-stressed week this week. I am in the middle of many projects which explains why I haven't had anything to post! Nothing is done yet. Well one thing is....

For the baby shower this Sunday, we have some games we will be playing (more on that later) so I had to have some prizes for the winners! At Joan's in their $1 section by the checkouts they had lotion, hand soap and hand sanitzer in 2 scents. (This was a month and a half or so ago) So I got 4 sets, (1 of each item, 2 in one scent, and 2 of the other) for prizes. But I wanted to dress them up some. My original idea was to get a cute basket and weave some ribbon into it. Well after hitting 3 stores, I couldn't find a basket I liked that was under $10 a piece! Now I am trying to keep in a budget for the shower, so those were just out of my range. So instead I got some cute kraft color gift bags for $0.33 each! Much better. Add some colored tissue paper, and some quick home-made emblishments, and I love the way these turned out. It took about 10 minutes to cut and glue everything so I got a lot of my other projects half done in the same night. So enough talking and start sharing!

Here are all 4 gifts lined up on my (new) coffeetable (that I got for my birthday from my wonderful boyfriend)

Here is a close-up of the tag. Cut from the Sentimentals cart. I put what scent is on the inside so I don't have to dig through the bags when someone wins. Yes, I put a blue jingle bell on them so they ring when you walk with it. I saw them in my stash and just had to add one to each tag.

When I got the blue tissue paper, I was thinking I would stick with the blue/green/yellow theme of the rest of the shower, but I didn't want to have the gifts be baby in theme. And this way, they can re-use the bag and tag (just put a piece of paper over the scent and use it for your own gift tag) if they want to :)

Well I hope the winners on Sunday enjoy these as much as I did putting them together!

Now I said I would mention something about the games I am doing for the shower. I am doing to do "Guess that Nursery Rhyme" I am going to cut the silloutte from 10 rhymes from the Nursery Rhymes cricut cartrige and have the guests guess what rhyme it is from. Bonus points if you know the last line of the rhyme. I am going to get those cut tonight so I can copy them tomorrow. So come back tomorrow and check out the game page!

~Liz