Star Banner - Riley

I recently created this banner for Riley - he is definitely star material!  Each part of the banner represents a different part of him or something he likes/enjoys.

To cover the chipboard stars with the white patterned paper I covered them in pva:

 I used my speedball to push out airpockets and excess glue.

 I then cut around them with my craft knife.

The I coloured them with Distress Stains and wiped off any excess with a tissue.
The silver embossed stars are resistant to the colour...

Then I filed the edges:

 Punched the hole with my eyelet punch:

I used my Distress Stain to colour my white ribbon and again the embossed stars resisted the colour - and then I hung them to dry overnight. I was afraid I'd get too excited trying to dry them with a heat gun and melt the ribbon!

Once I'd panted the car red I used black liquid pearls on the tyres, and orange and yellow for the flames:

Car Star Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz - Star Banner
Twiddleybitz - Small Car Minni Minor (TRA004)
Twiddleybitz - School Dayz Kids (SCH003)
Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper
Adirondack Paint Dabber - Citrus & Red pepper
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Mustard Seed
Ranger Liquid Pearls - Pumpkin, Daffodil, Onyx Pearls
Flourish With A Bling - Silver Rhinestones
Black Artliner 0.2
1" circle Punch
My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

"R" Star Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Star Banner

Twiddleybitz - R (TAB00R)

Twiddleybitz - Dog form Farm Yard Friends (ANI002)

Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper

Adirondack Paint Dabber - Snow Cap

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Faded Jeans

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Dark Chocolate, Daffodil, Onyx Pearls

Flourish With A Bling - Silver Rhinestones

Flourish With A Bling - Pearl, Blue

Flourish With A Bling - Luke Flourish, Blue

My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

Brown Cardstock

"I" Star Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Star Banner

Twiddleybitz - I (TAB00I)

Twiddleybitz - Cogs n Gears (TABCOG)

Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Peeled Paint

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Daffoldil

Adirondack Paint Dabber - Snow Cap; Red Pepper & Peeled Paint

Flourish With A Bling - Jessie Flourish, Red

Flourish With A Bling - Pearl, Blue

My2Angels - Bike Charm

My2Angels - Ball Chain

My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

"L" Star Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Star Banner

Twiddleybitz - L (TAB00L)

Twiddleybitz - Dinosaurs Pk4 (DIN001)

Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Mustard Seed; 

            Fired Brick; Vintage Photo; Peeled Paint

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Avocado

Adirondack Paint Dabber - Snow Cap

Flourish With A Bling - Pearl, Red

My2Angels - Stick Figure Charm

My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

"E" Star Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Star Banner

Twiddleybitz - E (TAB00E)

Twiddleybitz - School Dayz Kids (SCH003)

Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Faded Jeans

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Daffodil, Ruby Red, Baby Blue

Adirondack Paint Dabber - Snow Cap

Flourish With A Bling - Luke Flourish, Black

My2Angels - Cap Charm

My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

Black Artliner 0.2

"Y" Star Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Star Banner

Twiddleybitz - Y (TAB00Y)

Twiddleybitz - Tab Stars (TABSTA)

Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Peeled Paint; Faded Jeans

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Daffodil

Adirondack Paint Dabber - Snow Cap; Silver

Flourish With A Bling - Jessie Flourish, Red

My2Angels - Ball Chain

My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

Dymo Labeller

I coloured in the island chipboard with paint and distress stains.  I used liquid pearls to give dimension to the grass and the palm trees, and age and deterioration to the treasure chest, and adding the skull n crossbones charm to finish it off.  I used crackle paint for my sand to give texture: 

"Pirate" Star Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Star Banner

Twiddleybitz - Pirate Island And Treasure Chest (PIR003)

Alison Ellis Design - Star Paper

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Mustard Seed; Peeled Paint; Vintage Photo

Ranger/Tim Hotlz Distress Crackle - Scrattered Straw

Ranger Liquid Pearls - Avocado; Dark Chocolate; Onyx Pearl

Adirondack Paint Dabber - Gold

My2Angels - Skull n Crossbones Charm

My2Angels - White Star Ribbon

Figuring out how to hang all the stars on the ribbon was probably the hardest part as I wanted them to all be attached differently!  The key to getting it right is working out the spacing, pinning to hold the spot and allowing for movement when hung - and thinking about if it will be hung tightly or loosely...

Congratulations if you are reading as you managed to get all the way through - well done!!  I'd love to see your banner so be sure to go to the Twiddleybitz Ning and upload yours to the gallery so I can see it too!!

Thanks for joining me :-)

Jen

Memories

This Layout has been in my head for a while now and thanks to my awesome friend Tracy for finding me the right background patterned paper, it's finished!

Yep - that's my hand-writing  on the banner but if you scrunch up your eyes - it doesn't look so bad!!

AND - this layout fits in beautifully with The Colour Room's Palette #119...

 And a closeup of the gorgeous embossing powder on the chipboard - I LOVE that the details etched into the chippy aren't lost because of the powder, that is truly rare!

Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz - Vintage Overlay (OV001)
Twiddleybitz - Hibiscus Surf Flourish (FLOW008)
Twiddleybitz - Memories (WOR037)
Flourish With A Bling - Jasmine Puffy Flourish - White
Stampendous - Shabby Blue Embossing Enamel
Versamark Embossing Inkpad
Range Distress Ink - Antique Linen
Prima Flowers - Melisse Fairy Belle
Prima Vintage Trinkets - #554255
Sizzix Alterations - Decorative Strip Tattered Banners Die
Stampin Up! - Stamp n Write Marker - Sage Shadow
Bo Bunny Patterned Paper - Welcome Home Portrait (12WP132)
White Cardstock
Glossy Accents to adhere
Stix2Anything - Double-sided Tape

Thanks for stopping by
Jen
:-)

Riley's Autos

This project has been in the planning stages for about 6 months LOL.  A wave shadowbox, in primary colours - and really 'boyish'. hmmmm planned and re-worked, painted, then put aside as I wasn't happy but over this last weekend I have managed to get it done and finished to where I am admittedly pretty proud of the way it turned out!   I found it quite hard as I'm not good at 'boyish' projects where I can't just add some flowers here and there!!

It was a truly group effort with a few suggestions from Matt, toy donations from the boys, and permission to pull their cars apart!  Ian lent me his blot cutters (don't ask!), and Erin also helped with a little colour advice too :-)

This really was so much fun to do - this shot shows the internal piece of a car that I pulled apart for the wheels, and the Tweeny Cogs from Twiddleybitz.  Also some small tools the boys found in their room!

This shows the stack of tyres in the back of the 'shop' and more cogs - a combination of the larger sprockets and the Tweeny cogs this time, and the boys tell me the banner at the top is "AWESOME"!

This was another thing the boys are raving about - the car on the top of the shop - they can't figure out why it's there but they reckon it's also "AWESOME"!

Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Wave shadow Box (SBW001)

Twiddleybitz - Wave Banner (BAN001)

Twiddleybitz - Itty Bitty Alphabet Black (ALPHA005B)

Twiddleybitz - Sprocket Set (TRA008)

Twiddleybitz - Tweeny Cogs (TWBT011)

Tim Holtz - Distress Crackle: Scrattered Straw
Tim Holtz - Distress Crackle: Fired Brick
Tim Holtz - Distress Crackle: Broken China

Adirondack - Paint Dabbers: Citrus
Adirondack - Paint Dabbers: Silver

Stylish images - Clock

Miscellaneous Ribbon

Assorted Hot Wheels and el-cheapo toy cars and parts (8-10)

Assorted mini tools found in the boys toybox!

Thanks fo stopping by my blog - I hope I have inspired you to create!

Jen

Today & Everyday

Another gorgeous photo that I have been dying to scrap for so long, this time it's my Riley...

I didn't want to lose the innocence in the photo by making it a real "boy" layout so wanted it softer...  Tracy at My2Angels answered my prayers the other day when she handed me a brand new product - an embellishment kit in blues with some flowers and a gorgeous altered flower with a charm - called charming florals (she is sooo good at these - checkout her charming chains too!!).  Naturally as I'm so addicted to her gorgeous hat pins I had to add one to the layout too :-)

I love the new Twiddleybitz Bird on a Branch so I had fun glimmer-misting it and then using enamels to make the bird blue - but my favourite part of that is sewing it to the page with my machine (who says they are really for material and making clothes)!!!

I also love my new Tim Holtz Tab Die (Thank you to the awesome Rachel Pepper Walsh for helping me figure out how to stack it in my bigshot!) and how perfectly the little stamped saying fits.  I have hand journaled on the patterned paper (did you see it straight off or did you have to look for it?).  The foliage the Twiddleybitz leaves provides really breaks up the blue - but nicely; I really like the way they all sit behind the fence and only the charming flower is hanging over.  I love the definition inking around the edges gives - my tried and true favourite technique I think!!

Ingredients:

PP - Autumn Leaves from about 2004!

White Cardstock

Twiddleybitz - "Bird on a Branch" (BIR014)

Twiddleybitz - Fence (BAS014)

Twiddleybitz - Fern leaves

My2Angels - Charming florals - pale blue

My2Angels - blue and silver jewelled hat pin

Tattered Angels Glimmer mists - Forest Green and Sea Glass

Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Stormy Sky

Tim Holtz Alterations - Tab Die

Tim Holtz Distress Stickles - clear rock candy - on the top part of the fence (you can't see it in the photo)

Colourful Thoughts Embossing Enamel - Sapphire

Stampin Write Marker - Brocade Blue

Papercraft Clear Cling Stamp

Miscellaneous Blue Bow, clear blue Circle charms, white paint, and green cotton.

Thank you so much for stopping by - I hope you like my layout.  I have plenty of links for you to take throughout the post so you can find the goodies I'm talking about!

Jen