Smash Book Art : Alive

Fancied getting my paints out as I have been watching alot of Leilani Joy's Art Nuvogue  and I just love her paintings but as I have said before I am rubbish at drawing!

I had this quote from Frankenstein where the Dr says "It's Alive!" and I found this quote: The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be!

I also saw a pin-up Bride of Frankenstein tattoo which Kat Von D did on LA Ink a while ago but cant find a photo of it anywhere!

I know its not Halloween but I fancied painting something with that and this is what I came up with.

Image traced but changed a bit from http://dv-venom.deviantart.com/art/The-Bride-of-Frankenstein-2-358921824

It got a tad messy and had a few issues where mist would not go through lace or my mesh and got black paint everywhere as I couldn't get the paint to run properly but I got there in the end. 

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : Easter

Good Evening All 

Just realised in one of my nieces scrapbook I am a year behind!!!

So thought I would try and get a bit caught up. I still have Christmas 2012 to scrap in her album but wasn't feeling Christmasy last night so through I'd skip them and scrap her Easter/spring photos.

Used:
Paper - First Edition - Spring Drop
Paper - Me & My Big Ideas Spring Mambi Kit
Jolees - Large Happy Easter
Smash Journaling Card
Free 2013 Project Life Card

I also made another layout but it was super quick and didn't video it.

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : If there ever comes a day

Good Evening All 

Happy New Year this is my first post for 2014 and its slightly a sad subject ive scrapped.

Its a heritage layout I have been working on for the past few days and the journaling is what took the longest as I really didn't know what to right. The photo is of my great aunt and uncle who died age 3 and 4 of Diphtheria in 1934. It is the only photo we have of them and I believe this photo was taken a month or so before they died of the disease. Very sad as my great grandmother also lost another son age 5 to the same thing 2 years earlier in 1931 but there is no photo of him.

I have had the photo for quite a few years and wanted to go with a vintage nursery theme but didn't know how to do it.

Used: 
Paper - Colorbök - French Prep
- The Girls' Paperie - Vintage Whimsey
- Colorbök - Homespun Paper Collection

Vintage nursery rhyme music paper
Vintage Pram newspaper advert

Cameo cut files
- vintage baby carriage by Hero Arts
- if there ever comes a day - keep me in your heart - vinyl phrase by Kolette Hall 

- horse rocking horse by Samantha Walker 

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

"Something I Love" December YTLH©

Hey all
Hope everyone is well.

If you go over to You tube you can follow along with the YouTube Layout Hop.

Here is the page I have made:

First Off I would like to say I DID NOT draw this picture it is an Image by Saturated Canary - Librarian which is printed on my computer large and traced onto my project using tracing paper. I am rubbish at drawing!! I changed some of the image once I traced it and left bits off which I didn't want on.

I made this in my SMASH Book so it is not a traditional layout. This documents the books I have read over the past 3 years.

I even got my embossing powders out and put the names of some of my favourite authors on the book spines, the screws of her glasses and the pears on her glasses chain.

I am so in love with this way of scrapping/documenting life at the minute that I will be doing a few more art layouts in my SMASH Book soon.

The only thing which I found hard was actually pulling pages out of a book to make the background (it was a book I didn't like or want but it felt so wrong!!)

Theme for this month is "Something I Love". Hope you guys like each and every video and please leave a comment on every video to be eligible to WIN a prize from our Sponsors.

Sponsors for December: Scrapbook Circle

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There is a FAN page on Facebook please try to promote and post the fan page link on your Facebook to help spread the word. Ask people to "like" the page. Here is the link.

Line up for December:

1. Sam - http://www.youtube.com/samwri1984
2. Becca - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBeccajb
3. Christine - www.youtube.com/serenityinhim
4. Beatriz - https://www.youtube.com/user/BeatrizS1974
5. Fitty -http://www.youtube.com/user/MadebyFittyTV
6.  Jan - http://www.youtube.com/user/pokefan2001
7. Ellen - www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dJT8XrBGCUKU0z7IgBxoQ

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : Cupcake Queen

Happy New Years Eve Eve! WOW it is nearly 2014!!! Where has this year gone?

I am quite behind in my scrapbooking I really haven't scrapped as much this year as I did last year so that is one of my new years resolutions to get caught up! I think I said that last year as well lol!

I have decided to go back to my roots of scrapbooking - back to my good old 8x8 layouts well this is more like 8.5x8.5 but that is because I picked up wrong size page protectors!

This is just a quick and simple layout using squares of paper to fill the space.

Used: 
Paper - Colorbök - Hopscotch Collection

American Crafts Everyday Set 1 Letter Stickers

Thickers - Lullaby 

Jennifer Ellory Design Chipboard pieces

Teal Marker

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : No Driving Miss Daisy Here!

Hi

Hope everyone is well. I haven't been doing much scrapbooking lately as I have been swamped with Christmas card stuff. I have finally finished all my cards and got 1 last one to post tomorrow. So I can start getting caught up with my scrapbooking.

This is an old photo from June which I have wanted to scrap and its been sitting on my desk!

I used:

Paper-

Kesi'Art - Flic Flac Floc

Dear Lizzy Neaopolitan - Cloud Velumn

                                   - Woodgrain Chevron

Elle's Studio - Serendipity Lil' Snippets

American Crafts Everyday Set 2 Letter Stickers

Recollections Brown Letter Stickers

Kesi'Art - PSCHHIITT NO. 775 LA BOHÈME

Cork Arrows

Teal and copper Sequins

Tim Holtz - Tea Dye Distress Ink

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

Reindeer Food

Evening all/ or should I say morning it is 3am here - Just realised the time!!

Some of the girls at work today were talking about Santa's letters and his magic key you can get and it got me thinking about the reindeer food I had seen people making last year.

So tonight I made some:

I have had these snowflake bags for about 2 maybe 3 years in my cake decorating box! I think I got them from DollarTree.

I found this cute Free Printable Reindeer Food Label by Anders-Ruff

The hanging tag I cut from original in paint - hope this isn't copyright infringement - I'm not selling them tho so hopefully I wont get wrong.

The Reindeer food is just Porridge Oats and blue glitter.

I think I should of put more glitter in but I didn't have any silver and ran out of blue.

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx