Lights- Acrylic On rock

Its Sunday! On my days off I like to now paint and scrapbook. Today I am going to share with you a simple piece that I did today. I call it Lights, it reminds me of the Northern Lights only in photos as I have not actually gotten a chance to see them in real life.


Below is the list of materials that I used a link to watch the process video as well.

Paints- Liquitex Heavy body
Titanium White
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Green (Blue shade)
Payne Gray
Cadmium Yellow

Brushes
#3 Filbert
#6 Filbert
10\0 Round
#8 Angle


Click Here to Watch the Process Video

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God Bless
Krystal

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So I had to redo my Bloglovin account as I haven't been on it in so long. So this is a short post to let everyone know to follow me over there. Remember the profile is new and I'm going to have to build it up again.

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Hope everyone is having a great Thursday, God Bless.
Krystal

Long time no blog post!

Wow it’s been quit sometime since I have been on my blog!  Long story short, I had to get a full time job outside of the home after my husband got laid off quite awhile back. In doing so it took a lot of time away from me and I stopped doing a lot of things that I loved. One of them being this blog and another is scrapbooking itself. Another reason is we have moved a few times and I have lost the space that I can call mine such as my scrapbooking room. Most of my supplies are in the storage shed out behind our house and are collecting dust 😞. We are now not only buying one house but two, so we are not moving anytime soon.

I have found a small balance between work and home life so I am easing back into things. My hope is to start blogging more as I love to do it and a passion I never lost. As for my hobbies they have changed drastically. I picked up oil painting and I have been doing that for about a year now. I have recently been doing acrylic paintings. No surface is safe with me around, I started painting on rocks and that has taken a whole new direction for me. My husbands family are rock hounders and he showed them my work on the rocks and suggested that I start selling them at the rock shows. Then I shared them on social media and that opened a whole new door for me. Everyone suggested that I sell my masterpieces, so I have taken the plunge and I opened an Etsy store (Click here to check it out). I have yet to make a sell but in the mean time I am doing all the research that I can and painting to relax.

Here is a picture of the first rock painting I did with acrylic.

I only paint on the weekends as I am to tired to do anything when I get home from work. It is also dark when I get home plus cooking dinner, homework with the kids and winding down for the night after along day.

Now that I have went on a ramble, back to other things that I have been up to.

We went on a family vacation about a year ago to go see my husbands mom and dad in Georgia. It was a nice but stressful all in the same sense. My kids had experienced a school shooting prior to us leaving which took two classmates lives. We were dealing with all the emotions that go along with that as well as the anxiety. Then in July this year we went to Mississippi to see my family that I haven’t seen in 17 years. That was good a trip but just like the Georgia trip it was stressful. There was a few things that I learned on both of those trips that I would not do again if I was to make those trips again.  My daughter graduated in May before we left and that was stressful ad crazy. At one point I didn’t think it was going to actually happen. She got thru it and made and I couldn’t be more proud. Then she turned 18 is June and that wasn’t so bad but it did make me feel old.

So in a small nutshell that is what has been going on in my life besides working. So I will go ahead and end this post and hope it wasn’t to boring.

Hope to see ya soon,
Krystal

Scrapbook Layout- Sleeping at the Doctors

In this layout I used the March Scraptastic Its my Life kit and add-on. I love the bold colors that came in this kits this month.

 

Now the story behind the photo:

My youngest son came to me one day after I got off from work and told me his throat hurt, so I looked and sure enough he had white dots in the back of his throat, so I took him to the doctors and he was so tired that he fell asleep on the table waiting for the doctor to come in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrapbook Layout- Snow Day

 

Here is a scrapbooking layout that I did about the only snow that we got here where I live and it wasn't even on a snow day!!!

 

 

 

 

 In this layout I used the Studio Calico Roundabout Kit

 

Cardstock is American Crafts in Vanilla

 

Here the flag and tag are from a previous Scraptastic kit.

I also used silver thread to do some sewing through the flag. 

 

Once again here is a flag from a previous Scraptastic kit and I also used silver thread to do some sewing through the flag and I used prima pearls.

 

 

Title is from my stash of thickers and alphas in a aqua blue color.

 

and another view of the layout.

 

I hope you all enjoyed this layout. It took me about 48 minutes to complete.

 

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Have a great scraperific day!!!

Project Life-MINES

I have finally go the other side of the project life- Gold Layout done and up and ready for everyone to see. I have not done a video on this one and I can not remember all the products I used (I know shame on me right), but here they are for al to enjoy!!!

 

 

This is a photo of the journaling about the must peaceful place that is near us.

 

This was one of the mines that we came across on our camping trip.

 

 

Different view of the first photo. :)

 

 

Different view of the journaling card.

 

Different view of the mine photo.

 

 

I hope everyone is having a scraptastic day!!!!

Project LIfe Gold?

I know its been a while so I thought that I would share something's that I have been working on. I did lose mojo there for awhile plus I ended up finally getting a job in August of last year, so life has been a little busy for me....

But without further ado here are the photos!!!

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Project projects and more projects!!

I have so many projects going on right now it is ridiculous!! I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos and getting so much inspiration from the talented people out there that I thought I needed to try every thing. I do plan on doing a video on each of the projects once I am finished but as of now they are a work in progress.

I have also been doing some internet "window" shopping and putting things on my wishlist as well.

Here are some pictures of my project in the making the first one is a tutorial I followed on Prima Marketing YouTube of Steffogal1, the second is like a junk album and the third is Bo Bunny word album family.

 

Junk Mini Album 

 

 

 

Bo Bunny Word Album- FAMILY 

 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a scraptastic day!!! 

SMASH book!!

Ok so this is another thing that I have started SMASH Booking. I got the red one to start off wiht and now I have the mini as well. I plan on getting a few more as I have so many ideas running through my head for them.

I have to take new pictures of the the first two pages because they have my address on them but I can share the others.

Here is the third and fourth pages titled I am.

 Fifth and sixth pages of my kids when they were babies til now.

 Seventh and eighth pages of me and my husband

 And the ninth page is about my dogs. One of them we just recently lost 2 days before Christmas.

I used Washi Tape, thickers, Basic Grey items and little odds and ends embellishments that I had.

Hope you enjoyed!! Thanks for stopping by and have a scraptastic day!!!

Gearing up For Project Life.

I had started doing a lot of research on project life back in December. I have now came to the conclusion that Project Life would be a more simple way for me to document all the pictures that I have. I do plan on starting it this year but I plan on do this for 2010 to the present. I don't plan on doing it traditionally either. I am going to do it by events. Such holidays, kids school functions, camping, Summer time, etc. I will be doing layouts for my kids scrapbooks but that will lessen. I am not totally giving up on doing layout or mini albums for that matter. I just need a simpler process to help me to stay on track.

But I have been gathering supplies and I am now just lacking the albums and the page protectors. Here is a look at my Project Life/SMASH book station that I have setup.

This is my secretary desk that is in the corner of my scrap room that is formally meant to be the  dining room. It was a great window view and great natural lighting.

This is the 1st bin on the left side of my desk this holds all my handmade Daybooks, handmade Smash books and the K&Company SMASHbooks. 

This is the 2nd thing that you see on my desk also on the left side. It is some of the chipboard alphas that I have. I have no clue who makes them I go them from my mother-in-law.

This is the 3rd bin on my desk and it holds all of the stamps that I plan on using such as clear stamps, alpha stamps, roller date stamps, etc.

And the 4th and 5th bins on my desk (they are stacked) next to my lamp holds  all the embellishments and 6x6 paper pads that I believe I will use for Project Life.

As I get started and into I will keep you updated on how it goes for me! :)

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a scraptastic day!!

I'm back and refreshed!!

The holidays are now over and all the decorations are put away and life is now back to semi-normal. I have been trying to gather things for project life that I plan on starting this year for the first time and I also plan to do project life style with all my photos from 2010 til the present day. But I will talk about that in a later post.

Today I would like to share a few Valentine's Day cards that I am making for my kids and husband. I thought it would be cute to make then cards this year instead of doing the store bought ones. I think that it is more from the heart when it is handmade then store bought.

The supplies I used are all Studio G from WalMart. I know that other places sell Studio G products but this is where I got mine. :)
The cardstock that I used is from Stampin' Up!

They measure 3x3 and are perfect size to give to your Valentine.

Take a 3x6 piece of cardstock and score it at 3.

Thanks for stopping by!! Have scraptastic day!!

One Last Christmas Card to Share

This is the last one I made using the scraps of paper that I have. Making these cards really didn't dent the scrap paper stack any so I am going to have to find other challenge for myself to use up the scraps before I buy any more paper.

Here it is.

This is the portrait style easel card. I may make a few more but at this time I am busy trying to catch up my December Daily album.

Hope you have a great day!!!

Yet another Christmas Card

Once again this is another card that I made with scraps that I have. I used scraps of scrapbooking paper, Christmas stickers, and rubber stamps.

 This is the landscape style easel card and I am just loving making these!!!

How everyone has a great day!!!!

Christmas Cards

I have challenged myself to use scraps to make my Christmas  cards. I thought to myself if I want to get new papers then I need to use the scraps that I have now. Well when it comes to cards I get stumped on what to do. So I started searching Youtube for unique ideas on cards and make some for my family here in town.

I came across a few Youtube videos that had tutorials for easel cards. I got started making them and I don't think I stopped for a while. But this is one that I came up with.

Sorry for the blurriness I still have not found my camera battery charger.


I used scrap papers and Christmas stickers along with some rubber stamps and followed a number of tutorials on Youtube to assemble the card.

Hope you have a great day!!!

Catching Up....

I have been really busy with sick kids and dentist appointments, Christmas shopping and everything else that goes along with the holidays.

I am catching up on my December Daily and I am printing photos as we speak. I have all my journaling done for the last 10 days and now I am getting the photos done after I am done with that and a little more embellishing I am going to do a video of a flip through of the December Daily.

I am going to try and make some more blog post today as tomorrow I have to take my daughter back to the dentist because she grinds her teeth at night and broke one. I have a few more Christmas projects that I have been working on mostly tags but I will have pictures up later or on a different post. I am also working on Christmas cards.

Well that's all I have for today, hope everyone enjoys there day!!!

Another Daybook!!!

I have done another Daybook!!!

This one is using the DCWV Tattered Time paper stack and it is just using left over scraps from an album that I made a while back.

This one has more pages in it then the last one did.

I cut some of the corners with a ticket corner punch and just rounded the others.

I have no clue what I am going to put in it at this point I just love making them!!

So without further ado here is some photos:

Front Cover

 Inside Pages

Well that is all I have to share today! Time to make some Christmas cards!!

Have a great day and Thanks for stopping by!!!