Let's Get Ready To Rumble - Lisa Gregory

Hello there. Lisa here with my first post as the June Guest designer for Donna Salazar Designs. I would like to take this time to thank Donna and Natasha for inviting me to work with all of the beautiful product they sent me. Each collection was just as beautiful as the next. This layout was done using  papers from the Natural Beauty collection. All of the flowers and leaves were made using the papers from the 6x6 pad. I wanted to hoard , I mean save, the 12x12 paper for my other projects. A couple of 6x6 pieces of paper goes a long way!!!

As I was creating this layout, I realized that I should have used the masked bricks onto the layout before I turned pack the peekaboo areas on the sides of the layout. It is almost impossible to do it in the pattern I envisioned after the paper and flowers had been adhered permanently. That is when I came up with the idea of creating the bricks to cut apart. That way, you can use them anywhere you want!!!! It worked out beautifully!!! It took a little time, but was so worth the effort. I hope you enjoy my grungy, manly layout despite the flowers. I cant help it, I love Donna's Spellbinders flower designs!! And for those of you who know me, you know I love to create my own flowers. The dies make it soooo easy!!

Here is one of the turned back peek a boo spots. I love the corrugated paper underneath.

Donna's Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets Die set just lends a little grunge to add to the theme of this layout.

I used the biggest die in the set to frame my photo. I stitched around the edges of the photo.

Once you have the bricks all done, (tutorial below) simply glue them to the spots on your project. They can be cut down further if a shorter piece is needed.

I inked the flowers before assembling them. I also used some watered down ink (press the ink pad down on a non stick mat and spritz some water into it creating a puddle )and a small  paint brush to splatter some if the ink around the layout.

Products List for the layout:

INK/ COLOR

Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx, Leather and Honey
Smooch Spritz-Green Olive

Paper

GCD Studios Donna Salazar Natural Beauty 12x12

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar 6x6 paper pad - Natural Beauty

Want 2 Scrap 8x10 Corrugated Board

Chipboard

GCD Studios Chipboard Alphabet Stickers, Fun and Funky

Dies

 Spellbinders Donna Salazar Sprightly Sprockets

 Spellbinders Donna Salazar Carnation 

Spellbinders Donna Salazar Rose Creations die set

Spellbinders Foliage

 Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

 Mask: 

Want2Scrap Donna Salazar Designs-Brick Wall

Punches:

Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page-Raindrop

Adhesive:

Aleens Quick Dry Glue

ATG Tape Gun

Other:

Texture Paste 

Zig Pen
small paintbrush

                                                              Brick Tutorial  

Step 1.
Take your ink pad and stamps a few swirls on the non stick craft mat. I just press it to the mat and give it a twist. 

 Step 2.
Place some texture paste in the middle of the ink swirls. 

Step 3.
 Using a palette knife start mixing the texture paste into the ink mixing well to distribute color evenly.

 Step 4.
 Place the brick stencil onto a piece of card stock and spread on thickly. You want to see some texture on the bricks.

Step 5.
Carefully lift the stencil from the paper.

Step 6.
You can either let the bricks air dry, or you can speed it up with a craft heat gun.

Step 7.
 Cut the bricks apart. I did mine while watching  Charlie Sheen on an episode of Anger Management....(random I know)

Step 8.
Ink the edges of the bricks using the ink.

Step 9.
Spray the inked bricks and the ink will bleed out a little creating a washed look on the bricks.

 Product List to Create  Bricks:

ColorBox Mix'd Media iNx-Leather

Texture or molding paste (thick)

Non stick crafting mat

Want2Scrap Donna Salazar Designs brick stencil

palette knife

Water spritzer bottle

heavy card stock

Thank you for joining me on my debut day as Guest Designer this month. Donna will be sharing a few more of my projects throughout the month on her blog  Donna Salazar Designs.

The photo is of my husband, getting ready to "feed" his brothers 1964 modified Falcon. The water bottle you see in his hand contains Alcohol (no..silly, not the kind you drink). The alcohol is used to start the the beast I mean engine...You see, my husband and his brother have their  NHRA (National Hotrod Association) licenses. Every Year, we all participate in a friends Fundraiser for Thanksgiving that helps in  feeding familes that are less fortunate, a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner. Terry and Rhonda Hunt, put on the big fundraiser which is a car show, barbeque, showstopper!! In the end, the Big Boys, get to race their car down the street to show everyone what kind of muscle they have. Of course it is all controlled by the local highway patrol to keep safety in mind. But you leave with a great feeling  of having helped a family in need, to have a wonderful Thanksgiving. To enter the show on the grounds (they have a gorgeous home/barn/dock/well you name it, you have to bring a frozen turkey and some boxed and canned goods AND a covered dish for the barbeque. That's it..No ticket, no money, just the goods. There are also lots of raffles and prizes to help in the donations. It is a lot of family fun and the company is always awesome!!! I am proud to see a lot of my husbands very talented work at the show (He builds custom hotrods and does restoration)...

 These are just a a few of the cars that my husband had in the car show.

The party isn't complete until a friend lands his helicopter on the grounds to join the party...

  We have a HUGE biking community, so they also show up with their gleeming machines to help out. Now you see why I used brick on my layout. The property is paved in them as well as the brick wall that surrounds it.

This is my brother inlaw leaving the property to give everyone a show.

  Here is a front view...The engine makes the streets rumble, thus the title of my layout. That is my daughter in law Ashley up against the brick wall waiting for my brother in law to tear up the street.

And here you see Pinallas Counties finest keeping it all safe and in control.

And check out this article from a couple of years ago from the event.Scroll down and see my brother in laws "Backasswards" truck that my husband did the paint, bodywork and flames on. When it is going down the road, it looks as though it is driving backwards...lol..But the whole truck was built backwards. The back is the front and the front is the back..Pure genius...My boys, I tell ya, they make me smile!!!

 Look at them..This is the life. Under the gorgeous Live Oak trees..Perfect spot for a Hotrod picnic!!
The 55 Chevy besides the truck is one of my husbands pride and joy...

Thanks for letting me share a day in our wonderful life. We get to do this every year in the beginning of November for the last 15 years. Just one of a few charity events we participate in during the year. Having it all is wonderful...Giving back is a gift we love sharing!!!...xoxo