Sunday, July 19, 2009


Ok. So sometimes we are inspired by a scrappers LO.. As for this LO, I was totally inspired by my SWIRLYDOOS design Team mate, Robin (Robinzberdz)...Krissy (Rodeeogrl) sent us these awesome envelopes that some Prima paper came in...Otherwise they would have been thrown out. It is packaging!! But Oh NO, Krissy knew they would be added to some beautiful projects some day...This was it for me. The very talented Beth Root is Guest Designer at Swirlydoos this month and has a challenge for subscribers to use all your scraps from past Swirlydoos kits. I almost always use the kits to the last drop, but did have a few leftovers. So here is the result...So Thank You Robin, Krissy and Beth, such great inspiration...By the way, this is my dear daughter in law Ashley...She loves her Bling!!!!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

SUMMER SORBET





Here are the first few photos of the pages I did for SWIRLYDOOS July kit Summer Sorbet. The papers and embellies are so summery and beautiful!! The flower add on kit is fantastically beautiful and the card stock add on has the yummiest colors!! Go to Swirlydoos for the butterfly tutorial and then after you register at Swirlydoos, you can PM me with your email and I will send you a few files for the butterflies. All you have to do is print them out and embellish!!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

YOU ARE MY MUSE

This LO was done with the Swirlydoos Main June kit TIMELESS. I added the butterfly, ribbon,jewelry finds, and rose from my own stash. The design was influenced by Gabriellep, and I love her Iron Maiden butterflies dearly so I tried my hand at making my own using her design. Although I purchased her transparency butterflies and they are so beautiful!! I made the rose from coffee filters and Glimmer mist, You can visit Swirlydoos for the my tutorial. TFL...All papers are My Minds Eye from their Bella Bella collection

Sunday, June 14, 2009

BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS


This LO was done with SWIRLYDOOS June main kit "TIMELESS" and the Prima stitched paper add on... I added the beautiful butterfly created by Gabriellep (thanks Gabi!!) that I purchased at her Etsy shop Gabrielles Tiny Treasures. I created the flower vines but used scraps of the stitched Prima paper to create the tiny cabbage rosettes on the vine. I also added the large Prima Flower (my own stash) that is under the large cabbage rose I made. My daughter has big dreams for her future now that she graduated High School. Love her to death!!!!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Coffee Filter Rose Tutorial

***Product list***
Any thing that will will create 4 different sized hearts. A Cricut, Fiskars templates, free hand, and in my case I used my Sizzix Hearts die, all four on one die plate...It works perfectly. Quick dry glue, Glimmer mist in any color, a hole puncher (the tiny one 1/16), large cone coffee filters, a brad.



Cut out 4 hearts of each of the 4 sizes, and hole punch above the point.

Glimmer mist them lightly, but do not saturate unless you want solid color.
Starting with the smallest heart, start stacking them onto the brad, prong side up, and place a tiny glue dot near the brad so that the hearts are stabilized.
Stack the next 2 sizes. The largest heart is stacked last. This will end up being your bottom layer.
Turn right side up, this is what you have.
Start scrunching up the top layer.
Then take each of the next layers and scrunch up around the top layer.
Open it up and for this one I curled the edges of each petal.
For this one I just crumbled the rose lightly and curled just a few petals.
You can use any kinds of brads, You can cover your brads with stickles, or glitter or seed beads, just about anything. You can ink the edges of the flower, or you can just Glimmer mist the inner side of the petals to give the middles a blush effect. The possibilities are endless. Of course you can add more layers for a fuller rose, or omit the larger hearts for a smaller rose. And you can use cardstock or paper. I will be also be teaching another technique using organza.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009


Another SWIRLYDOOS design team LO that I did with the wonderful June "TIMELESS" kit. Tim Holtz masks, Prima felt gate, Tattered Angels Gimmer Screens and Glimmer Mist, Websters Pages, Vintage lace...I could go on and on...The kit and the add ons are fantastic!! I am having so much fun with this one. I wish I had more time to scrap. I go through Swirlydoos with drawal when I am at work. I just want to come home and play with all the delish goodies in this months kit!! I love it!!! Go check it out now before they are all gone!!

Monday, June 1, 2009




Here are the first 3 LO's done with the June SWIRLYDOOS kit beautifully named TIMELESS. The kit is jam packed with awesome deliciousness!! There is a flower add on, a card stock add on, a fabulous Prima stitched paper add on, and a wonderfully creative Tattered Angels technique/project kit offered this month to enhance the TIMELESS kit even more!! I am loving this kit!!! They just keep getting better!! I love designing for SWIRLYDOOS, as I work with a wonderful Team!! They are just so talented!! I have 3 more LO's on my scrap table at this time just waiting to be finished so that I can start the next 3 !! I keep going back and forth to work on them. Between my 12 hour shifts at work, my daughter graduating high school this past weekend and the big celebration party this coming weekend I have been busy planning and getting my high school graduate ready for this Big Wonderful World!!!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

I designed this LO for SWIRLYDOOS May kit "VINTAGE CHIC".I tried to incorporate some of the techniques we have learned. So the flower is the tutorial I did, The flourishes are from the tutorial for Faux Say It in Crystals or pearls by Lynn (FOAMY), the transparency butterfly is colored with alcohol ink, and I used Beggahunas sketch for Vintage Chic. http://www.swirlydoos.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8835
Check out Swirlydoos for the tutorials!! http://www.swirlydoos.com/page.php?36 The coral and green colored paper is actually the backing Kraft paper that our Prima transparency came in, I used Glimmer Mist to color the paper. I also had a chance to play with the glimmer screens I had, Love it!! I will be doing a tutorial on how to make the butterfly...Which is simply embossing a stamp on transparency, then coloring with alchohol ink...The photo is my daughter before Prom.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009



The Layout is of my father before his first birthday. This was done with SWIRLYDOOS May "Vintage Chic" kit. I had to do a real vintage style LO as this kit was made for it...I enjoyed working with this kit, it is totally awesome!!

Sunday, May 3, 2009

SWIRLYDOOS "VINTAGE CHIC" unveiled




These are a few of the new LO's done with the newly released SWIRLYDOOS May kit "Vintage Chic." It is packed with old world goodness and the papers are gorgeous!!! Go grab your May kit before they are all gone!!! And check out the add on kits too!!! I am currently working on a real Vintage page with the kit...Will upload soon!!

Sunday, April 26, 2009



Welcome to Swirlydoos first (and certainly not last) OPEN SKETCH CHALLENGE. What do we mean by open? Well, we hold sketch challenges specifically for our subscribers using our kits, but THIS special sketch challenge is open to EVERYONE! Here are the beautiful prizes you can win.
One bottle of Prima Essentials 6 (Life In Colors) flowers ~~ and~~ One Swirlydoos' Primalicious Grab Bag.. So come and join the fun..Click here for the delicious details!!!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!


Be good to our planet...What are you doing to keep our planet GREEN!!!! Plant a tree, recycle more, save water and energy!! We can even scrapbook green. I use the cardboard box my packages come in!! I use the paper that backs my Prima flowers. It's that pretty blue!!! I make flowers out of kraft paper. Kraft paper is what they use to make paper bags...So please do your part to save our planet, right now it's the only one we have!!!!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Heritage Flower Tutorial

Learn how to make this beautiful flower I call the Heritage Flower. The steps are easy, you probably have all the supplies on hand, and you can make any size you would like. Perfect for your Scrapbook layouts as well as projects. You could use any paper, sheet music, old book paper, and newsprint looks fabulous. I hope you enjoy making these. I was so excited in learning too!!
Here is your simple list of supplies...Paper of your choice. I used music paper for mine, ink, scissors, stapler, a pencil, and glue dots.
Draw a 5 petal flower. 4 large and 4 smaller. Do not worry about making you petals perfect, the more random it is the better the outcome of your flower. The beauty of these flowers is there "worn" charm. Dont aim for perfection!! If you stack your paper 4 layers, you can cut them all at once.


Cut out all of your flower layers. You should have 4 large and 4 small. You could use more or less depending on how full you want your flowers. For demonstration purposes I will be using the 4 large and 4 small.
Ink the edges of your flower layer.


Now ink all of your flower layers.
Cut random shaped leaves and ink them in green. Set aside.
Fold the flower in half, ink sides together and staple the bottom center.

Get them all folded in half and stapled. 4 large, 3 small. The one circled is the 4th small flower layer that is "quartered" and stapled along the folded edge.
Open up the flower layer.
Dont be afraid to wrinkle up the flower!! Then straighten it out. and maybe curve the petals outward rolling it around a thin paintbrush.
You now have a completed flower layer. Now go finish the rest of them!!
Place glue dots in the middle of each petal and start stacking and staggering them 4 large on bottom, 3 small on top, and the quartered small one last on top.
This your finished flower, You can ruffle up the petals to give it more dimension.
Add the leaves in any position you choose, just glue them in between the flower petals.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009







This LO was done using the wonderful April URBAN GRUNGE kit from SWIRLYDOOS. I have learned so much to challenge myself using papers and products I thought I would never use..It has really broadened my scrapbooking style. Proves you can do anything in scrapbooking and really love the results.This photo was taken during Scott Kelbys World Wide PhotoWalk that my daughter and I went on last year. It was a great day for the both of us, we both got lots of great photos, This is one that I captured, we just loved the mural on the side of a building in Downtown Safety Harbor.