Quick Quotes Altered Letter K

Good morning Quick Quotes readers, Alicia blogging today.  I have an altered chipboard letter I made for my step son.  He graduated this year, I hope he takes this to college with him.

I started by choosing my paper.  Then I traced the K on the back of the paper I choose.  I turned my K upside down so that my template came out correctly.  After cutting my K out of the paper I chalked up all the edges of the chipboard with Navy PowderPuff Chalking Ink.  I suggest doing this after tracing you template since you the chalk may take a minute to dry on the chipboard. 

The fun part was cutting a bunch of gears out of various papers and chalking them up with coordinating inks.  I added the brads to the center and adhered to my paper K. There were some with gear holes too big for the brads. I just added the brad to the paper then taped the gear down around it.  I then used a combination of adhesives for adhering the paper to the chipboard K.  I used mostly tape, some glue dots under the brads and a bit of liquid glue just along the edges to make sure the paper didn't come up. I find using too much liquid glue can leave wrinkles and bumps sometimes when drying.  Here are some close ups of my gears:

I die cut some chipboard with my easel die to make this guy stand up. Finally, one sweep around with my Navy PowderPuff Chalking Ink to give it all a finished look.

Quick Quotes products used:

Earth, Wind, and Fire 102, 111

Honeycomb 102 paper

Green with Envy PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Navy PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Sunset PowderPuff Chalking Ink

other products used:

chip board

Tim Holtz/ Sizzix gear and small easel dies

brads

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/challenge-172-anything-but-card.html until 7/8x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

Let Freedom Ring! June Guest Designer at Connie Can Crop

I am pleased to be this month's guest designer at Connie Can Crop for the June challenge:

The challenge is to use red, white and blue rings (or circles) on your project.  I have for you a layout of my local MLB ballpark.  It is named for a hometown sponsor, Great American Insurance.  It is really neat to have skyscrapers towering on one side and the Ohio River flowing on the other.  On this day, my friend had passes to a special photo op event for season ticket holders and she knew how I loved to take pictures.  I didn't really know many players but got some great shots of her and her favorites!

I used Piggy Tales Yankee Doodle Dandy papers with my trusty Creative Memories circle cutter to create various size rings.  I layered the rings on a patterned paper with ring/circle design. The letters match perfectly because they came with the collection.  This Piggy Tales paper collection was a $3 score from my local thrift store.  It was an entire album kit with instructions, papers,  chipboard windows and letters.

  Here's a close up of my title.

Ingredients:

Piggy Tales Yankee Doodle Dandy collection: Doodle, Macaroni, Town and alphas

Creative Memories Circle cutting system

Quick Quotes denim and barn door red

white card stock

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to play along at Connie Can Crop this month open until 6/30.

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2016/05/ch-110-red-white-blue.html until 6/9x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

Cincinnati Reds Digital Layout using Pixels2Pages blueprint and Creative Memories Baseball

Here I have used a Pixels2Pages blueprint:  Coastal Walk.  I thought it would be great for all the beautiful pics I took at Reds Picture Day for Kerri!  The ladies in the pics are Kerri and Lisa, they are both huge Reds Fans!!  I used the Creative Memories Baseball kit.  Perfect for a day at the ball park!

Creative Memories Border Maker Baseball Layout

This is a 7x7 album I made for my stepson's birthday.  The Creative Memories Border Maker System really helped me do something simple and cute with a small baseball layout.  The Zig Zag Diamond cartridge reminds me a little of the baseball diamonds.  I also used Tim Holtz sizzix diecut edges to make the journaling and title boxes.

Close up.  I love putting stickers on paper and using pop dots to make them stand out.