Emma-

This page was made using Luminart home made spray mists. Formula is below in the previous post. There are lots of other uses for them that we can discuss. But for now here is a page I created using Webster's papers and the paints.

Tomorrow I will try and post some of the other pages I have created using the spray paints.

I heard that LuminArt is either reducing inventory or going out of business. I also read that they offer a discount on the product if you ask. happy painting.

LuminArt Pigment Paint Sprays

Thanks for the response to my home made spray mists. I really would love some of the glimmer mists, but have about 20 colors of LuminArt pigment paints so I decided to make my own.

Luminart powders are very intense and create wonderful colors splashes. The can be used several different ways, but we can get in to that later.

To make the misters, I purchased Walmart travel size spray misters 98 cents each in the shampoo and deodorant section. While you are there purchase a bottle of inexpensive liquid hair spray ( Rave, White Rain, any of the liquid pourable types).

I added about 1/4 teaspoon of the pigment powder and then added 2 parts water and then added 1 part hair spray.I am not an exact science person, as you probably can tell. The hair spray helps the paint to dry quicker and prevents the mica from getting all over your project or photos. The hair spray acts as a fixative.

You can also sprinkle the pure powders over your projects or pages and then spray the pure hair spray over the spots of paint and it will liquefy the paint and cause it to fuse out on your page. Once it drys it will adhere the powder to your page.

I will post photos of some of my before and after pages and projects.

Have fun, the pigments will dye your hands so if that is an issue for you, wear gloves. Wipe up the spills and blot your pages with paper towels and use them for other projects.

Creating My Keepsakes- Layout of the day!

My layout The Ring was chosen as layout of the day at Creating My Kepsakes. Thanks you very much for noticing my work, and my beautiful daughter. I am really happy that it was selected, since it is one of my favorite layouts I have created. My daughter actually wanted me to Photo Shop some of her freckles out of this photo. ing. I told her I would look for any blemishes and adjust them, but the freckles were stay. Take the time to visit the Creating Keepsakes site if you have never visited them. They are a very active team and recognize and encourage participation on their site.



Monday is my normal day off, but I had to go in for a 4 hour class today. I was talking to my friend Lucy on the way home and relating it to our new venture. It was actually a good class that reviewed skills that I had learned earlier in my career.

Positive reinforcement brings positive change......sometimes it is a slow change.

Negative reinforcement or scolding only brings momentary change.

Something to think about.

The Face of an Angel- Websters Papers Sewing Challenge

I had fun working with this paper, it is just beautiful and the details are perfect. I stitched around the edge of the paper and some of the flowers, to give it a little more detail. I added french knots down the right side of the lace frame. This is the left half of a two page spread. My daughter was recently married and these are some photos's I took. My friend Lucy and I were working on pages for the Scrapping to the Music site. When she saw this lay out, she suggested the title.

Make a Wish- using Webster's Papers for the Scrapping the Music Challenge

This is the right side of my two page layout. This page has stitching around the outside of the page and cotton decorative stitching on the tag and the flower.

I love the new Webster's papers, I added an old sheet of brown paper around the edge and some flowers. Left the journaling tag for my daughter to fill in.

I am sure she will have memories to record. We planned this day for many months and then she was ver sick the night before the wedding and the day of the wedding.

Thanks for looking,

This page is a submission for Websters pages and Scrapping the Music #78 White Horse.

The Ring- Mrs. Allen Cockrill -Sewing and stitching project

The photo is of my daughter and her now Husband Allen.

Allen spent alot of time looking for an engagement ring and planning the perfect day to give it to her.

This is her web site she is recording every thing. Blogs living an on line Journal
of life. Who knew it would ever come to this.



The honeymooned in Prague and they have photos of everything. Especially the menus.... very unusual food. They said the food was expensive and they were unwilling to pay for food that did not sound good.


In this photo Meghan wanted me to photo shop the freckles from her face. Of course you can look at the photo and see" I do everything" she says. I love the FRECKLES!!!

I think they make her beautiful blue eyes stand out even more.




On this page I wound heavy thread on the bobbin and sewed on the page. The thread I used is a heavy crewel thread, of course you could use embroidery floss or yarn.
The only trick is you have to sew on the rerverse side of the paper. This allows the bobbin thread to show on top.

I then stitched around the photo because it is recessed in the page, and the frame around the photoo had a tendency to lift up. Scrappin on the go, very little planning. I then kind of went stitch crazy on right side of the page.

Scrapping the Music- 3 Boys BIG Noise

The wedding is over, lots of photos to scrap and alter, so it is time to get busy. This week I decided it was time to join in some of the fun, so my first submission this week Is for Scrappin the Music.

Each week they give you a phrase from a song and you have a week to create a project. On Sunday you will get a song for the next week.
Check out their web site-
http://scrappingthemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/challenge-77-we-will-rock-you.html


I know this song well ( best played with very high Volume).

As a mother of 2 sons, I know noise well, and I am sure my sister in law Leslie is experiencing the same thing right about now.

SIX children 3 Boys. This is a photo of her sons, John, Walker and Tillman.

Tried to convey the noise and confusion that boys so often create.

Thanks for looking and visiting my blog!!

Basic Grey Contest - Baby Blue Eyes

My daughter Meghan got married on March 7th and I did not get to take alot of photos but I was able to get a few. All of Meghan's cousins were in the wedding, there are 6 of them. She had 2 flower girls, 2 jr bridesmaids, 4 brides maids and her maid of honor. Her color for the brides maids and flower girls was orange. Bailey was one of the flower girls and their dresses were white with beautiful orange sashes and 2 roses. The flower girls wore one in their hair and one on the dress. She found the dresses on line and they were a beautiful and a great price. I will have to post the link here. Meghan searched for months looking for a dress she liked that would work for the jr bridesmaids as well.

They are home from Prague.

My daughter called last night as they were driving home to Gainesville from Atlanta, Ga.

They had a wonderful time in Prague, but were not too fond of the local cuisine. They did find a McDonalds, KFC and Pizza while they were there. She said the food all looked awful. They were not willing to spend alot of money of food that did not look like something they would eat.

She visited a 80 year old lady that still carves hand puppet out of wood. They purchase one for them selves and a small one for me. I love dolls and collect them so, this will be a wonderful addition. In my old house I had a doll room and Allen did not like the room, he said there were too many little eyes looking at him.

I think the movie Chuckie, spoiled it for alot of children.

The Windham family at Meghan and Allen's wedding

My brother John(Bubba to me) and his wife Leslie have 6 children 3 are boys, this is a photo of them with the girls.

Meet my family

This is my sister and her family, that came from Ohio for the wedding. Their three daughters were in the wedding.

On April 20th my baby, Meghan will be 25 years old, she was born in Miami, Florida at Baptist Hospital. Meghan is eight years younger than her 2 brothers. She has her father's dark hair, sense of humor, and our blue eyes. Allen her husband is the oldest of 3 children and has dark hair and brown eyes.

Their wedding was beautiful, and their friends and family were all there. The only thing that would have made it more perfect, would have been for her not to have suffered with a headache. I was very sad that she had to inherit this trait from me and that they decided to rear their face on her wedding week end.

We skipped the evening out and mini shower with friends and family.

The bridesmaids wore orange

March 7th Wedding

My youngest child and only daughter got married on March7,2oo9 in Orlando,Fl. Meghan and Allen have been dating for 2 years. They met while Meghan was attending the University of Florida, they are both still there.

They went on their honeymoon to Prague or Praha as she says the locals call it. She said the hoteled in whilein Prague treated them like royalty.

The photographer has not finished editing the photos but took a few of my own.

Thankful page using Webster's Papers

Happy BIRTHDAY to my Brother John ( BUBBA to me, my sister says I should call him John.................some how that is not working for me).When she was last here from Ohio she kept talking to me about John and I actually seriously ask her who John was. When she told me I asked why she was calling him John now? Some 40 odd years later????? She told me he now has a doctor's office and she thought his name should be a little more professional and it was time for us to change.................Uuuuhhhhh No, just can not do it....sorry.

Any way John Geary was Born Jan 21 on a cold winter's day in beautiful Lake City, Fl previously know as Alligator at Lake Shore Hospital.

This is a photo of my brother and me, we are 14 months apart. My poor mother! We were both hyper kids that did not sleep alot, some things never change. My brother was known to eat pure sugar out of the sugar bowl.

He is now married and has 6 children, he never likes to be alone. I did not inherit that trait. You will see his children in lots of my pages. My daughter says they are in more of my pages than my own children.

Can we say willing subjects. Think I over exposed my own children.

Great Embossing idea shared on Scrappy Papers

Great idea Gail shared on her blog, she is an avid stamper and has great ideas.

Thanks, Gail #1
(Her family calls me Gayle #2)

http://scrappypapers.blogspot.com/

Tidbits
Take a sheet of cardboard and cover it with tin foil. Use this when you heat emboss. Place your stamped and powdered image on the foil. Heat image from the top and the foil will heat image from bottom giving you and evenly distributed heat. Your embossing will cure faster and you will have less warping of your paper.

I like to store embossing powders that I use alot of in resealable plastic containers. If the item you are embossing is small enough you can just dip it in the container and spool the powder over the paper. Great for white, clear, black or any other color that you use alot of. You can pick up Glad containers or a knock of brand for storage.


No need to try and save the excess and pour it back in to a small bottle.

Wish made with Webster's Pages

This photo is from my daughter's engagement shoot and I love this picture. I combined it with some of the Webster's Papers, they are all so beautiful if t is hard to choose a favorite.

http://www.websterspages.com
Check out their new lines that are coming out at CHA, I hope our local scrapbook shop http://scrappypapers.blogspot.com/ is ordering them or I will be shopping on line.

Whooping Crane's are an endangered species

These are Whooping Cranes and they are following the Sand Cranes. There are thousands of Sand Cranes and only 12 Whooping Cranes.

Sand Cranes at Payne's Prairie

We arrived at the park about 10 am and the weather was just beautiful in the mid 80's. Can you believe this is winter in Florida. We started at the beginning of the park, and the sounds of the birds was audible from the moment we got out of the car. This could not even prepare us for the outragous amount of birds that we would see and hear.

The trails led us on a trip of about 3-4 miles in to the marsh area, where we saw dozens of alligators of every size sunning them selves on the banks of the trail. There were alligators of every shape and size from little babies to 14 foot gators

I have so many photos of the day to share with you!

Payne's Prairie Sand Cranes

Yesterday my husband and I went to Paynes's Prairie in Gainesville Florida. He had read in the news paper that thousands of cranes had decided to winter at this location. If you can imagine seeing this many Sand Cranes in one location multiplied 100's of time over. They were every where, dancing their mating dance.


What an AMAZING once in a life time site. There were approximately 7000 Sand cranes and 12 Whooping Cranes. You could hear them long before you saw them.

Meghan and Allen will Honeymoon in Prague!!!

12.12.2008
Time to learn Czech

Allen and I are super excited...we are going to Prague on our honeymoon! Prague is the place I have dreamed about going to for years and it will happen in March! For those of you who don't know much about Prague, here a small description I found online:
"This magical city of bridges, cathedrals, gold-tipped towers and church domes, has been mirrored in the surface of the swan-filled Vltava River for more than ten centuries. Almost undamaged by WWII, Prague's compact medieval centre remains a wonderful mixture of cobbled lanes, walled courtyards, cathedrals and countless church spires all in the shadow of her majestic 9th century castle that looks eastward as the sun sets behind her. Prague is also a modern and vibrant city full of energy, music, cultural art, fine dining and special events catering to the independent traveller's thirst for adventure. It is regarded by many as one of Europe's most charming and beautiful cities."

We are going for a week and have already bought a stack of guide books to make plans about what we want to see.


Some interesting sites include:

Prague Castle (the largest castle in the world) - It includes St. George's Basilica and it one of about 2000 castles in the area.


Old Town Hall and Astronomical Clock


Prague National Gallery


The Lennon Wall

The Charles Bridge




:) Can't Wait!


http://meghanalanna.blogspot.com/

My daughter is engaged

My daughter's and her boyfriend Allen announced their engagement over Thanksgiving they are planning the wedding for March. She has actually started a blog, journaling the event and everything that is going on. The wedding will be in Orlando and our families will all meet there. Meghan and Allen both attend the University of Florida.

Happiness/ December Scrap Muse kit

Created this page by misting Tattered Angels over a doily that was place on top of water color paper. I then misted the outer edges of the page. The flowers are a punch, I layered three flowers and put foam dots between each one. The top flower has a thick layer of stickles on it. TFL

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Happy Holidays from Cledus

cledus, originally uploaded by jgwm166864.

Elf Dance

Check this out you will laugh your self silly. Build your own Elf Dance!


http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/

Friends- Scrap Muse design kit December

Create flower embellishment by punching out 3 shapes in sturdy paper.

Paint the flowers or coat the entire shape with Stickles. Once they are dry , put a foam dot on top of 2 of the flowers. Layer the 3 flower shapes on top of each other. Add more Stickles and a crystals as you desire.

Scrap Muse December kit-Family

This is from the Scrap Muse december kit collection. I try and give scrapbook pages to every one in my family for the holidays and this is one of the give away pages. The photo is of my family on my second christmas. This is my moms family at our home in Lake City, Florida. TFL

http://www.scrapmuse.com/

Scrap Muse- Mom and Me

This was a very small photo that I enlarged. I left some of the imperfections in the photo. This is a photo of me as a new born baby. My moms doctor would only let her gain 20- 25 pounds through the entire pregnancy. I was a 5 pound baby, what I see is how incrediably thin my mother is.

Friends

00000-freinds, originally uploaded by jgwm166864.

Some of the Collection is from The Scrap Muse December kit. The live tag is from a previous kit. Flowers can be punched out of stiff paper and covered with Stickles paint. Punch three flowers for each layer.
Paint each and then put a foam tab between each layer for added dimension. Dot sticles in appropriate areas and add jewels if you wish.
Photo is of my niece and her friend. The are cheerleaders for a team in Ohio. She is a great athlete,she plays Lacrosse weekly as well. Her gymnasitc skills earned her a position on the Varsity team even thought she should be on the Jr Varsity squad.

Train ride to Georgia

I am in the process of recording memories of which I have no photos. As a young child I rode the train to my grandmothers house. The train stopped in front of her house in Townsend, Ga and let us off the train. My grandmother walked out of her front door and over to the train track to meet us. My grandmother never drove a car. TFL

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