Right on the Mark...

So... went to Halloween City today, which basically took over the empty Circuit City store. The CC was the newest one here and two months after it opened, CC went out. Everyone knew CC was in trouble AND that these plans and contracts from months ago go forward, but it was just such a weird feeling... kwim? So... we were looking for additions to Tman's costume for this year. But I have to say, I almost abandoned those plans when he put these on. What could be more apropos? After considerable wrangling, cajoling, bribing, threatening, pleading... the boy-o said, "No." But I still had to capture the moment where reality and fantasy touched together ever so lightly in the fall of 2011.

And then, since we couldn't find what we were looking for, we headed out to Michaels (heavy sigh and eyeroll from my DH). They were doing a BuyIt MakeNTake. So there we were right inside the entrance sprawled on the floor with Tulip slick fabric paint, chalk, the shirt, and huge puddle of black paint on a grocery bag. Before it was over, our hands were coated in black paint. Moreover, Tman had gotten black paint on his face, arms, and back of his leg ** shakes head **. We then spent 15 minutes in the restroom washing the paint off and clogging the drain. Tman was more mortified of the fact that there was a girl's birthday party in the classroom and while we were washing up, a whole troop of them pranced into the restroom. He could not shrink small enough, nor beat it out of the bathroom fast enough. Poor dude.

Feeling Witchy

Source: simplysweeter.blogspot.com via Alle on Pinterest

I sooo need to make these for Tman's class. Is it OK to make class treats 60+ days in advance?

Etsy store

Hey everyone! I've got an Etsy store now.

1PaperCut.etsy.com

I'm featuring mini album kits and other little bits from time to time. You know how I love to shop and this has brought out the treasure trover in me!

Anyhoo, hope to have the actual website up soon. (1papercut.com). But for now, I will remain FlimsyFilm - LOL.

Please check out my YouTube videos - see all the doof-meyer things I say! All I can say is, don't make videos at 2:30am...www.youtube.com/1papercutdotcom.

Oh, and remember my post earlier this year about Luminarte? Well, they've just announced that they are part of the Creative Imaginations company. I don't know if it means they are partners or if CI bought them. My guess is the latter. You know, they had the Rain product years ago - I think the original "glimmer mist" - but I don't think they marketed enough, kwim?

CKU Provo 2009

It's about time I posted about it, huh? Well, this is just the first of several recaps. All in all, the best CKU by far. However, I've only been to 3 prior: San Jose, Anaheim and Provo in '08. Started off with a great tour set up by Tracy Madsen, a super scrapper, and owner of the online stores: Treasures to Scrap and One Single Seed. Unfortunately, it has closed :(. She had a super sale at her store and then we proceeded to go to Cosmo Cricket and SEI. Here are some shots from SEI.

While Everyone is Going Green, Go Ahead and Go Pink!

Check out Bona's blog where she has a great giveaway - too cute! She has some awesome videos, too. So very talented!

Heritage Scrapbook Layout with SEI Windsor

Heritage pages are the most challenging for me. I used SEI's Windsor line - normally, designated as a wedding line, but the patterns and gold running through really reminded me of the fancy brocades and other Japanese fabrics.


These are my grandparents (my grandmother on the left and grandfather on the right). Furthest right image is my grandfather at Waseda University where he went to law school.

The flowers to the far left were all hand-cut. I thought I would be good at this. In reality, I got very impatient with it. But I'm glad I did it and then elevated with pop-dots. The photos were all held with gold photo corners - I finally got to use that Canson pack!


From the left: Grandmother's father and siblings. Uncle with my Great-grandmother and my Uncle with his wife.

I got more comfortable with Windsor at the point and trying to assimilate into an Asian look. I was trying to achieve that rich-brocade feeling in many of the art panels I've seen in Japan.

I still need to add the journaling. But the headline reads: "Japanese Ancestry."


Most of the images photographed really flat, but I wanted to emphasize the gold foiling running through here. SEI Windsor is so unusual, but beautiful! Many of the pages have flocking which is hard to see as well. :(




These letters are from black mat board. Seemed rather flat so I stamped a character-text background stamp with VersaMark and clear embossed. The photo doesn't really show it clearly. Can you tell it's not Japanese? LOL. It's Chinese - I think from a newspaper article!


Last, I used these cool sparkly, velvety flowers from Maya Road; layered on creme Prima flowers and centered with an antiqued, square rhinestone brad.

Trick or Treat! Halloween Mini Album

Ok, I am finally posting the Halloween mini book/mini album I did last year. It's a 6x6 mini, with black mat board pages.

Cover

I used Tim Holtz' trinket pin and Philosophy tag along with a boatload of ribbon and a couple of cute Pumpkin bells.

Back Cover

Recognize the Fiskars' Threading Water punch? I love it.

Inside Pages

Each pocket holds 3 tags with photos on both sides. The last tag on the right side has several bats from the Martha Stewart punch.


Last pocket page. Used American Crafts vinyl thickers on both for titles. It's kinda hard to see the "treat" on the right page. They didn't stick too well so I had to reglue. I like the chipboard and Puffy alphas from AC a lot better than the vinyl.


This page is kinda busy. I designed and created this book before I gathered the photos. I'm not going to retrofit design any more. It really shows it on this spread.


It's a bit hard to see, but I used the MM foiling paper here. I love that paper. I don't know why it isn't more popular. So versatile. I also used the Little Yellow Bicycle felt borders stickers. I also had to add some adhesive to these, they just kept lifting up. I used it here to hide a beat-up plastic lawn chair at the pumpkin patch.


Added the LYB epoxy "Spooky" sticker. So cool. The LYB pumpkin stickers are so cute, too!


The centers of the black chipboard flowers are the Doodlebug Jewels in jet. Those are some of my favorite bling. Reminds me of black Tahitian pearls!!


I love the simplicity of this spread. The Bo Bunny paper had this wavy text so I tore it following the wave.


This last page, I used the MM's foiling again and the Glitter Check. On every other square, there was a circle-punched, ink-edged and pop-dotted graphic (if those aren't true verbs, they are now! lol!)

Supply List
Used wonderful Bo Bunny papers (Spooktastic-Stripe, Haunted, Grim Dots and Smell My Feet); MM papers (Funky Stripe, Glitter Check, and Foiling); Thickers Sprinkles (Black and Orange); Bo Bunny Chipboard (double-dot and alpha licorice); chipboard Shimmer Shapes Halloween; other papers (Orange Crush; Oh Baby Peapod; Moroccan Floral Curry; Pumpkin Bead Board); Doodlebug Tuxedo jewels; Black Diamond Stickles!
All from www.OneSingleSeed.com's paper store!