Let's Capture Our Memories Sketch Release for DT "B"

This week is the Reveal of Team B, over at Let's Capture These Sketches!



This sketch was created by the talented sketch artist Vanessa Waller AKS "Ness".

Create a layout using this sketch then head on over to Let's Capture These Sketches and link up your creation!!!

"Cherished Angel" Scraps of Darkness

Another of Violet, who received her angel wings on 12/6/10. I created this layout using two kits months from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart" and "White Magic"
. Here is how to get your hands on this kit:
http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com/index.html

" So Loved" Scraps of Darkness

This is photo my friend's son's first birthday. I created this layout using this months kit from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart" Here is how to get your hands on this kit: http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com/index.html

"Wanted, Such a Tall Tale" for JAD's DT

This is a photo of my BFF's yougest son. When in Tennessee, Colby had to have the hat that is on his head in this photo! Colby seems to always be "Wanted" for some type of mayhem he has created in the house. Colby is a handsome kid, blonde curly hair, big blue eyes and a great structured face.

He has "that bad boy attitude" but has the sweetest heart... God help us in a couple years with the girls.
I pulled out some old stash..one of my favorites "Wanted" by Cosmo Cricket.
Come over and join us at JAD's http://iboard.jeansartdolls.com/index.php?

March's sponsor for JAD's is:

"Ophelia's Woes" Used Scraps of Darkness Kit. Example also for JADs

This LO is for a couple challenges: " A Dark Heart" by Forevervampress and my challenge, "DarkLoveStory" Challenge. My theme of choice is Hamlet and Ophelia, from William Shakespeare's " Hamlet"
Background: I created this layout using this months kit from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart"
This is the most amazing kit that I have ever used. It is full of stunning papers and the embellishments are just so awesome. http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com

I used a new technique Burning and sewing TYVEK. TYVEK is the soft durable plastic material used for making plastic envelopes. I plan to get a tutorial posted with the next week. Such a cool technique-if you love grundge and highly distressed LOs.
Here is the journaling in the exposed area in the right-hand corner:
Ophelia'd know your every woe
And pain you'd ever had
She'd sympathize
And dry your eyes
And help you to forget...

Ophelia's mind went wandering
You'd wonder where she'd gone
Through secret doors
Down corridors
She'd wander them alone
All alone...
Natalie Merchant-Love her.

DarkLoveStory Valentine's Day Challenge

I am hosting a challenge over at Scraps of Darkness for Valentine's Day. Here are some ot the basics.

Valentine's Day, most of us think of pretty boxed chocolate candies, pastel conversation hearts, the color pink and red. We also think of sweet love stories with the perfect ending where the girl gets the guy and they live happily after after...well not in this challenge.
In this challenge, I want to see non-traditional Valentine's Day colors. I am looking for those dark color layouts, highly distressed layouts, layouts with lots of inking subjects including Goth, Punk, and Emo, or styles like steampunk and industrial. This month tell me a Dark Love Story. I want you to use any love story in a movie, poem, book or any story that does not end with a perfect ending as a basis for your layout. The story does not need to be tragic, so I will leave the "Dark Love Story" up to your interpretation. Just remember to keep it dark. I want you to put a twist on something that is not normally dark.

Here are some ideas. These are the famous couples that quickly come to my head:

Cleopatra and Mark Antony
Heloise and Abelard
Ines de Castro and King Pedro
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Romeo and Juliet
Antony and Cleopatra
Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere
Tristan and Isolde
Orpheus and Eurydice
Napoleon and Josephine
Paolo and Francesca
Jack and Rose (Titanic)
Pyramus and Thisbe
Sam Wheat and Molley Jensen (Movie Ghost)
Prince Charles and Princess Diana
King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal
Forrest Gump and Jenny (ForrestGump)
Richard and Emmeline (Blue Lagoon)
Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
Noah and Allie in the Notebook
I could keep going on and on but I will stop.
Come over and join the challenge at Scraps of Darkness

"Attitude. It's a Girl Thing, You Wouldn't Understand" **Scraps of Darkness**

I created this layout using this months kit from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart"
This is the most amazing kit that I have ever used. It is full of stunning papers and the embellishments are just so awesome.
Here is how to get your hands on this kit:
http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com/index.html
I created this layout using this months kit from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart"
This is the most amazing kit that I have ever used. It is full of stunning papers and the embellishments are just so awesome. Here is how to get your hands on this kit:
http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com/index.html
This is picture taken of Violet right before her dance recital, boy this girl sure had attitude and was all girl... a girlie girl. I love this photo of Violet, look at that expression on her face-straight attitude. This is why I titled this layout " Attitude. It's a Girl Thing You Wouldn't Understand."

"Attitude. It's a Girl thing you wouldn't understand" ***Scraps of Darkness**

" She Took My Breath Away" *Scraps of Darkness**

I created this layout using this month's kit from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart"
This is the most amazing kit that I have ever used. It is full of stunning papers and the embellishments are just so awesome.
Here is how to get your hands on this kit:
http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com/index.html

Another layout of precious Violet who passed away in December 2010. Violet loved Valentine's Day, so I will be creating layouts during the month of February in her memory. The title of this layout came from George Strait's song, " It Not the Breath You Take." This was one of the songs on Violet's video played at her funeral. Whenever I hear this song it makes me reminsce back on Violet's short life. This song makes me sad, happy, smile and cry, I just become overwhelmed with emotion. There is always one line of this song that pulls on my heart whenever I hear the song and it is, "Just like it took my breath when she was born. Just like it took my breath away when dad took his last that morn." Wow, how powerful...it just tears me apart...Violet's mother was there for her first breath and held her in her arms on the day she was born. Violet's mother was also there holding Violet in her arms when she took her last breath on the morning she died...I am crying. Life is so short.. Life’s not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.....

Here are the lyrics to the song:
He looks up from second base
dad’s up in the stands
He saw the hit, the run,
the slide there ain’t no bigger fan
In the parking lot after the game
he said “Dad I thought you had a
plane to catch” He smiled and said
“Yeah son I did”

Chorus
Life’s not the breaths you take
The breathing in and out
That gets you through the day
Ain’t what it’s all about
Ya just might miss the point
Try’n to win the race
Life’s not the breaths you take
But the moments that take your breath away

Fast forward fifteen years
And a thousand miles away
Boy’s built a life he’s got a wife
And a baby due today
He hears a voice saying “I made it son
He said “I told you dad you didn’t have to come”
He smiles and says ”Yeah I know you did”

Chours

Just like it took my breath when she was born
Just like it took my breath away when dad took his last that morn

Life’s not the breaths you take
The breathing in and out
That gets you through the day
Ain’t what it’s all about
Ya just might miss the point
If ya don’t slow down the pace
Life’s not the breaths you take
But the moments that take your breath away

Precious Love **Scraps of Darkness**

I created this layout using this months kit from Scraps of Darkness "Telltale Heart"
This is the most amazing kit that I have ever used. It is full of stunning papers and the embellishments are just so awesome.


I created another LO of Violet, I only need to get two more pages done and I will have the album complete. I have been working on an album for Violet's mother. This is a picture of Violet at her 7th birthday party. We always had to wait until a week before Valentine's Day to celebrate Violet's birthday. Violet always insisted because she loved Valentine's Day so much, I think it was the pinks, blacks and all the bling of the season. Happy B-day and Happy Valentine's Day Angel. I will always miss you.

Scraps of Darkness February Kit Revealed "Telltale Heart"

"TRUE! -nervous -very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will
you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -not destroyed -not
dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things
in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then,
am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily -how calmly I can tell
you the whole story." by Edgar Allan Poe.


What better Valentine's Day story is there than The Telltale Heart?!
You know Scraps of Darkness couldn't bring you a light and fluffy pale
pink and white kit for Valentines Day! This month's kit includes 9 double
sided papers from Kaisercraft, SEI, Teresa Collins, and Echo Park, as
well as one single-sided foiled paper from Kaisercraft.

Also included are some wonderful embellishments for your layouts and
projects, including our signature pin from Craftysprinkles and products
from Prima, ZVA Creative, Teresa Collins, My Mind's Eye, and more.
Scrap those dark Valentines Day layouts with our February kit!


The Patterned Paper Add-on
Double the number of layouts you can
complete with our Patterned Paper
Addition. This Add-On Kit includes 1
sheet of each of the papers shown,
allowing you to use both sides of the
papers included in the Main Kit.


The Cardstock Add-on
We have carefully selected these wonderful
colors of cardstock to compliment the Main Kit.
Included are 2 sheets each of the following
colors: Grenadine, Lavender Twilight, Concord
Grape, Aluminum Mystique, and Deep Black, for
a total of 10 sheets of cardstock.



The Romance Add-On
Our Romance Add-On Kit is comprised of embellishments that coordinate beautifully with the Main Kit to give you even more embellishing options. Included are Prima Bonnet Blooms and Symphony Blend Flowers and E Line Pearls and Crystals, Teresa Collins Blingage - Zach's Bookplates, ZVA Bling, Jenni Bowlin Journal
Cards, Shimmers in Hottie Pink, and 2 ft of beaded trim.


The Color Add-On
Our Color Add-On Kit includes new a set of masks from Prima, Glimmer
Glam in Stiletto and Be Positive,Glimmer Glaze in Pewter, and Smooch
Spritz in Cherry Ice and Silver Foil.