Thank You Pink Flower Card So Grateful

Seriously love the way this card turned out!! I used an older collection by Stampin Up! it was part of the Occasions Mini Catalog last year. 


List of Items Used:


-Stampin Up! Patterned Paper
-Frost White Shimmer Paint by Stampin Up (#116854)
-Aqua Painter by Stampin Up (#103954)
-Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Stickles
-Modern Label Punch by Stampin Up (#119849)
-Word Window Punch by Stampin Up (#119857)
-Marina Mist Cardstock by Stampin Up (#119682)

I fussy cut some flowers and leaves from the collection, then i used my Aqua Painter (#103954) and some Frost White Shimmer Paint (#116854) to accent parts of the flowers and leaves. I wanted certain parts of the piece to stand out even more, so I took some Tim Holtz Distress Rock Candy Stickles and accented some of the parts on the blue flowers and the leaves. It is so gorgeous in person!! I then took a strip of lace (#118480) by Stampin Up! and adhered it down behind the flower. Then i took one of my new favorite stamps

Apothecary Art - Clear-Mount Stamp #125527 (shown below) for the sentiment.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. This card is for sale in my Etsy Shop.

Hugs,

Mila

Frame 4 x 6 Dress Form Pearl Flower Trim Shabby Shic

This frame was so fun to make! I got some frames from Target and decided i was going to alter them, because they were just to plain for my taste. I was so excited to use some October Afternoon Thrift Shop Paper. I really love this collection, it is an older collection, but i just couldn't find the perfect project to use it on. When i was thinking about what to do for a frame, i was going through my papers and as soon as I saw this paper I was inspired to use it with the Tim Holtz Dress Form Die.

Let me know if you have any questions, I will have a video on it sometime later this week.

The first thing I did was paint the frame a tan color, I used acrylic paint by Claudine Hellmouth. I just painted the sides and the back of the frame, since i knew i was going to cover the front of it with patterned paper. The next thing i did was distress the inner edges of the frame with some distress ink, to give it a nice distressed, shabby shic look.

After I adhered the paper onto the frame, I used  a multi medium by  Claudine Hellmuth over the paper and the painted part of the frame, I did this so that it would be protected from dirt, dust, etc. Then i took my dress form die by Tim Holtz and cut it out with my Sizzix Big Shot. I used another pattern paper to cover the dress form and by multi medium over that as well, I took some gorgeous flower lace by Prima and wrapped it around the bottom so that it looks like a skirt, and put some Stampin Up pearls right above that to make it look like a belt. I also used some pearls around the neck part to make it look like a necklace and added a rose by IAMROSES (#R2-15). The roses are actually white, but I colored them in with some Glimmer Mist. I love to use the white roses, because then i can just color them whichever color calls for the project I am working on. Of course, nothing can be claimed as finished without some Prima pearls.

Hope you like the frame, let me know if you have any questions. The frame is for sale in my etsy shop.

Come back tomorrow for a new frame I altered using some Stampin Up papers!!

Hugs,

Mila

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year everyone (well it will be tomorrow night)!! I am so excited for the New Year to come, this past year has kind of been a rough one for me. I have been doing a lot of crafting over the holidays!! I have been trying to keep up with my December Daily, I got behind a few days, but I am catching up now, it is really great to be able to print my pictures right at home, it has helped me to keep up with it more. I am hoping to be able to share my December Daily with you guys in the next few days. It has been so much fun doing the December Daily this year, I have so much planned for the next few months, I have mini albums planned, one for my son when he was just born using Graphic 45 paper line, then I want to do a family mini album using Bo Bunny Timeless paper line, and I want to do a recipe mini album with all of my grandmothers hand written recipes in it. Plus I have so many other ideas going on in my head, I am hoping to come out with at least a video a week this year starting this January 3, I was thinking about posting a video every Monday, since Monday's are always the hardest day of the week, it will be nice to post a fun video to have a pick me up :)

Anyway, that is enough rambling from me!! Talk to you guys next year!!

Hugs,

Mila

Welcome to the Christmas 2011 Blog Hop!!!! 

If you've just happened to come across my blog please check out each of the super talented ladies blogs below. There will be some fun prizes along the way, AND there will be some AWESOME ideas!

Have fun and thank you for attending our blog hop.

I am so excited to share a few projects that I have been working on!! Many more to come throughout the weeks. I have been so busy working on my December Daily this year (first time attempting this) and I am actually keeping up, so excited, trying to keep it simple. I am working on a video showing what I am doing with my December Daily, I am hoping to have that up sometime next week. How many are attempting the December Daily this year? So far, i have found that keeping it simple is really working for me, I don't stress if I can't work on the page for that day, I do make sure that I journal quick notes through out the day and take a picture,  so then I can just work on it the next day or over the weekend. I have a simple format for each day, a little spot for journaling and then above that goes my picture, I will show you guys everything next week, can't wait to share that with you. Now to my projects below:

I altered this frame for my Etsy shop, it was a deep brown color before, but I wanted to make it a Christmas frame, I painted it with some gesso first, and then I painted over that with an acrylic red paint. I love the distressed look that it gave, it looks like distressed wood. I then took some gold smooch spritz and spritzed all over the frame. I took a clear stamp from Crafty Secrets and stamped a greeting at the top, with some gold acrylic paint. 

I used Stampin Up supplies for the next two cards, I love this stamp set, it is so cute and you can make so many variations of cards with it. It is called "Snow Much Fun" the # for it is 122562

The next few cards are using some Graphic 45 papers that I created in a class, so cute. Love Graphic 45!!!

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Again thank you for visiting with me and now please make sure that you stop by Sheila at  http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/

1. Pam - http://www.thebugbytes.com/
2. Jeannie -  http://nonnasscraps.blogspot.com/
3. Jen - http://3catsandabug.blogspot.com/
4. Carole - http://www.onmycraftroomwall.blogspot.com/
5. Lisa Brooks - http://thejourneyoflisaslife.blogspot.com
6. Audrey - http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com/
7. Mila - http://milamemories.blogspot.com/ 
8. Sheila aka sassylady - http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/
9. Elizabeth - http://217creations.blogspot.com/
10. Kelly Millet - http://www.kamscraftyplace.blogspot.com
11. Dayna Sabrina - http://www.sabrioletdesigns.blogspot.com/
12. Lori - http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com
13. Denine Vajja - http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/
14. Melissa - www.melissamade2.blogspot.com
15. Allison -  http://goodybagdiva.blogspot.com/ 

Fall / Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome to Milamemories in the ...Fall / Halloween Blog Hop!

If you've just happened to come across my blog please check out each of the super talented ladies blogs below. There will be some fun prizes along the way, AND there will be some AWESOME ideas!

Have fun and thank you for attending our blog hop.

I am so excited this Halloween because this is the first  year that my son is actually dressing up and is excited about it!!! The past years, he has wanted nothing to do with Halloween, so this past weekend we were at the store looking at costumes and he saw this one. I asked him if he would wear it for Halloween and he was so excited and said yes!!! Later that night i had some friends over and he could not wait to show everyone his costume, I just had to take a picture of him showing off and being all excited about it!!
 
I used a sketch from http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/, I started off with a 12 x 12 piece of patterned paper, then took another piece of 12 x 12 patterned paper in orange and tore the top and bottom ends off, about a 1/2" - 1" from each end. Then i took some black lace and placed it underneath the orange paper. I then cut an 8" x 8" piece of Stampin Up card-stock and distressed it with some Tim Holtz inks in Dusty Concord and Orange Marmalade, i used those colors to distress the edges of the torn paper as well as the note sheet that i did my journaling on. I then took some Glimmer Mist in Pearl and sprayed each sheet of cardstock along with my journaling sheet to give it an awesome shimmery effect. It also blended the distress work a bit more and makes it look smoother. I cut out the Caution sign with Cricut, and of course no layout could be complete without some Prima bling and flowers (yes even for boys LOL)!! Such a super simple and quick layout!! I love using sketches!! Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions!!

Again thank you for visiting with me and now please make sure that you stop by Dayna at http://sabrioletdesigns.blogspot.com/


Here is the complete blog list!!


Jen from http://3catsandabug.blogspot.com/
Lori from www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com
Jeannie from  http://nonnasscraps.blogspot.com/
Audrey from http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com/
Kymberlee from http://www.thepapermidwife.com/
Allison from http://goodybagdiva.blogspot.com/
Kelly from   http://www.kamscraftyplace.blogspot.com
Debbie from http://debseclecticthoughts.blogspot.com/
Carole from  http://www.onmycraftroomwall.blogspot.com/
Kate from http://sassyandscrappykate.blogspot.com/
Amylynne from http://www.amysscrappyspace.blogspot.com
Mila - M& M  from http://milamemories.blogspot.com/
Dayna Sabrina from http://sabrioletdesigns.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth from http://www.217creations.com/

Halloween Mini Album

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

I am a little late in the week with this week's How To tutorial, but better late then never LOL. Hope everyone had an awesome week!! It has been a busy one for me.

This is another Halloween mini album that i made for my Etsy shop, it was so much fun to make and to try a few different techniques on it. I will have a detailed video on my blog tonight, including how i put the base of the mini album together, and then going into the details of the embellishments and the pockets.

I tried not to do much to the cover of the mini album, since i found it very busy already, but i just loved all of the characters on it, especially the pumpkins and the cat. I put Crystal Effects on all of the candy corn pieces, so that it would give it an awesome 3D visual, then I fussy cut the pumpkin in the center, the black cat at the top and the green Frankenstein character, then I popped those up using dimensionals, i die cut some flowers using my big shot, and then put Prima centers in them. I also used a glitter pen to add some shimmer to the centers of the flowers and of course no cover could go without some Prima bling (can we say addiction).

On the first page, i used my Cricut Expression (October 31 Cartridge) to cut out the pocket Pumpkin Patch, so simple, yet so cute!! The second page has a pocket that I created out of thin chipboard, it was really interesting and fun, i tried to do a few different techniques with it. The first thing i did was used a mask by Tim Holtz for the witch, while the mask was on i used Peeled Paint distress ink and covered the whole pocket with it, then when i took the mask off, i was left with a white part on the chipboard, so i took some Dusty Concord distress ink and colored in the witch and the bat. I took a tree rub on and placed it over the peeled paint distress ink, and then i colored in the rest of the chipboard piece with the peeled paint again to make it darker so that it would look like the moon is shining down on the tree, which has a lighter halo around it. Then there are some tags in the pocket.

The next page has a frame (medium weight chipboard) that i die cut with my big shot and painted black, then i painted it with green acrylic paint, and the last thing i put on it was some distress crackle paint. I love how it turned out, you can see bits of the black behind the green paint. The next page is just an acrylic pocket that holds (3) photo mats.

The frame was die cut with my big shot, i did so much distressing to it and tried a few new techniques.  I took some purple and orange acrylic paint and just made some brush strokes with the paints, then i took a flourish stamp, versamark ink and silver embossing powder, I heat embossed the images, the last thing i did was took some distress stickles in Rock Candy and rubbed that all over the frame. Once that dried really well, i took some Dusty Concord distress ink and rubbed it across the frame straight from the pad to the frame, it gave the stickles this deep purple color, but yet they are still super shiny, i love the way it turned out, so unique and original looking. Can't forget my flowers and black bling!! The next page is an envelope pocket that i cut out using my Cricut, it holds (3) photo mats, the acrylic skull keeps it closed, i really like the way the bling made it look, i think it helped it tie into the previous page a little more. I also used my I-Rock to give all the skeleton heads some blingy eyes.

This is a neat page that holds a little mini within the mini. There are 5 pages that are held together by some  tabs that i cut out using my cricut, you can flip through the little mini album (so cute!!), then i used a border from the collection, but it was too orange for me, so i distressed the top with Dusty Cocord distress ink and tried to blend it into the orange, i like the way it turned out so much more then it was. Of course some black lace is need along with bling and a flower. The frame on the right hand side of the picture was cut out using my Cricut Expression (Happy Hauntings Cart), I fussy cut some of the pumpkins from the collection and put Distress Crackle Paint in Rock Candy over them, to give them a nice shine, and lastly i hand painted the purple flower to give a bit more touch of color.

These pages are really neat looking, the file folder was cut out using my Cricut Expression, it holds some files and tags inside for pictures and journaling. I used a sizzix scallop frame to die cut the green frame and then applied some Distress Crackle paint (Peeled Paint). I really like the way it turned out, added some Prima bling and flowers, applied Crystal Effects to the cat (fussy cut that from the collection), and the last page is an acrylic pocket that holds some photo mats and tags, the cats are a felt material on this page, i thought it looked so cool with the acrylic pocket with the bats and fence.

Thanks for coming in and visiting with me today!! This mini album is for sale on my etsy site Milamemories Etsy, please let me know if you have any questions on any techniques that i used for the mini album. Make sure you watch my detailed video that will be uploaded later tonight.

As always i love your encouraging and motivational comments!!!

Hugs,

Mila

Exciting News!

Well it's exciting for me LOL. My 4 year old can read a few words, he can read the words, "look, see, oh and Jane??". I am so proud of him! I am pretty sure he is getting encouragement through me telling him if he does not do well in school, i won't let him play his new leap pad. He really has done better since i said that.

Anyway, on to some scrappy stuff!! I am so excited to be almost done with my second Halloween mini album this season that i will be putting on Etsy! It turned out so cute!! Lots of pumpkins and black cats in it, ugh LOVE IT!! I should be posting that sometime this weekend!

So, i never new this existed until a few days ago, are you ready for it!! A portable printer to print out 4 x 6 pictures (or other various smaller sizes). I really have noticed that i have a problem with not getting my photos printed, and when i do i usually get about 300 printed at one time and then i feel super overwhelmed because I'm like wow, i have to scrap 300 of these photos, i do want to, but I feel like it takes me longer, because I have to scrap last falls photos this year in the fall, because that is when i am inspired to scrap fall photos and i need to be in the mood. It may sound weird LOL, but I think that this printer will resolve my issues and i will be able to print a photo with in seconds of taking it now, so i can even scrap it that night if i fancy. Here is a picture below:

That's it for now, so excited to be getting my printer!

Hugs,

Mila