A Kiss on the Chic

Less then 24 hours until REVEAL!

Well, I'm just starting to work on the Kit REVEAL after enjoying a pretty lazy Sunday.  We pretty much hung out at home today after Lance went to church with the girls while I stayed home waiting for the new WASHER to be delivered...

And guess what time it was delivered? 

5:17 PM!  I waited from 8 AM until then... ALL DAY!  They said from 8-Noon so when noon rolled around, I figured we got it mixed up... Then this arrived...  It's suppossed to wash the clothes better, hold more clothes and use less water??  Hopefully it does all three.

So while I was waiting all day, us girls decided to have a PAINT day!  The girls went to town painting on canvas and painting on christmas cards and painting the floor... ;)-  But it was all good and is a great time being CREATIVE together!  I love it!  I will have to share some of their creations...  I didn't get any painting in because I was the "go-to girl" for  more paint, more glitter, more paint brushes, more water, more stamps, more clean up... etc... you get the point...   But I did get another layout done with the November kit and I'll share those tomorrow when I can take better pictures in the day light.  For now though I thought I would share a few SNEAKS from the DT!

First, Melanie did a GREAT job on 3 Layouts!  Here's a SNEAK at the first one:

I'll share the complete layouts tomorrow... 

Here's another SNEAK and it's from Emeline:

She created an album with all her mothers and grandmothers "old wives tales" that she wanted to put down in a book!  Great Idea and this book is ADORABLE!!

And here's a SNEAK from one of the layouts I did:

I LOVE how this kit can be so versatille with the colors!  You really have SOOOO many choices and can make such different things with this kit!!  I'll share a quick "how-to" on the dictionary flower with the brad center this month.

So, I'm headed to the PayPal page so I can make sure I get everything up in time for the REVEAL tomorrow night at 7PM PST!!!

See you here all day tomorrow for more SNEAKS, more inspiration and the REVEAL Party!!

Hugs to all,

Laura

P.S.  My email has done it again... When we were at Disneyland yesterday we noticed we weren't getting any emails AGAIN!  My hubby is pretty much DONE with it and it going to look into out-sourcing the email.  I guess the email IS on the new server and is STILL having issues (for some reason on the weekends the most??) so he's going to get to the bottom of this soon, I PROMISE!!!  For those of you who are still getting no response from me or the emails are bouncing back, please email me at:

akissonthechic@gmail.com

Thanks xoxo
 

Where did the week go?

Oh wow, I can't believe the last time I posted was on Monday?  That seems CRAZY to me!  I can't even remember everything I did this week, it's a blur...  Let me see...

Monday - New brakes on the car - $800
Wednesday - New tires on the car - $675
Monday & Friday - 4 Parent/Teacher Conferences
3 Half Days/noon dismissals
Tuesday - CREATIVE CROP at my house
M-W - Lance on business trip
NOT getting drycleaning in time FOR the business trip
Wednesday - New Hair do! verdict is still out...
Thursday - Trip to downtown San Diego to return pair of shoes but then spent more then the cost of the shoes on other things... ;)-
Thursday - Found  TEVANA store! (LOVE that store)
Friday - Veteren's Day Program
Friday - Isabella getting nervous and backing out of solo at VDP, then crying b/c she wanted to go BACK on stage and DO her solo!  (didn't let her...)
and...

Monday,  Wednesday AND Friday - 3 nice "chats" with Victoria about  "grades and the REALITIES of life" - PRICELESS

And that about sums it up.  How about you??  lol...

I will be working on the NOVEMBER KIT REVEAL this weekend so make sure you are BACK HERE ON THE BLOG, MONDAY NIGHT AT 7PM PST!!!

oh, and tomorrow we have a work party at Disneyland!  And I hear it's going to be CRAZY there b/c they are going to be filming the Disney Channel Holiday Season and lots of  Disney stars will be there!  Shh... don't tell my girls... This is supposed to be a employee only day... no kids aloud.  Not sure if we will surprise the girls and take them or not???

I'll leave you with another SNEAK of the kits!!  There is a TON of VINTAGE items in this kit!  Take a look as I took a picture of just the VINTAGE items:

Now this is just ONE kit... Each kit has different pages, postcards, vintage pictures, dictionary pages, French Magazine pages and vintage buttons...  The other sides of some of these pages are JUST as wonderful so you have your choice on some of these!

Here's a SMALL section of the kit to get another SNEAK:

 I LOVE the colors in this kit!  The Reds, Yellows and Turquoise looks FAB together!!

Oh, I wanted to show you something else that will be up for sale!!!

My mom got these for me months ago and I thought they would go really well with this kit!  This will be an Add-on:

It's a VINTAGE CIGAR BOX!!!  Isn't it cool?  Here's another peak:

It's real wood and the colors on the box are a beautiful yellow/gold and red!  I know you altered art ladies out there can just IMAGINE what you could do with this box!!  I have about 15 of them and was going to do a class down the road with them, but I'm going to go ahead and put some of them on the blog for sale with this months kit since I think they go really well together!!

I'm trying to get some more VINTAGE items up for sale before the REVEAL.  Also, I will have my MOMS stockings on their own page the night of the REVEAL, so make sure you take a look at those, they turned out beautifully!!

Here's a look at two of them:

These are ALL handmade with VINTAGE hankies and VINTAGE doilies and VINTAGE buttons AND handbeading!  She puts a LOT of work and LOVE into her work and it shows!!  So be sure to check out all these stockings just in time for the Holidays!  I know most of you read the "Romantic Homes" and those type of magazines but STOCKINGS are NOT just for the mantel anymore!  They put them on doors handles,  stairs, cabinets and ALL OVER the house!  I have about a dozen or more all around my house during the Holidays!!

O.k. have a GREAT weekend and I will see you back here Monday night!!!

Hugs,

Laura

P.S.  I just got an email from Collage Press!  They shipped out my Joyride order yesterday and I should have it by Monday afternoon!  So, I plan to have that as a 2nd kit but it will be a VERY LIMITED kit as I will be using that for a possible class soon!  This kit will also be very small, basically just the papers and embellishments from that line plus a few things I have for that kit here...

Happy Monday! (sorry, NO email all weekend)

Hi ladies!

If you've tried to get a hold of me I haven't been getting my emails!  Ugh... I was noticing it on Saturday when I didn't get ANY emails... That just DOESN'T happen...  So I asked Lance and sure enough, the server was down...

So if you needed to get a hold of me and haven't tried again (I guess the emails were being sent back undeliverable??) try me today as I think things are back up.  It's just REALLY frustrating when these emails I don't even KNOW ABOUT are going into some "BlAcK HoLe" and you are probably thinking I'm just not responding!  That is what gets me the most...

Well,  that said... I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL weekend and enjoyed a safe and FUN Halloween!  I had some weird stomach ache/bug this weekend and didn't get out much but Victoria got over her cold and fever on Friday night so she went ahead and went to Homecoming afterall.  I was not feeling well Saturday so I didn't even get to see her get ready OR TAKE any PICTURES!  That was a killer...  And you want to know what else is a killer... waiting for your teenager to come home!  Oh boy, this is NOT something I am liking one bit.  I guess it's started now, but when I told her to call me at 10pm and I don't get a call until 10:30, that is 30 MINUTES of pure "you know what"...  I texted her, called her cell phone, repeated the process and nothing...  Well come to find out, she had left her cell phone in her friends parent car!  oh man... does anyone have any advice for a paranoid mom??  I knew she was just there will her girlfriends and at least this wasn't a "date" night (that's going to be REALLY bad isn't it??) but still your mind plays through a million bad things that could happen and I'm going to be praying BIG TIME on these nights...

 
Here's a few pictures from our walk around the neighborhood while Victoria was at Homecoming:

The Fairy Godmother!!  Isabella was SO excited... This lady had all the garb on and even had a wand and said Bippity Boppity Boo!!

 
It was bittersweet this year...  My oldest is SO over Halloween and has been for the last few years and now Rebecca really wasn't into it so it's just Isabella now.  We usually go to the church Harvest Festival but this year Lance and I walked to a few houses in the neighborhood and even though I wasn't feeling well, it his me that this may be one of the last few years left doing the "Halloween" thing... Kinda sad...

So you probably know me enough by now to know that even when I'm under the weather, I don't lay in bed... Life has too much going on AND I figure I can scrapbook instead of laying in bed... ;)-  So this is what I was playing around with this weekend:

It's with the November Melody Ross Kit!!!

This REALLY cute Maya Road album comes in each kit and had tabbed chipboard pages and 4 envelope pages so it's going to be a Journal/Album.  I cut out a saying from Melody's paper that has all different sayings for my title "Just Be Who You Are" and played around with the 7 Gypsies Barcelona paper and Melody's papers and embellishments in this kit!  This project will be an Add-on Kit that will be very inexpensive with just a few items I used that are NOT in the Main kit as well as the directions on how to make it!  Hope you like it, I'm not done yet with the inside pages but here's a look at what I've done so far inside:

This is an easy project to do and with the Holidays approaching, a GREAT gift for a loved one!

O.k. my friend Cindy is over helping me with the kits and getting ready for the CREATIVE CROP at my house TOMORROW!!  I have about 8-10 ladies coming over for FOOD,  SCRAPBOOKING AND A MAKE-N-TAKE!! How FUN is that??

Well, I'll try to get back on here tomorrow, but not sure with all the cooking and cleaning to get ready for tomorrow night... 

Don't FORGET the REVEAL is next week MONDAY NIGHT, the 9th at 7PM PST!!!

Hugs to all,

Laura

Anyone need Cat's Eye Chalk???

It's Saturday and I need to make a quick Product Performers order and thought I would see if anyone needed any Cats Eye Chalk or Stickles??  I know I use my cats eye chalk constantly and they are all on their last leg...  So I thought I would see what colors everyone uses the most and possibly add some to my order.  Also, Stickles is another staple in my arsenal and I am ordering some colors for me and thought I'd see if there are any colors you ladies would need as well.  The Holidays are coming up and making Christmas cards is a BIG deal for a lot of us, so think about that and let me know ASAP...  I will probably place the order tomorrow in the afternoon...

Victoria's Homecoming is tonight and she has been SICK since Thursday so she is trying with all her might to feel better so she can go tonight...  It looks like she might be able to because her fever broke yesterday afternoon but now I'm SICK!  Ugh...  This is the part of this time of year that I really can't stand and it's just beginning...  I REALLY pray that this Holiday Season we can stay healthy!  My goal is to make sure we are ALL eating really healthy food, exercising and taking a LOT of vitamins!  Halloween looks to be a bust for us though.  I don't think we'll do much more then have the younger girls walk around the neighborhood...

So, let me know on the Product Performers order.  I don't think I've really done this before but I figure we all use the same things and I know I'm down to 1 LSS that isn't supplied with these items and Michaels and JoAnns don't have the selection I want so I figure you ladies are in the same boat??  You can go onto PP website and see a listing of all the colors if you'd like.  I can order them in quantities of 1 so it's not a problem to order as many colors as we want!! ;)-

O.k. going back to bed...

Laura

A Thursday Tutorial...

I just posted this project on the Clear Scraps Blog :

It's the finished owl!  So if you have a minute, go head on over there and see all the inside pages!

I also just finished my "Thankful" album and thought I would share the "tutorial" here.

I used the Chatterbox wood album (which I LOVE) and created a very ARTSY album:

 

Now the outside doesn't give away the "artsy" look inside but I tell you, it was FUN to play around with this album.  It comes with 6 heavy pages and 2 paper pages.  I didn't use the lighter weight pages because they curl too much when painting on them.

Here's what I did:

 I didn't start taking pictures until the backside so that's why it's a little ahead in the steps...

1. Pick 3 Autumn paint colors and get a small bowl of water and watercolor paintbrush.

2. Dip paintbrush into the water and pick one color of paint to mix it with.  (note:  I'm not a trained professional, so there may be WAY better ways to do this...)

3. Mix water with paint until the paint is diluted.

4.   Using up and down brush strokes, paint the whole page, making sure it is evenly painted.

5. This process can be messy (my washer is jacked up now ;)-   Check the other side of the page to make sure you wipe off excess paint that ran to other side. (notice picture above... didn't do that so good 1st time around...)

6. Continue this process with each color until all pages are painted.  If they curl up like this, let them dry and then place under a heavy item for a few hours or overnight.

7. O.k. this is where it gets really "artsy"...  Take some Golden Gel Medium and using a foam brush, brush over the area on the page you are going to place your VINTAGE music paper or VINTAGE dictionary page ( VINTAGE book pages would be cool too Dawn ;)-  Let set for about 5 minutes.

8. Now take masking tape and RANDOMLY place pieces on your page.  Then use your bone folder to rub the tape into the vintage papers.    Let set about 10 minutes.

9. Do this with every page...

10. Then start peeling the tape up, going in different directions as you do this.

11. Do this with all the pages.  FYI... it looks a little "funky" right now, but trust me...

12.  These next two steps are not necessary but add more dimension to your pages.  I took a FAV stamp and stamped over ONLY the vintage dictionary paper on the RIGHT side pages.  (I tried this ink 1st but actually switched to Stayz On in Timber.)

13. O.k. most people don't have this and it's not critical in this album but it IS FUN and you can get it at Michaels or JoAnns.  It's dimensional paint and it is COOL!  I've played with this a few years back and just happened to see it in my paint cabinet and thought I'd try it...  Basically you need a stencil and a flat painting tool.  You put the stencil over the area you want (I did it ONLY of the LEFT side pages OVER the vintage music), take some of the paint and cover the stencil with it, spreading it out with the paint tool, or popsicle stick to an even amount and then lift up the stencil!  It dries in about 20 minutes and adds a GREAT texture to the page!

I did this to all the LEFT sided pages.

14. Then I took some lighter colored paint and very lightly painted over the vintage papers and created a "framed edge" around each piece as well as giving the papers a muted look.

 
 
O.k. now the messy part is DONE!  Now it's back to "scrapbooking" and I played around with mostly Making Memories products. Here's a look at some of the inside pages:

I want to point out one thing on this inside cover page.  The MM glitter letters were too big for the word blessing so I mixed them with some old MLS brown letters and then used some Tim Holtz distressed stickles on top of them and it blends right in!

I tried to keep each page very simple because I wanted to the artsy look to show through.  Each right sided page and each left sided page have about the same "look" to them to give it uniformity as well...

This book was about my BLESSINGS in 2009.  There are WAY more that I could put in here, but this is a highlight of some of them...  Ella was definately at the TOP of the list! 

Of course our 20th Wedding Anniversary trip to Europe had to go in this book too!

 Being asked to participate in some WONDERFUL events this year was incredible!  I am honored to be a part of this ART FORM and to share that will others is truley one of the best blessings!

We had a blast in Michigan this summer and it was another change to see Ella and the family and for Victoria to do the SERVE project through Ty's church.

How could I forget my 3 beauties!  They are the blessings I LOVE MOST!

 and... I'll always have PARIS.  hehehe... Had to throw that one in there too!

Hope you like the tutuorial and have some FUN with this album if you have it!  The wood album is PERFECT for an Autumn or Thankful theme!  I'm not sure if I have very many left, but if I do, they will be up on the blog on the REVEAL night!

Speaking of the REVEAL...  I'm still waiting on the Collage Press, but I should have it next week.  It won't give the DT time to work with it, but I will have a VERY LIMITED number of kits of that along with the Melody Ross kit! 

The REVEAL will be on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9th at 7PM PST!  I'm  NOT doing it on Sunday b/c that is church and family day and it just doesn't work out good on Sunday.  So MONDAY, 11/9/09... 7PM PST SHARP!! 

Hugs to all,

Laura