Here is a little card to share that I made a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes, I keep projects hidden until moments like this pop up. I am missing my craft room so much but until I get better I will just have to dream of my projects from bed. Goodness knows I have plenty of time. Also, I am psyched about my Christy Tomlinson mixed media kit coming any day now. Have any of you tried a kit club? This will be my first. I would like to hear any reccomendations.
   Thank you for reading my out of the ordinary post. I do hope I did not gross anyone out. Enjoy your week and SMILE!
Kate

     Greetings everyone! I hope your Thursday has been enjoyable. Today, I want to share the second set of pages I have completed in my altered book.

   This first image is by June at Dezinaworld. I love it! I used some gears, beads and TH stamps.

    I really wanted a dressform on at least one page so I used a side facing form from Graphic’s Fairy. I layered the skirt with lace, butterflies, glitter, beads, gears, a word stick and some tulle. The whole background was white and cream with black stamping. In the end, I thought the images just seemed to fade into it, so I went back and added some turquoise. My eye likes it a bit better.
   Lastly, I would like to share an amazing gift that I won in a giveaway!

    Pat, at Art 4 Liberty had a giveaway in which I won this amazing piece. I loved it so much I wore it around all weekend. I was cleaning, baking and doing things around the house but I just could not take it off! I am in love with this pendant. Hop on over to Pat’s blog and look around. Thanks, Pat!
Kate

  I am so excited to make Grungy Monday this week. As you know, WordPress had some glitches which prevented me from participating last week. The theme is ‘Love Tim Holtz Style.’
     I had fun using all my new grungeboard shapes. What awesome stuff. Can’t believe I have made it this far without them. I am discovering a whole new world of products and techniques this year.
    There is not much to tell about what I did (actually, I am just feeling too tired to write it all) but the short version is I painted, distressed, stamped and then repeated that process a lot.
     Thank you for stopping by.
Kate

Challenges entered:
Grungy Monday
  Simon Says Stamp Challenge

     The winner of my First Bloganniversary box is Sam. Congratulations Sam. Please email me at katesscrapyard@gmail.com with your mailing address. I will be mailing your box out on Friday. Thank you for all who entered. I wish I could send something to each of you.
    Happy Valentine’s Day!
Kate

    Much of my inspiration on this layout came from Donna Downey’s Inspiration Wednesday from last week. Lots of fun techniques I never thought of putting together. This page turned more into a collage. A little of this and a little of that. All scraps.

   And here is a close up of the texture. I used my oil pastels for the first time since high school.

  Enjoy your Monday.
Kate

    This post is a test to see If WordPress is working correctly. I appologize for all of you who may have gotten notifications yesterday with posts that did not work. I uploaded my Grungy Monday post 3 times but was unsucessfull with the image. I had to delete each post. Needless to say I missed Grungy Monday. But if you can see the image today, WordPress fixed the problem. I updated my app this am.
    Thank you for being patient with me. The image if you can see it is was my entry for GM. It is a Tim inspired ATC.
    Don’t forget today is the last day to enter the Giveaway  . So far, I have a overwhelming three entries so if you are one of those three, you have a very good chance of winning. Have a lovely Monday.
Kate

     I like to hoard Graphic 45 papers. I am sure you can relate. We all have something in our scrap room that we just like to look at. Well, I am trying to get over my hoarding. I made a pact with myself to use the papers on the shelf before buying any more (unless it is for a specific project.) I finally decided to take out these beautiful papers to make some cards. What do you hoard?

  
   Just a reminder that there is still time to enter my giveaway . You have until Tuesday February 14th.
Later,
Kate
  

    Here are a couple of bags that I made to inspire my gift giving next week. I’ll will be making chocolate coverted fruit to fill up these lovelies. Hopefully all the fruit will make it to the bags and not my stomach.

   To decorate, I used the Le Romantique collection by Graphic 45 and lots of paint, sprays, tissue tape, lace and embellies. So Fun these were!! Now I just have to come up with the right person in order to part with them. Paper bags are versitile, easy to work with and cheap. Try altering one for fun and you may be surprised at what you come up with.
Happy Monday,
Kate

    Recently, I decided to clean off my very messy table. I have limited talent when it comes to card making but I remembered a recent blog post (can’t remember where) about collaging scraps of anything together. I figured this technique would be fool proof. How did I do? I really like the outcome on this first card. The second, not so much.

   I will have to work on this a bit more if I am ever in the card making mood again. It is an easy technique if you are limited on time and want to use up what is available. Try it! I would love to see what you make.
Kate

   As you can tell by now, I am addicted to turquoise and teal. I am finding it difficult to not use it on every possible project. And here I have used them again. Perhaps it is just a phase I am going through. I wonder how long it will last.
    The images on this layout are from Green Paper’s  February collage challenge. Are they not lovely? Mary’s work is beautiful. I have not taken her gluebook class yet but I am planning to sometime in the future.
      Also, if you have not yet entered my  giveaway, there is plenty of time. Thank you for stopping by this Thursday.
Kate