Blythe with Camera

ZOMG BLYTHE HAS A broken lomo GIANT CAMERA!

Skirt: miniartschooldropout
Shirt: BlytheKingdom

Common theme is my mood

Dear blog,
Sorry for neglecting you. I've been super busy with school and my real-life job and ignoring my internets. I'll try harder to be a good blogger and have better updates. For now, have some cute Etsy stuff related to my mood. I had to work a surprise 14 hour day yesterday (Saturday!!) and cancel plans with my awesome friends, which brings out my inner puff fish. Look at my full treasury here or see some of my favorites from it below. Links to shops are below the image.


1. Little plants: Peacock Taco
2. Print: Anne Solfud
3. Pincushion: Emmanoaccessories
4. Necklace: CellsDividing

Blythnesday No. 9

Hat from StephPeachey
Dress from BlytheKingdom

Blythnesday No. 8

I haven't been posting much lately because work has been nuts. Lots of long days. But here is a Blythe photo! The dress is from TreasureTreeTrinkets.

Beautiful Bricolage

I stumbled across SushiPot's Etsy shop and saw these really neat pieces of art. These would look so neat in a home office or study! Click the image to go to the shop.

Tegan & Sara - Sentimental Tune

I bought Tegand & Sara's new CD recently and have been listening to it constantly. As always, their lyrics are really awesome. I am particularly captivating by the song "Sentimental Tune" and I decided to use it's lyrics in a little typography experiment, below. What do you think?


I used a ticket image from Belle Jar stock and tried to make the lyrics look all cool and stuff. Check out the song I'm talking about below.

Asian Beauty Blend

This blend is for Blend Planet. I used provided photos and lots of my own textures, largely available at my stock deviant art account.


I always feel like I really loose my edge when I take a little break from blend art. I'm not super happy about this piece, but it's always fun to practice!

Caturday ACEOs

Meow...

May Scrapbook Layout

This is my page-a-month layout for May 2011. It is of my fiance and I's adventures at the Phoenix Comicon. It was the first day my fiance was back on leave from his deployment too.


My favorite part of the comicon was seeing the author Max Brooks. I got a photo with him (above) and had him sign my book. He signed it "Mark Twain can suck it" after I told him he was my favorite author! Hence the quote. We also got lots of photos of us with various people in epic Star Wars costumes and stuff like that. Sadly few pictures of us together though. My fiance hates letting strangers hold his camera to take photos of us, so it was pretty much just one of us in all of them.


I tried this layout based on a really cool layout I was inspired by and made it a little simpler and more comic-y. Still pretty ambitious for me and scrapbooking! LOL! I feel like the squares should be more involved, but I wasn't sure what else to do with them. Also, extreme glitter paper sucks to photograph!

Ideas/ comments/ suggestions would be appreciated x1,000,000!!

Artwork by Melissa Moss

Check out this Etsy shop filled with pretty swirly paintings!

Adorable Brie with Flowers

I made a really cool background for Blythe photography (Blythography?) this morning and took some Blythe photos which may appear subsequently on this blog. But I also threw my cat in the light box with the background and she was being super cooperative and adorable so I got some really fun photos of her with it! I love this kitty so much!! Brie is pretty much the sweetest cat ever. Every time I sing she comes running from wherever she is and starts snuggling me.

To not spam excessively I am only posting my favorite of the photos here. If you want to see the rest, they are at my photobucket.


What do you think? Should I do Caturday posts here? More cute cat stuff? Is she not the cutest cat you've ever seen?

Hand Drawn Owl ATC

I made another ATC for a Swap-Bot swap! I need to mail it today I think, but I wanted to show it off here since I am really happy with it!!


In addition to hand-drawing the owl, branch and moon, I collaged a tiny bit and used some decorative tape and sparklies. Fun stuff! I hope my partner likes it!

I made an art!

lol it's been awhile since I've done blending. See my previous post on how I've been using STATA instead of photoshop in my free time!


I made this blend for Blend Planet and cleverly missed the deadline to submit it. Oh well!

Book/Library ATC for Swapbot

Yay swap-bot! I am so happy to be renewing my obsession with that site. How much I want to swap waxes and wanes, but I have been enjoying paper crafts a lot lately.

Here is an ATC I made for a Book/Library ATC swap...


I am really happy with how the collage elements came out. I am not sure how I feel about the hand-drawn book at the bottom. I think if I were to do it again I would collage a photo of a book there instead. We'll see. I LOVE the deco tape here that I have been using in like all my projects lately lol!

Back on the Swap Bot Wagon!

After a little hiatus, I have joined a few swaps on Swap-Bot again! Today I pulled together stuff for a scrapbooking pick 10 swap, and made some flower ATCs to send out.


I've joined a few additional ATC swaps. Yay! Anyone else on swapbot?

The Scrapiest Sketch 114 Layout

I made this layout for The Scrappiest's sketch challenge. I used photos from a few years ago when my friends and I floated the Boise River. So cold!


The paper, chipboard, stickers, etc is pretty much all from a kit. I will post more on this kit depending on how a customer service issue gets resolved! Below is the original sketch:


As always, comments and suggestions on my scrapbooking are appreciated!

Sketchy Thursdays Challenge Layout

I am going to improve my scrapbooking skills by finding and entering cool scrapbook challenges! I was inspired to make a layout for Sketchy Thursdays tonight. I am super happy with how it turned out, although I don't usually use quite so much ephemera...


I used paper, tags, and stickers from Echo Park's "For the Record" collection (so fun!!), distressing ink, flowers, sparkly gems, buttons and decorative tape. It took forever, and I tried a number of variations on things before committing to it!


The photo is from my 2004 trip to New York City. It was a high-school graduation present from my parents... my mom, my favorite cousin, my aunt and I all went to NYC for a few days. It was super awesome. Here, my cousin and I are posing with the so-called Naked Cowboy in Times Square.


I am trying to find more scrapbook challenge blogs! Any ideas? As always, tips and critiques on my scrapbook projects is greatly appreciated.

February's Scrapbook Layout, etc.

Last night and this morning I worked on February's scrapbook layout. I try to do a page a month, with memorable things happening in my life (I am enough of a dork to have included jury duty for last January's layout...). When I don't do anything worth commemorating or don't have good enough photos I typically just make a layout with pictures of my fur-babies.


In this layout I used a paper from a cats themed 8x8 stack from TPC Studio. So cute! The big problem here was that I didn't have on-hand any 12x12 paper that totally matched the cat papers. I like the way the grungy, stripey bit looks but I probably should have done something different on the orange on the outside. The different tone makes it look a little off. But I am fairly happy with it, I guess. Aren't my cats adorable? I never get tired of looking at their adorableness!

Also, I went to my favorite bead store in Tempe yesterday, and hit it like the hammer of an angry god. I did a lot of damage even though most of the store was 40% off AND I had a $20 for $10 groupon. Check out my haul:


These will start appearing at my Etsy shop in jewelry soon. I also got some beads for a Pandora knock-off bracelet for myself. Even the knock-off Pandora style beads are expensive, wtf?

January Scrapbook Layout

This is January's layout for my epic, page a month scrapbook! It is pictures from one day of my brother's family's visit to Phoenix. We went to Encanto Park and did paddle boats and amusement park rides. Fun stuff. I blurred out faces that aren't mine because my brother would pretty much have kittens if he saw photos of himself on the internet, much less photos of my nieces. LOLZ.


Most of the paper and embellishments are from a kit, whose brand is escaping me. I feel like I got it from Walmart though. Now that I look at it again, there are definitely things I would have done differently. I would probably not have used the lace border punch outs on the borders of the lower photos, or distressed the edges there. That could be improved. Also, there is no contrast on the letters in family, they blend right in. Maybe I should have put them over a more distinct color of solid paper or something. I don't even know. Still learning, still in trial and error mode lol!

As always, comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! <3

Amazing Artist: Amborela

I bought this super cool painting from Amborela last week, and hung it up on my wall. The shop has several similar paintings. I really, really like the creative way she combines fun painting with embellishments! It seems like it would be cheesy, but it really works and *I* think it's great art.


Here are some of the other cool things from Amborela's shop. It should be noted that service was awesome, shipping prompt and packaging above and beyond!