You Me Us - Donna Salazar July Challenge

July has come to an end. I hope you had a wonderful month and have lots of wonderful memory making days in August!!

As you know, I enjoy using non-scrapbook items on my layouts, so I was so excited to see the Donna Salazar July Challenge to create a project using an item not make for scrapbooking. Mistra's fabulous sketch was optional, but it was such a fabulous sketch, that I had to use it and of course lots and lots of Donna's amazing products.

I used more of our daughter, Elizabeth, and Andrew's engagement photos. These shots were taken in our backyard.

Here's Mistra's lovely sketch:

Techniques:

I used Donna's Spellbinder Rose Creations Die to created the two smaller flowers and her Grand Peony Die for the larger. The center of the flower is a flea market find - a piece of an earring. Behind the flowers is a cloud of denim threads from an old pair of jeans. The edges of the flowers were brushed with a bit of acrylic paint. The white bits of lace flowers above the larger paper flower were cut from a piece of gorgeous bridal lace.

You can see a bit of the flexible texture paste stencil below the flowers. I tinted the paste with a combination of Smooch Spritz and Distress Ink to coordinate with the Botanique paper. I spread it over two different Martha Stewart stencils - the flourishes on the left and the scalloped, flourished circle in the upper right corner. After removing the stencils while the paste was still wet, I used a paint brush to add additional texture.

Another of my hand-crafted flowers surrounded by another piece of fussy cut bridal lace. The flower petals were cut from a pink sheet of Donna's Botanique collection. I spritzed it with her Sea Breeze Smooch Spritz and then with water to get this lovely shade of purple.

The crystal links and chain on the bottom photo is a fragment from a necklace that I used on another page.

I worked on this LO while we were on our anniversary trip. I was trying to figure out how I wanted to treat this gorgeous piece of Want 2 Scrap chipboard when Gary unwrapped a new golf shirt, tossing the tissue paper into the trash. Yes, you guessed it. I grabbed the tissue paper and used it on this chipboard piece, then misted with two shades of Donna's gorgeous Smooch Spritz - Mixed Berries and Smooch Spritz.

I hand stitched a straight stitch around the page and one mat layer while using a hand drawn swirled border around the other mat.

The drippy spot behing this Chipboard was created with Donna's Smooch Spritz.

This sweet butterfly was created with Donna's Zutter Corrugated Board. I painted the edges with acrylic paint, inked with some Distress Ink and added the antennae created with brown wrapped floral wire. I won this gorgeous Zva swirl in the Zva Creations blog hop last month and the color and size were perfect for my butterfly trail.

There are two layers of stamping. I used Donna's Vine stamp with Archival ink first. Then over this, I used some bubble wrap with small bubbles to stamp a background with distress ink and heat embossed holographic embossing powder on the stamped dots. Additionally at the botton of the page, I used Donna's Crackle stamp below the chicken wire. The wire was a gift from my friends Barb and Mandy. It had actually been used and was being stored in the barn, so there is a bit of natural patina here. LOL

No particular technique here, but I thought I'd share a close-up for you to see the sweet Scripture on these jewelry charms by Darice.

I used the Distrezz-It-All on my paper edges and photos.

The blue "lace" pieces tucked into my distressed openings are actually denim from old jeans that I cut with a Spellbinder die.

Products Used:

Donna Salazar Products:
Botanique paper collection
Zutter Distrezz-It-All
Zutter Corrugated Board
Spellbinder Rose Creations Dies
Spellbinder Grand Peony Dies
Art Gone Wild Crackle Stamp
Art Gone Wild Vine Stamp
Smooch Spritz - Mixed Berries
Smooch Spritz - Sea Breeze

Non Scrapbooking Items:
Denim from old pair of Jeans
Tissue paper rescued from the trash
Chicken Wire
Vintage Earring piece
DMC Embroidery Floss #931
Crystal Necklace Fragment
Martha Stewart Crafts Stencils from the Flourish Collection
Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste
DecoArt Crafters Acrylic Paint - Antique White
Michaels Wine Charm (hanging from Prima flower)
Bubble Wrap
Darice Signed Sealed, Remembered Altered Art Jewelry Charms
Darice Covered Floral Wire
Darice Jewelry Spacers (bottom right corner)

Other Embellishments:
Heidi Grace Epoxy Stickers - Sentiments 2
Darice Rhinestones
Want 2 Scrap Chipboard Shape Style A
Want 2 Scrap Fancy Tags 2
Prima Flowers Whisper Collection Moulin # 548667
K & Company Brenda Walton Adhesive Rhinestones
Zva Creations Pearl/Crystal Flourish # CRW-04CB-120

Other Technique Products:
Spellbinders Iron Work Accents Dies
Tim Holtz Alterations Movers and Shapers Mini Butterflies Die and Base Tray
Distress Ink
Ranger Holographic Embossing Powder
Ranger Archival Ink

Adhesives
Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue
Helmar Zap Dots 3D 1/4" Square
Scotch ATG and Quick Dry Acid Free Adhesive
Hercules Tape

Tools
Big Shot
Ranger Craft Mat
Darice Heat Tool
Tonic Studios Piercing Tool
Bazzil In Stitch'z Mat
Fiskars Craft Mat and Craft Knife
Martha Stewart Ruler

I have also entered this at:
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #38 - Use an encouraging sentiment **

Thanks for stopping by! I Treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~