Maggi's KOM projects

The January kit, filled with Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue, is just what you need to chase away the winter blues! I am a G45 junkie anyway so imagine my delight when I received this colorful kit!

Sail Away -This was the first layout I did with the kit and it's a photo of my Mom taken back in the 40's, probably 1944. I love the netting that came in the kit this month and chose to use that to represent the sea along with the blue papers. You can see some fish swimming around up there! I fussy cut some flowers from the Garden Isle pp, the frame is Seaside Holiday, stripes Tropical Travelogue, fish Oceania. The 3D flower is from my stash and is from ZVA. Behine the photo I've used fusible webbing (here's a link to a tute from our Santa's Workshop tutorials) with two different colors of embossing powder to represent seaweed. I added some silver microbeads indicative of bubbles you see in the water. Oh you can't really see it, but there is a pearl in the upturned shell.

Another Day - Paradise - On this LO I started out with a sheet of plain ivory cardstock, I used a Prima mask on the left and sprayed with Starburst Mist in Hagsworth orange and then inked around the edges heavily with Distress ink in ripe persimmon (frm the 2011 fall issue). The swirls on the right were stamped with Perfect Medium and then brushed with Perfect Pearls in several colors. (all of these supplies came from my stash) Then I added a blast of Starburst mist in bachelor button blue. I cut a circle from Tropical Travelogue pp, then I layered another circle cut from Bazzill Red Rocks (from my stash) under the Tropical Travelogue circle and layered a circle punch cut from orange CS (from my stash) over top the Tropical Travelogue circle. Lots of fussy cutting here from the Island Jewel pp., all those flowers around the circle. The 3-D flowers I made to mimic the Island Jewel pp and these flowers are from the Tattered Flowers tute that I did recently during our Santa's Workshop tutorials. I used an image from G45 papers and stickled it up on the left. The letters are from my stash and are Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus.

Mom - This is pure G45 heaven to me, black, ivory and a bright pop of color, in this case green. The photo is again of my mother when she was about 16. Lots of fussy cutting going on here, all those leaves are fussy cut from the Rain Forest pp. I made the flowers (with stuff from my stash) using a McGill Floriano punch and cut them from Tim Holtz glassine paper. Then I brushed gold Perfect Pearls on the flowers and heated with my heat gun. The heating sets the Perfect Pearls, really a neat effect. On the right under the flowers is a Petaloo rose leaf spray from my stash. The black pearl swirls are a Prima SIIP that I cut apart. Flying Unicorn has some great bling swirls in the store!

Something about the tropics kept screaming pirates to me so I had to scrap this picture of Capt. Jack Sparrow. The red paper is a piece of Core'dinations that came in the kit that I first embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and then painted with Big Apple Glimmer Glam. The chippie swirl is a Dusty Attic piece that also was painted with Big Apple Glimmer Glam. I heat embossed the two Tim Holtz grunge board hinges using Distress Walnut Stain embossing powder. I layered a couple papers from the kit under Capt Jack, inked up the white fish net that also came in the kit (it reminds me of the rigging on a sailboat) added some Prima baubles, Tim Holtz metal foliage and a bookplate and called it good!

The January kit also contains a really fun Off the Page Project - glass painting. The kit includes 3 glass bottles, a glass plate, candles and glass paint to really get your creative mind working.