Tough

Hello all! Thanks so much for visiting me today! If you're here for the About A Girl reveal please scroll down. Today I'm sharing my inspiration page done for the Use Your Words reveal. Your new challenge word for September 1st is "tough"

I used some older Basic Grey papers for this page. On the background I did some random masking, stamping, inking, and dry brushing with gesso. The stamps I used are "Full of words" and "Butterfly" made by 3rd Eye. I love their stamps! The black flowers and bling are by Prima. The charms are from the Flying Unicorn adornments. 

You have until Sept.30th to create a page with the word "tough" in the title or journaling (as long as it's visible) and link back to us here. I can't wait to see your creations! Have a wonderful day! 

Why not?

Good morning! We have a fun new challenge for you at About A Girl. This time around we are doing a cross-over with our sister site About A Boy and our challenge is to create a boy page using black, white, and one other color. I chose blue and this photo of my youngest nephew playing in the mud (after his Mom had told him not to of course).

For this page I used the Echo Park collection "All about a boy" papers. I inked the edges and then did some masking to the background with heavy gesso and the CW "static" stencil. While I allowed it to dry, I cut out my arrows and inked the edges. Using the "Sprightly sprockets" dies by Spellbinders I made some gears to go with the metal gears I had in my stash. I used cardboard under the arrows and photo, and pop dots under a few of the gears for added dimension. Finishing it off with a few light sprays of Ranger black ink.
Thanks for popping in! I hope you get the chance to join us!