sheet music

Ladies and gentlemen... I am pleased to introduce to you, our very special guest designer this week at the Art is Found-
Thee Kerry Lynn Yeary!



And yes, I do think the extra e on "the" is quite appropriate, as there is no one quite like Kerry in our little scrapbooking world. Or in the whole world, for that matter. Here's what she has for us this week:

hi everyone! i'm so honored that kara and the taif girls asked me to create this week with on of my absolute favorite vintage items, vintage sheet music.

sigh. i love it.

i use it so much when i create because i adore the faded worn color and the way it adds an immediate feeling of history. for this weeks prompt "sheet music" i created some cut paper flowers out of the sheet music, randomly dipped the edges in paint, added some amazing vintage letters i have collected thrifting and then adhered them to some magnets. then i popped them on two vintage wash boards i have had for awhile. it's the perfect addition to our mantle, and a visual reminder of what i love best.





have fun & i can't wait to see what everyone creates!
-Kerry

And here's what our team did with sheet music:

Mandi

Kara

Debee

Kimmie

Rhi:


Ashleyyyyy--

And guess what?!
We will choose a random participant from this prompt to win a prize from The Paper Pixie. We all loved the lovely bits in Kelly's shop so much, we will be using some in a later prompt. You could use them with us too if you win, or head on over to her shop to get some goodies for yourself.

Now go find some old sheet music, and play along! :)

Sewing Pattern Love

Hi lovelies, its Rhi here!

The submissions for a Photo as Title were ceraaaaaaaaaazy good. So good the random number generator had to be left to decide, and she picked....

Elise Blaha with this little beauty. Woohoo. You get the pretty tags from Elle's Studio my dear. Email me (rhi) and i'll figure out how that works.

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Before we begin; the winner this go round (although you are all winners in my heart... cheeeese) is being provided goods by the ever great and mighty Dig Deeper Kits. We know we all love them! I flippin' do. And Ms Kristina Contes does too, as she is guest designing for them next month! You heard that here first!

Have a gand at this little sneaky peak of what you will win!

Onwards and upwards.

Sewing Pattern Love

Lets all show the humble sewing pattern some appreciation.

Whether that be the actual transparenty (thats a word, yow) type paper, the cover, the pretty ladies/men/children that advertise the clothing items, or even just inspiration taken from it.

The geometrical lines of the instructions, the sheerness of the material, the step by step directions.
Go with it guys and gals. And link us up here with your goodness.

I am so excited to introduce our guest designer this week. She is part of the reason I started "scrapping", I could go on for a very long time of all the things I love about her work, and all the reasons I want her to blog more. But I will refrain, and show you. Amber Skolnick, come on doooooown.

Hi everyone! I am super excited to be the guest for this prompt. I am very inspired by both the blog and the girls in charge of it. For this prompt, I was asked to play around with "sewing patterns". I think the "patterns" add an interesting texture and dimension to a layout. This is something that I would never have thought of. For the "dad and jane" layout, I used the actual pattern, I adhered the pattern to the cardstock and then painted around the edges of it. For the "raggedy ann" layout, I used part of the instructions and some pieces of striped fabric that was leftover from the raggedy ann doll my mom made me. I didn't exactly mean to do a "dad" layout and then a "mom" layout, it just happened that way. I especially didn't mean to "diss" on dad and then tell my mom I loved her in the "doll" layout, but I guess sometimes that's how it goes. Thanks again girls for letting me play!

Amber's goodness:

And the TAIF girls,
Queen Kara (pronounced care-uh)

Magical Mandi

Debee the artist

RhiRhi, (full book can be seen here)

Ab-fab AshAsh,

Kimmie the bright and bold

Have fun this week!

Photo as Title.

Whew! You guys blew me away with all you're mad notebook paper skills! Dang.

The random winner of the awesome notebook from Kate Bing's awesome Etsy shop is...... Kate! (Wildman)

Kate, email Kate(hehehehe) at kathleenbing @ gmail.com so she can get it out to you!

Okay. Now onto to the good stuff. There is SO much awesome stuff going on here, my mind is going in millions of different directions. Wheeewwweee.

The Prompt is:

Photo as Title

Signs, words, labels surround us all the time. Take advantage of some of those awesome things and use it on your ART! Use a photo as a title for your page. Maybe make a mini of your favorite restraurants using the signs as "titles" for your pages.

This is another prompt where we want you going out and taking a look at the world around you and capturing it with your camera.
Go crazy with sidewalk chalk, "paint" with water, use your Dymo label maker. Take photos.

Take a photo of your favorite food's packaging. Scrap about that.

Maybe take a photo that communicates an idea. Let the art flow from that.

You don't even have to have taken the photo. Pour over catalogs and magazines. Come what may!

Like all TAIF prompts, feel free to intrepet them however you'd like. Maybe just take a photo, if it inspires you. Make a video, a painting, a card, ATC, scrapbook layout, mini, altered decor.

Heck, take photos and fill a frame with it.

Go cuhrazy!

I am SUPER excited to have the ever lovely and talented miss Cindy Ellen Russel Guest Design for this prompt. She has a style so pure, classy, and arty that I just cannot get enough of.

If you haven't faved this girl already, prepare to be awed and inspired.

Thanks, Cindy, for GDing! Your project blew us away!

Here is what Cindy had to say:

Photos as titles. Signs, bumper stickers, advertisements, graffiti...all around us are words and symbols telling us what we should or could do. As I started to look around for photos to use as titles, I also saw backgrounds and elements to use and photographed those too. What emerged was a personal story --driven by some of the most favorite photographs that I have taken over the years-- stacked upon other detail photos all held together by adhesive, tape and journaling. It became a visual narrative that is literal, unexpected, magical, straightforward and complex...just like me!

Cindy's project:

I am also super thrilled to have the ever amazing Debee Campos come on as a permanent TAIF Girl. Yeah! You heard that right. Debee will be here every prompt to inspire. Woot! Go TAIF!

Debee GDed for us in June and I am so happy to have her here permanently.

The girls:


Mandi-








Rhi-

Ashley-

Kara-

Debee-

Kimmy-

Whew! And the awesome Elle's Studio is so gracious to be hosting an awesome RAK from their Etsy shop.

Gorgeous, right?

Link up your projects and art up by August 10th to be included in the random drawing.

That's it for today! Have a great week!

Notebook Paper

Hey guys! It's Mandi here!

If you're anything like me, you've got lots of scraps of paper lying around in piles. Sometimes reminders, sometimes lists, sometimes, uh... bills... or notes from friends. This week's challenge is to use the abundance of notebook paper, that, let's face it, we all have. You could layer paper from different pads, leave the frou-frous on the edge, rip the paper, paint over the paper, or just leave the lovely lines show through. If you're really feeling *green* you could reuse paper that has already been written on. In my layout, I used a note from one of my scrappy friends. You decide what you want to do with the notebook paper, and post a link here when you've finished.

On another note, we've got some big news this week at TAIF! We are very happy to have the incredibly talented, witty, and super cute Ashley Wren join our team! Her picture should be up there on the left with the rest of us very soon!

And we are also extremely excited to have the amazingly creative Kristina Contes join us this week only as our guest designer! She is one of my favorite designers and is a very inspiring artist.

Here's what she had to say...

"notebook paper...ahh the lovely lines. when i was thinking about this prompt, so many ideas came to mind. vintage ledger. holes. frays. so many options, but i became really focused on the texture created when you rip them from their spirals. turning something you would find on the floor in a classroom (or maybe not anymore, damn am i getting old) or stuck to your shoe into art. thus finding art. thus busting out the gel matte medium. rock."

here's her layout:

and here's what our girls came up with!

Ashley's layout:



Kara's layout:
(she gessoed over the paper)

Mandi's layout:

Rhi's layout:

annnnnd last but NOT least- CHRISTINA! aka Tina Lynn! You are the lucky winner of Kara's journal! Be sure to PM her your address so she can get that off to you.

Thanks everyone for coming along this week, and we look forward to seeing what you come up with!

EDIT:

I am so excited to offer this AWESOME handmade notebook made by the amazing Kate Bing as our RAK. So get your projects uploaded and entered in it!

Note-

If you are interested in hosting a RAK, possibly through your Etsy shop or to bring more attention to your product. Email me at-- karahaupt @ gmail.com. Thanks!