Le Cirque

This week our design assignment at Paper Vineyard was to create a circus-themed project using Graphic 45 products.

Now, to tell you the truth, I've always been a little creeped out by the circus.  Thank goodness the papers from Graphic 45 are so pretty they helped me overcome my phobia long enough to design this card:

I've really been enjoying tags lately.  They add dimension and provide the opportunity to add another sentiment - or they simply serve as another vehicle for displaying more pretty paper!  Here is a picture of the same card with the tag partially pulled out:

Here is a closeup of my flower.  The metal, paper, and ink work really well together!

Thank you for visiting. :o)  Have a terrific Tuesday!

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Bazzill
Patterned papers - Graphic 45 Le Cirque Collection
Paper flowers and metal flower - Graphic 45
Ribbon - Teresa Collins
Button - My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose
Staple - Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
Stamps - Kaiser Craft
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Stickles - Black Diamond
Miscellaneous pompoms and trim

Springtime Bling in Blues and Purples

Today I created a project that fits the bill for two challenges:  Play Date Cafe Challenge 47  and DeNami Design Product Challenge #7.

Here is the very bright, very springy inspiration picture from PDCC 47:

Participants were charged with the task of creating a project using only the palette shown here - blue and purple with white and green.  In the DeNami challenge, we are supposed to incorporate a favorite blingy embellishment of mine:  rhinestones!  (My order of DeNami rhinestones is on its way, but in the meantime I pulled some bling out of my current stash.)

And here is my card inspired by the challenges:

Here is a shot of the tag pulled partially out of the little pocket envelope I made:

Ingredients

Cardstock and rhinestones: Bazzill

Chipboard Alphas: American Crafts Thickers

Diecut bird, vines, and flowers:  Sizzix

Pearls:  Kaiser Craft and We R Memory Keepers

Ink: ColorBox Blue Lagoon Fluid Chalk Cat's Eye and Memento Grape Jelly

Stamps:  DeNami Design Solid Scallop Dot Rectangle, Solid Decorative Crest, and Everyday Greetings

Gel Pens: Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Blue, Green, and Purple

Ribbon:  My Mind's Eye blue and miscellaneous green grosgrain

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
Stickles Waterfall

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  I hope your week is off to a super start!

White Sale

The theme in this week's Design Team assignment for Paper Vineyard was White Sale!  The challenge:  create a monochromatic white project. 

I covered a wooden frame in cardstock and patterned paper, then frosted flowers and a filagree butterfly in glitter, and added pearls (and tried my best to restrain myself - I do love pearls!) 

Ingredients

Cardstock: Bazzill White

Patterned paper: Bazzill Stripe White

Frame: Woodline Works

Flowers: Prima Craftable

Glitter: Elizabeth Craft Design GlitterRitz in Warm Highlights and White

Pearls: KaiserCraft and We R Memory Keepers

Metal Filagree Butterfly: SEI

Thank you for stopping by my blog, and have a wonderful Wednesday!

Tweet Clara

I am very excited to be participating in The Play Date Cafe Challenge 73.  These colors are so pretty!  Here is the inspiration they posted:

And here is my layout inspired by the challenge:

Ingredients

Cardstock: Jillibean Soup Chestnut Soup

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose Brocade

Corrugated Alphas: Jillibean Soup

Brads, stickers, buttons, and ribbon: My Mind's Eye

Flowers: Prima (colored with mists and Copic Markers)

Paper Lace: Little Yellow Bicycle
Ink: ColorBox Chestnut Roan

Stamps: My Little Shoebox and Kaiser Craft

Mists: Glimmerz Spritz in Tuscan Sun and Bed of Roses

Copic Markers: YR00 Powder Pink, YR12 Loquat, V12 Pale Lilac, V15 Mallow, and R46 Strong Red

Thank you for stopping by!

Crafting with LYB Twig

When I mentioned Jean Bradsher's super fun Twig class in yesterday's blog post, Margie H. very kindly asked for pictures!

So without further ado, here is a bit of what we made in class:

Aren't the Twig papers absolutely beautiful?  And the feel of the paper is almost fabric-like.  I have to admit, long before I signed up for this class, I bought a ton of the Twig goodies.  They are so pretty!

We actually made 8 cards, two each of four designs, but this was my favorite:

Ingredients

Paper and most embellishments: Little Yellow Bicycle "Twig" line

Cardstock: American Crafts

Frame: Woodline Works

Assorted ribbon, feather, eyelets, and trim

Have a super Sunday!

Baby Blues

Last week's Paper Vineyard assignment was to create a project featuring two new lines from My Mind's Eye - "Stella and Rose" and "Lush."

Something kind of fun that I included was a spin-off from a class I took a few weeks ago with Els of Elizabeth Craft Designs.  This talented designer showed us various embellishment techniques incorporating ink, glitter, and her beautiful filigree stickers.  Today I used four of her scrolled leaf stickers to create a butterfly, then embellished them with Smooch ink, Shimmerz Spritz, and glitter before adding pearl brads for the body:

Ingredients

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned paper, brads, alpha stickers, charm, and stickers: My Mind's Eye "Stella and Rose" and Lush collections

ColorBox Smooch Nautical Navy pearlized accent ink

Shimmerz Spritz Rockafella Blue and Tuscan Sun

Font: Batang

Glitter: Ranger Stickles Aqua and GlitterRitz light gold

Stickers: Elizabeth Craft Designs pull-off scroll leaf and Starform glitter border

Charm clips: Tim Holtz

I hope you had a scrappy Saturday!  I sure did - starting with several hours of playing with Little Yellow Bicycle's adorable Twig paper and embellishments.  Jean Bradsher showed us how to make her adorable picture frame along with four different cards.  They all turned out adorable!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, and have a wonderful weekend!

Tag - You're It!

Here are two tags that I made for my first project as a member of Paper Vineyard's design team.  I have to say - I am so excited to be a part of this team! 

Ingredients

Patterned paper: Teresa Collins

Cardstock, key, and rhinestone embellishments: Bazzill

Rose brad: Pebbles

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Studio G and Kaiser Craft

Assorted ribbon and trims

Ingredients

Patterned paper: Teresa Collins Mr. & Mrs.

Cardstock: Bazzill Lily White

Pearls and alpha stamps: Kaiser Craft

Pearl flourish: Prima 
Metal flower: Pebbles

Ink: ColorBox Chestnut Roan

Assorted ribbon and trims

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog!

Happy Book

I took such a fun class this weekend at Paper Vineyard featuring the adorable new patterned paper and embellishment line from Bazzill.  Participants got to make these cute little happy books.  Now all I need to do is add photos!

Napa

Well, here's another layout that I started this summer and finally completed today!

Ingredients

Patterned paper, alpha letters, and ribbon:  My Mind's Eye

Pearls: Kaiser Craft

Font: Lucinda Calligraphy and Batang

Thanks for stopping by my blog, and have a wonderful weekend!

Caught Our Limit

I started this 2-page layout in July, shortly after my husband and step-son got back from their fishing trip.  When I was going through items to organize my scrapping armoire, I found it and realized that I needed to finish it up!

Ingredients

Cardstock: Bazzill

Blue chipboard alpha letters and patterned paper: My Mind's Eye

Stickers: EK Success Jolee's

Buttons: Kaiser Craft

Font: Braddon

I hope you've had a terrific Tuesday!