Elements of Style

Just Because You Are Seriously Amazing

For this watercolor card I used Stampin' Up Elements of Style, embossed with white embossing powder and watercolor washed with Blackberry Bliss ink.  I used a piece of drywall tape pressed into the wet ink for different element to the card.  Background of the card was embossed in the Cuttlebug Madison embossing folder after rubbing the positive side with the Blackberry Bliss ink pad which kind of gives a lace effect.

Silver sequins and a watercolor paper tag stamped with stamps from Michael's $1 bin (Just Because) and SU August Paper Pumpkin "Seriously Amazing" Kit.

Stampin' Up Pleasant Poppies

Just Because, You're Awesome

I was playing around with glossy paper, white embossing powder and Stampin' Up Real Red and Certainly Celery ink pads.  After using the heat tool on the embossing powder, the paper began to crack and I really rather like the effect.

Papers are Real Red, Whisper White and Basic Black.

Wedding Gift Decorations

Wedding Gift Flowers and Tag

An upcoming Fall Wedding in the colors of Navy and White.  I could not find any curling ribbon in Navy at any of our local stores, so I decided to put the Cricut to work and made some Navy and White flowers for the wedding gift packaging.  I also made a tag with the Stamping Bella "The Couple" stamp and colored it with Copic markers.  I added a few sprays of pearls and a satin ribbon, done. 

Scrapbook Baby Pages - Family

Family

For our next workshop I designed the following pages featuring a Family Tree.

Design elements and the word Family all cut from the Cricut Close To My Heart Artbooking Cartridge pages 61, 67 and 72.  Paper is Stampin' Up and some scraps for the tree leaves.  

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon and Certainly Celery (Retired).

Scrapbook Baby Pages - Sweet Boy

Sweet Boy

Cricut Close To My Heart Artbooking scrapbook pages.

Our second scrapbook workshop featuring baby pages featured a Scrappin' Dreams template the positive space was used on the Sweet Boy page and the negative corners were used on the animal page.

Cutouts are from the Cricut Close To My Heart Artbooking Cartridge and the Cricut Lite B Is For Boy Cartridge.  Papers are Close To My Heart.

Halloween Workshop

Halloween Workshop

We had a great time at the Halloween Workshop assembling a table top Boo Banner; Matchbox Pop Up treat holder, M&M Matchbook, a brown bag and a Vellum bag for goodies and a very cute Kit Kat Owl.  Various papers and card stock, stamps, die cuts, punches and ribbons and twine were used.

Stampin' Up Order Bags

 Here are a few of the Thank You bags that contain  orders for this last week:

Stamp Sets:     Choose Happiness, Backyard Basics and Gorgeous Grunge

Inks:                Early Expresso, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Gumball Green, Tempting Turquoise   and Lost Lagoon.

Accessories:   Buttons, thread, Ribbons, hole punch, watercolor brush, die cut.

Zentangle Halloween Card

Homework for one of my paper crafting clubs this month was to Zentangle the large Blossom Beauty by Stampendous and make something with it.  I had the Split Coast Stampers "Ways To Use It" WT494 in mind which was to go "Back To Old School" and use Chalkboard.  This is my entry for that Challenge as well.

Papers:            Stampin' Up basic black, whisper white and Tangerine Tango
Inks:                Stampin' Up Craft Whisper White and Zig Millennium .05 Black
Stamps:           Stampin' Up Bite Me (Spider) and Good Greetings (Sentiment)
                        Inkadinkado All Hallow's Eve (Corner Web)
Accessories:    Tangerine Tango Button and 1/4" black ribbon

Inside of Zentangle Card

Stampin' Up Twick or Tweet and Inkadinkado Halloween Stamp (Web)

August Paper Pumpkin Thanks

I used the August 2014 Paper Pumpkin kit to embellish my Thanks Stampin' Up order bags for this month.