tuesday...Birds of a Feather GDT-April

Happy Tuesday! Today I'm sharing my last project for Birds of a Feather and I know that you will love it as much as I do!

I made a birthday card, purse and gift card holder set:


Supplies-
cardstock: Bazzill (Raven), Recollections;
patterned paper: Prima Almanac Collection (Agenda, Shaffer);
flowers: Prima Almanac Camille flowers;
letter stickers: Prima Almanac Collection (8x10 Canvas Typography Alpha Stickers);
bling: Want to Scrap black peals;
tools: Cuttlebug Machine, Cuttlebug Textile Texture A2 Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Rose Creations, Spellbinders Carnation Creations, Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page (Cherish);
other: sewing machine, velcro fasteners, chrome mini brads


***The BOLDED supplies are included in the Birds of a Feather April Kit or Extra Embellies Kit. Everything else is from my stash.


Below is a close up and a little bit of info and links to tutorials for each item.

The Purse (front):


the back:


The purse and gift card holder, which fits inside the purse:


The purse and opened gift card holder:


I've had this purse tutorial saved for a while now and was just waiting for the right papers and as soon as I saw this kit, I knew I had to make it! The gift card holder is actually one of my tutorials. You can find the gift card holder tutorial HERE.

The card:





I embossed the pink pattern paper to give it some texture and just used a small strip of the black paper from the purse to tie it all together. Of course, I added the same cluster of flowers to all 3 pieces and this also helped tie them together.

I absolutely LOVED working with this month's Birds of a Feather kit. Thanks Amy for giving me the opportunity to do so! Thank you everyone for stopping my blog again today and know that I appreciate your comments!

saturday...Birds of a Feather GDT-April

I hope that you are having a happy weekend! It's dark and gloomy here in Orlando, Fl today but hubby and I are staying indoors since we are packing for our move, which is only 1.5 weeks away now! We are really exited and eager to move but first, we have to pack!

Today I want to share with you a card that I made with scraps from the Birds of a Feather April Kit:


Supplies-
cardstock: Recollections;
patterned paper: Prima Almanac Collection (Agenda, Shaffer, Wordsmith);
flowers: Jenni Bowlin Studios Doily Flowers (Black), Prima Almanac Camille flowers;
glitter glue: Ranger Stickles (Diamond);
bling: Kaisercraft Black Rhinestones, Want to Scrap Black Pearls;
tools: Cuttlebug Machine, Cuttlebug Victoria A2 Embossing Folder, Tim Holtz Paper Distresser, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch;
other: brown floss, ticket, microbeads

***The BOLDED supplies are included in the Birds of a Feather April Kit or Extra Embellies Kit. Everything else is from my stash.


I cut the black Jenni Bowlin flowers in half and turned them into a chick banner. I then added some flowers, butterflies, pearls and rhinestones to embellish my card. I finished by adding a Tim Holtz (from my stash) ticket as my sentiment.

Here's a close up of the card:

I actually put together a quick tutorial on how I made the base of the card:

Step 1. Gather those tiny strips at the end of the pattern papers, you need one from each sheet, and cut them to 4.25" (this is your card width).


Step 2. Distress the edges to give them dimension.


Step 3. Cut a cream cardstock down to 5.5"x4.25", emboss and distress the edges.


Step 4. Add the strips of paper unto the embossed cardstock as shown.


Step 5. Fold a 8.5"x11" sheet of cardstock in half and cut again in half, leaving you with perfect 5.5"x4.25" card bases. Adhere the distressed and embossed cardstock unto the card base. And there you have it! A GORGEOUS card base for you to add embellies to!

Go HERE to check out and purchase April's Kit before it's too late!


Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Come back Tuesday and I'll share with you my last project for Birds of a Feather. Trust me, you wont want to miss it!

monday...Birds of a Feather GDT-April

Hi! Welcome to my blog! Today I want to share my last layout that I made with Birds of a Feather April Kit.


As I mentioned earlier, this kit is filled with Prima Almanac yummy pattern papers, luscious ribbons and gorgeous buttons! Go HERE to check it out and purchase before it's too late!

Here's my layout:


Supplies-
cardstock: Bazzill (Raven);
patterned paper: Prima Almanac Collection (Agenda, Shaffer, Wordsmith);
letter stickers: Prima Almanac Collection (8x10 Canvas Typography Alpha Stickers);
ribbon: May Arts (Silky Crushed Ribbon–Champagne, ¾” Velvet Corduroy-Black);
bling: Prima flower centers (Brown), Prima bling flourish;
buttons: Prima Almanac Wooden Buttons;
ink: Tim Holtz Vintage Photo, StazOn Archival Ink (Timber Brown);
stamps: Heartfelt Creations Vintage Life Background PreCut Set (HCPC 3367); 
tools: Tim Holtz Paper Distressor, Spellbinders Rose Creations, Cuttlebug machine
other: handmade butterflies, rhinestones

***The BOLDED supplies are included in the Birds of a Feather April Kit or Extra Embellies Kit. Everything else is from my stash.

This layout is based on my newest sketch below:


I had so much fun with this layout! These pictures were the last ones taken from the honeymoon cruise so it will be the last page of the album.


I used up all the leftover scraps from the other two layouts to make the banner pendants running over the bottom of the layout.  I inked all  the edges and added faux stitching using my Signo white pen (my fav white gel pen!) to add some interest. I also added some pendants made out of the black ribbon and I feel this little touch 'makes' the layout! I love the texture it gives to the banner! I also added a huge Prima bling flourish that I've had for a while because it was so big that I didn't know what to do with it but this layout was perfect for it!


I used two of the journaling cards from the Agenda pattern paper to add to both sides of the pictures and journaled in one of them. I actually added an extra picture over the other one to show off the beautiful sunset.


Of course, I handmade my embellies. I used the 1.75" champagne ribbon to make my flowers for this layout. These are not original as I know many designers who have made them but I'll have my own version of the tutorial up tomorrow on my blog. I used Prima flower centers for their centers. I stamped, distressed and hand cut a few leaves as well. Finally, I added a few 'sunset colored' butterflies. I thought they added a nice contrast and brought in the sunset picture into the layout.

Thanks for stopping by and come back tomorrow to check out my tutorial on how to make these fabric/ribbon blooms!

sunday...Birds of a Feather GDT-April

Happy Sunday! Today I want to share another layout that I made with Birds of a Feather April Kit. I'm also entering this layout in the April SwirlyHues Challenge since their colors (and kit!) are the same!


As I mentioned earlier, this kit is filled with Prima Almanac yummy pattern papers, luscious ribbons and gorgeous buttons! Go HERE to check it out and purchase before it's too late!

Below you can see my layout. I used another honeymoon cruise picture because the kit went perfectly with my pictures.

Supplies-
cardstock: Bazzill (Champagne, Raven);
patterned paper: Prima Almanac Collection (Agenda, Shaffer, Wordsmith);
letter stickers: Prima Almanac Collection (8x10 Canvas Typography Alpha Stickers);
flowers: Jenni Bowlin Studios Doily Flowers (Black), Prima Almanac Camille flowers;
ribbon: May Arts ¾” Velvet Corduroy (Black);
glitter glue: Ranger Stickles (Diamond);
mist: Maya Road Espresso Brown;
ink: Tim Holtz Vintage Photo, StazOn Archival Ink (Timber Brown);
stamps: Heartfelt Creations Vintage Life Background PreCut Set (HCPC 3367), Botanical Floral 1 PreCut Set (HCPC 3406), Botanical Floral 2 PreCut Set (HCPC 3407); 
tools: Tim Holtz Paper Distressor, Spellbinders Rose Creations, Cuttlebug machine
other: doily, sewing machine, handmade butterflies, 


***The BOLDED supplies are included in the Birds of a Feather April Kit or Extra Embellies Kit. Everything else is from my stash.

I used the sketch that I made for Creative Scrappers (#197). It just went perfectly with my picture and all the layers that I wanted to create in this layout!


You can see all the layers and textures in this side shot of the layout.


I handmade more of those cream colored roses and tried my hand at a new rose tutorial by Pascale from Swirlydoos. The larger roses are my own but the small rose in between I made as per her tutorial. I love how it turned out and might make more in the future!

I also used a few Prima Camille flowers to fill in the gaps and added leaves as well.

I glimmer misted a white doily to make it match my layout a bit more and placed it under the picture as the sketch suggests. I added a few embellies and a short title as well as some scattered butterflies. I love how this layout turned out too!

Thank you for stopping by my blog and taking your time to leave me a comment. I love reading them and will surely stop by your blog in return. :)

friday...Birds of a Feather GDT-April

Happy Friday! I'm happy to announce that I'm Guest Designing for Birds of a Feather this month and Amy outdid herself with this month's kit!


It's filled with Prima Almanac yummy pattern papers, luscious ribbons and gorgeous buttons! Go HERE to check it out and purchase before it's too late!

Today I'll be sharing with you one of my three layouts that I made with this kit. I decided to work with my honeymoon pictures because the luxurious papers went perfectly with my formal night pictures.

This first layout was so much fun to work on! The picture was taken during the Captain's Night and we were all dressed up, hence the title "A Touch Of Elegance". 


Supplies-
cardstock: Bazzill;
patterned paper: Prima Almanac Collection (Wordsmith, Shaffer);
letter stickers: Prima Almanac Collection (8x10 Canvas Typography Alpha Stickers);
buttons: Prima Almanac Wooden Buttons;
bling: Ranger Stickles (Diamond), Kaisercraft Rhinestones (Black);
flowers: Prima Almanac Camille flowers;
pearls: Zva Creative;
ribbon: May Arts ¾” Velvet Corduroy (Black);
ink: Tim Holtz Vintage Photo, StazOn Archival Ink (Timber Brown);
stamps: Botanical Floral 1 PreCut Set (HCPC 3406), Botanical Floral 2 PreCut Set (HCPC 3407), Vintage Life Background PreCut Set (HCPC 3367); 
tools: Tim Holtz Paper Distressor, Spellbinders Rose Creations, Cuttlebug machine
other: doily, sewing machine, handmade butterflies, floss

***The BOLDED supplies are included in the Birds of a Feather April Kit or Extra Embellies Kit. Everything else is from my stash.


I handmade the cream colored roses using Heartfelt Creations stamps and Spellbinders Rose Creations dies.  The smaller flowers are Primas and the bling swirl is by Zva (sorry, it was the only black one I had in my stash!).


I added two flower buttons with tiny bows to the right side of the picture.


I used the Prima letter stickers that came with the kit for my title. Finally, I added some fluttering butterflies and called it done. :)

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Have  a wonderful weekend!

tuesday...just sharing some layouts

Happy Tuesday everyone! I'm glad to you stopped by my blog today as I have two fun projects to share with you! I got to play over the weekend over with Birds of a Feather monthly challenges (they host 5 every month!) and got 2 layouts done over the weekend!

The first one started out as a lift for the scraplift challenge but somehow it morphed into the color challenge. the colors are red, orange, green and yellow (fall colors).


here is the layout that I scraplifted by Jenelle:


The pictures I used are of my kitty and doggy sleeping on my bed together. These two are the best buds which I find very interesting because my dog hates cats (with a passion!). I just love to play alon their challenges because one) I', always up for a good challenge and two) I can always manage to use only scraps in those challenges! All the papers I used are scraps from my scraps bin!


Of course, I handmade all the embellies on this layout. I've been wanting to make a circles layout for a very long time and this design was easy to adapt into one that used circles as embellies. I handstitched some and doodles on others to give depth and texture. I also added buttons to balance each corner out.


The paper rosettes I made with my Fiskars border punch and a cream colored cardstock stamped with my Prima script stamp (love this one!) in brown. I finished them off with a bitton and th eother one with a best friend pet brad. I glimmer  misted with vintage photo reinker mixed with water on both corners.

Here is a close up of my title/journaling area:


Now, since I ended up using the last layout in the color challenge, I had to lift another layout for the actual scraplift challenge :)

Here is the layout that I scraplifted by Krissy Clark McKee:

Isn't it gorgeous? She actually scraplifted it from Liz Chidester (but that's another story...LOL)

and here is my take on it:


I used the pictures of my hubby and I decorating the Christmas Tree back in 2009 (our first Christmas together as a married couple). That year, we decorated the tree Red/Silver/White so I used the same color combo for the layout. Again, all the papers used here are scraps. I handmade the poinsettia flowers using  my Pazzles Inspiration to cut them in different sizes but I pretty much followed my tutorial (you can find it here). I outlined the flowers with silver stickles and added different size rhinestones to the centers.

Here are a few close ups of the flowers and title:






I really liked the three strips of papers on the left side of the layout so here is how I made it work on my layout::

I first stamped with my Prima script stamp on grey cardstock. Then glimmer misted the whole thing with clear glimmer mist and doodled around the edges with my white Signo pen. I finished by adding a button in red, silver and white.

Thank you again for stopping by my blog today. I hope you enjoyed my little tips and walk throughs of my layouts!

friday...layout inspired by Birds of a Feather/The (paper) Trailmakers using my Sept. Counterfeit Kit

Happy Friday bloggers! Today I want to share with you a layout that I made using my September Counterfeit Kit and the best thing about this challenge is that I didn't have to spend a dime! I had everything in my stash so I just went stash shopping.  :)

Here is my layout:


I actually made my own background for this layout. I stared with my light blue/green pattern paper that looks like cardstock from the Sassafrass Indie Girl collection and embossed it with clear embossing powder using my Prima script stamp and a small swirly and flower stamp that I've had for a while. I then lightly inked some areas so you could see the embossing (I'm working on a tutorial on how to do this).

Here is a picture of my finished sheet of 12x12 paper:

(click to enlarge)

I used my brand new Cherish stamp by Martha Stewart and punched around the edges of my 12x12 paper. I just LOVE this stamp and has definitely become my favorite! I just love how it lets you create your own die cut paper in minutes!

Here is a quick close up of one of my corner:

Isn't that embossing just beautiful???? (Again, I'm working on a tutorial on how to do this so come back again very soon!)


I handmade my own paper flowers using scraps of cardstock that I had in blue and white. I stickled the edges with some Diamond stickles (my favorite!) and formed an embellishment  cluster in the left side of my pictures. I designed and cut my title from the blue cardstock that I used to mat my smaller die cut paper (also cut with my Pazzles). I finished that area with a handmade bling flourish using liquid pearls in white.

This layout was inspired by Birds of a Feather September Challenge which is to photograph and journal about your city. I just recently moved to Kissimmee, FL 15 mins away from Disney World so I knew I had to make a layout with all 4 parks in it. Behind each 2x3" picture there is a small tag that I made and wrote small facts about each park. Here is a close up:


This layout was also inspired by The (paper) Trailmakers inspiration picture #2. I was drawn to the brown, teal and white of the second inspiration picture found here.

I also made a brand new sketch for this layout and here it is for all of you to enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I really do appreciate it as well as the comments that you leave me! :)