Wedding Layout-Double Take (Imagine)

Papers: Silhouette & Vellum

Layout: Pages 102-103 Imagine

Flowers: Silk from Michael's

Ribbon: ?? & Black Brads

Being Goofy Layout

Inspiration-Layout from: Imagine-Pages 90-91

Fonts: Cricut-Mickey and All Mixed Up & Minnie on journaling
Paper: retired B and T: Flower Power & watermelon b and t
CS: Black, Dutch Blue, Watermelon, Sunny Yellow (textured)
Embellishments: Mickey and making memories flower brads

Overhauling Layout

Left side: 1a-title topper-subtle (reflections)
Right Side: 3a-Side Bar Original (reflections)
Stamp Sets:
Friendship Word Puzzle
Cobblestone Alphabet

CS:
New England Ivy
Colonial White

CS and Ink:
Dessert Sand, Cocoa and Chocolate

B and T from another company & tools from Jolees.

Trying Out Turkey Layout

Left-Rise N Shine (Cherish-109)

Right-Echoes (Cherish-41)

Colors Used:

New England Ivy CS

Enchanted B & T- Garden Green

All edges inked with New England Ivy

Stamp Sets:

D1258 Friendship Word Puzzle

C1290 Memory Labels

April SOM Samples

I'm trying to get back in the creation saddle. I really like this set. Enjoy! I will have some layouts to post in a bit as well.

Smiles,

Lori

December 2007 6"x6" Layout

This is one of my sample submissions for teaching at this year's convention. I submitted to teach Heat Embossing. So what's so special about this sample? Well, besides the subject matter, I made my own Sunny Yellow Accents. How I did that was by inking the accents with our VersaMark Ink Pad. Then I covered them with Sunny Yellow Embossing Powder and heated them (I used tweezers to hold the items still). The spiral clip had been Heavenly Blue, and I don't remember the color of the brads.

The next thing I did for this layout was sponge distress with the VersaMark Ink on the Star Spangled Blue and the Black cardstock. On the Star Spangled Blue, I used clear embossing powder while I used black on the black. Both added texture to the cardstock without adding color. Finally, I sponged the edges of the torn vellum mat, once again with VersaMark Ink, and used black embossing powder.

I think simple but not plain... :)

P.S. Oh yeah, and I did correct the date on the sample I sent in.

March SOM

Scrapbook in a Box-CARDS

Thought you would enjoy seeing samples of these cards that are such fun to make and a little something special. The center portion that is tied shut opens just like a Scrapbook in a Box to reveal 5 surfaces on which you can put sentiments or pictures. The focal point pieces on the front of the "scrapbook" are done with D1270 March Word Puzzle. Colors are Twilight, Sweet Leaf, and Chocolate. For the "bloom" on the righthand card, I stamped first in Twilight and then slightly off the first image in Sweet Leaf. Direct to paper technique in a crisscross pattern was used for the border of the "scrapbook" as well as the very outside border. Enjoy!

Chalking Away

My favorite chalking technique utilizes our chalks (of course chalks) and VersaMark stamp pad. I stamp the image in the VersaMark pad and then use the chalks to color the image. As you can see, you are not limited to one color. For these two cards, I did everything the same but played with the way I chalked the words. The one on the left I chalked the whole word in the same color. I chalked "for" and "you" in sweet leaf to emphasis those words. The one on the right I chalked the words two toned, the top blue and the bottom green.

The flower on the white is also chalked. When you stamp the image, it will have a sheen to it so you can make out the image to know where to chalk. For the leaves, I first stamped and chalked the solid image, then I stamped and chalked the lined inner image. That method worked much better than stamping both images and then chalking the image (the inner line didn't show up).

The colors are Sweet Leaf (flower mat), Crystal Blue (card base and background stamped image), and Dutch Blue (strip). The matted flower image is raised on 3-D form and our antique copper brads are in each of the corners. The matted flower and strip cardstock are edge distressed. The stamp set I used is "Thoughts of You."

Reflections Title Topper

This Title Topper is Photos. I used the Enchanted papers and ink. The bottom left picture was supposed to be 4"x4" but too much would have been cut, so I cut the picture a little larger. I didn't have to adjust the size of the B&T paper though!

I hand wrote the journalling under the title from Happy Haunting (D1180). The date font is Charm Lowercase (C1265).

The photo corners are embossed black on black to give it interest. And I added the three black bigger brads to the bottom right to offset the black above.

The lower picture is my family's best friends. The two older girls are the same age as my girls. Supergirl is our neighbor who is also Amber's age.

I'm feeling a little green....

Ok, so I'm not feeling "icky" green... I'm feeling happy, it's almost St. Patty's green. The kind that plans for yummy corned beef for dinner. And while our friends from other parts of the country/world would never say that San Diego is "green," those of us who live here are enjoying all the green hills and beautful flowers.

I used Clover Meadow patterned paper, Clover Meadow cardstock, Clover Meadow Sassy Strands and yes Clover Meadow ink. Stamps are from the March word puzzle.

Technique: I used the white daisy marker to do a little outlining on the images to make them pop a little.

Dawn

Green for Patty's Day

I was inspired by Heather Plotzke's swap card. She used the hearts from the All My Love set. So, I used the same set but smaller hearts to create the clovers. I used a marker for the stems. The small clover is made from solid heart next to the "love you." I cut the heart away from the words.

The colors are Sweet Leaf and Ponderosa Pine on white cardstock. I wasn't sure which combination I'd like better, dark on light or light on dark, so I did both. Each presents itself differently. I also accented them slightly differently. On the dark background (right card) I sanded the Pine and added our new antique copper brads in the upper left corner. For the light card (left one) I added glitter to the inside of the shamrock. Both cards are Angle Over and measure 4.75" x 3." The dark background's tail is not tucked in to show off the full view.

MARCH Triangle Down

This month's SOTM was really fun for me. Triangle Down is a 8"x3.5" card that I changed to be 4"x6". It's just meater and "Happy Mother's Day" fit. I stamped the butterfly on vellum with Chocolate ink and heat embossed clear powder to keep the Chocolate showing. I then colored it with Sweet Leaf, Buttercup, and Twilight, cut it out and glued it onto the front. The flowers were stamped in Chocolate and colored with the three colors mentioned above again. The lighter shades of Buttercup (the medium sized flowers) was obtained by squeezing the ink pad and picking up the color with a blending pen (it may be difficult to see here, but trust me). I also employed this technique for the small flowers using Twilight (again trust me). The card was finished off with sponging Chocolate around the whole thing and each component. There are gold brads in the striped band to keep you eyes up high.

Products used:

Simple Beauty Stamp Set

Good Times Paper Packet

Chocolate, Buttercup, Twilight, Sweet Leaf Markers

Chocoltate, Buttercup, Twilight Ink Pads

Vellum Paper

Clear Embossing Powder and Craft Heater

Gold Brads

Sponge

March SOTM-Linda T.

Here's the first of 2 SOTM contributions...Enjoy!

All supplies used are CTMH
Stamps
D1261 Simple Beauty
D1187 For Every Occasion
Inks
Chocolate and Twilight
Paper
Good Times Paper Pack
Other
Watercolor Pencils
Waterbrush
Gold Brads
Liquid Glass
Prisma Glitter

March Design Team News.....

I can't believe it's March already.... Here's what you can look forward to from the Design Team this month
Week 1 - March Stamp of the Month - D1261 Simple Beauty
Week 2 - Think Green for St. Patty's Day.
Week 3 - Title Topper from the new book Reflections
Week 4 - Let there be Chalk....

And here is my March SOTM submission.

All supplies are Close To My Heart
Paper: Good Times Paper Pack
Markers: Buttercup and Twilight
Stamp pads: black and sweet leaf (used watercolor brush to pick up color and paint the stem because I didn't have a sweet leaf marker.)
My Accents: Garden Green (brad)
Ribbon: Chocolate grosgrain

Watercolor Pencils - Dawn

I used the pastel watercolor pencils to color in the little flower from the Flower Child set. After I colored in the image, I used a blending pen to go over the watercolor pencils. It's a subtle effect and it's hard to see it in the photo, but it just kind of blended all the lines from the coloring in and made it smoother.

I'm having "technical" difficulties getting the beautiful pastels in the paper to show up... in real life it's pretty cute.

All supplies are Close To My Heart
Pastel watercolor pencils
Blending Pen
Key Lime Ink
Paper Garden paper pack.