Daily Archives: August 21, 2007

Room by Room… a Cover Girl!

Posted on August 21, 2007 | 52 comments

I hope you’ll put up with me! I’m so excited, I’m just bouncing! I NEVER thought I’d make the cover of a magazine! Papercrafts! How cool is that? Well, not me…but my design. A pic of me definitely would NOT sell it! LOL Check out the new PaperCrafts Magazine special interest publication Room to Room. It goes on sale in two weeks and you can order it on-line from PaperCrafts. 🙂 You can also check out some sneak peeks from that issue on the Papercrafts site as well. I can’t wait to see all the ideas in it. Below is my submission pic for my Blessed Frame project. Papercrafts now allows designers to share one project from each issue. For instructions and to see my other two projects, you’re just going to have to buy it. 😉 BTW the two gorgeous girls in the photo are my friend’s daughters. Are they not darling?!

Blessed Frame

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One of the papercraft projects I love the most is altering frames for use. I’ve altered all kinds and I always have fun doing it. The great thing about altered frames is that they are on display all the time. You can enjoy the results of your hard work every day. They also make fabulous gifts! If you’d like a tutorial on altering frames…I wrote one a while back for Craft Critique…here.

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Believe in Your Dreams….a color challenge design

Posted on August 21, 2007 | 19 comments

I’ve been wanting to make this card for a few days and today’s color challenge seemed to be the perfect time. This design is for my SIL Jane who is going back to school this Fall to follow her dreams. I’m so excited for her! I’ve been following my dreams and it is so exciting to see them coming true. Today’s color challenge… CC128 Groovy Skies…features Soft Sky paired up with Groovy Guava. I threw in two neutrals, whisper white and Kraft and had some fun!

Believe in Your Dreams

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This design is pretty simple. I started off with my 5.25″ square card base and added a strip of Groovy Guava. I then stamped Tres Chic in Close to Cocoa over a piece of Kraft cardstock and sponged and distressed the edges. using my sewing machine, I freestyle stitched around the layer. I find that free-style stitchign goes really well with the distressed look.

For the main sentiment panel. I stamped the Journaling block onto a piece of white cardstock. Using the spiral punch, I punched the top edge to look like notebook paper and then sponged the edges. To add a little Soft Sky to balance out the colors, I stamped the large flower onto this layer as well. The sentiment…Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them…comes from the Happy Harmony Sellebration set. I love this set but it is unfortunately no longer available.

The large flower from the Office Accoutrement set was stamped twice and then cut out before attaching to the design with a large pewter brad by Creative Impressions. I love this May ARts ribbon and couldn’t resist adding a little touch. I stitched it on with a zig zag stitch and then added a little blue button on top.

Hope you have a fabulous day! I hope all your dreams come true as well! If you feel like sharing…i’d love to hear about them…leave me a comment! 🙂

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