Monthly Archives: September 2010

A Banner Day

Posted on September 30, 2010 | 3 comments

Banners are everywhere these days. Paper, stickers, stamps, chipboard and hand made ones too. I love this fun trend. Inspired by some fun new product, I thought it would make a great challenge for today. Want to play along? Here’s a link for today’s Ways to Use it Challenge.

Would you like some great rubber to celebrate World Cardmaking Day? If you missed commenting on this post (click here), don’t forget to do so.

A Banner Hi


A fun new Hero Arts stamp and some gorgeous new Lily Bee Design paper just had to meet for this card. If you’ve been waiting for the three beautiful new lines from Lily Bee it’s been shipped and you can find it at your local scrapbook store or online stores such as scrapbook.com and twopeasinabucket.com

The banner stamp for this project stamps much straighter than you see it here. By stamping it and cutting it out, the paper is so thin in the rope area that it is easy to bend slightly.

Supplies: Hello Flags stamp & Big Hugs stamp set by Hero Arts, kraft cardstock by Bazzill, Catching Fall paper line by Lily Bee Design, twine, sewing machine, Black Memento Ink by Tsukineko, Jet Black Archival Ink by Ranger, Copic Markers

Quick Tip: If you read the above supply list, you may have noticed I used two different black inks. Why would I bother doing that? The Tuxedo Black Memento ink is best for using with Copic Markers. The sentiment is stamped with the Jet Black Archival Ink from Ranger as I find it gives a much darker and solid impression which is really needed to make it show up well when stamped on the patterned paper.

Happy creating!

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Posted in Card Designs, Hero Arts, Lily Bee

September Zva Blog Hop Winners announced

Posted on September 29, 2010 | 2 comments

We’d like to congratulate the five September Zva Blog Hop winners! Their names will be found on the following blogs:

Kim Hughes
Julianne McKenna-De Lumen
Wendy McKee
Benedicte Raphalen
Lisa Johnson

One winner from each of the 5 blogs will receive a Zva prize package worth $30.00. Congrats winners!

I have another Zva Creative design to share with you today. I’m just in love with the new Zva releases and couldn’t wait to create with these lovely leaf crystal embellishments CRS03CB112.

One of the leaves is placed right onto my cardstock and the other onto a piece of vellum. The vellum was then trimmed around the leaf shape. On the reverse, I colored the vellum leaft with red and orange dye based markers and blended in the ink for a lovely subtle effect.

I love texture, especially on autumn cards and I’m quite addicted to using the sweet canvas brads BR01CB110 from Zva.

Supplies: kraft cardstock by Bazzill, Jenni Bowlin Embossed Brights Embossed Cardstock, sanding block by Advantus, leaf crystal embellishments CRS03CB112 & by Canvas Brad BR01CB110Zva Creative, vellum cardstock, Kraft Mini Tags by Maya Road, twine, Tim Holtz Odds and Ends stamp set by Stampers Anonymous

Have a beautiful day!

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Posted in Card Designs, Zva

Wanted, a giveaway & World Cardmaking Day

Posted on September 28, 2010 | 53 comments

Sorting and organizing have been high priority these days. I find it’s a good thing to go through your supplies a couple times a year at least to see what you have, what you need, what can be used up and what needs to find a better home.

World Cardmaking Day is coming up quickly as well. It’s this Saturday October 2nd. I adore making cards. Do you have plans for the day? Stop by as I’ll have a project to share and a winner to announce…keep reading for the details.

Need a little enabling? If you’re looking for some fabulous new product and a great sale, be sure to stop by Ellen Hutson LLC. There are tons of new CHA releases and Ellen is offering 15% off storewide. I have a couple packages making their way to me and I can’t wait to get them. Click HERE for the sale details.

Wanted

wanted-you.jpg

Supplies: cardstock by Bazzill, sewing machine, stamps by Cornish Heritage Farms, lace by Webster’s Pages, flower by Prima, crochet flower by Imaginesce, pin, chipboard letters


While I’ve been busy sorting my goodies and  I found doubles of the Newspaper Ads Scrapblock, Crossword and the Bracket Block Scrapblock that I designed for CHF. These are a few of my favorite stamps and I love their huge 6×6 inch size. To help celebrate World Cardmaking Day, they’d love to go to a good home where they’d get some inky love. Leave me a comment on this post  letting me know what you’d do with them and I’ll randomly draw one winner to receive all three. You have until 9 pm EST Friday night to leave your comment on this post.  I’ll post the winner on Saturday, World Cardmaking Day. Sound fun?

Good luck and happy creating!

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Posted in Card Designs, Cornish Heritage Farms

Zva Creative September DT Blog Hop!

Posted on September 27, 2010 | 114 comments

The Zva Designers are joining together again today to share a project that we have created using some of our favorite Zva Creative products. I am hoping that you will take some time to join us for a little bit of fun again this month!

The Blog Hop begins at Kim Hughes’ blog. She will have the complete list of all blogs that are participating incase there is a glitch along the way. If you would like to play along, I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way. Hidden on 5 of the blogs is a Zva Creative prize package …YAY! Those blogs will be randomly chosen after the hop is over, so it’s important to leave a comment on as many blogs as you can along the way.

The Blog Hop starts now and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, September 28th and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 29th on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Kim Hughes‘s blog as well (linked above). We will
do our best to notify each winner, but it’s best if you can pop in to all of the blogs once again on Wednesday…plus, you never know what kind of inspirational creation that you may find there. All you need to do is leave a comment on this Zva Blog Hop post…you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer’s blog post to qualify. The more times you leave a comment along the blog hop path though, the more chances you will have to be one of the lucky winners.

Simply Delightful

simply delightful layout

One of my absolute favorite Zva Creative products is these big & beautiful crystal brackets CRB02CB109. I love how trendy but timeless they are and how well they tie a layout design together. When the bling is this pretty, I like keeping the rest of the design simple to make it the focus. I do have one other Zva product on the page though…that pretty brown corduroy brad BR01CB105 in the flower center works with the brown accents in the patterned paper.

During the summer we took a mini vacation with a family that we are close friends with. I couldn’t resist taking this shot of my friend’s daughter sitting on the pier with the sun shining through her hair. I like to make layouts for special people and this one is for her.

The gorgeous patterned paper is from the Wishful line by Fancy Pants Designs. I’ve cut it up in strips and stitched it for a clean and sweet layout. My flowers are hand made using the Tattered Florals Die. One is die cut from the Fancy Pants paper and the other from some canvas I had on hand from the fabric store. The fabric on is spritzed with Viva Pink Glimmer Mist.

The blog hop begins here: Kim Hughes

Your next stop is here: Veronica Goh

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us ,

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Posted in Scrapbooking, Zva

all things new

Posted on September 26, 2010 | 2 comments

I know it’s out of season but I don’t usually scrap chronologically and so, today’s layout is about spring. I adore autumn, summer is bliss but I must admit winter is not my favorite season. I do like it but summer always seems so far away. I think what I love most about spring is life seems to awaken and God makes all things new. It’s a good thing to remember going into a long winter…that spring WILL come again.

supplies: kraft cardstock by Bazzill, gaffer tape by 7 Gypsies, Avignon Printed Paper Tape by 7 Gypsies,  Origins Woolies by Basic Grey, Tiny Attacher by Tim Holtz, twine, Leaf Trinket Pin , Kraft Doilies and Kraft Library Cards by Maya Road, Tim Holtz Timepieces, Aqua Adirondack Paint Dabber by Ranger, Ivory Alphabet by Prima Marketing, 0.3 Black Multiliner by Copic, Black Tiny Type by Cosmo Cricket

Have a beautiful day,

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Posted in Scrapbooking

the greatest of these…

Posted on September 25, 2010 | 3 comments

is. love.

Congratulations Andrew & Jane on your wedding day!

Supplies: Road Show paper from Fancy Pants Designs, lace by Prima, canvas, Tattered Florals Die by Sizzix, pink hem tape, Crystal Trinket Pins by Maya Road, Grungeboard Heart by Tim Holtz for Advantus

With Love and best wishes,

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Posted in Card Designs

cherish

Posted on September 24, 2010 | 6 comments

As Winnie the Pooh says…

Together is a wonderful place to be.

I love getting together with family for the big and little celebrations throughout the year. At times it is just my dad for a little birthday party and other times it is my husband’s whole family. Family is important and I cherish each moment.

We had a little birthday party for my dad back in May. I know that’s a while ago but better now than never getting the pictures scrapped. I actually got a shot you’ll rarely see. One with all of my five kids in it. No…it’s not the best of everyone but I love it as it shows their personalities so well.

I’ve also learned my lesson the hard way.  I need to take pictures while I can. I wish I had taken more of my mom.

I’ve created this layout for the CLASSroom and you can find all the details here.

Have a fabulous weekend!

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Posted in Ellen Hutson LLC projects, Scrapbooking