I am off celebrating my birthday today in beautiful SF but I wanted to share a favorite blog with you. If you haven't met Heather before, you are going to LOVE her!! Her stuff is AMAZING and it is just too much fun to look at and drool over. A SUPER talented lady, her blog is full of pictures like this...
and this...
and this...
see what I mean??? good stuff!! Find her here and enjoy!!
have a great day!!
-t
It's that time of the month again! I had some deadlines for Coordinates Collections this weekend so I pulled out the scrap supplies and got to work. I got to work with the Lemondae kit. It was SO fun. I loved that I could make some vintage looking stuff and other totally modern looking stuff. I have a few more coming with the soda pop kit, but for now here are a few layouts and a couple of ideas for all you scrappers out there...
I LOVE to use unusual shapes as edges for my layouts. For this layout I wanted to create and continue the "in bloom" feel of the design so I cut one sheet of the kit paper to 8.5x11, then measured out a piece of flower shaped bazzill and cut it so that it would form a flower shaped edge for one side of th layout.
I think that grouping like objects makes such a powerful design statement. I espeically love grouping flowers because it looks like they are blooming right off of the page. I think it also makes the grouping pop even more if you add a little texture and dimension to your grouping. For this card I just added buttons included in the kit and a few rhinestones to the centers of the flowers, layered them over one another and added pop dots to the two flowers on top to make them look like thy are jumpng off the page. I used the same technique on my "in bloom" layout only I added extra dimension by mixing in a few silk flowers with the paper flowers. A simple and fun title idea for this great gameboard paper is to make it look like your title is part of the crossword puzzle. Happy Scrapping! Have a great day!
-t
OK, I am IN love. If you are a crafter you are going to need this. Seriously. The possibilites are endless and looking at the rolls just makes me smile...those colors...YUM! The official name is Japanese Washi Paper Tape but Happy Tape is the perfect name for it. It does...it makes me happy!! :)
Check out some of the adorable samples with this stuff:
It's great for crafting of all types...scrapbooking, card making, gift wrapping, collage making, you name it!
Are you smiling yet??? If you must have some of this for your crafting stash head on over to Happy Tape and pick some up for yourself. :)
Have a great day!
-t
If you do, I wanted to share one of my favorite sites for great digital freebies. They come up with really fun borders, frames, alphas, journaling spots, titles, etc all for free! They of course have an awesome store too where you can purchase great scrapping kits, papers and more...but I like to check the blog regularly for the freebies too! :)
Check these out:
Aren't they cute?? Just a sample of some of the cute things you can find at Little Dreamer Designs.
You'll want to check regularly because a lot of the freebie downloads are only available for a limited time! :)
Have a great day!
-t
A few scrapbook pages I've been working on this month for the Coordinates Collections design team. These were made with the Puddles kit...
Both of these layouts are available in my etsy shop. (without the pictures of course! ;)
Have a great day!
-t
It's been a while since I've had a stint on a design team for a scrapbook store. When Ash was born I took some time off for a while, sold my half of a successful kit club and concentrated on taking care of my little ones. Now they're a little older and I have a little more free time so I decided to take it on again. Boy does it feel good!! Getting some fresh product to work with every month and actually making the time to work with it is fun!
Here's a little something I threw together thie week...
This layout uses some gorgeous Crate Paper, Sasafrass Lass, Maya Road, Bazzill, and my favorite Martha Glitter.
Have a great day!
-t
Before I owned a scrapbook kit club I used to "scrap for others" which basically means people would give me their pictures and I would create a custom album for them. It was a LOT of work. But fun too. When I sold my interest in the kit club two years ago I basically stopped scrapping as well. Ashley was just teeny and I was feeling WAY too overwhelmed to do much of anything with TWO little ones running around. Now that she's older...I can't believe how big she's gotten so fast!!...I'm feeling the urge to scrap again...like ALL the time! lol!! :)
I thought I'd try scrapping for others again, this time through etsy. I'm going to make pre-made pages and then you give it your own personal touch with your photos and journaling. That way you can have your own handmade scrapbook without all the work! :) I figured I'll post some of them here and if you're a scrapper you can use this as an idea book and create your own using mine as templates...and if you're not and want to purchase them instead you can find them in my shop Pink Peppermint Design Here are a few pages I've done this weekend...
These are 12x12
this one is 8x8...
Have a great day!!
-t
Here's another layout that I put together just the other day. When I was given the recipe line to create stuff for CHA I wanted to show that you could use it for mor than just food stuff. Here's what I came up with. :)
Have a great day!
-t
