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Brother & Sister – dt layout for Creative Embellishments

06 Mar 2014 2 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, children, Creative Embellishments, laser cut chipboard, Pion Designs, siblings, Tim Holtz distress stain, Webster's Pages, wood veners

Wow! I can’t believe it’s Thursday already! Time has been flying by so quickly! I’m up today with a layout to share on the Creative Embellishments blog. For my layout this week, I continued with pics from the same sitting as last Thursday’s page, but this time it features both Madison and Matthew. They are so cute together and as close as ever. I altered my chippies and wood pieces by applying a light coat of gesso, staining with Tim Holtz distress stains and highlighting with a white signo pen. My page was also inspired by the Mojo Monday sketch at Flying Unicorn

I’ve been struggling lately with my pages not turning out quite how I’d intended. It’s always a learning process and still fun to play around and keep on trying different things. The lower left portion w/my title is how I’d envisioned, but the rest isn’t quite where I’d wanted it to be and that is OKAY. Learning to let go and let it be is all part of the process. 😀 Here’s how my page turned out:

A close up of the top middle cluster:

Here’s the detail shot of the right cluster:

This is the portion that actually turned out how I’d envisioned:

Materials:

Creative Embellishments Heart Flourish Frame
CE Flourish Set 5
CE Family Words
CE mini Steampunk timepiece
CE Retro Flowers Wood Veneers
CE Peace Wood Veneers
CE Emoticons Wood Veneers
Pion papers
Webster’s Pages lace
I am Roses flowers
TH distress stains
White signo pen
twine

TFL! Be sure to check out the Creative Embellishments facebook page to see how YOU could WIN a $50 gc to their store! Also check out their blog to play along with our March challenge! 😀

#Cute Smile – dt layout for Creative Embellishments

27 Feb 2014 3 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page multi-photo layout, children, Creative Embellishments, embossing, laser cut chipboard, Lindy's Stamp Gang, rubber stamps, Shimmerz Texturez, stamping, Wood Veneers

Hi everyone! It’s Thursday, so I’m up on the Creative Embellishments blog with a layout to share. This week I went with a few older pics of Madison and Matthew. I’ve already used the best photos from this sitting, so these were ones that were more flattering photos of Matthew. They really show off his sweet smile with his cutie dimples. Somehow, he’s my only kiddo with those deep dimples…not sure how that happened, but I think they’re adorable. 😀

To create my background, I used 3 CE stamps. I started out by stamping the script stamp and the heart shape stamp with Stazon ink, then used embossing ink with the Love Heart stamp and heat embossed using Lindy’s Stamp Gang EP. I used several Prima stencils with chalk ink and Shimmerz Texturez to complete my background.

I decided to finish off my page with some awesome CE wood veneers and a couple of social hashtag words for my title. I was also inspired by CSI-Color Stories Inspiration S365-4 challenge and the Skissedilla sketch #232. Here’s how it turned out:

Here’s a close up of the heart layered on the photos (this piece is from my favorite wood veneer set!). Sorry for the blurry pic. Lately, I’ve had to take a lot of indoor nighttime pics which doesn’t work well for me.

A close up of one of the heat embossed stamped images along with some wood veneer hearts with chalked edges:

The sketch I used:

CSI S365-4:

Materials:

Creative Embellishments Distressed Script Stamp
CE Trio Shape Stamps (heart)
CE Love Hearts Stamp
CE Social Hash Tag laser cut chipboard
CE Hearts Wood Veneer
CE Mini Hearts Wood Veneers
American Crafts white cardstock
Core’dinations cardstock
Colorbox chalk ink
Shimmerz Texturez
Stazon Ink
Lindy’s Stamp Gang embossing powder
Prima stencils
Webster’s Pages clip and charm
acrylic paint

CREATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS is having a facebook giveaway! Once they’ve reached 1500 fans/followers, they will be giving away TWO $50 gift vouchers to the CE store, so be sure to stop by and LIKE and SHARE their page to let all your friends know! 😀

#LOVE – dt layout for Creative Embellishments

07 Feb 2014 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page multi-photo layout, chalk ink, children, Creative Embellishments, hearts, laser cut chipboard, panel, Prima, siblings, Webster's Pages

Hi, everyone! I’m up on the Creative Embellishments blog with a layout to share…I know, I know…I’m normally on on Thursdays, but Nicolle was kind enough to switch days with me this week to give me an extra day due to personal issues. For my layout today, I decided to use more pics from the set I used on the Feb challenge example page. To alter my chippies I coated lightly with gesso and used chalk inks to cover and give them a blended distressed edge.

I was also inspired by case file #108 at CSI (Color Stories Inspiration), Heart Challenge at Flying Unicorn. Also based on sketch #2 from the Pagedrafts sketches.

I love the versatility of CE chipboard borders and panels. For this page, I ended up snipping apart both the Hearts Panel and the Love Knot Border to use across my page. Here’s what I came up with:

This is a close up of the layered chippies on the upper left corer of the photos:

The lower right cluster:

Materials:

Creative Embellishments Hearts Panel
CE Love Knot Border
CE Flourish set 12
CE Social Hash Tags
Webster’s Pages pp
American Crafts cardstock
Colorbox chalk ink
gesso
Prima flowers
Martha Stewart punch

CSI #108:

I selected hearts, flowers and border punch from the Evidence column and journaling strips from the testimony column. 😀

Page Drafts sketch #2:

TFL!

Love Everything About You – dt layout for Creative Embellishments

01 Feb 2014 Comments Off on Love Everything About You – dt layout for Creative Embellishments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, children, Creative Embellishments, distressed, February challenge, laser cut chipboard, Prima flowers, siblings, Tim Holtz, torn paper, Wood veneer

A new month means a new challenge on the Creative Embellishments blog! You do not have to use CE products in order to play along and international entries are welcome. Base your project on the given inspiration image plus incorporate one of the words from the image on your project, then upload it to the CE blog for your chance to win a $20 gc to the store! 😀

This month’s image:

For my example, I started out with solid white cardstock. Since the wispy white lines that are evenly spaced in the inspiration image reminded me of sheet music, I used the CE grunge music note sheet background stamp with matte multi-medium to create a resist. I did not have a text stencil, so I used the closest thing I had, which is a ledger stencil with blended fibers. That also works as a resist. I then went over the whole page with various amounts of black soot distress stain to create a dark background like that of the image. From there, I was inspired by the flourishes, colors and layering. The words I used from the image are Dream, Love and Everything. To help me create the page, I also used the Monday Mojo sketch from Flying Unicorn as inspiration for my page design. Here’s what I came up with:

Close up of the cluster with part of the title:

Close up of the cluster at the top left of the photo:

Materials:

Creative Embellishments Grunge Music Note Sheet bg stamp
CE Doily Frame
CE Hearts Wood Veneer
CE Flourish set 3
CE Showered With Love border
CE Love Set
CE Time Flies frame set
American Craft white cardstock
TCW stencils
Studio Matte Multi-medium
Liquitex blended fibers
Distress stain and inks
Shimmerz Texturez
Art Anthology Velvet and Sorbet
gesso
Acrylic paint
Tim Holtz papers, ticket, tag, stickers
Prima flowers