Papercrafting during my free time
04 Jan 2014 1 Comment
in Art Journaling Tags: art journaling, Creative Embellishments, Flat Fabios, frames, laser cut chipboard, Lindy's Stamp Gang, Moon Shadows, Starbursts, watercolor paper, Wood Cuts
SWAT drill #23 is now live! For this challenge, you’ll be creating a project that reflects your word of the year for 2014. I went with an art journal page for my word of the year, Simplify. Here’s what I came up with:
Materials:
Creative Embellishments Braided Frames
CE Funky Alphas
CE Arrows Wood Cuts
Lily Bee alpha stickers
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabios, Starbursts and Moon Shadow mists
Pitt Artist markers
Acrylic paint
Black gesso
TFL!
01 Dec 2013 2 Comments
in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, border punches, Creative Embellishments, Dusty Attic, heat embossing, laser cut chipboard, Lindy's Stamp Gang, resist, sketch, snowflakes, Tattered Angels, Unity Stamp Co., Webster's Pages, winter
Well, it’s a brand new month, so that means there’s a new challenge up at Creative Embellishments! 😀 This month, if you’d like to play along, you’ll be combining an inspiration image with a sketch. Use the image any way you’re inspired, whether it’s the colors, the snow, part of the imagery, etc. Here’s what I came up with for my example:
Materials:
Creative Embellishments Snowflake Frame
CE Icicle Border
CE Let it Snow title piece
American Crafts white cardstock
Dusty Attic flowers
Webster’s Pages trims
gesso
Ranger Embossing Powder
Distress Embossing Ink
Unity Stamp Co snowflake stamps
Tattered Angels glimmer mist
Lindy’s Stamp Gang starburst and flat fabio mists
Martha Stewart Cherish around the page punch
Here’s the inspiration image you’ll be using:
The fabulous Dec sketch designed by Nicolle Kramer:
30 Oct 2013 5 Comments
in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, alpha stickers, amusement park, boy, Creative Embellishments, Elle's Studio, heat embossing, Lindy's Stamp Gang, mixed media, stamping, Unity Stamp Co., washi tape, Webster's Pages
Sketchabilities sketch #102 is now live! Karan’s new sketches have been fantastic to work with and so much fun! They’re wonderfully inspiring no matter what your scrapping style happens to be. They work beautifully for anything from CAS to mixed media and everything in between. 😀
When I looked at the circle elements on the sketch, I immediately thought of the wonderful chipboard circle panel that Nicolle recently sent me from Creative Embellishments and a FABULOUS steampunk hot air balloon stamp (I got to test out the prototype, so keep your eyes out for rubber stamps to be a new product added to their store!). Since I recently created a layout that featured smaller photos clipped to twine using mini clothespins, I decided to replace that feature on the sketch with a washi banner and add my title to it.
The photo on this layout features my son, Matthew. One of his favorite songs at the moment is TNT by Taio Cruz (some people know the song as Dynamite), so I used some of the lyrics from the song for the title and “journaling”. Here’s what I came up with:
Here’s a close up of the hot air balloon. I heat embossed the stamped image using Lindy’s Stamp Gang embossing powder:
This close up shows the circle panel that I snipped bits off of and used in a few spots on my page. I heat embossed the panel pieces to match the hot air balloon stamp:
This close up shows some fabulous CE wood music notes. The frame is also by CE btw. 😀
Materials:
Creative Embellishments Steampunk Hot Air Balloon stamp
CE Circle Panel
CE medium frame from the Handsome frame set
CE Music Notes Wood Cuts
Elle’s Studio papers
Webster’s Papers alpha stickers
twine from the Twinery
Washi tape
Lindy’s Stamp Gang embossing powder
Adirondack Embossing Powder
Distress Embossing ink pad
Distress Ink
Unity Stamp Co bg stamps
The fantastic sketch I got to work with:
TFL! If you’d like to play along w/sketch #102 at sketchabilities, CLICK HERE!
30 Sep 2013 9 Comments
in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 layout, 7 Dots Studio, beach, cardboard, Creative Embellishments, Lindy's Stamp Gang, mixed media, nautical, single page, single photo, splatters
For my example of sketch #100 at sketchabilities, I used the 4 Nautical themed wood cuts by Creative Embellishments and their laser cut Life Preserver chipboard piece. CE is also sponsoring this challenge and offering a $20 gc prize to one lucky winner! 😀 Here’s what I came up with:
The compass, star and life preserver are actually navy blue, but look black in the pic. I was also inspired by the challenge at 7 Dots Studio to incorporate “memories” into the page and the challenge at scrapki-wyzwaniowo to use the colors green, yellow and blue.
Materials:
Creative Embellishments anchor, boat wheel, compass and star wood cuts
CE Life Preserver chipboard
CE flourish
7 Dots Studio 9th Wave and Wonderland paper
Drywall tape
gesso
Modeling paste
TH timpiece
TH corked vial
Jute
acrylic paint
Liquitex acrylic ink
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Inks
LSG Starburst Spray
Cardboard and tissue paper from my stash
The fabulous sketch I worked with:
Sketch #100’s sponsor info:
Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard and wood products. It is our mission to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments.
Please stop over to the Creative Embellishments store and have a look around. 😀
Store – http://creativeembellishments.com/
Blog – http://creativeembellishments.com/blog
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