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Creative Embellishments 1 Year Anniversary Blog Hop

01 Sep 2014 25 Comments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: Creative Embellishments, flowers, I am Roses, inka gold, laser cut chipboard, metal embellishments, mixed media, off the page, paint, viva decor

Welcome the Creative Embellishments 1st Anniversary blog hop. I’m honored to be taking part in this momentous occasion! If you stumbled on the hop here, then please go to Creative Embellishments blog for the hop details and begin the hop on Nicolle’s blog here… >> http://nicollelovesscrapbooking.blogspot.com/

I am happy you are here with us today to celebrate the Creative Embellishments 1 year anniversary! To celebrate, we’re having a dt hop and giving away FOUR $25.00 gift vouchers to the store! All you need to do to be entered to win one of the vouchers is leave a comment on the hop post on the CE blog letting them know what your favorite CE product is, then leave some love on each of our design team member’s blogs then follow each blog. We’re each sharing a project with our favorite CE product on it. The winner of the hop will be randomly selected and announced on Monday September 8th.

I LOVE Creative Embellishments’ product, so it was very hard to for to pick a favorite. Their laser cut chipboard is so intricate and lovely, their wood veneers are detailed and darling! Their newest product line, flair, are so awesome to work with and I can’t say enough about their laser etched rubber stamps. Those are awesome for mixed media projects. Since I couldn’t make myself pick a single favorite, I decided to go with two categories. Their frames and title pieces are definite MUST-HAVES!

With my pieces chosen, I decided to create an off the page project for you all today. I hope you like it! 😀

Nicolle Kramer’s Blog: http://nicollelovesscrapbooking.blogspot.com/ (START HERE!!!)
Doris Widder: https://distressedscrapper.com/ (YOU ARE HERE!!!)
Emilia van den Heuvel’s blog: http://few-favourite-things.blogspot.nl/ (GO HERE NEXT!!!) 😀
Karan Gerber’s blog: http://karangerber.com/
Michelle Gallant’s blog: http://scrapsandpixels.blogspot.ca/
Sandi Clarkson’s blog: http://softsideofsandi.blogspot.com/
Tammy Henderson’s blog: http://myscrappingplace-tammy.blogspot.com/
Shona Keehn’s blog: http://suchawonderfulmess.blogspot.ca/
Creative Embellishments Blog: http://creativeembellishments.com/blog/

Beach Canvas – dt project for Creative Embellishments

05 Jun 2014 Comments Off on Beach Canvas – dt project for Creative Embellishments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: beach, black gesso, canvas, Creative Embellishments, Jacquard Lumiere, laser cut chipboard, mixed media, shells, Shimmerz Texturez

Since I didn’t get to provide an example for the June Creative Embellishments challenge this month, I thought it would be fun to create one for my Thursday project. Here’s the canvas I created to go with the inspo image and nautical theme this month:

CE products used on my project:

CE Nautical Lighthouse
CE Nautical Star
CE wood veneer stars

TFL!

Cards with pencil toppers – project for Creative Embellishments

15 May 2014 Comments Off on Cards with pencil toppers – project for Creative Embellishments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: 13 Arts, cards, children, die cut, encouragement, flair, laser cut chipboard, mixed media, pencil topper, reward, stamping

Hi everyone, I’m up on the Creative Embellishments Blog this week with a couple of simple cards for children. Two of my kiddos are in cyber school and I’m always looking for different ways to reward and encourage them for a job well done and sometimes, just to reward their efforts. So quite a while back, I special requested these title pieces in order to use them for my own children and Nicolle was happy to oblige. She totally rocks! 😀 Did you know that if there’s something you have in mind, but do not find it in the store, a quick email to Nicolle could result in having it created for you? Yeah…she’s awesome that way. ;-D

Anyway, I’d originally intended them for tags they could display by their computers like ribbons, but at the last minute, I decided to make these interactive cards, with a reward attached. I’m all about simple these days since I’ve taken on a little more than I can chew for the moment, but I’ll adjust. lol So these cards, could be created with more layers, details, and elements, but I went with simplicity. Here they are assembled:

This is with the toppers removed from the cards. As you can see, I just punched two holes to string the ribbon, or in my case tulle, through.

Here’s how the topper looks attached to a pencil. Tip: If you find that it slides down your pencil, just wrap a small rubber band around the the end of the pencil as a stopper. 😀

TFL!

#Cute Pup – layout for Creative Embellishments

24 Apr 2014 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page single photo layout, boy laser cut chipboard, Creative Embellishments, mixed media, rubber stamps, son, stamping, Wood Veneers

Hi, everyone! Doris here and after a week off, I’m back with a layout to share! I’ve been hoarding these fun 13arts papers for a little while and finally decided to break them out and use them for a page of my 2nd youngest son. This is an older photo that was taken when he was just 2 1/2 year old, but I couldn’t resist scrapping it using a combination of Creative Embellishments Dog Gone Cute and Firefighter wood veneers. 😀 Here’s what I came up with: