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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! 😀

#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

The gorgeous Flying Unicorn sketch I worked with:

TFL!

Hold Me in Your Arms – dt layout for Creative Embellishments

16 Jan 2014 4 Comments

by dlwidder in Scrapbook Layouts Tags: 12x12 single page multi-photo layout, baby, boys, Creative Embellishments, laser cut chipboard, Lily Bee, siblings, son, Wood Veneers

Welcome to another Thursday, which means, I’m up on the Creative Embellishments blog with a project to share. Our youngest son is going for eye surgery at 8:45 this morning and it’s got me a little bit freaked, so this week, I went with a layout using a couple of photos from the first time Matthew held him. The whole pregnancy, we were worried about how Matthew would handle having a baby brother. He was so used to being the youngest and seemed to love that role in our family. Well, we were very pleasantly surprised by his reaction. He fell in love w/his baby brother the moment he saw him and 3 1/2 years later, Christian still has Matthew and his other brothers and sister wrapped around his little finger. 😀

I was also inspired by the sketch and song prompt from Scrap and Music sketch #19. Here’s what I came up with: