Happy Moments | Colour Blast

Hey Hey Everyone, Welcome Back.

I have to say that I love how there are so many different colours available across the ranges of Colour Blast products. I am also having fun mixing and matching them and today I have chosen Steel and Singing the Blues.

 

My chosen products for this layout were the Colour Paste, Shimmer Spray and Embossing Powder.

 

I coated my chipboard piece with Heavy White Gesso prior to covering it with the Colour Embossing Powder in Singing the Blues.  It made the colour pop due to having the white base behind the embossing powder.

The base paper for my layout was a very simple and subtle grey patterned paper.  My chosen stencil had a similar pattern the wall that was behind Brian and I in the photo.  The were really funky grey shimmery glass tiles and even though they are a little hard to see I wanted to see if I could bring them into the layout somewhere.  

I think it worked really well using the Colour Paste in Steel.

Once the Colour Paste was dry I then added some 'splats' and sprayed the entire page with the Colour Shimmer Spray in Singing the Blues. The shimmer is just so pretty.

For those of us that are lucky enough to have some of the Colour Shimmer Cubes in their stash, after adding water to the cube, I used a dauber to add colour through another different stencil to add more texture to the background.  The same results can be used using the Colour Shimmer Sprays or Colour Sprays if you wanted to tone down the shimmer on your creations.

 My chosen ephemera and a few other pieces came from one of my 'Just Add Paper' monthly kits from D-lish Scraps.  On the two butterfly, heart and flower ephemera pieces I used the Colour Shimmer Brush Marker in Clear to add even more shimmer to my page.  I then used the marker in Silver to colour up two white flowers as I didn't have any grey flowers and thought this was a great way to add colour.

My large white flower was too stark on the page as it was so I added some of the Colour Paste in Singing the Blues and Steel.

 

 Along with the D-lish Scraps kit pieces I added another gorgeous embellishment set the X and O from Charms Creations.

Below are a couple of close-ups of my finished layout and also up close of the pretty shimmers of the Colour Blast products. 

Thank you once again for stopping by and not only supporting us but also this wonderful Australian made and owned brand.  It is an honour to be allowed to demonstrate their products for you.

Take care and don't forget to create a little memory.

Ciao for now.

Anita

xx

C'est la Vie "Love" card | Couture Creations

 

#artdecocreations   #couturecreationsaus    #ultimatecrafts

Hi Everyone,

I am so glad you stopped by.  I have been lucky to have the new C'est La Vie collection on my desk lately and have created another gorgeous card for today.  A girl can never have too many cards in her collection.  I love layers and I love using them on my cards.

So let's go.

For my card I used a white A6 card base. Each patterned paper I chose from the 6x6" paper pad I distressed the edges of.  I covered the front of the card in my chosen paper.  Next I attached a strip of a darker contrasting paper and attached it to the left of the card.

I next layered one of my absolute papers to another patterned paper, again distressing the edges.  I created a banner tab. I added some 3D foam tape to the reverse and adhered it a little off the right side of the card and a little lower than in the middle of the card.  I had some gorgeous pink lace to add to it in my stash.

 The ephemera in this collection is gorgeous.  I selected one of the branches from the pack and it had a really little butterfly perched on one of the branches.  I am not a big one for sticking everything down totally so just glued it down on the stem.  This helps give it a more 3D and real effect to the individual pieces.
The white flower I chose for the card I blended the edges of the petals in a matching pink ink.  Once I had these adhered to the card I added a couple of matching green mini flowers from my collection. To finish I tucked one of the cute ephemera birds into the flower and put one of the word sentiments on 3D foam tape in the bottom right corner.

PRODUCTS USED

C'est la Vie Collections

CO725739 - Ephemera pack

CO725738 - 6x6" paper pack

Other Couture Creations Products

CO723893 - A6 Cards & Envelopes 50 Pack

CO724289 - 2cm English Roses

CO724296 - 6cm Camden Cottage Roses

CO724294 - 4cm Tie Dyed & Jewelled Florettes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Be back again tomorrow for some more inspiration.

Ciao

Anita

LOVE Makes All Things Grow

#artdecocreations   #couturecreationsaus    #ultimatecrafts 

Welcome to the weekend everyone. I hope you all get to create some time over the weekend.

Anita back with you again today sharing with you a very quick and easy layout using very minimal product from the C'est La Vie collection.  

For today's layout I used the 12x12 paper pad and the ephemera pack along with a chipboard title also from the collection.

 

To start today's layout I chose the Ivory cardstock from Ultimate Crafts.  This is such a lovely cardstock to use and the array of colours available is amazing.

I took my "Definitions" background stamp from the L'Aquarelle collection and stamped randomly around the edges in a brown in that matched the papers.  I then chose a second stamp from my stamp and added some more stamping to fill in the gaps.

 

Next I selected two pieces of patterned papers from the 12x12" paper pad. The two strips measure approximately 9 1/2" x 2".  I mounted these on some of the Carnation pink cardstock.  Next I ink around all the edges in a matching brown, the same at I used for the stamping.

Next I mounted my photo on to some of the Paper Bag coloured cardstock.  My photo was printed on my Canon Selphy and I left a white border around it rather than mounting the photo on ivory/white cardstock.  I adhered some matching pink lace from my stash to the reverse of the photo that I had also mounted on to some chipboard to give it more depth.

I chose several flowers from the ephemera collection along with a tag, some leaves, a couple of butterflies and the banner strip.  Before permanently adhering the photo to the page I placed all the ephemera pieces under and around the photo and then attached them all down.

Using my 'wink of Stella' clear pen I added some glittery accents to some of the ephemera pieces.

 

Finally I covered the chipboard with some of the gorgeous Rose Gold Vintage Matte foil. It matched in beautifully.  The chipboard set also has a couple of little flowers with it.  I also foiled these and included them in amongst the ephemera.

 

 PRODUCTS USED

C'est La Vie Collection

CO725921 - "Makes all things Grow" chipboard sentiment

CO725737 - 12x12" paper pad

CO725725739 - Ephemera set

L'Aquarelle Collection

 ULT157798 - "Definitions" stamp set (discontinued)

Ultimate Crafts Cardstock

ULT200087 - Ivory

ULT200078 - Carnation

ULT200045 - Paper Bag

Other Artdeco Products

CO725694 - Rose Gold (Vintage Matte Finish)

Thanks for stopping by.  Don't forget to find some "ME" time to 

keep your craft alive.

Ciao,

Anita xx

HOPE | Couture Creations

HAPPY 2018!!!!!!

Anita back with you today on the blog.

So who has made a resolution for this year??

More to the point, who has and has already broken it???

I answer "NO" to question one and therefore question two doesn't come in to it.

My philosophy is to go bigger and better than the year before.... so in saying that I am going to kick my craft out of the park :)

So.... in saying that my first post for 2018 is using the gorgeous new C'est La Vie range from Tina Higgins and Couture Creations.

 So my card is all about layers.  Starting with an 'ivory' colour card base using the Ultimate Craft Cardstock, I then selected the 6x6" papers that I liked for my card.  The 1st piece I attached I trimmed down by 1/4" and then distressed the edges.  The paper was the one with the words along the top and bottom of the page. 

 

Next I chose the stripe and cut it down  by 1",  created a banner from it and again distessing the edges, attaching it with double sided tape.

I then created two banners, a larger one in the really really pretty floral and a smaller one which I attached to the back of the floral one, in the spotty pink paper.

 The chipboard from this collection is really pretty so I took the C'est La Vie border and sentiment set and using the Champagne coloured heat activated foil, foiled the chipboard frame.

 Once all attached I took a couple of pieces of ephemera and attached them to the frame.  I also really like the fern chipboard from the collection so I wanted to use them too.  I inked them in a matching colour.  Too a little more texture to the card I added some white gauze under the flower cluster

You will notice a little glitter over a couple of the ephemera pieces. I used a 'Wink of Stella' pen to get this effect as I only wanted it very subtle. I inked up my white Couture Creations flowers with a matching pink.  I finished it off with a couple of smaller pale green flowers from my stash.

PRODUCTS USED:

C'est La Vie Collection

CO725738 - 6x6" paper pad

CO725916 - 3 Ferns chipboard set

CO725918 - Framed C'est La Vie chipboard set

CO725739 - Ephemera Set

CO724289 - 2cm English Roses

CO724290 - 1.5cm English Roses

ULT200087 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Ivory

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Anita E

xx 

Christmas Mini Album | Couture Creations

Hi Everyone, Anita back with you today on the blog.  

I have been really enjoying the new Couture Creations range designed by Tina Higgins, 

Let Every Day Be Christmas. It is nice to work with a range that isn't the normal traditional

Christmas colours of greens and reds.  This range incorporates soft lemons with greens and blues and some hints of a red.  It is lovely, and should be in your papercraft stores now, or nearly there.

So, for my project today I have only used the A4 paper pad and the Ephemera pack from the range to make this concertina mini album.  All other bits and pieces came from my stash.  

My mum loves projects like this that I make her that she can put a celebration is so when I give this to her it will have photos of our Christmas 2016 in it.

I won't go in to details about how to construct the album as I found it easily by doing a 

simple search on You Tube.  The finished size of my album came to just over 5".

Inside my album I made some pages with small pockets each of which I adorned with some different laces.  Some pages had ephemera on them.   

To be totally honest it was a very quick album to make.

 

PRODUCTS USED:

CO725490 - Couture Creations Let Every Day Be Christmas - A4 Paper Pad

CO725493 - Couture Creations Let Every Day Be Christmas - Ephemera Pack

Thank you for stopping by.  

until next time... keep on crafting.

Anita

xx

Boho Dreams Birthday

Welcome back

A friend of my husband asked me to make several birthday cards for her to give out so I thought I would share the second one I did for her.  Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the first so I can't share that one :( but I am really happy with the way this one turned out.  I just hope the recipient really likes it too.

I used the BOHO DREAMS 6x6" paper stack from Kaisercraft  along with some ephemera and rhinestones.

The finished card is 6x6" in size so it is still a good size if it has to be posted.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by.  

Anita

xx