Anita Enright

8 May 2016

Couture Creations 2016/17 Design Team Audition

I have to say that I am loving the opportunity to apply again for the Couture Creations Design Team. I have spent the last year cultivating my creative flair and working outside of my comfort zone and that is due to being part of such an amazing team and working with some truly awesome women. For that I have to thank everyone at ArtDeco Creations for the privilege of working on the 2015-2016 Design Team.

I love that they are an Australian company, so I get to support Australian craft! The products are amazing and of great quality so it is and has been a pleasure to work with them.

Enough said.... Below are my five designs that showcase my use and love of Couture Creations products.

For my 1st Creation I have used the stunningly beautiful Australiana collection by Ultimate Crafts and designed by Denise Boddey. I have used a mix of dies from both current and past Couture Creations collections. Using some machine stitching, fussy cutting, ribbon and a hessian flower rounds off my card.

My 2nd Creation is a layout that I have done of my cute niece Lilli. I have played around with gesso, paint and texture paste making my own stencil using one of my Couture Creations dies.

I am so so in love with the Magnolia Lane Drifting Feather that it has once again appeared in a layout. You will also notice that I have used some of the Ultimate Crafts Quick Release paper in the background.

My 3rd Creation is a mini canvas. I am enjoying using mixed media on some of my projects and now starting to feel more confident using them. This project is definitely out there, but I love the colour combination of the blue with the purple.

Magnolia Lane has some stunning dies and I love the leaves that are part of the Rose Cutting set. All the leaves were heat embossed using several different colours of embossing powder. I added some Inka Gold to the leaves and other areas to soften and blend some of the colours.

The 4th Creation is a wedding invitation and place setting combination using a couple of dies. I have my younger brother's upcoming wedding in October as my inspiration as I can see their wedding being a very classy and elegant affair. The use of gold with navy is extremely striking.

My 5th and Final creation my second layout for the Design Team call.
I have continued my love of texture paste on this layout. The Petite Doilies dies have been enhanced with stamping and then embossed.

Below are a couple of photos showing the detail on the doilies that line the bottom of the layout.

More Creations
I have also included a couple of other creations that I have done during the last 6 months, including a few of my favourite Design Team creations from last year that I did.

Thank you so much for taking the time to view my Audition. I have loved creating everything you see.
I would feel so blessed to be part of the 2016-2017 Design Team team. I truly love this company and their wonderful ranges of products.

I would also like to wish everyone that applies the very best of luck. Maybe one day we could be working together creating some amazing projects.

Ciao,
Anita E

Feathers in Bloom

Hi Hi Everyone,

Lately I have been playing with different folds on my cards and was just playing around with one and liked it so I decided to go with it and make a pretty girlie card.

Once I knew what I was doing I started to churn out cards quickly.

This card was based on a 5x7" card base, so create your card base in a colour that matches the papers that you chose to create your card in. You will then need to score the front of the card in half. However this is where I made my first mistake but it didn't affect my end result.

Below is the picture of what I did. After selecting the shape of the nesting die that you want to use, attach it with some washi or other removable tape. I scored first then added the die. You need to place your die then score the card from the edge of the die to the top and bottom (your score does not go through the inside of the die). I covered my boo boo later with papers anyway so it didn't really affect the end result.

Next, set up your machine to cut dies. The top cutting plate is placed up to the score line so the machine and die will only cut whatever is under the plates.

I then selected my papers and cut them as below. I embossed the two smaller pieces and then die cut them using the same nesting die as above. Attach them all to your card base.

I cut out a handful of die cuts including my two favourite dies from the Magnolia Lane collection, the beautiful feather and gorgeous rose cutting. Using a smaller nesting die also cut out two pieces of patterned paper to match.

Take your rose cutting die cuts and layer them into a 3D flower.Grab a magnolia paper flower and using some spray adhesive and spray the flower then sprinkle with glitter. If you don't have spray adhesive I just used my finger to apply some of my liquid glue to the petals and then sprinkled the glitter on that. Once dry adhere the paper flower to the centre of the rose cutting 3D flower.

Now go crazy and bling up your card :)

This card is now going to a very special lady for Mother's Day.... and no, it is not my mum :)
I have another creation going her way.

PRODUCTS USED

ULT200020 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Charming

ULT200078 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Carnation

ULT157488 - Magnolia Lane - Rosehip Memories

ULT157495 - Magnolia Lane - Sweet Music

ULT157508 - Magnolia Lane - Paper Magnolias

ULT147513 - Magnolia Lane - Magnolia Lace Embossing Folder

ULT157515 - Magnolia Lane - Diecut Ephemera

ULT157523 - Magnolia Lane - Rose Cutting Impression Dies

ULT157525 - Magnolia Lane - Drifting Feather Impression Die

CO723049 - Nesting Dies - Victorian Rectangles

CO721995 - Gemstones - Pink Flamingo

CO724389 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

Thanks for stopping by everyone. I hope you find this helpful and maybe add a different dimension to some of your cards :)

3 May 2016

Congrats.. to you two

Hi Guys,

Just a quick drop in to share with you a very simple but beautiful card that I made for a friend's wedding 25th wedding anniversary.
I had a colour combination in mind and had the perfect patterned paper in my stash that had that lacey background that made the card stunning. Simple but elegant.

Keeping creating, cheers for now :)

Anita

2 May 2016

My heart and Soul

Hi Everyone,

I spend so much time creating for other people that sometimes I forget how much I just love creating just for the fun of it. The weather here in the north of Brisbane has been pretty miserable over this long weekend (we have our Labour Day holidays today) so I have been playing.

My close friends know that I don't have any children of my own, so my precious furkids mean the world to me and know how much I love to scrap them.
My gorgeous girl, Miss Molly is so photogenic and I thoroughly enjoy snapping her photos and when time permits, I love to scrap them.

Here is a page that I did recently. It is pretty simply but I didn't want to take away from the gorgeous photo. It is oh so very hard to find pet related ranges so when I find them I try and make the most of them. Saying that I have no idea what ranges these are from, but they work well together.

Thanks again for stopping by. Take care and happy scrapping.

Anita
xx

21 April 2016

I wish for you.....

Hello fellow Crafters

WHAT!!! Where has April gone, this is crazy. This is the start of a very busy time of the year for me and my family. So many birthdays and anniversaries so I have put my scrapbooking on the back burner for a little while whilst I create cards to cover all these celebrations.
So today, for you, I created a quick but still very pretty card using the Magnolia Lane collection by Sue Smyth.

1. Start with creating a 4"x6" card base in Pandora pink cardstock from Ultimate Crafts.
2. Cut a piece of 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" Snow White cardstock from Ultimate Crafts.
3. Using the Petite & Tied Together embossing folder, ink the inside front of the folder with a matching pink ink. Insert the white cardstock and run through your bigshot, cuttlebug or other machine. Ink the edges with the pink ink.

4. Next, I then took some of the pink decorative lace ribbon and attached it using double sided tape to the embossed cardstock. To remove any stickness that remain from behind the ribbon, I chose to add some white glitter over the lace. This worked perfectly, and you can see the glitter through the lace.

5. Using the Rose Cutting die cut out a Snow White and Pandora rose. Cut two of the leaves in a dark green Cypress Pine Ultimate Craft cardstock.

6. Take one of the paper magolias and spritz the centre with a pink ink. Set aside to dry or blast it with your heat gun. Once dry use some Glitzin Glamour in Crystalina to bling up the flower. I find using my finger is the easiest as I can control the amount better.

7. Fussy cut a butterfly. Because my 12"x12" paper stack was nearly finished I decided to cut up the front cover, and low and behold there was a butterfly on it. Because it was in a heavier weight card it will hold it's 3D shape well.

8. I headed to my 6"x6" paper stack and cut out on of the small sayings and mounted it on some of the Pandora pink cardstock.
9. Now construct your card. Don't forget to add a little bling. I used the Bling Flourishes from the collection.
Check out some of the closeups below.

PRODUCTS USED

ULT157271 - Magnolia Lane - Petite & Tied Together embossing folder

ULT157508 - Magnolia Lane - Paper Magnolias

ULT157523 - Magnolia Lane - Rose Cutting Die

ULT157499 - Magnolia Lane - Bling Flourishes

ULT157505 - Magnolia Lane - Decorative Lace Ribbon

ULT15157496 - Magnolia Lane - 6"x6" paper stack

ULT200001 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Snow White

ULT200007 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Obsidian
ULT200031 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Cypress Pine

CO721971 - Glitzin Glamour - Crystallina

CO721984 - 12mm Double Sided Tape

CO724389 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Thanks for stopping by
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Enjoy your craft time,

Anita E

8 April 2016

Thank You

Welcome back Everyone,

Slowly slowly I am building up my beautiful card collection. I created this card for my Design Team post on the Couture Creations blog.

1. To start I cut a piece of cardstock in a sand colour into 10" x 7" and folded it in half to create a 5"x7 card base. Using the SWEET MUSIC patterned paper cut a 5"x7" mat and in the BUTTERFLIES AND LACE patterned paper cut a 6" x 3 3/4" mat. Distress the edges of both pieces.

2. Die cut a MAGNOLIA DOILY in white cardstock. Oh my, how I love this die!!!!

3. So that we can see some of the sand colour base from behind the SWEET MUSIC patterned paper ensure that when you attach tape to the reverse do not take the tape right to the edges. This will allow you to manipulate the patterned paper to show some of the sand coloured card base. Once you have attached it use your fingers to stress and roll the edges more.
Check out the next photos.

3. Attach the smaller BUTTERFLIES AND LACE on top of the SWEET MUSIC paper that you have already mounted on to the card front. I then attached a strip of matching lace to the right edge of the patterned paper and attached the doily to the left side snipping any overhang off.

4. Take two of the paper magnolias. For one of them we only want the very centre petals with the centre stamen. I chose a shimmer brown shaded mist and sprayed both the flowers then set them aside to dry.

4. I used some of the Couture Creations VICTORIAN RECTANGLE nesting dies to create the mat for the card sentiment. I die cut base on to some of the bottom edge of the BUTTERFLIES AND LACE patterned paper so that the bottom half had some flowers and the top half had the script writing.
Attach a piece of the White Decorative Lace across the centre with some tape or glue, add some foam dots to the back of the tag.
Die cut the Thank You sentiment from the THANK YOU TAG SET and mount on a piece of SWEET MUSIC patterned paper and round the end if you chose.
Glue on the sentiment and mount on to the nesting die with some foam dots.

5. Fussy cut some flowers, leaves and a butterfly.

6. Now layer your bits and pieces to construct your card. I added some of the Bling flourishes as well as a couple of extra pink flowers and some stems with pink buds, along with a blinged up hat pin.
I think it came out pretty nice, don't you think.

Below are some closeups of the finished card.