70 | Couture Creations

Well hello everyone, Anita here back on the blog today

Welcome back and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY 💖

Today I have a 70th birthday card that I made using the soon to be available L'AQUARELLE range.  I really love the script background papers so I just had to use some of them for this card.

For my card base I cut a piece of  Ultimate Crafts Cardstock in SNOW WHITE to 9.75" x 6.5 " scoring at 3.25".  The card front will be smaller at 3.25" and the back a 6.5" square. 
The smaller front card is cut from an 8.5" x 4.25"piece of SNOW WHITE cardstock scored at 4.25".
Next I selected CASCADE cardstock and mats for the patterned paper as follows:

one of 6.25"x6.25" - for inside back of card

two of 3"x 6.25" - for front and inside front of card

one of 4"x4" - front of smaller card

For the inside of the smaller card the VALENTINE shade of red in the Ultimate Crafts Cardstock matched perfectly to the red in the butterflies on the L'Aquarelle patterned papers.  For the mats I cut two 4" x 4" mats, and then one final 3.75" x 3.75" in the SNOW WHITE cardstock for the area to write the sentiment.

 Next I chose several of the patterned papers that had the script background.  I cut each of these 0.25" smaller that each of the coloured cardstock mats.  Adhere all with doubled side tape.

 The next couple of photo will show you how the card starts coming together.

 

Next I attached the smaller card to the right inside of the main card as in the picture below.

 

To finish the front of the card I inked up a piece of white seam binding with match blue and red inks and then sprayed it with water so that colours ran into each other.  I then blasted it with my heat gun to dry it quickly.

I gathered the ribbon up and twisted it into a bow and attached it with hot glue to the front of the card. I added a couple of flowers from my stash as I had run out of the Couture Creations bulk flowers and have yet to get some more.

The finishing touch to the card after the '70' was the gorgeous metal butterfly from the  

L'Aquarelle  collection.

I am really happy with the end result and I hope the birthday girl loves it too.

PRODUCTS USED

ULT200007 - Ultimate Craft Cardstock - Snow White

ULT200022 - Ultimate Craft Cardstock - Cascade

ULT200063 - Ultimate Craft Cardstock - Valentine

ULT157765 - L'Aquarelle - Large Butterfly & Dragonfly Charms

ULT157761 - L'Aquarelle - 12" x 12" paper stack

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my card.  I hope you like it.

If you are free on the weekend of the 4th and 5th of March and in or close to Brisbane why not come and join us at CREATIVE INSPIRATION LIVE.  There are still a few spots free for two days of workshops featuring gorgeous new ranges of products. Click on the picture below to take you to the site to find out all the information you need to join in on a great weekend of crafting.

Enchanted Tea Party | Couture Creations

Hi Everyone,

I have been playing with the Enchanted Tea Party collection designed by Denise Boddey. It is such a lovely collection and the colours so fresh and pretty.

Today's card that I have created I have to say I enjoyed making even with the fussy cutting.  That is one thing I have to say, this collection has a wonderful array of funky papers that warrant the time and effort to fussy cut them. I love the blue hues in the 12x12 paper backgrounds and just had to use them.

I started with a Snow White Ultimate Crafts Cardstock base cut to make a 5x7" card base.  I then cut a a piece of Cascade blue cardstock as a mat behind my patterned paper, and then adhering my chosen patterned paper from the 12x12" paper pad.

Next I fussy cut my chosen flowers and fob watch, adhering some with glue and the fob watch I mounted on 3D foam dots.

Once all the fussy cuts piece were adhered to the card I then added a few pieces from the ephemera pack, the black hat and one of the small playing cards. 

Using the Encanted Tea Party Nesting Dies I cut out several sets of the small 'suits' from the blue and pink Couture Creations Glitter cardstock. I used alternate colours to 3D foam dot mount the suits on the from of the ephemera playing card.  The black hat ephemera piece I also attached using a 3D foam dot.

On the inside and back of the card I also used a cascade blue mat under one of the more subtle patterned papers. I used up more of the glitter dies cuts of the card suits on the inside.

On the back of the card I added another ephemera card and added the remainder glitter die cuts.

This turned out to be a nice quick easy card, even with the fussy cutting.  I hope you were even a little inspired with my creation.

PRODUCTS USED
CO725023 - Enchanted Tea Party - 12x12" paper pack
CO725025 - Enchanted Tea Party - Ephemera set
CO725042 - Enchanted Tea Party - Nesting Dies
ULT200007 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock- Snow White
ULT200022 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Cascade
CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape
CO724780 - 3D Foam Dots
CO724575 - Assorted 12x12" Glitter Cardstock pack

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to come back tomorrow for another wonderful creation by the Design Team.

Love | D-lish Scraps

Welcome back everyone,

So can someone tell where January went.  I am sure I blinked twice and it was gone.
My layout that I have done I loved the colour combination from the mood board from the January Cybercrop at The Scrap Suite on Facebook, and knew the photo I just had to use.
I can't believe that this March my husband and I will be married 9 years.  Crazy!!

 

To start I took a piece of white cardstock and with a heart stencil that I had from an old Just Add Paper kit using embossing paste to make a border.  Next I sprinkled it with gold embossing powder and once the paste was dry I heat set it with my heat gun.

I chose a couple of patterned papers from a Lemoncraft paper pad that I had that matched the photo.  The pinks matched the roses in my hair perfectly.  I inked the edged of the papers with gold ink before adhering them to my cardstock base. I mounted my photo on some 3D foam tape to add a little dimension.  

Finally I 'embellied' up my layout using the gorgeous magnolia flowers, poppies and a couple of other flowers from previous kits. I added a pip berry stem, a flair button and finally a gorgeous raw wood veneer word especially designed by Corbett Creations.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you have been crafting up a storm.  Don't forget to share your creations at The Scrap Suite when you enter the challenges.  You could be one of the lucky ones to win an exclusive D-lish Scraps kit.

Ciao for now.
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

Good Friends Make Good Times Better | D-lish Scraps

Hiya Everyone,

Thanks for stopping by today.  

One of my closest friends, Tracey,  is the Queen of the Selfie, she has totally mastered it.  The photo in my layout was taken at one of the famous Workshop Wonders days from several years ago.  I have always loved this photo with Tracey Cooley, scrapbooking teacher extraordinaire,  who is also a dear friend. We call them T1 and T2.

I have based my layout on Gwen's January Cybercrop Challenge
and the use of the very in trend of diagonals.

So, to create my layout I thought the photo colours warranted the use of yellow and pinks.  Using a white cardstock base for my layout I took a strip of washi tape and ran it across the top of the page on an angle. After positioning my photo it was just a matter of cutting pieces of patterned paper and plain cardstock to different shapes and sizes to lay around my photo. I did use two cards from one of my hundreds of Project Life kits and a couple of different prints of washi tape.

 

I kept the embellishments to a minimum.
I love my enamal dots so I scattered a couple of each pink and yellow  around the page.  I heat embossed a wood veneer arrow from a previous kit in yellow.  I couldn't help but add a small cluster of flowers to the bottom left of the photo which included roses, forget-me-nots, and a small satin flower from a past Just Add Paper kit. You can find bits from previous kits there too.

When you check out the shop don't forget to look in the clearance section as you might some really good bargains. I found some coorindating words in matching colours on a Paint Chip Tab and Ombre Wordfetti.  I mounted these on some 3D foam dots.

My finishing touch was a bright yellow resin heart 

and a flair from my stash. Flairs can also be found in the D-lish Scraps shop.

If you would like to join in on the Cybercrops that started on the 13th of January drop by the SCRAP SUITE and take a look.  There are all great. If you join in on the fun you will go in the draw for a Just Add Paper kit only available to cybercrop participants.  

If you take part in all four challenges you will also go in the draw for a one and only kit.

Until next time, thank you so much for dropping by.

Anita

xx

Peppa | White with 1 - January 2017 Challenge

Hi Everyone

I have to say that I don't normally enter challenges, but as 2017 is the start of a huge new chapter in my life with many changes heading my way I thought "Let's just jump in". 

So I did my very first challenge entry. I hope you like it.

 I have started to slowly find my feet using mixed media products.  On this layout I have used Lollypop and Snow White COLOUR BLAST pastes.

I added two 4x6" Project Life cards behind my photo, added plenty of flowers from my stash and added a gorgeous pink hessian heart from Charms Creations.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my creation.  I hope is has given you a little inspiration and you might take on the challenge yourself.  Just pop by the White with 1 blog HERE to enter.

Anita

xx

Little Miss Busy | D-lish Scraps

Hi Everyone,

It has been so hot here where I live just north of Brisbane so I have been staying inside out of this terrible heat and humidity.  Fortunately I can turn on the air-conditioning and disappear in to my craft room during the day before I head to work.  

Today I thought I would share with you the layout I created to showcase the January Just Add Paper kit that is available in the D-Lish Scraps open store.  It is filled with beautiful 'sorbet' colours.  If you drop by the The Scrap Suite Facebook page you will see more inspiration by the Design Team using these colours.

 

 This is my cute little niece Lilli and she loves her mum taking photos of her.

Thanks for stopping by.  

Anita

xx

A New Year Begins

Hi Everyone

Well I hope January 2017 has already started beautifully for you and you have all been finding some time for yourselves and get some craft on.

I have been lucky to have some time to craft even though I have still been working full time and have been having fun getting messy with this layout that I have for you today on the blog.

I really wanted to keep my layout simple so that all the attention is on the photo.  

I really love gold black and red together and this photo of my niece at Chinese New Year celebrations in Melbourne worked brilliantly.

To start I mixed up some of the gold pigment powder in with the gloss texture paste.  I kept adding powder until I got the richness that I wanted.

I then just smeered it across my black cardstock with a palette knife and then set it aside to dry.

 Next I coloured up more of the texture paste with a red colour to match in with the photo.

 

I used the beautiful new 10x10" stencil from the new L'Aquarelle range called Loving Flourishes and applied the coloured up texture paste to sides of the cardstock overlapping the gold.

My next step was heat embossing my title in the Super Sparkles Gold embossing powder.  I double embossed it so make sure it was super sparkly. I also head embossed several wooden stars from my embellishment stash.

I wanted to add dimension behind my photo so I die cut two of the On the Edge die Rosey Ferns Footer in red.  I attached a piece of cardboard on the back of my photo and then added the dies to the back of the cardboard backing before gluing it down over the dried texture paste.

 

Finally I added the embossed title and stars around the page and  I was done.

Products Used

CO724759 - Couture Creations On the Edge Collection of Dies - Rosey Ferns Footer 

ULT157799 - Ultimate Crafts - L'Aquarelle Collection - 10x10 Stencil - Loving Flourishes

CO724389 - Couture Creations Turbo Precision Glue Pen

ULT200008 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Obsidian

ULT200066 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Blood Red

CO724988 - Couture Creations Embossing Powder - Super Sparkles - Gold

CO724868 - Couture Creations - Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Texture Paste Gloss

CO724866 - Couture Creations - Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Mix & Match Pigments

Well, thank you for stopping by.

I hope you liked my creation today.

Until next time, stay crafty.

Anita

xx