Creative Embellishments Guest Designing At Scrap Around The World

Hello friends! Today I am excited to share that the Creative Embellishments design team has been asked to guest design over at Scrap Around The World. I have always loved Scrap Around The World's mood boards and love all the beautiful eye candy I see on this website.  Below is the mood board the Creative Embellishments team had to work with:

I immediately was inspired by the girl's hair and it made me think of my daughter on her wedding day and her beautiful hair.  She looked like a princess and I wanted to create a shabby chic layout with lots of flowers and lace.

I began the layout by using two of the same pieces of patterned paper from the Bo Bunny Enchanted Collection and punched around the entire outside edge of one of the papers with a heart border punch.  I then cut a large square of the same paper and then distressed it and inked it with some distress paint.  I adhered it to the bottom sheet matching it up as close as possible.  I took some purple acrylic paint and a clear stamp and stamped randomly around the bottom paper.  Next, I chose the chipboard Doily Frame from Creative Embellishments and painted it with a coat of gesso and then dabbed on three different colours of acrylic paint.  For the Creative Embellishments chipboard Trellis, I also painted it with a coat of gesso and then painted it with green paint and then added some gesso here and there to give it a shabbier, vintage look.  I then went crazy with lots of flowers, lace, pearls and jewels.  Finally I took a sponge brush and dry brushed some gesso over the flowers and papers to give it more of a shabby chic look.  Finally I separated some strands of cheesecloth and wrapped it around some of the flowers to give it more texture.  Here are some closeups.

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Practical Scrappers Pinterest Friday

Hello!  Happy Friday.  Today at Practical Scrappers, a few of the design team members are sharing some of our Fall projects that were inspired by the highly addictive Pinterest.

I love to pinning craft ideas and I especially love to create wreaths.  This wreath was inspired by a glitter wreath I saw by Homemade By Jill.

With the leaves falling from the trees here in Canada, I thought it would be nice to decorate my home with a warm, rustic Fall wreath with four different glitters, Helmar Craft Glue, a hot glue gun, a 10 inch circular styrofoam wreath form and my Silhouette Cameo.

First I chose a leaf shape #33054 in the Silhouette Online Store and sized the leaves to be 3 inches high by 2 inches wide and cut out, on my Silhouette Cameo,  four 12X12 sheets of kraft card stock with 20 leaf shapes on each sheet to make a total of 80 diecut leaves.  I applied Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue with a brush and brushed the leaves with an even coat of glue and then immediately sprinkled glitter on the leaves.  For the glitter I used four colours of glitter.  I then layered the leaves applying hot glue to the bottom of each leaf and worked my way around the wreath form.  Finally  before I applied leaves to the top of the wreath, I formed a loop with some jute twine to hang the wreath of a wreath holder.  For my wreath, I didn't attach a bow.  I thought it looked fine to me without one.

I definitely had some glittery fun and my advice is to make sure you use a craft mat and have a shower after the wreath is complete.  Oh, and make sure it is before housecleaning day as a good vacuuming will be in order.

I hope you enjoy my wreath and hope you are inspired.  Thanks for looking!

Sharing A Layout

Happy Saturday! Today I sat down and thought I would just get messy and do a playful, artsy, colourful layout.  There was a photo that was speaking to me to scrapbook of my daughter's girlfriend Kelsi, who is such a sweetheart. I gathered some acrylic paints, mists, stencils, stamps, paper and embellishments and this is what I came up with.

The title is made of vellum and cut with the Silhouette Cameo and then gesso was placed over it and then outlined with a yellow gel pen and a black pen for more definition

I used Tim Holtz stamps with paint and a chicken wire stencil with modeling paste and Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists to spray over the stencil.

I used a butterfly border punch for the yellow border

The photo is matted with patterned paper and I layered some embellishments along the left side of the photo.

Sometimes it's just nice to create with no plan or sketch.  It was fun and that's all that matters.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Chalkboard Craze

Have you noticed that the good old chalkboard is making a comeback in the design world?  I am sure there are a lot of teachers out there that can remember the dusty chalkboard and erasers. Everywhere you look you will see this trend.

I was inspired by Wilna Furstenburg's chalkboard layout, at Two Peas In A Bucket and wanted to try this technique.  I used some Martha Stewart Chalkboard Paint



some papers from the Echo Park Country Drive Collection , a white sheet of card stock,  my Silhouette Cameo, some Crayola Chalk, a felt rose that I handmade and came up with this layout

It was so much fun!  I can't wait to try this chalkboard paint on some other surfaces and make a menu for my kitchen.

Did you know that on my Two Peas In A Bucket Gallery my name is scrapperleeanne and I have almost 700 projects there since I began to post them in 2006?  It is a great website and it inspires me daily. You can check out my Two Peas Gallery here and email me here.

Have a wonderful day!