Scrapbooker's Paradise Challenge #10

Happy Friday and Happy Valentine's Day!  Today at Scrapbooker's Paradise Design Team Member Linda Pekrul is hosting Challenge #10 and the design team and everyone can play along.  The challenge is to create a layout, card or altered item using at least 5 of the following:  doily, flowers, ribbon, charm, pearls or other bling, stick pins, stickers, chipboard, die cuts, buttons or brads.  For my layout I used flowers, buttons, die cuts, ribbon, pearls, sequins, and stickers.  Since it's Valetine's Day, I wanted to create a romantic layout of my daughter and son in law on their wedding day.  I used the Kaisercraft Key To My Heart Collection of patterned papers, stickers, and die cuts.

On a white piece of card stock, I cut out a large heart design with my Silhouette Cameo and used some ribbon to lace the heart.  Then I added some sequins to the heart and backed it on the red polka dot patterned paper.

I also cut some vellum heart shapes and layered with some die cuts, Prima flowers and a button.  The flowers were painted with distress paint or misted.

I hope you are inspired to join our challenge at Scrapbooker's Paradise.  All the details are on the Scrapbooker's Paradise blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Practical Scrappers February Sketch And Layout

Hello scrappy friends! Today on the blog I wanted to share my layout for the Practical Scrappers February Sketch.  Christine Meyer came up with this fabulous sketch

I immediately wanted to create a Valentine's layout of my son and his wife.

I die cut the heart with my Cameo and laced it with some May Arts ribbon.  The patterned papers and stickers are from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Record It Collection.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are inspired by the sketch.  Have a creative day!

Christmas Themed Family Layout

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying your day.  Today over at Susan K. Weckesser, I have a Christmas themed layout to share with you using Susan's awesome stencil, a snowman stamp for the vellum snowman embellishment,  that I can't seem to get enough of, and some patterned papers from Canvas Corp. I also sprayed some Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist in Ferrari Red,  as well as some twine on the banner from May Arts.  The sketch was designed by Karan Gerber.

Some more detailed photos:

Now is the time to scrap those Christmas layouts.  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

Lee-Anne

Scrap Our Stash December 15 Sketch Challenge

Hello friends!  Today is Christmas Eve and my last layout for the year.  At Scrap Our Stash,  I am sharing a Christmas layout of my Christmas tree this year.  It is a bit small for the living room space, but was using a smaller tree this year so I didn't have to struggle with lights.  It's nice and bright.

 The challenge is to use the sketch that was designed by Kelly Holifield below and use at least two border punches and one other type of punch.  Scrap Our Stash and Sketch N Scrap are combining challenges for this one.

For my layout I used two different Fiskars border punches, an envelope punch to create the tiny envelopes on the right side of the photo and also a Kreaxions 4 in 1 paper punch to add snowflakes to the envelopes and corners of the layout.  

Thanks for spending your time with me today and I hope you are inspired to create a layout.  The deadline to link up at Scrap Our Stash is December 29, 2013 and 11:59 pm PST.  Thanks for stopping by and Happy Holidays!

Merry & Bright

Happy day my friends!  Today I am sharing a festive layout that I created for Stuck?! Sketches December 15 sketch designed by Laura Whitaker.

Stuck?! Sketches December 15 Sketch - by Laura Whitaker

I stayed true to the sketch and used the Heidi Swapp "Believe" Collection for the patterned papers and created my own ribbon tree with some gorgeous gold ribbon from May Arts.

Merry & Bright - by Lee-Anne Thornton

For the star die cuts and title, I used my Silhouette Cameo.  Christmas to me is all blingy so I took some sequins from my stash to use for the ornaments on the tree and also some little stars to carry through with the star embellishment design.

For the ribbon tree I hand cut a triangle shape out of card stock (about 2 1/2 inches from the tip of the tree to the bottom) and then cut 2" strips of gold ribbon, folded the ribbon in half and glued them together and then glued each folded ribbon piece to the starting at the top of the tree and continuing to adhere the folded ribbon strips until the card stock triangle is completely covered.  I then hand cut a trunk for the tree.  Before adhering the tree to the layout, I wrapped some twine around the tree, tied a little twine bow and added some sequins.

I recently got some new furniture for my studio and wanted to make it look festive for the Christmas season so I purchased a silver star light from Ikea as well as a strand of 38 star lights for my window.  It makes me want to hang out in there every night.

I hope you are inspired with the sketch and my layout.  Come play along and upload your creation at Stuck?! Sketches.  While you are there, come see what the other ladies on the team created with the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by.  Happy scrapping!

Practical Scrappers Card Sketch And Card For December

Well it's unbelievable that it is December.  Where has this year gone?  Today at Practical Scrappers is the card sketch reveal and this awesome card sketch was designed by fellow team member Patty Selah.

Practical Scrappers December Card Sketch

Here is what I came up with for the card.  I stayed true to the sketch.

Enjoy The Season Card - by Lee-Anne Thornton

Cardstock - Michaels

Corrugated Paper - Fancy Pants Designs

Ribbon - May Arts

Stamp - Hero Arts

Stamp Ink - Colorbox Pigment Ink (Gold), Ranger

Vellum - Recollections

Wood Embellishments - Studio Calico

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are inspired to try a card today.  Christmas is on it's way!

Snowman Banner

Happy day!  It's Lee-Anne here and today I am sharing a winter/Christmas banner that I created with Susan K. Weckesser's awesome One Of A Kind Winter Snowman Stamp.  I love this stamp and I love snowmen (if you saw inside my home, you would agree) and I wanted to create a banner that could be doubled as a Christmas banner or a winter banner.  I thought it would be perfect on my fireplace mantle.

Snowman Banner - by Lee-Anne Thornton

Supplies Used:
Cardstock - American Crafts
Glitter Cardstock - Coredinations
Banner Diecut - Spellbinders Shapeabilites
Rosette Flower Die - Tim Holtz
Diecut Machine - Cuttlebug (Provocraft)
Embossing Powder - Sugarloaf Products
Mists - Heidi Swapp, Tattered Angels
Patterned Paper - Canvas Corp.
Punch - Kreaxions #312 Insert A
Ribbon - May Arts
Sequins - Unknown
Rubber Stamp - Susan K. Weckesser
Texture Spray ( Goosebumps) Imagine Crafts

The banner was created with some glitter card stock by Coredinations, a Spellbinder's banner die, a paper rosette die by Tim Holtz, a sheet of Red And White Reverse Patterned Paper by Canvas Corp., a paper punch by Kreaxions, some ribbon by May Arts, embossing powder, some Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists in Primrose, Peach, Navy, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist in Cornflower Daze to "paint" the snowman hat, scarf and cheeks and finally some Goosebumps Texture Spray to give the snowman some sheen and texture.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are inspired to try a snowman banner to decorate your home.

Hugs and Smiles!

Lee-Anne

Let It Snow Chalkboard Christmas Card

Hello and happy Sunday!  Today I am sharing a Christmas card that I created for the Susan K. Weckesser's Design Team.  It was so much fun to create and I wanted to try to do something a little different by creating a "chalkboard" feel to my card.  I am loving the chalkboard and sequin craze right now and also vellum as it gives a little softness to a card.

Let It Snow Chalkboard Card by Lee-Anne Thornton

Kraft Cardstock Card - Michael's
Pearlized Ink - Clearsnap (Smooch Snickerdoodle)
Ribbon - May Arts
Rubber Stamps - Hero Arts, Susan K. Weckesser (IB-SB-326)
Sequins - Unknown
Stamp Ink - Craft Smart (White)
Vellum - Recollections
Washi Tape - Bella Blvd. (Jailbird)
Wood Veneer Shapes - Studio Calico

Below are the step by step instructions to create this card:

Stamp the front of the card with three different snowflake wood mounted stamps using some white    pigment ink and let it dry.

Diecut a  small envelope from a sheet of vellum (I used my Silhouette Cameo)  and cut a piece of black card stock to measure approximately 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches.   Assemble and adhere the envelope.

Stamp the Susan K. Weckesser snowman stamp (IB-SB-326 One Of A Kind Winter) and also the "let it snow" sentiment with some white pigment ink onto a sheet of black card stock and let it dry. When it was dry,  fussy cut the snowman.

Slide the black card stock sentiment into the vellum envelope and added some gold sequins and wood veneer stars painted with some Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink.

Cut a strip of washi tape and adhere it around the bottom of the vellum envelope making sure to cut the strip long enough to seal the right hand side of the envelope.

Adhere the "chalkboard" snowman with adhesive to the righthand side of the envelope.  Be sure to offset it a little off the righthand side of the vellum envelope and adhere three wood veneer stars to the outside of the vellum envelope.  Set the vellum envelope aside.

Wrap the of gold May Arts ribbon around the front of the card and tie a bow. Make sure to have it on the lefthand side of the card so there is enough space for the vellum envelope to be placed to the righthand side of it.

Add some dimensional adhesive or pop dots to the backside of the vellum envelope and place it over the ribbon.

The card is now complete.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and be sure to check out Susan K. Weckesser's blog for more inspiration.  Have a creative day!

Let It Snow Christmas Tree And Snowman Stocking

Happy Tuesday!  Today is my day for my Christmas Love Campaign project to be featured at Susan K. Weckesser and it's also my first project being a designer on the team so I am super excited.  For my first project, I made a Christmas stocking with a Canvas Corp. Canvas Stocking.

Recently I received lots of goodies from Susan and also the sponsors who support the Christmas Love Campaign.  You can read about it here.

I started with a blank canvas stocking and made a ribbon Christmas tree with some gorgeous green ribbon from May Arts and adhered it to a green glitter piece of card stock from Core'dinations.

I stamped the snowman image (Susan K. Weckesser's co-branded stamp with Unity Stamps ) onto the canvas stocking and used the Scribbles Fabric Paints to colour the hat, scarf and the snowman body.  I painted the stocking with some Scribbles Blue Fabric Paint for the sky and some Scribbles White Fabric Paint for the snow.  Once the paint was dry, I used some Diamond Stickles to give the snow some added sparkle.

On the cuff of the stocking, I adhered some May Arts Ribbon around the rough edge of the cuff also added a twine bow and topped it with a red sequin for some sparkle.

For the tree, I also added twine to make it look like a garland and also adhered some red sequins to look like ornaments and used a piece of Black Magic Core'dinations Cardstock and sanded with the Sand It Gadget by Core'dinations to make it look like the tree trunk.

I hope you enjoyed your visit and are inspired to try a little craft to give to someone to make their day.  Have a creative week!