Carta Bella Winter Fun!

Hello sweet blog friends!  This is my second post today!
Design team projects from The Scrapbooking Studio will be shared!  This is a LONG post, so get your favorite blogging drink and enjoy!

First up, a card:  The card front was embossed with Tim Holtz snowflake embossing folder, then sanded with a sanding grip and inked with Faded Jeans Distress Ink.  For the focal, a large image from Just Rite Clear Christmas Vintage Labels One was stamped onto kraft card stock with Coffee Archival Ink, then embossed with clear embossing powder.  The image was then cut and dry embossed with Spellbinders Vintage Label and Banner dies.  A fancy tag was cut with a Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two die and red cardstock and layered onto the craft label.  The sticker from the sticker sheet was layered onto another die cut piece.

The pleated ribbon brings a nice pop of red to the card, layered with stickers to cover the stitching.  A flower was made from more pleated ribbon and topped with a Teresa Collins jewel.

The card is an easel.  To hold it up, an embellished Maya Road snowflake was glued to the inside.

A close-up of the snowflake.  To achieve this look, the naked chipboard was covered with embossing ink and sprinkled with snowflake tinsel embossing powder and heated.  When cool, the piece was covered with glue and blue glitter.  A Teresa Collins jewel covered the center.

Layouts

 The title "SNOW" and a large snowflake were cut on the Cricut.  The hexagon shapes are Maya Road Chipboard covered  with paper from the line and letter stickers.  Border stickers from the sticker sheet were used on the top and bottom of the title mat.  

For the coordinating page,  the negative of the snowflake was glued to another patterned paper from  the line.  The snow man was cut on the Cricut - love that he has a red heart!  A layered journaling piece and a Maya Road snowflake, embossed with snowflake tinsel embossing powder and topped with a Teresa Collins jewel.  See close-ups below.

My altered project this month was made with one sheet of 12 x 12 paper for the base, folded and cut to form a book.  The first page was punched with a Mini-8  Vine punch to make the shaped edge.  Rayon ribbon was colored with Faded Jeans Distress Stain, crumpled into a ball to dry and then tied onto the project in a double bow.

 This page corner was also punched with the Mini 8 Vine punch.

Thanks for peeking at The Scrapbooking Studio December projects!  All supplies used may be purchased as the Studio, so come get yours today!!

Be Inspired!  

Jules

Christmas Cottage Countdown Gift Card

Hello Bloggers!  Sharing a little card today.  Teresa Collins' Christmas Cottage Paper Pack was used for this card as well as Spellbinders Spiral Rose die and Cricut (pocket and bracket mats).

Ink : Vintage Photo 

Using 'Christmas Countdown' rectangle, green journaling ticket, green "December", Calendar and 'A Merry Little Christmas' rectangle from the die-cut sheet

Enjoy and Be Inspired!

Jules

Paper Wishes Color Me...

Un-colored!  Hey, everyone! Another wedding card up for viewing on the blog today!

The base is purple card stock with a layer of plain vellum,  printed heart vellum and an Ebony Color Me Lace card topper.  You gotta try these card toppers from Paper Wishes!  Click the link to see more. You can use any kind of color you want to achieve your look (as I did a few posts back), although for this, one I decided not to color it at all!

The center of the card topper was cut out with an exacto-knife so there would be a "window."  A Spellbinders Fancy Tags 2, cut with the Big Shot,  and adorned with matching pearl bling, created the focal.

A triple loop purple satin bow, adorned with Jenni Bowlin and Maya Road Pins and a double heart charm, trimmed the right side of the card front.

The card inside was vellum layers and cardstock, cut with Spellbinders Labels Eight and another Fancy Tags 2.  The Congratulations banner was part of the Ebony Color Me set.

A little pocket for some cash...EK Success Edger Scroll & Hearts punch made the pretty trim.

This is what the card looks like when opened...

The card was a little thick with the bow on front, so I made an envelo-box with a Martha Stewart Scoreboard, added a belly band using EK Success Rose Bush Large Slim Punch, Anna Griffin flower and punched labels.

The inside of the envelope was lined with lavender glimmer paper and purple card stock.

Thanks for peeking in today!

Be Inspired!

Jules

Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Card

Hello Bloggers!  Up today on the blog is a card made with the TC Christmas Cottage line and some POW! glitter paper provided for my crafting pleasure from The Scrapbooking Studio in Bloomington!

It is a matchbook card with a few layers added in...a Fabrications brad topped off the layered die-cut flower from the line.  It was painted with Tattered Angels Glam in purchased during one of the TA classes held at The Studio last summer!  Fun!

The next layer down is the POW paper.  It is very glittery!  The matting layers were reversed for the "strike" area on the matchbook and it was topped with a stamp from "Just Rite" (CR-03820 Christmas Vintage Labels One) and die cut with a matching die from Spellbinders Antique Labels One.

A closer look at the dimension...

The inside is layered with a gift card pocket and more vintage label dies and stamps and some gems from the TC Fabrications line.

I must say, this was a beautiful line of papers and embellishments to work with!  Thanks TSS!

Quick Quotes and Spellbinders Dies...

...make some great looking cards!  Just look at this beauty up today!

One of my dear friends retired this past week, so this is what I came up with to send her off into the wonderful world of retirement (I am only guessing that it is wonderful, as I wouldn't know from personal experience!).  The base is Quick Quotes' Julie je t'aime JT100.  On top of that is a layer of lavendar card stock and an old card front cut from the two largest Spellbinders Nestabilities Label Eight.

After the pieces were cut and embossed with the die, they were left in the die and Milled Lavendar Distress Ink was blended onto the edges.  A triple-loop bow using that great peg bow maker was made from Sugar & Spice ribbon (purchased at Michael's) and wrapped around the top layer.

The top layer and the sentiment were foam taped onto the lavendar layer.

Butterflies were punched with a three-layer butterfly punch from EK Success (see it at Jo-ann).  The centers were adorned with purple bling and the wings of the single-layer butterflies were accented with aqua nailhead stickers from Mark Richards (Hobby Lobby).  The three-layer butterfly on the top right of the card was embossed with an embossing folder (all three layers together).

 A closer look at the details...The embossed butterfly below.

This is the inside of the card.

An envelo-box was made from more JT100.  A belly-band was made from a strip of Quick Quotes Andrew Avenue AA200 - loved that paper line - good thing I still have a great stash of it!  :), along with a strip of JT100 and a layer of ribbon.  A tag was punched from the reverse side of the JT100 and attached to the triple-loop bow with purple scrapper's floss.

A special personal note to my friend was written on a couple of journaling notes and attached to the inside left of the card, in case she wanted to remove them.

To all my blogger friends out there, have a safe, happy and labor-free Labor Day!

Until next time...Be Inspired!  Jules

Wedding Mini Album

Hello Bloggers !  This is gonna be a really long post with lots of photos and descriptions, so grab a drink, sit back and scroll!  Click on any photo for a better view and click on the links to see more product.

This mini, again, was made for bonus daughter, Allison's bridal shower gift.  The pattern is from Laura Dennison's website.  She is an amazing designer!  The album is appropriately named  Happily Ever After!

This is the cover.  It is layered with Teresa Collins Mr. & Mrs. papers, lace and a scroll band cut with an EK Success large edger punch found here.  The Prima bling (Say it in Crystals-Vintage Swirl) was then layered on.  The flowers were die cut on my Big Shot with Tim Holtz tattered flowers dies and Spellbinders foliage die.  All were dry-embossed and layered for dimension.  Pearl stamens were added to the larger flower centers.

These two are the bride's pages, the veil on the left and the train on the right.  The black binding tabs were cut from Spellbinders Donna Salazar's Creative Page Tabs die using Core'dinations black pearl papers.  The papers are heavy-weight and hold up well for this purpose, plus they give a little shimmer to the otherwise boring binding tabs!  The purple scallop circles and hearts were punched with Marvy Uchida punches.  The purple papers were misted with Mister Huey's Shine from Studio Calico and The Scrapbooking Studio

It's a little hard to see, but the veil is lifted and the train is pulled out for a little interactive photo placement!

The rings and the groom pages.  All of the pages have pockets on one side with photo mats tucked inside.  All the pages were edgee-punched with a Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch.

Inside the grooms' page...the "shirt collar" lifts out to a photo mat and the printed paper tucked into the "cummerbund" is also a photo mat!

For the Maid of Honor and Bridesmaids...

Best Man and Groomsmen...

The cake and the toast.  The cake layers lift out to reveal love quotes.

The inside of the Toast page...

Another look at the cover.

Allison loved the book, and since she also is a scrapper, I know as soon as her photos are received, they will be placed into this great mini!

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you were a little more wowed today than yesterday!

Be Inspired!  Jules

MOM Frame

Hello everyone!  Thanks for stopping by the blog today!  Wow, it has been a busy week!  I just returned from what I thought was going to be a Vegas Vacation....well...it turned into a Honeymoon in Vegas!   My significant other of 9 1/2 years (Jim) proposed on bended knee right in the middle of the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas and we tied the knot at Vegas Weddings within an hour of the proposal!  To say I was surprised was a bit of an understatement!  What a way to begin our vacay!!

 This is my Mother's Day gift project for my Mom.  SSSHHH! Don't tell her!  She doesn't have a computer!  My mother is such a wonderful example to follow and I am so grateful to have her in my life.  She has always been supportive of me and my choices in life.  She let me make mistakes and learn from them, without an "I told you so."  It makes all of us who we are, right?  Anyway, I just want to show some love to my Mom....I love you, Mom!

This project was inspired by a Tammy Tutterow class I took recently at The Scrapbooking Studio.
Details:  The background is a wooden frame purchased at Michaels.  After the background was stained with Rusty Hinge, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Picket Fence Distress Stains, it was stamped with border and corner stamps before layering on the papers (Graphic 45 and Core'dinatons) and cotton batting.  The papers and batting were inked with Rusty Hinge Distress Ink.  Spellbinders Nestabilities Grand Labels 4 was cut for the center focal, embossed with a paisley Cuttlebug embossing folder and inked with Quick Quotes new Baja Blue chalk ink.  Love the rich color!

 The vine is stained with Peeled Paint Distress stain and inked with the same color distress ink.
 Tim Holtz goodies used were the post (die cut), letter cards, chitchat stickers, tiny attacher, grunge board swirls, foliage, vintage button, jump rings, brads, perfect pearls, stream alcohol ink.  The paper flowers are mostly Prima. The base of the metal flower is from Graphic 45, colored with alcohol ink.

Thanks for peeking in today!  Be Inspired...Jules

Little Yellow Bicycle Card

 Hello Fabulous Bloggers!  This is the 3rd installment of the March design team projects for The Scrapbooking Studio/Moline!

This is a step card which was modified from a larger version to accomplish the same look.  A Spellbinders Nestabilities die was cut, embossed and chalked, then layered with a de-bossed sticker to create the focal.  The striped background was hand made from strips of all the Little Yellow Bicycle patterned papers ~ quite an undertaking, but I was really pleased with the end result!

A de-bossed sticker and ticket completed the inside.

These projects really challenged my creativity and I am looking forward to creating something fabulous next month!  Thanks for stopping by the blog today...and Be Inspired!  Jules

Someone Turned 50

Hello Fabulous Fellow Bloggers!  Someone turned 50...It was my Sister!  Even though the inside of the card was a little "in her face" about her age, I still wanted it to be pretty.  Quick Quotes French Quarter was used for all the papers.  Spellbinders Nestability beaded ovals for the focals.  The bird is also Nestabilities, a closer look below. 

 The flower is alternating layers of cream and black silk and paper flowers topped with a seam binding bow.



The stamps are from Paper Wishes Birthday Greetings Set with black Stazon.  The "50" is black glittered Thickers.

 A black skeleton leaf and some tulle layers were also tucked in there, too!

 The card was so thick, an envelo-box was made from matching paper and wrapped with a belly band to match the card front.

I was very happy with the result and my Sis loved the card, so mission accomplished!  Thanks for stopping by the blog today!   Be Inspired!  Jules