Sunday, April 28, 2013

Open House

We had so much fun and creativity floating around at the open house on Saturday. This was a card I designed to demonstrate how you can use some of the stamps from the Best Of 25 Years line. I love being able to get my hands on some retired stamps and I really love being able to earn a free set for just buying the sets I want.

When my guests arrived they really steped it up and made some amazing variations on the theme. I can't wait to see what my next event will come up with. 
Stamp sets used: 

Colors used:
Verry Vanilla
Rich Razzleberry
So Saffron
Basic Gray

Friday, April 12, 2013

Princess Autograph Book

This year for summer vacation we are headed to Disney World. It will be our daughters first trip and she is super excited about meeting the princesseses. Rather than buy an autograph book I decided to make one. Really, I don't have all these craft supplies around the house for nothing.  I started with a  kids board book from a local discount store. you can pick them up anywhere for about $1. I measured and cut out enough sheets of Verry Vanilla to cover all the pages and afixed with Tombow glue.
For Cinderella I used the Dress Up Framelits wiith a bigshot and my Bird Builder punch to make the shapes.  The Colors are Baja Breeze and Bashful Blue. Sadly the Dazzling Diamonds highlights on the sleves and sides of the dress did not show up well in the picture. please take my word for it. the extra bling really makes it stand out in person. 



For Belle's gown things got a bit more complex. (props to my sister Charlotte for coming up with the dress swag on this one)  The colors are Daffodil Delight and More Mustard and we used the same Dress Up Framelit for the basic dress. For the top of the dress we cut out the swag shape using one side of the Decorative Label punch. Next we embossed it using the hearts from the Adorning Acceents folder set. On the skirt we layered two strips of card stock and embossed using the Delicate Designs Folders. The rose in the corner is from the Best of Flowers stamp set. The color is Cherry Cobbler. We used a marker to color only part of the stamp to get a single rose.