Vintage Chic

Howdy & welcome to my little slice of blog-land.  I am still crafting {smile}.  I am preparing for my last craft fair next weekend.  Saturday, to be exact.  But I wanted to share with you a new decorated notebook.  I went to our local scrapbook store, and stumbled upon this beautiful pattern paper collection by Heidi Swapp - Vintage Chic.  It is basically all neutrals with a teal blue shade.  So, I pick up a few sheets of this beautiful (to me) pattern paper and headed home!

here is what I came up with:

Now, I have a lot of paper crafting supplies, so the pattern paper is all I had to purchase (at this time).   I selected embellishments that were sweet, rustic, french, and/or simple pretty!

Recipe:  I used mint macaroon card stock by Stampin; Up! for the matt.  

I cut strips of each of the pattern papers in the Vintage Chic collection.  I sponged all the edges with crumb cake classic ink by Stampin' Up!.  I cut a 4" burlap doily in half, and adhered it to the right side.  I added a simple border stitch around the front panel.  I did  a zig zag stitch at each pattern paper seam.  I tucked a black and white French tag in behind the doily.  I added a bingo card.  I hand-stamped my sentiment.  I hand cut the banner.  I sponged the edges to help give the sentiment banner some definition.  The 'vintage chic' sentiment tag is actually the pattern paper label.  I adhered it to the front of the notebook with foam tape.  I added a scrap length of teal velvet ribbon to a rhinestone heart ribbon slide, just below the vintage chic label.  I added a Prima holiday paper blossom.   I added a white resin floral garland.  I wrapped some cream crochet trim around the notebook cover, and looped it through the metal word bar.  I used black pearl brads to secure the ends.

I am super happy with how beautiful (to me) this decorated notebook turned out.  So, I made a matching gift tote.  {smile}  I had so much fun creating this notebook, that I made another.  I used some of the same pattern papers, and added pink as my accent color.  Stay tuned for photos of my other creations!

Late Birthday Wishes

While surfing the web over the weekend, I found alot of inspiration from some of the folks that I follow.  And I wanted to try an interesting color combo.  I found this decorators photo on Little Princess Cards blog. The colors are pink, yellow, and black.  I know, this color combo sounds far fetched.  But, I was determined to see if I could get it to work.  So, I rummaged threw my scrap stash.  I located some pink and yellow ribbons.  And set out to work.  I needed a bit more direction, so I went to a sketch challenge blog @ Simple Desire to scrap.  This challenge blog is in Russian, so you will need to translate the blog if you are interested in reading it.  (This blog has a translate button at the top of the page.)

Here is the original inspiration photo:

 Here is the sketch:

  

And here is my card:

When I first saw this color combo, my first thought was, 'are you kidding?'.  But I really like it!  Like I said this card is made from scraps.  I believe the large yellow polka dot paper is a Cosmo Cricket paper.  The pink script is from Sceinic Route, the hounds tooth pattern paper is from Authentique, the cream text paper is from Stampin' Up!, as well as the yellow small polka dot paper and the glitter paper.  The pink flourish paper I have no idea.  The yellow ribbon is from Stampin' Up! and the pink small polka dot ribbon is from Paper Trey Ink.  The ribbon slide is from Paper Studio.  The stamps (Birthday Wishes, and friends) are from Stampin' Up!  So is the die to cut the cardstock scallop circle.  The flower comes from Kaiser.  The card base is Crumb Cake, from Stampin' Up!.  

Thank you for looking! and I hope this new year is off to a great start for you! 

Welcome, Baby {CS35}

Well, its Thursday, and that means its time for another challenge over @ Creative Sketches!  This week it is a sketch that we are working with.  I hope that you all have a chance to play along.  The rules/guidelines are posted on the challenge blog.  

Here is the sketch:

Looks pretty 'user-friendly', doesn't it?  So, take some time, sit at your craft table, and create something wonderful, and link it to the challenge!  You never know, you could be our challenge winner!  To give you a bit of inspiration, this is what I came up with:

A Boy Baby Card:

I used Crumb Cake cardstock as my card base.  I layered a piece of Baja Breeze DSP as my main panel. Yes, its the same piece of paper, just the other side!  How resourceful, huh?  I wanted to tie in the Soft Suede, so I added a thin piece of a scallop trim border to separate the two different patterns of paper.  I added a piece of Baja Breeze seam binding to hide my seam.  Slipped on a silver ribbon slide.  Pretty, and I didn't use a hundred products!  The three stamps are all retired.  The baby onesie is from a hostess set featured in the Occasions Mini catalog earlier this year (A Slice of Life).  The fancy frame is from Sale-a-Bration last year (Vintage Labels), and the sentiment is from a hostess set from the Occasions Mini catalog that just expired (Something to Celebrate).  I used Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue, and Pink Pirouette markers to color the onesie.  I added some foam tape behind the two 'tags' to elevate them off the card.  I didn't want it to look too flat.  See, easy peasy!  Enter our sketch challenge, and use colors and products from any company you have on hand.  You don't need to go out and buy new stuff to compete!  Lets see what wonderful things you can create! and share them with us and everyone who stops by!  You just might inspire someone!