Borrowing Design Principles Tutorial

Hi Friends!  Today I’m up on the CardMaker Blog for my last guest tutorial.  It’s a fun one where I show how to borrow design principles from areas like photography, floral design and even hairstyle!  I hope you can pop on over and take a peek.  Here’s a peek at one of the design principles in action that you’ll see there....

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Borrowing Design Principles Tutorial

Cards That Move!

Hello CardMaker Friends!  Today I’m over at CardMaker Blog to show a tutorial on some "movin’ and groovin’ cards”!  Here’s a sneak peek of one of them....  I hope you can pop by for the full tutorial. 

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Cards That Move!

Reversible Folk Art

Hi Friends!  Today I’m up on the CardMaker Blog to show off some pretty folk art and how to create a reverse colouring set of cards.  I hope you can join me!  

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Reversible Folk Art

Double Tutorial Day!

Hi Friends!

Today I have two posts in the blog-o-sphere, I’m guesting at CardMaker Magazine Blog and I have an Inspire Me Monday post over at Power Poppy.  They’re some fun tutorials that I hope you can check out!

Here’s a preview of what you’ll see....

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Double Tutorial Day!

Tops of 2013 Part Two

Happy New Year Friends! Here is round two of my favourite creations of 2013 - before we start a brand new year of creativity in 2014!  Thanks for stopping by to share them with me!

JULY

Sweet Garden Fairies

I just cannot pass up a yummy piece of chocolate Birthday cake! 

A fun CardMaker Hop with Maggie Holmes products from Crate Paper.  

AUGUST

Autumn Blessings abound in this pretty little scene from Marcella Hawley at Flourishes.  

Framed artwork I created for my sister-in-law’s apple themed kitchen. 

Some masculine pointillism with this gorgeous set Mountain View

SEPTEMBER

A special tag I was commissioned to create for a brand new baby boy!

Sow some Sweet Seeds of Friendship

Crisp Night Sky 

OCTOBER

Cozy with The Cat’s Pajamas

My World Card Making Day creation about My Corner of the World

Some pretty embossed Winter Berries

NOVEMBER

My own version of a Snow Buddies Snow Globe

Lots of dimenion in this So Distressed creation

In Flanders Field, in honour of Remembrance Day in Canada

DECEMBER

Soaring with There She Goes

Be Strong, I love the sentiments in this gorgeous set combined with lots of inky watercoloring

And this  most recent card is one of my favourites of the year Country Birthday…I spent a lot of time on that Prismacolouring and really loved how it turned out.  For me, that’s what it’s all about, creating something that expresses me and is something I’m proud of, and being able to give a little piece of myself to someone special.  

Wishing each of you friends the most hopeful New Year yet.  May it be a year of growth, satisfaction and purpose! 

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Tops of 2013 Part Two

Tops of 2013

Here’s the first installment of my favourite designs I created in 2013.  Enjoy!

JANUARY

a 10 Minute Design for Flourishes.  

I adore these Inside and Out You sets from Flourishes.  This sunny one makes me smile.  

Playing with Melanie’s SD Pasque Flower from Gina K 

FEBRUARY

Tweet shows how much I love to colour with Prismacolor pencils on Kraft cardstock.

I loved using embossing over top of all this pretty Copic colouring.  

MARCH

Hello Honey! showcases all that’s great about hexagons and honey.  

Garden Gate is a stunning set from Flourishes with these gorgeous roses.

The Lawn Fawn Blog Hop was a fun one to play in! 

APRIL

Photography Inspires Me - inspired by a picture I took in Cancun. 

OH Snap! is one of Torico’s Birdie Brown images.

A Zoo-Per Day was fun to play with the curvy lines.  

MAY

Party Cat with another of Torico’s Birdie Brown images.  

Playing with rich colours, hexagons and over embossing in this vintage phone design.  

A loose watercolouring style makes this Old Tea Rose design special.  

JUNE

I wanted to re-create the feeling of my blog design with stamps.   

Light it Up with this vintage camping lantern.  

And one of my favourite fruits to round of the first half of 2013.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

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Tops of 2013

Colouring with CardMaker

How about something cool on a hot day!?  (Please Scroll down or click HERE if you're looking for my Flourishes FLIP Post).  

Today is my last post on the CardMaker Blog with the team!  Wow, 8 months goes fast and I really enjoyed my time there.  I decided to show off what I love best - a tutorial on colouring - three different ways, Copics, Prismacolor Pencils and Watercolouring.  Would love it if you check it out!  

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Colouring with CardMaker

CardMaker and Crate Paper Hop!

If you're looking for my Flourishes New Release Post with Pinwheels and Popsicles...please scroll down!

Today the CardMaker Blog Team gets to pair up with Crate Paper and play!  I had so much fun with the Maggie Holmes Collection creating this vibrant and shabby Birthday Card.  

Can you believe all these fun elements?  There's only one tiny bit of stamping on this card!  The rest is fun parts from the collection, sweet little ephemera elements that I coloured up with Copics, fun sparkly Thicker Alpha stickers for the happy words (and the larger part of an apostrophe for the butterfly body), and then a sweet little bow to match the gorgeous paper.  I think it's so pretty and full of celebration.  I stamped wishes to you from Flourishes Inside and Out Happy set, and swiped my copic marker over top and that was all the stamping I needed!  

Now you're going to want to head on over to Annabelle O'Malley's blog to see what fun she has in store with this collection.  

And don't forget....Crate Paper will be hosting a giveaway on their blog of a $40 prize pack of Maggie Holmes items!  

If you get lost along the way head back to the CardMaker Blog and start on over you don't want to miss any of the fun :)  

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CardMaker and Crate Paper Hop!

CardMaker Giveaway with The Cat's Pajamas

As a person who loves colouring, I am naturally drawn to images that are either realistic and botanical, or images that are cute and whimsical.  One of my favourite places for those fun styles with whimsy is The Cat's Pajamas; I had the pleasure of guesting with them last year, which was so fun.  Today I'm excited to show TCP off a little to you! 

AND....it's an extra-fun day today!  It's my turn at the CardMaker Magazine Blog to give something away!  The Cat's Pajamas has generously donated a $25 gift certificate to the winner.  All you have to do is comment here to win, please leave your email address so I can contact you if your name is chosen. 

And here's a little TCP inspiration I made for you today that shows off just how cute these stamps are.  

I have a very particular affection for this character....Mr. Bun Bun :)  Those ears just get me every time!    This set is called Away We Go.  How can you resist those big bunny ears in a hot air balloon?  I coloured him up with Copics to match this very fun MME paper  - Come Away With Me.  It's the perfect match with the travelling theme...and hot air balloons in the background. 

The sentiment flag is also a part of one of the pages of DP, and I accented with some sewing and fun little buttons and twine.  

So, leave a comment here, and I'll draw a name June 28th by 11 pm MTN Time, and you can claim your TCP Prize!  

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CardMaker Giveaway with The Cat's Pajamas

CardMaker and Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop!

What a fun day today!  The CardMaker Magazine Blog Team has paired up with Scrapbook Adhesives  by 3L to bring you a very fun hop today showing off all that's available with Scrapbook Adhesives.  All I have to say is WOW!  Not only were they really generous with us  - but they have some awesome products that I had not seen before!  So, I know you'll see some great and inspiring things today on the hop.

Adhesive is an essential in card making.  And the truth is - the RIGHT adhesive makes all the difference on a project being effective.  So today I wanted to show off a number of different applications that used different products in this sweet birthday set I created.

I love when gift packaging is coordinated!  So here's a sweet summer Birthday card and a very fun gift box I created from a Silhouette Cut File I found by Samantha Walker.    

I began with the card creating some fun pennant style elements with Teresa Collins Memories Paper and Flourishes Kid's Play stamp set.  The image is embossed on the icy blue paper and then I added some Scrapbook Adhesives Black Photo Corners to the right edges of the design to accent the main panel and some 3D Foam Squares to pop the panel up a little.   

Now for the very fun gift box that opens so uniquely.... I just love how cute it is!  

Here I used a number of products including Crafty Power Tape to hold the panels of the box together.  It's a lot stronger than regular adhesive which is perfect for a box.   I also used it to adhere the ribbon on the belly band for the box too.  Then, to accent the box I added a pretty felt flower adhering it with medium Dodz which is perfect for holding it together. 

Here's a picture of all the awesome adhesives I used for the Birthday set.  It's so nice to have the right products for a project like this!  

Want some fun news?  Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® is sponsoring two Adhesive Prize packages worth $25 each. One winner will be randomly drawn from comments on the Crafty Power Blog, and the other will be randomly drawn from comments on the participating blog posts.  Be sure to comment on each blog for your chances to win. The contest is open from June 19, 8:00 am EST, until June 21, 8:00 am EST. Winners will be announced on the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Power Blog!  Be sure to stop by and enter for some of these great products yourself!  

Now head on over to the talented Kelly Klapstein to see what she's created!

Thanks for dropping by today!

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CardMaker and Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop!