Let's Capture These Sketches! - #21

For this week we had an amazing sketch by our guest designer Beth Sears to use at Let's Capture These Sketches!! To see Beth's sketch, click here.

Here is my layout using Beth's sketch as my inspiration...

All Bundled Up

supplies: cardstock, Bazzill; patterned paper, My Mind's Eye; edge punch, EK Success; pearl swirl, ZVA; pearls, gems, Hero Arts, Kaisercraft, Micheal's; blue snowflakes, MAMBI; mini vinyl snowflakes, Creative Expressions - Custom Vinyl; pearl brad, Imaginsce; pine bough punch, Martha Stewart; other, thread, Stickles, Liquid Applique.

My layout includes some our sponsor's goodies for LCTS;
ZVA pearl flourishes sponsored by Let's Capture Our Memories and some mini vinyl snowflakes by Creative Expressions.

I created my snowflake frame on my new Klic N'Kut machine. The software on this machine is AMAZING and I designed the whole frame, all the snowflakes included, and then cut everything out in ONE piece. I also designed my title too.... I added some Liquid Applique on it for a snowy effect and some Ranger Stickles for lots of sparkle!

Here's a close up of some of my frame and stitching details along one side of the snowflake frame. I love how this layout turned out!


Make sure you check out all the other creative takes on Beth's sketch by my fellow LCTS Design Team on the Let's Capture These Sketches blog. Enjoy!
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It's Party Time!

Welcome to the "Let's Party!" blog hop for myStamp BOX! If you have just happened upon my blog, you'll want to start at the beginning our blog hop. Take the time to leave some love on each design team members blog post for the blog and you could be be picked to WIN a very own myStamp BOX stamp set of your very own! You have until Friday December 11th at 6pm EST to leave your comments for a chance to win. The blog hop winner will be announced on the myStamp BOX blog on Monday December 14th.

Here is our blog rotation for this evening:

Since the theme of our blog hop today is all about PARTIES, I thought why not share a few fun ideas for the next birthday party is your household.

I started with a very simple birthday invitation. I love the "Happy Birthday" greeting from the Happy Word Jumble stamp set. I created a circle mask on the front of my card and then stamped the greeting multiple times across the span of my card in orange ink. With my circle mask in place, I used my Copic airbrush and added a hint of orange colouring around my circle.

Then I took the fun little cake and multiple candles stamps from my Happy Birthday (small box) and stamped them with in my white circle. I coloured in my image and the masked off the cake and candles and the surrounding card and used my Copic airbrush with some blue ink and added colour around the cake. I then added some glittery stickles to make my icing more fun!

I love it when all the items from a birthday match! So I took my colour scheme and the stamps sets I had used on my invitations to add some fun details to all the rest of my party creations.

I took a circle of white cardstock and stamped my "Happy Birthday" greeting across it; just like my invite. I airbrush a little orange colour over the circle and then passed the circle through my die cutting machine and cut out a five. This of course could be adapted for any number or greeting! I also added some stickles to the five to make is sparkle! I backed it with a scalloped circle of blue cardstock for a fun pop of colour and to also match my colour scheme. I taped a Popsicle stick to the back of the scalloped circle and then also backed that with a matching scallop to hide my tape job.

To create the cupcake wraps, I had a fun birthday themed die cut shape that I used to cut out on my machine. I then stamped multiple cake images across the wrap, coloured them in, masked them and airbrushed the back grounds. I created a few different colours and designs and made them each slightly unique. I added to stickles once again to the icing on all the cake images to match the cupcake label and the invites.

To top off my fun birthday party creations, I created a little goodie bag wrapper. I die cut out a label shape, folded it in half and stamped on both sides using the "Happy Birthday" greeting from the Happy World Jumble stamp set again. I also added a fun "Thanks!" greeting from my Mention It! stamp set. I used it to cover up the staple I used to close the bag and add the goodie topper.

I hope my projects have all inspired you to create something fun for your next birthday party! Thanks for stopping by today!

Now back to the myStamp BOX blog.

Don't forget to leave a comment on each blog to be eligible for our blog hop prize! Good luck!

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Let's Party Tonight!


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The Scrapping Bug - December Reveal

Come and check out what the Bug gals have created with the amazing December kit featuring BasicGrey!

Check out the Dec '09 gallery here! Here is one of my creations using the kit:

Christmas Cutie

This is is packed full of gorgeous papers and embellishments! Make sure to get your today!

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