Jinger Adams Design Team Call

I made this Easter layout for the Jinger Adams Design Team Call.  Jinger Adams is the former spokesperson for Provocraft and is now striking on her own.  If her taste in shoes are an indicator, I just know what she has in store is going to be great ;) 

I wanted to make something fresh and that said, "Spring is here!"  I can't wait to take a picture on Easter that I can add to layout.  I will update this post with the picture I select. 

I Used:

- Claudine Hellmuth Sticky-Back Canvas in White

- Word Collage Porject Cricut Cartridge - Easter image printed using autofill

- Elise Imagine Color & Patterns Cartridge - pattern 1, p. 3  for Word Collage Easter image 

  light blue color from palette for EASTER letters from Kate's ABCs
- Hannah Montana - butterfly image - bttrfly cut at 4 in
- Kate's ABCs Cricut Cartridge - All letters cut at .7 in using the Baby Girl Font 2 Shadow feature and shift
  Bird-s for the E
  Apple-s for the A
  Shoes2-s for the S
  Teacup-s for the T
  Bunny-s for the R
- Prima Flowers November Chrysanthemums
- Imaginisce orange & yellow rhinestones
- All paper from Bazille
- We R Memory Keepers Corner Chompers 3/8
- White Seam Binding
- Imagine Cricut Machine

Here's How:
First, I flooded the Easter image from the Word Collage cartridge with the pattern from Elise.   Then I used the autofill feature to make the Easter image as big as possible.  The colors and image looked so beautiful I was tempted to just leave it as it was.

Then, I flooded the E, A, S, T, E, R with the light blue color from the Elise color palette.  I glued it on top of one of the colorful Easter words to make it stand out and added the Prima flowers which needed some bling to jazz them up :)  The Imaginisce rhinestones did the job.

I cut the butterfly from the Hannah Montana cartridge.  I had wanted one that looked delicate with a lot of flourish and this fit right in.  Some orange rhinestones gave it a little sparkle.

I rounded the edges of photo mats to soften the look and added the seam binding.

I added a Prima flower on the photo mat at the last minute.  It makes it more spring-like. 

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. 

~S.D. Gordon

Chandelier Birthday Card

I made a birthday card and tried to do something out of the box for me. I went with a black and white theme. It is definitely more edgy than usual for me.

I Used
- Sophicated Cartridge: chandelier
- PK Glitz: glitter
- Jolee: Rhinestone
- Seam Binding
- Grey Pencil for shading
- Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress for shading on edges
- Papertrey Ink (PTI) Canvas Impression Plate
- Tattered Angels Coco Creme
- Close to My Heart (CTMH) sentiment "Best wishes to you"

Here's How
I cut the chandelier at about 4 1/4. I used a black and white glitter paper for the chandelier and white paper for the candles and middle section of the chandelier. When I arranged the candels on the chandelier before I pasted it, I realized that they looked very flat. I pulled out the distress pad and blended some antique linen on the edges to give it some depth. I also used the grey pencil to add some shading especially on that white middle part. You can see the detail a little better in the close-up. I add some glitter for flames and my candles were done!

Next, I took some black cardstock and used the PTI Canvas Impression Plate. I love this impression plate because it is so subtle. Then I spritz it with Coco Creme by Tattered Angels to give it a glow as if came from the candels.

I started off with a 5 x 7 card but it just looked wrong so I made it into a square card (5 x 5). It still needed something and I added some seam binding. I wasn't sure if stamping on seam binding would work but it did! YES! I tried it first on a scrap piece of binding. I was so excited when it worked out. Can't you tell? The sentiment is from the Art Philosophy kit by CTMH. Last, I added some bling from Jolee and my step out of the box was done... Now I'm going back into my box... :D