weekend inspiration from Nicole!

Good morning!

Welcome to another Friday which means it is time for a weekend inspiration post....to help get your creative juices flowing this weekend!

Do you feel like making some fabulous cards?

These wonderful cards were created by Nicole using our Scraps Of Elegance July kit, Sunshine & Sweet Tea.

All 3 cards are different from one another, each in a different color palette, but still from the same gorgeous papers from the BoBunny Butterfly Kisses collection included in the kit.

First there's this soft pink card using the cute chipboard hummingbird (main kit) and the lovely Salvage District stamp from Prima (Elements Add On). Nicole also used one of the Bright Spark doilies that was in the Elements Add On, and the sweet flower is by Blue Fern, and is in the main kit.  The chipboard key is also by Blue Fern, and was in our May main kit.

With the 2nd card, she decided to go with teal blue and fussy cut these adorable jars out of the paper!

The final card she created she used a peach color scheme....

Maybe this weekend you would like to create a layout or two - to inspire you here is a beautiful layout, also from Nicole....

For this layout she used a Blue Fern Studios paper from the romantic Courtship Lane collection (included in the main kit) as her background, and then accented with some BoBunny Butterfly Kisses papers (also from the main kit), chipboard and buttons.  She used the Prima stamp (in the Elements Add On) to form part of the title and even stamped some pretty butterflies that she cut out and popped up against her background.

One of her favorite part of this kit are the gorgeous Attic Charm Daisies from Blue Fern Studios.  

Thanks for stopping by

~Laura

Another beautiful Sunshine & Sweet Tea kit layout by Nicole....

Good morning!

Nicole did a lot of layering on this page, wanting to showcase lots of the pretty kit papers from the July Scraps Of Elegance Sunshine & Sweet Tea kit. She used the American Crafts Knock Outs butterfly punch included in the kit and popped up the negative to give a shadow effect.

She loved the Prima Salvage District stamp included in the Elements Add On. And she dabbed some Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint in turquoise on the Blue Fern Studios flowers(from the main kit) and the Prima flowers and leaves (from the Floral Add On) and tied a bow on the tag with the Prima twine. That gorgeous chipboard mason jar is by Blue Fern, and was included in the Elements Add On.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Laura

New layouts by Kathy and Nicole....

Good morning!

Today I have two amazing layouts to share...

Nicole used the Scraps Of Elegance 

Sunshine & Sweet Tea kit to create this sweet layout 

Nicole used the BoBunny Butterfly Kisses papers from the kit!

She added some stenciling with modeling paste on the right side of the page and lined up the 2 different paper patterns with fussy cut butterflies from the BoBunny papers.  She sprinkled a bit of Blue Fern's Imagine Ink Watermelon Glitter (included in the Elements Add On) on the wings and added a Prima wooden heart into the center of each.

Using our 'An Ocean Tale Kit', Kathy created this wonderful multi-photo layout!

  She cut the little orange stripe from one of the G45 Voyage Beneath The Sea papers included in the Main Kit then glued it 1" from the edge of the paper.  She then centered the large doily from the Main Kit on top.

She matted the photos with Graphic 45 paper included in the Coordinating Paper Add-On.  On the right side she fussy cut the really neat mermaid from the Main Kit.  Underneath the image, she crumpled up some of the turquoise netting included in the Main Kit then glued down the mermaid and added some little gems from a previous kit. 

She fussy cut another mermaid and she used a Prima / Finnabair gear from the Creativity Add On behind her head, then placed a gorgeous Prima French Riviera flower from the kit behind the gear.

At the bottom of her tail she used another flower from the Floral Add-On.  And added lots of cardboard pieces on the back of the image to make it stand up past the flowers.  

She created a flower cluster using flowers from the Floral Add-On and another metal gear from the Prima Mechanicals included in the Creativity Add-On.  She placed a gem from her stash in the center of the gear. 

In the top center she used the chipboard phrase from G45 included in the Elements Add-On for her title.

At the very bottom of the layout she used another G45 chipboard tag and some more gears, both from the Elements Add-On, then  added little gems around the layout for a little sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Laura

Mixed Media Monday: Beachy Tags and ATC's

It's July, the perfect time of the year for all things beachy, and we've got two wonderful beach themed projects to share with you today.

The first is a set of 5 beautiful ocean themed Artist Trading Cards, created by Monica Lowrance with items from our store.

Here's what Monica says about these beauties:

I wanted to use these ATC's that I made for the Scraps of Darkness Store for a personal ATC swap.
I've seen so many beautiful beach themed items out there. It was easy to be inspired.
Here are some close ups. Basically I started with the background. I used a Prima stencil and some modeling paste. I used Wow Embossing Powder: Atlantic Seaspray and various inks and sprays to give it that beach feel. I sped up dry time by using my heat gun and then used some Gel Medium to adhere the cheese cloth. I rolled my Blue Fern paper and then adhered my little beach related pictures.

I used cheesecloth under each of the images.

I used a Prima stencil on the background. The Scraps of Darkness online store carries a wide variety of Prima products. And I used some various Stickles  and inks from my stash.

 I rolled some Blue Fern Serendipity collection Contemplation papers. The Scraps of Darkness Online Store has lots of Blue Fern products as well.

 

 I used some Prima bloom spray and other mists to get the various colors.

These items you can find in the Scraps of Darkness Online Store:

Blue Fern Serendiptiy collection Contemplation paper

Faber Castell Gel Medium

Dritz Cheesecloth

Currently sold out:  Wow Embossing Powder : Atlantic Seaspray (However, we have this Wow Embossing Powder: Opaque Pastel Blue - I think this would work wonderfully).

And next we have two gorgeous tags by Denisa Gryczova:

Denisa was working with our July Scraps of Darkness kit, An Ocean Tale, as well as the July Elements Add On.  Here's what she says about her tags:

Welcome sea lovers. Today stepping out of my comfort zone with these two oversized sea themed tags.  I used the fabulous An Ocean Tale Kit by Scraps of Darkness.

You can subscribe to kits here.

Full of texture and all shades of teal. Gorgeous colours for any sea projects. From the Main Kit I was playing with Art-|C |Metallic Teal Heavy Body Acrylic paint, Assorted Seashells, Falk Teal Tulle. From the Element Add Ons I used Blue Fern Studios Chipboard Seaside Seashells, Craft Consortium Always & Forever Self-Adhesive Pearls and Finnabair´s Rusty Gears Mechanicals.

Some close ups:

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope we've inspired you to break out your supplies and create some summer goodness for yourself!

~Melinda

Lisa Novogrodski's stunning 'Sunshine & Sweet Tea' layout

Good morning!

Lisa N. has been creating stunning projects with the

 Scraps Of Elegance 'Sunshine & Sweet Tea' kit

Her background paper and layers are from the Blue Fern Courtship Lane Collection, included in the main kit.  She used the BoBunny Butterfly Kisses papers from the kit to fussy cut the blue florals and also used lots of gorgeous flowers from Prima and Petaloo. We carry the Petaloo Botanica Brown Floral Ephemera in the online store here, which she used to layer among the pink and blue. She also used a vintage photo which came on a digital collage sheet in a past Scraps of Darkness kit.

  She had a wooden floral rose from Kaisercraft on hand and she painted it in pink Lindy's mist then embossed it in pink and white encrusted jewels. And then more inking over it in green and brown. Encrusted jewels are her favorite embossing powders and you should try them out if you haven't yet. We have a variety and you can find them HERE.

You can see the effect of the embossing on the leaves.

She used a Finnabair stencil and colored some modeling paste before spreading it. She also layered in some stenciling in two and three tones.

Canvas Corp has a mesh ribbon and she used some gel medium to adhere it to deli paper then embossed over it in purple encrusted jewels. Then tore it apart and tucked it in for more layering and texture.

She also added some misted cheesecloth. 

Thanks for stopping by

~Laura

Relaxin at the Beach with Laura

My favorite place in the world is the beach....

So when I received the July Scraps Of Darkness

'An Ocean Tale Kit' I was so happy!

It is chock full of yummy beachy papers and embellishments!

This first layout I created I used the awesome Graphic 45 Voyage Beneath the Sea papers!

I used flowers from the main kit, floral add on and some from previous kits!

I fussy cut the steampunk mermaid and the mermaid riding a fish and the octopus from the wonderful papers.  I added a splattering of pearls from the elements add on.

 

The title piece is from the Graphic 45 chipboard from the elements add on...and I just add a few pearls 

I placed a doily from the main kit behind the photo to add more visual interest and fussy cut the frame from one of the G45 papers! 

My family loves going to the beach as much as I do.... 

I started by layering all the awesome bright colors from the Graphic 45 'Voyage Beneath the Sea' papers 

In the Elements add on is the Graphic 45 Chipboard!  The piece was perfect for my title! 

Also in the elements add on are some wonderful Blue Fern chipboard shells.

I treated each one differently....The blue shell I painted with Art-C Metallic Teal Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Tube from the main kit, the orange one I sprayed with Orange Dylusions mist from a previous kit then added some orange embossing powder.  The greenish one I used the Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise Ink Spray from the color add on.  I then outlined all of them with a white Dylusions Paint Pen also from the color add on.

The really cool shells were from the main kit and the Prima Finnabair Art Ingredients Melange Art Pebbles were from the elements add on

I added a some Prills from a previous kit to my clusters, too. 

The flowers are from the floral add on and main kit, as is the Sensations Teal Lovebug Yarn  

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

 ~Laura