The Twinery: October Guest Designer

Hi Everyone!  I'm back guest designing at The Twinery this month!  For my first post, I created a fun card for my Mother-in-Law's Birthday...take a peek:

 

 

I love the chalkboard trend, and thought this Chalkboard Easel Card from Lori Whitlock was too cute!   I used some Doodlebug Friendly Forest and some chalkboard paper from Canvas Corp to put it together.  The banner is strung with some Solid Honeydew Twine. 

 

 

I also used some Solid Strawberry Twine to create my balloon string.

 

That's it for me today, thanks for stopping by!

Doodlebug Designs: Countdown to Valentine's Day

 Hi Everyone,  I've got my first project up on the Doodlebug blog today!!  I created this Valentine's countdown calendar using the new Sweetheart collection.   I originally purchased this frame to create an Advent calendar, unfortunately I didn't have the time to finish the project before the season.  Instead of waiting a whole year, I decided to make a Valentine themed one!

 Since I was only working with 14 days as opposed to 24...I didn't need to use all the space in the frame.    I decided to create a little banner "title" using banner shapes I die-cut, some great Sweetheart papers and stickers and some Sweetheart Twine.

 The Treat Bags were the perfect base for my project, and the perfect size for a little treat. For the rest of the project I just decorated and numbered each bag with lots of little goodies from the Sweetheart Collection!

It's all filled and ready to go!  Thanks for stopping by today and make sure to keep checking the Doodlebug blog for more Valentine's Day inspiration!

Products used from the Sweetheart Collection:
Treat Bags
Cardstock Stickers - Icons
Fancy Frills
Pixies
Pixies Assortment
Icon Mini's
Hugs and Kisses Washi
Endless Love Washi
Sugar Stripes Washi
Cupid's Arrow Washi
Valentine's Tickets
Mini Love Notes
Cupcake Doilies
Lily White Doilies
Love Assortment Doodle Twine
Various Papers
Love Letters Alphabet in Beetle Black, Bubblegum, Ladybug, Lily White
also used:  Clothespins:  Canvas Corp; Calendar frame:  Silhouette

The Twinery Valentine's Blog Celebration - Day 6!

Welcome back to the 6th day of the Twinery's  "Be Our Valentine" Blog celebration ! 

 

 

Today, just like the sign says, we're bringing you banners and garlands...here's my Valentine's Banner:

 

 

I had a lot of fun creating this!   I cut the double sided shapes using my Silhouette and hung them along a clothesline of Strawberry and Stone Twinery Twine with some little clothespins!  Here are some close -ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried to do a little something to each of the main banner pieces involving twine. On the first piece, I created a dangling heart in the cut out portion of the pennant using some Stone Twine.  

 

Such a simple thing, but I love how it looks!!  On the center banner piece, I created a "plaid" center by adhering Maraschino, Stone, Blossom and Sorbet Twine in a grid pattern between the two layers of the banner.  It's actually such an easy technique, but it looks like you spent hours!

On the remaining pieces, I used some Maraschino Twine to outline the lips, created a wrap with some Stone Twine and added a little bow of Stone Twine to my hearts. 

It really was a fun and pretty easy project to put together, and I love how it looks on my fireplace mantle!

Now for a giveaway!!!!  Each day The Twinery will be giving away a prize.  Today's prize is a banner punch!   I am also giving away a prize to one lucky commenter on my blog this week... our largest Twine Sampler, The Rainbow Sampler Pack!  This Sampler Pack contains 15 yards each of 22 colors, and is a $39 value!

 

To be entered in to win this prize you must do 2 things.  First, you must follow my blog.  Then, you must leave a comment on either this post or yesterday's card post letting me know you are a follower. All comments must be left by 11:59 pm on Friday, February 8th.  I will select one random winner from both posts combined.

 

That's all for today, be sure to check back over at The Twinery each day this week to see what inspiring projects the team has created!  Thanks for stopping by and as always I appreciate your comments!

 

(Products Used:  Papers:  Doodlebug Lovebirds; Twine:  Maraschino, Stone, Blossom and Strawberry from The Twinery; Shapes:  Silhouette Store; Clothespins:  Canvas Corp)

Let's Capture These Sketches #132

We had a fun sketch to work with this week by Natalie Roy (see it here) I tend to be a very "square" person so working with the circles was a fun change for me.  Here's my take on her sketch.

I used Pink Paislee's Prairie Hills Collection which is full of soft, subtle colors to highlight this picture of Ed and Caroline in Ogunquit, ME last fall.

The clothes pins are from Canvas Corp...LOVE the clothes line effect and the little banner was cut using the MFT Round banner and hung with some Twinery Twine in Cappucino.

I'll be back Thursday with The Twinery & Bella Blvd. Product Showcase! Make sure to stop by the Let's Capture These Sketches Blog to see all of the beautiful layout created by the team!

Some Lily Bee & MFT Goodness

I got to do a very fun project for the DT over at Right at Home Scrapbooking this week. I was asked to do a home decor project featuring some Lily Bee Designs and My Favorite Things Die namics. I opted to do a photo tray, something I've never done before, and I'm so happy with how it came out!

The pictures are from a trip to Chatham a few (ok quite a few) years ago. My daughter LOVED playing in the waves and sand! I created a beach scene using the MFT Cloud, Sun, Wave and Woodgrain Fence Die namics.

The clouds, sun and roses are Canvas Corp. canvas that I colored with Glimmer Mist and cut.

Don't the rosettes look like shells??

And a banner to top it all off with some Charcoal Twine from the Twinery. I'm so happy with the results of this project! Can't wait to hang it in our new room!

Dots and Stripes at LCOM

A few of the ladies over at LCOM created some beautiful altered items last month, and inspired me to create something off the page! Looking through my stash, I found this great memo board frame from Canvas Corp. and decided it was a perfect base for this project I created for my daughter's room.

I used Echo Park's Dots and Stripes Metropolitan to cover the frame and the background and back the pictures, and I used twine from the Twinery to hang my items from. The mini clothes pins are Canvas Corp.

The canvas banner pieces and the kraft tags are Maya Road. I colored the banner pieces with Maya Mists and stamped on them with archival ink.

And of course... there are Whimsy buttons!!!

It was a lot of fun to create something a little different!!! I think it gave my creativity a boost!! That's all for today, I'll be back later this month with some more EP Dots and Stripes!