New Palette up at The Color Room

I am so excited, there have been some changes at The Color Room, and it is now Heart & Soul Artists. Still The Color Room, but some new and exciting changes. With that being said, I am super thrilled to be a part of it. This is my page for the first palette, but you can see all of the design team's projects here.

We would love to have you join us for this challenge. Here is the palette:

and here is my page for the challenge. This is our sweet little Kinsey Grace! She is growing so fast, she is already 8 months old! Seems like she just got here!!!! She is the sweetest thing!

I used some Prima resin accents along with some Green Tara blooms. I added some little craft store sprays with pearls also.

Here you can see the beautiful die-cuts from Anna Griffin, Inc. along with Anna Griffin border stickers.

The chippie accents are ThreeBirds Designs. And the rings that you see are just stamped with the lids from some of my jars on my craft table! I just dipped them in Anna Griffin ink pads.

The journaling tag is where I used "junkmail" for the challenge. The tag is from a junk envelope! I just stamped around the edges. The pretty stamped images on the edges are also from Anna Griffin Inc.

This was a fun challenge, and I hope that you will play along! The colors are very Springy and after the snow we've had I am so ready for warm weather and Springtime!!!!

We would also love to invite you to "like" our Facebook page. You can keep up with us there too!

Products used on this page:

Anna Griffin Inc. stamps

Anna Griffin Inc. Hope Chest border stickers

Anna Griffin Inc. dies

Anna Griffin Inc. ink

WorldWin ColorMates Medium Lovely Lilac cardstock

Three Birds Designs chippies

Kuretake Zig marker

Prima resin pieces

Green Tara blooms and lace

miscellaneous brads

Just For You card!

Hi!  I have a sparkly card to share with you!!! Purple is my favorite color, so I decided to make the card purple! This is a card that I did for Couture Creations.

I chose my supplies, I used the Cheerful folder from the Elegance collection. I also used the Banner Nesting dies and the Ivy die from the Secret Treasures collection. I also chose a purple ink and cardstock. 

I started by inking the top half of the embossing folder with the purple ink. I used Close to My Heart ink. Make sure you ink it really well and cover it completely.

Once embossed this is how it looked. Trim off the excess from the edges.

Next, I took a really light, but shimmery ink pad and covered the entire piece.

Then covered it with WOW Ultra Shimmer embossing powder.

It's hard to see in the photo, but after embossing it has a really pretty shimmery look. This is my favorite embossing powder EVER!

Then I used my Couture Creations double sided tape to secure the piece to a card base made with purple cardstock. The CC tape works wonderfully for heavy pieces like this that tend to "curl" on the edges, it keeps it right in place.

This is the embossed piece adhered to the card base. The colors matched really well too! The cardstock is WorldWin ColorMates in Medium Lovely Lilac.

Then I cut two of the larger size banners from the Secret Tresures collection. The larger in the purple and the smaller in white. I outlined them with my purple Zig marker. I just hand wrote the title on the white one.

For the finishing touches I added a pretty purple bloom from Green Tara, cut 3 of the ivy leaves from the Secret Treasures collection and a pretty white ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon! It looks really pretty in person, the pictures don't really show the shimmery embossing. You can do this with any of the Couture Creations folders, there is such a wide array of really pretty patterns, suitable for any occasion card!

Thanks so much for visiting!

Supplies used:

Couture Creations

Secret Treasures Ivy die

Nesting dies Banners

Double sided tape

Elegance collection Cheerful embossing folder

WorldWin ColorMates Medium Lovely Lilac cardstock

Kuretake Zig Writer (purple marker)

Close to My Heart ink

WOW Embossing powder Neutral Ultra Shimmer

Green Tara bloom

Really Reasonable Ribbon (white sheer ribbon)

Gabbie Revisited!

If you're like me when you think of Anna Griffin, you think of florals, tapestry, old textile prints and elegance. But last year Anna had a collection that was a little different, it was called Gabbie. While is was different for Anna it was still one of my favorites and a breath of fresh air. I thought I would share some projects again, you can still purchase  Gabbie, and you can even buy it at the Scrapbook.com Superstore!

Here are a couple of layouts that I did.

and several cards. The colors and patterns are so much fun, and with all the snow and cold we've been having I was ready to see some happy and colorful pages and cards!!!

Thanks for stopping by, and if you want to play with some fun patterns and colors I urge you to give Gabbie a try!!!

Anna Griffin's "Grace" Collection

I wanted to share Anna's newest collection. It's called Grace, and it's available on HSN. The collection if bright, fun and versatile! The colors are happy and Spring themed. There are title stickers, floral stickers, beautiful die-cuts and more.

Below are a few pages that I did with the collection.

On this first one, you can see some of the fun and pretty die cuts. Lots of journal cards are included also. And some pretty gold accents.

On this one I added some grograin ribbon in pink and a couple of Anna's dies from one of her Cricut sets.

And on this one I used part of one of the pretty lazer cut papers included in the collection. I focused on the brighter colors in the collection for this one. You can see just how versatile the collection is!

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This is one of my favorite collections from Anna, it's fun and has lots of pieces to play with. I think you will like it, especially if you live in the South like me and have been dealing with snow and are ready for a breath of Spring!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Imaginarium Designs Chippies!!!

As some of you might remember I was on the Design Team for Once Upon A Sketch for several years. It was a wonderful experience, not only did I make lasting and wonderful friends, but I got to create with some awesome products as well. One of which was Imaginarium Designs chipboard!

I created some pages using some pieces that I had left over. These pages are more "traditional" and less embellished than my usual pages, but I wanted to focus on the chippies! And I think my style is changing or evolving for some reason, or either I'm stuck in a really big rut! LOL! Anyway, here are some pages using their awesome chippies.

This first one was a lot of fun!! I embossed the chippies with various colors of WOW embossing powders. I used some faux stitching and kept the page pretty simple! I really liked how this one turned out!

these are the Imaginarium chippies that I used for this page. The boy silhouette, capital alphas, gears and train! I love the little train!

On this page I wanted to use one of the beautiful title chippies, I only used a few small pieces besides that, I wanted to focus on the photo and the colors! Believe it or not, I just inked these pieces!

I painted the pieces on this page. I chose yellow and sky blue. I wanted to make a fun page, so I chose some really fun chippies for this, the clouds, and little birdies!!!

I used WOW embossing powders again on this page, using black and pink. Kept the colors simple and just a few embellishments here!

Here is another page where I used alcohol ink for coloring the chippies! It works really well on darker colors, especially if you want a more matt look to your items.

On this page I mixed different colors of embossing powder. I also used liquid pearls for the berries on the spray of leaves!!! Added pearls to the center for the body of the butterflies!

I love to use copper embossing powder, especially on elements that look architectural! These corners look wonderful with the copper!!! I used specialty powder on the title, it looks like glitter.

I stamped script on top of these once colored! The green stems are just drawn and cut from solid chipboard, I added the Imaginarium butterflies and some little blooms, and of course the fantastic title!!!

Here is a little birdhouse that I decorated with chippies! The roof trim, and the cute little birdies too!!!

And last, here is a frame that I made from solid chipboard, adding corner flourish and a key!!! I embossed stamped images in different colors on the frame. You can see the tiny little butterflie on the corner as well!

I hope you enjoyed seeing my projects using some of the gorgeous Imaginarium chippies. They are having a Design Team call, I would love to be chosen for the team, but I'm sure there will be tons of entries. Good luck to everyone who applies, you will love working with Imaginarium!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit, I really do appreciate it!!!