Day 282: Glamour Shots: Sugar and Spice Part 2

My daughter helped me decide how to embellish this page tonight.  I was showing her some crocheted flowers (Prima) I have been wanting to use, but I thought even though they were "soft" looking, they were almost too "heavy" for the page.  She noticed a gold heart that I had saved from a handbag (Relics), and suggested that I place it under one of the flowers to help the flower to look softer.  Those opposing soft and hard textures helped the flower to feel lighter, because that heavy gold heart grounds it. Last but not least, I added the beautiful stud and pearl swirl by Prima to the left side of the photo.

Day 281: Glamour Shots: Sugar and Spice Part 1

Tonight I decided what the title for this page should be: Sugar and Spice.  Again, I was trying to highlight the dichotomy between the studded leather jacket I am wearing with the feminine Graphic 45 papers I used for the background of this page. I used some lace (offray) at the top of the page for a soft effect, then used black rick rack (American Crafts) on top of that, again, those opposites.  I dug through my stash of "scrabble" letters to make the words "sugar, spice" and stamped a large ampersand (Stampabilities) on cream card stock and matted it with black to make my title. I put some of the torn pearl paper I used on my  "Pearls and Leather" page (see yesterday's post) underneath my photo and punched out two photo corners to frame the photo. However, this page needs something more.  I will work on it more tomorrow.  Corner punch by EK Success.

Day 280: Glamour Shots: Pearls and Leather Part 3

I added some tan Prima flowers with matte gold brads and a heart embellishment (Buttons Galore) to the page and now I am happy.  Pearls and Leather page is finished!

Day 280: Butterfly Stitches

I made this card for a baby shower.  Everything I bough for my gift had a butterfly in it or on it, so I wanted my card to have butterflies as well. I used pink and yellow card stock from Stampin' Up! as the card. I used the We R Memory Keepers "Sew Easy" piercer tool kit to make the dots for the stitching, and some of the yellow floss to create a trail from one butterfly to the next. I stitched the butterflies onto the card for security, alternating from dark to light yellow, ending in a multi-color butterfly to symbolize the new baby girl on the way. Crystals from Jolee's add a little bling to the centers of the butterflies.

I adapted a poem by Robin Fogle to use as the sentiment in the card:

Like a butterfly emerges

And unfolds its graceful wings

A child grows and develops

With the love only parents can bring.

Your baby is twice blessed by God:

Once because He has given her wings

And again because He chose you

To teach her to fly...

Day 279: Glamour Shots: Pearls and Leather Part 2

Now that we have returned from our weekend trip, I can get back to work on this scrapbook page.

I really like the look of all the "banners" that have become so popular. I had some tags in my stash that I thought worked with this page, and decided to make a banner with them.  Using my Crop-A-Dile, I added copper and pewter eyelets to the tags, and then laid them across a strand of the torn pearl paper (Graphic 45) to make a banner.  I found some typewriter key letter stickers in my stash and spelled out my name on the center three tags. While going through my stash, I found some coordinating stickers (and for the "love" sticker, a coordinating overlay, which I stapled on), I made a border for the bottom of the page. I am not happy with this page yet.  It needs something more.  I will leave it tonight and work on it again tomorrow.

Day 278: Heritage Gardens 3-D Papier Tole Die Cuts

More 3-D die cuts I made while on our trip to see family.  This set is "Heritage Gardens" by Hot off the Press, available from Paper Wishes Catalog.

Day 277: Botanicals 3-D Papier Tole Foil Die Cuts

It was an easy project to make these 3-D  die cuts while traveling this weekend.   "Botanicals" foil die cuts by Hot Off the Press.