March 2009 Kit

With spring on the way, Dream Street Papers Fresh line by Amy Teets is the perfect paper for March. Oh and the coordinating rub-ons are very cool. You'll love 'em. The SEI Petticoat borders are fun and so easy to use as is or to alter. Maya Road has come out with some new chipboard sheets. Try curling the ribbons from Daisy Bucket. It can be distressed, curled, shredded, stamped, printed on, and painted. They are amazingly versatile. Let your imagination soar.
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Love love love the new Picket Fence color in Ranger's Distress Crackle Paint line! Try painting the Maya Road Chipboard Wings with it or the Kaiser Wooden Flourishes -you won't be sorry. Now the new license plates from Karen Foster Designs are just too cute. The size and colors make them so easy to use.
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Have you heard about the new Smooch line from Clearsnap? This new product is incredibly fun. Wait until you try this. Again, use it on the Maya Road chipboard wings or to highlight the stamp images. Let me suggest stamping the Scenic Route Chipboard Buttons with a stamp and then highlighting the imagine with Smooch to create your own buttons.
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Watch the blog for tutorials and tips regarding the Accordion Frame, or using the Smooch as well as other products from this month's kit.
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Enjoy it and show us what you create with the kits.
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Lynn

Adding dimension with PP...

A simple way to add dimension to a LO is to simply cut slits in a strip of pattern paper and rolll the edges with a pencil. There are so many ways to add texture to your LO's using PP, be sure to scroll back through the blog for more DT ideas.

Check out the design team gallery here.
Here is a link to see the whole LO of my sneak peak.

February Sketch #2

We chose another sketch from Pencil Lines this month to inspire you! This fun, whimsical sketch goes great with the February kit. The girls blew me away with their creative uses of the butterflies in this month kit! Check out this eye candy!

I love how Debbie used the coordinating butterflies to draw your eye around her focal point! And did you see her stencil work behind the butterflies? Beautiful!! I'm just loving how everything came together on this one Debbie!

"where"

Debbie Standard

I love what Sandi created for the circle embellishment! How stinkin' creative is that?! Also, the creative used of stickles on the butterflies just pulls everything together and makes this layout POP!

"Mmm Mmm Good!"

Sandi Peiffer

Elizabeth did something totally different with the sketch by turning the focal point into a 3-picture spread across the layout - how cool! I love how the patterned paper behind her photos break ups the layout and draws your eye to the embellies. The layout and the pictures are both "beautiful"!

"beautiful"

Elizabeth Carney


Feeling inspired? Try your hand at this sketch and upload your creation into our gallery! We can't wait to see...:)

Creating some whimsy

In addition to the fabulous Jillibean Soup papers, this month's kit features a sweet birdie acrylic stamp by Imaginisce. He just makes me smile. So I decided to create a card that was as whimsical as the little guy.
I started by stamping him onto some Kraft paper and cutting the image out.
I tore some Lemon Juice paper to create a hill then added a tree created with some punched circles from the Portobello paperd. The tree was embellished with some of the Candy Dots included in the kit. Then I pop dotted my little bird and added a butterfly from the kit to be his friend. A little penwork, and voila! A cute whimsical card that should make someone smile.

Fun with the beaded curtains...

I looked at the beaded curtains from Buzz and Bloom included in the kit for quite some time...deciding exactly what I wanted to create using these unique pieces...
I decided to first change the color of the piece, so I covered the entire length with Colorbox chalk ink.

I repeated this for my second piece as well. I then cut all the small pieces apart.
I decided to create a flower from the trimmed pieces. I threaded some string through a button from my stash and added it to the center of my flower. I used one of the rubons from the kit on a piece of the scrap cardstock; adding the darker cardstock from my stash; which I embossed using the Swiss dots Cuttlebug template.

I challenge you to think outside the box and look at what you might be able to create from these beaded curtains!

A Twist on the Feburary IAAS Member's Kit

Little boys and their dreams.......their dreams of being NBA players, Rock stars or even bankers, as mine would say. What a combination.

Funny how things inspire you, but when I saw this month's little chicks on the fun Jillibean papers, this journaling piece just called to me. "Chicks dig us." I know, kind of silly, but meeting the Celtic's Rajon Rhondo was a life changing experience for my son and inspired him to want to be a NBA basketball player. He went to his basketball camp in Louisville and Rajon was there everyday to hang out with the kids. Gav saw him hanging out with his family, friends, and little baby girl. His dream was living a reality that we never see on television. We all have dreams, his just seemed to get a little closer when he actually could reach out and touch the man. Gav told me that girls always like the NBA players and he thought that was cool. So.....the Layout Rajon and Gavin...."Chicks dig us," transpired. I hope you enjoyed the giggle!

Get those photos out and scrap em' girls. What kind of dreamy dream do you have girls? Get those thoughts onto paper! Goals are worth preserving so you can re-visit them when you need to be reminded of why you do the things you do.



Have a great week!
Beth

Buzz and Bloom Mini album!

OK, first of all let me say this is one COOL album! Very cute and I love the quality of the chipboard!!!
Next, let me say I am not a mini album expert, but here is mine! I did have alot of fun doing it! and I hope you enjoy! :)