May Flowers with The Twinery

Join us on The Twinery's blog for the newest challenge!

I am on the blog today sharing the how-to on  making the flowers on this card. 

Link up your "May Flowers" projects- flowers, leaves, fun spring stuff!- for a chance at an awesome prize pack!

The Twinery + Imaginisce!

Welcome to the first day of the blog hop with The Twinery and Imaginisce!  You should have arrived here from Julie Ranae's blog.  You can also head back to The Twinery's blog and get the complete list for both companies!

Imaginisce was so kind and sent me the Childhood Memories line to work with. These were such fun papers and stickers to work with!  I loved all of the papers and couldn't pick just a few to use, so I used them all in a sunburst type pattern on the page.  Once I cut and adhered them all to the paper, I used a white pen to draw stitching lines on their edges.  I really loved the pop of orange in my photos and wanted to use more orange on the page, so I hand-stitched a border with Mandarin twine.  The Imaginisce Sticker Stackers and Chipboard Stickers were a fun addition for my journaling and embellishments. I really love those little round letter stickers, too!

After seeing all of the fun products, I'm sure you're thinking you'd like some for yourself, right? Well, you are in luck because The Twinery and Imaginisce are both giving away prize packs worth $48!
From The Twinery, the winner will get their choice of 3 spools of twine! 

Imaginisce is giving away this lovely prize- wouldn't that be awesome with some of the new shimmer twine?!

To be eligible, you must leave a comment before midnight EST on  Saturday, April 27. The winners will be announced on the company blogs Monday, April 29.  Good luck, everyone and thanks for stopping by today!

 

April Showers at The Twinery!

A new challenge is up on The Twinery's blog today!  April Showers and Stripes is starting today and running through this week. Be sure to link up soon!

PaperHaus Magazine Summer Submissions!

Now is your chance to send in submissions for the summer issue of PaperHaus Magazine!  See below for all the details!

 

 

Have you had a chance to check out the spring issue yet?  Now that the weather is warming up, you might just want to take a look for some great spring ideas!  I had this layout in the spring issue. Check out the sketch section to see the sketch I based it  on.   I love sketches because you can be as creative as you want with them for a starting point, or use them pretty literally to quickly finish a layout.

 

 

Papers: Crate Paper,  Tags: American Crafts & Staples, Sequins: HL, Word banners: Silhouette Cameo, Font:  Bebas

 

 

Don't forget to get those submissions in for the summer issue! It is going to be a great one and we'd love to see you in it!

I heart flair. And these colors. And this layout.

I think this photo is just about  my favorite Instagram of all time- my kids reading together on the couch. I loved it in black & white and I knew right away I wanted to have it on a predominately red/black/white layout. I gathered up a bunch of supplies in red that I thought would work, including that red ampersand Ormolu flair. Then I decided the blue flair was perfect too- the color and the wording, so I pulled out some blue supplies and ended up with this pile:

 

 

I love the Heidi Swapp resist stuff, so I sprayed this large tag and wiped off the mist with a paper towel on the resist part. I originally was going to cut the tag down to a square, but I liked the spray at the top, so I just left it and went with that.  I layered some old papers from my stash (that red star paper is some of the first October Afternoon I ever owned!), added the tag & photo, then started the fun part of adding all the little bits- enamel dots, wood veneer stars, and of course the flair!

 

 





I love layouts on black- it makes everything pop! I used my Cameo for the title- what did I do before that thing?!  I think is just about my favorite instagram of all time!  Linking this one up at Paper Issues for the Lets Have a Crafting Aflair theme. :)  I love the Fact or Fiction Ormolu flair I used here- what could be more  perfect for a reading layout?!

It's a Banner Day!

The next challenge has started over at the The Twinery- banners! I'm up on The Twinery's blog today showing a gift tag with a small banner. I love how it turned out- I think that little girl is just the cutest! Head over there to see how I made it and to get the details how to enter your banner in the running for a great prize!

 

 

 

Twine: The Twinery, Girl tag: Cosmo Cricket, Alpha Stickers: October Afternoon, Tag: Staples

New Spring Twine from The Twinery + a friendship bracelet!

The Twinery is releasing ten new spools of twine today! They are all metallic and shimmery and wonderful!  The first ones I reached for were the new Irridescent Blossom and Carribean Rainbow. My daughter loved them, too, so I decided to make her a friendship bracelet. This was a quick and fun project and I loved these two colors together!

 

 

To make a chevron pattern, I used 2 strands of the Iridescent Blossom and 2 strands of the Carribean Rainbow- about 5 feet of each (for my 6 year old's wrist).  I lined up the ends, then folded it in half, making a loop at the top before I knotted them. You'll now have 8 strands. Arrange them so every other strand is a different color, like this:

 

 

 

You'll see I used a clipboard to hold the top of the bracelet as I worked.  Using the two outside strands, first take the left strand and knot it like this- it kind of looks like a 4 or a backwards P:

 





Pull that strand over to the left. Make two knots like this on every strand until you get to the middle. Then lay the strand you were using to tie with in the middle and start over on the right side, knotting over to the middle like this, pulling your strands to the right now (it looks like a P):

 

 

When you get to the middle, knot the two strands you were using for this row together twice. You'll now start the next row with the two outside strands again. Now that you're on a roll, just keep knotting until you get your desired length.  When I got to the end, I divided the strands in half and braided two strips to slip into the top loop, then tied them in a knot to secure it on her wrist.

 

 

Head on over to The Twinery's blog to see the other new colors and see what the rest of the team has put together with them!