March Kits Sneaks are up Yea!!!

We have four Fantastic kits for you this month, packed full of spring flowers and new papers and embellishments. We are so excited to get these kits into your hands and share the Design Team Gallery with you. We will have over 100 samples made just for you... Kits ship on the 5th

Come join in the fun!


Main Kit Sneaks....

Limited Edition kit sneaks:

Creative kit sneaks:

Album kit sneaks :

Limited Edition pocket by Jolaine

Being a teacher myself, I know how hard teachers work so I'm always looking for cute ideas to show my daughter's teacher how much I appreciate her. I decided to make her a pocket full of treats for Valentine's day. I really like how it turned out, and I'll share how it was created...



I began by scoring a glassine bag, then measuring my bag. I knew I wanted my bag to stick out a little bit for a more handmade look. The bag I'm using is 7X4.5 and was purchased on Ebay.



I then cut a piece of brown cardstock that measured 6X10 and scored it at 4 inches. That will create a pocket that is 6 inches tall in the back and 4 inches tall in the front to nicely display our bag of treats.



Next, cut two pieces of coordinating pattern papers a quarter of an inch smaller for each panel. That means we'll need a piece of paper that measures 3.75X5.75 for the front and a second piece of pattern paper that measures 5.75X5.75 for the back panel.



I inked both pieces of paper with Tea Dye Distress Ink before adhering. I also used hot glue to attach some lace to the front border.



Instead of glue, I used my sewing machine to stitch around the bottom and sides of my pocket.



Finally decorate as desired. I used pearls, rub-bons, flowers and the little metal frame included in the kit. The sentiment inside the frame was printed onto pattern paper by combining two different font styles on my computer. I also decorated the bag after filling it up with Dove milk chocolates.



I hope you liked this tutorial. I really enjoyed creating this fun pocket, it was really easy and I hope you give it a try!
Jolaine

Altered flowers and Altered chipboard tutorials

How to alter the mistable flowers by Delaina

I used these paints to create some sprays for the mistable flowers in the kit...I simply filled the bottle 3/4 of the way to the top and added a few drops of paint. I then spayed the flowers letting them dry between coats so there weren't saturated and distorted. It's a great way and inexpensive way to make you own mists....

Delaina

Kirstine has this to share about her work on the Feb. album kit:

The album kit comes with some wonderful raw chipboard shapes!

Here's how I altered the scalloped chipboard pieces in the above layout.



First I applied two coats of baby pink acrylic paint and let them dry.



Next I painted a very light coat of white acrylic paint on top of the pink and let them dry.



Then I added a light layer of clear rock candy distress crackle paint and let dry.
I didn't want the crackles to be too obvious on these so I only used a little bit of the paint.



To help blend it all together and soften everything up, I rubbed pink chalk ink all over the painted surfaces.
That's it!

give this a try
Kristine

Romy ...photo tips and techniques and how to extend your pattern paper

Pam always puts together such gorgeous kits and the LE kit this month just blew me away. I really wanted to use every little bit of it, so I tried to use my papers in an efficient way. To show you what I mean with that, I'll post a photo of the process of making my fourth layout with this kit: 'Garden'.

When I use a small square of paper, I usually cut it from the inside of the paper sheet. In that way you can use the outer edges to mat another piece of paper. That's what I did with this music note paper too.
I also had a small piece of brown paper left, with a few flowers cut out of it:


When I stuck it all down, white cardstock was visible in the cover. But you can easily cover that up by adapting your design to it. Stick down a few other piece of paper on the cardstock to cover it up:


Use your embellishments in the left corner and you won't see anything of it anymore:

Love,
Romy

One of my newest obsessions is to print my photos with white edges. I used to mat all my photos, but this is a much more cheap solution to make your photos stand out a bit more.



Something else you could do with these photos with white edges, is use two of the same photos overlapping each other. It will make your photo really pop off the page:

Love,
Romy