Creative Embellishments teams with Stuck?! Sketches

Creative Embellishments is sponsoring Stuck?! Sketches this month with a great prize package!  AND, our design team is guest designing for them with this awesome sketch from their July 15th challenge.  Be sure to head over to their blog and check out all the great examples.

Here’s my take on Stuck?! Sketches.  I used Blue Fern Studio's Love Story collection, added masking on the background and lots of mists to add color here and there.  I used a couple of different foliage chippies and some wood veneer leaves to add to the beauty of my Petaloo flowers.

I colored the chipboard pieces by first painting with white gesso.  Then I sprayed them with Goosebumps, painted with Silks olive green and then a final misting with Lindy’s Ponderosa Pines Olive.  The wood veneer leaves I painted with Silks olive green and then just a touch of Lindy’s Autumn Maple Crimson on the ends.

 

I’ve used the Leafy Corner Flourish Set chipboard underneath the flowers in the corners.

I also used Frond Set 1 chipboard and wood veneer Fall Leaves set of 16.

Be sure to stop by the Creative Embellishments store to get the pieces I’ve used on my layout.  There are so many great pieces to choose from so be sure to look around.

Leafy Corner Flourish Set

Frond Set 1

Fall Leaves (set of 16)

And remember that we have a inspiration photo challenge every month and there’s always a prize awarded to one lucky person!!  wooo hoo!  The challenge is posted on the first of each month so be sure to check it out.  It’s a great way to win some of our great products!

Thanks for visiting with us today, hope you day is extra special!

Swirlydoos July KOM - more creations!

Our July kit has a beautiful collection of Blue Fern Studios papers, Ombre Dreams.  This is my first chance to use Blue Fern's papers and I must tell you they are fabulous!  Definitely the heaviest weight papers I have used so they work really well with mixed medias.

On this layout, I used a photo of my younger brother. He was the cutest kid ever, with blonde hair and blue eyes. I chose one of my favorite color combinations, using blue cardstock from the cardstock add-on and those gorgeous Petaloo yellow Botanica blooms from the flower add-on. The daisies are from I am Roses.

The chipboard pieces came in the Embellishment add-on and are a Blue Fern flourish that I cut apart and heat embossed. Those pretty doilies are part of the main kit.

 I love Prima's wooden embellishments and this one came in a set included in the Embellishments add-ons.

I did a little masking using Golden's Crackle Paste and a Prima mask - both from my stash.  You can see Prima's wooden rose embellishment peeking out here, also from the Embellishment add-on.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Core'dinations Vienna Lake
Patterned paper: Blue Fern Ombre Dreams collection: base - Susan's Dream, rectangle - Ginger's Dream, torn rectangle - Blue Fern packaging
Letters: Maya Road
Chipboard: Blue Fern Flourishes
Embossing powder: Ranger Antiquities Weathered White
Flowers: Petaloo Botanica Blooms yellow 1102 103, I Am Roses daisies
Masking paste: Golden Crackle Paste
Paint: On letters, Shimmerz Dimensionsz Blue Lagoon, then covered with glitter
Other: Melissa Frances Doilies, Prima Wooden Embellishments

I have used nearly every smidge of paper that came in the kit but I did manage to put together this little card using scraps from Prima Princess paper that was also part of the kit.  I added the bit of lace and the small flowers.  The leafy branch is a die cut using a Memory Box die from the store.

Tomorrow I have a video tutorial up, hope you'll stop by and check it out!