Member inspiration!

I love going through the gallery to see how our members use their scrap products...
To read the stories their pages are telling...
To gain inspiration from a title or how they incorporated an element into their layout...
It all gets my creativity flowing and yearning to scrapbook. Needless to say, since the DT calls went out, we've been blessed with many new faces on the forum AND in the gallery. I'd like to take a moment and share some inspiration with you today.

From Amanda27

I adore her use of mist, the sweet photo and rub ons. Just fabulous eye candy!

From Laurajean

So much to love about this one.. the papers, the woolies.. design is out of this world, and the color yellow. This makes me happy!


From scrapenabler

I admire those who can use pastels so beautifully.. check out those gorgeous flowers too!

From polinka

Polinka's use of paint and color is phenom. She mentions bleaching her photo here then painting, and I love the look of it.

From liz

The subject and colors totally grabbed my attention here. I can totally see my young children getting caught in the act of being sneaky like this. Fabulous layout!

From scrappinmom3

How whimsical and sweet is this card? I love her use of dew drops, the beautiful textured water.. it's a really pleasing to the eye, and who wouldn't love receiving this card? It's sure to brighten anyones day.

From SnapWhiz

Rhonda's use of texture and layers here are fabulous! I love the ruffled paper and banner. Truly a piece of art!

This is only a sprinkling of gorgeous work that is on display in the Treasured Scrapbooking gallery. Come take a peek for yourself, upload a layout, and come join us on the forum. We'd be delighted to have you!

xoxo,
Leah

Enhancing your die cut flowers

In the gorgeous May kit this month was a sheet of American Craft paper from the dear Lizzy line I fell in love with. There are oodles of cute flowers begging to be cut out. There are lovely on their own, but I decided to dress mine up with some thread and stickles. This takes about 5 minutes and its super easy.

What you will need:

Scissors

Flowers cut from AC dear Lizzy paper

Stickles

Paint Brush

Tape

Threaded Needle

Cut your flower from the AC dear Lizzy paper

1. With your needle, poke a hole at the bottom edge of one of the little circles.

2. Turn over flower (backside) and thread your needle through the hole, leaving a little tail on the back.

3. Tape down the tail and turn flower back over (front side)

4. Leaving a 1/16 space, thread needle to the back of the flower, being careful not to pull the thread tight leaving a little loop on the top of the flower

(click photo to view larger)

5. Keep repeating until your flower is filled with as many little loops as you like. Trim thread and secure to the back with tape.

6. With your paintbrush in hand, squeeze a line of stickles on the end of the paintbrush

7. Paint the stickles all over your flower, the loops take the stickles well too, so be generous with this step.

8. Allow stickles to dry, shape leaves and flowers if you’d like, and you have a pretty dressed up flower.

 You can use these same techniques to enhance your journal die cuts too.

Hope you have a happy scrappy day!
Don't forget, today is reveal day AND the May card kit is in the store!
xoxo,
Leah