Julie Nutting & Paris Flea Market

“One is loved because one is loved. 

No reason is needed for loving.” 

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Oh what fun I had playing with paper dolls...and  Pion Paper - Paris Flea Market ( and its on sale!!)

I used the  6x6 sheets and was able to create two tags... almost the  same  but  still different ...

I  am often asked what I do with my  tags  ...  and tags are  great  for  adorning to gift  bags  - they  can  be  the  card and r write on the  back ...  sometimes I attach a second  tag  to the  first  using a brad in the  tag  hole and  tag/card  is  born ... Place the  tag  on top of the  present  .... it  does not need to  be an  envelope  .. and  with  complimentary wrapping paper colors  of your  tag  the  receiver  will love the  presentation ...

So make a  batch of cookies and  attach a  handmade  tag to them ... you  give them away with love. 

Easter Greeting With Riddersholm Design

“The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. "

― Steven James, Story

Easter - bunny  rabbits, eggs and chocolates.. but it  really is much more. Whatever your beliefs may be , Easter is a sign of  new beginnings and of hope. 

I do not send out many easter cards, which I should, everyone likes happy mail.  This  card is made with one sheet of 12 x 12 paper  Riddersholm Bello Pastello #67  - a perfect  spring  hue  of  greens and pink.  Embellished with white  Flying Unicorn trim and flowers from Petaloo and  Flying Unicorn  it was a  fast and  east card. 

The  cluster of  flowers is easy .... work in groups of three ( think triangle)  place your  three largest flowers down first and then  add 2  flowers at a time.  Odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye then even numbers.  Once the flowers  positioned, tuck some leaves in here and there  giving it a  "full effect"  ( think of a bunch of   flowers and the  greenery that comes with the flowers). 

Supplies Used: 

Riddershom -Bello Pastello #67

Petaloo Picks

Prima Flowers

Leaf Diecut

Prima Flowers

White Lilies

Julie Nutting - Camille Paper Doll fun!

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” 

― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

Enjoying a little creative time and to create a  tag - a  Camille tag, one of the new Julie Nutting dolls from Prima Marketing. 

Winter is almost behind us, and I felt spring-y  -so, with the use of the Lemoncraft Easter Greeting Collection, Petaloo Flowers and Stickers from 13@rts  Secret Letter Collection a  tag to adorn to a gift  bag filled with  goodies and to send  off to a dear friend, 

Using cardboard in between the layers giving dimension and flair to the  doll creation. 

Supplies used : 

Julie Nutting Doll Camille -

Petaloo Flowers 

Petaloo Flowers

Leaf Die Cut 

Stickers 13@rts

Petaloo Butterflies

Flying Unicorn Flowers

Playing With Dolls

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Julie Nutting besides my love of  them are the easiest thing for me to create when I host crops at the retail store.  My second  love are Prima flowers, especially their vines!  And you have to love the Cherry Blossom Jubilee Vine.. Vintage Prima, but its a must have for those deep pink projects ... 

The papers are Julie Nutting - this is a great paper pad not only for dolls but cards and tags and atc and altered and sooo much more ! 

Just Saying hello card using Lemoncraft House of Roses Collection

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story 

of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again” 
― Jimi Hendrix

If you have not had the chance to play with the Lemoncraft papers than I so urge you too .. There is just a beauty to them  like no other.  The House of Roses collection, lends itself to a shabby vintage rustic look, that in my world is so pleasing to the eye . 

This was a  "fast" card - Three layers of  paper 1/4" smaller than the one below it  - distressed edges inked with  Barn door chalk ink, cardboard between the layers, and some hemp cording  wrapped under the top layer adding to the  rustic  feel . 

A handmade resin frame, with  gold highlights, and the gorgeous Prima Coy flowers  with little Petaloo wild blossoms tucked in here and there. Some beaded trim and leaf diecuts added to create the flower spray and the  card is  done. 

A quick and easy card to send  someone that you care about and  simply say "hello" 

Lemoncraft

Vintage

Coy Flowers

Wild Blossoms

A Pion -Linnaeus Botanical Journal Mini Album

 “What I like about photographs is that they capture a 

moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” 

― Karl Lagerfeld

  A  few weeks ago, I showed you all how to create a secondary version binding for a mini album  and this is the  final creation of that  tutorial using the  Pion paper Linnaeus Botanical Journal. This mini album holds well over 50 pictures with so many little pockets and folds and hidden compartments. 

In order to complete this mini album, it was 2 sheets each of of the 6x6 papers, 1 sheet of the 12x12 papers  - except for the  Notes, tags and borders - that was  2 of each .  I inked all edges with the mini distress ink from Timmy - Tea Dye and with the  use of  Prima flowers and Petaloo from the  pinks to the  purples another  mini album created. 

The way I  complete a mini album is a process ... but  it  is one page at a time with the flips and  folds and  each page  takes me  at  least  one  long  night to  complete ,  so  it is a 2 week  process for  me from beginning to end, but  it  keeps something on my desk that I can  remain creative with  for  that time  period and  creating them is  really  soothing  to my soul .  So sit  back and  here is a  quick glimpse to the  inside pages . 

MAIN PRODUCTS USED : 

Linnaeus Botanical Journal 

- 2 SHEETS OF THE 6X6 PAPERS
2 SHEETS OF THE TAGS,BORDERS, MEMORY NOTES
1 SHEET EACH OF THE 12X12 PAPERS

Floral Ephemera

Mini Bouquet Bethany

Mini Bouquet Krista

Esperanza Generosa

Mini Distress Inks

Pink Botanica Blooms