First Post for Studio Katia

Hello everyone!!  I'm here with my first ever blog post for Studio Katia!!  The announcement hasn't been made yet, but yes, I'm thrilled to be a part of this team!!  I know the sky's the limit for these great products!  The sequins alone are worth a million bucks but Kat has added some amazing new stamps and dies...to be released tomorrow in fact!!!

For my project, I decided to use the Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles die set.  I chose this set because it fit my digi image to perfection!! This die is so large! It covers enough of your cardbase that you don't really need to add anything else...LOVE THAT!!

The "celebrate" stamp and sequins are a sneak peek of what's to come :)

Hope you enjoyed!! Thanks for stopping and by and be sure to visit us tomorrow for the NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP!!!

Laurie

Concord and 9th Card

Hi everyone! Welcome back!  Today's project is for Butterfly Reflections Ink.  I know I'm seriously late to the party but I've just discovered how wonderful Concord and 9th products are!!  There is just something so sophisticated about them.  They make me feel all grown up, haha!  Don't get me wrong, I love critter stamps, but these sets I will surely be reaching for when I need to make a bit more of an "adult" card.  And by adult, I don't mean that in the R rated way :)

So anyway, here is my project for this fabulous Monday!!!

For all the details, please visit the BRI blog, which is linked above!!

Thank you so much for stopping by! See you soon....

Laurie

Right At Home Stamps Card

Hello everyone!!  Here's a little sneaky-peeky at my Butterfly Reflections Ink project!!  It uses all IN STOCK products from Right At Home Stamps.
Fall Leaves and Script Greetings pair perfectly together to create fun and classy cards.  Fall Leaves is also a builder set so the possibilities are endless!!
Hope you swing by to check out my project!!

Hugs!!

Laurie

Announcement and Sneak Peek!

Hello everyone!!  So a bit of exciting news...I am now on the Design Team for Butterfly Reflections Ink!!!!  I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful team.  Vanessa (the shop's owner) is super friendly and funny!!  She also runs an amazing store.  I don't know how she does it, but her shipping times are one of the fastest...even to Canada!!!  She carries tons of product but if you find that she is out of a particular product, don't worry, she restocks quickly!!!  Anyway, I hope you will check out my first post on the Butterfly Reflections Ink Blog and leave me a little love!!!  Here's a sneak at what I've created....

Thank you so much for stopping by!!!

Laurie

Finding my Mojo with Honey Bee Stamps

Hello everyone and welcome back!!

These past couple of weeks I have been struggling with my creative mojo.  I'm not sure where it went but I'm determined to find it!!  I just can't seem to please myself with any of my creations. Whether it's colouring or layouts, it's been kind of tough.

So, I pulled out a new stamp/die set from Honey Bee Stamps.  I used the Not Too Shabby stamp and die bundle, which happens to be on sale this month!!  It's a super sweet set.

REWIND:  I should mention that I started with a different stamp.  I thought I would use the To You With Love set from Clearly Besotted.  I started to colour the image with my Derwent ColourSoft Pencils...I just wasn't feeling it...

BACK TO THE PRESENT:  I started by creating a background panel with white cardstock cut with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles.  Then I took out some white embossing paste.  I thought the lid would be stuck on since I haven't used it in a VERY LONG TIME!!  I used a small triangle stencil to add a bit of dimension to one side of the panel.  To spruce it up a bit, I sprinkled some fine iridescent glitter over the paste while it was still wet.

I stamped and die cut the bouquet image and coloured it with alcohol markers. I also stamped, coloured and die cut the small wreath and bow image.  I placed everything in the bottom right corner of my white, embossed panel.

And in true Laurie fashion, I didn't think about the sentiment.  This set has very small sentiment so that worked in my favour.  I die cut a circle that would fit the sentiment, but it just blended into the background.  So I die cut another one out of kraft cardstock and layered them together to make it stand out a bit better.

Here is the final result:

A fairly clean and simple design and I'm happy with the way it turned out.  Hopefully, I can keep this going, hahaha!

Thank you so much for stopping by today, its SO appreciated :)

Hugs,

Laurie

Exciting News!!

Hi everyone!!  I just wanted to quickly pop in to tell you that I've filmed my FIRST YOU TUBE VIDEO!!!  OMG!!!
I have wanted to try this for so long.  I've been super intimidated. Didn't think I had the right equipment or technologically advanced enough :)

Well, on the technical side, there is a lot to learn!! My first video is basically not edited at all. What I filmed is what I published...with the addition of a little music and some titles.  I have no idea how to slice, cut, fast forward etc etc.  But I will learn, hopefully.

I will warn you, there are no techniques here. No stamping, colouring or die cutting. What may you ask will I be doing??? Fussy cutting of course. And babbling...  By the way, I had no idea I sounded like that!!!  So strange to listen to my voice.

Anyway, here's a link if you're so inclined to have a look!!

MY FIRST VIDEO

Thank you in advance for watching!!

Laurie

Wplus9 Lacey Layers Card

Hello everyone!!  I'm here to show you another card I created during the 30 Day Coloring Challenge hosted by Kathy Racoosin from The Daily Marker.  I have to admit I have missed, I think, two days.  Better than the last challenge, though!!

Today's inspiration/idea came from Julia from Just One More Card. I have never tried this technique before and I have decided, I absolutely love it!!  It's colouring on kraft cardstock using alcohol based markers.

I picked up some fairly inexpensive alcohol markers at Michaels.

Pretty Colors

Bullet nib and Extra fine tip

The stamp set I chose was  Lacey Layers from WPlus9.  I love Dawn's products so much!!  Anyway, on to the coloring!  I first found a scrap of kraft cardstock, which happened to be Neenah Desert Storm 80lb.  I stamped a few images and started to experiment with a few colors.

The die cut will come into play in a bit!

I decided on the green and pink and the orange and turquoise.  I then stamped by panel and started colouring.  I alternated the colors on each layer.

After I finished the panel, and of course not planning where the sentiment would be, that's when I die cut the above layer out.  I hadn't done any inlaid die cutting in awhile so I thought this would be a cool way for the sentiment to be noticeable on the card.

I stamped the "perfect" word greeting from the That Is All stamp set and cut it out with the co-ordinating die.  I also positioned the die in the already cut layer and ran that through my Big Shot.

I then, simply flipped the image over and adhered the two pieces together with Scotch Tape.

I foam mounted the sentiment on top of my panel, then stamped the "I think you're" onto a scrap of white cardstock, which I didn't like so ended up using more kraft.  I added some sparkle using my Crafter's Companion Glitter pens to the centres of each lacey layer and to the "perfect".

And here is the finished card!!!

I hope you enjoyed! And I hope whoever is involved in this colouring challenge is loving it like I am!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Laurie