11.19.08
Posted in Creative Cuts & More, Recent projects
at 6:59 pm
I recently got some really cute die cuts for my Holiday projects - Creative Cuts & More
has a great selection and a SALE right now - 15% off any order of $25 or more - CC&M has a SUPER selection of Bazzill papers, felt, velvet & metallic paper for your dies to be cut on. For the SALE is through Monday -be sure to use the coupon code winter0815
Here’s a sample with CC&M sleigh die
Sleigh 3-D die details: Uses “Cappuccino” (Curious Metallic Cardstock); “Small Swirl Background stamp (Impression Obsession); VersaMark Ink and “Vintage Photo” (Tim Holtz Distressing Ink); Gold Glory embossing powder (SU), and Killer Red Tacky Tape
Creative Cuts & More also has a GUEST DESIGN TEAM call - check out the Diecut Diva blog for all the details - closing date Monday, Nov 24th - so hurry on over and check it out!!!!
Thanks for visiting my site - Enjoy and Create, Lila
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11.18.08
Posted in Jacksonbelle Embellishments, Recent projects, Shimmerz Paint
at 5:54 pm
Jacksonbelle Embellishments Design Team Search
Jacksonbelle Embellishments (www.jacksonbelleembellishments.com) offers a wide variety of stamps, embellishments, paper, ribbon… basically everything you will need to create beautiful paper crafts! We are looking for 5 new design team members. The Call will be open November 18th through December 16th at 12am EST.
Here are the design team requirements ~
1. Each month we will have pre-determined challenges which you will be asked to take part of each Tuesday.
2. Each design team member will be required to write ONE tutorial for the Jacksonbelle Embellishments Blog during their term. The tutorial can be a card, altered item, anything the member would be most comfortable profiling.
3. You MUST love the products available at Jacksonbelle Embellishments and link them when you use them!!! This will make designing so much easier and fun!
4. You must have a blog to showcase your work.
What you will receive ~
1. 25% off ALL purchases at Jacksonbelle Embellishments.
2. A one time $25 gift certificate to Jacksonbelle Embellishments.
3. Free product throughout your term.
4. You will be part of a really fun group of girls!!!
Term ~
1. Design team term ~ January 1st 2009 to June 30th 2009
Sound Good??? If so, THIS is what you need to do: Just email links to three samples of your best work, your name, your address and your blog URL to jacksonbelle.embellishments@gmail.com. It is not required that you use Jbelle products. The 5 chosen designers will be contacted BY December 20th. The new design team will be announced January 1st!!!
Now for my cards challenge this week!!
This week our challenge was to make a card with snowflakes/holidays - basically symbols that represent this time of year to ourselves. Since my husband works in the lumber/timber industry I always, always have to make some cards using Evergreens - he really likes the more realistic type images- while I like the realistic, I really like the more whimsical type these days. Here’s my sample…..
Not alot of stamping on this sample - just the sentiment from Memory Box - but take a look at those die cut, embossed and detailed trees!!!! That’s using Cuttlebug dies and embossing combos!!! Lindsey has these Tree Tops!!!! in stock (she also has the cutest Snow Fun and For You). The pattern paper is from Imaginisce (also available from JBelle). The snowflake is Heidi Swapp ghost shape first painted with an off-white acrylic paint and then covered with Sky Blue Shimmerz!!!! Dies are from Spellbinders, ribbon is May Arts, Linen Vellum is from Papertrey Ink…… now since I’ve been absent for the last two weeks (not posting for the challenges)…. I did a Kisa case a couple of weeks ago but time - well it just got away from me sooooooooo here’s my Kisa case (looking at it I guess I could use for this week’s challenge too!!!! Birds and Evergreens - also representative of the holidays and this time of year!!!)
It’s almost identical to Kisa’s sample and even uses one of her cool techniques where she uses VersaMagic chalk inks on her rubber and then puts some of those wonder Shimmerz paints on!!!! I loved her sample and knew right away I had to make this. Rubber stamp is from Inkadinkado, die cut bird (Spellbinders), and that bling is BLINGZ - Spiced Cider (limited edition) from Shimmerz. Thanks for letting me share. Be sure to take a look at the other JBelle DT members for great inspiration - links on the right sidebard…… Enjoy and Create, Lila
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11.14.08
Posted in Our Craft Lounge, Recent projects
at 5:13 am
OUR CRAFT LOUNGE live and ready for YOU!!! For all the details and special announcement visit Cami’s blog.…… Stamp a Little Love Baby!!!
And for the special arrival
AND
Both cards use “Tree-mendous Love” from Our Craft Lounge.
There are more fun samples on the following sites:
Cami Turnbow
Kisa Peters
Nancy Morgan
Heather McNally
Carol Halvorson
Kendra Wiestock
Lisa Zappa
Pam Hooten
Lana Lepinski
And don’t forget the grand opening prize drawings!! If you make a purchase the grand opening weekend of Our Craft Lounge (Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ November 14, 15 & 16th), you will get one pink ticket included in your order for each stamp set you purchase! Hold on to these tickets because OCL will start choosing winners the following weekend (November 21st to 23rd), and every weekend until December 1st. You never know when a new ticket number winner will show up on the front page of our site so check in to see what the prizes are, but trust me, you won’t be disappointed! Enjoy and Create, Lila
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11.13.08
Posted in Our Craft Lounge, Recent projects
at 5:01 am
How about another little sneak peek from Our Craft Lounge? This new set is called “For the Love of Birds” - I just love it!!! I can see myself using this for Wedding or Anniversary wishes, Mother’s Day, Thinking of You, Congratulations and I really love the Dutch Proverb that is included - cause I’m part Dutch…..
Card Details - Rubber stamps: “For the Love of Birds” (Our Craft Lounge); Cardstoc: Natural White and Solar White (Neenah); Pattern Paper: Christmas Collection (Wild Asparagus-MME); dies (Spellbinders); linen vellum (Papertrey Ink); half-pearls & Lace paper ribbon (K & Co); twill & stitched ribbon (SU)
You can find some other FABULOUS sneak peeks here:
Cambria Turnbow at http://www.cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/
Kisa Peters at http://www.kisaspapercuts.blogspot.com/
Kendra Wietstock at http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Pam Hooten at http://www.pamhooten.blogspot.com/
Carol Halvorson at http://www.happinessblooms.blogspot.com/
Bev Barton at http://bevbarton.blogspot.com/
Heather McNally at http://heathermcnally.blogspot.com/
Lisa Zappa at http://shabbychickjunk.blogspot.com/
Our Craft Lounge is going LIVE - TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss it! Check in tomorrow morning for a link - and you can get these FUN-TASTIC stamps for yourself. 
BUT WAIT - THERE’S MORE!! Don’t miss out on the Grand Opening Prize Drawings!! If you make a purchase the grand opening weekend of Our Craft Lounge (Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ November 14, 15 & 16th), you will get one pink ticket included in your order for each stamp set you purchase! Hold on to these tickets because OCL will start choosing winners the following weekend (November 21st to 23rd), and every weekend until December 1st. You never know when a new ticket number winner will show up on the front page of our site so check in to see what the prizes are, but trust me, you won’t be disappointed!
In the meantime, Enjoy and Create, Lila
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11.12.08
Posted in Our Craft Lounge, Recent projects
at 5:11 am
Big News!!! Announcing “Our Craft Lounge” - a Brand NEW rubber stamping company with rubber stamps and accessories for our special projects! “Life is Sweet” - a little preview for the GRAND OPENING this Friday!!! These upcoming sets are soooo CUTE, so I’m not going to include alot of yip and yap…… here ya go!!
Card Details: Both samples use stamps from “Life is Sweet” (Our Craft Lounge); Pattern Paper “Glitter Sweet” (DCWV); Ink is Graphite Black (Brilliance) and colored with Copics, dies from Nestabilities (Spellbinders), and that gorgeous Linen vellum is from Papertrey Ink, rhinestone cherries (Heidi Swapp)
Here are some other Sneak Peeks that you won’t want to miss out on:
Cambria Turnbow at http://www.cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/
Kisa Peters at http://www.kisaspapercuts.blogspot.com/
Kendra Wietstock at http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Pam Hooten at http://www.pamhooten.blogspot.com/
Carol Halvorson at http://www.happinessblooms.blogspot.com/
Bev Barton at http://bevbarton.blogspot.com/
Lisa Zappa at http://shabbychickjunk.blogspot.com/
Heather McNally at http://heathermcnally.blogspot.com/
WAIT!!! There’s even more……Don’t miss out on the Grand Opening Prize Drawings!! If you make a purchase the grand opening weekend of Our Craft Lounge (Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ November 14, 15 & 16th), you will get one pink ticket included in your order for each stamp set you purchase! Hold on to these tickets because OCL will start choosing winners the following weekend (November 21st to 23rd), and every weekend until December 1st. You never know when a new ticket number winner will show up on the front page of our site so check in to see what the prizes are, but trust me, you won’t be disappointed. Friday is the BIG DAY!!! I’ll be sure to post a link to “Our Craft Lounge” - keep checking back on my blog and the other’s listed above for more sneak peeks - until then, Enjoy and Create, Lila
PS: My Tuesday Challenges for Jacksonbelle Embellishments - will be posted later today or tomorrow - I owe two weeks…… sorry ladies…..
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11.01.08
Posted in Recent projects, Shimmerz Paint
at 5:56 pm
Shimmerz Paints has just released an additional product line - at this point for a limited time - “BLINGZ”! All five new colors can be found here. Shimmerz Paints presents - “Winter Posies” with Blingz - This new limited edition “December Sky” Blingz was the perfect color for my project - I wanted to really scream “Jack Frost has been here!!” I love how it turned out -
I re-purposed a metal container I used a couple of years ago for a similar project - this year it certainly has a more updated look. The preparation was a little time consuming but FUN working with each of the components. For the flowers I ran a 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 piece of “Solar White” (Neenah 110# cardstock) through my Big Shot with the “Swiss Dots” Cuttlebug embossing folder. Then I used a glue stick and glued to the same size Craft-a-Board from Ellen Hutson’s store - even tough I used 110# cardstock I really wanted these to keep their shape and hold those Shimmerized buttons (used “Angel Wings” Shimmerz on the buttons). After just a couple of minutes letting the glue dry I then ran the Swiss Dotted paper/Craft-a-Board combo through my Big Shot using a Sizzix “Large Daisies” die. Next step for the posies was to give just a little airbrush shot using one of my COPIC markers around the edges. Then I took my new “December Sky” Blingz and gave a quick painted edge - poured a little onto a plate and stippled ever so lightly blending the painted edge and working toward the center. Adhered the die cut posies to Wilton sucker sticks on the back - used red line tape to adhere and then I always cover the sticky part of the red line with a piece of matching cardstock - that’s for two reason - keeps the other parts of the project from sticking to the back of my posies and for my papercrafting friends who would closely inspect - how’d she do that??? from the backside a finished backside. Glued buttons in the centers.
My next part of the preparation was taking those Winter Berry sprigs and giving them some needed “Silver Bells” Shimmerz on the leaves and “December Sky” Blingz on some of the berries. Making the ribbon bow was the most difficult part of the preparation. Once I had all the pieces complete then is was just a matter of putting it all together. A small piece of styrofoam in the container holds the posies, pineboughs, berries. Once all the pieces had been pushed into the styrofoam I took some white tulle and weaved in and out, around, and loop the loop through - Hope you enjoy this as much and I did!!!! it really was fun and super easy. Be sure to keep checking Shimmerz Paints throughout the day for more of those new limited edition Blingz colors and awesome projects the other team members will be showcasing!!!!!
Enjoy and Create, Lila
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