Be Gentle With Me ...

It's my first blog post ... on this blog anyway ... and ... this is my first ever Thanksgiving card! Erm ... yes I do have friends ... but I am a Brit and Thanksgiving does not appear on our calendar. Luckily the rest of the Design Team gave me kaboodles of facts and hopefully my design will inspire you to run off and make some cards.
I was sooooo excited when my Stampendous Damask Fall stamps landed on the door mat. Just the mention of the word Damask makes me think about all those lovely rich fabrics with their luxurious patterns and warm colors. So I set to work to recreate that feel on my card.

I have used a resist embossing technique to create the pattern on the background card with a mix of Spiced Marmalade and Dusty Concord distress inks. All the edges were distressed to add a bit of depth and then  layered up using yummy Chocolate Mocha Coredinations ... which is great for distressing too! Finally I thought the Damask flourishes worked well with the Wendy Vecchi flower which has been turned upside down to look like a pumpkin!

Resist Embossing

1. Stamp your pattern with Versamark ink onto white card and cover with Stampendous clear detail embossing powder. Heat with heat gun.

2. Blend your distress inks over the entire pattern and card.

3. Place a piece of plain white copy paper over your design and iron with a dry iron on a medium heat. Once the embossed pattern shows through onto the copy paper ... you have ironed the piece sufficiently.

4. Blend in a further color over the entire design ... for the thanksgiving card I used more Spiced marmalade but Old Paper works very well on most colors.

I hope you enjoyed my first post as much as I did creating it for you ... any questions ... just pop them in the comments and remember ...

Have fun :0)

Think of the "embossabilities"....

I LOVE to emboss my stamped images. Even more than that, I LOVE to emboss the edges of my projects...it is amazing how much a little bit of edge work can add to a card.

For this card I decided to emboss all my edges...for my card I used an embossing pen; you can also use an embossing pad and get the same effect. Once I drew along each edge I covered each line with gold embossing powder:



you can see from this shot the look you get when you do all the edges of a gatefold card...



and here is my final card...you can see that the embossing really shows off these fabulous Stampendous Fall Trees Antique Gold Class A'Peel stickers:



I think that you'll agree....there are endless "embossabilities" at your fingertips...

Happy crafting....Lynda

Take a look at this lovely 2 pager

Amy made this lovely 2 page layout using KnK's November Kit!! DOn't you just love the colors in this kit?

Halloween Treat Holder

Are you looking for something fun to give to special friends for Halloween this year? If you have some time to play, here is a fun and easy gift idea. All you need is some cardstock or double-sided patterned paper, holiday stamps, test-tubes (available by mail or in craft stores), paper cutter, adhesive, and something to color your images with. Here we go!




Looks hard, but here are the instructions:

Start with a piece of cardstock or double-sided patterned paper for the main part of your box.The paper should be cut 11" X 5 1/2". Score your paper at 1/2", 1 3/4", 4 1/2", and 5 1/2". Turn it the long way and score in from each side at 1 1/4".



Using the photos for reference, cut on the solid lines and fold on the dotted lines. Assemble into a box and decorate.











Fill the test tubes with treats and deliver to your friends!!

November Kit Beauties

Check out this little box and the adorable cards by Jules! Aren't they lovely? Be sure to check out our November kit here.

Check out this mini album

Tale a look at this mini album made by Kip using those Maya Road envelopes from the November Kit.

More North Pole Nights

Check out this lovely layout by Amy! and she had another beautiful project to share with you all but you will have to wait to see that in Scrapbooking.com December Issue! Congrats Amy!

Victoria's Street By Nikki Sivils

Check out these lovely creations by Deb showing the before and after shots of her new addition which I have to admit I am a little jealous of what is going in that new addition *wink* . Deb is getting a brand new scrap room! Be sure to check out of of Nikki's lines at Creativity Boutique

More Ghoulish fun

I made this haunted house card to celebrate Halloween! Love the little eyes looking out the window! The ghoul is stamped on vellum

Nikki Sivils

Here is another Project created by Pam using Nikki Sivils My Sweet Cherry Pie!

KnK's November Kit is here!

Featuring Little Yellow Bicycle Autumn Bliss Collection! Hurry you do not want to miss this kit!

My Sweet Cherry Pie

Check out these made by Pam using Nikki Sivils My Sweet Cherry Pie line . Don't you just love the colors in this line?

Breaking Ground

Check out this Nikki Sivils Layout by Deb using Nikki's Victoria's Street. Deb is showing off the start of her new addition! Can't wait to see the finished project!

Check out this layout

by KnK and Creativity Boutique's owner Gerrianne including a picture of her grandma! Just look at those curly accents! ANother beautiful creation made with the October kit.

Nikki Sivils North Pole Nights Fun

Check out these adorable Cookie Cutter Ornaments made by Amy using Nikki Sivils North Pole Nights line. They make me want to start decorating! Check out these close ups! and wait to you see what else she created.

Check out this fun project by Amy

She used the 7 Gypsies board book to make this cute project with Knk's October Kit. What a great gift this would make!

Its Pumpkin Time

Having Fun creating fun themed cards! And love love these Stretchy Spooks. So Fun being able to Shape shift these shapes into any shape of pumpkin you want. So from 1 pumpkin stamp, I was able to get 3 different shaped pumpkins. Here is a video to show you how it is done. They show the technique using the snowman stamp which is also available at Creativity Boutique:D

Check out these creations

Created by Pam and Jules with KnK's October Kit! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

BOOO

Having fun using these Stretchy Spooks by Stampendous! Love love that I get lots of options with these stamps. All three ghosts are stamped with the same set! You just stretch the ghost image to the shape you want and stamp away! I also used the Chatterbox Artsy-licious papers. Be sure to check these both out as they come with pumpkins too!

Hurry There is still time

hurry! There is still time to get you October KnK Kit. Check out this gorgeous Layout that Deb made with the kit.

Nikki Sivils U R My Favorite Fun

It was so fun to play with this new Nikki Sivils Line! I loved the colors and the versatility of the line! The colors are so vibrant and yet very easy to work with. You can get all of the Nikki Sivils lines in the Creativity Boutique store!

Happy Fall Thank you card

This card combines two of my favorites...this set of leaves stamps from Creativity Boutique and papers from KnK's February kit. To Create this I actually left the stamps on their packing and inked them up using many different fall ink colors (many being about four since I really don't have that many ;) ) and then place the card on top of the inked images. Hope you enjoy! ~ Chris

Happy National Card Marking Day

Live from Knk/Creativity Boutique's Class with Nikki Sivils! Tell us what you are doing to celebrate!

Introducing Creativity Boutique's Design Team

It is with sincere pleasure that I would like to welcome Creativity Boutique's new Design Team!

Linda Elbourne

Lynda Lindley

Roz Wolfe

These ladies are all extremely talented! I would like to once again thank all of you that applied for our design team! you are all very talented and you made this a very difficult decision. We would like to keep your names on file for future guest design team possibilities.

Thank You

We would like to extend a huge thank you to all of you who submitted your applications to join the Creativity Boutique Design Team! You are all one talented group of stampers! Honestly, you all should be extremely proud! I would be honored to work with any one of you! We are still in the final process of narrowing it down to the final applicants. It is proving to be extremely difficult and we are hoping to have an announcement later today or early tomorrow.