Forever Young Water-colour Wash

Happy Halloween! A rainy Halloween in Vancouver. Using water as our theme in our Creative Wednesday project I feature the water-colour wash technique. 

 With this project, I tried a colour combo that I have never used before. The Summer Starfruit ribbon shines vibrantly with the Midnight Muse colour. The colours for the water-colour wash are Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze and Marina Mist.

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Christmas Craft Tag

I don't know how much I've been stressing on keeping Christmas cards and projects as simple as you can as I am sure you have many other holiday things to do before the big day. So here I am again presenting to you today my Creative Wednesday project.

I crafted a simple Christmas craft tag using the elegant tree from the Forever Young stamp set. Keeping the card in monotone color and adding a little bit of spark with the Cherry Cobbler red to complete this chic Christmas tag.

I hope you enjoyed this week's Creative Wednesday project. Be sure to check back next Wednesday for another Creative Wednesday reveal.

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My scrapbook sequence

Where do you put your photos that are waiting to be scrapbooked?

I put mine in a photo album. But even the simpliest looking store-bought photo album needs work. I covered the front of my photo album with a piece of chipboard and dressed it up with a the Timeless Portrait designer series paper then accessorized and stamped the rest.

I decorate my photo album so I can be inspired to pick up the album and scrapbook the photos inside.

So today, as inspired by the album cover page, I started my scrapbook layout with the Timeless Portrait designer series paper (as found on the retiring accessories list.)

With this layout, I wanted to highlight the sequence of tagging two "lucky stumps" at a temple in Japan. There's a saying where if you tag the stumps 100 times, your dreams will come true. Too bad I didn't finish the 100 tags.

Perhaps if I flip to this page 100 times my dreams will come true.

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Iron Stampers Altered Item Project

The next Iron Stampers project is the one I’m most excited about! It’s a paper dress-form banner. When I first received my Stampin’ Up! Labels Collection Framelits, I had to think of what else I can craft besides fancy labels and frames. FRAMES! That’s what it was!

I thought if everyone is taking the cut out inside of the labels, I’m going to take the outsides! Piecing things together I discovered that I can craft out miniature paper dress-forms! The base of the dress-forms is also the leftovers of what was cut out making the dress-forms from the Big Shot Framelits.

Once I got the cut outs of the dress-forms, it was time for dressing up the forms! For a moment I felt like I was a fashion designer. There wasn’t much stamping involved in this project. The key was using embellishments! Lots and lots of them!

Labels Collection Framelits Dies 125598
Price: $32.95
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Quick and Easy Card

Last night I had a great evening of crafting with other fellow demonstrators at an exclusive monthly demostrator only crafting night. This is the evening where I get to plan and handmake my card classes for the next month, or simply just have a stress-free creative evening.

One card I made was a sample for the new Quick and Simple stamp club. This card was handmade with the Forever Young stampset. I really love how you can transform a timeless stampset and bring to life a quick and simple 5 minute card.

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Forever Young - Clear-Mount Stamp 122572

Price: $22.95

Forever Young - Wood-Mount Stamp 122570

Price: $31.95

Forever Young Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download 123145

Price: $4.95

This card was a case from Emma. Thank you for a great design!

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