Tutorial Tuesday with Frosted Design's Garden of Abundance Kit!

Hello fellow crafters!!!  I'm up on the Frosted Design's Blog today with a tutorial for a mixed media card!  Let's take a look, shall we?!?

I used this month's Garden of Abundance Kit which was designed by yours truly!  Here's my finished card:

I used the current sketch #109 over at Cardabilities by the ever-so-talented Karen Gerber:

Now, here's a look at how I made this cad in just a few simple steps!

 First, grab the papers you want to use and measure them to size (4.75x6.75 here to mount on 5x7 card base).  Add some texture using your favorite stencil and molding paste or something similar.  Ink the edges with the lighter ink in the kit, making sure to come in some on the actual card.  Finish the edges with black ink.  

Ink the edges of your outer piece, then use a distress tool around all the edges!  Grab some chipboard (flourish 18 used here from the Creative Embellishments Store) and color it with your favorite mediums! Layer it all on your card base and embellish as desired :-)

See how easy that is?!?  Here are some close-ups:

And here is another card I created this month's fabulous kit!  Details for this one can be found here!!!

Well gang...  Thanks so much for stopping in and have a LUCKY day :-)

Handmade Sympathy Card for Creative Embellishments!

Hello there fellow crafters!!! It appears the "Fall Season" is well underway in most of the U.S. with beautiful hues shining through on almost everyone's favorite social media pics. I, however, reside in the Sunshine State where Fall is simply a made up term as we only have two seasons: Spring and Summer! Hahahahaha!!! So, I used this month's inspiration photo over at Creative Embellishments as a starting point to create a sympathy card for a friend in need, grabbing the beautiful hues in the picture to make up my card!

Here's another look at this month's inspiration pic:

I truly love the colors in this pic which is very apparent with my project.  I completed the card using this month's Garden of Abundance kit from Frosted Designs!

I also distressed the edges of my card with a distress tool and some ink as part of this month's challenge! 

Here are some close-ups of the yummy chipboard pieces I used on this project:

First I created a background with the Binary background stamp and black distress ink.  I also used my Tim Holtz layering stencil with molding paste for some background texture.

I painted the Flourish 18 with some Luminarte Paint from my stash, then added a coat of crackle paint for texture (yes, this is my FAV technique right now!!!).

I grabbed flowers and embellishments from this month's and previous month's FD kits to dress it up a bit!

Finally, I added various sized hexagons which were painted with brown distress paint and inked over with black distress ink.

Well gang... Thanks so much for stopping in and have a LUCKY day :-)

Garden of Abundance Layout and New Kit Challenge!!!!

Hey there crafters!!!  Happy October!!!!  We are here again with another fabulous kit (designed by yours truly!) and a layout to showcase all the wonderfull-ness included this month!

Here's a look at the kit:

Authentique's "Harmony" collection is featured in the kit as well as goodies from Prima, Fabscraps, Kaisercraft, and more!

The colors in the kit were perfect for a photo of me and my sister at my wedding a few years back.  Here's a look:

The blue in her dress just makes the photo pop!

Here are some close-ups using other goodies from the kit:

 

 (I used the background stamp to add some detail to my page and the ink included to color my wooden and chipboard pieces!  LOVING those butterflies as well!)

  

 -I also used tons of goodies from past kits (like the blue Prima wire, burlap flower, metal findings, and Lindy's yellow embossing powder for the bird cage!).

 I finished the page with one of the beautiful Prima burlap flowers included and some other "found" objects!

What will YOU create?!?!?

Our kit challenge is simple...  All you need to do is create a project, ANY TYPE OF PROJECT, using ANY past or present FD kits and submit below!  You'll be entered to win a fabulous prize!

Scrapmatts is providing a $30.00 prize package to one lucky winner!!!!!!!!!!!  So get to it gang!!!! 

 You have until noon on October 31st to submit your entries!!

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Products used from the Frosted Designs Store:

Garden of Abundance

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