Sunflower Love Wedding Layout

Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

As promised in my previous post with the Sunflower Wedding Card I'm back today with more happy sunflowers to share. And this time I have a scrapbook page to show you!

Better still! Today over at Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L's blog I have a lovely tutorial for this Sunflower Wedding Layout - I hope you will have a moment to check it out :).

When I sat at my crafty table I knew I wanted to make a layout to commemorate this beautiful wedding day we were so blessed to be a part of.

But I must confess - at first I was struggling with a big creative block and I couldn't find a way to get out of it. Until I reached out for my trusty Scrapbook Pages Pinterest Board and this immediately kick started my creative mojo. The inspiration & the structure for this layout came from this amazing layout by Camilla featured on Maja Design blog.

Supplies I used:
MyStik® Permanent Strips,
3D Foam Squares - Black, Regular,
Thin 3D Foam Squares - Mix Black,
Adhesive Sheets - 4x6'',
DODZ™ - 3D,
DODZ™ - Medium,
DODZ™ - Small,
3D Foam Christmas Shapes,
Lace Ribbons (Donna Salazar with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®)

Other supplies:

Papers - BoBunny Sweet Life, Graphic45 Place In Time;
Cardstock - Core'dinations
Stampendous - Lemon Yellow Fun Flock, Sea Green Ultra Fine Glitter
Flowersoft;
White Rub-Ons - Craft Consortium;
Acrylic paints -- DecoArt;
Spellbinders - Foliage die set;
punches: Woodware - Daisies; Martha Stewart - Pine Branch
Flowers - Prima Marketing & other;
Ribbon - May Arts;
small wooden frames, word stickers, small gems, letter beads, craft wire

My layout includes a bunch of handmade flowers - be sure to check out my tutorial to find out more :).

And what do you think of my cute little banner? :)

So there you have it - my offering for today :). I hope you like it!

Thank you for stopping by and for letting me know you've been. Sending you lots of warm wishes for a creative week ahead!

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Handmade Holidays Blog Hop 2014 - Day 1

First of all, thank you to everyone who visited and left lovely comments on my mixed media Halloween Lantern post :0. I would also like to extend my warmest welcome to my newest followers - thanks for joining in!

If you are new to my blog, make yourself at home and check out my other projects, too. And if you don't want to miss my future offerings, be sure to click the 'Follow My Blog' button in my side bar :).




Welcome to the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop! The idea was born a few years ago to offer an online ideas 'library' dedicated to handmade gift suggestions which you can use all year round.

Enter the Handmade Holidays hop! We've gathered over 100 of our creative blogger friends in the craft industry as well as some of our fellow product manufacturers to bring you a plethora of inspiring gift ideas you can make now to give to your friends, family, and colleagues. 

Pin and bookmark these ideas for this holiday season and to use throughout the year! Each day of the hop features approximately 30 gift projects and you can "hop" from one blog to another to check them all out. 

My offering for the Handmade Holiday's blog hop is this altered Bobbin House. I've had this wooden advent calendar waiting to be decorated for a couple of years now. But I didn't have a concept what to do with it.

  
Then I've finally had an idea to turn it into a storage solution for small bits and bobs for one of my friends who loves sewing. I thought the little drawers would be perfect for storing sewing machine bobbins with threads, ready to be used when needed. 

I prepared a video tutorial for this project which you can watch below or on my YouTube channel.

And here are some close up photos of the Bobbin House.

Adhesives used:
3D Foam Pennants, 3D Foam Squares Thin - Mix White, Adhesive Sheets, Ivory Creative Photo Corners, Crafty Power Tape, E-Z Dots® Permanent - Refillable, E-Z Dots® Repositionable.

Other supplies:

Neat and Tangled Everday Labels clear stamps
Clearsnap/Colorbox: Mudslide Ink Spritzer, Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink Mocha & Green Apple, Mix'D Media Inkx Chox Butternut & Sparrow, Art Screen Mandala
Graphic45 Sweet Sentiments papers; 
Sizzix BIGZ On The Edge - Sewing Edge & Sizzlits Sewing & Writing Set dies
Rowlux Illusion Film Clear Moire

I hope you like my offering :). My heartfelt thanks to everyone who'd like to leave a few kind words :).

Are you ready for lots more creative handmade gift ideas and projects? Follow along on our blog hop! Simply click on each of the links below to be taken to that post with additional information and photos on how to create a handmade gift project. Have fun and pin away!

Clearsnap  

Ellison Educational Equipment   

Walnut Hollow  

Graphic 45  

Neat and Tangled  

Therm O Web  

Westcott  

Elizabeth Craft Designs  

Pink and Main  

The Buckle Boutique  

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L  

Rowland Technologies  

ICE Resin  

Hydrangea Hippo  

Clearsnap - Suzanne Austin  

Stencil1 - Ed Roth  

Graphic 45 -Nadya Lifa  

Cookies for Breakfast- Beth Pingry  

Cupcakes and Crinoline - Mary Beth Sharkey  

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Frances Byrne 

Lazy Mom’s - Joanna Grzeszczak    

Homemade Ginger - Megan Kapple  

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L - Asia King  (you're here!)

Ellison Educational Equipment - Anna-Karin Evaldsson  

One Artsy Mama- Amy Latta   

Therm O Web - Alice G0lden  

Lovely Etc - Carrie Spalding 

ICE Resin - Clare Horner  

Pink and Main - Yolie Burke 

The Buckle Boutique - Stephanie Nericcio  

Modern Surrealist - Marisa Pawelko  

A Little Craft In Your Day - Tanner Bell  

Artsy Findings - Cheryl Waters 

Stampin Mindy - Mindy Baxter 

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Follow our Handmade Holidays Gift Ideas Pinterest board for even more inspiration!

Follow Jennifer Priest of RainMaker Media Works + Hydrangea Hippo's board Handmade Holidays on Pinterest.

A huge thank you to our sponsors for this hop - please visit their blogs below and follow them. And be sure to come back tomorrow for another 30+ amazing Handmade Gift Ideas!

 

Clearsnap || Ellison Educational Equipment || Walnut Hollow || Graphic45 || Westcott || ICE Resin || Therm O Web || Rowland Industries || Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L || Pink and Main || Elizabeth Craft Designs || The Buckle Boutique || Neat and Tangled

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You Are My Anchor - Vintage Nautical Card Tutorial And a Giveaway!

Hello everyone and oh boy, I am sooo happy (quite overwhelmed, really!) to see so many new friends joining my blog! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! 

In case you've missed my Monday's post, this card was my offering for this week's blog collaboration of two amazing companies. The Design Teams at Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic 45 have been playing together to spoil you with a whole week of great inspiration and amazing prizes. To find out more, hop over here!

As promised, I am back today with a tutorial for the nautical anniversary card I shared. And if you keep reading on, you will also see that I have a little 'thank you' surprise for my 'tutorial survivors' lol. 

Ok, let's get started with the tutorial, shall we?

1. Prepare your card blank from kraft cardstock and a selection of background panels and elements from the By The Sea and Place in Time paper collections. Distress the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink and a paper distresser. Make some bigger tears in a few places to show the background fabric scraps.

2. Add some stamping using Stampendous stamps (Loving Messages) and StazOn Midnight blue ink. Cut a few small pieces of burlap fabric. Arrange the elements until you are happy with the layout. 

TIP: I always keep my phone handy to take a quick snap. This way I can refer to my planned layout during the assembling stage, in case I forget how I wanted to arrange the elements :).

3.  Adhere your burlap scraps to the back of your biggest background panel with E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips, making sure to leave some fabric showing outside the edges. Pull some treads out for a tattered look.

4. Run your E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips along all edges of the panel and adhere it to the card blank. Repeat with the smaller background elements and attach them to the card.

5. To adhere flat metal tags and fabric embellishments use Adhesive Sheets.

6. Using the White Crafty Foam Tape and E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips adhere the remaining background elements, varying the layer heights with additional foam adhesive.

7. Continue to build the layers.

8. Fill a small vial bottle with torn strips of papers and a mixture of Stampendous Frantage powders, glitters, mica fragments and sequins.

TIP: I always keep my leftover powders, glitters and fragments from the encrusted jewel technique in a small container - they come very handy in small embellishment bottles.

9. Wrap the bottle with a small rope embellishment tied in a sailor's knot and secure with DODZ™ - 3D.

TIP: I saved my knots from another project (you can read about it here) but you can easily create them yourself - you can find some cool examples and instructions here. 

10. Secure the bottle to the card with a handful of DODZ™ - 3D. To cover any adhesive showing tuck in some cheese cloth - this will also add a nice nautical touch.

11. Add a few photo corners from Creative Photo Corners - Mix Pack to imitate beach huts. Layer the sentiment panel over them, leaving only the 'roofs' showing.

12. Weave a nautical ribbon bow through a big ship's wheel brad embellishment and secure to the card.

13. Use the ribbon to cover a handful of 3D Foam Pennants to create a nautical banner, do not peal the back protective sheet yet. Punch a hole at the top left corner of each pennant and weave through a red cord. Peal of the back sheets and layer each pennant onto the card over the previous one.

14. Add a few blue and turquoise sequins to imitate water droplets. Secure with DODZ™ - Small.

And that's it! You can also use the left over pieces and scraps to decorate the inside of the card, like I've done it here :).

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Now, something you've all been waiting for! lol :) Giveaway time! Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L have very kindly offered a $25 shopping spree to one of my blog followers - how awesome is that? Imagine the delight in browsing all the fabulous photo corners, designer shapes, adhesive dispensers and so much more...!

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is to follow my blog, comment on this post and enter into the drawing using the Rafflecopter app below. There are also additional ways to gain more entries so have fun and good luck!

The giveaway will be open until midnight on Sunday 10th August 2014 BST and the winner will be announced shortly after.
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Thank you for stopping by today and have a wonderfully crafty weekend!

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You Are My Anchor - Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic 45 Blog Hop - Day 1

Hello everyone! I am really REALLY excited today! 

Well, ok, it's Monday, not my favourite day of the week but I am soooo going to make it much sweeter for you! How, you ask? Read on to find out!


Witajcie kochani! Bardzo dziękuję za odwiedziny w ten poniedziałkowy poranek! Dzisiejszy post będzie super radosny. Nie tylko dlatego, że karteczka, którą się chwalę dzisiaj została przygotowana dla mojej drugiej połowy z okazji naszej piątej rocznicy ślubu :). 

Ale również dlatego, że dwie rewelacyjne firmy Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L i Graphic 45 połączą scrapowe siły podczas kilkudniowego blog hopa. Oczywiście będą super inspiracje! Oczywiście będą również nagrody! Co należy zrobić aby wziąć udział? Wystarczy pozostawić komentarze na blogach biorących udział w zabawie, poprzez Instagram lub na Facebooku i potwierdzić udział poprzez aplikację Rafflecopter (gadżet poniżej na końcu posta). Pozostałe blogi biorące udział znajdziecie tutaj i tutaj.

Ale to jeszcze nie koniec! Ja również mam od siebie małą niespodziankę dla obserwatorów mojego bloga! Wraz z dzisiejszą kartką przygotowałam również kurs krok po kroku, który ukaże się na moim blogu w piątek. Serdecznie zapraszam do odwiedzin w piątek, gdzie oprócz  kursu będą też słodkości sponsorowane przez Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L -  $25 do wydania na zakupy online w Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L!!!  Powodzenia!

This week Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic 45 have joined their crafty powers together in a long week blog hop. Of course there will be loads of fantastic inspiration. And of course there will be prizes! To join the fun just visit the participating blogs, leave some love and enter through the Rafflecopter app (widget at the bottom of the post)! If you get lost, you can also find all the links and information HERE and HERE.

Additional entries are available by commenting on our Instagram Page, be sure to tell us your profile name on the Rafflecopter app. 

You can also enter a third time via Facebook. Either click through the Rafflecopter app to comment on our Facebook page, or click on the Giveaway tab on our Facebook page itself. 

Each day there will be 2-3 new blogs to visit, and you can enter each day! 

Be sure to also visit Graphic 45 to enter their drawings too! 
For my inspiration I prepared a card I made for my DH as we've just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary :-).

For my card I used the beautiful papers from the By The Sea and Place in Time collections. My hubby loves all things nautical, probably because he was born in a house right on the Pendine Sands (in Wales) and he lived with his parents in Eastbourne for many years.

If you have a closer look, the papers actually feature a lighthouse from Beachy Head in Eastbourne - how cool is that? The lighthouse is now red & white but I couldn't be happier to see that image in the collection. Below is a picture of me (a couple-ahem-ish years ago) with the Beachy Head lighthouse in the background - such a magical place, isn't it?

For my card I used White Crafty Foam Tape, 3D Foam Pennants, E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips, Adhesive Sheets, Creative Photo Corners - Mix Pack, DODZ™ - Small and DODZ™ - 3D.

Don't you think those Photo Corners look like little cute beach huts?

I used various fabrics: burlap, cheese cloth and a really cool ribbon I bought some time ago at a flea market in Ghent, Belgium. 

I added some stamping with Stampendous stamps (Loving Messages) and StazOn Midnight blue ink.

I also added a 'message in a bottle' with strips of papers, sequins, mica fragments, glitters and powders from Stampendous Fran-tage lines. It's difficult to photograph it but it looks like it has all the sparkliness of the sea captured within it :).

The rope on the bottle is tied in a buntline hitch knot as per the metal plaque underneath. I saved these from a picture frame I altered a while ago.

I also decorated the inside of the card and I added some stamping (Stampendous Queen Bee).  

I've also prepared a full tutorial for my card which you will be able to see on my blog on Friday 1st August. So please come back, as I will also have a small surprise for my blog followers hidden within my tutorial post :). Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L have very kindly given me the opportunity to treat one of you lucky crafters to a $25 shopping spree on the website - yaaaay!

I hope you've enjoyed reading about my project and if you have, I'd be delighted if you joined to follow my blog :). Do let me know your blog address so I can return the kindness!

Thank you for all your lovely comments and happy hopping! 

Blogging today:

Asia King (yours truly!)

Tiffany Johnson

Andrew Roberts

Annette Green

Donna Espiritu

Ginger Ropp 

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L blog

Graphic 45 blog

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Challenges for this card:
Live and Love Crafts July - By The Sea
Frilly and Funkie - Cool Water
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - J is for... July

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