Floral Happy Birthday Card

Happy Friday! I'm up on Southern Ridge Trading Company's blog sharing with you my Floral Happy Birthday Card today. Spring is here and inspiration is everywhere. With Spring in mind, I've created this vintage Floral Happy Birthday Card perfect for that special someone in your life.  I hope that my Floral Happy Birthday Card will inspire you to want to recreate it at home.

You'll want to stop by Southern Ridge Trading Company's Blog so that you can learn how I created my Floral Happy Birthday Card at home.

- Katelyn

Easter Treat Holder

Happy Wednesday! I'm excited to share with you my 60 second Easter Treat Holder that's on Graphic 45's blog today. Although it can be challenging to create a project within 60 second, Graphic 45's products are perfect for achieving these types of projects.  So, by using the Place In Time Deluxe Collectors Edition, and a ATC Black Policy Envelope, I was able to create this simple but quick and pretty treat holder, easy for anyone to recreate at home and perfect for your Easter Dinner Table.

Tip: You only need to use one sheet of paper to create this treat holder.

Here's the video tutorial on how I created my card:

Graphic 45 Supplies Used:

- Place In Time Deluxe Collectors Edition

- ATC Black Policy Envelopes

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Vintage Photo Distress Ink & Blending tool with Foam

- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: 3D Foam Squares & Ez Runner

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project! You'll want to make sure to head over to Graphic 45's blog for a few other tips and tricks. 

-Katelyn

Ocean Views

Happy Monday! Today, I'm up on Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's Blog as a monthly blogger sharing my Ocean Views Scrapbook Layout. My layout features the Wild Whimsy Collection from Wild Whisper Designs, chipboard from Southern Ridge Trading Company, Distress Ink from Ranger Ink, and adhesive from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. 

You'll want to make sure to stop by the Creative Scrapbooker Blog to read about  my Ocean Views Scrapbook Layout.

- Katelyn

Hello

Spring has finally arrived here on the Island and to celebrate it's arrival, I thought I'd share with you one of the cards that I created for Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's Spring Issue. I combined Nuance powder from Magenta, Distress Ink from Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink and a variety of dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs to create my Hello card.

For the background of the card, I combined Rosebud, Coral and Aquamarine Magenta Nuance Powder onto a piece of White Soft Finish cardstock. To get the flower background image, I die cut the Abstract Background out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Once the background dried, I adhered the Abstract Background overtop and added Trans. Glitter/Gold Dots to the centers of the flowers.

The banner that the hello word sits on, was created using the Stitched Fishtail Banners and Magenta Nuance Powder in Coral. Once the banner had dried, I cut a second larger banner out of black cardstock and adhered the two banners together. The Hello word was stamped and then die cut out using the Sentiments 2 - Just Because Die.

For the right side of the banner, I die cut two feathers. One feather was left white and edged with Black Soot Distress Ink. The other feather was coloured using Grey Magenta Nuance Powder. When using the Grey powder, a little goes a long way. The Leafy Branch 2 was die cut out twice and then Shabby Shutters Distress Ink was blended over the entire surface of the leaves. The little flower was die cut out twice from the Happy Flowers die and then Worn Lipstick as well as Abandoned Coral Distress Ink was blended overtop of the flowers. To finish the center of the flower, add a Trans. glitter/gold dot. 

Here's the finished Hello card one more time. 

To see this card as well as a second spring card, you'll want to check out the Must List in Creative Scrapbooker's Magazine - Spring Issue. 

Supplies Used:

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Fishtail Banners, Feathers, Sentiments 2 - Just Because Die, Sentiments 2 - Just Because Clear Stamp Set, Abstract Background, Leafy Branch 2, Happy Flowers, White Soft Finish Cardstock, Trans. Glitter/Gold Dots and Black Soft Finish Cardstock

- Magenta: Nuance Powder - Rosebud, Coral, Aquamarine and Grey

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral and Black Soot

- Tombow: Mono Multi Liquid Glue

- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: 3D Foam Squares

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project!

- Katelyn

Believe in Magic Light Plate Cover

Happy Thursday! I was up on Graphic 45's blog yesterday sharing my Believe in Magic Light Plate Cover which features the Fairie Dust Collection, Once Upon a Springtime Deluxe Collectors Edition and the Shabby Chic Ornate Metal Brads from the Staples Collection. I have a few photos to share with you on my blog, but if you haven't stopped by Graphic 45's blog yet, make sure you do so that you can check out Clare's fabulous project and the rest of the photos of my Believe in Magic Light Plate Cover as well as a tutorial so that you can recreate it at home.

Tip: Layer fussy cut flowers in with premade paper flowers, to create different texture and dimension.

Tip: Use a Clear Glitter Wink of Stella Pen on the fairies wings.

For a full tutorial on how I created my Believe in Magic Light Plate Cover as well as some more photos of my project, you'll want to stop by Graphic 45's blog. 

-Katelyn

Beautiful Frame - Designer Challenge

It's time for a new Designer Challenge on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog today.  For March it's all about Framing it. With this month's challenge in mind, I set out to create a Scrapbook Layout inside of a picture frame that you can decorate with in any area of your home. You'll want to make sure to read below as I have a tutorial for you so that you can re-create my Beautiful Frame at home. Make sure to read all the way down to the bottom of the post as I have some information on how to get in on a fabulous giveaway from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

To start, die cut the Happy Frame out of patterned paper from the Wood Effect Paper Pack four times. Create the four strips by folding on the score lines and then shape them into long strips. You'll need to adhere one side of the patterned paper and adhered to the flat side of the strip to create the strip. 

Cut a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock that measures 7 1/2" x 7 1/2". 

Adhere the strips together to create the frame. Make sure that the square end gets attached to an angle end. Continue to adhere the strips until the frame is created. Adhere the piece of 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" White Soft Finish Cardstock to the back of the frame. Set your frame aside.

From the Under the Sea patterned paper Pack, take out the watercolour colour anchor piece. Cut a piece that measures 6 3/4" x 6 3/4".  Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

With the Under the Sea Paper Pack still out, take the patterned paper piece out with the triangles. From the Stitched Squares, die cut the 5 1/4" stitched square and the 3 3/4" stitched square out of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of the patterned paper pieces. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 5 1/4" Stitched Rectangle Die from the watercolour anchor patterned paper. Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4" Stitched Rectangle out of the Dot patterned paper from the Under the Sea Paper Pack. Die cut the 3 3/4" Stitched Square out of the Dot patterned paper. Distress the edges of the patterned paper pieces. Ink the edges of the patterned paper pieces using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Take out the 3/4" and 1 /2" Stitched Fishtail Banners. Die cut the 3/4" Stitched Fishtail Banner twice from two of the patterned papers from the Under the Sea Paper Pack. Die cut the 1/2" Stitched Fishtail Banner from one of the patterned papers from the Under the Sea Paper Pack. Distress the edges of the banners. Ink the edges of the banners using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Celebration Flags die, choose one of the flags. Die cut the flag twice out of patterned paper from the Under the Sea patterned paper pack. Ink the edges of the flags using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4 3/4" Stitched Square out of the Anchor patterned paper from the Sea World Paper Pack. Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4 3/4" Stitched Rectangle out of the Sea Animals patterned paper from the Sea World Paper Pack. Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Use the 4 3/4" Stitched Rectangle die to die cut the photo out.

From the Amazing Beautiful Die, die cut the Beautiful out of White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Adhere the large anchor watercolour patterned paper piece to the inside of the frame.

Adhere the 5 1/4" Stitched Square triangle patterned paper piece 1/2" from the right and 1" from the top of the frame. Adhere the Sea Animal rectangle piece 1/2" from the left and 1 1/4" from the bottom of the frame.

Foam square the 4" Dot patterned paper stitched rectangle 1/4" from the left and 1/2" from the top of the frame. Foam square one of the 3/4" stitched fishtail banners to the top of the triangle square. Adhere the remaining banners slightly on the dot patterned paper stitched rectangle. Use adhesive and foam squares to adhere the anchor stitched square 3/4" from the right and 3/4" from the top of the frame. 

Adhere the 3 3/4" triangle patterned paper square 1 1/2" from the left and 1" from the top of the frame. Adhere the dot patterned paper square 1" from the right and 1 1/4" from the bottom of the frame. Adhere the photo to the 5 1/4" watercolour anchor stitched rectangle. Foam square the 5 1/4" watercolour anchor to the middle of the layered patterned papers.

Adhere the Beautiful sentiment in the bottom right hand corner of the photo. To finish the frame, adhere the two flags to the top right hand corner of the frame. 

Here are a few close up photos of the Beautiful Frame. 

Here's the finished Beautiful Frame. 

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For today's challenge Elizabeth Craft Designs are giving away a $20 Gift Card to use on our website to 3 winners. 

To enter simply leave a comment on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Challenge post and tell us What Elizabeth Craft Designs dies or stamp sets would you use to frame something on a card, scrapbook layout of home decor item?

We will select 3 lucky winners in a random drawing 

The winners will be announced on Friday, March 23rd on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog.

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Elizabeth Craft Designs Products Used:

- Happy Frame

- Celebration Flags

- Stitched Rectangles

- Stitched Squares

- Stitched Fishtail Banners

- Amazing Beautiful

- ModaScrap: Wood Effect Paper Pack

- ModaScrap: Under The Sea Paper Pack

- ModaScrap: Sea World Paper Pack

- Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape - 6mm

- Beacon - Kids Choice Glue

- White Soft Finish Cardstock

Other Products Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo & Blending Tool & Foam

- Katelyn

Easter Blessings Tag

Happy Friday! I'm up on Southern Ridge Trading Company's blog sharing with you my Easter Blessings Tag today. With Easter just a few weeks away, this Easter tag is perfect to add a Easter Basket or to write a note on the back of it to a loved one.  I hope that my Easter Blessings Tag will inspire you to want to recreate it at home.

You'll want to stop by Southern Ridge Trading Company's Blog so that you can learn how I embellished the chipboard pieces for my Easter Greetings Tag.

- Katelyn

Happy Birthday Els Blog Hop!

Surprise! Happy Birthday Els Blog Hop

It's Els van de Burgt's birthday and what better way to celebrate but with a surprise Birthday Blog Hop with the Elizabeth Crafts Design Team! Happy Birthday Els!

We hope you will join us in making Els birthday special, by dropping by our Elizabeth Craft Designs Family Facebook Group and wishing her a happy birthday!

The hop started at the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog, so if you just happened to hop onto my blog you might like to head back to there first so you don't miss out on any of the fun!

 My project for the blog hop is a a Happy Birthday Card featuring dies from Suzanne Cannon, Joset Designs and Els van de Burgt Studio. Grab a cup of your favourite beverage and enjoy the tutorial below so that you'll be able to recreate my card at home. Make sure to read the entire blog post so that you can head over to the next designer's blog as well as there is another surprise at the bottom of the post. 

To start, die cut the Flourished Oval Frame out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. With the frame cut out, ink the edges using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the Happy Birthday from the Words 1 - Celebration die out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Blend Cracked Pistachio and Broken China Distress Ink overtop of the words using a blending tool with foam.

Using the small butterfly from the Butterfly Flourish die, die cut two butterflies out of White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Choose two of the leaves from the Trio of Leaves die. Die cut the two chosen leaves twice out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Once the leaves are die cut out, use a blending tool with foam to blend Shabby Shutters Distress Ink over all four leaves.

From the Small Flower Set, choose two flowers. The first flower will be cut out four times from White Soft Finish Cardstock. The second flower will be cut out two times from White Soft Finish Cardstock. Die cut the centers of the flowers once out of White Soft Finish cardstock. You'll end up needing three centers. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Milled Lavender Distress Ink over two of the four flowers as well as one of the centers. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Seedless Preserves Distress Ink over the rest of the flowers as well as two of the centers.

Die cut the 1 1/2" Stitched Fishtail Banner out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Ink the edges of the banner using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Choose a patterned paper piece from the Fly & Scrap Patterned Paper Pack. Die cut the 4 1/2" Stitched Rectangle from the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Choose another piece of patterned paper from the Fly & Scrap Paper Pack. Cut the piece to 3 3/4" x 5". Ink the edges of the patterned paper using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Choose a third piece of patterned paper from the Fly & Scrap Paper Pack. Cut the piece to 4" x 5 1/4". Ink the edges of the patterned paper using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Now it's time for assembly.

Adhere the 3 3/4" patterned paper piece to the 4" patterned paper piece. Foam square the flourished oval frame to the middle of the 3 3/4" patterned paper piece. Adhere the Happy Birthday sentiment to the middle of the frame.

Adhere the two matching Seedless Preserves Flower with center together. Adhere the flower, butterfly and one leaf to the top right side of the frame.

Adhere one seedless preserve flower to a milled lavender flower. Adhere a milled lavender center to the middle of the seedless preserve flower. Adhere the other milled lavender flower to the seedless preserve flower. Adhere a seedless preserve center to the middle of the milled lavender flower. Adhere the flowers, butterfly and three leaves to the bottom left side of the frame.

Adhere the stitched fishtail banner to the middle of the 4" patterned paper piece. Foam square the 4" patterned paper piece to the 4 1/2" stitched rectangle.

To finish the card, cut a cardbase out of cardstock that measures 4 1/2" x 11 1/2", score at 5 3/4". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here are a few closeup shots of the finished Happy Birthday Card.

And here's the finished Happy Birthday Card.

Elizabeth Craft Designs Supplies Used:

- Small Flower Set

- Trio of Leaves

- Words 1: Celebration

- Stitched Rectangles

- Stitched Fishtail Banners

- Flourished Oval Frame

- Butterfly Flourish

- ModaScrap: Fly & Scrap Paper Pack

- White Soft Finish Cardstock

- 6mm Clear Double Sided Adhesive

- Kids Choice Glue

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holts for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Cracked Pistachio, Shabby Shutters, Broken China, Seedless Preserves & Milled Lavender and Blending Tool with Foam

I hope that you enjoyed my tutorial for my Happy Birthday Card and that you'll recreate it at home. I want to wish Els a very Happy Birhday and I hope that you have a wonderful day!

But before you go, To celebrate Els' birthday, Elizabeth Craft Designs are giving out a gift when you place an order over $25 on the Elizabeth Craft Designs web site. You will receive 10 sheets of stickers with every purchase over $25. This special promotion applies to all orders placed from today Thursday 15th March until the end of day on Monday 19th March.

Well now it is time to leave my blog as you continue along our birthday hop. Your next stop is to the talented Emilia van den Heuvel. Don’t forget to pop on over to our Elizabeth Craft Designs Family Facebook Group too to wish Els a happy birthday!

Here is the complete blog hop list if you need it:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog 
Tanja Kabel
Frances Byrne
Karen Nofziger
Samantha Klaebe
Christine Pooler
Selma Stevenson
EK Gorman
Laura Gilhuly
Luciana Telesca
Ekaterina Oleynik
Sandy Diller
Marilyn Scheller
Sara Torzullo
Katelyn Grosart <You are here>
Emilia van den Heuvel
Elena Anderson
Kelly Booth

- Katelyn