{crafty} Pinkfresh Studio April Blog Hop

Hello there! Welcome to the Pinkfresh Studio April reveal blog hop!  If you came from Agnieszka's blog, you are in the right place! If not, head over to the Pinkfresh blog to start from the beginning.

I have so much fun playing with these embellishment kits that I often use nothing else on a layout besides some essentials, yes that includes paint and mist for me! ;-)  I did pull in a few small pieces from the Up in the Clouds collection and previous kits here as well.

I used the die to cut out several frames from a watercolor background I created and then used the coordinating stamp set to border each frame and add sentiments.

The wood veneer designed by Wilna Furstenberg is just gorgeous! I colored it in with Tim Holtz distress markers and then sprayed a little water on it to bleed the color.

 Leave a comment below and on each stop along the way to enter to win the full April kit! And don't forget to stop back at the Pinkfresh Studio blog and comment on your favorites from the hop for your final entry! The winner will be chosen Wednesday the 22nd.

>>>Up next in the hop is Cassandra!<<<

April Embellishment Kit

Thanks for looking!

{crafty} layout share & some news!

Well I sure am a bit late to the party here, but I do have some exciting news to share! I have been asked to join the Craft Warehouse DT! I am such a fan of the Craft Warehouse stores and couldn't be more excited to join them for my first official design team spot! If you haven't had the chance to visit one of these stores in the Pacific Northwest, you sure are missing out. They always carry the latest products and are packed full of inspiration at every aisle. It is definitely one of my favorite places to shop.

Keeping up with all news fun and good I can now share my FIRST and SECOND ever published layouts!

The first was briefly shared and featured at Studio Calico until I received the publication notice and had to have it removed. It was published in the July issue of Scrapbook Trends, which sadly was the first digital only publication for Northridge. I would have loved to get my hands on a print issue of this!

This one is in the current August issue of ST. I have shared it on my blog, again briefly, before I had to remove it. I created the word art in Silhouette Studio and printed it on white woodgrain cardstock, then stitched it to the printed paper to create the base for my page.

The last layout I have to share is my most recent page. I created this during the Studio Calico Inked class using several techniques that were demonstrated. For the background stamping I chose a smaller background stamp and colored it in with three different Tim Holtz Distress Markers, spritzed it with water and then stamped making sure to mask off the areas of the paper I did not want to ink. After I finished stamping I sewed along the edges of the chevron pattern to give it a more finished look.

Thanks for looking!