Aspiring to Creativity: April 2020

Welcome back everyone!

Today's post is for those that purchased the 2nd card kit using the Graphic 45 'Fashion Forward' paper collection (8 x 8) that is available through Scrapbook Parade. These are photos that show a closer look at the cards for those that are assembling their kits from this post along with the instructions included in the kit.

Here is a quick look at all four cards,...

...and here is a look of the cards again shown in pairs.

Now we get to each individual card starting with the 'May' paper from G45's 'Fashion Forward'.

The next month is of course June, but this time no fussy cutting flowers and leaves from the paper. First off they are a bit small, and second a little too hard to fussy cut a lot of them out. So this time I used a stamps set from Altenew called 'Billowing Blossoms Set' (2 x 3) to create large flowers and leaves and used ink pads that closely matched the colours of the paper.

Here we have the paper for month of June, and once again went back to fussy cutting from the beautiful paper to embellish with some yellow ribbon.

The fussy cutting for the paper of July was a bit of a challenge with the type of flowers used for this month, but I think it was well worth the extra effort to get a unique flower to embellish with anlong with those leaves.

I hope that you can see which flowers are printed on the background paper, and which are the popped up fussy cut ones. I like the effect of these flowers.

Thank you for purchasing this card kit through Scrapbook Parade, and I hope you had fun with it.

Happy creating everyone!

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are all comping well with the self-isolation we are going through for the past couple of months. In some ways life has really changed, but in others it's kind of normal for me as I stay home a lot anyway. I just can't go out as much as I'd like to.

Today I am posting more images for the G45 'Fashion Forward' kit #1 for those that purchased the kit from Scrapbook Parade. Hopefully they will help you with assembling the cards in your kit along with the instructions.

Here are the four cards you will make in this kit.

This first card in your instructions comes from the 1st page of the collection for January. I love using fussy cut paper images to create Graphic 45 cards.

This is the 2nd card in your instructions which is the 2nd page of the paper and it titled February.

This close up shows that I heat embossed the filigree metal heart with gold embossing powder, and attached the single rose bud to it.

Next we have the 3rd card from the kit, the month of March. I made a mistake on my card, and yours will be different. I mixed up the yellow/orange cardstock with the black cardstock. So yours will be the correct way I had planned it and wrote it in my sketchbook.