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Christine Adolph--Sakura

Have you ever come across one of those collections that is just so pretty that you don't even want to cut into it?  That's exactly how I felt about Christine Adolph's Sakura collection.  The beautiful colors and patterns are suitable for framing!

As you can see, I eventually decided to cut into those pretty papers to create this layout.  I used the die cut paper as my background and cut the lanterns from patterned paper to use as a decorative element across the top of the layout.

I brought out the purple in the papers by painting a strip of Paint It papers with sugar plum Luminarte Twinking H2Os.  I further embellished with die cuts, layered stickers, and a border punched strip of real wood paper.

I create this card for a friend.  I embossed a piece of wood paper and then inked the raised design and then embellished with twine and a die cut. 

 

Luminarte

Twinkling H2Os in Sugar Plum

Christine Adolph Sakura

 Sakura DC Shapes

 Sakura Layered Sticker

Sakura Serenity DS Paper

 Sakura Lovely DC Paper

Sakura Blooming DS Paper

Sakura Spring DS paper

Real Wood

Real Wood 12x12 Thin Cherry

Marah Johnson Paint It Papers

Monarch Define DS Paper

 

Tanisha

 

One Little Word for 2012

I have followed Ali Edward's blog for a long long time, and have participated in her One Little Word prompting for a few years now. This year I decided my word will be "brave". I will reflect on my word throughout the year, and work towards being more "brave" in my day to day activities.

I wanted to create a layout reflecting on my word... and Creative Imaginations Chipboard sayings were perfect for this!

Did any of you pick a word for 2012? I would love to hear about it! 

Creative IMaginations Supplies Used:

• Monarch Happenings Chipboard
• Alpha Basics Cardstock Stickers
• Devotion Passion DS Paper
• Devotion Victorian DS Paper
• Monarch Travel Cardstock Stickers
• Devotion Diecut Shapes
• Real Wood 6x12 thin cherry
• Luminarte Twinkling H2O Sunburst

Other Supplies Used:

• Martha Stewart border punch (on the real wood paper)
• Edge Distresser 

 

Studio Basics new Heaven's Sent

This Studio Basics 101 Heaven's Sent collection is perfect to use with all of your Luminarte Product! The collection boasts themes such as Faith, Unique, Love and more. All the papers and embellishments are foiled, so they are perfect to use with all of our Luminarte paints.   You can paint your backgrounds and still keep the beautiful silver foil!  How fun is that?

Here is some inspiration with the new line.

Card Design by Design Team Member, Jenn Shurkus. 

Supplies:

• 29455 Studio Basics 101 Heaven Sent, Unique You
• 29457 Studio Basics 101 Heaven Sent, Chipboard
• Luminarte H2O Holiday Sparkle kit (Ginger Flower, Vavoom Red)
• Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist, Pewter
• Radiant Rain Pourable Kit, Rainy Day
• 26379 Luminarte H2O Plum Berry Petit Starter Kit (Pomegranite)
• May Arts Ribbon
• Martha Stewart Decorative Border Punch
• Marvy Heart Punch
• Memory Box Heart Stamp
• Spellbinders Nestabilities
• Bling
• Foam Tape

Gorgeous Layout Design by Design Team member Alicia Giess.

 

Supplies:

• Luminarte Pourable Kit - Rainy Day 
• Studio Basics 101 Heaven Sent collection
• Ribbons
• White pen
• Decorative edge scissors

 

New Art Warehouse LOVE DANCE Collection

The CHA sneak peeks continue with a peek at Art Warehouse "Love Dance" collection. This is a perfect collection to feature all your special dance recital photos.

The coordinating chipboard stickers and cardstock stickers make great embellishments to compliment your projects. Here's a layout by DT member Lynn Kopas ...

The color palette and embellishments are designed to incorporate all types of dance! Or use the diecut topper papers {Recital, Competition} for piano, or sports! Look for this collection in stores this month! Hope you enjoyed this peek and stay tuned for more CHA sneaks!

NEW Studio Basics 101 Family Matters

One of the reasons that a lot of us started paper crafting was to preserve memories for our families.  Our Studio Basics Family Matters collections is just perfect for those projects!  The soft muted colors make scrapbooking for every member of your family easy.  The collection includes chipboard, stickers and diecut pieces - look for this collection in stores February 2012!

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Layout designed by Tanisha Long

card designed by Alice Carman

Peeps Peace Collection

Those adorable little bunnies and chickies are back!! That's right, Creative Imaginations has added a few new products to the Peeps Collection and they are ready to don your projects.  This adorable collection can be used for everything from Easter to Girl's Night Out.  Take a look at what our Design Team has created:

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Altered project designed by Tanisha Long

Card designed by Eva Dobilas

Layout designed by Nicole Capote

Christine Adolph Oceanside

Just one look at Christine Adolph's gorgeous Oceanside collection and you can almost hear the rhythmic, foamy waves crashing onto the soft sandy beach.  The variegated blues and browns will add a soft vintage flair to your beach themed projects.

The delicate butterflies and dragonflies add to the versatility of this line.  This collection is perfect for boy, girl, and adult scrapbook pages and will definitely allow your imagination run free!

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Above 12x12 layout designed by DT Member Tanisha Long

Card by DT Member Alice Carman

This collection also comes in a 6x6 pad!!

8x8 layout designed by DT Member Nicole Capote

Be sure to jump over to Artist Christine Adolph's blog or become a fan on her facebook page.

New IOD Ragamuffin Collection

IOD's new Ragamuffin collection brings back so many fond childhood memories for me! Days filled with tea parties, dress up and birthday parties.  This new collection by IOD does not disappoint - the vintage feel and adorable images transport me right back to my childhood!

The collection works perfectly for a child's birthday, dress-up, friendship or even halloween!  Or why not scrapbook those childhood photos?  However you decide to use this collection i am sure it will capture years of memories both past and present!

 

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Layout designed by DT member, Lynn Kopas

 
Card designed by DT member, Eva Dobilas

  Altered envelope book designed by DT member, Cheryl Mezzetti

 

Product used:

• IOD Ragamuffin Collection {In stores now}
• Envelopes
• May Arts Cream EA09 ribbons

Introducing Samantha Walker Nautical collection

I grew up near the ocean...not right on it...but about a 45 minute drive over the Santa Cruz mountains from San Jose. I loved that drive...making my way over the top of those ridges and then around a few bends...my heart would thump as I would see a glimpse of the ocean in the distance and know that I'd be on the beach with sand in my toes in just a short while. We spent many a happy occasion with friends or family at beaches along the Northern California coast.We built many a sand castle with our beach pails and shovels. We collected sand crabs by chasing their bubbles in the sand. We also enjoyed going to "the Boardwalk" in Santa Cruz...a beach side amusement park with retro carnavel flair. I loved the rickety wooden roller coaster "the giant dipper", and the smell of cotton candy and kettle pop corn.  All those memories always invoke a smile on my face. 

Those are the kinds of memories that inspired me to create the Nautical collection. The red white and blue colors remind me of the colors at the Boardwalk amusment park which was infused with these colors.  The Dipper was a white roller coaster with red accents. The deep navy blue ocean along the northern coast with the bright blue skies was also inspiration for the coloring in this line. I took artistic license and added lighthouse icons to this collection to give it a "dual coastal" feeling...I know that lighthouses and lobster are indicative of the East coast. 

Here are a few fabulous projects created by the Creative Imaginations Design Team with the new Samantha Walker Nautical collection for Creative Imaginations.

Above layout created by DT member, Lynn Kopas

Above layout created by DT member, Tanisha Long

Above card created by DT member, Jenn Shurkus

 

To read more about the Nautical collection, pop on over to Samantha Walker's blog.

September/October Sketch Challenge Example

Hi everybody!  This is Alicia Giess and I'm the newest Design Team member for Creative Imaginations.  I just love working with sketches, and Nicole's sketch for September/October was so much fun.  I find that when I work with sketches, I spring off the sketch and bring a little of my own style into the sketch.  These IOD Loolah papers were so perfect for this photo of my daughter, trying fried Swiss cheese at the fair.  As you can see from the look on her face, she wasn't that crazy about the new taste. 

 

 

I just love making a sketch my own.  I took the general layout of the sketch and added those fabulous journaling blocks from the IOD Loolah collection to add to it. 

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for Nicole's sketch challenge.  There will be a fabulous Creative Imaginations prize for the lucky winner.