bright and beautiful creations: June 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Come on a Journey to Fantasia by Lesa Bird

Couture Creations Doily Dies Fantasia Collection

So here we go

Using the Couture Creations Doily Die Ivy set, cut 2 large and 6 small, layer the 2 large and 2 small, secure with a brad, spritz with water and scrunch each layer upwards, secure 2 small and repeat steps until you have your required amount of flowers

Finished flowers

Cut 1 of the Couture Creations Doily Die CELESTIAL,

Run the centre of the doily through Couture Creations Elegance CHEERFUL Folder

Using the outer part of the Doily Die as a mask, place on pattern paper, and hit with a little mist

Now don't through away our mask, just put a cut through it, and give it a little pleating, makes great paper lace.

Arrange your title and other embellishments to suit, for a little fun add a hat pin or two,

Have Fun

Click Here to print Sketch and Here for Pin Point Instructions

Couture Creations Used

CO723282 Elegance Collection Embossing Folder; Cheerful

CO723222 Fantasia Doily Die; Ivy Set

CO723220 Fantasia Doily Die Celestial

Stay Safe and Enjoy Your Day

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Adriana & Kerrie are featured in Australian Scrapbook Ideas Magazine

How lucky are we not only do we have two of our Design Team featured in the new issue of Australian Scrapbook Ideas Magazine #21 Sue Smyth is the Editor of the magazine.

Adriana Bolzon has created the most amazing altered shoes projects which are just filled with so much detail, this is just one of Adriana's shoes for more visit Adriana's Blog

and Kerrie Gurney has created 4 layouts using Teresa Collins He Said She Said collection, here is just one of Kerrie's layouts for more please visit Kerrie's blog

Buy the magazines to get all step by steps and materials list, you can purchase the magazine in Australian Newsagents or Online

Reminder Today is the last day for you to take part in our Blog Hop with Core'dinations Cardstock

We’ll be giving away a fabulous Couture Creations prize package on Monday 1st July AEST, so be sure to play along and check back on Monday to see if you’re the lucky winner!

Happy Hopping

Friday, June 28, 2013

Couture Creations | Core'Dinations Blog Hop Day 6 with Tracey Cooley

Welcome to Day 6 our final day of the Couture Creations & Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock Blog Hop!

We’re so excited to team up with Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock to share some inspiring projects with you this week, marrying our products together, what could be more perfect our Embossing Folders and Dies and Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock.

Hi it's Tracey, I am Super excited to be a part of the Couture Creations/Core'dinations Blog Hop.... I love Core'dinations cardstock it is the only cardstock I use so this project was a delight to do.

I started out with a very cheap lamp I purchased from my local chain store for a very small $8 AUD. And it looked a little like this.....

boring right???? Well after a bit of thought, some Core'dinations Cardstock and Couture Creations tools.......

NOW LOOK!!!!!

I measured the sides of the ceramic base of my lamp and cut some Core'dinations Core Essentials Neutrals to fit (leaving some overlap to go around the sides and a notch out of the back piece for the cord) and embossed it with the Couture Creations Elegance Taylor Emboss Folder and gave it a light sand using the Couture Creations Sanding Block... I then cleaned up the particles of sanded paper with the Core'dinations Dust Buddy... OMG I love this cloth sooo easy to clean up after sanding and it picks the dust right off my finished cardstock without sticking to it!!!!

With a glitter gel pen I traced around the edges of the embossed image to give it a bit of sparkle.

I cut some 1.5 inch strips of Core'dinations Neutrals cardstock and embossed them using the uber cool slit in the top of the Couture Creations embossing folders to do the entire length. Lightly sand and traced it with glitter pen as well. Core'dinations Cardstock with its coloured core is such a great match with the Couture Creations Emboss Folders and Sanding Block, its like a match made in Heaven! Such great results.

I then used a scoring board to score some fold lines in the strips so I could easily pleat the them, for some interest,securing them in place with Couture Creations 12mm Double Sided Tape.

Then layer the pleated cardstock around the lamp shade securing it with hot glue. Gluing a piece of beaded ribbon along the bottom and a piece of braid along the very top to finish off.

Then using the Couture Creations Victorian Rectangle Nesting Dies I cut a piece of the same neutral Core'dinations Cardstock and embossed, sanded and traced it, the same as the previous pieces. I decorated it with a Core'dinations Pastel Tags (too cute) and used the Couture Creations Stylus from the Handhled Essentials kit to apply a rub on.

I cut a small doily from Core'dinations Glitter Silk Cardstock using the Couture Creations Fantasia Doily Dies Ivy, and tucked it behind the Victorian Rectangle. The Core'dinations Glitter Silk cut beautifully in the doily die and was easy to remove!! I embellished this little stack of Core'dinations cardstock with some crystals and flowers and secured it to the front of my lamp shade.

I love the way this lamp turned out and hope it inspires you to try something a little different with your Core'dinations cardstock and Couture Creations Embossing Folders...I even love it more....

with the lights out!!!!

Keep on Creating!!

Couture Creations Products Used

CO721986 Handheld Essentials

CO723049 Nesting Dies Victorian Rectangle

CO723222 Fantasia Doily Dies Ivy

CO723284 Elegance Emboss Folder Taylor

CO721957 15x15 Self Healing Mat

CO721984 12mm Double Sided Tape

CO723060 Sanding Block

CO721955 Non Stick Scissors

Core'dinations Products Used

GX-3000-01 Neutrals Cardstock Pad

Super Assortment So Mod

GX-1700-01 Glitter Silk Cardstock

GX-1800-06 Core Tags Pastel

GX-DBUDDY Dust Buddy

We’ll be giving away a fabulous Couture Creations prize package Monday 1st July AEST, so be sure to play along and check back on Monday to see if you’re the lucky winner!

Here are the different ways you can play along with us –

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Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock is also posting projects and giving away prizes, so be sure to check out their Blog and Facebook page, too!

Hop over to the Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock Blog and see what their Design Team has created using their ColorCore Cardstock and our Couture Creations products! They also have a giveaway, so what are you waiting for – hop over! oh and don't forget to follow our Design Team Blogs

Adriana Bolzon

Bridget Louw

Cathi O'Neill

Dana Tatar

Pam Bray

Tracey Cooley

Kerrie Gurney

Check back in with us Monday (AEST) to see if you’re the lucky winner of the Couture Creations prize pack!

Remember Core'dinations still has another day due to the time difference between our countries so make sure you keep visiting their blog

Couture Creations | Core'Dinations Blog Hop Day 6 with Kerrie Gurney

Welcome to Day 6 our final day of the Couture Creations & Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock Blog Hop!

Hi it's Kerrie here and I am so happy to be sharing my blog hop project, I love love love Core'dinations cardstock so this blog hop is perfect for me as I have such a stash of Core'dinations cardstock as it works so well with our Couture Creations embossing folders. Anyway enough from me onto my project. I created an off the page layout for my Mum as she recently celebrated not only her 70th birthday but the birth of her second Great Granddaughter. Mum got to meet her new little princess at her birthday celebration lunch. Willow is just 10days so new and so perfect.
I used an embroidery hoop as my Mum is a Quilter and sewer so it is perfect for her to hang on her wall.

start by marking around the embroidery hoop and cut out the circle

lay Core'dinations Colour Core cardstock on top of embossing folder and sand to bring the embossed patterned out with the core colour showing through. This technique gives you a soft look to your projects.

clean off dust with Dust Buddy and pop into embroidery hoop, you may need to cut some small nicks into the side to help in go onto the hoop. I also painted my hoop white, but you can leave it plain.

Die cut Tattered Lace Doily Die with Yellow Whitewash cardstock cut in half

and sand, clean off with Dust Buddy

Die cut two Sophia Connexion dies using Green Whitewash cardstock

Die cut 6 Rose shapes using the Rose Nesting Dies cutting 2 ea of the two bigger dies and 1 ea of the next two sizes.

Sand the edges of all pieces and layer together, poke a hole through the middle and pop in some stamens.

spray with water all layers srunching them into the center as you spray

giving you a scrunched ball slowing unscrunch giving you flower shape

cut a strip of patterned paper 1" x 12" and make into a banner pennant, apply double sided tape to the ends and foam mounting tape the to the centre of the banner.

layer everything onto your hoop, I used a hot glue gun for the flower to make sure it stayed on. Create a tag for hidden journalling

add some Crystal Glitzin' Glamour glitter glue to flower

Couture Creations Products Used

CO723223 Fantasia Tattered Lace Doily Die

CO723283 Elegance Celebrate Embossing Folder

CO723506 Sophia Connexion Decorative Die

CO723218 Rose Nesting Dies

CO721971 Crystalina Glitzin' Glamour Glitter Glue

Core'dinations Colorcore Cardstock Used

12x12 Tim Holtz Distress Tattered Rose

12x12 Tim Holtz Distress Scrattered Straw

6x6 Whitewash Watering Can

6x6 Whitewash Grandma's Rocker

I hope you have enjoyed my project and our Blog Hop

We’ll be giving away a fabulous Couture Creations prize package on Monday 1st July AEST, so be sure to play along and check back on Monday to see if you’re the lucky winner!

Here are the different ways you can play along with us –

Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock is also posting projects and giving away prizes, so be sure to check out their Blog and Facebook page, too!

Adriana Bolzon

Bridget Louw

Cathi O'Neill

Dana Tatar

Pam Bray

Tracey Cooley

Kerrie Gurney

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Couture Creations | Core'Dinations Blog Hop Day 5 with Patti Hamil

Welcome to Day 5 of the Couture Creations & Core’dinations Color Core Cardstock Blog Hop!

We’re so excited to team up with Core’dinations Color Core Cardstock to share some inspiring projects with you this week, marrying our products together.

Hi it's Patti I wanted to take this opportunity to create a page with our beautiful new Granddaughter who was born June 12!!! She is absolutely precious and the Pastel Core'dinations papers were perfect for a baby girl layout!

This is my finished project, I used lots of Couture Creations and Core'dinations on this. I think this photo is just so sweet and I wanted to keep the focus on the photo itself.

I started out by cutting four 5.5 inch squares of the pastel cardstock. I used the Hyper Magical embossing folder on each one. I placed them for my background and "faux" stitched around them with my Zig markers. I die-cut scallop squares using the second and third largest size. I used the Glitter cardstock for the smaller and a coordinating color of the 6x6 cardstock. I outlined them with my Zig markers. I then placed them on the page leaving space for a 4x6 photo. I used different embellishments on each square. I used a die-cut dragonfly on the yellow and blue, then used buttons and punched blooms. The leaves were cut from a scrap of the Hyper Magical embossed cardstock that was left over.

Here is a close-up of the title. I just used chipboard pieces and 5 punched blooms with Glitzin' Glamour in matching colors for the centers.

Here is a close-up where you see a punched bloom and also some of the embossing.

Here you can see the different embossed layers and the little bloom and dragonfly. It all layers together beautifully.

I took one of the smaller Pastel Core-dination Tags and wrote the basic information on it. I used a couple of pieces of Couture Creations foam tape to give it some dimension.

Here is another detail of some of the embellishments I used, this is a piece of the embossed folder cut out.

Here is one where I used a button and twine!!!

One more close-up showing another button, part of the tag and some detail of the embossing. I love the look of the coordinating colors of Glitter and regular cardstock.

I used Gemstones in matching colors on the bodies of the dragonflies. I just drew the little antennae with my Zig marker.

Here is the title again, the little punched blooms

Couture Creations products used:

Nesting Die s (Scallop Square) C0723043

Fresh and Fun collection Hyper Magical Embossing folder C0723442

Sweet Dreams collection Fancy That Embossing folder C0723308

Summer Dragonfly decorative die C0723420

Core'dinations products used:

Color Core Cardstocks

Glitter (Brillant) 4.25x5.5 GX-1760-01

6x6 (Pastels) GX-3000-07

Tags (Pastels) GX-1800-06

We’ll be giving away a fabulous Couture Creations prize package at the end of the week, so be sure to play along and check back on Sunday to see if you’re the lucky winner!

Here are the different ways you can play along with us –

Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock is also posting projects and giving away prizes, so be sure to check out their Blog and Facebook page, too!

Hop over to the Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock Blog and see what their Design Team has created using their ColorCore Cardstock and our Couture Creations products! They also have giveaways, so what are you waiting for – hop over! oh and don't forget to follow our Design Team Blogs

Adriana Bolzon

Bridget Louw

Cathi O'Neill

Dana Tatar

Pam Bray

Tracey Cooley

Kerrie Gurney

Check in again with us tomorrow for more inspiring projects from Couture Creations & Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock