Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 10-28-11 Candy/Food

Welcome to my design team entry for the latest Fabulous Friday challenge

from Frosted Designs! As a FF Design Team member, this was a challenge for me, as my son is allowed very little candy! But, I remembered that he had been given a lollipop by his buddy, Gracie, while we were at the zoo! Well, you can tell I love bright colors, and lots of patterned paper! Me and My Big Ideas: Sunny Days patterned cardstock

ATD/Momenta: textured cardstock Die Cuts With a View: patterned paper

Celebrate It: diamond ribbon, glitter ribbon

Recollections: all flowers Wrights: ric rac Martha Stewart: punches Close To My Heart: brads ______ I hope you will join us again at Frosted Designs for Fabulous Friday, each and every Friday!

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 9-16-11: Punches

Welcome to my entry for the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 9-16-11: Punches

As you may have noticed, I am very partial to creating layouts, and I am partial to my youngest son as my focus. So, I was thrilled when I got to create layouts using punches, because I had just begun to sort and crop all of the photos from our first trip to Tweetsie Railroad. And.....I recently purchased a Martha Stewart Border punch in choo choo train for a steal at a big box chain craft store! SO.....all this to say I was excited to get started on these layouts!

The photo above shows a secrtion of the choo choo border punch in a teal cardstock, inked with Distressing ink, and adhered to a black backgroud.

On the top layout, I cut a 12 in. strip of teal paper, and punched continuously, end to end. I left the remaining section of cardstock that resulted from the punched strip. I then applied this as a bottom border for my layout.

This project was created using the Sarsparilla Paper Pack , and coordinating Stickease stickers from Close To My Heart, our sponsor!

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The layout below also incorporated the same punch, but I chose to punch the entire width of the top of my 12 x 12 in. cardstock base, and create only a decorative top edge, rather than a border strip or a decorative edge on all 4 sides of my background cardstock!

I hope you'll try out some of those punches you have already, or branch out and purchase a new one you have been wanting to try, but haven't! We love to see your creations ar Frosted Designs!

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 9-2-11: Flourishes

Welcome Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge Seekers!

This is my first project as a design team member for Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday team! The challenge this Friday is to create a project using "flourishes." I chose to try out some positive and negative images of flourishes I cut with my Cricut.

I cut these flourishes using the Cindy Loo cartridge, and lightly added Stickles in "Pumice Stone" to the pink flourishes!

If you are interested, I used s*e*i* Bright Blossoms patterned paper, Watermelon and black cardstocks from Close To My Heart, and Grey cardstock from Recollections. Chipboard front stickers are American Crafts thickers in Jewelry Box, Silver flowers are Boutique Fleur by Recollections, pink flowers are from Prima, and inked with Watermelon ink from CTMH,rose cluster flower is a Mulberry Paper Flower from Boutique Fleur by Recollections and also inked with Watermelon. Ribbon is "Beauty" by Satin Sensations Morex, and finally, the silver glitter gem is by Recollections.

**I can't wait to see what you create with flourishes for Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday!**

Sorry - I've been missing!

Hey crafty friends! I am sorry I have been out of commission for over a week! I was so blessed to be able to attend the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Charlotte! My best friend, Holly and I attended 4 classes and a crop, and were able to view so many beautiful samples of papercrafting projects at the vendor fair booths! I hope to post some of our fun pics very soon. Also, I am thrilled beyond words to have been chosen as part of the Fabulous Friday Design Team for Frosted Designs! You can visit their blog at http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com. Be sure to visit Frosted Designs blog often, as you will find sketches, tutorials, challenges and lots of inspiration from very talented papercrafters from all over the world! You'll be able to see my first project this Friday, September 2nd