Vintage Sewing Storage

Ohh happy long weekend Monday for those of you in most parts of Canada!! I spent my morning helping to pick 5 ice cream buckets (4 litres each) of blackberries!! It was a stabby, scratchy process! But the blackberry jam my Dad makes, is worth it!! :)

Now onto my Vintage Sewing Canister! With some amazing pieces from Southern Ridge Trading Company, a fabulous die from Eileen Hull, Baked Texture Embossing powders from Seth Apter and Emerald Creek and Distress Inks and Paints from Tim Holtz....I have this wonderful little gem!

 

For more details, some great close up pics of those gorgeous scissors and a list of all the products/colours used, head on over to the SRTC blog today!  And while your visiting be sure to have a look at some of the incredible projects being created by the rest of my teammates!

Thanks for your support, it is always appreciated!

Cathy

Create From Your Soul

It's been a bit since I've shared here! But I'm back with this great wall piece featuring Southern Ridge Trading Company chipboard.

Saw the words and had to have them! Saw the Pearl Strings and had to have them! And everytime I see them I love them more....I know, I'm so weird!! LOL

All shimmery! I love the shimmer and it stays where it's put, unlike glitter LOL 

For the details and close ups head on over to the  Southern Ridge Blog and check it out. Don't forget to have a look at my amazing team mates projects created  using SRTC chipboard too! You will be inspired!

Thanks for being here and have a great week!

Cathy

An Inky Tag and Valentines

And just like that the first month of a new year comes to a close! I hope the start to your year was a good one, and now we head into February! So for a few of my projects up on the Scrap Shotz Blog I made some Valentines! And got wonderfully inky and messy making a tag!

Love the Modascrap Wood Effect paper that is the first layer on this tag and that Tim Holtz Scroll Die..a must have!

Three Valentine cards made with the Hello Sweetheart Collection from Carta Bella. I am such a paper junkie!! I want it all and I want more! :) Don't judge!! LOL

And the last project is a cute little pendant using the Carta Bella Collection for the inside of the pendant and Glossy Accents to fill it in. One day I will have resin but the GA work great.

For all the details and more up close pictures head on over to Scrap Shotz Snap Shotz and have a look.

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you all have a great week and make time to be creative!

Cathy

 

Strong & Free

My latest project is up on the Wild Whisper Blog today! The Strong & Free Collection is so truly Canadian and encompasses so many things Canadian! In the card pack there is even a double double coffee cup! (which I am kind of keeping for myself lol ) I have also used the Eileen Hull Trinket Box, Book and Frame die to create this home decor piece.

For all the details and some close up pics of the fussy cutting in the top frame and the perfect twist on the wire that holds everything together, head on over to Wild Whisper.

Have a great weekend!!

Cathy

 

Proudly Canadian

We are still celebrating Canada with the Strong & Free Collection from Wild Whisper Designs! So many things to love about this collection. I used the quote from famous Canadian author, Margaret Atwood as my center piece on this canvas. This project can stay up year round and the quote is a very good one for these days.

Here is my completed piece :) For more detailed pics and supplies I used, head on over to the Wild Whisper blog and check it out!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to get your order in for this incredible collection!

Have a great day!

Cathy

Gratitude Journal

I can't believe we are already 4 days into a new year! I had an idea of making a small Gratitude Journal that fit in my purse and was maybe not as time consuming to keep up like I know some can be. It's a very basic little book that you can jot down good things that happen in a day, or quotes you see and want to use later and maybe just a few reminders to yourself about how great you are!

So for my Mixed Media Mojo project today I used an old chipboard book I had kicking around and added some pizazz to the covers! Don't forget to head over to the original post at Mixed Media Mojo and enter your project!

Front cover

Inside front cover

Inside back cover

Back cover

I coated the chipboard with a layer of gesso first, I just find it gives me a better surface to work on. I then cut my paper from Wild Whisper Designs Holiday Style collection into 4 1/2 X 4 1/2 squares. Once my gesso was dry I painted the covers in Dylusions Crushed Grape.

I stamped my Emerald Creek Vintage Timepiece with Distress Embossing ink and used Emerald Creek Frosted Plum. I mixed Ranger Texture Paste with Dylusions Black marble and stencilled on the front and back pieces of cardstock. I painted over the front and back covers with Tim Holtz Distress Crackle paint in Clear Rock Candy. ialso inked all the edges of my papers in Vintage Photo.

On the inside covers I embossed around the edges with Frosted plum. Your lines don't have to be perfect as the 4 1/2 inch squares of paper will cover most of it. On the front cover I attached a Flourished time Piece Charm from Emerald Creek, I put in a 3/4 inch piece of matching paper inside it, then filled it with Glossy Accents and some Iced Enamels German Glass in lavender. The last square is a quick shot of all the products I used for the journal.

Here are a few close up pics of the covers.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you share your projects celebrating NEW and CLOCKS with us!

Have a great day!

Cathy 

Challenges Entered:
Frilly and Funkie New Year's Inspiration

Wild Whisper Inaugural Blog Hop

Welcome to the inaugural blog hop, introducing Wild Whisper Designs!! A brand new Canadian company designing their own paper lines and carrying matching embellishments from other companies. I am so honored to be a part of this exciting day and to have been able to create a couple of projects to share the Wild Whisper Holiday Style collection with you all.

I created a Christmas postcard and a pocket scrapbook page. I used some of the 12X12 sheets, the 4X6 cards and the 3X4 cards too.  The hardest part for me was having to decide which side to use because I love them all!! And I did not want to cut into my pages, but sometimes I just have to do it! 

Up first is my 4X6 Christmas post card. I went with this size so I could use the full antler background and I could pop up my layers a bit more on the front and still be able to mail it! 

The background is the 4X6 antler card, then I have used a piece of the teal plaid from the 12X12 pages for layering, and I used a left over piece from one of the 3X4 cards to stamp Merry Christmas on. The stag and the Merry Christmas stamps are from Emerald Creek.

Directly behind the stag is a piece of a 3X5 card in a lighter teal, then the plaid.

I love how the whole collection matches so well!

 

The Merry Christmas was stamped on a piece of a 3X5 card and then layered on the teal plaid.

My second project was a pocket scrapbooking page. I have had these pages in my stash for a while and just hadn't gotten around to using them. As soon as I saw the Holiday Style collection, I knew I had found my muse!!

This is the page with my little flip pockets closed and showing the the cards I used.

 

This is the 4X6 card and I knew what picture I was going to use, even though it makes me look ridiculous! LOL

And "Dressed in Holiday Style" is me in my "Free the Elves" shirt with my elf hat and elf shoes. My kids just rolled their eyes when they walked in the door and here I was!! LOL

The bottom half of the page with a 4X4 flip pocket, and inside this pocket is a trimmed 3X4 card and the "notes" piece is one of the 3X5 cards too.

And under the second flip pocket is my daughter and I! She is a bit like me :) But we love our holiday style!

And for the strip down the side I used the teal plaid. And you can see here the back of the Dressed in Holiday Style is this gorgeous firework. You can leave it as it is, which I did or you could put another picture in the pocket.

I loved creating with this collection and I know I'll need another one just so I can use the other sides of the cards! And I still have pieces left that I can finish a few more pocket pages, I can do a 12X12 layout and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be fussy cutting out some of the sayings on the 12X12 page. So much fun with this collection and I can't wait to order the Adventure Collection, I 'm not outdoorsy, but I will be able to have some good pics to use with the Adventure Collection!

Thank you so much for stopping by this stop of the blog hop and welcoming Wild Whisper Designs to the paper crafting industry!! Don't forget to hop over to the other blogs featuring Wild Whisper Designs!
You have a chance to win both collections, Holiday Style and Adventure!! Just make sure you visit and comment on all the posts in this blog hop and both of these new incredible collections could be yours!
You're next stop for inspiration in the Wild Whisper Blog Hop is 
Katelyn - A Creative Journey 

Have a great hop everyone!

Here is your complete blog list!! You have until November 25th to comment on each post for your chance to win!!!

 Wild Whisper

 Kim 

Julia 
Tori

 Nicole 

 Wild Whisper YouTube

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Katelyn

 Heather

Cathy