What a great weekend this is

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I sure am. Took a class with Wendy Vecchi at Paper Niche this evening and are taking another one tomorrow. She is such a talented and awesome lady. The Art part project we did tonight really rocked. I'll post some pictures later this weekend

Did this page using a Pagemap sketch, Love a good sketch for inspiration. It also made me realize I have not updated my sketch blog in quite a wile so I will work on that this coming week
Used Prima papers, flowers and letters here, Authentique word stickers and Maya Road pins

''Spring Fling''

Another awesome kit from Paper Niche

Papers from Prima, Bo Bunny, Glitz Design and My Minds Eye

Embellishments from Prima, Glitz Design, Making Memories Zva and our awesome candybar

2 alphas from Jilly Bean Soup

Ribbon from May Art, Maya Road and Prima

12x12 sticky back Canvas sheet from Ranger

Clear stamp from Kaiser Craft

Birdcage and Banner Chipboard die cut from AccuCut

For those purchasing the kit at the store there is also a add on paper only kit available

It has 1 extra of all the printed papers in the kit

Here I have added 2 pieces of Bazzill craft that is not included in the kit

Here I have used a chipboard book from 7 Gypsies that is not included in the kit but available at the store

Paper Niches February kit

Here is the February kit from Paper Niche

As usual it is filled with yummies from these different manufacturers 

Papers :

Basic Grey 7

Simple stories 5

My Minds Eye 3

TPC 1

Embellishments :

Prima flowers and hearts

Basic Grey Rub-ons and buttons

Pink Paislee Alpha

K&co Chipboards

Zva Bling

Maya Road stick pins

4.5 yards of ribbon

Yummmies from our candybar

Here is my pages and projects =)

I Gessoed, stamped and inked this canvas before I added papers and picture, 

the cute banner is a AccuCut die

The January kit is ready in the store and available on line at Paper Niche.com 

It is a gorgeous fun kit

Paper - Ocotber Afternoon, Jenni Bowlin, Prima, and Glitz

Embellishments - Prima flowers (2), Glitz tiny alphas, Glitz stickers,Peekaboo and Paper Layers, Webster Pages sparklers, crepe paper, Maya Road chip board letters, Prima bling tiles and buttons, and yummy candy from the candy bar.

Ribbon - 5 yards ribbon from Maya Road, American Craft, and Prima.

Love my new PC and PS cs5(that I'm still learning), but are having some problems getting my printer/scanner and F-book to play along with the newbies. I'll probably be a pro by the time it is time to update again.... Sorry for the picture qualities here 

Take a look here at what the other girls made, and here to see the YouTube video of the kit

''Summer Dreams''

Here is my full reveal of the September Paper Niche design kit ''Summer Dreams'' Had a great time playing with this kit especially the Creative Imagination paintable paper paper I used on this first layout

The book here is not included in the kit but are available as a die in the store, where we also have chipboard for sale. So are all the other chipboard shapes I have used on the book and on the page above. The book and the shapes in the book is from AccuCut, the dies used on the page above is from Tim Holtz

Paper Niches June kit release

 This beautiful kit from The Paper Niche is filled with papers from Fancy Pants, 7Gypsy, PinkPaislee and Creative Imaginations. Embellishments from Kaiser. Fancy Pants, Pink Paislee, Prima and BoBunny,  Thickers, sticky back canvas ATC's, Fancy Pants Filter papers, Pink Paislee tissue paper, Kaiser stamps, 7 Gypsy tags, lots of ribbon from May Art and Prima and more. The kit is perfect for vacation, summer and other fun pictures and projects

 A close up of the flowers I made from the Fancy Pants Filter Papers 

I colored them with Glimmer mist. The filter papers was so much fun to play with. Happy I have more of them because I have some more ideas for what to do =)

 Made the  yellow flower from the Pink Paislees tissue paper....so easy and so cute. I used the Tim Holtz Tattered flower die

Mini book is from Maya Road and is not included in the kit. 

Below is a collage .of the pages inside the book

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Birthday card made from some of the leftovers. Love the black tag I used here(in the kit) The black color is easy to scratch off for a distressed look

The October kit from Paper Niche

Papers from Prima and My Minds Eye, embellishments from K&co, Prima and loads of stuff from our awesome candybar, Ribbon from Prima, Maya Road, Websters pages and Midori,  Prima stamp, Jillybean buttons and corrugated letters, mini alphas from My little shoebox and check out the awesome hanger from Crafty Secrets (Heartwarming vintage) This kit is totally fabulous and I still have plenty of stuff left over for more pages. Due to some technical difficulties my pictures are not the best this month..sorry

The swirls on picture 2 (on the frame) is from AccuCut, it is my new favorite die

The kit is available in the store and on line @ www.paperniche.com 

The August Kit From The Paper Niche

This month I tried to stay travel oriented when putting together the kit, but as you see both with my pages and the rest of the DT's pages  the kit leaves you plenty of  room to play around without any travel pictures. Other than what is in the kit I also used different red, black and blue inks Black and blue Bazzill, crackle paint, colorwash and Tattered  Angels travel stamps.

The kit is available in the store and will be available on-line later today

kit includes:

7 Papers from Teresa Collins

4 Papers from Paper Loft

1 Paper from K&Co

1 Tag sheet from Teresa Collins

1 Sheet of bling swirls from Prima

Time Holtz ruler ribbon

1 Basic Grey Alpha stickers

1 Thickers

1 pk. Pink Paisley pleated ribbon

1 pk. MM metal embellishments

1 yd. Maya Road ribbon

3 yd. Hemp

1 Sheet 7Gypsies stickers

1 pk. Prima flowers

1 Bazzil Craft

2 pk. Royal Langnickel rubons
½ yd. American Craft flower ribbon
2 Maya Road Key chains

Cardboard diecuts (accu Cut), Tattered Angels glimmer-screens & metals

Playing with different textures and techniques

this is a page I did before I left for Norway, I made it for a challenge at ACOT and later made a sketch of it for the sketch challenge at Paper Niche. Had a lot of fun here using different techniques and mediums. Used Utee, Glass bead medium (Liquitex) and Crackle paint. The background is stamped with one of Wendy Vechi's stamps and colored in with distress ink. I also used Tim Holtz embossing folder and Dymo for journaling. The sketch is posted on my sketch blog.

Some details

Some Graphic45 layouts

Here is some pages I did with the "On the boardwalk" collection, the picture on the first one is also printed on Graphic45 paper. I have also used Distressing ink, May Art ribbon, Grungeboard swirls, Zing embossing powder, Seahorse and flowers are of unknown origin.

Here I have also used Disterssing ink, 7 Gypsies metal clip, MayaRoad pin and Dymo