Create the world you want to see... 38

Hello! Still on vacation having lots of fun with my family here in San Diego. I'll be sure to share some photos soon :) I packed a few supplies that I brought along so I could play in my Art Journal while on this trip. Here's a page that I came up with:

To create this page in my art journal, I referred to a tutorial shown on the Balzer Designs blog ~ click HERE. My page turned out NOTHING like I had in mind or like the sample shown but I still had fun playing with all the sprays and mists :)

 Although you can't really see the dimension in the photos, I used a fair amount of molding paste to add texture. Maybe on the next page it will show better!

 Thanks so much for visiting! Be Sweet :)

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Remember today... 34

Hi there! Today I am sharing a Pink Paislee assigned project made using a combination of Heidi Swapp products and Tombo Brush Pens. Please be sure to visit the Heidi Swapp site for complete details. Tombo Brush Pens work amazingly well with fun patterned files from the Heidi Swapp Color Magic Memory Files and the Color Magic Banner Delights.

The circular shape that Meredith is matted on was made using the pretty yellow pen from the Tombo Brush Pens: Retro set to color the blank Memory file, creating a beautiful piece to be used on my layout

I also added color to the "naked" / colorless Color Magic Banner Delights used to create the side trim. 

Thanks so much for visiting! Please be sure to visit the Heidi Swapp blog for tons of inspiration! Be Sweet :)

Heidi Swapp products used:
Sugar Chic Drama
Sugar Chic Beautiful
Sugar Chic Remember
No Limits Triumph stix
Clear Stamps

and

Tombow product used:
Tombow Dual Brush Pen set: Retro

Dies: Spellbinders Grande circle, Grand Calibur

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Just A Note...FTTC174 45

Hi there! It's time for a new Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge! This week Cindy is our lovely hostess and the challenge theme she chose is "From the Desk"... In other words, make notecards, a monogrammed card... whatever you may find on your desk.

I made a rather clean and simple card. I stamped a beautiful image from Flourishes Summer Blossoms on a piece of Flourishes Ivory card stock, cut using a Spellbinders Oval die then colored with an assortment of Copic markers.

I layered the colored image on a piece of newsprint patterned paper that was cut using a Spellbinders Labels Eleven die then finished it off with a few drops of Perfect Pearls:

I hope you ink up your stamps, especially ones from Flourishes and join in the fun! Please be sure to visit the Flourishes blog for complete details and for some fabulous inspiration visit our June Guest Designer: Alice Wertz and the entire DT: Heather, Silke, Makiko, Cindy, Beate, Amanda

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Tag Class Time... 45

Hi there! Hope you all had a great weekend! Scott and I are driving over to San Diego for a few days with Meredith, Connor and Emily, (Connor's GF). We have lots of activities planned such as visiting the San Diego Zoo, Sea World and the Wild Animal Park. I know my feet are going to be screaming, but it will be worth it ;) While there, I also get to visit the sweet ladies at one of my favorite paper crafting stores ~ Paper Tales. I am going to hand deliver the tags that I am sharing in this post today because this will be another class that I will be offering to teach on Friday, July 20th. 

We'll be learning how to make lots of our own embellishments, including rolled flowers and die cut chipboard elements.                                              

On another note, sweet Scott surprised me with the beautiful bouquet of Roses shown below in celebration of our Wedding Anniversary :)

Thanks so much for looking ~ hope you have a great day! Be Sweet :)

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