Feeling the "LOVE" with "Mad Tea Party" and my stash

Hello All!

Keri Sallee here! Today I am excited to share with you a mixed media piece I recently made using Marion's Mad Tea Party paper, stamps and some yummy Junque and Gems.

For this piece, I decided to dig through my stash and use some things I have had for a while to use along side Marion's designs

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You'll find in this piece:

Tim Holtz Grunge Board Flourish (does he even make grunge board anymore!? LOL)

Vintage Tattered Angels Colors

Pink Paislee Wooden Letters

Old Prima Flowers

Paper Studio Flowers (that I have had forever!)

An old Stampin' Up Large Block stamp I found at a garage sale

To make make my background, I used the "Rabbit Hole" paper from the Mad Tea Party collection. 

To achieve my the edging, I simple tore off all 4 corners of the 12x12 paper and used matte gel medium to adhere it to my 5x7 canvas board. Voila! You have instantly transferred Marion's cool distressed edge to a smaller format!

Here are a few closeups!

My title is made from Pink Paislee Letters that were painted with Tattered Angels Glazes. A heat tool makes the glaze bubble up and gives fun texture. I layered these on top of Prima and The Paper Studio flowers that were splattered with Tattered Angels and glammed up with pink Junque and Gems.

Here is a side view!

I used "Viva Pink" Tattered Angels Glimmer mist on my Harlequin Style Grunge Board Flourish from Tim Holtz and used my large diamond stamp in the background to reinforce my diamond pattern. 

Everything is better with more messy color, right!? I splattered Tattered Angels glazes and glimmer mists and allowed some of it to drip down. You can also see the edge of the canvas better here. :)

So there you go! I hope you enjoyed my super-feminine and super-messy piece today.

Have an awesome day!

XOXO,

KERI

"Never Grow Up" Layout by Peggy Lee

                           

Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you my last post as a Creative Team Member for Marion Smith Designs Blog for 2013 & 2014...my time has been such a creative adventure! I have been extremely blessed to work along side these amazing team members...and I want to thank to Marion for this chance to create with her fabulous and beautiful collections!

For my creative idea I decided to create a scrapbook layout using Never Grow Up paper collection by MSD and I knew I wanted to use this photo of my daughter's new shoes....

This photo reminds me that we are never to young to dream and play in life. And the title of this paper collection works perfectly for my title...cause every girl loves her shoes (dressing up feeling pretty) as well as playing/creating with paper...it always makes me feel young at heart!

This was a fun layout to create, adding textures and layers! I fussy cut out the beautiful roses

out of one of the paper collections...tucked them around the picture. 

What's really fun about Marion's paper collections is all the pieces and images you can fussy cut apart.

Which allows me to tuck little cut outs here and there, 

I also used Marion's Junque & Gems and Resins pieces.

Here is a close up of the beautiful roses I cut out...those shoes make me smile!

Memories of my past year on MSD Creative Team.

I also want to share with  you all some of my favorite creations,  I created for the MSD blog with

                             using MSD fabulous paper collections, stamps and embellishments
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                                         Remnants of Spring Card, see more details here.

Not To Shabby Motley Layout & Tutorial, here.

                       Close up of the handmade flower using MSD Rose Petal Die & Leave Die!

                       And the fabulous Junque & Gems center rhinestone/pearl button....amazing!

                                  Here is a video on how I created this fabulous flower above!!

                                                                          Enjoy!

                          My Altered Wedding Cake using Garment District Collection 

                                                by MSD & Petaloo flowers!!

                                             You can see more about this here and here.

                                                          Thanks for stopping in today,

                                         hope you enjoyed all the inspiration I had to share!

                                                                           hugs,

                                                                        Peggy Lee

                                                           http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

                                                              

Rosebud tutorial - by Tonya Gibbs

I just love making my own flowers. It is something I've been doing for years.  It feels amazing to showcase a beautiful piece of art and be able to say "and I made the flowers".  For me this just makes the piece a true masterpiece.  

  

A few weeks ago I had a request for a rosebud tutorial. So today, I want to share with you how I created these rosebuds that I used on the Marion Smith Designs and Glue Dots® blog hop last week. 

 

STEP 1:
For my Rosebuds I used Marion's Large Rose Die.  For a smaller bud, you may want to try Marion's small Rosebud die.  For the paper I used paper from a cheap Sketch Pad.   I colored the paper with Tattered Angels Sunshine before die-cutting the flower petals.

STEP 2:

To create a rosebud you need the 1" Glue Dot, 1 of each petal shape on the die, some floral tape, and a wire as long as you want your stems to be.   

STEP 3:

Cut your glue dot in half

STEP 4:

Overlap your petals slightly with the larger petal on the left, and apply your half Glue Dot  to the base. These glue dots are super strong and very sticky.

STEP 5: 

Place about 1/2 inch of your wire in the middle of the glue dot. 

STEP 6:

Begin rolling  your petal from the Right to the left into a cone shape.

This is how your rosebud will look. 

STEP 7:

Use some tweezers or a toothpick to roll down the outer petals to form your rose shape.

STEP 8: 

Spritz your floral tape with water to activate the glue on the tape.  

STEP 9:

Begin wrapping your tape around the base of your flower concealing the base of the rosebud, and the wire.  Continue to twist the tape down the wire. 

Your final rosebud should look like this. 

Look at how gorgeous these buds look wrapped in this floral spray.

   I have a tutorial for the Roses on my blog. You can check it out here. 

I hope you have fun making these rosebuds. If you do, please share your projects with us in social media by using the #MarionSmithDesigns  #BloomImpressionDies


Thanks for stopping in today.
Tonya Gibbs
http://www.psychomoms.com

Not To Shabby Motley Layout & Tutorial by Peggy Lee

Yes I am holding back the tears as I write this blog post, today I am sharing this layout of my youngest daughter Emilee who is graduating High School next weekend...I knew I wanted to create a layout with the Motley paper collection by Marion Smith Designs. 

It's so beautiful and I love the name of the background paper "Not To Shabby"!! And my daughter Emilee will be leaving the nest soon to adventure out on a Ministry School this fall. 

And yes I am a very proud momma, it's bittersweet though cause it will be hard to let her go and grow!!

It seems that my girls grew up so fast, that's why I love scrapbooking, making journals to have to remember those precious moments in life...it's a blessing.

Close up!

Flower Tutorial

First die cut your flower petals out of fabric...

Singe the edges of each petals.

Hot glue each petal to a circle felt piece.

Keep layering until you get the depth of flower your desire.

Die cut out your leaves out of green fabric

Singe the edges of your leaves just like you did the petals.

Glue leaves to the back on the flower...

Add a Junque & Gem Pearl Rhinestone to the center.

FABULOUS

Here is the completed flower-perfect accent for you layouts.

I added texture with stencils and stucco and random stamping with Marion's stamps.

Added some of Marion's Junque & Gems and Resin pieces.

LOVE THEM

Don't forget to fussy cut out images from the paper collections to 

create your own embellishments.

Here are some close ups of the layout, enjoy!

Thanks for stopping in today,

hugs

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies

Marion Smith Designs: Motley Paper Collection-

Not To Shabby, Archive, Carmie

and Never Grow Up-Wild & Free

Dies-Leaves & Stamen, Rose Petal & Die

Junque & Gems

Resins

Stamps

Tattered Angels-Glimmer mist in Coffee Shop, Juneberry Wine

and Aquamarie

The Crafter's Workshop-Mini Love Post, Mini Ledger

Stucco/Gesso

Ranger-Archival ink-jet black

Nirvana Mixed Media Cards by Peggy Lee Baker

Hey everyone it's Peggy Lee here 

sharing with you a couple of

Nirvana Mixed Media Cards!

The other day I had some free time and I decided to do some creative play...

and mix it up with Kraft card stock.

I used the Nirvana paper collections and stamps by Marion.

I grabbed a stencil and drywall tape with gesso to create background

texture. Stamping and splattered of glimmer mist makes my heart sing!!

My favorite part was getting to play with Marion's new Bloom Impressions Tool,

brown packing paper and a flower punch...I really love how the tool makes

the paper flowers cup to give great depth.

Here is a video by Marion Smith sharing with us how to use 

The Bloom Impressions Tool

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs

Peggy Lee

Supplies:

Marion Smith Designs: Bloom Impressions Tool, 

Nirvana Papers, Junque & Gems, Stamps

Tattered Angels: Glimmer mist-Tattered Leather,

English Ivy, Aquamarine, and Simply Sheer-Army Green

Ranger-Archival Ink-Jet Black, Distress Ink-Walnut Stain

Perfect Pearls Mists-Blue Patina

Stampers Anonymous-Tim Holtz Burlap-Stencil

Flower punch

Kraft cardstock

Gesso, drywall tape