December Turtle Reveal Day

Today was the Design Team Reveal Day at the Scrapping Turtle. This month we worked with lines from Kaisercraft. I've had the pleasure of playing with the Lilac Avenue line. Love it!!!! The double sided papers are beautiful and the embellishments are fabulous!!! There are black and white rub ons, colour rub ons, die cut elements, alpha stickers, embroidered patches, inks, stamps, and brads that coordinate with the line.

In addition to my Sneak Peek from earlier in the month, I created two layouts and a set of three altered items.

Make A Wish:

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Lilac Avenue Wisteria, Lilac Avenue Die Cut Elements, Kaisercraft Rhinestone Strips (purple), Stampabilities Just Dandy and Dandelion Wish, Copic Markers, Gelly Roll Clear Star pen, Zig marker, Ranger Distress Ink Black Soot, Quickutz Grass border die

Friends:

Products used: Lilac Avenue Sweet Pea, Lilac Avenue Violet, Lilac Avenue Dandelion, Lilac Avenue Snap Dragon, Lilac Avenue Inks (Amethyst and Splice), Lilac Avenue Rub Ons, Lilac Avenue Die Cut Elements, Lilac Avenue Brads, Lilac Avenue Alpha Stickers, Bazzill cardstock, Quickutz Scallop border and Nesting Flowers dies, Bazzill paper flowers, Maya Mist (Amethyst Metallic), Kaisercraft Rhinestone Strips (purple), Zig marker

Friendship Gift Bag:

Products used: Lilac Avenue Lavender, Lilac Avenue Violet, Lilac Avenue Sweet Pea, Lilac Avenue Brad, Bazzill cardstock, Fiskars Treading Water border punch, Epic Six Exclusive Die, Maya Mist (Amethyst Metallic), Quickutz Nesting Circles dies, ribbon from bulk wall

Friendship Gift Bookmark:

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper, Lilac Avenue Ink (Splice), Lilac Avenue Wisteria, Lilac Avenue Sweet Pea, Lilac Avenue Rub Ons

Friendship Gift Tree:

Products used: styrofoam cone, Maya Mist (Amethyst Metallic), Lilac Avenue Lavender, Lilac Avenue Sweet Pea, Lilac Avenue Dandelion, Lilac Avenue Rub Ons, ribbon from the bulk wall, Gelly Roll Clear Star pen, Quickutz Nesting Circles and Nesting Stars dies

I hope you will visit the Scrapping Turtle forum to see what the rest of the DT ladies did with their lines. Fantabulous!!!!

Letterpress Giveaway

Have you heard about the new Letterpress? It's designed to be used with the new Quickutz Epic 6 tool and involves printing word or designs with ink while debossing the design or words into thick soft paper. It will make your projects look elegant and stylish.

Interested?

Lifestyle Crafts has a fabulous giveaway going on right now. The winner will receive the L Letterpress Combo Kit which includes: 

L Letterpress

Epic Six Letterpress and Die-cutting Tool

Clear Packing Mat with Grid

Paper Placement Guides

Ink Base

Brayer

Ten A2 flat cards

Nine Printing Plates

Tube of Black Ink

Circle Cutting Dies

PLUS a custom printing plate valued at $39.99!!!! Isn't that amazing?

Check it out here to find out how you can enter and get up to three chances to win this fantastic giveaway.

QA Cards

One Saturday per month Lori at the Scrapping Turtle brings us a fabulous Quickutz class for the Quickutz Anonymous members. She creates fantastic layouts, cards and calendar pages using a variety of Quickutz dies -- often finding unique ways to use the die on the projects. I still need to add photos to several of the calendar pages and some of the layouts before I can photograph them, but I do have a few of the recent cards to share with you.

This pretty Autumn card was created in our October class (if I remember correctly). I love how Lori had us use the negative part of the die cut image (tree) for this card. 

In November Lori brought us three wonderful cards to create. 

This fabulous snowman card used stamped acetate, glitter paper and a Snow Marker that puffs up when you heat it with a heat gun. The sentiment says "Every snowflake brings to mind how special you are - you're one of a kind!". Isn't it a cute card?

This Christmas card is absolutely gorgeous!!! I love how it sparkles and shines. The photo just doesn't do it justice. Like I said, it's gorgeous!!!

I love this fun card using some of the Paper Doll dies from Quickutz. What a unique idea!!! I told you Lori finds creative ways to use the dies --- I never would have thought to use just the legs and feet to create a card, but this one is fabulous!!!!

I haven't yet taken pictures of our December QA class projects. I'll get those up as soon as I do. I'm already looking forward to our next QA class to see what wonderful creations Lori will have for us :) Thanks Lori!!!

December Product Highlight of the Month

For the month of December the Scrapping Turtle product highlight are the fabulous Maya Mists. I have had some fun playing with the Maya Mists on two projects so far this month. I used Maya Mist for the flowers on my sneak peek layout and I also created this layout that I really love. 

I used the negative part of the tree border die cut (Quickutz) as a mask (I actually cut out three of them) and spritzed the white cardstock with the green Maya Mists to create the background trees. I also spritzed the green cardstock to add a little extra sheen. I then attached the green trees to the cardstock so that the Maya Mist trees were like a shadow behind them. I added some snow using my white pen. I finished the layout off with some photos of Sara in the snow and some American Crafts Thickers. I am very pleased with how this layout turned out.

Maya Mists are on sale at the Scrapping Turtle for the entire month of December. Pop in and grab some today.

The Character Cafe

The Character Cafe is having a blog hop to celebrate the release of their latest images. It is called the 12 Hops of Christmas. The images are all fabulous and the projects all of the ladies have created are wonderful. 

To start the blog hop, go to The Character Cafe's store. Read all about the great blog hop and what you need to do to win the fabulous prize that is up for grabs. Then follow the links to hop through the blogs in order until you reach The Character Cafe's blog. Make sure you do all the blogs in the correct order AND leave comments along the way :)

Turtle Sneak Peek

Today was Sneak Peek day at the Scrapping Turtle. It is usually the first of the month, but this month we extended the anticipation for a few extra days. This month I am working with the beautiful Lilac Avenue line from KaiserCraft. All of the papers are double sided and there are alpha stickers, die cut elements, rub ons (in both black and white and colour), brads, embroidered badges, inks, and stamps to coordinate with the line. KaiserCraft also has bling and flowers too.

Since my wedding colour was purple, I was inspired to create a wedding layout with this line. The flowers were sprayed with Maya Mist to coordinate with the layout. For my sneak peek I used:

 
Lilac Avenue Snap Dragon 
Lilac Avenue Sweet Pea 
Lilac Avenue Brads 
Lilac Avenue Amethyst Ink 
Lilac Avenue Alpha Stickers 
KaiserCraft Rhinestones purple 
Maya Mist Amethyst Metallic Mist 
Bazzill bling cardstock 
Bazzill Paper Flowers (Tropical White and Gerb French Vanilla) 
Brad from the bulk wall 
Quickutz Scallops border, Vine border, and Bride & Groom

Copic markers

Please visit the Scrapping Turtle to see the fabulous Sneak Peeks created by my fellow Design Team members. They all did a fantastic job with their lines!!!

Stampin' Up Workshop

This past Sunday I hosted a Stampin' Up party with my awesome demonstrator Denise. She designed three great projects for us. We had such a great time together. The projects were fabulous, the company was out of this world, the conversation was uplifting, the snacks were delicious. It was a great afternoon all around.

 Check out these great projects that we did.

Isn't this one gorgeous? The colours, those snowflakes. The snowflake circles are heat embossed and look very pretty --- the photo doesn't do them justice.

I love the colours on this card. It is so pretty. I already sent it off to one lucky recipient --- I hope she likes it.

This is a cute Post It note holder. There's a whole pad of Post It Notes inside. Love it!!!!

Thanks to Denise and my wonderful friends (including my Mom) who made my workshop such a great success!!!

Check out Denise's website here.