Romantic Pocket Letter

Hello, my lovelies! We are at the end of June - WOW! The mood board this month is definitely about weddings and romance!

I've got my DT project for Splashy Mix that's a little romantic and a great keepsake - a pocket letter! It's one sheet of rice paper with vintage wedding-themed scenes (from ITD) that's been divided into nine ATCs which have been embellished.

 I adhered the sheet onto cardboard and cut them into ATC-sized squares that fit into a trading card plastic sleeve. 

All that's left is embellishing! When they're all in place, you see the whole page but separately, they're little works of art!

It's a great way to use up scraps of textiles or papers! And I also used some silver foil from ITD as well. 

I really love the vintage look of these wedding-themed rice papers from ITD - it's a great collection! 

This is my last post as a DT for Splashy Mix and I want to thank Shylaa Shree and the entire team for a fun experience! 

Blessings, 

Color Explosion Journal Spread

It's almost the end of May but you still have time to play! Just look at that mood board! 😎

For my DT project, I used orange and yellow and pink in a journal spread! 

Pearl Alcohol Inks are so vibrant and shimmery!

There's also some stamping, stenciling, and various embellishments like buttons, ribbon, and flowers. 

 

The mood board is like a citrus explosion! I hope you're inspired by the vibrance and color palette - we look forward to seeing your creations! 

Rules for the challenge:

- Create a project by the colors, elements etc. Of course, we also allow neutral colors (white, black, silver & gold);

- the project should be new, created for our challenge; may also be linked with other challenges;

- post a link back along with our moodboard in your blog. 

- remember to write about our challenge in your post or photo description on the Facebook page and place a link to this post ;

-Mention which element from our moodboard inspired you

For Instagram users

- Mention that you are joining us

- Use #splashymix17 and tag us in your post

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Kids Special

Given the current situation and kids being at home we encourage them to participate in our challenge and we welcome their works inspired by our moodboard and they can create anything.

Use #splashymixchallengekids while submitting their entries

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Prizes

- we will award two people: 

1. One topmost Winner - Will be chosen by our DTs.

2.  One Runner up - we will draw from among all the works.

3. Top 5 projects will be chosen by DTs

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Sponsors

Creative Embellishments - Winner will receive 30 USD Gift voucher.

Creative Embellishments is a small, family owned company located in western New York that was started by a dynamic husband and wife team. Michael Kramer is a prolific graphic artist who creates websites, mobile websites, logos and images for print design. Nicolle is a stay at home mother of 4 and a passionate artist who has been actively creating for over 8 years. She enjoys altered art, mixed media applications and all styles of scrap booking. What started out as a hobby, in order to pass down memories and family history to her children, evolved once she discovered the vast online community of artists and scrappers 3 years ago. She has been featured on numerous scrapbooking, challenge and top paper manufacturing websites; as well as, serving on many different design teams. She's also had the honor of having her work published in print magazines and a well-known sketchbook.

Facebook fan page - https://www.facebook.com/CreativeEmbellishment/

Website - https://creativeembellishments.com/

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One Runner up will receive Rs.500 worth goodie bag from Letzcraft.

• LETZCraft (then known as Creativita) started off as a home based venture in the world of creativity in the year 2012. Since then we have come a long way trying to source great quality products at best prices for crafters in India

Website - http://www.letzcraft.com/

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Click on the SPONSORS tab above to know them in detail.

Like their pages and follow them for additional points

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You can submit several works for the challenge, but please - no more than three.

The challenge lasts until 31/05/2020. Winners will be announced on 3rd June 2020.

Blessings, 

Cathy

Shabby Twist Card

Hello my friends! It's April - can you believe it?! We've got a beautiful and bright mood board:

There's alot of elements you can focus on - so much variation! I focused on the greens and blues with a little bridal romance in my DT project - a twist card! Let's see how I made it! 

Cut a strip of paper 20cm x 9cm and score in half. 

Then mark 5.5cm on each long side and score DIAGONALLY; fold on the score lines and bring the ends towards the middle and collapse so it resembles a house. This will make your card twist when you open it. 

Now cut a strip 26cm x 9cm. Mark at 6.5cm intervals making 4 sections - score and fold. This will go on the 'twister'. 

Cut a last strip 28cm x 10cm and score in half. This is your card. 

Now you'll decorate and put it all together! 

Here's how we put it all together! Take your house piece and place the tip in the middle (5cm) and just at the crease. Glue down JUST THE TRIANGLE. Then put glue on the top triangle and press the top of the card down onto it. Then open the piece up. 

Now mark the center of the card at the crease (5cm) and place the 4 section piece on top with the center line at the mark. While holding it in place, lift the left end section up; place glue ONLY ON THE BOTTOM LEFT SQUARE OF THE TWISTER STRIP and press the section down to adhere. Then do the same with the right end section, placing glue ONLY ON THE TOP RIGHT SQUARE and press the section down to adhere. Start closing the card down and the inside will twist. 

ITD Collection provided the DT with some beautiful products to play with! For the outside and inside strip, I used paper from the Water Scrapbook Paper Collection. 

I stenciled 'I LOVE YOU' using a turquoise metallic wax and added Termoton Silver Foil on my chipboard piece. I also put it randomly on the picture to give it an overall shabby, worn look. 

For the middle part, I used the Lavande de Provence Stencil with crackle paste. I added the silver foil imperfectly around the square edges. 

For the top and bottom on the inside, I used this beautiful and romantic rice paper. I added foil randomly around the edges, on the headpiece, and flower, as well as randomly on the pictures themselves.

The colors and tones of the papers from ITD Collection coordinate beautifully. And the stenciling and silver foil add a little romance! 

Rules for the challenge:

- Create a project by the colors, elements etc. Of course, we also allow neutral colors (white, black, silver & gold);

- the project should be new, created for our challenge; may also be linked with other challenges;

- post a link back along with our moodboard in your blog. 

- remember to write about our challenge in your post or photo description on the Facebook page and place a link to this post ;

-Mention which element from our moodboard inspired you

For Instagram users

- Mention that you are joining us

- Use #splashymix16 and tag us in your post

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Kids Special

Given the current situation and kids being at home we encourage them to participate in our challenge and we welcome their works inspired by our moodboard and they can create anything.

Use #splashymixchallengekids while submitting their entries

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Prizes

- we will award two people: 

1. One topmost Winner - Will be chosen by our DTs.

2.  One Runner up - we will draw from among all the works.

3. Top 5 projects will be chosen by DTs

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Sponsors

One winner will receive gift voucher for 25 USD from our Main sponsor - ITD collection

  We have fascinated with a world of decoupage and scrapbooking, and paper is still inspiring us so we have been completely drawn in. It didn't take much time and we already have more than 4,000 designs of decoupage and scrapbooking papers and customers in 60 countries around the world. Over 3.000.000 our papers have been used for creating extraordinary, unique, handmade works, which are that please the eyes and hearts of people on all continents.
Our website - https://itdcollection.com/
Join our creative world:
Like us on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/itdcollection
Observe us on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/itdcollection

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One Runner up will receive Rs.500 worth goodie bag from Letzcraft.

• LETZCraft (then known as Creativita) started off as a home based venture in the world of creativity in the year 2012. Since then we have come a long way trying to source great quality products at best prices for crafters in India

Website - http://www.letzcraft.com/

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Click on the SPONSORS tab above to know them in detail.

Like their pages and follow them for additional points

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You can submit several works for the challenge, but please - no more than three.

The challenge lasts until 30/04/2020. Winners will be announced on 3rd May 2020.

Blessings, 

Cathy