Winter Scrapbook Pages

I made some new winter scrapbook pages for my Etsy Store recently using up some winter themed papers that I've been holding onto for a while. This first layout is entitled "fun in the snow."

Stamps: Best Friends Alphabet lower, All Through the Year (snowflake)
Inks: Not Quite Navy
Papers:Not Quite Navy, Sage Shadow, Snowflake Designer paper (don't remember the name of the paper pack)
Accessories: Blue double stitched ribbon, Making the Grade Cricut Cartridge, White Felt Snowflakes, Silver brads

Here's the second layout entitled "winter bliss."
Stamps: Best Friends Alphabet lower, Big Deal Alphabet
Inks: Always Artichoke
Papers: Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue, Celery and White Patterned Papers(don't remember name of retired paper pack)
Accessories: White Felt snowflakes, White grosgrain ribbon

New Catalog is here!

It arrived last week and it is beautiful! I've already placed my first order so I can show off some of these new goodies at an upcoming crop I'm hosting in February. If you'd like to check it out and shop online, click here to go to my website and then click on the "Shop Now" button at the top right corner of the page.

AND ..... if you place an order on my website from February 1st - April 30th, you get a free copy of the catalog with your order!

Here's a quick list of some of my new things in the catalog so far (OK, you can tell that I'm all about accessories!):

• Corduroy buttons
• Crocheted Fleurettes
• New ribbon orignals
• Colored Flower Brads
• Gorgeous Simply Scrappin' Kits & Papers
• Texture plates for the Big Shot
• More beautiful dies for the Big Shot
• Circle Scissor Plus - super duper circle cutter
• Eyelet Border Punch

January Technique Class: Bleaching

This is th last month of the Fall/Winter Technique Series. This month's focus is bleaching, both with rubber stamps and a brush. This example uses a fresh color combonation that I haven't used in a while. It feels nice to use "springy" colors again. The flower focal image is stamped with bleach on Pink Passion cardstock.

Stamps: Pocket Sillouettes
Inks: Pink Passion, White Craft, Bleach
Papers: Pink Pirouette, Pink Passion, White, Kiwi Kiss, Bella Rose DS Paper
Accessories: Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Cutter Kit
Notes: I sponged some Pink Passion ink on the edges of the patterned paper. I roughened up the edges of the white cardstock. This design was inspired by a similar card in on of my Stampin' Up! publications.

This card also uses rubber stamps to create a bleached image on colored cardstock. I used various stamps from "Embrace Life" on each of the panels of this card.

Stamps: Embrace Life, Warm Words
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Bleach
Papers: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Blush Blossom, Ridinghood Red, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Paper piercing tool and template, Button Bouquet button, Ivory button
Note: This card was inspired by a sample in the upcoming Sale-A-Bration Catalog. I modified it to showcase the bleaching technique.

For this last card I used a paint brush to apply bleach to various portions of the stamped image. It took lots of playing around to get the look that I wanted. Not all papers fade significantly when bleached so as you can see, in the picture below, there was a lot of trial and error with this one.

Stamps: Serene Spring (hostess set)
Inks: Stazon Black
Papers: So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
Accessories: Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, Filigree brad, So Saffron brad
Note: though I didn't do it in the finished sample, you can add color to the bleach parts after the bleach dries. I did this in a few of my trials below using colored pencils.

Blog Candy Winner

Wow! The odds were good for this candy prize. Using Random.org, Comment #4 was chosen as the blog candy winner....Congratulations Kristi! Kristi, I think I know who you are, but just in case, send me an email to claim your prize!

One of my resolutions this year is give out more blog candy, so stay tuned! Thanks everyone for the feedback.
Gretchen

Happy New Year from Scrappy Mama!

I am so excited to wish all of you a Happy New Year! As a special celebration of this great holiday, I'm going to share some candy with one of you! The Candy is a pack of my Paper Addicts Kit: Holiday Treats. This is a stack of 24- 6" x 12" sheets of Designer series paper from 4 different Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper Packs: Ski Slope, Frosty Day, Bella Rose, and Holiday Treasures. The papers are double sided, so these photos show all the designs you will be getting if you win this prize.

Here's how to enter: Leave a comment on this post, telling me some feedback about my blog. What do you like? What would you like to see more of? What don't you like?

Please label your response with the number of your comment, and I'll use a random number generator to pick the winner in exactly 1 week, January 8th. Please only one submission per person...Good Luck!