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Sunday, October 9, 2011

New Custom Die Collections - Sneak Peeks!

I am super excited to share with you these photos of my newest custom die cut collections.

The first one is the Carriage Collection. I just love carriages. They are so romantic and vintage! I created this die because carriages just look so pretty decked out in flowers and trims, especially tassel trim. And, I really wasn't able to find a carriage die, so I made one of my own. The design is inspired by Marie Antoinette's carriage. I'm currently working on a carriage mini album featuring Websters Pages Western Romance, totally beautiful paper, and always gorgeous I Am Roses flowers. What a lovely and perfect combination! DT member Jade from Jaded Studios is creating a carriage mini album design featuring the super rich Prima Printery paper collection. This versatile die would work great for Parisian or Victorian themes, a princess-themed project, a Southern mini, and of course love — first dates, valentines, engagements, weddings, anniversaries (insert hopeless dopey sigh here). :)

This is a photo of my new Kitchen Collection, and it was a lot of fun creating this die cut set. It features a retro stove with a little teapot that's sized perfectly to sit on top. Plus there's a decorative retro-inspired utensil rack and mini utensils to display on it, including a spatula, whisk, rolling pin and frying pan. Super cute collection! It would be great to use to create a recipe book with kitchen-themed papers, or to create holiday-themed recipe books for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Can't you just smell the pumpkin pie baking? LOL. Now, I'm hungry.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Hi everyone. Today, I am sharing some photos of my new storefront mini album. To create this album, I used the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 2 Sunshine paper, two of my custom dies and beautiful flowers from I Am Roses.

I was really excited to try out some IAR flowers in this mini that are new to me, including the new short flower spray, which really makes the bistro layout above pop. I also tried out the puffy daisies -- super fun. I gave them a polka dot twist on what I call the polka dot page of my mini. And the CARNATIONS!!! OMG, love those!!!!

It was a challenge working with the colors in this paper collection —definitely outside my comfort zone of pale pink, aqua, creams, browns and blacks. LOL. But it was a fun challenge, and I love how this mini turned out.

Here are photos of the cover and other inside pages plus links to all the flowers and leaves I used in the mini.