Random Number generated was 15, so Emily H, you are the winner of the CK Issue!! I will e-mail you!
thanks again everyone for playing along!!
Friday, March 23, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
CK March/April Issue Give-away!!
I am thrilled to be offering up the March/April Issue of Creating Keepsakes Magazine for a randomly selected winner. So, if you want to be entered into the drawing for this great issue,
please leave a comment to this post. And check out the LOs that
inspired me and my take on them! I'll pick a random winner Tuesday night and post on Wednesday!
This really is a such a great issue of the magazine and has truly inspired several LOs for me!!
Here is a link to the CK store where you can purchase this issue.
and a link to a CK on-line extras where you can find contests, dowloads and techniques based on this issue.
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Now, in order to expand my creativity, I've made it a goal this year to do a LO based on every LO or idea from this issue. There are so many great ideas and I'm having such a great time learning new ideas and techniques!!
First, I have to share the LO I did based on Maggie Holmes super cute cover LO!! I loved it so much - the colors, the sweet photo, the way she arranged her embellies! Just beautiful.
Next, I was also inspired by Kim Jackson's LO and the idea to use canvas.
I didn't have canvas strips, but I did have a mini - canvas. So I used that along with other canvas circle pieces for these fun photos of me with Erin and Kiah. I also inked the edges of my canvas and added a rub-on.
I wanted to share this LO I created based on Michelle Wooderson "Natural Beauties". Michelle used watercolor designs on her LO and so I wanted to captured this fun idea and give it a try
In a past life, I used to do a lot of pin and ink watercolor designs, so I pulled out my acrylic paints, watercolor paper and some cute christmas pen and ink drawings to create this LO. It was really fun to be painting again and I know I'll have to give this technique a try again!
Lastly, I want to share another LO that I created based on the great inspiration from this CK Issue. I loved this LO by Stacy Cohen and how she created those beautiful glassine flowers.
Well, I didn't have glassine paper, so I tried to come up with a way to "copy" this idea. I ended up cutting the flowers out using spellbinder dies, coloring the flowers with alcohol inks and then brushing them with pigment powders like Stacy. I did need to heat set the flowers and they took a long time to completely be set (a few days!). I was pleased how this LO of my ODD and her boyfriend turned out.
I plan on continuing my creative journey with this CK Issue - I've got several more LOs tagged to scraplift!!
And make sure to check out these blogs. These ladies are giving away a chance to win this issue as well. Here are links to their blogs and good luck in winning a copy of this great issue!!
Laura Vegas: http://lauravegas.typepad.com/
Paper Craft Magazine: http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/
Erika Hayes: http://www.thinkingthroughdesign.typepad.com/
Piradee Talvanna: http://piradee.blogspot.com/
Joey Manwarren: http://everydayimagination.blogspot.com/
This really is a such a great issue of the magazine and has truly inspired several LOs for me!!
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| issue:March/April CK Issue |
Here is a link to the CK store where you can purchase this issue.
and a link to a CK on-line extras where you can find contests, dowloads and techniques based on this issue.
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Now, in order to expand my creativity, I've made it a goal this year to do a LO based on every LO or idea from this issue. There are so many great ideas and I'm having such a great time learning new ideas and techniques!!
First, I have to share the LO I did based on Maggie Holmes super cute cover LO!! I loved it so much - the colors, the sweet photo, the way she arranged her embellies! Just beautiful.
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| Kiah in the Park - 1991 |
Next, I was also inspired by Kim Jackson's LO and the idea to use canvas.
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| Kim Jackson - "Chicago" (CK March/April Issue) |
I didn't have canvas strips, but I did have a mini - canvas. So I used that along with other canvas circle pieces for these fun photos of me with Erin and Kiah. I also inked the edges of my canvas and added a rub-on.
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| Birthday with my girls - Feb, 2012 |
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| a close-up of the mini-canvas with rub-on added. |
I wanted to share this LO I created based on Michelle Wooderson "Natural Beauties". Michelle used watercolor designs on her LO and so I wanted to captured this fun idea and give it a try
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| Michelle Wooderson - "Natural Beauties" (CK March/April Issue) |
In a past life, I used to do a lot of pin and ink watercolor designs, so I pulled out my acrylic paints, watercolor paper and some cute christmas pen and ink drawings to create this LO. It was really fun to be painting again and I know I'll have to give this technique a try again!
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| Christmas 2010 |
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| a close-up of the watercolored snowman |
Lastly, I want to share another LO that I created based on the great inspiration from this CK Issue. I loved this LO by Stacy Cohen and how she created those beautiful glassine flowers.
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| Stacy Cohen - "So Happy Together" (CK March/April Issue) |
Well, I didn't have glassine paper, so I tried to come up with a way to "copy" this idea. I ended up cutting the flowers out using spellbinder dies, coloring the flowers with alcohol inks and then brushing them with pigment powders like Stacy. I did need to heat set the flowers and they took a long time to completely be set (a few days!). I was pleased how this LO of my ODD and her boyfriend turned out.
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| So Silly - January 2012 |
I plan on continuing my creative journey with this CK Issue - I've got several more LOs tagged to scraplift!!
And make sure to check out these blogs. These ladies are giving away a chance to win this issue as well. Here are links to their blogs and good luck in winning a copy of this great issue!!
Laura Vegas: http://lauravegas.typepad.com/
Paper Craft Magazine: http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/
Erika Hayes: http://www.thinkingthroughdesign.typepad.com/
Piradee Talvanna: http://piradee.blogspot.com/
Joey Manwarren: http://everydayimagination.blogspot.com/
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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