Beautiful for Scrap Around The World with Donna Salazar Designs

Donna Salazar is the October prize sponsor for Scrap Around The World and her design team has joined up to offer inspiration for this month's SATW challenge. When I saw the mood board, I was immediately drawn to these wedding photos of Elizabeth.

"Beautiful"

Here's the inspiration designed by SATW DT Jesse Christopher:

I used the gorgeous sketch and was inspired by several aspects of the mood board. The shoes and bag placed on the bed reminded me of Elizabeth's wedding day preparations. The small photo is her perfume and flowers while the focal photos show her getting ready for her big moment. I pulled my colors from the board as well as inspiration from the doily wrapped vase of flowers.

Tips and Techniques

I used Donna's Spellbinders Grand Peony and Bitty Blossoms dies for this handcrafted flower. My Crushed Voile Peony Tutorial can be found here. I just used fewer fabric layers for this one. On the background you can see Donna's Dear Sir Art Gone Wild Stamp and Clearsnap Smooch Spritz. 

The frame was bright baby pink. I painted it, then touched the raised portions with Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx and heat embossed with Jasmine Mixed Media Embossing Powder. 

I think we all have old supplies in our stash. I transformed this old brad into shabby chic goodness with more inking and heat embossing. Donna's products are perfect for updating those out of date embellishments in my stash. 

Gorgeous Bitty Blossoms flowers atop strips of gessoed, spritzed Natural Beauty papers. 

I love to add dimension with layers of mixed media. Here I stamped and spritzed the background, then spread molding paste over Donna's Want2Scrap Heart Stencil. I inked and sprinkled on two colors of embossing powder which I heat embossed, then spritzed again. 

A tutorial for my Shabby Layered Rose can be found here. It's created with Donna's Grand Peony and Bitty Blossoms Dies. 

Another View of the Shabby Layered Rose.

Donna's Want2Scrap Canvas cut with her Spellbinders Wonderful Wings and topped with Want2Scrap Wonderful Wings Bling. To color the background, I rubbed the canvas with Mix'd Media Inx. 

Paper

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans, Family Eyelet A & B
GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans, Houndstooth B

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Soaring A

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Blue Fence A

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Twiggy A & B

Inks/Mists/Embossing

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx - Jasmine, chiffon, Patina, Truffle

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder - Jasmine, Leather

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx CHOX - Sparrow, DriftwoodClearsnap ~ 

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Smooch Spritz, Sea Breeze

Clearsnap ~ Top Boss Embossing Powder, Clear

Dies/Embossing Folders

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Grand Peony

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Carnation Creations

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Wonderful Wings

Spellbinders - M-Bossabilities, Flora

Stamps

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Dear Sir

Stencils

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Small Heart Stencil

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Build Your Own Bling
Recollections ~ Adhesive Rhinestone Hearts

Bling

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Nestabling, Wonderful Wings

Embellishments

Prima ~ Junkyard Findings - Industrial Lamps
Prima ~ Shabby Chic Treasures - Resin Corner and Window
Around the Block Flair ~ Big Metal Brads
Pink Frame - Stash
Tim Holtz ~ Tissue Tape
Darice ~ Washi - Newspaper Headline
Doily - Stash

Fabrics
Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Canvas
Crushed Voile, Ivory

Mixed Media

Liquitex ~ Gesso
Golden ~ Light Molding Paste
DecoArt Americana ~ Driftwood
DecoArt Crafter's Acrylic ~ Yellow
Folk Art Enamels ~ Butler Magenta
Drywall Mesh ~ Stash

Tools

Zutter ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Distrezz-it-All
Spellbinders ~ Artisan X-plorer

Adhesives

Helmar - 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Helmar - Fabric Glue
Helmar - Tape Runner
Helmar - Zap Dots

I hope you've been inspired to hop on over to Scrap Around The World and link up your project.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

You Are One of a Kind for the August RRR Blog Hop

Good morning and welcome to the Really Reasonable Ribbon August Blog Hop.

  

If you've just been inspired by Jeannie's fabulous work, you are in the right place. If not, you can join us for some vintage pink and brown inspiration with the gorgeous August RRR Ribbon Club Assortment by hopping on over to the RRR Blog to start at the beginning. There you will find all the blog hop and prize details.

Just look at the gorgeous ribbons in this month's RRR Ribbon Club Assortment! These soft colors are perfect for a sweet feminine card or you can pull out the browns and ivory ribbons like I did to go for a masculine feel. Are you a Ribbon Club Subscriber? If not, you can sign up here and start receiving one of these gorgeous assortments each month. 

"You Are One of a Kind"

Tips and Techniques:

Layered Ribbon ~ I inked the Ribbon Club ivory satin with brown ink to give a more masculine feel, then layered it with the back side of the brown grosgrain with pink stars to wrap around the card. 

Twine Flower ~ I used 20lb Natural Hemp to create my Twine Flower and added a button from the Natural Button Grab Bag. The tutorial for my Twine Flower can be found here. Bonnie has many cords that can be used to create twine flowers. Check out these selections: Hemp Cord Spools, Hemp Cord Assortments, Baker's Twine, Jute String, and Metallic White String. 

Background Fibers ~ Wide natural ribbons can add so much grungy texture to a masculine card. Here I used Champagne Netting and Natural Jute Ribbon. I also wrapped the sentiment block with Natural Jute String. 

Rusty Chipboard ~ This chipboard from Donna Salazar's Hand Drawn Swirls was altered to look rusty by coating the top of the chipboard with a nice thick coat of Helmar Acid Free Glue. While wet, I heated the glue with my heat tool until it bubbled up, then applied Alcohol ink to color and heated some more to achieve this masculine rusty texture. 

Ribbon Tabs ~ For the little tabs, I simply folded short lengths of brown and pink star Ribbon Club Ribbon in half with the back side showing and tucked them into the top corner layers. In the opposite corner I popped on some Choc-a-Mocha Candi.

The edges were machine stitched and distressed with my Donna Salazar Distrezz-It-All by Zutter. 

Really Reasonable Products used:

August Ribbon Club Assortment

Jute Ribbon ~ Natural 1.5"

Netting ~ Champagne 1.5"

Jute String ~ Natural

20lb Hemp Cord ~ Natural

Button Grab Bag ~ Natural

Candi ~ Choc-a-Mocha

Scor-Tape ~ 6" x 6"

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The card I created for our RRR Things with Wings Challenge also used our August Ribbon Club Assortment along with a variety of other ribbons and products from the Really Reasonable Ribbon Store. The Ribbon Club ivory satin and lace are layered across the card. 

Details and additional photos for this card can be found here.

Really Reasonable Ribbon Products

August Ribbon Club Assortment (Ivory Satin Ribbon and Lace)

20# Metallic Hemp Cord Assortment ~ Classic

Tombow 3D Foam Tabs

Scor-Tape 6" x 6"

I hope you've been inspired to grab your August RRR Ribbon Club Assortment and start creating!

Your next stop on the RRR July Blog hop will take you to 

to some amazing inspiration from Cheryl. 

Thank you for hopping through the RRR Blog Hop with us today.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Shabby Happy Birthday for RRR Challenge #77

We're enjoying some lovely cooler than usual weather for late July in Ohio. I just love the cool evenings and warm days. When I look out at my flowers this time of year, inevitably I spy some gorgeous butterflies. That goes right along with the theme for our next RRR Challenge:

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #77

Things with Wings

And of course include some ribbon, lace or cording on that project!! 

Here's my example for you:

To enter this challenge, create a card, layout, or any handcrafted project. Just be sure to follow the theme and use ribbon, lace, or trim somewhere on your project.

Really Reasonable Ribbon Products
August Ribbon Club Assortment (Cream Ribbon and Lace)
20# Metallic Hemp Cord Assortment ~ Classic
Tombow 3D Foam Tabs
Scor-Tape 6" x 6"

I used the August ScrapThat! Kit along with Really Reasonable Ribbon for this card.

Tips and Techniques:

The Really Reasonable Ribbons from Bonnie's store are so lovely to layer into a card. Here I tucked the cream satin with grosgrain edges from the August Ribbon Club Assortment under the doily and wrapped Classic Metallic Hemp Cord over top of both. I used more of the Metallic Hemp Cord to create the flowing bow. Tombow 3D Foam Tabs were perfect to pop up my hand stitching edged stamped sentiment. 

I inked the doily edges and added Want2Scrap lavender pearls from the ScrapThat! Kit and W2S teardrop pearls from my stash. 

The sweet delicate natural lace is included in the RRR August Ribbon Club Assortment. 

I cut the canvas butterfly with Donna Salazar Wonderful Wings Spellbinder Dies, adding Want2Scrap Coordinating bling. The chicken wire chipboard is also from Want2Scrap. 

Lovely flowers from the August and previous ScrapThat! Kits.

I hope you've been inspired to create a project for

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #77 ~ Things with Wings

Be sure to stop by the RRR Blog for all the details and prize information.

I have to ask ~ What is your favorite type of winged creature to use on your projects?
You've probably guessed, mine is the beautiful butterfly!!

I've entered this card at:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #91 Anything Goes. Their special Word Art this week is Psalm 124:8.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~