Friday Faves!

It's another fabulous Friday and time to swoon over some store favourites at Let's Capture Our Memories. I'm sure that you have already scoped out the latest goodies in the store, but just in case you missed something, I will point out a few of my own favourites. ;)

These cute little bottles from 7 Gypsies are a lot of fun. I like them for beach layouts or altered items. For example, when we went on our Caribbean cruise, I saved some white sand from St. Martin. I added it to one of these little bottles and glued it onto an altered frame. It looks really cute and adds a memento from our trip to the project.

Next up, we have Heidi Swapp Color Magic paper. I love this stuff! It's so much fun to play with and the possibilities are endless!

Here's an example of a project that I did using one of these papers for a background. I chose to do a soft colour effect. This paper takes bold colours very well as well.

These are new from Jillibean Soup, they're called 'Banner Bites'. You can't go wrong with these punchy little stickers for only $1.50! Add a toothpick to make them into a flag, or use them with twine or on their own.

Here's another fun product from the store, Studio Calico wood veneer cameras. These are fun and adorable. You can paint them, stain them with ink or leave them raw. I used them on my altered frame above.

Last, but not least, one of my must-have tools is the Ranger Inkssentials Heat It Craft Tool. I love to heat emboss on anything and everything. To create more interest and texture on a layout, I will often take a large background stamp, like the new Unity Christy Tomlinson stamps, and stamp all over my page with watermark ink, then I add embossing powder and heat emboss the paper. It's fun and satisfying. I had another heat embosser before this one and it died on me. Donna Downey swears that these are the best ones out there and I'm now convinced that she's right about that.

Thanks for tuning in!

Kate

Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic and Crate Paper Card

Hi Everyone! It's Kate Vickers here today and I would like to share some of my favourite products in the store and a card that I made.

First, the card. I created this card with Crate Paper's Paper Heart Collection (on sale in the store!) along with some Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic embellishments and a Sassafras die cut (I hoard these).  This card is a tri-fold spin card. I got the cut file from The Silhouette America store and cut it out with my beloved Silhouette Cameo. If someone asked me to decide between my husband and my Cameo, it would be a difficult decision!

Here's a photo of the card lying flat.

...And a close up shot.

Here are a few of the products that I used from the store. These papers are on for only $0.35! You can't go wrong! These papers are so versatile, you can mix and match them with a lot of different collections.

I also used these two products from Heidi Swapp. I love the sparkly Pennants and the Sugar Stix are a lot of fun too.

Another product that I'm really loving right now is the Sugar Chic Buzz Words. These are epoxy stickers with a lot of shine.

I find that they go with a lot of different papers and they are quite versatile. I love to combine them with alphabet stickers for page titles. For example, you could use American Crafts Thickers to spell out, 'You are' and then add either the 'Fabulous' or 'Beautiful' buzz word stickers.

Thanks for dropping by today! I would love to hear your thoughts on my card.

Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic and Color Magic Layout

Hi everyone! It's Kate Vickers here today. I just want to share a layout that I created with Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic line. I love the bold prints and bright colours in this line. It's been a lot of fun to work with.

For this layout I started off with a base of Color Magic paper and I inked the edges with some blue ink by Stampin' Up. Next, I randomly sprayed the inside here and there with homemade pink mist (water + ink + a few drops of gum arabic + PearlEx powder). I love the subtle effect it created. It really brings out the colours in my Photoshop edited pictures.

 

Here's a little tip with photos, if your pictures don't match your paper - print them in black and white or sepia instead. My daughter was wearing a dark purple dress in this photo and it wasn't going to work with this paper, so I decided to go with black and white. However, both my girls have very striking blue eyes inherited from their Dad, and I didn't want to lose that in the close up shot used in this layout, so I edited the photos in Photoshop to be partially black and white and partially in colour (her eyes and her cheeks have colour).

Heidi Swapp's Sentiment Storage elements are a pleasure to use.  I love being able to hide my journalling with such a pretty embellishment.

 

I fussy cut a lot of the flowers out of one piece of the Heidi Swapp paper and then embellished it with Viva Decor Pearl Pens and some 3D foam dots.

 

I adore using the Heidi Swapp Color Magic alphabet stickers seen here. Don't you hate it when you can't find the right alphabet stickers for a layout? Well, this is the solution! Where was I going to get bright yellow alphabet stickers from?

 

Supplies 

• Heidi Swapp Color Magic and Sugar Chic papers, alphabet stickers, Sentiment Storage, banners, and embellishments
• Silhouette Cameo with a Heidi Swapp cutting file from Silhouette America
• Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic digital brush
• Photoshop CS5
• Pens by Faber-Castell, Tombow and Reminisce
• Inks by Ranger and Stampin' Up
• Windsor & Newton Gum Arabic
• PearlEx Powder
• Viva Decor Pearl Pen in Lilac
• Adhesives: Helmar 450, Premium Craft Glue, ZapDots and ScrapDots
• Rhinestones
• Thread by Coats & Clark
  

Thanks for joining me here today! Let me know what you think of my project.

Great Wolf Adventure with Heidi Swapp No Limits

Hi everyone! It`s Kate here today. I would love to share my most recent layout with you. I used Heidi Swapp`s No Limits collection for this one. What a fun collection this is! I adore the bright colours and the fun embellishments.

These pictures are from a very recent visit to Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Canada. My son is enjoying some of the features in the outdoor pool. If you are near one of these resorts I highly recommend it for wearing out your kids! Mine were exhausted!

 

I`m a big fan of cutting out small features on papers and using them as embellishments. You can see that I cut out the camera, the bullseye, a star and the globe circles with a 1" circle punch from a single sheet of paper, Heidi Swapp No Limits Smarty and I accented them by adding 1" epoxy circles over top. I also cut out the star border from Heidi Swapp No Limits Champion paper and the 'Explore' feature and maps from the Heidi Swapp No Limits Destinations paper.

  

I used a Heidi Swapp digital brush to create my 'Adventure' title and cut it out with my Silhouette Cameo. This is pretty easy to do for Photoshop and Silhouette Studio users.

  

Thanks for joining me today! I would love to hear your thoughts on my layout.

Supplies

• Heidi Swapp No Limits papers, Sentiment Storage, Pennants, Banner Delights and No Limits digital brushes
• Tim Holtz/Sizzix die
• Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen in black
• Alphabet stickers by Crate Paper
• Epiphany Crafts Star 25 and Round 14 tool, accessory and epoxies
• Candi embellishments
• Washi tape by American Crafts
• Silhouette Cameo
• Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Adhesives: Helmar Scrap Dots, Helmar Premium Craft Glue

Drama Queen with Heidi Swapp Products

Hi everyone! Happy belated Canada Day to my fellow Canucks -- and of course, Happy 4th of July to my American friends!

Today, I'm sharing a project that I did with Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic line. This photo of my youngest daughter peering over her oversized sunglasses fit perfectly with this paper line, and the annoyed look on her face just screams "DRAMA QUEEN!!!".

I created the 3D hearts with hot pink Bazzill cardstock and a Heidi Swapp digital printable. I used my Silhouette Cameo's print and cut feature for this. You could do the same thing by cutting hearts out of Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic Drama or Fabulous papers. You could also freehand cut the hearts, cut them with a Cricut, use a paper punch or trace an existing heart to create the same effect.

I edged the hearts with a black marker to make them stand out even more. I applied Versamark ink on top of the entire zebra print heart, added sparkly clear embossing powder over top and heat embossed them. This gave the hearts a finished 'sticker-like' look. Lastly, I layered the hearts on top of one another and machine stitched through the center and added Helmar Scrapdots in between the layers to create the 3D look.

I used Heidi Swapp's Color Magic alphabet stickers for the second part of my title. I coloured them with a Faber-Castell Gelato. So easy and fun!

Thanks for dropping by today!

Kate

Supplies

• Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic papers, Pennants, Sugar Stix, digital Word Stickers and Notecards 
• Font: Throw My Hands Up in The Air
• Bazzill Basics cardstock and American Crafts Cardstock
• Helmar Adhesives: Scrapdots, Zapdots, Premium Craft Glue, 450 Quick Dry and Gemstone Glue
• Stamp by Studio Calico/Hero Arts
• Epiphany Crafts round 14 tool, epoxies and accessory
• Washi tape by Deserres
• Sequins, punchinella sequin waste
• Coats & Clark thread