Blog Candy Entry & Another Project

First, check out the awesome Nestabilities blog candy Col's Creating Memories has going on her blog until May 15!



And now the little hybrid project I made using Kristin Cronin-Barrow's digital scrapbook kit, Go Green. I took a 4" bar coaster and created this little piece of artwork. I applied Mod Podge to the coaster and then put the background paper on it. I sanded the edges, and then adhered the second layer. I absolutely HAD to make some paper roses from the newsprint paper in the kit. I printed it on regular copy paper and then created the three paper roses. I wrote a tutorial on making the rosettes (the outer flowers) for Jennifer Fox a while back. The center flower was made using this fantastic tutorial by Scrappy Cath.

A Couple of New Releases

A couple of my designers had new releases this week at Sweet Shoppe Designs and I thought I'd share what I made.

First is the layout using Libby Pritchett's Paper Clips - Photo Sheet Templates. These are really great templates for creating multi-photo layouts.

Penny Springmann released her digital kit, I Am (previously available as part of The Digi Files in March) and I used a couple of the papers to make this adorable little teapot using a resized and modified template from My Time Made Easy (I converted the pdf to a psd file in Photoshop CS5 and created some clipping masks for my papers). The original teapot holds 40 tea bags, but I wanted something much smaller to hold a few pieces of chocolate.

I added some Prima Marketing flowers to the top and then stacked a button, a flower rhinestone, and a pearl on top of that. I just love how cute and dainty it is!