Welcome to Day 3 of the

Couture Creations & Imaginarium Designs Blog Hop!  

We’re so excited to team up with Imaginarium Designs  sharing inspiring projects created with both our products with you this week. What could be more perfect than our Embossing Folders and Dies and Imaginarium Designs  gorgeous Chipboard designs.
Each day this week we will feature our Design Team projects and over on the Imaginarium Designs Blog they will also feature  their Design Team projects all created using Couture Creations and Imaginarium Designs products. So loads of inspiring projects for you to help get your creative juices flowing.

We will link to the tutorials on each Design Team members blogs, please show all our designers some love and leave a comment on their blog.

We’ll be giving away Two $100  prize packages filled with Couture Creations & Imaginarium Designs goodness at the end of the week, so be sure to play along and check back on both Imaginarium Designs and Couture Creations blogs Monday 4th August 2014 to see if you’re one of  the lucky winners!

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 Enter Here
 

Hop over to the Imaginarium Designs Blog and see what their Design Team has created using their Chipboard and our Couture Creations products! They also have a  giveaway, so what are you waiting for – hop over!  oh and don't forget to follow our Design Team Blogs

Here are today's Designers,

click on their names for a link to their personal blogs for their tutorials.

Amanda Jayne Baldwin

Sue Smyth


I have made my Wild Child layout with a mixed media style
with Couture Creations dies
Check out my previous post for the instructions to make the flowers.

Artdeco Lace Frame – CO723313
Gate to Eden – CO723748
Roses – CO723744
Siblings – CO723743
 and

Pop over to Imaginarium Designs Blog to see what

Romy and Evgenia 
have created

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I D and couture creations Blog hop

Welcome to Day 1 of the Couture Creations & Imaginarium Designs Blog hop

We’re so excited to team up with Couture Creations sharing inspiring projects created with both our products with you this week. What could be more perfect than our Embossing Folders and Dies and Imaginarium Designs gorgeous Chipboard designs.

Each day this week we will feature our Design Team projects and over on the Couture Creations Blog they will also feature their Design Team projects all created using Couture Creations and Imaginarium Designs products. So loads of inspiring projects for you to help get your creative juices flowing.

We will link to the tutorials on each Design Team members blogs, please show all our designers some love and leave a comment on their blog.

We’ll be giving away Two $100 prize packages filled with Couture Creations & Imaginarium Designs goodness at the end of the week, so be sure to play along and check back on both Imaginarium Designs and Couture Creations blogs Monday 4th August 2014 to see if you’re the lucky winner!

Here are the different ways you can play along with us –

Like Couture Creations and Imaginarium Designs on Facebook 

Share this blog post on your Facebook wall and tell us you did on our Facebook page

Follow our Imaginarium Designs & Couture Creations Blogs 

Leave a comment here on our blog and on our Facebook page

Follow Couture Creations on Pinterest

Follow Couture Creations on Instagram

Hop over to the Couture Creations Blog and see what their Design Team has created using our Chipboard and the Couture Creations products! They also have a giveaway, so what are you waiting for – hop over! oh and don't forget to follow our Design Team Blogs

Here are today's Designers, .......

click on their names for a link to their personal blogs for their tutorials

Here is my project 

I have made a pyramid card, always a good idea for something special 

I have make the flower with the left over pieces from 

the ornamental lace die.

Step by Steps

1. Cut ornamental lace in cardstock.

2. Pop out all of the negative shapes

3. Ink the edges of each shape with a matching ink 

4.. Use a stylus and mouse pad to cup all of the shapes 

5. Die cut or punch out a circle.

6. Glue the petals one by one around the circle

7. Add layers of petals until you are happy.

8. Finish with a small punched cardstock sun, cupped too and a pearl 

ID chipboard

Couture Creations materials

Artdeco Lace Frame – CO723313

Van Roe Collection Royal Oval | CO723723

Happy Crafting 

Inner Goddess canvas and Capture a moment layout

Inner Goddess Canvas 

and Capture a Moment in Time layout

By Sue Smyth 

This month I am sharing a special layout, this is a photo of my parents wedding day.

They are long divorced now, but the photo is so redolent of the 60's. 

Here they are full of faith and hope for the future, which for a time was really

good. Sadly my Dad is terminally ill now and looking at the photo just reminds 

me of all the good moments in our family. This would 

have been one of them.

Sometimes the simple ways of altering chip is the best. I was inspired by a

scene in the Maleficent movie, which included lots of teal, black and gold.

So I have double embossed lots of the chipboard with aged gold embossing powder

I have used a Couture Creations A4 embossing folder to make the embossed background

then sprayed with turquoise glimmer mists.

When dry, I have rubbed gold paint over the raised areas.

Here also I have used all the little tinsy pearls, left over to make a 

beaded border.

I have used the A4 folder again to emboss black cardstock. I have rubbed it 

with gold paint, and sprayed with a fine glitter spray.

I loved this shot organza ribbon so had to add it, 

it matched the teal of the layout so well. I have added a gorgeous tassel to 

my cluster of flowers and trinkets.

To create an aged look to the frame.

Step by steps

1. Dab randomly over the frame with Versa Mark watermark pad.

2. Sprinkle with aged gold embossing powder.

3. Remove some of the powder if it is too tidy.

4. Heat set.

5. Rub over with black ink and wipe off with a wet wipe.

Here is some of the chipboard I used 

Now for something bigger!

Inner Goddess Canvas

You may remember last month I did a canvas all about Me, my artwork, my tools and 

techniques and items that mean something to the work I do.

This is also a canvas, but more about the things that make me, what I like 

and feel. I have included the things that make me happy.

I have been researching lots of paintings and designs recently. about the 

inner goddess and have been inspired by them, and along with the gorgeous work

 Finnabiar does.

One of the neat things you can do is paint in a sunray, like I have,

I used to do this with lots of my paintings that I did when I was younger

so love being able to include them in my scrapping work too. It is a 

great way to give the illusion of light.

So this time I approached the canvas differently.

I have used a selection of my favourite stencils to create 

texture with texture paste. I have added 

some oddly coloured rhinestone swirls, buttons, beads and lace.

Once dry I have painted with gesso.

The last canvas did not have flowers, this one does and I have clustered

them around the canvas. I love the little ombre tassel, made by wetting the 

tassel and just dipping into Dylusions Postbox red.

The bumpy texture is made by adding lots of little beads, adhered

by lots of gel medium.

I have simply gold embossed the title.

To create a inner glow, I have painted 

gesso rays from a central point to imitate the rays 

of the sun for the goddess radiance.

Add old brooches, buttons, trinkets, resin shapes and even an old 

name badge.

all of these have been painted with gesso, then sprayed with a selection

of glimmer mists and dylusions. Dry brush edges with black gesso,

then rub over with gold paint. And to finish add rhinestones, pearls and flowers

after you have sprayed the canvas.

Handy Hint

Cover the photo with a wet wipe to stop over spray.

The moisture in the wipe is a greater barrier than

a dry tissue, which will just absorb the spray and sit on the 

photo.

Happy Crafting 

Don't forget to leave comment for 

a chance at a prize 

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland 

By Sue Smyth 

Couture Creations new Christmas dies, make it easy to 

make a gorgeous snowy scene for your 

Christmas table.

The base to the scene is a ribbon spool, a nice wide spool 

works best, simply cover with 

die cut circles and papers.

Create a banner by printing a title onto white cardstock and 

die cut with a banner die.

Add the decorated spool to a saucer and glass dome,

easily sourced at cheap stores or chain stores.

First cut out the large tree, from light weight chipboard, but

do not pop out the shape, leave them nested.

Paint with gesso and dry off.

Spray with turquoise ink and allow to dry.

Cover with dimensional magic this will help adhere the shapes together

and will hold the glitter well.

Sprinkle with white glitter and allow to dry.

Cut another tree from white cardstock and this time pop out

the centre( save the centre repeat these steps and use for back of tree)

Apply dimensional magic and glitter again and dry off.

Layer over the turquoise tree and adhere with strong gel glue.

Repeat this step to make 2 large trees and 3 small one.

Tear white cardstock to almost fit the top of the spool.

Wet and scrunch up, unfurl and dry with a heat gun

Spray with adhesive and sprinkle liberally 

with white glitter. Allow to dry 

and shape to fit top of spool.

Adhere in place and affix trees to it with hot glue gun. 

Add a tiny snowman or dainty deer to complete 

your own winter wonderland scene

Couture Creations Materials 

Couture Creations Moonlight self Adhesive pearls .

Chandeliers Set | CO723247

Couture Creations Scalloped circle and circle nested dies

Couture Creations Intricutz Merry little Christmas Collection Christmas Fir Trees

Couture Creations turquoise gemstones

Couture Creations Double sided foam tape

Couture Creations double sided tape

Happy Crafting