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Tuesday, July 29, 2014



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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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





http://imaginariumdesigns.blogspot.com.au/

Pop over to Imaginarium Designs Blog to see what
Romy and Evgenia 
have created
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Sunday, July 27, 2014

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

Happy Crafting 





Monday, July 21, 2014

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 





Sunday, July 20, 2014

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 Intricutz Merry little Christmas Collection Christmas Fir Trees



Happy Crafting