Guest Designer With Craftin Desert Divas

I am posting today as a guest designer for Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party hosted by Tara of Craftin Desert Divas! Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly linky party and you could win fabulous prizes!!

This linky party theme is Back to School!

The sponsor is Candice Fields - to win the Wildflower Bundle from Stampin Up! You get the stamp set and embossing folder. and My Scrap Chick is giving away a $10 giftcard!!

The more you link up, the better chance you have to win.  Visit Craftin Desert Divas for all the rules and to play along.

Here is what I created for this linky party....

I used Bo Bunny's older Learning Curve paper line. I love the deeper colors instead of the bright primary for a change. 

I made a hidden journaling tag. There is a piece of leather scrap that you pull on. The "ABC" square I made as a pocket.

Here is a detail of the library card layer. I crumpled it up and tore it slightly. Then I inked it (and everything else on the page) with Quick Quotes Mocha Mama Powder Puff Inks.

Hope you will Craft It Up & Link It Up!!!

Cherry Truffle with Quick Quotes

So I have mentioned having some great news. Have I also mentioned I love Quick Quotes?

I am so lucky to get to be a guest designer for them this month! YAY!! Make sure to check out all my posts with them this month for some goodies at the end :)

They sent me tons of awesome product including this versatile line called Cherry Truffle. I look at it an I immediately think vintage so I challenged myself to think outside the box on this one.

I started with the quote "Live in the Moment" and went through some pictures. I love this picture of my boyfriend on his new ATV doing a wheelie. It really just embraces the moment!

 

I used a piece of paper on one edge of the velum to help hold it down and a flower in the other corner

Here you can see the paper layers I used and a close up of the wheelie in action! I also inked all the pages in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Mocha Mama

I love how this burlap "flower" or star turned out and here is how to make it!

I started with 5 strips of burlap, 5 lengths of twine and a dark velum quote cut into, you guessed it, 5 pieces

Here is what the petal looks like without the velum in it

 But I liked a little bit darker look so I added the velum

 And some glimmer mist (in Roll Top Desk)

 Twisted it back up and hot glued it together. You could also use Beacon's, I just didn't want to wait for all of them to dry

 Then I glued my 5 petals together and added some extra burlap in the middle.

 I added a large brad and my twine to finish it all off! Later on my page I added some flowers on top of the brad.

I hope you like the page and my mini tutorial. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment and let me know :)

Check back next week for another Quick Quotes project!

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Products Used:

Quick Quotes Cherry Truffle Line

Quick Quotes "Live in the Moment" Velum Quote

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Mocha Mama

Twinery Twine in Cappuccino

Burlap, flowers and brad from my stash

You can shop these and tons of other great products from Quick Quotes at www.shopquickquotes.com

Father's Day

Masculine cards are so hard sometimes! I think mine tend to start to all look the same so I tried something I learned while teaching the Quick Quotes Convention Classes.

The Quick Quotes blog's current challenge is to use their inks to create a background somewhere on your creation. Can you see mine?

Under the Dad is a red piece of their Ode to Joy paper line that I used their inks to stipple and make the gear design!!

I used a chipboard gear from their balloon 8x10 chipboard, taped it down and used my stiple brush with Blue Hawaiian to ink all around the gear.

Since I was doing 2 of these cards, one for my dad and one for my boyfriend's dad, I cut the gear in half to use on both cards. I flipped it over and using the same ink, I used my Stampin Up Sense of Time (retired) set to stamp some more gears on the chipboard, inked the edges, added a piece of cappuccino twine and glued it down.

The "Dad" started out as cream paper. I inked it with Mocha Mama, stamped the same gears in Mocha Mama. I did all that before I pulled the cut off my Cricut Mat. So then I took it off the mat and added a bit of Blue Hawaiian with a sponge.

You will see a layout using the same paper next week :)

I hope all the fathers out there have a wonderful Father's Day!!

~Liz