cReative Team Tuesday - A Valentine's Mantel

Welcome back to cReative Team Tuesday shares!  I hope you made sure to first stop over at Rhonna's blog because it is there that she shares all projects submitted by her cReative Team members.  

So, I am sure you have seen others use colored baker's twine in their craft projects, right!?  Well, I found some in the $1 bin area at Target.  When I saw that twine I knew that I had to use it in decorating my Valentine's day mantel.  I like it but a little part of me says that the brick is fighting the decorations...What say you?

So, as you can see in the photo above I simply printed out some of the fabulous new Kiss Collection printables from Rhonna as well as a few of last year's items.  They work so well together so be sure to mix them together so you have more to play with.  I them cut them down to size, inked some of the edges with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distressing Ink. Then simply strung them on the baker's twine and hung them up.  Super easy!  I used the kit found HERE for the pieces you see hanging.

The pencils and pipe cleaners are also from The $1 bin area at Target, the little bottles are too but those are a few years old.  The cute little banners and bottle decor are from this printable HERE.

Let me show a few more close ups, I am not revealing the entire mantel just yet as I still have more to add but I hope this will inspire you enough to get you started.

 The arrow above was so easy to create!  I simply cut down some Bazzill cardstock into a 1x2 size piece, cut a V shape out of one end then angled the other end and BAM an arrow was born. LOL

See that cardboard heart?!  Well, I cut all those type hearts out of the Starbuck coffee sleeves that I had been hoarding saving over the last few months.  And YES, I still have more to use, ha!

The following two photos are from my instagram feed, I often share what I am working on there if you want to follow me, I'm @nct621 

How fun is that huh! I love reusing items from every day life in my projectcs, those cardboard cylinders are roll label core's from work.  I normally throw them away but one day I started hoarding saving them  for use in craft projects.  They make great little stands if you put a top on them.

Don't you just love the chalkboard art, that is found HERE.  And there is more HERE.  The key to getting the true chalkboard feel is to print it on matte paper.  I actually prefer to use presentation matte paper for most of my digital print outs.  I love how the matte paper gives all the print outs a better look and feel than just regular copy paper.  I also like to use Matte Photo paper too for a heavier stock.

That is it for this week, I hope you will come back soon for more Valentine's Day fun!

Don't forget to stop in at Rhonna's HERE and if you want to see only all things Valentine's that is available at Rhonna's shop I have a custom link HERE for you.

One Little Word meets Rhonna Designs

Hello there! Well, I am still alive and kicking, ha!  I just had seemed to fall into a slump and getting my mojo back took some time and I'm still working on it!  I worked this past weekend on some fun things for submission to a Styled Wedding Shoot.  Once I get the photographers photos I will share them with you!

I finally had some time to finish up my first month's homework for Ali Edwards One Little Word. I had put aside a bunch of card stock that I had, which I knew would last me the entire year but...... I couldn't resist using some of Rhonna's art from her "A year to follow your heart" kit.  I simply opened up the base pieces from Ali and then added some pieces from Rhonna's kit.  If you recall I did this same thing for my December Daily, which no I haven't finished that yet, ha!

I printed out the page on some textured Bazzill card stock then inked it with some Tim Holtz distressing inks.  Added a few things I had on hand, I'm trying to do my best to shop my current stash!  I love how the pieces turned out!  I'm hoping to get the protector pages at some point.  I have my LSS ordering them for me as I am being super cheap on shipping charges, ha!  That is another reason that creating Hybrid projects is great! You simply download your files so no shipping charges!

Here is what I created using PSE, Ali's January Files and Rhonna's Kit found HERE

Click on all photos to see them in a larger size.

Please note the file below is in a lower resolution as it is not a file to be shared. I'm merely sharing my process with you.

And once printed and trimmed to size I created the pieces shown in the collage below. Getting over the fact that I don't have beautiful girly handwritting is always hard but Ali encourages you to use your own handwritting. I even messed up a few spots on my journaling cards but just went with it. I have to continue to remind myself that this is for me and it doesn't have to be perfect or as beautiful as some of those shared by others.

Talk about easy, quick and fun! It didn't take me any time at all and so I plan on completing February's this week too!  Are you participating in One Little Word? If not click on the button on my right side bar to see more info via Ali's blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

p.s. I will finally have a couple of Valentine items posted later this week!

Creating Your Own Business Card

Hello there! Well, it's cReative Team Tuesday and although I didn't have a chance to create lots of projects over the last few days I did want to share this. As you know I am headed off to Spark the Event this week in Utah. I'm so excited and ready for some creative time and also some vacation time with my Bestie Melanie! I've been busy getting ready and the one thing I totally forgot to send off to the printers was my business card for this year! 

Well, I am simply going to print them at home so it's all good! Wanted to share with you the card I came up with.  And to let you know that it is so easy to design your own! Hope you like it as much as I do, still might need to do some tweaking to it but so far so good! Thanks for stopping by and have a great week! I promise to share photos once I get back from Utah!

OK, So picture this it's 9pm and I come into my studio to print out the above cards and then a light bulb goes off in my head!  And then I changed up my card and fell in love with it and now I ended up with this one below! Well, minus the smudged phone number of course.

The digital items I used to create this business card are the Quatrefoil Tags Kit found HERE and the Grateful Glam Brush Kit found HERE.  And as always you can go to Rhonna's Blog found HERE for more inspiration!