Creations From The Heart

It's time to close this blog...

Hi everyone,

Well I have decided not to keep updating this blog - the Creations From The Heart part that is.  I will leave it all as is, but from now on all my projects will be posted on my Digital Creations blog.  This will mainly be digital layouts and hybrid projects, but I will also be making cards, off the page projects and other paper scrapbooking goodies from time to time, so if you wanted to keep in touch still, please update your bookmarks, feeds and readers to the other blog:

DIGITAL CREATIONS BLOG

It's just easier to have it all in the one spot rather than posting bits here and there.  I'll slowly merge all the paper scrapbooking and stamping links in the sidebars across to the Digital Creations blog so you can still get the same information there and I'll remove them from the Creations From The Heart blog.  All the posts will still remain, but there won't be any new ones added after this one.

I've got a rather exciting project about to launch on the 1st July with one of the digital stores I create for.  I can't confirm the details yet, but it is hybrid related, so you'll have to keep an eye out on my other blog if you wanted to find out and join me in my new venture!

Thanks to everyone that has stopped by this blog over the years!  You guys keep me inspired to show you my work and I have so much fun keeping these blogs for my own purposes and my family to view :)

Collage paint canvas

I'm still here!  Don't blog too much on the old paper scrapping/stamping blog here do I?  But I am mostly doing the digital scrapping these days as I'm on so many creative teams for digi stores and designers.  But being on a couple of hybrid creative teams too, allows me to keep digging into my paper stash each month.  I still love to get messy and dirty so there'll always be something to show you - the few readers that regularly drop by!

And now onto a hybrid project that I created for The Hybrid Chick blog recently.  It is a collage canvas and you can find the tutorial on how it's done on The Hybrid Chick blog but I just started putting all sorts of bits and pieces together that I had in my stash. I didn't have a plan - I just started and went where it took me. I love the colours and used a photo of me when I was about 16 or 17 from the mid-80's.

Supply List:

* Paper from ENCHANTED AFTERNOON by Gypsy Couture available at The Digi Chick
* Gingham leaves from COTTAGE GARDEN MINI by Kaye Winiecki available in The Fix for May from Digi Scrap Addicts and Scrap Orchard
* Letter-sized paint canvas (from a Dollar Store)
* Gesso
* Glimmer Mist - Garden Fairy
* Glimmer Screens - Blossom
* Tulle
* Basic Grey button and rubons
* Thread
* Fibre
* Ribbon
* Beads
* Butterfly stamp from Lucy’s Stamps
* Crystal Effects from Stampin’ Up
* H20 Twinklings by Luminarte
* Glitter
* Heart confetti
* Assorted stamps used on canvas
* Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

And for those of you who have never visited Tim Holtz's blog (which was me until last week!) - make sure you head on over and check out his AMAZING video tutorials.  Wow is all I can say as I own so many of his fab distress inks and other goodies.  Just picked up some Perfect Pearls recently and his latest video demos what you can do with them.  I just love the grungy, dirty and worn look he creates on his projects, so it's definitely a MUST SEE blog if you haven't gone and checked it.  You can visit www.timholtz.com and click on the DEMOS link or go to his Blog link and scroll through his posts and there's videos in amongst them. Also down the left hand side of his blog are 2 years worth of 12 Days of Christmas tag tutorials which are another must-see.  You'll learn so much and be totally inspired by what he shows you and I've got half these goodies in my stash already just begging to be put to more use!