creativitE by Erin Bassett

Vote For Me!!

I've entered the Scrapbook Invitational...please vote for me by either:

• visiting the site and then emailing in your vote {pics should be up there soon}

OR

• if you happen to be at CHA go over to booth #1216 and see all the entries & place your vote there.

 

Here's closer looks at what I made:

A card...and when you open it it plays Christmas music thanks to DinoTalk's Talking Paper that I adhered to the inside.

 

Here's a gift card holder that says Merry Christmas when you open it up thanks to the DinoTalk Talking Envelope.

 

  

 And here's my Christmas ornament thanks to the DinoTalk Talking Ornament.

 

And if you're wondering where all that fabulous Christmas paper and embellishments are from they are Imaginisce's new line called "Cottage Christmas"...isn't it cute!!  

Ok now...go vote!!

 

 

Handmade Card - So Grateful

Today I posted a tutorial on the Tattered Angles Educator's blog on how I made these simple "flowers" for this card using Sticky Back Canvas, some Tattered Angles products, & my Cricut.  

 

I actually had made a bunch of these flowers as part of a giveaway my local scrapbook store was having and after making so many of them I thought I'd actually make something with them LOL.  I love this card...simple and cute!!  I've been wanting to use that stamp for a really long time; it's from Unity.

 

Oh, and here's the ones I made for the store:

 

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Well, I'm headed off to CHA...will post about THAT soon!

Sponsors: Tattered Angles, ProvoCraft

 

A card and a scrapbook page

First let me share a couple of projects with you and then let me geek out for a bit. 

This is a card and scrapbook layout I made with some MME products for Remember When.  I'm digging the color combination and that Unity stamp that's on the card.

Check out the buttons...I just used clear buttons and put some Glossy Accents on them and adhered them to some of the MME paper that I had punched out to the correct size ahead of time.  Once they were dried I used a paper piercer to poke the hole out and added some thread.  Love them.

 

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Here's a layout of me and some friends at the Reflections event.  We had a blast!!  We were able to rent out a private villa with our own private pool (that we were too busy to use).  So fun!  

Besides adding some of the same fun buttons on here I also added some Zva pearl butterflies and did some "crazy" machine stitching around the MME journaling block.  The stitching was one of the techniques we did in a project at Reflections so I thought it would be a fun touch to add.

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Ok, now on to the geeking out.  I'm so excited that my husband bought me a PortaCube for one of my Bday gifts!  It was a total surprise too which is really hard to do.  I think he was tired of hearing me talk about how I was going to build  I had a great idea on how he should make me one out of PVC and bed sheets.  This is SO much better since it folds up & is made out of material that eliminates glare & other stuff.  I can't wait to use it!!

 

Sponsor: Remember When

Imaginisce July Sketch, Blog Hop, & Giveaway

Hard to believe it's July already!! The holidays will be here before we know it...frightening!

This is my card I made for Imaginisce's July sketch:

 

And here's the wonderful card sketch that Tammy Wark created for July's Imaginisce Blog Hop and Giveaway.

 

Would you like to win some Imaginisce goodies? Just leave me a comment below and then  HOP ON OVER to the following Design Team blogs to see what they did with the sketch.  Remember,  leave one comment on as many of their blogs  as you like and you'll have multiple chances to win a prize package of Imaginisce goodies.

Imaginisce Design Team: 

Tammy Wark

Sarah de Guzman

Kim Holmes

Melinda Spinks

Cindy Stevens

Aphra Bolyer

Renata Moni

Heather Carpenter

Liz Qualman

Samantha Hauzer

Aida Haron

Shemaine Smith 

Tracy Gardiner

Cari Locken

Want to have another chance at prizes???  Play with this sketch too!   Create a card or layout using 75% Imaginisce products and post your link (using Mr Linky) on this  Imaginisce blog post to enter to win a $75 prize package.

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Also,  if you haven't entered my giveaway for one of two Imaginisce i-rock goodie bags stop by this post and leave a comment...I'll draw the winners randomly tomorrow!

Sponsor: Imaginisce

Imaginisce i-rock & i-top videos

Guess what?  Over on the Imaginisce site & blog there are two new handy-dandy videos up showing how to use the i-rock and the i-top...and the videos feature yours truly. *wink wink*  AND there's a giveaway too!!    

Sponsor: Imaginisce

You're So Special Card

This is one of the projects I made with Mod Podge Dimensional Magic (MPDM) when I reviewed it for Craft Critique....you can read my review here; make sure you leave a comment for the giveaway there!  

I use my Cuttlebug to emboss the cardstock, and then took a shipping tag, crunched it all up and then sprayed it with a few shades of Glimmer Mist.  After it dried I inked the edges and the creases.  I made that flower by layering up a bunch of die cut flowers I made with American Craft's Dear Lizzy paper, gluing them together with the MPDM and then using some more MPDM to add a bit of glitter to the flower's center.  Those butterflies are part of a ribbon I cut apart. Oh, and that stamp is from Hero Arts...I love their stamps.

There's a lot of other cool stuff that MPDM can do...such as this cool jewelry pendant I made with an iTop brad head. 

 

Sponsors: Craft Critique, ProvoCraft, Imaginisce, Tattered Angles

 

 

The Dynamic Duo: Imaginisce + Core'dinations

This week Imaginisce and Core'dinations are having a blog swap!!  Here's some cards I made with both of the manufactures products:

For this first card I embossed the Core'dinations cardstock using my Cuttlebug and then jazzed it up with Imaginisce pattered paper, chipboard, ribbon, and iRock Hot Rocks.

 

 

For this next card I embossed it with my Cuttlebug and then ran a chalk ink pad over the embossing to highlight it and then used Imaginisce pattered paper, stickers, rub-ons, ribbon, and iRock Hot Rocks and a Studio G stamp to finish it off:

 

Sponsors: Imaginisce, Core'dinations, ProvoCraft 
 
 
 

 

National Scrapbook Weekend @ Remember When

So this weekend is the big Remember When scrapbooking extravaganza.  Saturday I did a Yudu screen printing make and take where I taught everyone how to screen print tote bags...the ladies really loved them and were excited to make them themselves (something that was WAY outside the box for some of them). Everyone did such a great job!!  Of course I was so busy I didn't have a chance to take any photos, so I'm going to have to ask around to see if anyone did.  

There are so many awesome giveaways that the store is doing thanks to the generous donations of manufactures.  One of the things that everyone gets is a bunch of kits with sample layouts, sample cards and instructions that the design team created.  {Which, for the record was created with only what was in the kit and the basic scrapbooker's tool kit!  -Can you say "mucho Glossy/Crackle Accents and Sakura Stardust pen"???} Here's the samples I made with the kits I had to design with:

 

Some close-ups:

      

And a card to go with it:

 

And then a layout for another kit:

A close-up:

  And a card to go with it:

 

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Don't forget that the National Scrapbooking Month celebrations continue at the Tattered Angles Educator's blog...check out what Nathalie Kalbach did!!

 
 

 Sponsor: Remember When, ProvoCraft, Tattered Angles
 
 

Anniversary & Wedding Projects

Yesterday we celebrated my in-laws 40th wedding anniversary!  So special!!  Here's the card I made them using the new "To Love & Cherish" line from Imaginisce.  {Perfect timing to celebrate an anniversary the same time a wedding line is released LOL.}  We had a really nice family dinner to celebrate.

Supplies:  Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned Paper - Imaginisce; Glimmer Mist - Tattered Angles; Bling - Prima; Number Stickers - American Crafts; Ribbon - Imaginisce; Card Shape - ProvoCraft Cricut Expression (Cartridges: Tie The Knot and Songbird)

I made a few other things with the new products that would be perfect for wedding favors or could even be altered for other occasions.

 

Supplies:  Paper, Flower, Chipboard sticker, Brad (i-Top), Ribbon - Imaginisce; Glimmer Glam - Tattered Angles; Thread; Cake Box - ProvoCraft Cricut Expression (Cartridge: Tags, Bags, & Boxes)

And here's the back side when it's open:

 

Supplies:  Paper, Flower, Chipboard sticker, Brad (i-Top), Ribbon, Stamp - Imaginisce; Cardstock - American Crafts; Glimmer Mist & Glimmer Glam - Tattered Angles; Bling - Prima; Box - ProvoCraft Cricut Expression (Cartridge: Wild Card)

Sponsors: Imaginisce, ProvoCraft, Tattered Angles
  

 

Simple Cards

I hate to throw away scraps, so I made some simple cards with some of the things lying around on my desk.

 

Supplies: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned Paper, Rub-Ons, Stickers, Stamp, Flowers - Imaginisce; Ribbon, Button; Cricut Expression - Winter Woodlands Cartridge

 

Sponsors: Imaginisce, Provo Craft, Glue Arts