It's all about Love, Love Love...

Happy New Year!!!

Nope, this little guy isn't baby New Year.

He's a mischievous cupid with the "love bug" and on the prowl.

 

I'm not sure if I'm still on a twinkling lights path

but I just had to glitter, glitter and more glitter.

You know how pictures don't do justice?

This is so the case, cause I need some shades...Whoa!

 

 
Ok, so down with the serious stuff.

I've used Love-508
There's so much detail, I really felt compelled to emphasize all the good stuff.

Little cupie has been colored with Polychromos pencils
I've used a combination of laying down a layer of glue and glittering, paints and embossing.
Seed pearls are added to give a little texture and the little pink hearts are stamped on
using versamark then pink embossing powder. I've used a versamark pen to go around and add the white embossing powder.

The I U letters are cut out using sizzix die, glued onto a gold texture mirror board and fussy cut around
The heart corners are actually the scraps from a punch that have been glued in place.
Stencil with red copic glitter pen create the dotted frame.
I've placed it all on a simple white background to really make it all pop.

I had a blast doing this project.
I hope to see some Valentines/Love projects from ya'll.
We've got some super awesome releases all ready for you.

Stars, stars, stars!

Happy 2015 to all you Southern Ridge Trading Company (SRTC) fans! So nice to be back after a few months break while working hard at growing my business! I'm always so honoured to be asked to help show off the amazing product that is being produced right here in Kamloops by Karen at SRTC!

I don't know about your house, but the holiday season at our house means one thing -- World Junior Hockey Championships!! So I thought I'd use some of Karen's very cool chipboard pieces that are hockey themed to highlight some of my son's hockey pictures from his first year playing University hockey in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

  

Using the stars found in the Christmas section, item X-Mas 141, I spritzed all the chipboard pieces with Smooch spray to make them glitter in silver. The very cool star wreath shown in the lower left corner, is a new release & will be on the website soon. 

The hockey player cut outs are found in the sport section, listed as item SPO-291. I used black smooch spray in a matte finish & put a piece of white cardstock behind the words to make it stand out. The star border X-Mas 144 was a fun way to finish off the page.

Thanks for letting me share my passion for hockey & Karen's great products! I wish you all the very best in 2015!!

Awesome Dude

This star circular frame FRA-497 (coming soon) from Southern Ridge Trading Company was perfect for this framed piece I made for my soon to be teenage son :

 It can be challenging to make cards for males, to combine the right colors, images and embellishments. This star frame was so perfect to use here with the Kenny K image :

For the frame I painted it with a nougat colored acrylic paint, and added a sprinkle of pale blue and gold embossing powder, which I heat set. Then I added some crackle glaze in a few areas and lightly sponged the edge in brown ink. The background is mixed media, ink sprays and molding paste through a stencil.

I hope my son likes this, and that you found some inspiration here :)

Thanks for stopping by x

Winter Time Tray

Happy New Year! Hopefully you've all had a fantastic holiday season and are ready to get back into your craft room and create!

When we got to choose from the new releases to design with I knew that I needed to find a way to use the snowman. He reminds me of "Olaf" off of Frozen. I found this great tray in with my craft stuff and I knew it would work perfectly to showcase this awesome snowman.

 Here is the full view of my winter time tray.

Products used: 7 Gypsies tray, Carta Bella - Warm & Cozy. Snowman, sled, Snowflakes & SEA-165 from SRTC.

I'm in love with the snowflakes and SEA-165 from SRTC. I added Prima glass glitter in both pearl and sterling to the large snowflakes and love how much texture that it gives them. 

Products used: Carta Bella - Warm & Cozy, Prima - Glass Glitter, Snowflakes from SRTC and SEA-165 from SRTC.

The snowman is my favourite piece on the tray. On the snowman I used Distress Ink and Distress Paint. On the sled I used Distress Ink. 

Products used: Carta Bella - Warm & Cozy, Snowman & Sled from SRTC.

Hopefully this has given you some inspiration to get back into your craft room. Make sure that you check back on the blog to see more amazing projects from our designers. As well check out our Southern Ridge Trading Company Facebook page. 

Until Next Time

-Katelyn

Merry and Bright!

Today I have a super sweet card using Michele R Designs papers and cupcake wrapper, however wait until you see what I have inside!  This set of papers is called "Merry and Bright" and I knew as soon as I saw it I was gonna have to use it because it has PINK in it!!  I LOVE non-traditional colors for Christmas and winter cards!

I distressed all edges with cocoa Momento ink as well as the poinsettia's.  The border frame (borders are my favorite!!!) is from Southern Ridge Trading Company.   FRA-130

The poinsettia's are from Dee's Distinctively dies, which you can layer up to make a small or big flower.  It's a very versatile set as it comes with 4 layers of flower. 

The Tim Holtz snowflake border and a layer of the poinsettia's is corrugated white sparkle paper I bought from Micheal's half price and then 25% off my order!!  WHUT?!  YA!!  WOO!! 

This image is from Ppinkydolls and is "Lily with Snowsisters" and awww she was fun to color!!  The present and wagon were a bit of a challenge because they were so small but OMG so stinkin' CUTE!!  I added some Stickles under her and I can't believe you can see them!  My Copic colors are listed below.

The wood "Joy" sentiment is also from Southern Ridge Trading Co. and comes in a variety set of 6.  XMAS-460  I distressed the top with cocoa Momento and then added Stickles on the top half.  How do you like my snowballs?!  ha haaaa haa!!

This box is from Michele R Designs "Merry and Bright" cupcake boxes.  It is soooo easy to make!!  Print out the template, cut, score and paste away!!  I added a strip of the corrugated white sparkle paper from Michael's, cut the center sentiment and flag strip that comes with the template and layered up with the wooden snowflakes.  Added a premade flower and tied together a twine bow and VOILA!  FINITO! 

See?  Who says you have to put a cupcake inside?!!  YUMMAY!!!  These icy squares just melt in your mouth!!  I know, I had more than a few.  LOL! 

I think this is my last Christmas card for this year.  Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Copics:

R81, RV34, R56, 89

E42, 43, 47, 49

BG0000, 000, 01, 02

E000, 00, 11, 04, 21, R20

Christmas gift tags

I wanted to share some simple, but gorgeous gift tags using the beautiful wooden deer XMAS-456. 

The background is fun and very sparkly, highlighting the deer perfectly. And the postmark from Santa makes a nice ground for the deer to be standing on.

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a very Merry Christmas. 

Nikki x

Merry and Bright

Hey there Southern Ridge fans! Sarah here with my last post as a DT member for Southern Ridge! I've had an awesome time being part of this team, but with 4 kids, my own business and 4 design teams, something's gotta go! Sadly, I'm leaving 3 out of 4 of my DT's, but I need to be able to give 110% to my family and job and I just can't do it all! 

Anyway, I wanted to share a fun way to use the chipboard other than for your layouts! Anyone else doing a December Daily album? I'm trying, but so far I'm behind already! HA! Anyway, I wanted to decorate this gorgeous canvas album from Dear Lizzy, so I used the PAT-416 as a stencil and sprayed some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in 2 different greens. In order to do this and not get the line from the edge, I just used some scrap paper underneath the edges to  cover the album before misting :)

After I finished using the chipboard for a mask, I used it on this adorable layout to give it some texture!! 

I used this fun sketch from Scrapbook Nerd for my inspration!

I love how the chipboard anchors my photos onto my layout :)

here's some close ups: 

Thanks for stopping by!! I've had an awesome time on this team and I'm sad to go...Have a very Merry Christmas!!