If you arrived here from SCRAPS OF ELEGANCE

you are on the right track

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The Hop begins

 at the Scraps of Elegance blog

Where we have just unveiled our June kit

Country Charm

featuring

Donna Salazars gorgeous 

Botanique 

collection along with a ton of Prima flowers, shabby chic treasures and say it in studs~~~~~

We are giving away

4.P.R.I.Z.E.S

Scraps of Elegance is giving away a Swan Song kit

featuring Prima's FaiRy BeLLe Collection to O.N.E. lucky WINNER  AND one set of TIM HOLTZ Spring seasonal distress ink to ANOTHER!!!! 

Scraps of Darkness is giving away a Summer Breeze kit featuring 

Prima's SuNKiss Collection to O.N.E. lucky WINNER  AND one set of TIM HOLTZ Spring seasonal distress ink to ANOTHER!!!! 

Note: This is open to international entries however you will be responsible for shipping in excess of ~~~$10.00 ~~~

In Addition to this...

I will be GiVinG AwaY

a gift certificate 

for

***$10.00***

to

The Scraps of Darkness Shoppe

to one lucky random winner!!!

A.l.l. you have to do to win is...

1. Become a follower of the Scraps of Elegance and the Scraps of Darkness blog and leave a comment on all of the participating blogs.  Many of the designers are giving away prizes if you become a follower of their blog, as well, so you have lots of chances to win extra prizes!

2. Go right back to the Scraps of Elegance blog when you have finished and let us know you have completed the hop! You will love seeing what our design team has created, and we hope it will inspire you to create something beautiful!

3. To be eligible to win my prize, become a follower of my blog if you are not already and leave me a comment letting me know. If you are already a follower just say so!!!!

4. You have until midnight June 4th Pacific time to complete the hop and comment. The winner of the Scraps of Elegance & Scraps of Darkness prizes will be announced on the Scraps of Elegance blog  on June 6th.

(My winner will be announced on this blog on the same day!!!!) 

**Be sure to check back to see if you have won and leave me your contact info.**

You can see the first reveal of the kit here and I have Two more projects to share with you today.

L.I.L.A.C.S

This photo is one I took of some lilacs in my yard. I am always AMAZED when the things I plant actually live and bloom.

*Corrugated Cardboard

* PRIMA Resins

*** Donna Salazar Botanique papers

Finished off with Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies.

Have. A. Special. Day.

Just a little card

                 

CRAFTY Secrets... Martha Stewart...Seam Binding..Dusty Attic...BOTANIQUE...Heartfelt Creations...

Just a closer look...

I Hope you are Inspired to create something

beautiful Today ~~~

Your next stop on the hop is Mandy Harrell

1. Scraps of Elegance

2. Lisa Novogrodski

3. Mandy Harrell

4. Karen Zueger

5. Renea Harrison

6. Jennifer Snyder

7. Donna Salazar

8. Michelle Phillips

9. Karolina Stopyra

10. Elena Olinevich

11. Helena Johansson

12. Escape Kitty

13. Charlotte Jenkins

14. Scraps of Darkness

15. Back to Scraps of Elegance

Our beautiful June kit offers hand selected papers by Donna Salazar,
Fabscraps and Kaisercraft. All this is complimented with an array of Prima embellishments. Sure to please even the most discriminate scrapper.

I love to create with our exclusively designed sketches by SuePup. Her use of the papers as a graphic are AmazinG!!!

I decided to use a photo of my beautiful sister in law and niece for this layout. This was taken for my niece's Junior Prom and shows such a special moment shared between the two of them.

 I used Martha Stewarts Floral Crochet punch around the page on my edges. We received a beautiful selection of Prima flowers in our kit~ Kennedy Blueberry were the ones I used in the bottom corner.

A little Dusty Attic I added from my stash. Inked and painted. 

This layout was inspired by the Kaisercraft window included in our kit. I shaped the photo of my daughter to fit the window and the song "Come to my Window" by Melissa Etheridge came to mind. 

Prima Resin Bird...

Crafty Secrets Vintage Birds and Blossoms...

A little close up the window...

cheescloth...

Prima Pixie Vine Songbird...

I used a font in word to create the title for my layout.

Tags...tags...tags...

The Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Birds and Blossoms are 

perfect sweet images to add to tags. 

I wanted to do a shabby chic tag using all the sweet beautiful elements in the kit...

One more close up of the ribbon and button to finish it off...

Some ButTerFlies for you to Enjoy with your June kit!

Be sure to check in tomorrow and play along with our

Blog Hop!!!

Lots of Great prizes are being given away and we have a SpeciaL Guest joining us.

~~~The fun starts at 12:01 AM pacific time~~~

Dear Diary - Scraps of Darkness

This months kit titled "Passages" has inspired me with so many ideas I can't seem to scrap fast enough to get them all down!

This one titled "Dear Diary" is a photo of my daughter once again taken by my dear friend Gina Copplino..

 To start with I altered the hues in the photo. My daughters hat was hot pink. Then I used a Florabella texture over it. (Tutorial on how to add textures to your photo found here) I elected not to erase any of the texture off the subject (my dd) I just lighted the opacity (pse talk) and let the texture stay over it. I REALLY love how that looks. I added the date rub on that was in our kits to the photo.
 Every month the kits seem to inspire certain themes and punches for me. This month it's the stamp look.
I also had picked up that torn notebook punch and put it to good use here.
 I used packaging on this layout. The cardboard is the box the kit came in, painted in a white acrylic then masked with the brick wall mask that came in the color add on. I inked the edges in the Donna Salazar brown mixed media ink. The flower in the bottom corner was created with an old Donna Salazar newpaper I had on hand. I created the envelope from a prima package and the red tag from the Teresa Collins package.

 Stay tuned. You haven't seen the last of this kit yet!!!

Hugs,