Spellbinders + Esther Glas Release!

 Hi there friends!

Can you believe August starts tomorrow! Eek! The year keeps flying by. Christmas in July didn't even convince me that Christmas was getting so close. I know, I know, I didn't share a holiday card every day in July. My life gets busy unexpectedly quite often. My garden also sometimes calls for my attention. It's all part of life. 

Today is the Spellbinders release with Esther Glas! I was selected to work with this release for them and I will be making projects all month long to highlight these fun sets. 

If you're into journaling, junk journals, scrapbooks, inking, vintage, distressing -- then this release is totally geared towards you! While I admire so much what people do in those genres, I hope to share different styles and uses. 

A big project that I am working on is a birthday card catalog. I make a card for it that highlights a specific person and things that make me think of them or something I know that they like. When I make a birthday card that is perfect for that person it gets stored behind their name card in the card catalog box that I will set up. 

For this card for Bonnie -- 

I used an embossed index card that includes her name and the day of the month her birthday lands on. I picked some violets as she likes gardening and flowers with some summer color inspiration.

 I think that's a pretty good start to a fun project that will get so much use for years to come!

 

~Paula

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Greeting Card made from Junk Journal kit

 Hi Friends!

I made this sparkly card using a digital kit by Fifi the Papercrafter. It is part of a collaboration that she is in with the Junk Journal Junkies. While I am on Fifi's design team and she specializes in mixed media and junk journals, I do not make junk journals. I also do not make scrapbooks. I do love the artistry and elements that go into them. I just know that shortly after I would make them, I would toss them. I just don't save all the things. I think this is why I love to make greeting cards. I'm not meant to keep them. For Fifi's design team, I take her digital kits and make greeting cards with them. Some of the time, I make them more in a junk journal style and sometimes it's just in whatever style comes out of me. I like to show others ways they can use the same digital designs in other ways. It also expands my style, skills, and creativity to do so. 

The background and the butterfly are from Fifi's kit. I hand cut the butterfly so I could have it pop up on the card. I sewing the perimeter of the card in white. I added silver glitter paste to the background and edges of the butterfly's wings to make it sparkle. The sentiment is added with a vellum shadow. 

This card can be purchased here: Paula's Studio Shop

~Paula

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Papers are just from my collection. I always grab from my scraps first and I don’t keep track of where they came from.