Handmade Flowers | Marion Smith Design Team Farewell

Today for our very last post together we wanted to showcase the Bloom Impression Tool and Dies to create these gorgeous handmade flowers. From altered projects, to layouts, and cards...if you've struggled to make handmade flowers as I have then you will love the Bloom Impressions tool. 

Peggy Baker

Angee Carter

Colette Nederhoff

Tonya Gibbs

Thank you all for your sweet comments and Facebook messages. 

We appreciate your friendship and support. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Hope your having a great week. 

Angee Carter

Mini Albums | Marion Smith Design Team Farewell

It's been a wonderful year with the very 1st Marion Smith Design Team.

We have formed a sisterhood like no other. These ladies have demonstrated their exceptional talents for an entire year and we are so proud and honored to have these ladies showcase the Marion Smith Brand! They have left big shoes to fill for the incoming group of designers. They will always be remembered as the first. 

Today we are sharing one of Marion Favorite projects: Mini-Albums! 

Click on the DT Members names to view details of the projects. 

Tonya Gibbs

Peggy Baker

Colette Nederhoff

Aneta Matuszewska

Thank you for stopping by. We will be back tomorrow with more.
Also our new design team will be announced this week. 

Angee Carter

Marion Smith Designs + Petaloo Blog Hop :: Day 5

Welcome to the last day of   the Marion Smith Designs + Petaloo Blog Hop. 

We want to give a big THANK YOU to everyone who visited, commented, and shared our projects. We also want to give a big THANK YOU to Petaloo for teaming up with us to make this blog hop so much fun. 

Today we have a recap of the week for you in case anyone is just joining in. 

Day 1 :: Maggie Armstrong & Sarah Bargo

Day 2 :: Tonya Gibbs & Angee Carter

Day 3 :: Peggy Baker & Aneta Matsuzewska

Day 4 :: Colette Nederhoff & Peggy Baker

Day 5 :: Tonya Gibbs & Colette Nederhoff

Visit Our Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and don't forget to subscribe!

Angela Carter

 http://www.alwaysangella.blogspot.com/

Maggie Armstrong

maggiesdoodads.blogspot.com

Sarah Bargo

www.sarahbargodesigns.blogspot.com

Ana Paula Leal

http://anapaulalealdarocha.blogspot.com.br/

Colette Nederhoff

http://nederhoffco.blogspot.com

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

Peggy Baker

 http://www.pegbaker.blogspot.com

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!

Embellishment Tutorial Part 2 by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is off to a great start. A few weeks ago I shared with you a project on making wooden ticket embellishments that coordinate with your paper collections.  Today I want to share with you another idea for embellishing your projects.

 



 

 

Remember playing with Shrink plastic when you were kid?  I think I made charms in Vacation Bible School for 5 straight years (LOL).  Well here is a grown up project you can make using Marion's super awesome Curious Stamp Set.

I started with Poly Shrink Plastic by the Lucky Squirrel. You can use any brand just make sure it is clear if you want your roses to appear like glass. 

 

 

I used the rose & butterfly stamps from the from the Curios set. Stamp them using a permanent ink like Staz-on, or Archival Jet Black Ink from Ranger.

 

 

 

On the OPPOSITE side that you stamped, color the image with a permanent marker. Don't color on the side that you stamped or it will ruin your marker nib.  I used my Copic markers, but no need to worry about shading. The color becomes concentrated when they shrink, so the shading disappears.

 

 

Cut out your Shape.  Remove all negative space, but make sure you keep a thick border in the delicate stem area.   Here is what my Rose looks like when I cut it out. Notice that I colored outside the lines and made my stems a bit thicker.

 

 

Now grab a pair of tweezers, a heat source and start shrinking.  (The plastic will curl as it shrinks, but no worries, keep shrinking it will straighten out). 

 

 

The image shrinks to a 1/3 of the original size.  Once the image is cool enough to touch, I molded the leaves to give them some interest.

 

  

 

Use Glossy Accents or E6000 to adhere the charms to your projects. 

 

 

To show you how beautiful they are on a project,  I created this layout of my amazing parents using Marion's Garment District collection.  I love how tiny the butterflies turned out, and think the roses appear like glass and offer a nice touch of elegance to the layout.  

 

 

 

Here are the supplies from Marion's Garment District that were used to create this layout.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

Stocking Gift Card Holder by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, just a few more days until Christmas, and time for me to start my wrapping.   Today, I  wanted to share with you a little gift card holder I made using Marion Smith's Nirvana and Mad Tea Party collection.

 

 

For the stocking I used the Bliss page from the Nirvana Collection.

 

 

Then I used the Tim Holtz Poinsettia die and cut the b-side of the Alice Paper to make the flower.  I have a tutorial on my YouTube channel that shows how to make the flower.

 

 

 

 

 I used the Typograph stamp to personalize the gift tag.  

 

 

 

The flower actually holds the flap down when the stocking is closed.

 

 

I love how elegant this gift card holder looks.  I think it would also be super cute for a baby shower.   The stocking shape is a cut file in the Silhouette store by Lori Whitlock. 

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today.  I hope you guys have a super awesome Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

Curiosities Layout by Tonya Gibbs

When I first saw Nirvana I knew it was going to be one of my all time favorite collections.  I love the neutral design. This collection is on its way to becoming a CLASSIC in my scrappy world!   Today I'm going to share with you a Christmas layout with some of the scraps from my previous projects.

 

My photo was taken with my phone and ran through an Instagram filter.  Yes, I had just gotten the ap and did this with every photo (haaaaaa).  While the quality of the photo isn't perfect, it is trendy and fun with the high pass faded colors and lens blurs.  I loved how I captured that one moment of curiosity in her face - pure bliss and so precious.  This photo had to be scrapped!

 

 

To mimic the softness in the photo, I decided to watercolor my background.  I used Gelatos from Faber Castle Design Memory Craft on white watercolor paper.  For texture I made a ruffle out of crape paper streamers.  The ruffle reminds me of  a tree skirt.  

 

 

    

 

 

For the Christmas tree. I decided to keep the tree simple, and free of ornaments. It was already so full that I didn't want it to compete anymore with my small photo.  The Gold Color Shine gave the sparkle but kept the simplicity.

 

 

To create the tree, I punched scraps of the following  Nirvana designs with the Martha Stewart Medium Branch Punch. 

 

 

 

Most of the tree was punched from the B side of this paper. I love the look of the ledgers when punched.    The Curiosities title on the A side was perfect for my layout title.

 

Both sides of this paper were perfect. 

 

I used the A side of this paper.

 

 

 

 

I started at the top, then formed a triangle overlapping the branches for a dense look. Apply glue only to the base of  the leaf, so that the tips can be elevated.  I made sure all my branches where pointed upward except the ones on the sides, they were tilted to a slight angle.   To give a spruce look, I focused on the brown tones towards the bottom, and the bluish green punched pieces on the top layers.   This variation in color gives depth to your tree.  The text and patterns on the paper give interest. 

 

 

For the stack of presents under the tree I used the Tim Holtz Collection Sizzix Bigz Die - Packages & Bows with scraps of these papers from Marion's Nirvana and Mad Tea Party Lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think this layout is going down as one of my all time favorites.  I love the softness, and sheer elegance of the design.   I know I hit a home run when my teenage boy walked in and said "hey that tree is cool!"  

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today.

 

Tonya A. Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com