Bling

I have another order for bling, poor girl has waited over a month.  The order isn't complete yet, but she wanted soft pearl yellow, light tan, and burgundy....hmmmmmm....now what exactly is she looking for?  So, I'm posting the colors I've got to let her decide so I can hopefully finish her order before another month goes by.

Burgundy

Cranberry

Shiny Country Red

Pearl Champagne

Yellow Pearl

Thanks for looking,
Stephanie

Jen's Flower & Bling Order

So, as promised (well...it was more than a few days), here is the flower & bling order I've been working on for a friend of mine. 

Purple & Pink - 3"

 Purple & Pink - 2"

 Purple & Pink - 1" Mini Roses

 Brown, White, & pop of Turquoise - 3"

 Brown, White, with a pop of turquoise - 2"

 Brown, White, with a pop of turquoise - 1" mini roses

 Navy Blue, Silver, and Deep Wine Red - 3"

 Navy Blue, Silver, & Deep Wine Red - 2"

 Navy Blue, Silver, & Deep Wine Red - 1" Mini roses

 Bling - Black & White, Shiny Brown, Turquoise

 Bling - Silver, Shiny navy blue, Pearl White



Thanks to all of you who have been praying for my situation.  I am doing better personally, but the situation isn't any better yet.  I ask that you please continue to pray! 

Thanks to all of you!! 

As I said, if you want a specific tutorial for a flower, please let me know.  If you'd like to place an order, feel free to email me.  I will also try to get some new stuff listed in my Etsy Shop soon.

Stephanie

Winter Fun and an altered frame

Good afternoon peoples!  In my JAFF group at scrapbook.com...we've been having weekly and semi-weekly online crops...it is sooo much fun!!!  Monday night we held one and a friend picked the layout Amore by Kaye222 for me to lift.  It was a bit of stretch for me...as I like to really fill up my layouts with stuff!  LOL  Anyway...I switched it from a girly/love theme to a snowflake theme.  The paper is Bo Bunny midnight frost.  In place of her heart doilies, I put some snowflakes that I cut with my silhouette and sprayed with marshmallow glimmer mist.

I made my own flowers using different techniques.  The tree, pine cones, lantern, and little snowflakes are Tattered Angels glimmer chips.  The blue discs are from Walmart, after Christmas clearance.  The big blue and white snowflake on the bottom of the pic is from the Bo Bunny Midnight Frost stickers. 

I love this pic of DD, I took it on Christmas Eve when we had the big snow.

 On the bottom big one, I put white liquid applique on the tips and heated it when it dried to make it puff up like snow...I love the final result! I added some white feathers underneath my cluster. Cut the flourishes (that you can now barely see) with my sizzix bigkick, then glittered with frosted lace glimmer mist.

 I made this flower use scallop circle punches for the base, then added some white puffy paint to the tips.  I like the liquid applique better, but I had already made this one.  The hearts were a part of the flourishes I cut, and I also stickled them with frosted lace.

Here is a frame I altered for DD.  It started out brown and I got it for a $1 at Fred's....kind of like Dollar General if you've never heard of it.  I made all the flowers myself.  The frame was painted with white paint dauber from Tim Holtz, then I lightly brushed turquoise blue glitter paint on that and topped it off with some pearl paint.  The white springy things I painted with white paint (was the green floral tape), then while it was wet, I dipped it in glitter.  I learned this technique from Jennaroo at Held Scraptive, but she does it using real branches.  I added some chipboard flourishes I had inked with distress ink and sprayed with Turquoise perfect pearls mist.  The green hearts were painted with Claudine Hellmuth landscape green studio paints.  The lace started out white and I dyed it with pink glimmer mist.

Well, finally some new projects from me!  Thanks for taking a look and have a great Saturday and the rest of the weekend!

Oh...almost forgot...2 more of my layouts are getting published in Scrapbook News and Review February issue!  Pretty exciting for me!

More flowers for an order from a wonderful friend.

I just wanted to show off the flowers I made for a friend. 

She wanted some red and green roses 1" and 2" for her Christmas layouts.

 Some blue roses, 1" and 2", for the winter/Christmas layouts.

 These were fun...some flowers for her Red Hat club...she gets to do all the layouts!  How exciting!

 Then, she added to her order for some St. Patrick's Day roses, 2".

I hope she loves all her flowers!

Thanks for taking a peek!
Stephanie

Senior Pic Layout (BOM)

Good morning and Happy Tuesday!  Today, I wanted to share a layout I finally finished.  The picture is of me and my twin's senior pic when we were 17 years old.  I did this layout for the JAFF Jr. online crop we held Saturday night over at scrapbook.com.  It was our 2nd online crop, and they really are a lot of fun!

I was given the layout Children of a bygone era by Oziem to lift.  I loved using this layout for a lift, because it was gorgeous with the flowers and elements!

All of the flowers I made myself.  I used the whale of a punch and medium retro punches, Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die, Spellbinders Blossoms 2 and matching Heartfelt Creations Innoscents Flowers 2 stamp set, and Heartfelt Creations Daisy Patch die.  In the bottom left-hand corner, I used platinum stickles on the flower leaves, just applied with a paint brush so it wouldn't be too thick.

The paper is Bo Bunny Mama-razzi.  I handcut the fancy bracket shape, then stamped and embossed with black zing powder the flourishes on the shape.  Did a bit of wet distressing on the corners of the background paper.

The buds I made myself.  I used floral tape covered wired and took a small (1/2") 5 petal flower and wrapped it around the wire.  I sprayed the buds & vines with Tattered Leather glimmer mist, then attached punched small birch leaves to the stems.

The bigger leaves were cut on my sil and some cut using Heartfelt Creations Elegant Singles Leaves stamps & the matching Perfect Petals Die.  I inked with forest moss distress ink, and misted with olive vine glimmer mist and Forever Green Perfect Pearls mist.  The leaves that were cut on my sil, I embossed lines down the center and to the edges, then inked with forest moss distress ink.

The wagon wheel was cut with my sil and inked with Walnut Stain distress ink on the bottom layer and Timber Brown Staz On ink on the top one, seperated the two layers with pop dots and weaved some cord around the wheel.

The journaling/title was cut using Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 4.

Valentines Flowers

Just wanted to share my latest flowers that I made with thoughts of Valentines Day in my head!  OK...I really made them because a friend wanted to order some, so I'm putting them here for her to choose which ones she wants.  The rest, I'll list in Etsy.

These are about 3" across.  The last one is my newest design and I love the way it turned out!  Pretty easy to make too!

 These are also about 3" across, the farthest one about 2.75"

 These are between 2.5" and 2.75" across. 

Both of these are about 3" across.

 About 2" across

 About 2" across

About 2" across

 My mini roses, which I absolutely love.  About .75" across.

Some have stickles on them and others have diamond dust.  On one, I put drops of hot glue to make it look like dew drops.  I think they all turned out really good though! 

Thanks for looking and hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!

All About Me layout & Prince Charming layout

I've decided to take a chance and apply for the staffer position at Scrapbook News and Review.  One of the requirements for applying was to create a new layout all about me.  This is what I came up with.  The title is (of course) the name of my blog.  I used paper from Black Market Paper Society Lucky 'n Love collection.  I love this paper, the designs and colors are gorgeous, but I also love the neat texture of it!  The layout started off as a lift from Robin Shakoor's 'look' layout.  My friends at Jaff Jr. (at Scrapbook.com) and I decided to have a small cyber crop Saturday night and we picked layouts for eachother to lift.  It was great fun to have a cyber crop (my first one), and we are planning to have them on a more regular basis now.

The journaling was done in Adobe PSE9, printed and then cut with Spellbinders labels 4 die.  I have to thank Jaime and Jill, friends of mine from sb.com for helping me to word everything and pretty much do the journaling!  They both said such wonderful and positive things about me!  I am truly blessed to have such great friends!  The journaling reads:

I’m Stephanie, AKA

Stet-z. I’m married to a fantastic
guy, and we have 3 great children. By
day, I’m an office manager, maid, chauffer
and cook, but by night, I’m a flower & bling
making maniac! My creative passion is
shown in my scrapbooking, altered art, home
decor, and cards. I love the creative process
of making my own embellishments & figuring
out different ways to manipulate paper into
art. My blog is my outlet and a way to share
my discoveries with others,which has also led
me to open an Etsy store. I don’t believe in a
“right” way to be creative or being limited to
a certain “look”. The creativity in my pages
has also inspired in me a creative passion for
photography.I am really sweet, honest,
and thoughtful. I am a Christian,
and I want to be all that I
can be.

The flowers and bling were all handmade by me.  You can follow my tutorials (links in the right sidebar) to create flowers just like these!!  The leaves are Heartfelt Creations leafy swirls stamps that I stamped with forest moss distress ink, fussy cut out, then sprayed with olive vine and red velvet glimmer mist.  I shaped and dried them, then attached.  Those beautiful black and teal butterflies are from Kay's Kreative Korner Etsy shop.  You really have to check out her shop, she has gorgeous items!!! 

This layout was just one I finished up last week.  I wanted to do something different than I normally do.  I sprayed sapphire glimmer mist on the white paper.  I stamped some borders on each side of the picture matting and stamped some stars and swirls, but ended up covering those up mostly, b/c I didn't care for how they looked.  I used some rub-ons from Fancy Pants Papa collection.  I used some paper and chipboard stickers from Bo Bunny Block Party collection.  Added some random buttons and called it finished!  Oh...the title is a sticker.  It was a pretty easy layout, and I really liked doing something a bit different!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and taking a look!!!  Wish me luck with the staffer position!

Stephanie