SPARKLE & JOY WITH OUR GUEST DESIGNER NADIA

 

Hi there, friends!

 

It’s Nadia and I am back today to share a page in my December album with you, using the Sparkle & Joy kit. We love listening to Christmas music and this story is all about it. Our favorite singer is Elvis Presley. I hope we will find a lot of time this year to listen to his music.

 

For this page I used some washi tape for the borders (it hides the glue which you could see otherwise). I love the chipboard flair of the kit and you can find one circle element with a sentiment on this page. In the left bottom corner the puffy sticker “falala” fits in perfectly.

 On the right side I used a 3x4” journaling card from the kit. As the image (a Christmas tree) and the sentiment (around our tree) do not correspond to the story I want to tell, I glued a foam rubber star on the tree image. On top I put the letter “E” for Elvis from the puffy alpha sticker set.

 

On the bottom I decided to go with a red sentiment sticker. I printed my journaling on white paper, fussy cut it by hand and afterwards I glued it down. You can see that you can make the material fit your needs if you want.

 

The other two pockets are clean & simple. I made a photo of the CDs we have and then printed it. The second 3x4” pocket holds a vellum snowflake paper with a cork embellishment on it.

 

My second project is a simple, but effective page. I used paper from the kit. The red lined one is so pretty. After cutting the 6x8” page in half, I had a triangle. For the other side I took a gold dotted transparency paper and did the same. Those two pieces were stitched to a white card stock base.

 

In the middle of the gold dotted transparency paper I put a decorative element. For that, I cut out a circle from another patterned paper and glued the circled sentiment “cheer” on it. You can find it in the ephermera pack. Finally, a tiny word sticker and you have a cool page in the books.

 

The back of it was done equal, but I used the sticker “home sweet home”. I can’t wait to tell my story in December.

 

I hope you are having fun creating with your Sparkle & Joy Kit!!

 

Happy crafting!

Nadia

 

Sparkle and Joy Inspiration with our Guest Designer Vania Fonseca

Hi there!

Today we are excited to welcome Vania Fonseca to the CTK blog.  She will be sharing a few ideas for your December Documenting using our Sparkle and Joy Kit.... I let Vania take it from here...

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Hello crafty friends!

Vânia here, I´m sharing some inspiration with the Sparkle & Joy kit on my December Daily album.

DD it's a big project and can be a little overwhelming, this year, i will be preparing as much as  I can in advance and I´ll be making the foundation pages.

I decided to use a white background with a couple of greenery elements from the Icons cut file, that I cut in white just to add texture to the page.

For the tittle on the left side i stamped the word Story from the True Life stamp set in red. I really love the contrast between the red and the light blue from the die cut ephemera with the gold from the puffy stickers.

On the right I made a banner mixing different elements, I punched a hole on some of the die cut images so I could pass the twine along and also cut the star tag from the cut file that I had mentioned above, I also have used the puffy stickers to add the day number.

I´ve used the number “5” from the Countdown cut file to indicate the day, and I´ve made a little flip up where you can add a 3x4 photo and add the journaling on the bottom.

Just a little reminder, when you are working on foundation pages non permanent adhesive is your best friend, that way if you decide to change anything later, you can do it without any problem.

Here i made a pocket with tags to store another tag where can be added a 2x2 photo. It can also be added another photo or journaling on the back of the tag.

And that's all for today, thank you for passing by, I really hope you find some inspiration here and have fun creating with this amazing kit!

Happy crafting!

Vânia 

Be sure to stop by Vania's IG feed to check her amazing work: https://www.instagram.com/vaniamfonseca/   She will be back later this month with more inspiration for your December Documenting!

XO