Monday, June 30, 2014

Damask Divas Skylark Blog Hop

Welcome to Damask Divas Skylark Blog Hop!

My name is Traci Williams and I am an Independent Consultant with Close to my Heart and this is your first blog for the Skylart Blog Hop.  If you are just arriving here, please be sure to visit Damask Divas by clicking --> HERE or select Brenda Zimmerman "Keepable Paper Creations" at the bottom of my page to go through the hop.

My Skylark Blog Hop has several projects!  This paper pack is AMAZING!  Once you start working with it, you will find yourself in the same predicament; not being able to stop, that I promise!

So, in honor of my Grandmothers birthday on the 5th, I wanted to make a card and gift set...she has many pictures just sitting in shoe boxes, Oh MY!  Yes, shoe boxes...so, I decided to make her an 8 x 8 mini album to be part of her gift set!

Using Close to my Heart's Cricut Collections, I was able to cut every part of these projects.















To start, I used the square "S" Swing Card cut from Artiste.  I then sized labels to work for sentiment.The card is just so easy to work with, using the B&T papers gives the swing cards a nice variation to a traditional card.  Added bonus on swing cards, you see both side of paper!!


For the 8 x 8 mini album, I cut out 8" square cereal box cardboard and cut B&T papers to fit.  I also did Mixed Media techniques to some of the pages.  It was so fun to create this!  Then I used my "The Cinch" to make it a spiral bound album.







For my final project to complete her birthday gift kit is of course FLOWERS!!  Love the spiral flower cuts from Art Philosophy!!  I used the pointed rose petal and sized 4" and 3.5".  Then used leaves and foliage to compliment.  The funnest part, was getting it all placed in the Pillow Box!




Thank you for viewing my projects using Close to my Heart's Skylark paper pack.  Next to see is Brenda Zimmerman's Keepable Paper Creations Blog!  If you are here and want to see all the Blog's, click -->HERE to visit DamaskDivas.com.

Thank you,

Traci Williams, Independent Consultant
Close to my Heart