Saturday, August 9, 2008

Having Fun with Scenery!

Hi! Happy Saturday! I hope you have something fun planned for your weekend! Chris and I saw Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams last night -- what a fantastic concert! Today is definitely going to be a "catch up" day around here -- the laundry is piling up!

I have been eager to share these projects with you. I used the new C.C. Designs Sugarplums Scenery Set. The set contains images which help you make great scenes with your stamps! On this first card I started with some images from Olivia's Birdies. I then used the Scenery Set to add cherry blossoms to the branch and a cloud in the sky. They are cut out and popped up. I cut out the image panel and mat with my Rectangle Nestabilities, and the patterned paper is BasicGrey Romani.


I really like the way this next project turned out! I have always admired Sharon Harnist's calendar pages. I thought I'd make an August calendar with the Scenery Set. The calendar page was printed using a Word template. "August" comes from the C.C. Designs Calendar Months set. I covered a chipboard coaster with BasicGrey Sultry paper and placed the calendar on top. On the bottom I stamped grass. I stamped flowers for the bottom and the clouds for the top, colored them, and cut them out. They are mounted on rolled up glue dots for dimension. I created a "sandwich" with another coaster -- I punched holes in the tops of both coasters and attached them together with dotted organdy ribbon.

I used a flower from the set to stamp around August 11 -- RELEASE DAY!! I hope you'll join us Monday night at the ATS Message Board for a little release party from 8-10 pm EST. Then all the new stamps will be available at 10:00 pm!!

Head over to the ATS Blog to see more Design Team projects and to enter to win one of the new sets!!! Thanks for the visit today -- Have a wonderful day, everyone! :)

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW!! These are FANTASTIC! I love the idea of adding the flowers to the tree, I hadn't thought of that! :) Great job!

Anonymous said...

WOW!! These are FANTASTIC! I love the idea of adding the flowers to the tree, I hadn't thought of that! :) Great job!

Dawn Easton said...

LOVE how you tilted that image! The flowers on the tree branch are so adorable!

Love the idea of a calendar!!

carole (TruCarMa) said...

How sweet is this?!? I love it, Christina!!!

Anonymous said...

I love the little calendar page! all the little extras make it so fun and colorful. and what a great way to be creative with that scenery!!

Andrea said...

Oh wow, great card.
xAndrea

Sew Club said...

I LOVE everything!!! Awesome, you Enabler, you! :)

Lauren (mytime) said...

Oh all your peeks are totally fabulous Christina!! Love each adn everyone. I also love all the 3D effects! That always gets me!

Jennifer Love said...

Oh Christina, these are so CUTE! What great colors you chose for them, too. Just fantastic work!

Carolyn King said...

Adorable ---that calendar page came out great!

Bet that concert was AWESOME!

Anonymous said...

Super sweet!! Love the card and love the calendar too!