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Flower Soft Scrapbook Wedding

WOW! I finally scrapbooked! I love scrapbooking and I especially need to finish my wedding book. So when I saw the Kit from Flower-Soft it was a perfect match! Check this out:

Here is the Kit:

For $11, you get 12 sheets of 12 x 12 paper. That's 3 of each design. Plus you get 2 sheets of toppers in the shapes of ovals, rectangles and hearts. It's just stunning and the quality was awesome!

To complete my page I used just one color of Flower-Soft, Sweet Pea. How easy is that? A little glue, sprinkle it on, add your pictures, a few embellishments and you're done. Can you imagine a whole album done like this?

Okay, I know just show the page.......

Here is my page:                                                

This was such an amazing day! We were married under a cabana on the beach in Florida. We had a wedding party of 6 and that included us. It was so perfect and I love my DH more today than I did that day! I know pretty sappy huh? But it's the truth, he's an amazing guy!

So after the ceremony we went out onto the beach for some pictures.

Now if only I could be that small again, ahhhhhh.

I want you to see how textural and what great soft dimension this page has, so I took a close-up of the hearts.

And here is a close-up of the amazing texture and dimension:

 I used rub-ons inside the hearts, on the bottom of my photo and in the journalling block. I also used a topper from the Edwardian Elegance set to mat my dancing photo on. It's a perfect match! A metal photo corner on the corner of my journal block and a larger one in the corner of the page finished it off.

 

And in case you are wondering........... Once the Flower-Soft is on there is no flaking off. I just made sure that once the glue was dry to give it a rub & a shake. It's been in a page protector now for over a week and nothing has fallen off, not even when I removed the page to take a photo. So how cool is that?

I really am pretty happy with this page and it felt so good to scrapbook again! Looks like you may be seeing more pages in the near future.

And here is Flower-Soft's page, I just realized that we used the same design of paper, too funny:

Like I said all you have to do is decide where you would like the Flower-Soft placed, add a dab of glue, sprinkle it on. Tap off the excess and keep going.

Aren't these pages just so elegant?

And I am just so excited to have finished another wedding page. Of course I have to make a matching page since I typically only work in 2 page layouts.

I currently have 4 kits in stock if you're interested just e-mail me.

 

Hope you enjoyed the scrapbook page. Tomorrow I have an altered project for you so stay tuned.

 

Bling On!

Cheryl

Flower Soft In-Stock

Have you seen some of the new products from Flower Soft? Beautiful, simply Beautiful. And the best part of it all is that I have it in stock and ready to ship to your front door. To see of of their products just go to Flower Soft. But let me highlight some of the new Christmas things:

Well I could just post pictures forever, but go take a look yourself. And if you have any questions just let me know. Also be sure to check their Stockists (their way of saying local retailers) to see if anyone in your area is now carrying it.

And if no one in your area is carrying it then drop me a line and we'll get you some to play with. Back soon with some awesome cards.

 

TA-TA

Cheryl

Flower Soft Video Demo - YEAH!!

Okay, I finally got this figured out and along the way have learned a ton of things. One thing I learned is that sometimes teenagers are smarter than their parents and if they can't fix it they know another teenager that can - UGH! But I will NEVER admit that to my teenage daughter.

 In order to get these videos to upload I had to send it to a video production company with a teenager! Oh the embarassment..........  

I did this in two videos to make it easier to watch. So have fun, leave comments, ask lots of question. In two more days I'll have another one showing even more options for Flower Soft.

 

And for part II - Enjoy!

 

 

Edited to add:

It has been brought to my attention that the finished projects did not show well on my video. So I'm posting some here:

Finished Wedding bears                                                    Finished Heart

 

And here are the links to my other finished Flower-Soft cards using the technique shown in the video.

Forks in the road                Wedding bears            Flower Soft

 

Be watching for more videos showing you other ways to use this great product.

It's a Party!

The balloons are up, the music is playing and there's a party going on!   

But isn't there's always one thing that someone misplaces at or for the party? In this case I misplaced my brain. The young lady that's is designing my awesome new blog banner was at CHA all week (lucky her) so it's not quite ready. Just a few more days and it'll go up, you'll notice it immediately and it will be another reason for more celebration.

Remembering I'm celebrating Typepad for asking to feature my blog on their site!   

So in honor of that I've got the most awesome candy for you! Take a look:

4 pots of Flower Soft

The Flower Soft wires, glue and a set of their Lilac toppers.

A package of 6 metallic purple cards from Kaiser.

1 Spica Pink pen and 2 Ancient page dye ink colors.

All of this is yours, just leave me a comment on this posting and tell me what other kind of video techniques you might like to see. You have until Thursday at midnight to tell me what you would like to see. Then Friday morning I will randomly pick a comment using the random integer generator.

So I leave you with a quick card

More flower soft on a Flower-Soft card topper. Saying from Silver Fox Stamps. Plus I added some Twinklette markers around the edges, a few Kaiser pearls and placed it on a green metallic card, also from Kaiser.

I thought the saying was so perfect for the occasion. When I started this blog, I never dreamed I meet so many awesome people and have so much fun. So I'm hoping for a lot more forks in my roads. You truly all have made my life so much richer!

I hope you enjoy many forks in your roads also!

Don't forget to leave your comment, you have until this Thursday July 24th at midnight.

Flower Soft Wedding Bears

So tomorrow is the wedding shower I was telling you about. In addition to the frame I made for them I also etched some wine glasses and made this card

Such a cute little stamp, isn't it? There are several things about this card that I like. IRL all of the hearts and background flowers sparkle, I colored them with my Spica Markers. The flowers, boutonniere, headband and the bouquet all are adorned with flower soft. Some yellow, baby pink, and sweet pea. The background and the bears are colored with my copic markers.

Her wedding dress is actually colored with R000, Cherry vanilla. It helped add dimension to the dress and still left it pretty white looking. I added a few pearls for buttons and popped them on the front of the card.

Supplies used:

• CutCardstock paper in Rose Quartz & Azalea
• Copic markers & Spica Markers in above colors
• Swiss Dots embossing folder
• Kaiser Pearls
• Wedding bears stamp by Anita for Sugarloaf
• Congratulations stamp by Fiskars
• Inks: Adirondack raisin, & pitch black. Also Brilliance Graphite Black
• Pink organza ribbon by Offray
• Flower-Soft

Here is what the wine glasses looked like close-up

I etched these using Armour Etch & using the Floral rub'n'etch stencil. So simple to do. I will have more of those projects coming up as I am making some fail proof Christmas Ornaments.

I have one more thing to add to the glasses, frame & wine and that is a water globe. I'll share that tomorrow. But here is basically how it will all look for the shower

The wine bottle is wearing a beaded dress. I have made these before but this one is store bought. Whew, time was running short. So I hope they enjoy it and just in case they don't I'm tucking a small gift card  in here also.

Have a great day!