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Quote Blog Hop!

Friday, July 26, 2013



Welcome to the Frosted Designs Quote Blog Hop - the last of our three hops!
We are so glad you could join us!!!


There are 7 wonderful and incredibly talented hosts that will inspire you, along with 2 awesome sponsors!!!!

Complete a Quote project and link it up to the inlinkz on this post!  Your project must contain all or part of this quote:
  
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  Author:  Laura Ingalls Wilder
 Our first sponsor is Artful Delight.

Artful Delight is a monthly scrapbooking and card kit club designed to bring you the latest and greatest scrapbook products.  Our kits are jammed packed with fabulous pattern paper, coordinating cardstock, chipboard shapes, ribbon, buttons, stickers, and so much more from manufacturers like Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants, Crate Paper, American Crafts, Basic Grey, Tim Holtz, and Graphic 45, just to name a few. We try to keep scrappers and card makers in mind when creating our kits.  Allowing our kits to have to most versatility.  Our scrapbook kits will allow you to create at least 4-5 layouts.

Artful Delight monthly kits are offered at an amazing single monthly price , and  at 3 and 6 month subscriptions, our 6 month subscription will give you the best value. We offer shipping to the US, Canada and Internationally.  (For Canadian and International orders please email leeanne@artfuldelight.com)
 
One lucky winner will receive their choice of Artful Delight's August Scrapbook kit or card kit.

Our second sponsor is Words or Whatever.


 Words or Whatever was created as a subsidiary company to NEIL'S TIMBER SIGNS after purchasing a laser engraving machine.  Words or Whatever is run by Suzanne and Neil Webster on the lovely Central Coast of NSW.

We can cut chipboard in both 1.2mm and 1.8mm, MDF from 3mm to 25mm thick, acrylic, felt and cardstock.  We specialise in custom orders that have no minimum quantities.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with your requests.  We can also provide custom made items exclusive to individual stores at no extra charge.  Do you want something in particular?  Well just ask us!!  This means you can offer this service to your customers so they can order their children's names or individual titles for their pages.

One lucky winner will receive their choice of 15 pieces of chipboard.

So without further ado, here are the details of the blog hop!!!!

1. You need to hop to every blog on the list.
2. Leave a comment here telling us that you completed the hop.
3. Complete a Quote project and link it up to the inlinkz on this post!  Your project must contain all or part of this quote:
 "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  Author:  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
Some of our Designers are also giving away prizes on their blogs so you have lots of opportunities to win!! 

The hop begins at 12:01 am, Central Standard Time on July 26, 2013 and will end at 11:59 pm, Central Standard Time on July 31, 2013.  The winners will be announced on August 1st on the Frosted Designs blog.  

In order to be eligible for the prizes above, you must hop to each of the blogs, come back here and leave a comment telling us you have done this and also submit a project! Good luck!

Your next stop on the hop is Debbie  

 If you get lost on the way here is the order of the blog hop:
Debbie  
Sandee  
Katie  
Joni  
Tamra  
Lydia  
Anita 
Artful Delight  
Words of Whatever Facebook Page(please like) 
Frosted Designs 



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Tips & Tricks Thursday!

Thursday, July 25, 2013
Hello Lydia here. Today I thought it would be fun to show you a great way to use up some of your pesky little scraps and get some cute little embellishments to use in the process. What embellishments I hear you ask........pin-wheels!

 All you need is a square of doubled-sided paper, it doesn't matter the size just that it is a square and I find that going smaller than 1 and 1/2 inches is a bit tricky.


Firstly I mark a little line on the diagonal in the middle of the square. 

 I do this so when I line up the other diagonal I can leave a gap in the middle uncut.


(You need to leave this gap for somewhere to put the glue or a brad.)



Once you have cut one diagonal you need to cut the other still leaving a gap of uncut card in the middle.

After you have made these cuts you are ready to glue. Add glue into the un-cut space in the middle of the card, then bring on corner onto the glued centre.


Do this to the four cut sections using the same corner side on eah of the sections.



And voila!!!! Now all that needs to be added is a gem or brad to the centre and it then can be added to your project.


Hope you have a go at this they are super easy and so cute!!!!

 Love Lydia xxx

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Tutorial Tuesday With Channa!

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Hello all, 

I like to make tutorials with materials that we already have in our home.
So for today i will show you how to make different background textures with items that you can find in your stash or kitchen.

For today's tutorial you need:

Sugar, Sand or Sea salt.
Gesso or modelling paste
Spray ink or paint 
A mask
paper 
A pencil.

I will show my sample with sand!


1. Take some sand, gesso and spray paint on a plate.
As you can see my sand is pink, i had it at home as i used it for some decoration. 


2. Mix them all together and this is what you get. 


3. Take your mask and add the "mix". 


4. Take of the mask and let it dry for 20 min, or you can use your heat tool to speed it up. 
If you let it dry naturally the paper does not roll up. 


5. And voilla here is a "real wall"! the sand gives a very nice effect .

Sample with sugar
It's very fine and if you use a spray to paint it will dissolve a little bit. 


Sample with sand
I personally like this one the best it gives such a nice look especially 
when using this brick stencil as it makes it look like a real wall. 


Sample with sea salt
As you can see the texture is really rough.


And this is what i my ending result: 
I used it for a background of a card. 




I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and try it at home!
Thank you for stopping by, 
Channa

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Monday Inspiration - The Great Outdoors!

Monday, July 22, 2013








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Sunday Inspiration - The Great Outdoors!

Sunday, July 21, 2013





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Saturday Inspiration - The Great Outdoors!

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Brenshevia

Jeaunes Viljoen







Katie



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Friday Inspiration - The Great Outdoors!

Friday, July 19, 2013



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Fabulous Friday Challenge - The Great Outdoors!

We are already half way through summer here in the States and we thought we would use this wonderful summer weather to inspire us to do a project about the Great Outdoors! We would like to see a card, layout or off the page project that celebrates being outside! Our Design Team has a variety of projects they will be sharing over the next 4 days so be sure to stop back each day for more inspiration!

We have 2 prizes up for grabs this challenge, and from 2 wonderful sponsors. They both carry amazing products, but you need to see that for yourself, click on their link to have a look.
 
First sponsor is
 
 
 I'm a crafty mom of 5 busy daughters and wife to a wonderful husband who loves the outdoors and hunting. I love many different types of crafting but I'm crazy about scrapbooking and photography! My love for crafting began as a child, thanks to my Nana Smith and plastic canvas!! I've been scrapbooking for about 10 years now & I enjoy both teaching and creating in my hobby.

All of my Etsy products come from my smoke & pet free home and I currently ship orders out two-three times a week. I hope you'll take a look and let me know if you're looking for something particular. I'd love to help! I do take custom orders and can often accommodate larger lengths of ribbons and trims in my shop.
SpiegelMom Scraps prize is..
 
2 Studio Calico Wood Veneers. 3 yards of May Arts Chevron ribbon (one choice of color: yellow, red or orange) and 10 yards of Natural Burlap String.
 
 
And next we have the very lovely
 
Molossi is 100% Australian owned and operated, with over eight years industry experience and access to the much loved paper craft brands and experts.

Molossi is situated in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, and our warehouse is located in Wilberforce and open by appointment only.

With the vision, Molossi is committed to sourcing and supplying all your papercraft needs, whilst delivering our own unique products. Our priority is to deliver a prompt and efficient service to our cliental base, to maintain this promise we are listening to what you as the retailers are asking and we are always open to suggestion and comments to ensure we uphold this value.
 
 
And Molossi's prize is a...
 
 $30 chipboard pack
 


So for your chance to win one of these amazing prizes, upload your project.


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Fabulous Friday Top 3 & Winner!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Quite a variety of entries for our Ribbon, Twine & Washi Tape Challenge!
 Thanks to all of you who played along!
Please remember when joining in on our challenges in order to be eligible for our Top 3 and Prize you must mention our challenge in your post and only one entry person. Please refer to our rules here.
Here are the Top 3 as picked by our design team:


Congrats ladies!  
If you would like a Top 3 blinkie for your blog please
email Debbie at frosteddesigns@ymail.com. 
Please put FD Top 3 in your subject line.

We would like to thank Donna Downey Studios




 

for sponsoring our challenge with an online class worth $65.00.


The winner is
Mary Bennets
 
Congrats Mary!
Please email Debbie at frosteddesigns@ymail.com.   
Please put FD Winner in your subject line.
You have 7 days to claim your prize.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow 
for a new Fabulous Friday Challenge and some 
amazing inspiration from our design team!

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