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Guest Designer - Karrie Sweet!

Thursday, April 16, 2015

We are thrilled to announce another Guest Designer this week!! Karrie has been a long time supporter of Frosted Designs and we love her work! (We think you will too!) Not only is she sharing a gorgeous project, but she is also sharing the steps she took to create it!! Thanks Karrie!

After you check out her project, let her know you stopped by!  :)



Hi I’m Karrie and I am very honoured to be the guest of Frosted Designs today.  
 I want to share my recent project using some items from the Out of the Blue kit (love it!) such as 
papers from the Kaisercraft Blue Bay collection, as well as mini roses. 
I also used Tim Holtz stencils for my background that I received in other Frosted kits!  
 My good friend is getting married and I wanted to give her something for 
displaying her favourite wedding photo.   My super-talented hubby is going to be making a shadowbox type frame before we gift it.

 So sshh don’t tell her!  
Her wedding colours are black and purple, so of course that’s what I went with.
 I’ve taken some pix of some of the process, which took about 4 hours start to finish. 
Gather supplies, create a background on cardboard... 

put it like this ??
 
...well, play with it some more...   Fussy cut the Calla Lily deco from the invitation...
 fussy cut roses and add more layers.

I know my friend loves the beach so I think seashells are a perfect touch.   White gauze, black tissue paper, flowers,  and pearls complete the project.

 I hope you enjoyed getting the sneak peek and I sure hope she will like it!



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Guest Designer Stephanie!

Monday, April 13, 2015

We are so excited to introduce our Guest Designer Stephanie! She has created the cutest projects just in time for Teacher Appreciation Gifts!! Thank you Stephanie for sharing your talent with us! 

Be sure to leave Stephanie some blog love and visit her blog to see all the other amazing projects she has created! 



Hello!  My name is Stephanie Johnson and am over to moon to be a Guest Designer here at Frosted Designs!  By day, I teach Eighth Grade American History.  While I love my job dearly, I need the creative release that scrapbooking and paper art provides in order to keep my sanity. With this in mind, for this project, I was inspired by my job and decided to create projects appropriate for Teacher Appreciation Week which occurs May 4-8, 2015.  

I decided to create three Teacher Appreciation gifts appropriate for any teacher and any grade level.  Having just taught about western expansion, I became inspired by all things "cowboy" and decided to use a "western" theme for my projects.  For the first project, I created a "wanted" scrapbook photo frame to feature a class picture.  I used a picture of my students posing in front of the Supreme Court building during our annual trip to Washington DC.  For the next project, I created a "pocket" for a gift card.  I decided to make the pocket look like something a sheriff would wear in the Wild West.  My final project was a mason jar filled with trail mix.  To "westernize" this project, I cut a handkerchief into a square to cover the jar, and created a tag and attached it to the jar using jute.  The trail mix is simply a combination of M&M's, raisins, and peanuts.  Of all the projects, this one was the easiest to make.  (And probably the most appreciated by a teacher; trust me!)







I hope you enjoy looking at my projects and feel free to check out my blog at sthom97093.blogspot.com! 

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Guest Designer Mabel Sims!

Saturday, March 14, 2015

We are so excited to share this week's guest designer with you! Mabel Sims is extremely talented and does an incredible job of using Mixed Media elements in all of her projects! She is sharing a tutorial with us today that you will not want to miss! Sit back, have a cup of coffee and enjoy! Be sure to leave Mabel some blog love!



Hi Guys!

I'm so honoured to be invited on this fabulous team at Frosted Designs as a Guest Designer. This is my first ever designer post so I'm super excited!

A little description about myself: I'm living in Singapore, a tiny island/country in South East Asia with a climate that is very much predictable, that is HOT HOT HOT 24/7. Hahah. I first started out scrapbooking a couple of years back, only focusing on making cards. It's only about a year ago I ventured into making layouts and I'm currently heads over heals in love with it. I would say my style is very mixed media as I love how versatile these mediums are, I could make a mistake and rectify it almost immediately, that's how forgiving they are. They are also somewhat unpredictable (in a good way!), be sure to be surprise when you create with mediums! If you're currently not into mixed media, I strongly urge y'all to try it. It's really not that terrifying as what people originally thought. My blog focus mainly on step-by-step tutorials. You can find my blog HERE!

Now, I'm going to show you a tutorial on how I made my little 6x6 inches canvas piece meant for home decor. 

I first started out with priming my canvas with heavy white gesso by Prima Finnabair. I then sprayed randomly all over the canvas (Don't think too much! Just do it!) using Heidi Swapp's Gold mist, Tim Holtz Distress Spray in Tattered Rose and in Shabby Shutters. After everything dried, I pulled out my new flourish stencil from Tim Holtz and applied a thick coat of White Sand Texture Paste from Prima Finnabair. 

I have to say this texture paste has got pretty interesting texture after dried. It dries shiny and rough. It's actually very nice to touch. As you can see from the picture, I lightly brush on some gesso to make the flourish stand out better. It sort of created a white-wash effect which was matching to the background, giving off that very antique/vintage-looking vibe.


I also brushed on a light coat of Ranger's Clear Crackle and made it more visible by watercoloring Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Brushed Corduroy. 


With a new shade of dark brown, I think it made the background stand out even more as there's now a mixture of different shades of browns and greens. 


Now that the background is done, I need to think of what to embellish it.

I gave myself a challenge to use some of the stuff that was long forgotten. Haha. Such as this Tattered  Floral Bigz die from Sizzix. I actually bought it LONG LONG LONG ago but didn't use it at all. So I cut out a couple of the same sizes and layered them up. Glued down a matching button in the centre and altered the flower with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Brushed Corduroy.


This is the final look of the canvas!

As you can see, I die cut some leaves from the Prima leaves dies for layering. I also managed to dug out a long forgotten border punch and punched a strip and glued it down vertically. Most of the flowers I used were from Prima and I also added some mica fragments in Tea Stained colour from Stampendous. I loved how the dark colour of the mica fragments increased the interest of the canvas as the rest of the colours were pretty soft. The sentiment was actually a cut out from Kaisercraft's patterned paper. I also painted a light coat of gesso on the outer petals of the flowers to give some highlights. It also had the effect of pulling everything together. 


Here are some close-ups shots. 




I enjoyed the process of making this canvas. The colour scheme is actually pretty challenging for me as I never thought green and light pink (that's the original colours of the sprays, but everything became brownish after they dried on canvas. Told you mediums can be unpredictable! Hahah) would go well together and this is my first time succeeding in creating a vintage layout. My previous attempts didn't work out as my style of embellishing stuff is not vintage at all so I'm super happy that I can finally strike the 'vintage' theme off my to-do list as well as using those long forgotten products. Haha. 

So...That's all for today. 

I hope you like my post and also feel inspired to try out mixed media if you haven't. 
Do check out my blog at www.mabsdesigns.blogspot.com for more inspiration. 

Cheers! :)

Mabel






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Guest Designer Suzanne!

Thursday, March 5, 2015

We are thrilled to introduce today's Guest Designer Suzanne!! She is one incredibly talented lady and has an extraordinary project to share with you! Be sure to check out all the details on this one! Wow!! I'm sure Suzanne would love it if you left her some blog love today! 



Hello everyone this is Suzanne from Cricutcraftinggrammyblogspot here today to share with you my project.  I am so thrilled to be invited by Barb Craft to be a guest designer at Frosted Designs.  I have followed Frosted Designs for a few years now and have always found the Design team,
 the tutorials and the challenges very inspirational.  
I hope you enjoy my project as much as I enjoyed creating it so I could share with you today.   I love Graphic 45, shabby chic and vintage items so love creating shadowbox and off the page projects.     
This shadowbox from K and Company is 12 x 12 so each square is 4 x 6.  
I bought it at Target last year on clearance.  
Paper collection is Graphic 45 Secret Garden 
Angel, bridge, and shutters are Prima 
Variety of mosses from a bag from Michaels 
Flowers and leaves Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels  
Glimmer Mist Crushed Shells 
Prima and Tim Holtz Distress Inks 
Other embellishments, bud flowers, stones, tiny shoes, tiny tools and wood box from my stash.  
Yes I admit I collect goodies wherever I go.  
Little stones with words I found in miniature section you can find in craft stores.  
More info with closeup pictures  
Each page is like a little mini page but I also used items over in several squares to tie things together.  


Here is what the shadowbox looked like before I started.  

Graphic 45 papers cut into 4 x 6 rectangles and 3/4 inch strips for sides.
The edge is also has strips of paper glued to it at 1 inch strips.  I started at middle of bottom and overlapped so  pieces did not peel on corners.  
I then sprayed lightly with Glimmer Mist Spray Crushed Shells and used a brush  to mute the white edges and let it sit over night.  



Closeups of each rectangle
Left top corner 
Each center rectangle is inked with brown ink and pop dotted for dimension.  
The roses and leaves are fussy cut from a second piece, inked and pop dotted.  
Used a punch for tag and added Graphic 45 sticker. 
Cherish metal word and bird nest from Recollections (Michaels) 

Top center 
Fussy cut girl, fence and flowers.  Then inked pop dotted,  Added shutters to each edge. 
Metal charm from Recollections (Michaels)
Hug Snug Schiff seam binding colored with Glimmer Mist 

Top right
Fussy cut roses, added chipboard, Prima beads, Prima bird and corners.
The butterfly charm I found in my stash.  


Bottom left 
Fussy cut flowers and leaves and added paper flowers.  They had a touch of pink but I inked them with Prima ink to make them pop more.  
Tiny shoes I got at a Recycle store near me.  They have tons and tons of stuff you can rummage through and use for projects.  
Butterflies Martha Stewart punch double layered for dimension 
Charm from stash 


Center bottom. 
You can see the moss and roses overflowing from top center.  
Fussy cut and added more inked paper flowers, 
Added key from $1 section Michaesl and G45 Chipboard 
Bridge and angel from Prima.  
Fence from miniature section or wood section in craft stores goes across two rectangles.  


Bottom right 
 I fussy cut birds and cage and pop dotted.  Added inked paper flowers and leaves, 
Tools and box are miniatures I had in my stash.  
Chipboard G45 and metal word Love from Recollections.


I hope you enjoyed my Guest Designer project and it will inspire you to try an off the page project. 
Thank you again to Barb for having me.  Also I would love for you to  check out my work on my blog Cricutcraftingrammyblogspot or on facebook.  Happy craftin!




Suzanne Y. Pipitone

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What Story Would It Tell?? (Guest Designer)

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Good Morning!  My name is Melissa and I am excited to be a Guest Designer today!


I enjoy using things from Frosted Designs to create projects and pages in my Art Journals, especially things from the Frosted Designs Kits!

I had such a great time learning to draw fairies with the first Sundays with Sandee Kit - Moonlit Dreams that I ordered the second one, Rummage and Ransack, just after it came out!



Now to get started ...

Only getting started didn't happen like I thought it would ...

Has that ever happened to you?

One day when I sat down to work, I opened the Pocket Scavenger book that was in the kit to a random page:


As soon as I saw that #43 was Something That Was Discarded, I knew where I needed to Rummage and Ransack! I am friends with the media specialist in a library at a nearby elementary school. Her volunteers save books from the discard pile that they think I will enjoy using for my projects and creations! 

As I was rummaging and ransacking through my collection of discarded books, I found a library card from 1987! Do you remember those cards that were found in the backs of books that we had to sign?  Looking at the card, I began to wonder about the stories and bits of history that card could tell ...


Another fun thing you can find in the Pocket Scavenger book are ideas for ways to alter things! Those can be found at the bottom of each page, so I turned the book upside down and flipped to another random page. Here is what I found:


Light bulbs started going off in my mind ...

There is paint and a stencil in the Rummage and Ransack kit ...

I decided to see if I could use only things found in the kit to complete the page ...

And I almost succeeded!


(The pink pen came from the Moonlit Dream kit)

So now I had a discarded library card, supplies, and a blank page ...

I don't know about you, but sometimes a blank page makes my mind go blank, so I have no ideas ...

Then there are times that a blank page makes the ideas in my mind go wild, so I have way too many ideas to keep track of ...

I decided to start simple and just start doodling on the page to see what happened ...


My doodle resembled an extra large library card ...

So I started thinking about what to add next ...

I thought it needed a splash of color ...


(I also added a paintbrush that did not come in the kit, but this was the only time I used it)

In an effort not to add way too much, I decided it was time to add the library card ...

But maybe I should add something to the library card first ...

Pink paint with my finger!!!!


And now for the stencil!!!!!

More paint ...


Part of me wanted to add more ...

I could add ribbons, flowers, buttons, glitter ....

But part of me thought it might be time to stop ...

I normally listen to the part of me that wanted to add more, but this time I decided to take the advice from the other part!


So I know I am a bit biased, but I think the result is spectacular or at least kinda neat! :)

I wonder what story the library card would tell about its involvement in this creation ...


Thank you Melissa for being our first guest designer today. I just love your work and always enjoy checking it out!! You rocked it!

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Guest Designer - Nadine!

Saturday, September 6, 2014

We are thrilled to introduce Guest Designer Nadine! We love to see Nadine's projects when she plays along with our challenges and we were thrilled when she agreed to share her talents here on our blog!




Hello my name is Nadine, and I am so excited to be asked to do a guest design post here at Frosted Designs! I am a mom of a 19 yr. old son (who is away at college right now) and an 8 yr. old daughter. My husband, kids and I moved to Texas from Nevada about 4 years ago. Before moving to Texas I owned my own business as a hairstylist and I was also a part owner to a local scrapbook store. Since becoming a stay at home mom, I am really enjoying having more time to spend with my family and more time playing and being scrappy. I have been scrapbooking for about 17 years now with 12 x 12 layouts and cards being my favorite things to create. I would say my scrappy style would best be described as eclectic but I also love creating grungy pages too. I always have some kind of a mist or paint on all my pages. Every since I was a kid I always kept everything and either taped with scotch tape (bad idea) or glued it into a scrapbook but I made my 1st "real" scrapbook when my son was just a toddler because I wanted a way to document his first years of life. I've been hooked every since!  
I would love to have you all come by and visit me on my blog and say hi... My Scrap'n'Stuff



I made this layout of my daughter with some pictures of her when we were in Belize this summer. She found this pretty yellow flower and wanted to wear it behind her ear for a picture but the wind kept blowing it off before I got a picture. It was one of those moments that you just have to laugh. 
I like to mix things up and very rarely will use all of the same collection on one page. On this page I used 2 collections from Studio Calico - Brighton Pier and Lemon Lush and the background paper is Heidi Swapp Dreamy. I used a sunburst stencil on the background with a darker color yellow mist in the center and a lighter yellow towards the end of the rays. Did some sewing around the edges and lots of paper layers. Then added a bunch of random embellies I had laying around. 
Thank you for looking and I hope you liked my page!
Nadine

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Guest Designer Wendy Antenucci is Back!

Thursday, January 16, 2014


Wendy here again to share two more layouts I created using the Love is in the Air kit, man do I ever love this kit!

I loved the rustic feel of this wood paper that was included in the clean kit and yet I sometimes struggle with these type papers.  This page actually came together in just a few minutes by placing the arrow paper on the darker background paper!  I knew I wanted to include the chevron piece to show movement as does the arrow paper as having a young child with diabetes is a constant adjustment to meds and what can be eaten.  The canvas heart was perfect to document how my heart felt that day that our son ended up back in the hospital holding onto his daddy's hand and his Mr. Bear for comfort.  This was a difficult time for me and I really felt like my heart was breaking because I wasn't able to be there as we have 5 others and our youngest needed me at home with him.  The overall layout had a brown feel to it, which while very masculine, was also drab, but by adding in a few pops of red I was able to take the layout from drab to wow in just minutes.


Here are some close-ups of the details...



The next layout I made was just to see if the Teresa Collins papers would work on the American Crafts grid paper included in the clean fun - I really wasn't sure, but I LOVE the page that resulted!





This kit is amazing and you can purchase it here, or stop by my blog for a chance to win one!


Thank you Frosted Designs for the chance to work with this amazing kit, I have loved every moment of it!

The Love is in the Air Kit is available in the Frosted Designs Store!
Click HERE to Purchase!


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