Power of Pink

Strength. Courage. Hope.

It's Power of Pink week over at the Bo Bunny Blog and in honour of those many women who have fought and defeated, are currently fighting or have lost their battles with cancer, the design team has created projects to show their respect for these amazing women. I would like to share a few projects with you today in honour of these courageous women and especially to my aunts who have both fought and won their respective battles with breast and ovarian cancer.

I love this saying. In times of stress, sickness, whatever - I find it reassuring to repeat these words over and over to myself. You cannot change/control outside events. You can control how you deal with what's been given to you. It's much easier said than done...

I handmade all the flowers on this layout and ended up painting the chipboard swirls and cardstock for a softer, overall feel.






The gorgeous crystal flourishes and perfect pink rose blossoms are by ZVA Creative. The Bo Bunny papers used in all three of these projects are all from their Persuasion Collection.

ZVA Products:Bulk Flowers
Self Adhesive Crystals: CRB03CB101
Self Adhesive Crystals: CRS03CB101

Bo Bunny Products:
Bo Bunny Persuasion My Sweet
Bo Bunny Persuasion Dot
Bo Bunny Persuasion Blooms
Chunky Charm CB Swirls & Brackets Blush
Bo Bunny Blush Coordinating Double Dot
Bo Bunny Blush Coordinating Double Dot Ribbon
Love is All Cardstock Stickers

October Zva Blog Hop Winners Announced

We'd like to congratulate the five October Zva Blog Hop winners! Their names will be found on the following blogs:

Jillian Deiling Cassity
Veronica Goh
Ingrid Danvers
Teri Anderson
Carole Maurin

One winner from each of the 5 blogs will receive a Zva prize package worth $30.00.

Congrats winners!

Scrap That! November Kit Reveal

Oh my!! Are you ever in for a treat with the November kit from Scrap That!! I ADORED working with these fantastic papers! Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology papers are PERFECT for altering with inks, mists, etc!! You transform them into whatever you want - and I love that about these products.

In my first layout I inked the papers and blended blue and yellow together so in some areas a lovely green is apparant. For my background paper I created my own postage stamp by using my mini circle punch (Stampin' Up!) and only trimming half the circle all the way around. Ink it up a little and you've just created your very own die cut -very easy!



I added a doily to this kit and sprayed lightly with some terra cotta walnut ink.

This layout features My Mind's Eye Lost & Found, Portobello Road Collection. LOVE this sooooo much - totally my style. Shabby, chic, rustic - just love the worn feel to this entire line.

I love dimension on my projects. Crochet doilies, layering papers, folding papers - whatever I can do to get away from a 'flat' looking layout. For this project, I simply rolled the papers slightly to create some deapth. This is an especially good technique if you have fantastic double sided papers where you want to show off the underside pattern.

I added my own wooden flourishes to the kit - they are from KaiserCraft and I felt that they just flowed so well with the overall feel of the project. I even kept the bottom 'label' from the patterned paper and used as an embellishment!

Here's another 'tag' - really the paper's label at the bottom. Loved the look and just couldn't bring myself to throwing it away.

Here's a super fancy card (for me)! Talk about stacked with product eh? Couldn't stop myself - LOL!! The papers are soooo elegant and the bling and blooms accented the piece perfectly.




Here's another card I created with Pink Paislee's Parisian Papers. To be honest, I 'wrecked' the first piece of paper I started with! I wasn't sure how the papers would respond to misting vs. inking vs. whatever, so I kind of experimented with it all and ended up with more of a solid looking page than a patterned paper. I don't do cardstock very well so I ended up turning it into a card...

Again you can see the dimension I added simply by layering my balloon tag over top of a fan flower.

That's all for today folks - thanks for popping by!!