Erin Reed - July DT Reveal

Hi all!!  It has been a whirl wind for me over here in the USA, busy packing and moving across Texas, right now is just the packing part.  The best part about this move is in my new house I am organizing a brand new scrap space, and if we get the house we want it will be in a whole room to myself!!  Anyway enough of my babbling, on to the good stuff!!

For this month I thought of lots of different ways to use flourishes on your projects.  Not only different flourishes, but different sizes, shapes of the flourish and on cards, layouts, and mini albums.  Flourishes are so versatile that they even work for masculine projects.

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Tri-fold Mini

Every year I make a mini album for the grandparents of the kids from the past year.  I do all kinds of different things, this year I found two identical tri-fold mini's in my scrap drawer I had forgotten about as I was purging and packing my scrap apace for our up coming move.  They are from a kit a friend had given me (2 identical kits) that were so old that they stickers in the kit had lost their stickiness, I think the kits are circa 2000 or earlier.  So I salvaged the tri-fold part and set forth to make the ancient become new.  

I used the the same papers since I was only covering the fronts of each of the tri-fold it was easy to make identical pages for each grandparent, why recreate the wheel twice?  I did have to alter the flower and brad colors, but everything else is identical.

So here are the bases for the minis I am giving the grandparents.  The only addition is pictures (I have not done it yet since the year is not over yet), and since I have three children with me, one girl and 2 boys, the boys get the green and blue sides and the girl gets the pink and red in the middle.

I added to the left side the wonderful Memory Maze chipboard.  By accident I flipped one of the flourishes upside down when I painted it (painted with gelatos and water), but now I can't decide which direction I like more, they both look great.

Memory Maze Chipboard Supplies

Flourish Corner Small Pkt 2 - S0524

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Thank You Card

While my husband was deployed to Afghanistan this past year he got numerous boxes and letters from a lady in the States who got his address from her Church.  A couple of the boxes made there way home to us and the kids (who has a blast with them and all the fun goodies she sent along) because he came home early.  As a thank you to her for her kindness she bestowed on my husband I made and mailed this card to her.

I did not want the card to be to bulky for the mail, so the thickest part of the card is the chipboard.  For this chipboard i used Tim Holtz distress ink in Black Soot and just pressed the chipboard into it to give the a slightly distressed look.  I wanted the feel of the card not to be too feminine, so I went for darker colors and a simple and clean feel to the card.

 Memory Maze Chipboard Supplies

Boarder 40- NO 11 PK 25 - E0011

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Welcome Home Daddy - Layout

Mike got to come back to the states early from being deployed to help train the next unit replacing their unit in Camp Phoenix.  The bad part was that he was 3 hours away for over a month, so close yet so far away.  During this time I took our youngest child (Catherine) to see him and spend a weekend with him.  Catherine has last seen her daddy when she was 2 weeks old, and even though we Skyped and talked on speaker phone so she could hear his voice, she had not seen him in the flesh for 8 months.  We were all a bit worried how she was going to react to him, as with every other male that tired to hold her (including grandfathers) she cried.  Within minutes of Mike walking through the door he laid on the bed next to her and I got this wonderful picture of the two of them.  Neither could stop smiling, it was such a sweet and wonderful moment to watch, father and daughter together at last.

I wanted the flourish to speak for itself, it is just so pretty that all I wanted to do was enhance it with some ink, a few embellishments, and a picture.  I had so much to say with this picture that in the end it would have taken up the entire layout to write the story, so instead I wrote nothing and decided to write the story when I posted on-line, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

Memory Maze Chipboard Supplies

12 x 12 flourish corner set 8sold 3's - Z0024

 

Enjoy!!