Love Week: {Heart} You Each Day

Hi Everyone, Piradee here and welcome to Day 3 of our Love Week.

Today I wanted to share this cute layout I made using the Snow Day collection of dear hubby;  just a little something to say Thank You for being the wonderful person that he is.   I opted to keep the overall design of the layout simple, in order to emphasize on the fun confetti heart. **shake shake**

For my big confetti heart – I first cut the shape out with my die cut machine and then gathered all the little bits and pieces of confetti to be included and headed to the sewing machine.

Tip for smaller areas :: do try to include the confetti as you’re sewing the pieces together.  In my case for the smaller heart area, I initially thought that I could add the confetti in afterwards, but only then realized that I had sown the pieces together too tight and therefore couldn’t squeeze much there… (or then again, I might just be adding too much…lol)

And for my title, I used the wood shop alphabets (wood chip style) with a bit of brown mist to make the letters  pop against the pattern paper and also added in some glitter alphabet stickers from the sweetness collection for that touch of yellow (my fav color at the moment).

Also when I showed hubby the layout, he was curious as to why I had selected the words “each day” and not per say “everyday”.  Well, I then told him that if he got me a super really nice present for valentine, then it would be “everyday”.  **wink**

Thanks for stopping by everyone!!!  And don’t forget to check back for more valentine inspirations this week.

:: Piradee ::

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Pink Paislee Supplies Used:

Product Pick – Snow Day Bitty Blocks

Hi Everyone,

For this week’s product pick – it’s all about the cute Bitty Blocks alphabets from the Snow Day collection.  These are the perfect size for any project and I’m loving especially the variation in the font styles.  Here I’ve used it through out the mini album – as subtitles and also for the journaling details.  Another one of my favorite product from this collection are the Dimensional Stickers – these are just too cute and some of them even have a touch of silver color (the snow couple and “bundle up” phrase dimensional stickers were used below).

For the Bitty Blocks – you’ll being get two sets of alphabets – one in white and blue and the other set as pink and black; with 5 different font styles to play with.

And here are a few more pages from my mini album where I’ve these cute alphabets, along with various die cuts from the Snow Day ephemera pack.  Also to add a hint of sweetness to the winter colors, I included the yellow glitter sticker alphabets (and hearts) from the Sweetness collection.

And a close up of the journaling details, where I’ve mixed up the different font styles…

And a few more crazy pages of me and sis having one snowy time…

And us, just chilling out in snowy Chicago…

Pink Paislee Products Include:

  • Snow Day Pattern Paper Frosty 00581
  • Snow Day Pattern Paper Hot Cocoa 00582
  • Snow Day Pattern Paper Snowball Fights 00583
  • Snow Day Pattern Paper Cozy Sweaters 00584
  • Snow Day Pattern Paper Fireside 00585
  • Snow Day Pattern Paper Warm Mittens 00586
  • Snow Day Dimensional Stickers 00587
  • Snow Day Ephemera 00579
  • Snow Day Bitty Blocks 00580
  • Sweetness Glitter Sticker Alphabets 00386
  • Sweetness Glitter Sticker Elements 00385

Thanks everyone for stopping by and letting me share.  Also there’s still time left to take part in the November Contest (more details here at Live Pink) and can’t wait to see all your creations.

Hot Hues Color Inspiration November

Hi Everyone, Piradee Talvanna here to share this month gorgeous fall hot hue colors and I’m truly wishing that I could be sitting there in the park enjoying the crisp weather (as in the top left picture).

For my project, I drew inspirations not only from the combinations of colors but also from one of the images provided – the bouquet of flowers.

Using some of the pattern papers from the nantucket collection; I created series of rosette flowers in various sizes and colors and used that to create my version of the bouquet.  Also have you seen those super cute wooden hearts from the wood shop alphabet – sawdust collection?   Couldn’t resist misting them with the studio calico – orchard, before adding them on.

For the title banner, I selected one of the mistable pattern paper and sprayed it with the same orange mist before adding the bit of twine and my title details.

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Thanks everyone for stopping by and would love to see what projects you’ve been creating for this season.

A Bit of Spooky

When I realized that my assignment this month included an “inspired by” post – needless to say after reading my assignment details,  I went straight to Pinterest.  It’s just amazes me with the amount of inspiration that can be found there and many a times, I wish my room looks just like that!  And when I saw this image below – I was inspired by the details within all the elements and the combination of colors that I went straight for the printer tray, grab the Phantom collection and got started working right away…

(pinterest image source)

Mixing and matching the various elements from the Phantom collection to create my version of the frames (from the above image).

And sharing some close ups of my “spooky” tray, whereby I used one of the elements stickers as my title and others through out the tray; and don’t you love that silhouette one!

And for these squares below, I also used bits of the clear transparent frames to provide a contrast against the pattern papers and at the same time, adding another layer of details…

And I couldn’t resist adding in a bit of fun with the chalkboard stickers (from the daily junque collection)…

And my favorite part of this collection – is the glossy finish on some of the patterns/design on the pattern paper.  Such as the spider and beware details (these pictures are not doing it justice); as they really add that final finishing to the project.

Pink Paislee Products Used:

A big thanks for stopping by everyone and would love to see/hear how pinterest has inspired you lately and also don’t forget the Phantom contest that we have going on right now!

Member Mania Scraplift It!

 Hi Everyone! Piradee here to share a layout that I’ve created using the fun Phantom and Mistable collections for today’s “Member Mania Scraplift” installment.  Not only was I inspired by Leeann Pearce layout that she had shared with us on the Live Pink gallery, but I also wanted to add a little twist of my own – challenging myself to create a non-Halloween layout using the new Phantom collection.  Now, who said that you have to use a Halloween collection for a Halloween layout… right?

And sharing the gorgeous layout created by Leeann Pearce …. don’t you love all the fun elements that she included and especially the use of paint to create her background!

There were so many elements from Leeann’s layout that I was inspired with and I couldn’t resist including them onto my little layout – from the base layout design of multiple blocks, to the mix media background, the inclusion of flags (or banners in my case), the use of transparency to including some of the products that she had use (such as the soiree wood shapes and flag poles).   Also the title of my layout was inspired by one of the Phantom Clear Stamp – Caution – as honestly, that day at the amusement park was truely a “boys” day out…lol!

Also sharing some more details of the layout, where I used various distress ink and then water on the mistable pattern paper to create my droplet effect.  This is definitely one of my favorite technique as the effect looks as thou I also add a bit off misting.

And sharing some behind the scene steps in creating that effect… I first started by covering the mistable pattern paper with the various distress ink colors…

Then using my mini mister, I misted the water first in my hand and then sprinkled it onto the pattern paper (found that by doing this I would get bigger droplet size, in comparison to spraying the water directly onto the pattern paper….

And as the water dries up, you would start to see the difference in color shade (please note that I have only tried this with water based dye inks and not sure if this would work with other types / brand of inks).

Pink Paislee Supplies Used Include:

Thanks for stopping by everyone and don’t forget to share your creations and inspiration with us @Live Pink.