lunch with pals - kit of the month

Mary-Ann here to emphasize how much fun we are having with eP's Kit of the Month.  This month, the kit contains all of these amazing products from Authentique, Pebbles, Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp and a few random buttons.  Here is a peak at what the kit contains....

You do NOT have to be local to Massachusetts or New Hampshire to partake in the club, we will mail it to you.  We have designed a facebook page where you can share your creations with us through social media.  Who knows, you may even be highlighted on our main facebook page!  

With all of that said, this is what I created with my yummy products!

This collection is gorgeous.  All I added from my stash is a little, ok maybe a lot of stitching, flair and a bit of ink spray.  The rest of this goodness comes in the kit.

The Heidi Swapp die cuts come in plain white.  I grabbed my choice of color, a paint brush and painted each piece I wanted to color.  It is a little different look than spritzing from the bottle.  Now, you must admit, those sequins are perfect!!  

I have just ordered next months product and and am very excited!  There are only a couple spots left, so if your on the fence, you need to decide quickly.  We are having fun meeting locally and sharing with our club friends on line.  Hope to see some of you really soon.  Head here for more details.

You & Me

Mary-Ann barely here with you today to share a layout that took me four tries!  Yup, four.  Ever have one of those days when you have something in your mind but it just will not translate to paper the way you envision it?  Sometimes the results are even better anyway (now imagine me sticking my tongue out at my layout like a 3 yr old).  I created this layout by cutting the best watercolor heart out of one of my previous 3 pages.   My pink paper that you see to the side has remnants of one of the attempts.  See the gesso on the bottom?  You can also see some on my heart.   I totally smeared that page with my sleeve.  Although the whole layout was not salvaged, I managed to save some of it.  

I like dimension on my pages, you can see it all from this angle.  I actually sewed the smaller hearts right to the 12x12 page, then curled my sides up.  The strips of paper that you see are all from one sheet of the 6x6 Fancy Pants Be. Loved. paper pad.  (Which by the way are hard to keep in stock.)  They created just enough embellishment to match my flair buttons and punched hearts. 

Anyone notice the twine shaped as a heart?  I love these photos of my boys.  You can feel the love.  Towards each other, not me, obviously, I am the one capturing it all with a camera.  BTW, those gray dots that look like enamel dots, I created those using Tim's Distress Paint - Brushed Pewter.  Need to get another bottle of that, I am using it like I love it:o)

Here is proof of one of the mishap pages.  Why did I use brown?? Good question.  But I did like the effect of the smear, however, when I added all my other embellies, I needed to trash the brown, for obvious reasons.  That and my non-artistic husbands asked what I ripped up from that spot.  Not cool.  

The fine products I used on this and the other three layouts are listed below.  Head on over to the shop to get your hands on what you need to create your next Valentine.

Fancy Pants -Be Loved Large Tags	Fancy Pants - Be Loved Flair	Fancy Pants - Be Loved 6x6 Paper Pad	Wplus9 Design Studio - Clear Cut Stacker Dies - Hearts	Tim Holtz - Brushed Pewter Distress Paint
Faber Castell Gelatos - Red Colors	Faber Castell - Gelatos - Tropical	Dina Wakely - Media Gesso - White	Inksessentials - Mini Mister 3-Pack	Tim Holtz Water Brush - Broad Brush
Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Mono Adhesive Tape Runner - Permanent

Cards (Guest Post from Isha Gupta)

Hello everyone! Isha here sharing my 3rd. post as guest designer for January. Today, I have 2 cards for you using the wonderful products from eclectic Paperie. I made these cards, which are totally different from each other.

For my first card, I want to tell you that you can create CAS cards using stencils. You don't only have to use the stencil for mix media or with spray mists only. You can use them as mask and sponge the inks for a wonderful soft feel.

So, I started with sponging the solid poppy stencil. I inked it using 2 green, red and orange Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko Memento inks. I then put the outline only stencil and sponged using the dark ink. It gives a subtle definition to the image. To finish the center panel, I inked around the edges using Teal Zeal Memento ink. To finish, I just put some Delicata gold glitz ink and Memento Love Letter ink onto the acrylic block, added a bit of water and flicked.

For my 2nd. card, I went to no stamping again. It's fun to take different elements from the pattern paper itself. I used the Simple Stories Say Cheese collection. I used some Memento inks to edge the small tickets. I then added some washi tape and black flicks. Now this flair is from Fancy Pants Timbergrove, which gives this card an instant pop. Finally a touch of Glossy Accents on the heart on MAGIC :)

Hope you enjoy creating!

Supplies:
Card: 1
Cardstock: White; Stamp: Hero Arts (Everyday Sentiments); Stencil: TCW (Mini Poppies); Inks: Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko (Memento: Black,Teal Zeal, Morocco, Love Letter, Pistachio, Olive Green; Delicata golden glitz, StazOn black); Vellum

Card: 2
Cardstock: White; Pattern Paper: Simple Stories (Say Cheese); Flair: Fancy Pants (Timbergrove); Ink: Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko (Onyx Black)

Isha

Here are the links to the eclectic Paperie store for some of the products used above:

StazOn - Jet Black	Tsukineko - Memento Teal Zeal	Tsukineko - Memento Pistachio	Tsukineko - Memento Olive Grove
Tsukineko - Memento Morocco	Tsukineko - Memento Love Letter	Simple Stories - Say Cheese 6x6" Paper Pad	Fancy Pants - Timbergrove Flair
TCW 6x6 Template - Mini Poppies