Author: Laurel Seabrook

  • Inspired By and Guest Designer for JUGS

    Inspired By and Guest Designer for JUGS

    Happy New Year!

    It’s Thursday so that means another Inspired By Challenge. But I was also asked to be the Guest Designer on JUGS this month and I am pretty excited about that. This week I decided to combine the challenges. I was inspired by the snowmen and the sketch on Inspired By and on JUGS we were to use a cover plate die. I dug through my die collection and found a couple of neglected stitching frame dies from Stamplorations and CTMH and they were perfect. I also used the Hello die from I think MFT.

    I paired it with the cute Clip Art snowman which is part of a cute set. Check it out HERE

    Check out the snowmen clipart:

    Now here is the Inspired By Inspiration:

    And be sure to hop on over to JUGS and check out what the others have done and of course play along!

  • Warm Winter Wishes

    Warm Winter Wishes

    I have another card for the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog again today and it is your last chance to link up to the Lattes & Layers Challenge

    For my card I have another cute Clip Art design, don’t you just love him? I paired it with some older Simple Stories papers

    I used up some of my scraps, topped it with a snowflake border die from Poppy Stamps and some snowflakes punched out of glitter paper before mounting the image on foam squares. The sentiment die is from Stamplorations. I did fussy cut the mug and add it to the snowman’s hand.

    Check out this cute collection of Clip Art Snowmen.

    Now head on over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog as today is the last day for the Sparkle challenge

  • Hot Cocoa

    Hot Cocoa

    I am up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog with yet another card for the Lattes & Layers challenge. Tomorrow is the last day to link up for your chance at being a guest designer. I used this fun clip art which is part of a great collection. For the background, I used a bunch of scraps and added a couple of snowflakes for good luck 😉

    It is hard to tell but I added some glitter to the marshmallows.

    Check out the Clip Art collection as there are quite a few fun designs!

  • Cheers

    Cheers

    I am playing along with the Inspired By Challenge again using the colors and the theme. I thought the Beer Me stamp from Unity would work well for this too (It’s probably how my hubby will be celebrating New Years 😉) And yes the stamp set is on sale!

    I paired it with some paper from Stampin’ Up and the dies are from PTI and MFT I believe. I mounted the image on foam squares and added some glitter gel to make it look more like foam on the top.

    Now to grab this fun image!

    and of course come play along at Inspired By!

  • Hello Winter

    Hello Winter

    I am up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog today with a fun winter card using an image from Angie Blom Designs. I love digis as you can size them any size. I paired her with some pattern paper from Simple Stories. This card went together rather quickly. After coloring the image I mounted it on foam squares for dimension. The sentiment stamp is from CTMH and the die is from Honey Bee Stamps.

    I did add a touch of sparkle, to remind you to link up your creation for this month’s Lattes & Layers challenge – the theme is sparkle

  • Party Pup

    Party Pup

    When I saw this Unity stamp, Party Pup Birthday, I knew it would work well with the Party Animal collection from Echo Park. I also added some stars using an old MFT die. Love the banner with this image, it is perfect don’t you think?

    I also paired it with some old CTMH papers and the Thinking Out Loud stamp set

    Both of these stamp sets are on sale right now, so don’t miss out!

  • Cheers to a New Year

    Cheers to a New Year

    The new Inspired By challenge is up and I was inspired by the party theme and colors to create my card. I used the Clink & Celebrate kit from Unity (because it was just perfect for this challenge) along with some papers from Stampin’ Up! (which too are perfect don’t you think?)

    I have had the gold metallic paper around for awhile I think it was from CTMH and it too, worked well for this card. The die is from MFT. I mounted the main image on foam squares for some dimension.

    Isn’t this a fun inspiration? How are you inspired? Come and play along

    Now if you love this Unity stamp go grab it as it is on SALE right now!

  • Forever & Always

    Forever & Always

    Hey everyone, I took a break from the hot chocolate posts to share this one. I paired the new Be Mine collection by Carta Bella with the January Uniquely Unity Mostest Hostess stamp set. I coloured the couch with Copics and mounted on foam squares. You can’t see in the photo but the small grey piece at the bottom is embossed with a woodgrain folder.

    This stamp set is on sale right now so if you like it, now is the time to grab it (click on photo for direct link)

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  • Hot Chocolate Time

    Hot Chocolate Time

    I had to play along once again with the theme from Inspired By, the TGIF and the Peace On Earth Challenge because I love everything about hot chocolate. I used the Sweet Holiday Wishes Collection from my ETSY shop for this one.

    Not sure if you can see it but I added some sparkle to the whip cream for the Lattes & Layers Challenge over on the CLP blog – the theme is sparkle

    This is the Sweet Holiday Wishes collection, click on image to go to my store

    And the challenges:

  • Sending Hugs

    Sending Hugs

    I dug into my new Be Mine collection from Carta Bella to create a CAS card using the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches The die is from CTMH. I can’t remember where this little envelope die is from but it along with the stamp I fussy cut from the pattern paper worked well for this card and sketch.

    This is the sketch I used