Beautiful by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish Paper - Distress Filigree (sifs400rg)

- Pattern Paper - Daisy D 'Butterfly Dot - Garden Green (15200)

- Stamp Stamp-It - Swirl Whirl (3589F)

- Clear Flim

- Cover Board

- Ink Brilliance Ink - Pearlescent Lime'

- Stamp - Stamp-It 'Family'

- Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder - 'Peeled Paint'

- Paint - Adirondack Lights Acrylic Paint Dabber - ' Willow ' and 'Lettuce' mixed together.

- Prima Flower - Big Blooms'

- Ribbon - Two Toned Grossgrain Wired Edge 'Green'.

- Daisy D Rub On Transfer 'Beautiful'

- Super Tape

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Specific Techniques:
1. Stamping on clear film.

2. Hand cut flourishes to co-ordinate with stamp.

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Instructions:

1. Ink edges of pattern paper by applying the pad of 'Pearlescent Lime' directly to the edges. Leave to dry.

2. Trim cover board to size to fit photo, rub on and flower.

3. Trim green dot pattern paper to slightly larger than cover board and tear right hand side. This will be the mat for the photo and rub on.

4. Use the point of a craft knife to gently scratch a border around the photo.

5. Adhere the photo onto the left hand side of the dot paper.

6. Hand sew a length of green ribbon along the right hand side of the photo, still allowing for the scratched border to be seen. Gather the ribbon by overlapping it onto itself as you sew.

7. Adhere the dot paper onto the cover board.

8. Run ob the 'Beautiful' transfer.

9. Stamp Swirl Twirl with Perfect Medium and emboss with Distress Ink in 'Peeled Paint'.

10. Use a dry paintbrush to lightly brush on a mixture of ' Willow ' and 'Lettuce' paint to the edges of the dot paper mat.

11. Adhere green dot mat to the background pattern paper, slightly to the left hand side.

12. Cut flourish shape using scissors from Clear Film

13. Use Brilliance Ink in 'Lime' and 'Family' Stamp to stamp onto the clear film and let dry.

14. Determine exactly where in the bottom right hand side the prima flower will be placed and use this centre point to adhere the ends of the clear film flourishes. Check the flower placement will conceal the tape used on the flourishes.

15. Adhere green prima flower.

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The Age of Innocence by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish Paper - Distress Filigree (sifs400rg)

- Bazzill - Java

- Stamp Penny Black -'Spring is in the Air' (2848E)

- Ink - Inkit 'Gold'

- Ink - Encore Ultimate Metallic 'Honeydew' and ' Champagne '

- Encore Gold Pad

- Perfect Medium Embossing pens 'bullet' and 'brush'.

- Embossing Tinsel - 'Copper'

- Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder - 'Peeled Paint'

- Cover Board

- Mini Magic Mount

- Super Tape

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2. Use a stamp as a 3D embellishment.

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Instructions:

1. Adhere a 6x 8 photo and equal sized panel of pattern paper side by side onto cover board.

2. Use the Ellison circle dye to cut out the circle shape and ink edges with Encore 'Honeydew' and 'Champagne'.

3. Add journaling strips

4. Adhere a strip of Prima ribbon across the join.

5. Place circle on left hand side on 'Java' Bazzill background paper and light draw around the circle.

6. Place template of two different sets of a flourish design, one position at time, radiating out from the circle line and colour centre with Perfect Medium Embossing Pens in Bullet and Brush, sprinkle with Copper Embossing Tinsel.

7. For each flourish embossed there is the same flourish cut from 'Distress Filigree' paper mounted with mini mount just off centre of the embossed flourish. Use the same template to trace with flourish with pencil and then hand cut with small scissors, gently ink edges with Encore Gold Pad. Use mini mount and Perfect medium as glue to adhere paper flourishes, ensure they extend just inside the pencil line of the circle.

8. Adhere circle to the Bazzill paper.

9. Stamp 'Spring is in the Air' onto white cardstock and emboss with 'Peeled Paint', then hand cut around the bird and adhere with mini mount over the photo and ribbon.

10. Ink the edges of the entire page with Encore Gold Pad and let dry.

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Soon by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish Paper - Distressed Daisy Gothic Alphabet (sifs392mm)

- Pattern Paper - Creative Imaginations 'Taupe Pearlescent'

- Bazzill - Candy Apple

- Rhinestone It Crystal Deco - Crystal Rhinestone Single (sirth 201)

- Rhinestone It Crystal Deco - Crystal Rhinestone Border (sirh 303)

- Rub Ons KI Memories - Decorative Icons 'Piñata' (ki1142)

- Stickers KI Memories Celebrate Life 'Wild Things' Essentials

- Colorit - 'Gilded Heart'

- Encore Pad Ultimate Metallics - Silver

- Deco Fasteners - Silver Mini

- Glossy Accents

- Rubber Scrub Pad

- Micro beads - Black

- Mini Magic Mount

- Super Tape

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2. Use of Micro Beads and Crystal Rhinestones to enhance patterned paper.

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Instructions:

1. Use a small pair of scissors to cut out three individual flowers from a sheet of Distressed Daisy Gothic Alphabet paper.

2. Use mini mount to adhere the flowers directly over the top of the same flowers on a background sheet of Distressed Daisy Gothic Alphabet paper.

3. Ink the edges of the page by using the pad of ColorIt 'Gilded Heart' applied directly to the page and let dry.

4. Apply Glossy Accents to the black areas in the centre of each flower and sprinkle black micro beads over the glue and let dry.

5. Adhere single Rhinestones inside the centre of each flower, amongst the micro beads.

6. Use the point of a craft blade to scratch a border around the photo.

7. Mat the photo onto black cardstock and tear the bottom edge.

8. Hand cut a panel of Creative Imaginations 'Taupe Pearlescent' paper, following the harlequin pattern along the bottom edge and sand with a scrub pad. Adhere to the bottom third on the background page; ensuring left hand side edge is placed just under the raised flowers.

9. Pierce the Taupe pearlescent paper where the points of the harlequin diamonds join and add mini Silver Deco Fasteners at each point.

10. Adhere black mat onto the pattern paper, ensuring the left hand side is just under the edges of the raised flowers and tape is not placed to closely to the torn edge, as this needs to be lifted a little in a later step.

11. Place lines of stickers from KI Memories 'Wild Thing' Essentials across the top of the photo and under the tear line at the bottom of the mat, by easing up the torn edge to run stickers under the black cardstock.

12. Mount white cardstock onto cover board and then press out a circle using the Sizzix. Rub on a rose tattoo from KI Memories Piñata. Adhere circle onto the right hand side of the torn edge of the mat.

13. Mount word stickers from KI Memories 'Wild Thing' Essentials onto black cover board and sand edges. Adhere stickers to the right hand side of the photo.

14. Rub on KI Memories Piñata heat onto the bottom right hand side of the photo.

15. Peel and stick crystals from the border Rhinestones onto the right hand side of the photo.

16. Mount 'Candy Apple' Bazzill onto cover board and then press out title using Ellison. Ink sections of letters with ColourIt 'Gilded Heart'

17. Use 'Family' stamp inked with Encore Silver to stamp over the top of each letter and then adhere title overlapping the top of the photo and mat. Add a crystal from the Rhinestone Border to the first letter.

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Hot Stuff by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish Paper - sifs393mm Distressed Gothic Alphabet

- Pattern Paper - KI Memories Color Theory - 'Pink Botanical'

- Bazzill - 'Bubblegum'

- Cover board

- Super Sheet

- KI Memories Tattoos

- Rhinestone It - Crystal

-Rhinestone Single

- Zig pen - Fine & Chisel

- UTEE Brightz 'Fuchsia' and 'Black'

- Perfect Medium Embossing Pen 'brush'

- Perfect Medium Pad -Clear

- Magic Mount Mini

- Rubber Scrub Pad

- Super Tape

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2. Using Rhinestones to outline a rub on shape.

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Instructions:

1. Sand edges of photo with scrub pad

2. Mat photo on 'Bubblegum' Bazzill paper with extra width on left hand side of mat.

3. Use fine tip of Zig pen to hand draw a border about the photo mat.

4. Rub on 4 KI tattoos words to white and patterned paper backgrounds which have been adhered to cover board, hand cut into rectangles and adhere 3 slightly overlapping photo at the top left hand side and then on at the bottom left hand side of photo.

5. Adhere KI 'Pink Botanical' patterned to cover board and press out a small circle using the Sizzix machine.

6. Rub on a KI Memories love heart image then peel and stick single Rhinestones about the border of the heart. Adhere circle just above final mounted word rub on.

7. Cut a thin corner strip from cover board and emboss with black UTEE and adhere it just out from the top right hand side of the photo mat.

8. Adhere 'Bubblegum' Bazzill onto cover board using super sheet. Press out title letters.

9. Lightly press each letter onto the Perfect Medium pad and then into a tray of Fuchsia UTEE, If necessary brush off areas of UTEE to reveal Bazzill and emboss so the UTEE just sets but remains knobbly.

10. Decorate letters with single Rhinestones.

11. Use mini mount to adhere title letters about the top left hand corner of the photo mat, include placing letter on top of the black corner strip.

12. Use a Perfect Medium Embossing Pen Brush to draw a rough border line about the edge of the page and sprinkle over Fuchsia UTEE and emboss until just set and still knobbly.

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Stutter by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish Paper - Mixed Up Alphabet (sifs395rg)

- Stamp Stamp-It - Mixed Alphabet (3502H)

- Patter Paper - KI Memories Extreme 2Way Street (1670) and Pet Shop Bubbles (2027)

- Cover board

- Tim Holtz Distress Ink Dye Pad - Spiced Marmalade

- Perfect Medium Pad - Clear

- KI Memories Rub ons 'Designer Icons' White

- KI Memories 'Extreme' Gel Candy

- KI Memories 'Extreme' Hip Chip arrows

- Mini Magic Mount

- Rubber Scrub Pad

- Circle punch

- Super Tape

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2. Using pattern paper and stamp to reiterate contents of the layout.

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Instructions:

2. Combine two orange papers, KI Extreme 2way Street and KI Pet Shop Bubbles' to form a background mat.

3. Mount stamped paper onto right hand side of orange paper mat and photo onto the left hand side.

4. Use circle punch to cut out a circle segment from the bottom left hand side of photo and orange mat.

5. Adhere orange mat onto pattern paper Mixed Up Alphabet

6. Mount white Bazzill paper onto cover board and cut circle from Sizzix.

7. Adhere a KI Memory gel sticker 'truth' onto circle and adhere in gap left by the circle punch. Select two arrows from the KI Memories "Extreme' arrows. Use a sanding pad to age edges of arrows.

8. Use KI Memories 'Designer Icons' in white rub ons, to take a portion from the alphabet strip placed across one of the arrows.

9. Adhere pattern Paper 'Mixed Up Alphabet' ensuring the letter 'g' is able to be cut clearly into a circle shape using the Ellsion. Ink the edges of the circle with 'Spiced Marmalade ink.

10. Use Magic Mount dots to raise and adhere circle 'g' onto the middle of the two stamped images.

11. Add journaling strips, which have been sanded and some inked using 'Spiced Marmalade' ink.

12. Mount white Bazzill paper onto coverboard and cut circle from Sizzix.

13. Add KI Memories gel sticker to circle and adhere to bottom, left hand side of the orange mat under photo.

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Being Four by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish 'Mixed Up Numbers' (sifs 394rg)

- KI Memories 'Black Botanical' and 'Yellow Geode'.

- Bazzill - 'Amber'

- Stamp - Stamp-It 'Mixed Numbers' (3503E)

- Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder - Mustard Seed (tim21124)

- Perfect Medium Pad - Clear

- Brads Bazzill Mat Round Brads - ' Yellowstone ' and 'McIntosh'

- Rubber Scrub Pad

- Super Tape

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2. Aging paper with sandpaper and scratching border around photo with craft knife

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Instructions:

1. Cut a panel of KI paper and use to print out text.

2. Use Perfect medium stamp pad to stamp numbers across top of text panel, sprinkle with' Mustard Seed' Distress Embossing Powder embossing powder and emboss.

3. Adhere a thick strip of KI to ' Yellow Geode' the bottom and add three 'McIntosh' Bazzill Brads in and a thin strip to top which has been sanded and secure end with a 'Yellowstone' Bazzill Brad .

4. Adhere text panel onto left hand side of 'Mixed Up Numbers' pattern paper.

5. Use the point on the craft knife to gently scratch a border around the photo as well as sand the edges.

6. Mount photos onto Amber Bazzill

7. Use the 'Mixed Numbers' stamp but mask all numbers other than the '4'. Use Perfect Medium to stamp number onto photo, sprinkle with 'Mustard Seed' Distress Embossing Powder and gently heat with embossing gun to set.

8. Adhere photo onto pattern paper level with the start of the text on opposite panel.

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Outnumbered 3 to 1 by Carla Holmes
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Supply List:

-Flourish Paper - Collage 36 (sifs399rg)

- Bazzill - 'Kisses'

- Stamp - Stamp-It 'Mother' (2952D)

- Stamp - Stamp-It 'Mixed Numbers' (3503E)

- Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder 'Old Paper', 'Fired brick' & 'Mustard Seed'.

- UTTEE -'Black'

- KI Memories Tattoo Rub Ons - Color theory Collection 'Black'

- Charmer - Crown Gold (ch52058g)

- Cover Board

- Brilliance Pad - Galaxy Gold (br91)

- Perfect Medium

- Rubber Scrub Pad

- Super Tape - 6mm & 9mm

- Bleach

- Bubblewrap

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2. Stamping and embossing on a scrapbooking page.

3. Embossing to highlight a feature of the stamp.

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Instructions:

1. Choose the specific squares from the pattern paper you wish to feature as the tiles that will make up the photo frame and cut out them out.

2. Cut cover board into squares to be slightly smaller than the paper squares, adhere paper squares to the cover board and sand the edges of each tile. Two of the tiles were inked.

3. Off the page arrange tiles in the order as you wish for them to appear on the frame.

4. To make the bleach pattern on the Bazzill paper, use an old paint brush dipped directly into the bottle of breach, gently wipe and spread across a small sheet of bubble wrap. Print bubble wrap directly onto top left and bottom right hand side of paper. Put in sun to let dry and intensify the bleach effect.

5. Determine where to place the photo onto the Bazzill page, considering the width of the tiles that will make up the frame and the width of the number stamp to ensure there is space for all elements. Adhere photo.

6. Adhere tiles around the photo, following the prearranged design.

7. Rub on 3 KI Memories tattoos in complete and incomplete forms.

8. Mount KI Memories sticker 'What's Up' onto 'Kisses' Bazzill which has been adhered to cover board. Sand sticker with scrub pad. Adhere onto the bottom right hand side of frame.

9. Use Perfect Medium to stamp 'Mixed Numbers' longways next to the bottom left hand side of the frame. Sprinkle 'Mustard Seed' Embossing powder over the number 3, then sprinkle 'Old Paper' embossing powder over the remainder of the stamp. Emboss to set the powders.

10. Use craft knife to cut out two thin corner strips, one longer and one shorter. Press onto Perfect Medium Pad and dip into Black UTEE then emboss. One the longer corner sprinkle 'Fired Brick' embossing powder into the still hot UTEE and reheat.

11. Use thin Super Tape to adhere corners directly onto top right corner of frame and then onto page at bottom left hand side to border number stamp.

12. Print out journaling and ink edges with Galaxy Gold and lightly stamp 'Mother' stamp also in Galaxy Gold over the journaling. Adhere strips longways above the stamped image.

13. Use Glossy accents to adhere the crown charm to the photo.

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