LOVE - Circle of life single scrapbook page

 This layout that focuses on love, two young people exchanging wedding vows, features my new daughter-in-law's favorite colours - purple and turqouise.

I used Fabscraps C128 Circle of life papers and did lots of fussy cutting from the beautiful sheets of paper.

The chipboard gate is exclusively available from www.purplemagnolia.co.za. It was heat-embossed with Lindy's gang mixed media embossing powder, also available from our online store. 

The chipboard swirls were coloured with purple craft ink and dry-brushed with Prima opal magic rose gold.

Texture was added by adhering purple glass seed beads, lilac mini flower pearls, gauze coloured with a purple shimmer spray and paper flowers.

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Happy crafting, until next time.

Marie Smith

Elegant silver and white for Christmas

 

I love the elegance of white and silver for Christmas.

 

 

I used silver Letterpress ink in the cut-and-emboss folder, but any thick metallic ink pad, applied with a brayer, should work well. I cleaned my embossing folder with clear stamp cleaner.

A piece of Fabrika vellum with silver foiled drops was inserted behind the opening created by the folder.

The heat-embossed vellum poinsettias were created using my most favourite set by Heartfelt Creations, but it is sadly retired.

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Happy  rafting, until next time.

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Raspberry garden with a touch of rose gold

 Make and give cards that ‘pop’ with colour and texture.

Start with pretty printed papers such as our Lemoncraft raspberry garden paper pads (The Purple Magnolia is the importer for Lemoncraft) on a card base. You can distress the edges with a distress tool or with scissors. Add stencilling with texture paste. I used The Purple Magnolia stencil S004, designed for us by Suzanne Smith Du Plessis, our talented designer. Next, add a die-cut that is ‘lifted’ with foam tape for dimension. I used Lady E Design doily die. Decorate the card with fussy-cut flowers and leaves and chipboard elements (exclusively designed for The Purple Magnolia), that are heat-embossed with rose gold embossing powder. Lastly, add a piece of tulle or gauze between the layers of flowers and leaves.

This is really an easy card with lots of interest and texture. All products are available in our online store.

Lemoncraft raspberry garden paper pack

Stencils by The Purple Magnolia

Chipboard elements by The Purple Magnolia

Shower of stars Christmas card

 

For today’s Christmas card inspiration, I tried a technique shown by Jennifer McGuire, applying alcohol ink to glitter cardstock. I used two shades of blue ink. When the ink was dry, I applied white texture paste through a stencil, designed for and available from The Purple Magnolia’s online store.

I used silver embossing powder to apply heat embossing technique to the Heartfelt Creations snowy village stamp and die set.the village die-cuts were created using Heartfelt Creations silent night dies.

Vellum poinsettias were created using Heartfelt Creations Christmas poinsettia stamp and die set.

Happy crafting, until next time.

Marie Smith

Raspberry garden explosion box

 Dear fellow crafters

I must admit, I have a bit of catch-up to do on this blog. This has been a strange year, but we are thankful for blessings, and for having you as followers - many of you are my followers on Facebook, my scrapbooking group and Instagram (#purplemagnoliashop). If you want to consistently be updated, do consider following me on those platforms too, as not all projects are turned into blogs.

For a long time, I wanted to create something pretty out of the Lemoncraft raspberry garden papers and today I am happy to share a project that gave me much pleasure in the creative process.  

I used half of the A4 paper pack- which, by the way, is absolutely pretty and perfect for 8x8 inch (20cm) mini albums. I used the Lady E Design cake die set and the Lady E Design doily die for creating the delightful cake inside the box. 

The pretty little foamiran flowers were created from THE BEST FOAMIRAN on the market, available from 14 Craftbar, and one of the dies in the Lady E Design small flowers die set.

I also used Lady E Design tags 1 die set to create a small tag to insert behind the fussy-cut envelope. Your personal message to the recipient can be written on the tag before it is slipped in behind the envelope, which is only glued down on the left, bottom and right hand sides.

On the lid and the inside flaps of the explosion box, I added small chipboard swirls and flowers, exclusively designed for and available from The Purple Magnolia.

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Happy crafting, until next time. remember, if you enjoyed looking at this blog, please leave me a comment below.

Happy crafting, until next time.

Marie Smith

Reawakening in spring - mini album

 Hello, fellow papercrafters

Today's inspiration is a mini album that features Fabscraps' beautiful C124 Reawakening collection. Such lovely, water-colour effect flowers.

I don't have much to say about the creative process - with such pretty papers, one does not have to do much to achieve a stunning end result. I mostly cut the paper mats to size, distressed the edges and added a few pieces of torn vellum paper and a few embellishments.

 Happy crafting, until next time.

Marie Smith

Forget-me-not explosion box

 Spring is all about blossoms and blooms.

Today I bring inspiration with an explosion box that features the pretty forget-me-not papers by Lemoncraft.

I added lace leaves and a selection of chipboard elements that are exclusively available from The Purple Magnolia’s online store. These were hest-embossed with mixed media embossing powder.

Have a happy day

Marie Smith