Hello clever crafty friends! Today I'm throwing my hat into the ring by auditioning for the Couture Creations Design Team. If you're not that familiar with this brand, they are an Australian company that offers a wide range of products to the crafting community. If you are familiar with them it probably is because of their outstanding hot foils, dies and other foiling products. Their hot foil happens to be my favorite of the many brands I've tried. However, they carry a huge line of crafting supplies and tools. Foils are just one of Couture Creation's many products.
I decided to give one of their product lines, Dot and Do a try. This system reminds me a little bit of the sticker books I used to get when I was a kid. The premise is simple. Find a sticker that matches a shape on a template and apply it over the top. As you add more stickers, a beautiful pattern of shiny colors takes shape until you have a completed card panel. But that's not all! (LOL! I love saying that!). Also included are decopage images in 4-6 pieces that you layer up using foam tape to create a lovely 3D focal point on the foiled card panel. The results are quite amazing.
Cupcake Card - Purple Cake Kit
Rose Panels - Purple Flowers Kit
I found the process really relaxing. It's similar to working on a jigsaw puzzle only a lot faster and very satisfying in a short amount of time. As you work, you discover what colors your design will be since each shape comes from one of the 4 colored foils. The exception to that are strips and small dots. Every sticker sheet has those options so it allows you to pick the colors you desired for those shapes, thus giving you flexibility to make it your own.
Iris Card - Purple Cake Kit
You can get many different Dot and Do kits on Amazon and other places but the one I purchased came from HSN. In this kit, I received two Dot and Do kits, each making at least 3 cards. The set names are Purple Cake and Purple Flowers. Included in this kit is their picking tool which looks like a pen but has a sharp pick instead of an ink refill. This is a perfect tool for picking up and moving the stickers to your template.
Flower Heart - Purple Flowers Kit
As you can see from the photos, the cards made from the Dot and Do kit are gorgeous. I enhanced them with some softly applied Oxide ink and gems. I used stamps also to create several sentiments although I left many without sentiments because I didn't feel they were needed and would take away from the cards themselves. I used stencils and ink or silver glaze as well. The designs really don't require enhancements but I had fun seeing what ideas I could come up for backgrounds and accents.
Wreath - Purple Flowers Kit
I hope I've successfully piqued your curiosity to check the Dot and Do line out a little further. I've got a video showing all the parts and pieces of the kits I used, close-ups of the finished cards and a tutorial showing you how to make the card pictured below.
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed learning a little about Couture Creations and their Dot and Do card line. Let me know what card you like best!
Janet
Link to the HSN Dot and Do Kit featured in this post: CLICK HERE
Link to Couture Creations Collections on Amazon: CLICK HERE
Link to US Facebook Page: CLICK HERE
Hi everyone! Well, I'm back today with the first 5 cards I made using the Creative Escape Papercrafting kit for March. It's called the Amazing Value kit and you can subscribe to receive monthly or bi-monthly kits or you can buy them as you want each month.
I have been asked to join their Design Team so I will be showing you more Creative Escape Papercrafting kits very soon. I will be presenting tutorials for making 10 cards starting this month. To practice making 10 cards from 1 kit, I decided I had better buy one and try making 10 cards to make sure I could do it!. I am happy to report that I had a ball with it and I'm looking forward to getting my first official design team kit in a few weeks! This kit was packed with the Carta Bella Spring Market Paper Collection as well as a Sizzix Framelits set and lots of other goodies. You can see the unboxing video of the kit HERE:
In today's video, I show you the first 5 finished cards made with the kit. Don't worry. I tried my best to explain what I did so you can still follow along with me. Even if you don't have this kit, no problem. You can do similar styles with supplies in your stash. My hope is that I'll give you lots of creative ideas!
I've included 4 of the 5 card photos in this post. I have to admit that I've given my favorite one away as a thank you to someone already! You can see the missing card in the short video. I'll be back later this week with 5 more cards and a bonus item so watch for that.
Click on THIS LINK to go there directly or click on the thumbnail below:
I want to also let you know that I am trying to build up my Instagram audience. So to encourage participation, I am doing a giveaway there. Click on THIS LINK and it'll take you to my page. Follow me and comment on the photo that has GIVEAWAY on it. Just tell me what you like best about spring by Midnight on April 27th and I'll include you in a $20 gift card giveaway to the CottageCutz store. If more than 50 do so I'll give a 2nd prize away too. I'd really appreciate your help and support so I can bring you more content in the future.
Well, that's it for me today. Thanks for joining me. I so appreciate you all!
-Janet
Link to the Creative Escape Papercrafting Amazing Value Kit HERE
