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Hello everyone, this is Faith. Just letting you all know that we have 12 x 24 vinyl on the website (www.couturecardstock.com) only. Unfortunatelly, we do not offer the custom textured in 12 x 24. Guess it wasn’t very popular. The vinyl is awesome though! Check out the colors.
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- Chalkboard vinyl
We also have a chalboard vinyl, yes I said it chalboard vinyl.
Hello everyone! Sorry we haven’t posted for a while. Lot’s of exciting new changes. First, I would like to give you an itinerary of our upcoming shows. Next, I would like to let you all know to check out our new products. Buttons, Ribbons and Glitz cardstock (this is awesome, the glitter doesn’t come off).
Faith
Scrapbook Conventions for 2011
Memories Scrapbooking Expo™
March 25-26, 2011
Ohio Expo Center
Lausche Building
717 East 17th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43211
Scrapbook Expo
May 20-21
Garden State Convention Center
50 Atrium Drive
Somerset, NJ 08873
Great American Scrapbook Convention
June 24-25
Chantilly, VA
Scrapbook Expo
July 8-9
Gwinnett Center
6400 Sugarloaf Parkway
Duluth, GA 30097
Scrapbook Expo
August 19-20
Pheasant Run Resort
4051 E. Main St.
St. Charles, IL 60174
Upcoming Shows
*CKC-Valley Forge*
July 29, 30, & 31, 2010
Valley Forge Convention Center
King of Prussia, PA
*CKC-Charlotte*
August 13-14, 2010
Charlotte Convention Center
Charlotte, NC
*CKC-Cincinnati*
September 10-11, 2010
Duke Energy Convention Center
Cincinnati, OH
*CKC-Virginia Beach*
August 27-28, 2010
Virginia Beach Convention Center
Virginia Beach, VA
*Scrapbook Expo*
August 20 & 21, 2010
St. Charles, IL 60174
October 22 & 23, 2010
*Ontario, CA*
November 5 & 6, 2010
Sacramento, CA
Please welcome the addition of Cardstockonline.net to Couture Cardstock!
The addition of cardstockonline.net is an exciting new adventure. Coordinating all of the wonderfull products is a challenge, but will provide all of our customers from both sites with the best we can offer.
Progressive Layout, take 2!
At the end of April, we brought you our first Progressive layout.
This month we did it again, only I had the opportunity to create first (muah ha ha) and send it to Alyssa!
Here is what she received from me…
I absolutely adore this photo. Last summer, Alyssa and her family came to visit me in Alabama, and this image is of our 4 kids standing together at a local park. After having some photoshop fun with the picture, I used the colors of the balloons as inspiration in creating the background. I used my Trash Bag Technique, lots of glimmer mist, and some painted bubble wrap to give the page the Heidi-esque artsy feel. I then added strips off to the side like Alyssa often does, only using chipboard and felt for added fun. I could not wait to see what she would come up with!
Here is how she finished it!
(Cardstock used: Frosted Felt, Pumpkin Vine, Temptress)
Didn’t she an amazing job? I LOVE that she kept the bit of green (hmmm… sounds like what she said about the last progressive!) and added more. Her use of foliage and hand-cut details add so much eye candy to the layout and I am just in love with how it turned out! What do you think?
xx Heidi
ps. Don’t forget to leave a comment on my Font Challenge, Take 2 post earlier this week, by midnight tonight…. I have a stash waiting for a winner!
Orchid Tutorial
Okay, scrappers… we all LOVE flowers. And we all love to incorporate various kinds of flowers into our projects, right? Well, I have just been waiting and waiting for someone to come out with an orchid, for our pages, cards, and altered art.
However, my patience ran out a couple months back and I decided that I was going to make my own orchid, and today I am going to share it with you!
Here is what you are going to need:
Your favorite scissors
A circle template/stencil
An oval template/circle
Distress ink and sponge
Glimmer Mist
Couture Cardstock
Pop dots
Adhesive
Bling or beads (optional, you can use so many things for this step!)
1. Draw templates like below, onto a pale colored cardstock. Both my circles and ovals were 1.5 inches and I overlapped them slightly. For the cardstock, I used Couture Cardstock’s “Baby Blanket”, because my finished flower was going to be a dark pink, and I wanted the pale pink to show through in the center.
2. Cut out your flower pieces, flip over so that you don’t see the markings, and ink with Distress Ink. (I used “Vintage Photo” for mine.)
3. Then scrunch up a small piece of scrap paper, crumpling into a ball. Place this into the center of your circle template. This will be acting as a mask for the center of your orchid.
4. Mist with your favorite color. I used Tattered Angels “Bubblegum” and “Red Velvet”.
5. While still slightly damp, scrunch the edges of both flower pieces. After you have achieved your desired scrunching 
glue the circle template onto the oval piece as follows!
6. Now, cut a small heart from your leftover cardstock. Then cut out the bottom and center, like in the photo below.Keep this piece, you will need both to finish the center of the orchid!
7. Slightly mist this with the same color that you used on your orchid pieces, and then attach to your orchid. You want to place the top, thick portion of the heart, onto the bottom of your flower. Orchids have a unique little center with tails that point up, and the bottom of your heart will be used for this. After the heart is attached, slightly twist the tails of your heart so that they point up and in.
8. Take the tiny center of the heart that you cut out, and glue pointed up, just above where you cut it out. Bend the tip of that heart up as well.
9. Add a teeny bit of bling or beads, teeny flowers, scrunched up paper, etc., to the center of that… and there she is!
I have made several of these, while making the tutorial above (hence the reason the masked center all appears the same!), but you can alter as you’d like and change the size based on what size shaped circles and ovals you initially start with.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial! Tomorrow, I will be bringing you another progressive layout that Alyssa and I worked on together, you won’t believe how she finished the craziness that I sent her.
xx Heidi
PS- Here are the winners we promised!
Angie Vallejo, you are the winner of our poll and you will receive some Couture Cardstock!
Laura Stewart, you are the winner of our Font Challenge, part 1 post and have won some flowers!
Congrats, ladies, please email me at amcgrew@couturecardstock.com to claim your prizes.
Don’t forget, you have until the 1st to comment on Heidi’s Font Challenge part 2 contest to be entered to win another prize pack! :)
~Alyssa~
The Couture Color Room, Palette #12
Okay. So this week’s Color Room Palette was a doozy for me. I love the color palette, but I think that I started and stopped 5 different things before I finally came up with my project below! (Phew, I love a good challenge and The Color Room has certainly provided that for me!)
This week the coordinating Couture cardstock colors are Suspect, Curry Spice, Gumshoe, and Watson.
The background to my card is the color Suspect, mounted on top of Curry Spice. I used Watson to create the faux ribbon detailing underneath the lace, and I rubbed rub-ons on top of the color Suspect, creating a couple of strips across the card. The card is finished in the inside by saying “is empty without you.” And of course, there is a bit of messy, grungy, detail made by ink and molding paste. (Did you think my cards would be clean lined? I am guessing not! I just can’t seem to help myself…)
Don’t forget to answer Alyssa’s poll question for Saturday, she will be announcing the winner on Tuesday!
Tomorrow I will be posting an orchid tutorial, I hope you will come back and take a peek.
xx Heidi
Creating at the Shoppe!
Yesterday I experienced something amazing. I taught, for the first time, a scrapbook class at Columbus, GA’s own “The Scrapbook Shoppe”. Sponsored by Couture Cardstock, I was able to really cram a few fun techniques into a two hour class!
This is me and Cheryl, The Scrapbook Shoppe owner. What a wonderful, bubbly, fun, woman, she is! And these two, Claire and Jill, kept me going… that is for certain. I didn’t even have time to get nervous, they were able to ask all the right questions, at all the right times! (All the ladies here were so sweet, and just made me feel so comfortable!)
Cheryl was great about taking some photos, so here are some “action shots” during the class!
I taught the ladies how to make their own orchid flowers and a dimensional starfish out of Couture Cardstock, and then we created a layout and card using Couture Cardstock and Websters Pages “Seaside Retreat”.
Here is the layout we made! Aren’t the colors beachy and vibrant?
So you see the orchids and starfish? By the time we were finished with this class, I had everyone inked, misted, sanded, and sparkled!
If you like those orchids, come back and visit us on Tuesday. I will be posting a tutorial on how to make orchids of your own, but these will be the non-beachy version!
This was so much fun. Thank you Cheryl and ladies for having me over to play! I hope I get to see you all real soon.
xx Heidi
Supplies used: Couture Cardstock: Winter White, Nomad, and Umbrella
