smARTworks Winter Gallery

Thanks again to Susan Trask of smARTworks, who was our very first sponsor a few months ago at Christian Paper Crafts. Our DT was supplied with the most awesome package full of designer paper, cardstock, punched flowers, charms, ribbon, items to alter, and several sets of stamps. Many awesome projects were posted then in the smARTworks gallery at CPC HERE, but we saved some holiday treats to post in December. Check out all of the smARTworks winter uploads HERE.
Though I'm absolutely not a scrapbooker and have only done a few pages EVER, I gave it a shot since there were so many awesome supplies in our smARTworks package to do so. I know, I know....it's not a winter spread, but it comes from the heart.....every winter I dream about spring to keep away the winter time blues! Everything you see here was provided by smARTworks, except for the fence punch, scalloped circle punch, and Sizzix letters for the title. (How do you like the trees I made with a zebra background stamp?!)

This quick and easy card was also made using these smARTworks materials: watercolor note card and matching envelope, pink satin ribbon, pink gemstones, sentiment from the "God Bless" set, and the wreath was stamped with a tiny branch stamp (name unknown).

Thanks for stopping by today!! Stay tuned tomorrow for another Bible Verse Thursday Challenge! God Bless!

smARTworks Sponsor Spotlight!

This month's sponsor for Christian Paper Crafts has been smARTworks, a wonderful company owned by Susan Trask. Susan sent a very generous package of goodies for each of the Design Team members to work with....including stamps, ribbon, cardstock, embellishments, punched flowers, altered items, and much more.

For the first project here, I used a watercolor note-card and matching envelope, a flower silhouette stamp from "Sunny Delight", and "Joy of the Lord" sentiment stamp.....all provided by smARTworks. Using scratch paper masks, the scenes were colored with sponge daubers and ink pads. I chose not to embellish this note-card, but used paper piercing instead.

My next project is almost entirely made from the smARTworks package. The "God Bless' stamp set had so many sentiment stamps that I couldn't choose just one for a project....so I chose them all and made a Viewmaster card....this was a blast!!! The close-up photo shows the different sentiments.....what a versatile set!!! I used the instructions found on the Resources page at Splitcoast. The flowers from "Sunny Delight" were masked and stamped many times, then cut out with scissors and an exacto knife. The "slide mount frame" is a stamp from "Misc. Trio Backgrounds" set.



My last project for today was something totally new for me....bottle-caps! smARTworks provided four bottle-caps ready to decorate as page embellishments, magnets, or whatever you can dream up! I recently saw a Martha Stuart tutorial on making photo frames out of bottle caps and jar lids, etc. Just print your photos, punch them out with a 1" circle punch, seal the front and back of your photos with packing tape, and use any kind of clear resin to seal them into the bottle cap....I used Ranger Glossy Accents. Once dry, I glued thumb tacks to the back so that I could put them on my cork board with my other personal goodies!! So fun and so easy! The hard part was waiting on them to dry!!!


Thanks for stopping by today! Check out our Design Team gallery for smARTworks for more projects. And don't forget to check out the huge variety of products at smARTworks today!! Many blessings to you!!!

smARTworks....Vendor Spotlight at Christian Paper Crafts

This month's featured sponsor over at Christian Paper Crafts is "smARTworks"! Susan Trask, the owner of smARTworks, has provided our Design Team with a wide variety of stamps, paper, ribbon, and embellishments. My post today features a matching notecard and envelope, along with the "Have A Heart" stamp set, satin ribbon, and gemstones....all provided by smARTworks.

Check out the variety of products at smARTworks.....from altered items, to tools, to a HUGE variety of rubber stamps, to punched embellishments, and more!

An Important Annoucement:
Tonight at midnight is the start of Christian Paper Craft's second Posting Challenge contest! Visit this thread to find out how to win a stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs!!!! All you have to do is leave comments in the gallery or forums......come on, most of us are natural "Chatty Kathy's" anyway, right? Good luck, everyone!!!