Holiday Card Inspiration with SEI

Friday greetings and welcome to the blog today. I was recently up on the SEI Blog with my final projects for my Design Team term. It has been an honor and sincere pleasure to design for them. I have loved their products from the very start of my paper crafting journey.

I have a bit of holiday inspiration that pushed me out of my comfort zone just a bit. I've created three quick and fun cards using the Merry Mistletoe collection. Yes, you read that correctly, I said quick! 

For the first A2 sized card, I've featured a bit of the packaging from my Die Cut Pack and also some of the Alpine Velvet Papers.The sweet little die cut bird is delivering the sentiment tag. The design here is very simple, but the cute stickers and embellishments make it easy to create something fun in a flash!

To create my second card, I went with a bit of a smaller scale card, it's approximately 4" square. 

I loved the sweet reindeer sticker, so I selected him and then layered the pine bough swag behind the reindeer antlers to give him a festive look. A bit of fabric trim from my stash creates a focal point for the sentiment sticker which is adhered with foam squares.

It doesn't get much simpler than this, yet cute! A gem on his nose would be fun too.

The third card is again a smaller scale 4" square design. I used a die cut circle, punched a snowflake and layered between it and the "Love" sticker sentiment. I added the "Happy Holidays" on the bottom to anchor the design and added a bit of banner light bulb sticker underneath.

A bit of dimension in the layers keeps it interesting.

SEI Products:

Merry Mistletoe Collection

I hope I've inspired you to take out your SEI holiday papers and put together a few cards! It's always nice to do a few here and there to be sure you have plenty on hand for the holidays.

One final thank you again to SEI for having me on their Design Team this year, what a wonderful group of folks to work with!

Thanks so much for stopping on over today for a visit. Have a super scrappity day!

Follow Your Heart with SEI

Friday greetings to you! I have a pretty SEI project to share with you today.

 

My project today features the Spiral Bound Journal and the Always Yours collection. I wanted a pretty journal that I can use as a mash up for inspirational thoughts and quotes as well as to document some fun mom memories and moments for reflection.
 

 

I began by choosing my focal point papers, then trimming them to size. I adjusted the left border by adding another layer just to the left, then embellishing the transition space with a touch of eyelet lace that I had on my desk. I stitched around all of those layers, then adhered.

 

The sentiment chipboard was inked with a soft green chalk ink and layered with a coordinating sticker from the collection and a flourish that I cut using a die and my die cut machine. I added the tiny grey chipboard heart in the bottom right corner.

 

 

Here you will see my first two interior pages. I kept it fairly simple but thought that the quote was perfect to grace the intro page vellum pocket. This collection is so lovely, the finish of the papers and the foil and pearl accents are amazing.
 

SEI Products:

Spiral Bound Journal

Always Yours Assortment Pack

Always Yours Sundries

Silver Glitter Dots

Kraft Chips - Catalina
 

Thanks so much for stopping on over today, have a super scrappity day!

Happy Heart featuring SEI's Always Yours

Saturday greetings to you! I hope you are having a nice weekend so far. I have a project to share with you today featuring some SEI products.

My project today is a scrapbook page featuring the Always Yours Assortment Pack. By nature, this is a very romantic and pretty line. I decided to use it with some very non romantic type of photos.

I recently took my boys to the circus and they were so excited they could not behave to take a photo before it started. Since I believe that life is not all "Pinterest Perfect", I always scrap the funny and not so perfect photos too.  One of my favorite ways to show them is in a collage.

The sentiment in the heart, "You make my heart happy" was just perfect for the page. I simply trimmed it out a bit from the doily border and it took on a new crisp look. I've used a mixture of grey, cream and pink for the page.

I really like the swirl cream background paper, it is silly and fun. To soften the borders on that layer, I used a border punch only on the right and left sides.

A few pieces of Kraft Chips and Silver Glitter Dots completed the page.

SEI Products:
Always Yours Assortment Pack
Always Yours Sundries
Silver Glitter Dots
Kraft Chips - Catalina

Thanks so much for stopping on over today! I hope I've inspired you to scrapbook your imperfect photos too.

This is Life featuring SEI

Tuesday greetings to you!  I have a project to share with you today that I recently created for the SEI Blog with the very hip and fresh collection named "Florets".

I wanted to work with the blue papers and circle designs in the patterns and collection and mix them up with the striped paper. For my photo collage, I used a fun mix of football photos of our youngest when he was dressing up. He just had a blast getting to wear a full uniform.

I used a bit of the Sundries (enamel dots and gems), some Washi Tape and the coordinating Florets Stickers in the design to play off of the background pattern papers and my photo. The shapes in this collection are so much fun to work with.

SEI Products Used:
Florets Collection
Florets Sundries
Washi Tape 2 Pack

Other Misc. Items Used:
Sewing Machine and Thread
Thanks so much for stopping on over today!

Winter in MN featuring SEI's Always Yours

Hi there and happy Thursday to you!  I was recently up over on the SEI blog with a project featuring the newer "Always Yours" collection and showing a bit of its versatility.

We live in Minnesota where the winter mornings are brisk and sometimes when the weather is just right you can catch some spectacular sunrises. I quickly snapped this photo with my phone the other morning because there was something so pretty about the way the light filtered though the haze. I knew I wanted to scrap it.

I printed the photo in a 2.5x3.5 size, then again in a full 4x6 and cropped both photos to remove the borders, then placed the smaller photo on top with some dimensional adhesive.

After finding the beautiful cream and grey colors in this collection, I searched for a nice variety to create a monochromatic design. You will see that I used the additional kit items here such as the ribbon, glitter chipboard die cuts and stickers along with the pearls.

The "Winter" sentiment was cut using my Silhouette Cameo from the beautiful silver foil paper in the collection to coordinate to my photo mat. All of the papers in this collection have such a beautiful finish to them, it is a wonderfully elegant line!

SEI Products Used:

Always Yours Assortment Pack

Club SEI February Scrapbooking Kit

Basics Sundries

Kraft Chips

Silver Glitter Dots

Thanks so much for stopping on over for a visit today!

Valentine Cards with SEI

Friday greetings to you! I have a few Valentine themed cards to share with you today featuring various SEI papers and embellishments.

My first card "Thinking of You" is created from pieces from the Merry Mistletoe Card Kit as well as the Spring Picnic collection. I love to mix pieces from various lines to keep things interesting!

I used the base from the card kit, as well as the gold glitter and heart borders on top. I mixed up a variety of elements from the Sundries packs and finished the card with some sweet pearls that were also included in the Merry Mistletoe Card Kit.

SEI Products Used:
Merry Mistletoe Card Kit
Spring Picnic - Picnic Basket Paper
Basics Die Cut Accents

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For my next card "I Love You", I used the Spring Picnic collection primarily. I cut some very bright and happy colors for my layers to coordinate with the sentiment which is from the Family Gathering Perforated Sheet.

The button, floral sequin, button and banner die cut are all from the Sundries packs. They always add the perfect finishing touch to your project!

SEI Products Used:
Family Gathering - Perforated Sheet
Spring Picnic Creative Pack
Hoo's Sweet Sundries
Basics Die Cut Accents

Thanks so much for stopping on over today! Have a super scrappity day!!!

Good Times Page with SEI!

Friday greetings to you! I'm super excited to share a project that I created as a Guest Designer for the SEI Lifestyles Blog. I was so honored to get the chance to work with their amazing and fun products!

I created a page featuring some really beautiful papers from the Neon Vibe collection along with some Paper Doilies and Sundries. The pretty envelope was the perfect anchor to my design, it's been embellished with a bit of modeling paste and sprinkled with a variety of mist colors.

Do you ever take photos of the signs for places you visit? I never used to until I began scrapbooking. Sometimes those images really help give a bit of fun design to your page. That's what I decided to do here.

I adore the sequin ribbon in the Hoo's Sweet Sundries pack and used it as an anchor on the bottom of the envelope. The large paper clip is from the Forever Sassy Sundries pack. The die cut elements are just perfect to finish your page beautifully!

I'll share a secret with you, one of my favorite goodies to purchase at crops has always been the Sundries packs. It's just the perfect mixture of gems and embellishments to work with.  So much fun!

Ingredients:

Neon Vibe paper collection - SEI

Forever Sassy Sundries - SEI

Die Cut Elements - SEI

Joyful Paper Doilies - SEI

Mists: Heidi Swapp and Lindy's Stamp Gang

Border Die and Fishtail Banner Dies by MFT

Thank you so much to SEI for the opportunity to guest design for you today. I'll be back soon with a bit more inspiration for you.