November Guest Designer Intro and some Holiday Card Inspiration!

Hello Scrapping Bug Buds!

My name is Liz Rossi and I'm honoured to be the guest designer this month for The Scrapping Bug.  Just to give you a little insight to myself, I am a trained and educated scientist working in the pharmaceutical world but my passions are scrapbooking/card making/photography/snowboarding and being the mother of my 3 wonderful daughters. I love making wonderful memories, taking a tonne of pictures of said memories and scrapbooking them as much as possible.  Dare I say it's my key to immortality!  My passion started in highschool where I was yearbook editor and continued in university where I was yearbook editor for my residence.  It has only grown over the many years since then and I am inspired everyday by the amazing artists and companies out there that take this passion to a whole new level!

My project today hinges on the Holiday Season fast approaching and my 2nd daughter's passion for  penguins.

This card is called a side-step card and is very easy to make.  It can be folded flat for mailing and sits on a table-top or Christmas tree with stability and ease.  (That way you can be sure your creations are admired regularly!) I got the template and measurements from here.

(There are alot of great easy to follow, downloadable templates for many different card styles here!)

After cutting the base of the card, I attached the background trees die cut from a Cuttlebug die/emboss combo and coloured them using Evergreen Bough Distress Ink.  The snowflakes were also cut using an old Cuttlebug die.  I first covered the white cardstock with Scorpal double sided adhesive before I die cut the snowflakes and then used  Tim Holtz' Clear Rock Candy Dry Glitter to give it that snowflake bling.  I drew the igloo free-hand on white cardstock and dry embossed it with the Sizzix Brick Wall embossing folder then topped it off with Icicle Stickles.  The adorable penguin is a stamp from Whiff of Joy ("First Snow") and was coloured using Copic Markers.  I love colouring.  It's so relaxing and reminds me of carefree days of childhood (*sigh*).

The designer kit I was given has some really pretty new prints from My Minds Eye, The Sweetest Thing-Bluebell collection.  There are cool colours for winter themed cards/layouts as well as pretty brights and water hues to cover summer memories.  Very versatile!

I hope I've sparked some creative fuel.  I'll be back later this month for another project.  Enjoy!

Never Stop Creating!

Liz