IMAGINISCE & CORE'DINATIONS BLOG HOP!!!

Hi everyone! A very happy Monday to you!! 

Welcome to the Imaginisce & Core'dinations blog hop!! You should have arrived here from Jennie's blog. If this is your first stop, be sure to head over to either Imaginisce's blog or to Core'dinations ColorCore blog to start at the beginning!

This week Imaginisce is teaming up with Core'dinations and the whole week projects are being shown on designers' blogs from both Imaginisce and Core'dinations on how to incorporate ColorCore Cardstock in your projects. And there's even more good news: if you leave comments on every blogpost you can win this from Imaginisce: Tool Kit and POGO adhesive:

and this from Core'dinations: Glitter Silk collection, Black Magic collection and Sand It Gadget:

Awesome prizes, right?!!! 

And now let me show you what I created for the hop: first a card for a man:

supplies: patterned paper: Imaginisce's "Outdoor Adventure"; cardstock: "Tillie Dot" collection from Core'dinations (white and brown dotted cardstock). Other supplies: the sentiment is a stamp from Unity Stamp Company, the ribbon is from May Arts and the button from Doodlebug. Tools: "Sand It set": Core'dinations; sewing machine: Aigger; Silhouette Cameo (for the moustaches).

and secondly a card with a summer theme:

supplies: patterned paper and huge diecuts: Imaginisce's "Endless Summer"; cardstock: "Tillie Dot" collection from Core'dinations (white, light blue and dark blue dotted cardstock). Other supplies: burlap: misc., cardstock: Bazzill Basics; staples: Tim Holtz; words-to-go: K&Company. Tools: Sand It set: Core'dinations; sewing machine: Aigger; Silhouette Cameo to create the waves; Tiny Attacher Tim Holtz. 

To sand my cardstock to reveal the core color I used the "Sand It" set from Core'dinations:

when you unpack it, it looks like this: a block with velcro and different sizes of sanding paper, both for the top and the sides:

So super easy to use! I wish I had known of these before!!

Okay, my blog was your last blog on the hop for today. Just for a reminder (or if you have gotten lost along the way), here's today's blog hop order once again: 

Core' Team:

Mary Pat Siehl
Vivian Keh
Debbie Standard

Imaginisce Team:
Regina Mangum
Guiseppa, Gubler
Jennie McGarvey
Monique Liedtke << you're here!

Thank you so much for participating today and hope you'll enjoy the rest of the week's inspiration we'll be bringing you. 

Have a great day!

Hugs,

My Core'dinations Creative Frenzy!

Core'dinations is having a Design Team Call and because I LOVE their products I decided to give it a go!

Here are three new projects I created with their cardstock this week. I decided on three totally different projects: a layout, a card and a "sleeve" for a "vase" (bottle).
First the layout: "Silly Kids"

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection), patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket (Jack's World), corrugated letters: Making Memories, doilie: Maya Road,  corrugated flower, bird & white/black flower: Lily Bee, other flowers & white/black leaves: Prima Marketing, buttons: Creative Café, Fabric star: Canvas Design, ink: Color Box cat's eye.

Techniques: I sanded the cardstock to achieve the beautiful white accents, I spray inked the fabric star, inked a lot of edges of the embellishments and of course I machine stitched the four edges of the layout.

Secondly an Easter card:

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection & Color Core), patterned paper: Scenic Route & Cosmo Cricket, flowers & leaves: Prima Marketing, crystals: ZVA, twine: Divine Twine, letter stickers: Bella Blvd & Cosmo Cricket.

Techniques: I distressed the edges of the background cardstock (light green) and traced it twice with a black pen, I handcut the rabbit and sanded it, I punched the border in the middle.

And then the third project, a sleeve for a flower vase/bottle:

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection & Color Core), patterned paper: Best Creation (Bunny Love), epoxy shape: Epiphany Crafts, pins, yellow ink: Color Box cat's eye.

Techniques: The "vase" is an empty flowers bottle from Prima Marketing which I found just perfect for these Daffodils to put on my Easter breakfast table!

Here's what I did:

• For the sleeve: I cut a strip of Core'dinations cardstock from the Cosmo Cricket collection and sanded it.

• For the front: I used another strip of cardstock (Color Core) and folded it into a flower. Then I punched a circle from the Core'dinations Cosmo Cricket collection and another circle from the Best Creation collection.Then I used a round Best Creation sticker and to finish it off I placed an epoxy circle with a Best Creation chicken on top.

These were my three new projects I created especially for the call, but I want to show you one more new layout I created this week where I used Core'dinations: "What's that in your nose"

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection & Color Core), patterned paper: Nikki Sivils (We are Family), die cuts: Nikki Sivils, brad: Nikki Sivils, letter stickers: Nikki Sivils, bird die: Marianne Design, ABC border punch: Martha Stewart, twine: Divine twine.

Techniques: I sanded the dark brown Core'dinations cardstock and used it for both the strip at the bottom of the page as well as for the bird in the tree. I distressed the edges of the "orange" Color Core cardstock and used it as a photo mat for the top photo and last but not least I created a border with the red strip of Color Core cardstock with a Martha Stewart border punch.

I just LOVE the versatility of this cardstock!!!

This is it! Hope you  like my projects and now keeping my fingers crossed for the call!!

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you back soon!

Hugs,