Love by Mel Connell

Hello once again. 

Thank you for dropping in to check out my latest creation using the fabulous Couture Creations products. 

This time around I have used the Vintage Rose Garden paper collection (still crushing on this, it's just stunning!), One of the sets from the newly released Frames and Frill collections and a few dies form the Everyday Essentials Collection. 

All three of these create a gorgeous soft frilly romantic feel. 

I have used several sheets of the Vintage Rose Garden 12 x 12 sheets of paper. Cutting some of the floral elements out to use as embellishment, and cutting from other sheets some of the elements using the dies from both collections. 

I have cut around 7 of the Script love word from the Everyday Essentials collections and glued them all on top of each other to create a thicker 3D effect with the word. 

I have cut apart the Edith Border to use the small Butterflies individually around my layout. 

Sprinkle around a bunch of Gems, I have used the Vintage Gold colour, adding them to the centres of the printed flowers on the Vintage Rose Garden paper and also to the centre of the small dies cut flower from the Anastasia set of dies. 

Couture Creations Products Used:

CO724122 - Everyday Essentials Collection, Script Love

CO723960 - Ornamental Lace Dies, Frames and Frills - Anastasia Set

CO724120 - Everyday Essentials Collection, Edith Border

CO723971 - Vintage Rose Garden, 12x12 Paper Pad

CO721990 - Gemstones - Vintage Gold

CO721955 - Pointed Non Stick Scissors 

CO721954 - LED Precision Tweezers

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

"Friendship isn't a big thing" - Mel Connell

Hello again everyone. 

So glad you could once again stop by and have a little look see at what I have been creating with the Couture Creations products. 

I recently needed to make a card to thank someone for their support over the last few months. I took the opportunity to use the brand new release dies from the Frames and Fill collection. 

I love all four of the sets in this collection and they will be staples for years to come. 

You can find them all here. 

Really who doesn't love a doily? Am I right? 

 I settled on using the very sweet Elissa Set. 

Start out by creating a card base in card stock, choose a colour that matches your favourite sheet from the Vintage Rose Garden 6 x 6 paper pad. 

Die cut the doily from plain card stock, and then the inner circle die from another coordinating sheet from the 6 x 6 Vintage Rose Garden pad. The inner circle dies gives a slight pinked zigzag edge which is lovely or you can distress the edges as I have. 

Give the doily a couple of coats of embossing enamel. I've gone with an antique gold to match the gorgeous green of the paper. 

Stamp a message on the inner circle and layer the together with the new Couture Creations Glue pen. It's really big and you can cover a lot of area fast. 

Trim down your main pattern paper piece and centre in the middle of your card front. 

layer all these elements up on your card front with a few pretty flowers.

Don't forget to add a little surprise o the inside of your card. I love to put little elements inside also. 

I have used the flower spray die from the Elissa set and covered with a few layers of embossing enamel again. Adhere this to the back of one of the word sentiments from the ephemera sheet in the 6 x 6 paper pad, and mounted this inside on some foam tape. 

It's just a little something extra when they open the card to read your message. 

Couture Creations Products used:

CO723971 - Vintage Rose Garden, 6x6 paper pad

CO723963 - Frames and Frills, Ornamental Lace Dies - Elissa Set

CO724037 - 2 Way Glue pen

CO721963 - 18mm Foam Mounting Tape

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

Kaiser Blue Bay - Tomorrow's Memories.

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to stop by and share a layout I have recently done using the new Kaiser Blue Bay Range. 

This is such a pretty range and can be used for so many kinds of photo occasions. Here I have used a photo I took of an old temple that has been converted into a restaurant in Bali. 

Along with the gorgeous My Creative Wings chipboard swirls, this is just a divine combination. 

I had a bit of messy fun on this one also, using the new Tim Holtz Distress sprays. I am so in love with these. I used the Pewter on the chipboard swirls and also used Picket fence to create some paint dribble grunginess under my focal photo. 

All these products and more are available in store now. 

You can keep up to date with all the wonderful work created by the Tomorrow's Memories Design Team here. 

 Hello Everyone. 

Well it's a new year, hope you all enjoyed your holiday season with family and friends. 

I hope you have loved seeing all the new CHA releases that Couture creations has in store for you this year. Some really, really yummy stuff coming. 

So today I wanted to share with you a card I made this past week. I don't know about you but I do find myself looking for fresh inspirational quotes at the beginning of a new year. 

I have used the Cuckoo Clock die set from the Vintage Rose dies collection. I just love this for using my quotes stamps on. It's just enough space and fits really well onto the front of a card. 

I've inked around the edges of the die cut with some brown ink and my sponge dauber and added a few gems for a touch of sparkle. 

Using the Classic Vines Die from the Vintage Roe collection also I have cut one out of a pale coloured paper from the Vintage Rose 6x6 paper pad. Cut it apart to use smaller portions to add some foliage behind the flower on the front of the card. 

I have fussy cut some of the floral designs from one of the sheets also from the Vintage Rose 6 x 6 paper pad and used these as embellishments in the bottom corners of my card. 

Couture Creations Products Used:

CO724046 - Vintage Rose, Intricutz Dies - Classic Vine

CO724050 - Vintage Rose, Intricate Dies - Cuckoo Clock

CO724062 - Vintage Rose Garden, 6x6 paper pad

CO721988 - Gemstones, Crystal

CO723623 - Sponge Dauber

CO721986 - Hand Held Essentials

CO721955 - Non Stick Scissors

CO721954 - LED Precision Tweezers

CO721963 - Foam Mounting Tape - 18mm

CO721985 - Double Sided Tape - 6mm

Merry Christmas Layout by Mel Connell.

Twas the night before Christmas.........

Hello again everyone. Firstly can I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May it be full of family and friends, sparkle and cheer. 

I wanted to do a layout with a photo of my gorgeous Christmas Tree, using my very very favourite dies from this year. ( Of course they are christmas one, I'm not called Miss Christmas for nothing). 

I loved that the Vintage Rose Collection Paper range has some deep red prints, and with all the gorgeous green prints you are set for Christmas gorgeousness. 

I cut some Pine needles and Christmas Branch, Christmas border, holly branch flourish and the stunning 3D bow. This little bow set if fasting becoming my absolute favourite die set. 

I have gone a little sparkle crazy and heat embossed my pine branches and the holly flourish with glittery embossing powder, they just shine so beautifully. 

Layer up all your Die cut elements, add in a few paper flowers, sprinkle around some of the Couture Creations Gemstones, and hey presto. Super pretty, very Christmassy layout. 

Merry, Merry Christmas too you all. xxxx

Couture Creations Products Used:

CO723889 - Christmas Lace - Ornamental Lace Collection, Christmas Border

CO723914 - Merry Little Christmas - Intricutz Dies Collection, Pine Needles

CO723931 - Merry Little Christmas - Intricate Dies Collection, Christmas Branch

CO723916 - Merry Little Christmas - Intricate Dies Collection, Holly Branch Flourish.

CO724062 - Vintage Rose Collection, 12 x 12 Paper Pad

CO721984 - Double sided tape, 12mm

CO721996 - Gemstones, Crystal

Hanging Decorations by Mel Connell

Hi Everyone welcome back. Today I am here to tell you about my super quick and easy hanging decorations. It's that time of the year again and we are busy decorating our homes for the Christmas season, putting up trees and hanging tinsel. I sadly am not able to have my tree out this year and wanted to make something I could hang around my home to make it feel a little more festive.

This is a classic old idea but such a fun and cute one. Perhaps this could be a great  activity with the kids one weekend between now and Christmas day, I'm sure they would love making them. 

What do you need? Well several of your favourite Couture Creations Doily dies, your nested circle dies, some pretty paper, string/thread or ribbon and some beads or bells as I have used. 

For each ball you will need four doily dies and four circles cut from your papers. Glow your circle into the centre of your doilies, and then score each one right down the middle and fold. 

Make sure you have a crisp fold line. 

Glue two piece together with the patterned paper facing out. Repeat for the second two. Give them a moment to dry a little. 

While your waiting cut a lengths of your twine or thread or ribbon and thread a bell or bead on it. 

Run  line of glue down the inside of one of the folded and glued halves of your ball, lay your thread through it so it is going to dry into the glue line. Add more glue and stick the two halves of your ball together. 

Your could dd a bow at the top or add paper flowers, but I wanted mine to be fairly simple. I intend hanging mine in the scallop of my green tinsel boughs I am going to be hanging around my house this weekend. 

Thanks again for stopping by to see what the Couture Creations DT has been up to. I wish you well and would love to see some hanging decorations that you might make. 

Couture Creations products used:

CO723314 - The Treasure- Ornamental Lace Collection, Memories Set

CO723040 - Nesting Dies, Circles

CO724062 - Vintage Rose Collection, 12 x 12 Paper Pad

CO724037 - 2 Way Glue Pen

Love Card by Mel Connell

Hello Again All. 

I am back again with a very very simple but very pretty card that you can make for a Wedding, or a special Birthday, and Anniversary, well for many many occasions really. 

Start out by making your card bas. This is a tri fold style card, Cut a pice of cardstock at 6  x 11inches and then score at 4" and then at 4" from the first score line, this will give you one panel that is slightly smaller and this becomes your front. 

Cut one of your Favourite Couture Creations boarder dies from the same colour cardstock at your card base. Double side tape this onto the edge of the small front panel. 

From here just cut panels of your favourite paper from the Vintage Rose Garden Paper pad, distress the edges of all pieces and stick into place laving a small boarder of cardstock showing. 

Add some Gems or pearls to the boarder, and cut out a greeting from the printed sheet in your paper pad to the front. This sheet is brilliant, small words or quotes pre-printed ready to go, just cut them out and add them to your project. 

Couture Creations products used:

CO724062 - Vintage Rose Garden 12 x 12 Paper Pad

CO723247 - Momento, Ornamental Lace Dies - Chandelier set 

CO721985 - Double sided tape - 6mm

CO721955 - Pointed Non stick Scissors

CO721990 Gemstones - Vintage Gold