Anything but a Card for Creativity Abounds March

 

This month the international team at Creativity Abounds has a great theme for our bundle and hop: Anything but a Card. This hop - and the associated tutorial bundle - is always popular and will give you a lot of examples for all sorts of non-card things: memory keeping, packaging or home decor.

Even if you don't have the exact sets, you'll find inspiration in the different projects each of us has created. If you get the tutorial bundle, you'll have step-by-step instructions for thirteen projects, all of which you'll see as you go around the hop.

You can earn the Tutorial Bundle as a free gift from me with a purchase of $100 or more (excluding P&P) or by being a member of my team. You can shop with me, and join my team, from anywhere in New Zealand.

There are two parts to this post: a bonus project and a sneak peek at my tutorial project.

1. Bonus Project: A Scrapbook layout

The Wildflower Celebration DSP is great for making quick and easy cards but it's also great for quick and easy scrapbooking too. 

I used a piece of 12"x12" White Willow as a base. To ground the photo, I blended some Pool Party ink with a blending brush and stamped over it using images from the Elements of Text stamp set, available as an online exclusive. In my book, it's an essential item whether you're card making or scrapbooking. 

After matting the photo with Blueberry Bushel, I used some DSP from Wildflower Birthday as frames.  The flower, leaves and cupcake were popped out of the ephemera sheet that's part of the collection. Since I have the Birthday Celebration dies, I used it to die cut out a '3'.

In the lower right corner, I added a cluster of elements that I'll hand write in some journalling. 

I stamped some splats from Elements of Text, then layered up three labels from the ephemera sheet and added in a tiny flower cluster. So easy and quick to do!

2. Tutorial Bundle Project

Keeping up the memory keeping theme, my project in the tutorial bundle is a simple, easy free-standing photo frame. There are instructions for both portrait and landscape versions and detailing of the back panel. 

Here's a glimpse at the other twelve projects in the tutorial package. Take the hop around the rest of the team and you'll see exactly which non-card projects are being showcased as well as the twelve extra bonus projects. 

If you live in New Zealand, you can get this tutorial bundle free with a qualifying purchase from me. If you live somewhere else, you can get the bundle from a team member in your country. 

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