Guest Designer Tarina LaFollette

Happy Everything Card | DT

Hello Everybody!
This is my very first design team post here at One Scraptastic Grandma! and I am SO happy to be here! I would like to thank Janice Wilson for giving me this opportunity! I truly hope to craft up to your expectations!

Without further ado…..

I absolutely adore the Hello Lovely collection from the new Close to My Heart, Seasonal Expressions Ideabook, and I’m very excited to be using it along with the newest of CTMH products!

I started out with adhering the blush w/polka dots paper from the Hello Lovely Paper to a White Daisy card base. Next, I trimmed down the whisper paper w/diamond shapes to leave a small border on all sides. Before adhering, I used my CTMH Edge Distresser to rough up all four edges of this piece.
To make the tag, I started with a rectangle and trimmed off one of the corners. I then flipped the little trimmed piece to the other side of the rectangle, lined it up with the corner and trimmed off that corner also. This makes the trimmed corners the same size and angle. Using a tag punch or die cutting machine works great too! I adhered the tag about three quarters of the way down, and all the way to the right of the card front.



Tying the bow was the next step. I’m not sure if you’ve tried, but it’s not all that easy to tie a tiny bow with ribbon, but I Love how this one turned out (I’m pretty picky about my bows lol). The softness of the Blush Shimmer Ribbon made it much easier to tie, and gives this tiny bow just enough sparkle to make a statement.


For the heart I really wanted to use vellum, so I dipped into another collection I’m excited about. 
The Uptown Fundamentals paper pack has black and grey patterned papers, papers/vellum with gold foil, and the perfect, pin-striped vellum for the heart. also used the largest heart in the new Thin Cuts- Basic Hearts die set to cut it out.  When adhering the heart to the tag, adding just a little bit of adhesive to the center (from left to right) of the heart helps hide the adhesive from being seen.
Using the Way to Go stampset from the Annual Inspirations Ideabook, and Archival Black ink pad, I stamped ‘happy everything’ onto a spare piece of White Daisy cardstock and trimmed off any excess from around the greeting. I wanted the greeting to have a bit of dimension to it, so I used the 3-D Foam tape to adhere it to the center of the vellum heart. This also covers the adhesive used to adhere the vellum heart.
Saving the best for last, lol I added the bling! Bitty Sparkles and Gold Glitter Gems turned out to be just the right amount of bling to finish off this card.

Along with scissors and your favorite adhesive, here is the Card Recipe, or list of the products I used, to make this card.
~Card Recipe~

I hope you enjoyed my first project, as I am very excited to get started on my next one! If you like what ya see, leave a comment down below.
We’d love to hear from you!
I hope you have a great weekend!
~Tarina Lafollette







Little Miss Delilah Mini Album - By Tarina LaFollette
This is an 8×8 mini album that I made for my SIL to record her daughters' first year. This album has been a work in progress for about a year due to life interruptions. I am so glad it is finally finished!
I have pics on my blog as well as info on the cricut cartridges used.
www.meandmylittleideas.blogspot.com
Thanks for watching! 
~Tarina


Here is a video that Tarina has made showing her creative process,
Wedding Picture Frame - start to finish


Click here to see her other YouTube videos


Tarina designed this bag to hold the prizes for our Spring Summer 2013 Idea Book Kick-Off party on Jan 26, 2013.  She used the Buzz & Bumble Workshop On The Go kit and Fabulous You stamp set.  This is all new product from Our new Idea book.




Here is a box that Tarina made for me to store all my glitter glues in.
 I love this little box.  It is so beautiful.
 Lots of room for all my glitter glues and my Liquid Glass.
 The box fits inside the lid too.
 I even have extra room for glue.
 I love the little charms that she put on the handles too.
She made this beautiful little card to go with it.

This was an early Birthday gift for me.

Thanks Tarina.

Guest Designer Coming soon!!!

Yes, you did see Guest Designer, and I am so excited to be having a guest from time to time.

Here is a sneak peak of things to come from Tarina Lafollette.

You can check out Tarina's other You Tube videos here hellotarina