Frame the Birds Giveaway Winner is.................

...........Giovana aka gioempx1@gmail.com but, ya know how I am...we had to draw another name outta that cool whip bowl...so Amy aka alhughes@mtu.edu is also a winner of a Frame the Birds Die Cut Giveaway...Ok...y'all stay tuned...I have another giveaway coming shortly...

Mini Dress Die Cut

This is the neatest little dress die cut...Oh my...I am gonna have fun with this one...I used some pattern papers to make the dress, added some ribbon...I cant wait to make some of these in red and purple for my mother in laws red hat gals...She is gonna love it...I am thinking about making them pins with them...
So many possibilities for this little dress...I have more ideas coming...this was all I had time to get done today... ok...I got the Mini Dress Die Cuts for sale on the studio blog at http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com

New die cuts are here...the Birds and Frame with oval opening

I know...these are kinda cheesey...but I did the best I could with 45 minutes after work today...I just had to play...I just love these birds...I have more ideas coming...but wanted to share these for now...
I had to do the patina technique...I just love this...I did a bit of the double layer embossing with the Cuttlebug folders on this one...I used the dots first, added some gold metallic paint, then smoothed the dots down with my bone folder...ran thru the swirls folder and added the patina colored paint...I spattered with some black paint, trimmed the bird in gold...I used the paisley folder on the wing...and added extra gold over the patina...i used a gold brad for the eye...
These are fun and quick to do...i just used some chalking and colored the bird...added an eye using a fine tip marker and white dot in eye is fabric paint...I spattered with black after i was finished...
The frame is cheesey...I just wanted to play with it...I used the double layer embossing with the Cuttlebug folders...more samples coming soon... http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com to purchase...

ATC Scrapbook with Page Protectors Kit---By Sue Shute for Debbie's Die Cuts

This is the most adorable ATC Scrapbook ever...sorry this photo is a bit fuzzy...you can see each page by scrolling down thru this posting...Sue Shute made this sample for me...I love it...The paper she used is from Daisy D...These are Sue's grand children...Aren't they beautiful...Thank you so much Sue...I love it...and You did a fantastic job...

Frame with oval opening---New Die Cut coming soon...

I love this frame...Outside measures approx 3.5 x 4.5 with a 2 x 3 opening...Perfect for card fronts, mini books, scrapbook layouts...and more...Check out the special on my studio blog http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com/ ...

Faux Enamel Tinware

I love this technique and the look...sorry this photo blurred on me...
I used a yellow, green and teal Nick Bantock re-inker to color the watercolor paper, after it was dry, ran thru the Cuttlebug embossing folder, colored the raised areas using black ink...I added some gold metallic paint and spritzed with black marvy marker
This is hubby and I on vacation last year...

Yoda Tag...I love Yoda...

A friend of mine sent me a RAK card a couple weeks ago...and as luck would have it...a Yoda stamp...yeah...I love Yoda...I mean...he is the man...I love Star Wars...Ok...I get it...
so...I had to use him to embellish the tag I made yesterday...I mean the colors, the look, everything was perfect...

Skinny Minny Max Book-New Book Design by Debbie Bankston

This is my newest book kit design...I have had this in the works for a few months...but with all the family illness, I had to put it on hold...I call this my Skinny Minny Max Book...its the largest skinny book kit I have...Ok...Here goes...I started with the white cardstock book pages...3 colors of Nick Bantock Inks...I love those inks...I got mine from Betsy at Innovative Stamp Creations...Mist the cardstock, then mist a sponge, ink up the sponge using the lightest ink color...
I started with the yellow...be sure that the cardstock and the sponge are moist enough, but not dripping with water...clean the sponge off on paper toweling, before going into the next color

Spritz cardstock only as needed...spritz more water on the sponge, then pick up the next color of ink, this time it was the deep pink color...use less of it, because its a strong color...
Clean the sponge off again, re wet sponge and ink up with green ink...after applying the green ink, clean sponge, re wet and soften any areas you need to...You need to work quickly...so you don't have to keep re-wetting the cardstock...
After I got each piece finished...I layed them to the side to dry...
After they are completely dry...I stamped with some images to create a background for the photos I am using in this book...I love the new stamps I got from Innovative Stamp Creations and this queen annes lace looking image was perfect for the black shadow effect I like...
I added the pink flourishes, because I love that flourish stamp...and becuase I was working with pink, black and lime green...

I covered the chipboard book cover with pattern paper, then overstamped using the flourish stamp and the word Always...Betsy designed that stamp just for me...Its "our" word...The first letters we ever wrote to each other, we signed with the word always and our names...and since we have been together since that first meeting...That word is very special to us...and I love this stamp...I added some punched flowers and a small bracket that I ran the Cuttlebug dots folders and colored the raised areas black...
This is the insde cover...I will go back and add some other things later...This book is using photos from our wedding ...our 3 year anniversary is coming up in May...
This is the first page in the book...I had to turn this page long ways...cause there was no cropping this photo...My girlfriend from Alabama, came and too photos for us...She did a good job...I love my wedding bouquet...and will treasure it always...
This was my favorite part of the ceremony...You may kiss the bride...Well, except for the music, which made up both teary eyed...
This is the preacher that married us...he and my hubby have been friends since school...He is a good preacher too...

These little angels were adorable...our grand daughters are the ones on each side, the middle one is our niece...
These are my hubby's parents...We got married at their house, on the veranda over looking the "pond"...I call it a lake, but they call it a pond...
When my hubby's parents asked what we wanted for the ceremony...I said barbeque ribs, tater salad and cupcakes...So thats what I got...My father in law cooked some killer ribs...I made tater salad and cupcakes...Raspberry sherbert and gingerale punch...
My mother in law said I had to have a cake to cut tho...So I went to Wal Mart and bought a white on white cake, with the word Always written across the top in white icing...bought a little bride and groom topper and some doves...voila...instant wedding cake to cut...
Ok...I hope I didn't lose ya in the mix there...Did ya notice I used mini brackets, small brackets and flourishes and swirls on some of the layouts...I love the look of my Skinny Minny Max book...and have another one already started...The Skinny Minny Max book is 3.5 x 8.5 its a wonderful size for all sorts of projects...Check out my studio blog shortly for ordering info...

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Skinny Minny Book meets Bind It All...Yeah...A Perfect Match

I wanted to make my Skinny Minny Book with a Bind it All binding...but...the book width will not line up with the hole spacing evenly...so...I did the next best thing...I made a template using my Bind it All...
and lined up my Skinny Minny book under the hole spacing...
Marked the center area of the holes...

and used my Crop A Dile to punch the holes....
Its perfect...now...I can have my book kit and optional binding methods too...LOL...kinda like have my cake and eat it too...
I love it...oh my gosh...its just too cute...
Here is what I did to the book so far...More to come with this for sure...Oh, by the way...this technique for binding odd size books, works great with everything I have tried it with so far...I made templates for the regular punched holes and the ones using that little spacer bar thingy...I used the holes with the spacer bar for the above book...

Cuttlebug Embossing Techniques by Debbie Bankston

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Techniques by Debbie Bankston

Patina, Copper metallic and gold metallic coloring on the Cuttlebug embossing...I love this folder...reminds me of screen wire...kinda old rusty wire here...
I love the copper metallic paint over the Textile Folder Cuttlebug embossing...
I have some more to add to this tag, but wanted to show it...I had another sample, and have lost it amongst my piles of stuff in the studio...Here I used two different Cuttlebug embossing folders on the same tag...I started with a white tag, base coated with black acrylic paint...then added copper metallic to the top area of the tag and blue metallic to the bottom area...then after Cuttlebug embossing both areas...I used black acrylic paint to color the embossing...I added some black spattering and gold metallic paint accents...I added the gold ribbon along the separation line and hopefully will finish it tomorrow...
I had to push the envelope again with this tag...I stamped the swirl from Innovative Stamp Creations for a background, then using various Cuttlebug embossing folders used my Layered Cuttlebug embossing technique...This time I smoothed each layer flat including the last one...I use my bone folder to smooth the embossing down...but you can use the back side of a spoon also...
I then stamped the images from Innovative Stamp Creations and added some black spattering and gold and copper metallic paint applied randomly...I could not get the photos just right...but this baby looks cool...