Hey there! Sarah reporting here with a dynamic duo of cards created with the Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker collection called “Exit Here.” This is a bright, fun, and happy line of papers! It made me think of one thing- SUMMER!!!! Woohoo! You can defenitely tell I have summer on the brain by my first card, which includes an amazingly delicious looking summertime treat…

And to be honest with you, I can’t really call it a summertime treat bcuz i eat ice cream year round soooo…anyhoo, I created this ice cream cone by stacking a few of the Basically Bare Cupcake frostings on top of one another. The middle scoop is a felt piece and the other two scoops are canvas pieces that I covered with pink craft paint.  The cone is just some cardstock I cut and embossed, and the cherry on top is a Basically Bare button! I used my Zig Painty FX marker in red that Kurtake provided, and topped that off with some red Stickles. I did the same technique to my little Basically Bare sunshine! This card makes me happy, it’s got 2 of my favorite things on it! Ice Cream & Sunshine yesssss!

For my next trick I’d like to show you a card with another fave of mine, flowers! I wanted to have a flower in a pot, annnd I still had the bottom portion of my Basically Bare cupcake left sooooo,

It just happened to work out perfectly I ripped off a little of the front cardboard layer to grunge it up a little.

Juiced it up a little with some red bakers twine (which Im addicted to) and a Nikki Sivils tag, it actually looks like a real flower pot! lol The posy is a Basically Bare flower chipboard embellie that I covered with some bright & cheerful Nikki Sivils patterned paper.

Thank you to Nikki Sivils and Kurtake for generously donating your beautiful products! Have a creative day everyone!

Love, Sarah

Don’t forget to visit the Nikki Sivils Blog, too!

Hi everyone, it’s Erin posting again today.  :)

Who likes vintage?   Of course I do, but with a modern twist!  Sewing manikins are still hot in the crafting world and so I thought I’d create a canvas with one using one of the Basically Embellies Dress Forms.

I stared off by painting a 5″ x 7″ canvas using some of my favorite paints and stencils.

Then I pulled out three of the canvas leaves, and one of the small chipboard flowers from the Basically Embellies Bare Basics Blossoms & Leaves, and one of the bodices from the Dress Form set and painted them up.  While they were drying I covered the skirt of  the dress form with the chevron zig-zag paper.  I then adhered the dress form onto the canvas with matte regular gel medium…it’s nice and thick so I can “slope” the edges around the chipboard since it dries clear, and then paint over it.

Then I just adhered the “leaves” onto the skirt with some more gel medium and added a few embellishments too.

I was careful to only adhere the tops of the leaves onto the canvas so that the bottoms could have some dimension.

And then I just finished it off by stamping on a scripture verse and adding some finishing touches.

Welcome back for another cute project!  Jamie here with you today with a couple of super cute cards. I wanted to show how, just by changing the colors used, the look and feel of a card could be easily altered.

For both cards, I used the same embellishments and design.  However, the pink card has a softer Springtime feel, whereas the yellow card has more of a Summery feel.

To start, I inked and distressed the layers of patterned paper.  Then using the  Holiday Ornaments acrylic pieces, I used white StazOn to give them a frosted look.

Next, I just inked around the edges in either pink or green, depending on the card.  I used the same technique on both cards.

My next step was to layer on a bare felt flower and simply adhere a button in the center.

Lastly, I used the Stack-a-Bellies Birds.  The two chipboard birds I covered with patterned paper and then spritzed with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist.  The felt bird was saturated with Glimmer Mist, then I just ever so lightly inked the edges with Distress Ink.

Supplies used:

*Basically Embellies Birds

*Basically Embellies Holiday Ornaments

*Glimmer Mist in Yellow Daisy

*Chalkboard Glimmer Mist in French Vanilla

Hey papercrafting peeps!! Sarah Bargo reporting here, and this is my first post for the Basically Bare Design Team woohoo! I am sooo excited to be a part of the “Scrap Stars,” there is some major talent here!  I have been a hard-core scrapper for about 13 years now.  My 2 little angels  boys are defenitely my biggest source of inspiration, along with amazing products out on the market, such as the Basically Bare Embellies. Oh my gosh these are so fun to play with! There is so much you can do with them!

So for my first post I wanted to create a layout, and I’ve been wanting to scrap this picture of my niece and I. We had the funnest day together and she is such a sweety I had to do something, well, sweet! I absolutely love strawberries (obsessed) so I thought that would be perfect! I searched through my new Basically Bare goodies and this is what I came up with;

This was a really fun layout because I’m always making boy-esque pages and this one is super girly! I wanted to create a large focal point of berries, so I grabbed my Bare Basics Hearts Set #1, covered 2 of them in paper, and distressed the edges. Then of course they need stems and leaves, right? Welll I thought the Bare Basics Happy Little Tree Trunks would look cute and stem-ish so I also covered them with paper, flipped them babies upside down and voila! A happy little stem lol! I misted the leaves from the Blossom & Leaves set with Tattered Angels Meadow Green Glimmer Mist. I loovvvee misting the Basically Bare canvas shapes, the end result looks awesome! Annnndd of course every strawberry plant needs a white felt blossom..

I must say it was really fun trying to use shapes in different out-of-the-box kind of ways, you should try it! That’s what being creative is all about right? Here’s a couple more shots, I made some hidden journaling tags that can be pulled down. For my writing utensil I used a Zig Writer, from Kurtake.

Added a few more sprinkles;

That’s my niece Lexi girl, isn’t she a sweety?

So that’s it for now darlings, I hope I’ve inspired you to play and try a little something “out-of-the-box!”  Happy Crafting!

Love, Sarah

Hello everyone!! DeeDee here, and I’m so excited to be here, so excited and so HONORED that Basically Bare chose me as a 2012 Design Team Member — this team is full of the most amazingly talented people and run by the most generous individuals.. The whole team is full of inspiration and creativity! There’s nothing more I could ask for when it comes to being part of a team — and today I have for you my first post as “An Art Assembler” !!

I decided it was time I create a rainbow road for my mantle.. and so I pulled out my Happy Little House Set and set to work!

I grabbed some distress ink in Broken China, Festive Berries, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Spiced Marmalade, Dusty Concord, and Mustard Seed. I also used Distress Stain in Wild Honey, Broken China, and Spun Sugar. After all my distressing was done.. spritzing of the water included.. I grabbed a Viva Las Vegastamps! stamp and gave the yellow house a bit of oomph with a chicken wire background. Then I glued on all doors and grabbed my Kuretake ZIG Writer in Brown — because it was a little compared to the other browns on the houses I went over it a couple of times. Using the marker I added sketch lines to certain parts of the doors giving them a little extra life.

Then.. decorate each house.. The green got buttons and twine. The yellow got old book butterflies cut using the martha stewart punch. The orange house got a giant ribbon dyed in the same colors and tied through a giant vintage button. Red got a vintage tape measure and a dymo label “HOME”. Purple got a handmade flower, and blue got a Tim Holtz idealogy clock configuration with lots of Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze in Waterfall.

You may also notice that two of my houses have their fires going.. Green’s smoke was made from a Qtip, and the blue house’s was made from some beautiful mini aqua colored tinsel.

Here is an up close shot of the stamped chipboard and of the ZIG sketching.

Here you can really see how wonderful the distress ink acts on chipboard.. those splotches are made from spritzed water after the ink has dried.

And here are all my pretty little houses in a pretty little row! If you were going to move in.. which would you choose?

–DeeDee

Anyone out there, besides me, old enough to remember playing with paper dolls as a kid?  I remember getting some for Christmas many years ago and playing to my heart’s content.  Basically Bare’s Dress Forms Set puts me in the mind of  paper dolls because  there are many different ways that I can dress them up.  I mean, the possibilities are endless!!

For my card, I started with a chipboard dress form and a felt flower from the Blossoms & Leaves set.

I used WOW embossing powder in metallic copper to emboss the top and bottom posts on the dress form.  This stuff melts like butter and is ever so shiny!  Love it!

I traced the dress form onto patterned paper and then trimmed.  TIP: I don’t use pencils to trace my elements, I use a stylus.  I find that I can get closer to whatever I’m tracing and I don’t have to erase.  Cool, right?!

After cutting from patterned paper, I adhered the paper onto the chipboard.

I inked the edges and then added a few embellishments: a piece of pom pom trim to the hem of the dress, a strip of tiny pearls to the neckline, and a flower and button to the waistline.

I decided that the white flower was too bright, so I used a paintbrush to paint it with silver sugar glimmer mist.  I added a bow and half pearl to the button and then adhered to my project.

Here’s the finished card.  I see many more of these little dress forms in my future; I simply cannot get enough of them!

Here’s a close-up of the Basically Bare elements.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today!!

Have a safe and happy New Year!!

Tanisha