First Communion Layout with Connie Mercer

First Communion Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Connie combines Jenni Bowlin paper with our book page hearts, kraft masking tape and embellished mini kraft bags. Her combination of distressed neutrals and sweet pastels is a lovely ode to her vintage style.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Blue Library card 

Book page heart punch outs 

Kraft masking tape

Vintage inspired Wedding favors 

 

 

To see more of Connie lovely work be sure to visit her blog by clicking on her picture below.

Crafty Goodie

 

3 Smiles Layout with Kat Benjamin

3 Smiles Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Kat Benjamin

It is a dreary day here in Georgia - rain, rain and more cold chilly rain. It was the perfect day than to post Kat's bright and warm layout. I love her use of color swatches in the background and how she integrates these bright flashes of color with warm basics, including our burlap butterflies, clothespins and felt butterflies.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Burlap Butterflies 

White Doilies: 
Felt Butterflies
Clothespins

To see more of Kat's lovely work click on her image or blog link below.

Krafty Kat

Embellished Burlap Bucket with Raechelle Bellus

That’s it! The end result is so much better than a plain burlap bucket, don’t you agree?

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Ruffled Fabric Ribbon

Felt Doily

Wood Button

To see more of Raechelle's lovely work click on her picture below.

Burlap Pinwheel Gift Bag with Jenifer Cowles

Jenifer shares a whimsically embellished gift bag. I love how she topped with a burlap pinwheel and several layers of our rosettes. 

She reports, "These were so much fun to make, take some burlap and create a pinwheel, use stacking rosettes for the center and a straw for the stick.  All tied up with some fabric and ribbons and you have the perfect party topper for your goodie bags."

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Alice Rosettes 

Cream rosettes 

doily

fabric ribbon 

 

seam binding 

woodgrain bag

To see more of Jenifer's enchanting work, visit her blog, Stitch-Cut-Create.

Love you Lots Layout with Tracy McLennon

Love you Lots Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Tracy McLennon

 Tracy shares how she incorporates our dyed doilies into scrapbooking today. Her lovely multi-tone border highlights the muted tones of her layout and coordinates beautifully with our baker's twine.  She includes her journal on one of our half sized library cards.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Hand Dyed Doilies

Mini White Shipping Tags

Baker's Twine

Assorted Library Cards

You can see more of Tracy's designs by visiting her blog.

Altered Rock Star Frame with Kristin Greenwood

Altered Rock Star Frame
Curtesy Boutique Designer
Kristin Greenwood

I find scrapping my son so much more challenging than scrapping my three girls, so I love it when I see great ideas for boy layouts. This altered frame and layout by Kristin is a perfect mixture of edge and embellishment. 

The close up below shows the fantastic way in that she embellished our chalkboard hearts. She gave them a hard masculine edge by embossing them then rubbing them with gold and silver ink. I also love how she distressed the edges of the fabric rosettes - the perfect way to play down their ruffled lightness.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Chalkboard Hearts
Red Polka Dot Ruffled Fabric Flowers
Sheet Music Ruffled Fabric Flowers
Paper Rosettes

To see more of Kristin's lovely work, you can check out her blog HERE.

Celebrating Everyday Moments Layout with Alyssa McGrew

Thursday Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Alyssa McGrew

This layout was inspired by a simple,everyday photo of the building next to Alyssa's.  There was a storm coming in, and the lighting was amazing.  Not every layout has to be a momentous event to make it into her albums!  

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Corrugated Car

Blue Calendar Card

To see more of Alyssa's lovely layouts be sure to click on her image or the link below to visit her blog.

Hot Beverage Bar with Strawberry Baskets by Connie Mercer

Winter Hot Beverage Bar with Strawberry Baskets
Curtsey Boutique Desginer
Connie Mercer

 Cold weather is upon us here in Georgia and Connie's idea for a hot drink bar using our strawberry baskets is brilliant. She added our baskets to an enamel tray and then organized her biscotti, sugar and creamer on a sweet enamel tray.

We aren't coffee drinkers in our home, but I think I might do the same with hot chocolate packets, extra marshmallows, and candy cane stir sticks.

She topped her lovely collection off with a chalkboard tag embellished with our burlap butterflies, rolled felt roses, and heart stick pins.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Burlap Butterfly 

Chalkboard Tag 

Wood Stir Stick 

Berry basket

Red Felt Rose 

Red Heart Stick Pin

To see more of Connie lovely work be sure to visit her blog by clicking on her picture below.

Crafty Goodie

 

Happy Halloween!

Vintage Happy Halloween Card
Curtsey Boutique

Cutie Layout with Kat Benjamin

Cutie Layout
Curtsey Botuique Designer
Kat Benjamin

Kat shares this wonderful 12x12 layout today. The little one in this photo is just adorable. She uses a number of our shipping tags as embellishments topped off with a few of our book page stars, hand dyed doilies and glitter butterflies. All the gold accents are right on trend and sparkly sweet.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Book Page Stars
Assorted Shipping Tags
Hand-dyed Doilies 
Glitter Butterflies

To see more of Kat's lovely work click on her image or blog link below.

Krafty Kat

Halloween Gift Basket with Raechelle Bellus

Halloween Gift Basket
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Raechelle Bellus

 Who says all treats need to be received with door-to-door knocking. 

Raechelle has conjured up a lovely gift basket perfect for tiny monsters or grown up ghosts. Our berry baskets are so easy to customize with your favorite shade of acrylic or spray paint. Raechelle painted hers in a haunting shade of glossy black.  Her die cut leaves from our library cards are a beautiful finishing touch for our candy corn fabric flowers.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Wooden Berry Baskets

Chalk Tags

Dyed Yellow Doilies

Cello Bags

Candy Corn Fabric Flower

Library Cards

Baker's Twine

To see more of Raechelle's lovely work click on her picture below.

Back 2 School Treat Bag with Jenifer Cowles

Back 2 School Treat Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jenifer Cowles

Jenifer needed a couple quick and easy teacher gifts for the first day of school.  This came together quickly and she made several in a few minutes.  She threw in a couple new pencils and some treats and the kids were off. These would be find for the upcoming holidays as well as you could write any message you like on the chalkboard tags.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

kraft bag  

doily  

felt flower  

bow 

chalkboard tag  

felt doily  

red/white twist ties

To see more of Jenifer's enchanting work, visit her blog, Stitch-Cut-Create.

DIY Lavender and Wildflower Seed Thank You Packets Tutorial with Tracy McLennon

Lavender and Wildflower Seed Thank You Packets Tutorial

Original Design : Tracy McLennon

Curtsey Boutique Supplies:

Polka Dot Embossed Coin Envelopes

Glitter Crowns

Other Supplies:

Mini Ziploc Bags

White Cardstock

Journal Pen

Flower Seeds

Heart and Tag Punch

Patterned Paper

Lavender and Wildflower Seed Thank You Packets:

This is a sweet and simple project that can be easily made in larger quantities. I created these to be a part of a Garden Party themed bridal shower. They were a part of the Thank You gift for all of the people that attended the shower.

I cut out all of the hearts and tags from patterned papers. I inked everything with a chocolate brown ink. I also cut small strips of white cardstock which I wrote Thank You on. But you could always print out these sentiments or stamp them.

Then I began to assemble the front of each mini envelope. Any regular adhesive will do, but I used my hot glue gun for the buttons.

I separated the seeds from their original packages and then placed them each into a mini zipper bag. This would make sure that none of the tiny little seeds would escape from the envelopes.

That’s it! Your quick and easy favours are complete!

You can see more of Tracy's designs by visiting her blog.

Sweet Layout with Kristin Greenwood

 

Sweet Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Kristin Greenwood

Kristin had out done herself today with layer upon layer of loveliness. I love the depth and dimension she has created and the longer you look at her sweet layout the more details you see. 

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

4 inch Sunset Red Round Doilies, Hand Dyed Set of 20 
Mini Clothes Pins - 1 inch - Vintage Gold Shabby Chic Painted - set of 12 - wedding favors, scrapbooking 
Set of 4 Shabby Chic Safari Sunset color themed Paper Bows - Blue, Rust, Yellow, Brown 
Burlap Butterflies - QTY - 10 Wedding Fabric Embellishment, Gift Wrap, Packaging, Decor, Scrapbooking 
4 inch Orange Round Doilies, Hand Dyed Set of 20 
Small Embossed Wood Grain 2.75 x 4.25 Glassine Bags - Set of 20 
4 inch Yellow Round Doilies, Hand Dyed Set of 20 
Set of 6 Kraft and Brown Cardstock Paper Rosette Embellishments 
 

To see more of Kristin's lovely work, you can check out her blog HERE.

Apple for the Teacher Card with Rebekah Faries

Apple for the Teacher Card
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Rebekah Faries

Teachers tend to get gifts at the beginning and end of the school year, when parents are happy to send their little ones off on the bus after or a long Summer or when they are excited to have them back after a full year of school.

I love this card that Rebekah has made and think it would be perfect for giving to a teacher now. A kind of "I know you are in the thick of it and we appreciate you" pep talk.

To all the teachers out there who have helped me and my children over the years - thanks so much!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Red Sequins

Green Bakers twine

To see more gorgeous work from Rebekah, visit her blog, Midnight Lullabies.

Congrats Gift Bag with Alyssa McGrew

Congrats Gift Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Alyssa McGrew

Our very own Alyssa McGrew welcomed the most adorable new addition to her family last week!  We are celebrating by sharing a gift bag she made for a friend of hers who has had a baby boy earlier in the year.

Alyssa, needed a creative way to wrap a wallet-sized book, and the kraft embossed bags from the shop were easy to embellish, and the perfect size for a small item.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Paper Bow

Wood Gran Kraft Bags

To see more of Alyssa's lovely work be sure to click on her image or the link below to visit her blog.

Alyssa Scraps

Embellished Mason Jar and Button Card with Connie Mercer

Embellished Mason Jar and button Card
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Fall is my favorite season of the year - crisp cool air, knee high riding boots, leaves that crackle under your beet and soft cozy sweaters. Fall is also a time for canning or if you hate a big kitchen mess - for using canning jars in creative ways. I love Connie's use of our plastic mason jars and daisy lids here. The warm fall colors and a collection of vintage buttons are fantastic for organizing, but also a fun gift for a crafty friend or cute finishing touch on a fall mantle.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Plastic Mason Jars and Daisy Lids

Brown Seambinding and Manila Tag

Mustache Tag

Green Paper Bow

Vintage Key

Green Baker's Twine

 

 

other supplies:

Jenni Bowlin Studio patter paper ( under lid)

Darkroom Door background stamp (on tag)

button card stamp/ Papertrey Ink

ink/Tim Holtz distress

ink/Wendy Vecchi

buttons (lots of them)

To see more of Connie lovely work be sure to visit her blog by clicking on her picture below.

Crafty Goodie

Week 30 Project Life Layout with Kat Benjamin

Week 30 Project Life
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Kat Benjamin

Kat shares her thoughts o her week 30 Project Life Layout

"I went heavy on the pink for this week's spread because one of the week's highlights was my best friend's baby shower.  She's having a little girl, so I used that as the perfect excuse to overload on one of my favorite colors!  The Curtsey Boutique has a lot of pink embellishments that worked really well for the look I was going for!"

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Hand-dyed Doilies: 
Heart shaped straight pins: Felt Butterfly Stick Pin: 
Library Cards: 
Book Page Stars: 

To see more of Kat's lovely work click on her image or blog link below.

Krafty Kat