Bath Salts Gift Bag with Rebekah Faries

Today we are sharing a delightful project that doubles as a great gift idea.  This gift bag, created by Rebekah Faries, starts with a Kraft Bakery Bag, to which Rebekah added bath salts, then made it beautiful by adding a Heart Shaped Doily, some Baker's Twine, a tag, and an adorable wooden scoop from the shop.

The shop is on vacation currently, but you can still browse these items and more by clicking HERE.  We'll be back soon!

To see more of Rebekah's lovely work, you can visit her blog HERE.

DIY Wedding Glass Charms & Design Team Call Reminder

DIY Wedding Glass Charms
Chalkboard Hearts
Curtsey Boutique

I absolutely love it when I go to my inbox and their are emails from happy customers sharing photos of their completed projects with Curtsey Boutique products.

Yesterday, I received one of these emails from a lovely customer named Bridget who used our chalkboard hearts to make these darling glass charms. Aren't they sweet. She did an amazing job!

The chalkboard hearts can be found in the shop here.

Don't forget about our ongoing Design Team Call. All the details are below and the deadline is a little over a week away.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Party and Event Planners
Scrapbookers
Card Makers
Home Decor Lovers
Project Lifers
Packaging Addicts
Accessory Makers

***International Applicants Welcome ***

REQUIREMENTS

6 Month DT Term (April - September)

Create 2 projects a month

Create 1 separate tutorial a month (photo or video)

Be able to take clear, well staged photos of projects.

Be willing to allow project photos with proper credit to be used in shop listings even after your design term expires.

Must have an active blog, updated at least twice a week.

Must be able to create a Curtsey Boutique pinterest board to share projects and product updates.

All projects will be posted on your personal blog and the Curtsey Boutique Blog 

Post our DT badge on your blog sidebar.

Be an easy to work with, happy personality that meets deadlines and offers insight and inspiration when it strikes you!

COMPENSATION

Generous box of Curtsey Boutique product at the beginning of your term that you get to help select!

Additional product boxes throughout your term with shop updates and resupply items.

Discount on all shop purchases and free shipping if the purchase coincides with a DT package.

Link to your blog in all your project posts and on our DT members page.

Shop credit via product payment for publications when the shop is listed in the publication's supplies.

APPLYING

Provide your contact information:

Name
Blog Address
Email Address
Mailing Address
Links to Social Media (facebook, pinterest, online galleries, etc.)

Images of 3 of the projects (layout, home decor, packaging, card, mini album, Project Life, etc) that best reflect your current style. They don't need to be new or contain Curtsey Boutique product (though its nice if they do!)

Provide a list of your experience (either in resume format or less formally) including current  and past design team commitments

A brief introduction of yourself and why you would like to work on our DT.

Email all this to: curtseyboutique@gmail.com with DT Call Submission in the subject line

DEADLINE

March 9, 2014

New Design Team members will be contacted personally by 12 March 2014.

DIY Jute Organizer and Burlap Bag Dispense Tutorial by Connie Mercer

We all love to use Jute in our projects, but storing and keeping it kink and not free is not always easy. Connie has stylishly mastered this organizational conundrum and is sharing her burlap organizer tutorial with us today.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Burlap Butterflies - Curtsey Boutique	Plain Burlap Bags - Curtsey Boutique	Green Damask Ruffle Flower - Curtsey Boutique
Butterfly Botanical Ruffle Flowers

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 You can see more of Connie's lovely work by clicking on her photo.

DIY Tag Banner Tutorial with Connie Mercer

DIY Tag Border Tutorial
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Connie shares quick and easy instructions for creating the tag border on her layout above. A great project to use up all those left over holiday tags.

1. Select 5 tags, 1 envelope and 1 mustache tag.  Ink around the edges if you like.

2. Use a hole punch to punch a small hole in the flap of the envelope.

3. Adhere a small piece of black cardstock behind the mustache tag.

4. Tie the orange twine on the tags and arrange them to your liking.

5. Adhere the tags to the page and add  decorative trim to the top of the banner/border.

Other Supplies:

Authentique/pattern paper

Bazzill/cardstock

October Afternoon/stickers

Graphic45/black trim

Queen & Co./yellow pearls

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Chalkboard Cardstock Tags - Curtsey Boutique	Kraft Mustache Tags	Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique
Assorted Library Cards - Curtsey Boutique	Curtsey Boutique White Shipping Tags	Polka Dot Embossed Coin Envelopes - Curtsey Boutique

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 You can see more of Connie's lovely work by clicking on her photo.

Fun in A Tree Layout with Alyssa McGrew

Fun in a Tree Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Alyssa McGrew

This week's Project Life spread focused on our trip to a local ropes course.  I got so many fun photos of the kids (and their dad) in the trees, working their way through the course.  I used a series of tags from the shop as the base of the layout, and built on top of them.  I also carried the tag theme into the divided side of the page.  

All of the shop's tags can be found in our Labels, Tags, and Library Supplies Sections Here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/curtseyboutique?section_id=10929714

To see more of Alyssa's amazing work, click on her picture below.

 

Thanksgiving Day Place Card & Utensil Holder with Andrea Amu

Thanksgiving Day Place Card & Utensil Holder
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Andrea Amu

When I came across the burlap bags in my stash of Curtsey Boutique supplies, I knew instantly that they would make wonderfully fancy utensil bags for dressing up our Thanksgiving dinner table!  

The chalkboard tags are the perfect accompaniment for displaying everyone's seating arrangement.  Better yet, these bags were so easy to put together.  I used some faux leaves that I purchased at the local dollar store and started by attaching two leaves to a yellow hand-dyed doily with glue dots.  I also adhered a fabric Curtsey Boutique flower on top of the leaves and then affixed the embellished doily to the burlap bag with a heavier glue dot.  

To finish off each bag, I simply tied on the chalkboard tag with a string of burlap and wrote the name onto the tag with chalk.  Easy and elegant! 

 Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Orange Fabric Flowers - Small

Yellow Dyed Doilies - Curtsey Boutique

Yellow Fabric Flower - Curtsey Boutique

Plain Burlap Bags - Curtsey Boutique

Chalkboard Cardstock Tags - Curtsey Boutique

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Other supplies include:

Faux Leaves

Burlap string

Glue Dots

Chalk

For more of Andrea's beautiful work, click on her photo to visit her blog.

Hocus Pocus Halloween Layout with Jenifer Cowles

Hocus Pocus Halloween Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jenifer Cowles

Halloween Layouts? I know you're thinking I'm a few weeks late, but I just got my Halloween photos back from the my local pharmacy and couldn't wait to try out this cute layout idea Jenifer shared. Perhaps you too aren't ready to let go of all that's spooky and fun?

Project Instructions:

Take a fun piece of spider patterned paper and do some layering with ribbons and lace.  Make a fun “spider web” by layering a few doilies, string and adding the wonderful glitter spiders.

Finish the layout off with a fun title and a chalkboard tag.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Glitter Spiders

Black Dyed Doilies

Chalkboard Cardstock Tags - Curtsey Boutique

French Pattern - 5 Inch Doily

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To see more of Jennifer's artwork visit her blog, Scrapbooking-N-More, or click on her image below. 

 

DIY Idea Book Tutorial with Jenifer Cowles

Project Idea Book
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jenifer Cowles

1. On top of the 5” doily place 6 hexagon shapes down in the shape of a flower, leaving the center open.  

2. In the center adhere the beautiful flower. 

3.  If desired cut down the chalkboard tag to the desired size and label the book.  

4. Around all of the hexagon edges and the edge of the book take a fine point pen and create stitching lines.  

5. Take 10 sheets of plain copy paper and fold them in half and sew them to the cover down the center.  

Now you have a fun little book to jot down notes, sketches and ideas that will fit in your purse or just sit on your desk.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

French Pattern - 5 Inch Doily

Fabric Flowers Set of 3

Chalkboard Cardstock Tags - Curtsey Boutique

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To see more of Jennifer's artwork visit her blog, Scrapbooking-N-More, or click on her image below.