Wild Orchid Crafts Design Team Call

Wild Orchid Crafts is looking for talented designers to join our design team. Do you have a Youtube channel where you like to showcase your design projects, or do you have a passion for card making with an online gallery and blog?  We're looking for both experienced and brand-new artists.
 
 If you have the following skills, we would love to hear from you:

• Excellent Photography: clear, sharp, bright photos for online media.
• Strong Design Skills: ability to create stylish and original projects.
• Social Media Presence (either Youtube, Facebook, blog, or Pinterest)
• Video Skills for filming project videos (if you do not have video skills and only use a blog or gallery to showcase your work, we are still very interested to hear from you)
• A desire to work with our great products (2 - 3 projects per month for 6 months)

Craft Activities:

• Layouts
• Altered Items
• Cards and Tags
• Mixed Media

Please send the following in your DT application to: dt-call@wildorchidcrafts.com

1. Subject Line: "WOC DT Call"

2. Contact email address

3. A link to your blog, Youtube, Facebook or Pinterest page

4. List of any design teams you are currently on, or have been on.

5. A recent design project created by you.  Projects do not have to use Wild Orchid Crafts products although we would LOVE to see any work you have done with our products.

The DT call is open immediately and will end on November 12, 2014.  New design team members will be announced on December 1st, 2014.

Simple Project Each Day in September - Day 3

The moment I saw the tiny images of the sheet designs for Project Life I knew I wanted to make this 

Saved a logo off one of the packages and fussy cut it then edged it with silver metallic Sharpie marker 

Now I just need to add the Design letter to keep these identified 

Once I start using the various designs I can also see adding a rating to denote which I like best 

Keeping the cover decoration to a minimum still allows the cover to like semi-flat for use 

Lots of designs to add - these are from sample packs 

The mini gardenias from Wild Orchid Crafts 

And Baby rose leaves 

Simple but effective #SimpleProjectEachDay
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Mother's Day Award Ribbon

Gathering supplies 

The mulberry flowers from #WildOrchidCrafts were the color inspiration 

Rosettes all created using 110 lb card stock and Tim Holtz Alterations strip dies 

Recipe:

• 8.5 x 11 inch 110 lb card stock in bright pink
• Tim Holtz Rosette Die from Sizzix
• Stamps of Life Stamp & Die set - Banners
• Wild Orchid Crafts - Ruffled Organza Trim
• Wild Orchid Crafts - Wild Roses in White with Deep Pink Centers
• Sizzix - Circle dies, Heart dies
• Martha Stewart Branch Punch from Blitsy.com
• Elmer's Classic Glitter Glue in Pink

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Wild Orchid Crafts Haul/DT Package

I did some re-stocking and picked up a few new items in the shop, some recently added flowers are sold out so don't wait when you see them! 

The Daffodils are ridiculously adorable! 

You cannot go wrong with blooms in assorted colors, shapes and sizes - ensures you have just that perfect one for a project in progress 

Can anyone guess my favorite color? 

A broader view of the package content 

The handmade bead flowers are very elegant, would make a lovely addition to a wedding layout or a first communion project 

The two-tone leaves are sweet and can be added to several flowers as a base layer or on their own. You can even peel off the metal stem and use them as flat petals to create a flower, something I am going to play with myself.

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Wild Orchid Crafts - Wedding Table Decor

A flameless candle from #DollarTree has been embellished into Wedding Decor that can be customized based on your colors or kept elegantly monochromatic in white and silver

I like the simple tone on tone because the flameless candle is fiber optic, cycling through several colors, so nothing competes but rather complements the embellishments

I used a combination of large orchid flowers, spring stamen, stamen clusters

Rhinestone flourish sticker

Fabric and sequin butterflies

The design came together and can be altered using colored flowers to compliment the wedding colors. The flame portion has a yellow flickering 'flame' which illuminates just enough to cluster as table accents or along the path to the ceremony for an evening wedding.

My supplies

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Friday Funbits - Wish Me Luck Fortune Cookie Micro Mini

      Micro Mini Recipe

• The base pages and covers were cut using LifeStyle Crafts Cookie Cutter Nesting Sketchbooks die (smallest of three).  Covers cut from Kraft paper from Hobby Lobby, interior pages from water color paper from Lots & More.  As an aside, Lifestyle Crafts was purchased by We R Memory Keepers and their selection of dies available online is a fraction of what they used to offer.  If you'd like to see what they have available, stop by http://www.shopwer.com/
• The back cover is three layers of Kraft while the front cover is four layers with the top one run through a Cuttlebug embossing folder from the Asian Set called Plum Blossom
• Zutter Innovation Bind-it-All 2
• Dymo Labler to create the 'Wish' 'Me' 'Luck' in black tape
• Wild Orchid Crafts White Open Roses in 15 mm & 10 mm
• Wild Orchid Crafts Leaves, retired
• My Favorite Things Mini Doily Circles die, cut with Duct Work Tape from the hardware store (it's adhesive on one side which is a great bonus)
• Tim Holtz Wishbones from his Ideology line I picked up from Blitsy
• Stephanie Bernard's Stamps of Life mini banner die from the Ticket Dies set

Peek inside

Engle view

Back Cover

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Chloe Flower Die from Memory Box as Card Embellishment

Using my on hand supplies to make some pretty card embellishments

LOVE the Chloe flower die from Memory Box purchased from Oozak

Cut twice from Staples 110 lb card stock and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts

White 3 mm pack (90 count)

White 5 mm pack (60 count)

Daiso Tape Dispenser Blinged Out!

 I received this white tape dispenser from an extremely generous Vicki Yoshikawa

One day I was in a meeting where I could not mute my line so typing was out of the question but I could do something that did not produce any noise - two and a half hours later this lovely blinged out desktop tool was done.  What you will need:

• Blank tool to bling up - this tape dispenser is from #Daiso - 12 locations in North America
• Adhesive - I used Glossy Accents from Ranger for the stones that were not self-adhesive
• Bling - I used several types - Wild Orchid Crafts Purple & Lilac 100 packs in 3 different sizes (3mm, 4mm & 5mm) on SALE right now!  Loose acrylic bling from a 1 lb. bag purchased at AC Moore, years ago and some strip lilac adhesive tape from Recollections (Michael's brand)
• Tweezers and or Pick-Up Stick (Silhouette brand)
• Time and Patience - it's actually very therapeutic

Bobby Pin & Ribbon Flags

My Violet Domino Filofax (Pocket & Personal)

Dollar Tree had a package of some bright bobby pins, one section of the pack matches the Violet color to a tee.  Today I received my Wild Orchid Crafts package and the Light Plum Satin ribbon (1/4 inch) was just the thing needed to make the bobby pin into a cute little flag (shown above).  Another bonus is that the bobby pins don't pinch like paper clips.

Mother's Day Cards

Recipe:

• Bases are standard A2 size cut from Staples White Card stock
• First Pattern layer cut to 4.125 x 5.35 inches - DCWV Essentials Paper collections in 6x6 (180 sheets)
• Two more patterns chosen from the paper collection in coordinating color but different patterns cut and layered on white card stock
• Doily Die cut from LifeStyle crafts, cut using Recollections Precious Metals paper in Silver, it's a nice matte finish that is very elegant without being gaudy 
• Cut doily was run through the Cuttlebug Script embossing folder to add some texture
• Wild Orchid Crafts - Plum Devine Twine - WT-0001
• Wild Orchid Crafts - Butterflies - EM-00058
• Wild Orchid Crafts - Carnations - FS-00005 & FS-00007
• Martha Stewart Branch Punch, using Recollections Precious Metals Silver paper
• McGill Scalloped Tag punch for the bottom layer below the MOM image
• MOM image created using Studio G tiny letters that look like typewriter keys and punched with McGill 1/4 inch punch and adhered with 1/4 dimensional dots

Mom opening her card, it was kismet that I used lilacs - she didn't know it but dressed perfectly in coordinating colors!

Pastel Easter Card

Recipe:

• Standard A2 size white card stock  base from Staples
• Light Pink layer cut to 4 x 5.25 inches from Authentique's Lovely collection (back page)
• Green Pattern egg cut with Sizzix Egg die - 10 piece set using Graphic 45 Secret Garden 6x6 paper
• White picket fence die from Memory Box cut in white vinyl crap kicking around my desk
• Silver Foil Doily from Wilton cake supplies - cut on the egg die to match the edge specifically
• Sentiment from Stamps of Life by Stephanie Bernard from two different sets - eggs4easter and happy2bcircles
• Circle die from Sizzix - 8 piece set
• Light pink iridescent butterfly from Wild Orchid Crafts EM-00058
• Two tone Baby Pink Sweetheart Blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts FS-00063
• Small White, Pink and Green leaves from Wild Orchid Crafts LL-00027 
• Small Bunny die from QuicKutz

Wild Orchid Crafts - Thank You Card

Recipe:

• Kraft note cards from Hobby Lobby. These are slightly smaller than a standard A2 size card (4.25 x 5.5 inches) but instead measure 4 x 5.5 inches
• First layer in Ivory Staples card stock
• Second pattern layer is from No Limit 6x6 paper pack by Heidi Swapp
• Third layer is a strip of lavender linen texture paper from Bazzil
• Digi image from Greeting Farm of Dressy Ebony
• Image colored with Copic markers and highlighted with Spica atyou glitter pens
• Wild Orchid Crafts natural lace, the one I used is no longer available but here are a few options of in stock laces - LA-00002, LA-00056, LA-00003, LA-00004, LA-00005, LA-00020, LA-00009
• Wild Orchid Crafts Orange 10mm Open Roses FM-00059
• Wild Orchid Crafts White with Orange centers 10mm Roses FM-00049

Wild Orchid Crafts Bio

My name is Natasha Z. Hensel and I am the YouTube Design Team lead for Wild Orchid Crafts. Many of you may already know me as Enastasia but with recent changes to YT I am sporting my full name these days. Having been a part of this team from it's inception over two years ago, I've had the opportunity and privileged to play and create with many of the embellishments from the shop. 

My style is streamlined (think IKEA but in paper and flowers) and I tend to challenge myself by using color palates that are not close and dear to my heart but rather outside the comfort box. Not to say you'll never see my faves being used, just trying my best to see art from a different perspective to facilitate growth.

My background is in fine arts and I 'earn' my living working for a Fortune 100 company - a hybrid job of technical skills, training and problem solving. That's one of the reasons you see and hear me describe projects in painfully minute details, that's either a good or an annoying thing (hopefully not the later).

I started to share my art after loosing a very dear friend. This gave me a therapeutic outlet and I quickly fell in love. With all the lovely products available to us as a part of the Design Team, the ideas are plentiful.

I thank you for coming along with me on this journey and watching out videos, commenting on Facebook posts and pinning your creations on Pinterest. Without you, we would be considered flower hoarders. :)

Quick and Easy Easter Cards

Recipe:

• Each card is standard A2 size (4.25 x 5.5 inches) in Ivory Staples card stock
• Each rounded with 1/4 inch We-R-Memory Keepers corner Chomper - easily punches through both layers of card base.
• First layer is sea foam green card stock, not sure where I got it but it's 110 lb weight cut to 4 x 5.25 inches and rounded at each corner with 1/4 inch rounder as base
• Each of the green card stock layers run through a cuttlebug embossing folder - Swiss Dots, Argyle and Script
• Sizzix Egg die cuts used for Ivory and Lavender layers in graduated sizes.  Lavender is large enough to fit the Lilac stickers, Ivory is one size larger
• Stickers are Brenda Walten's Grand Adhesions for K&Co called Juliana Floral Images Code 554047
• Lavender paper is from Nicole - AC Moore
• Wild Orchid Crafts Lilac Small Sequined Butterflies - EM-00068
• Donna Salazar Fairy Dust Glitter in Sugar Shimmer from Clearsnap
• I even used up the leftover paper and the last two stickers to make a couple of 3 x 3 enclosure cards, picture at the bottom

Card #1

Card #2

Card #3

BONUS - scraps used for two 3 x 3 enclosure cards with the last two stickers