Review: Karen Foster

This month at Treasures to Scrap our sponsor is Karen Foster. Now I've played with Karen Foster product before so I know that the product is 'themey' which is ok, sometimes I like themey. However for me it's kind of difficult with some themes. Tracy told us to list our top 3 choices of themes from a list and well mine were garden, garden and garden. Not having kids can sometimes be tricky with themed products.

First up in my 'garden' pack was the bug stuff and I have to say I was a little puzzled as to what to do with it, but once I started thnking remembered some bug photo's I took over the years, sorted out a couple and made a layout. Not entirely happy with it. But it got me out of the creative block with the papers, sometimes you just have to work through them.

Patterned paper & stickers: Karen Foster; cardstock: DCWV; chipboard alpha: Imagination Project; brads: doodlebug

My favorite Thing to do lately is hybrid. So here are a couple of hybrid cards. First one has a printed greeting inside. I thought the papers would be great get well cards! Caught a bug? that kind of thing. So I made some of those themed cards.

Patterned paper & stickers: Karen Foster; cardstock: DCWV;

This card the red strip is printed, loving reverse printing, and really liking this card too! As you can tell I'm also in the cutting out paper designs phase again too!

**Edited: Sorry had to remove, being published! **

Patterned paper: Karen Foster; cardstock: DCWV;

Patterned paper & stickers: Karen Foster; cardstock: DCWV;

The second lot of product was the flower/gardening themed papers. Strangely I actually struggled more with these than the bugs papers. That just goes to show you NEVER KNOW which product you'll end up liking more! Here are some simple cards with the flower paper.

Patterned paper: Karen Foster; cardstock: DCWV; White Sharpie; brads: Joanns; alpha from stash (old)

Patterned paper & stickers: Karen Foster; cardstock & rub-on: DCWV; ribbon: May Arts

Patterned paper & stickers: Karen Foster; cardstock: DCWV; Stamp: Studio G; ribbon: offray; eyelets: boxer: pens

Patterned paper & stickers: Karen Foster; cardstock + rub-ons: DCWV; Conch: can't remember the manufacturer they were a RAK; stamp: Studio G

I have a few other idea's for the garden papers, just need a few more days, so look out for more Karen Foster from me! If you want to see what the rest of the TTS design team created check out the Karen Foster sponsor gallery.

Off to watch a movie with Bob then hopefully continue sorting out the room switch! Nearly done! Whoohooo!