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A Monday reader's challenge...playing with ombre!

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends!  It's a time to be thankful and a time to put your turkey pants on (who is remembering Joey from "Friends" right now?)!  May you all enjoy the goodness this weekend brings!

Did you check out all our World Cardmaking Day fun on the blog on Saturday?  With hourly posts spanning 14 hours we had a great time showcasing inspiration from our designers, offering up some challenges and of course there were prizes too!  Our designers did some fabulous work and our sponsors offered up some amazing prizes.  If you missed it, just start here! 

This morning we would love to offer up another challenge...playing with ombre.  Ombre means shaded or graduated in tone.  It has been seen in hair, fashion, home decor and is now showing up in papercrafting!  Here is a sweet example (heehee!) of ombre...

So today we have a great Monday challenge for you!  Use ombre in either a card or layout and share it with us by either linking it here or by sending it to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com!  If you send it to us by Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m. EST we'll share a few right here!  Oh and our design team has played along too so we'll showcase their cards on Wednesday as well. 

Have a great Monday friends!   Please don't forget that our Winter call ends today.  To learn more about our call, click here.  We would love to see your work in our next issue!

~ Catherine

WCMD - Kimber McGray is here!!

 Have you joined us all day?  If you haven't then start here and if you have, thank YOU for joining us for World Cardmaking Day!  We loved doing this hourly format and hope you did too! 

One of our favourite cardmakers is the 4 time author Kimber McGray!  Her approach to cardmaking is fresh, fun and interesting.  From interactive cards, cards with hidden parts and great cards for everyday, we think you'll love this birthday set she created from this PageMaps sketch...

Supplies:  Cardstock: Stampin' Up!; Pattern Paper and Stickers: Bella Blvd Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl; Foam Adhesive: 3L Scrapbook Adhesives

Basic Steps for these cards: (card size is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2")

1. Cut the bottom pattern paper 4"x4" and the top pattern paper 4" x 1 1/2". Adhere both to the front of the card, centered right to left.
2. Layer the lined sticker 1/2" from the top of the bottom pattern paper, centered right to left.
3. Layer the scallop border sticker and the large sentiment sticker. Adhere to the card with foam adhesive squares.
4. Finish card by adding the oval sticker to the and the wordfetti sticker to the front of the card as shown.

Kimber's favorite card making tip: Layer basic stickers and die-cuts with foam adhesive to give dimension and to make custom embellishments for pennies.

and for our last post we of course have...

some prizes to end the day!  Have you heard of the Jillibean Soup Card Kitchen?  It is a great monthly card kit put together by Jillibean Soup and Kimber herself!  Since they love our SCT readers so much, they have offered the October kit to one lucky fan!

Look at all the goodness!!!  And the sweet Kimber McGray has also offered an autographed copy of her latest book for our prize package!

and to top off the day, we would like to offer another copy of CardMaps Vol. 2...

and a copy of our brand new, not yet released 2013 PageMaps sketch calendar which also has some great CardMaps in it too!  A full year of inspiration and techniques in this calendar!

What a cardmaking, full of inspiration, final grand prize, package that we can't wait to send out to one lucky reader!  Just leave a comment below by Thursday, October 18th!  Good luck!

We would like to thank YOU once again for joining us.  From all of us at Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine and all the designers that participated in our blog extravaganza, we hope you were inspired to try something new!  To our Canadian friends, have a very Happy Thanksgiving and to everyone else around the world...we hope you had a great time with us!!!  It's a wrap  :)

xoxoxoxoxo

~  Catherine Tachdjian

Publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine

 

WCMD - A fabulous video from Lynn Ghahary!

We are not done yet SCT friends!  If you've watched some of our Create Today videos on the SCT YouTube channel then you know that Lynn Ghahary creates some amazing videos.  When we asked Lynn to contribute to our day today, she said she would love to and had a little surprise for us!  Lynn has created a video tutorial so that you can see how she created her shaker card!  First, here is the sketch Lynn worked with...

To create this sweet shaker card for winter!

Here is how Lynn created this great card...

 

Lynn's Tip:  No need to reinvent the wheel every time you sit down to create a card.  If you make a card and love the design, don't be afraid to use it again!  Simply change the papers, embellishments, theme, etc and you'll have a great looking card with a design you love in no time at all.

Hope you enjoyed how Lynn created her shaker card!  Be sure to share this video and any of our other Create Today videos with all your friends! 

Coming up is our final post with cardmaker extraordinaire Kimber McGray!  <psst...we've also go some great prizes too!!!>  See you at 10:00 p.m.!

WCMD - December inspiration from Summer Fullerton!!

Thank you for joining us for our fabulous World Cardmaking Day extravaganza!  If you are just checking in now, be sure to see this post to find out what were up to today!

Although this day is drawing to a close, we are not done yet!  We always love Summer Fullerton's fresh approach to cardmaking and we LOVED this fun card!

Supplies Used: Cardstock Bazzill, Patterned Papers from My Minds Eye & Simple Stories, Wood Embellishments from Studio Calico, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher, and Corner Rounder

Summer based her card from this PageMaps card sketch...

 
Instructions to create Summer's card:

1. Cut card base 6x12 and fold in half to create a 6x6 card
2. Cut 3 different coordinating patterned papers approximately 2x5 and a 4th sheet of patterned paper 2x6
3. Layer the 3 2x5 pieces of patterned paper horizontally on the right hand side of the card then add the 2x6 piece of patterned paper vertically as seen in the photo. Top off with machine or faux stitching if desired .
4. To create the Christmas Tree simply raid your scraps for 4 different shades of coordinating patterned paper. Cut into imperfect triangles. Layer the triangles to look like a tree and back with a coordinating cardstock. You can dress your tree up with your favorite embellishments like adhesive rhinestones or brads. I used a couple of staples to add interest.
5. Adhere tree to card front using foam squares.
6. Top Card off with wood asterisk embellishments and round the corners as seen in the photo 

Summer's Tip:  No need to reinvent the wheel every time you sit down to create a card.  If you make a card and love the design, don't be afraid to use it again!  Simply change the papers, embellishments, theme, etc and you'll have a great looking card with a design you love in no time at all.

 

We have a great prize for you to wrap up our monthly inspiration!  Our dear friend and designer Angie Blom has designed this great stamp set with Unity Stamps!  Angie and Unity Stamps would love to offer it to one lucky SCT reader!  Leave a comment below by Thursday, October 18th for your chance to win it!

If you love this set and will be joining us at ScrapFest in Oshawa next weekend, be sure to stop by our Interactive Studio where Angie will be joining us to create this sweet tag...

Although we have completed our monthly inspiration, Lynn Ghahary is up next at 9:00 p.m. with a little surprise for you!  Don't miss it!

 

 

WCMD - November inspiration with Becky Fleck!!

We are thrilled to have Becky Fleck, the creator of PageMaps and CardMaps (and our illustrious editor-in-chief at Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine!) joining in our fun today with an EXCLUSIVE card sketch for the month of November!  How fun! 

Supplies: cardstock, Stampin’ Up!; glitter, Doodlebug; pens, Copic; adhesive, Xyron; foam dots, American Crafts

Becky adapted this sketch and created a beautiful holiday card from it!  If you are on the receicing end of a Becky Fleck card, then you know she used her "big girl crayons" (her words, not mine!!!) and did some incredible Copic colouring.  She is a master! 

Instructions:

1. Create a 5.5”x5.5” card base from red cardstock that opens on the bottom.
2. Stamp an image onto white cardstock twice. Trim one image to 5”x5” and mat it onto a 5.625”x5.625” piece of dark green cardstock. Adhere it to the center of the card front.
3. Trim out the center 3”x3” design from the second image. Color with Copic pens and glitter the center of the poinsettia.
4. Mat the image onto a 3.125”x3.125” piece of dark green cardstock. Using foam adhesive, adhere it to the center of the large image, lining the design up as shown.

Becky's Tip:  Before applying glitter to a section of your design, rub a dryer sheet across the surface. This will remove the static on the paper and help prevent the glitter from migrating outside the area you want to sparkle up.

Are you enjoying today?  Join us next hour as Summer Fullerton shows us a fun holiday card!  Want to know what the last post is?  Be sure to stay with us until the end at 10:00 p.m.!

 

WCMD - October inspiration with Virginia Nebel!!

What an amazing day it's been!  We have seen some great cards from our designers today and this next one from Virginia is no exception and of course, perfectly timed for Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend! 

Supplies: Bella Blvd pattern paper, Twinery twine, Hambly washi tape, Kaisercraft rhinestones

Virginia's card was based on this sketch from PageMaps! (if you want even more fabulous card sketches or layout sketches, be sure to check out the PageMaps site!)

Instructions to create Virginia's card:

1. Trim orange dot pattern paper to 5 x 7 and round top corners.
2. Mat the 4 x 6 journal card on brown pattern paper and tuck in semi-circle at the top as shown.
3. Paper piece turkey and pop up on centre of the card.
4. Adhere border sticker and washi tape along the bottom. Tie twine around the card.

Virginia’s Tip:  Instead of stamping a sentiment on the card front I like to use journal cards with pre-printed sayings to play up the theme of my card. 

Prize time!!!  Don't you love those two words?  We had the pleasure of spending time with Kelly Purkey at our Ottawa Crop & Create event last weekend (Saskatoon is coming up next month!) and had a chance to see these beautiful exclusive stamps Kelly has designed for Simon Says Stamp!  Since we are always looking out for you, our fine blog fans, we asked Kelly for some to give away!  Feast your eyes on these darling sets...

If you would like to win one of these fabulous sets, just leave a comment below by Thursday, October 18th!  Three lucky winners will have these arriving on their doorstep!  Good luck!

Next up we have the fabulous Becky Fleck herself with an exclusive SCT WCMD sketch!  Don't miss it!