Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog

A "beachy" project with Sarah Hodgkinson!

With warmer weather rapidly approaching in my neck of the woods, I thought it would be a good time for a technique that you could use when creating summer cards and layouts.

A friend of mine recently asked me to design some water park birthday invitations for her son. I rooted around in my border punch basket (LARGE border punch basket) for my Fiskars Boundary Waters punch and sifted through my embossing storage tower for my Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes folder. These two tools, paired with Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock, make for some very cool waves and sandy beaches.

 
Supplies: Core’dinations cardstock (Vintage and Essentials) and Sand-It Gadget tool, Fiskars border punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Stampin’ Up! circle and scalloped circle punches, Quickutz dies (shovel, pail), American Crafts layering tape, Uniball black pen, Font: Another Typewriter (downloaded off the internet), other: white card base.

 

In order to make the waves, I cut four pieces of Core’dinations cardstock from their Brilliant Blues colour family (Essentials) in increasing size. After I punched each edge with the Boundary Waters punch, I lightly sanded the crests of the waves to add additional dimension.

 

When making a believable sandy shore line, all you need is a sheet of light brown Vintage cardstock from either the Reminisce or Flower Power collection pack. I cut a 2” strip of cardstock and then embossed it with my Distressed Stripes folder. After a light sanding, I then tore a small strip from the top to really show off the lighter coloured core.

So, have I got you all fired up to make some “beachy” projects? Do you want to have a play with some Core’dinations cardstock on me? Swing on by my blog (Only in Hollywoodstock) and leave a comment on my Tuesday, May 31, 2011, posting on or before Friday, June 3, 2011, by 9pm EST for a chance to win a Sand-It Gadget tool and some Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock. Good luck!  (oh and you may just want to check back here on Friday too  ;)

~ Sarah

 

 

Designer Challenge with Kimber McGray

Good Monday morning and to our US readers, happy Memorial Day!  This morning we have design team member extraordinare Kimber McGray joining us with a fun challenge that is perfectly timed for what I always call the card giving season!  Between the spring/summer birthdays, graduations, anniversaries and everything in between, I am sure many will take up today's challenge.  If you take on today's challenge be sure to link it back to this post so that we can see it too!

"Hello everyone!  In today's challenge, I encourage you to use up some...ribbon scraps! You know, those beautiful little pieces that are just a few inches long, that you never know what to do with and feel guilty for throwing away because they are so pretty.

There are so many ways to use ribbon scraps.  Simply lay them out on a card front and stitch them down either with a sewing machine or hand stitching. Heck, you can even just glue them down and call it a day. Something so simple can create a beautiful note card to keep in your stash for the last minute need.  Here is how I recently used my scrap ribbon pieces...

 

Join me on Wednesday and I will show you how to create the easy ribbon flower that is on the front of this card but a quick and easy embellishment you can use on a card, layout or altered project.  I would also love to hear how you use your ribbon scraps!  Leave me a comment below and we'll share some of them on Wednesday.

Have a great day and don't forget registration for Crop & Create Saskatoon opens THIS Friday at 12:00 EST.  I will be there teaching two great card classes and cannot wait to meet you!

~ Kimber McGray

 

 

 

 

Tattered Angels giveaway!

Good morning and TGIF!  If you were following us this week then you saw Leica Forrest's projects featuring Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists.  Leica can do some amazing things with this product and along with being an educator for Tattered Angels, Leica was also able to arrange a little giveaway...just for SCT readers!  Isn't she great?  Yes you could be the proud owner of some fabulous Tattered Angels products!  It might be some of their Glimmer Mists, or perhaps some of their Glimmer Glaze or maybe some of their new Chalkboard Mists!  Oh my!

    

If you are not too familiar with Glimmer Mists, some favourite places to use them are...

- Wood - dries instantly!
- Looks fabulous on chipboard and paper
- Sticks to metal and glass
- Pools on plastic to create a stained glass effect
- Makes your stickers shimmer
- "Pops" your fabric or paper flowers
- Adds a gorgeous sheen to lace, ribbon, twill and fabrics (will wash out!)

As the team at Tattered Angels says "Glimmer Mist applications are limited only by your creativity!"  And if you would like to create with them, just leave us a comment below before Thursday, June 2nd at 6:00 p.m. EST!  We'll choose one lucky winner (randomly of course!) to win a prize package from Tattered Angels.  And wait, that's not all!  If you would like a second opportunity to win some products, just visit THIS post on the Tattered Angels blog and tell them SCT sent you!  

Now we get to make someone's day and give away the totally adorable Zoology collection from Bo Bunny from last Friday!  The winner is...

Love love love zoology!! We go to Busch Gardens all the time!! The more zoo paper the merrier!! Thanks for the chance to win!  Posted by: Anna Petitt | May 21, 2011 at 05:23 PM

Congratulations Anna!  Please send us an email at [email protected] and we'll get that out to you soon!

Next week Kimber McGray joins us with a cute challenge and flower tutorial and Aly Dosdall is here on Tuesday with a really fun Father's Day project.  Looking ahead to next Friday...Crop & Create Saskatoon registration opens!  If you could like to be kept up to date on all the Crop & Create details be sure to sign up for our newsletter on the home page of our website at the bottom left.  

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

~ Catherine

 

(PS!  If you have not sent in or linked your April sketch to THIS post, be sure to do that by end of day tomorrow!  You're playing for the Jillibean Soup Blossom collection...now that's worth it!)

 

NSD PageMaps Challenge Winner!

Do you remember the PageMaps challenge we issued on National Scrapbook Day?  Thank you to those who participated!  We had some fabulous entries that we thought we would share with you today.  And, of course, announce the winner of Becky Fleck's PageMaps 2 book! 

Here was the sketch for the challenge...

 

and here are some of the entries we received...

 

Alycia Tedford

 
Allison Cope

 
Irit Shalom

 
Evelyn Larsen of Scrapnesia

 
Heather Robertson

 
Heather Roselli

and our randomly chosen winner...

 
Kelly VanDerMolen

We loved this comment from Kelly...

"...I just wanted to tell you that I have really not been scrapping much lately, I'm not sure why but after I completed a layout for the Project 12 April and for this sketch challenge, I made 6 more layouts right away. Thanks so much for the push to get started."

You are most welcome Kelly!  Thank you to everyone who played along with our challenge and thank you to Becky for designing another great sketch (you can find more of Becky's sketches here).  And speaking of challenge, we have got something fun up our sleeve.  Coming to a certain scrapbook magazine's website real soon  ;)

Have a great day!

~ Catherine

 We are one week away from registration opening for Crop & Create!

 


 

"Commit to the Mist"...Glimmer Mist that is!

Good morning!  It's Leica and I'm back with a little more show & tell featuring Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist!  I am often asked how to use this great product so I thought I would break down how I created this layout.

 

Supplies:  Prima flowers & alphabets, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, American crafts thickers & slick writer, Bazzill Cardstock, Crafter's Workshop stencil

I like blending my backgrounds with a few colours so I start with the lightest colour and generally in the middle. For best results, I ALWAYS work from lightest to darkest and will often come back in at the end to add more light to help blend if needed.  I like the sheer colours like iridescent gold or old lace as they blend well. Let the background dry completely in between steps to maintain the most shimmer. *note: If you are in a hurry, you can iron your paper by placing it between some non printed paper. (If you use a newspaper the words could transfer to your page. Yes, it HAS happened to me!)

 

Next I took a Crafter's Workshop Stencil and placed it half off the page. 

 

Then I lightly sprayed my 3 favourite colours over the stencil.

 

This is what it looks like when you take the stencil off.

 

Then I sprayed all my Prima white flowers and let them dry completely. I did want them quite saturated in colour to really shine so they were sprayed a few times. I laid down all my photos, then started layering and arranging the flowers around the photos. Here is a closeup of the dragonfly in the top left corner.

 

Here are 2 more closeups of the flowers

 

Here are a few "tips" for working with Glimmer Mist:

•  Shake it from side to side as opposed to up and down. Shake it for about 12-15 seconds. You will notice when it is ready cause the bottle will have an intense colour and there won't be any more sediment on the bottom.

•  Spray a practice spray OFF the sheet. This will tell you if the nozzle is clogged. I usually spray left to right.
• To get a nice even coverage I spray about 8 inches above the page, and I will start OFF the page at the left and spray all across the page in one spray. I try not to stop in the middle of a spray. COMMIT to the MIST!  Spray again to achieve the intensity level you desire.

• If you get the dots that you may not want, try not to spray as fast. Hold the bottle a little more vertical than horizontal, and try a little further away from the page.

 
Here are some additional projects I created using the Glimmer Mist...

 
 

 

 

 
 

I hope some of these tips and tricks come in handy as you play with misting.  Now head on over to the Tattered Angels blog HERE for an opportunity to win some fabulous products!  You can also join them on Facebook HERE. Be sure to tell them SCT sent you!   And, I heard that there may be a little Tattered Angels giveaway here on Friday...just sayin'! 

~ Leica

(To keep up-to-date with Leica and for some fun details about Crop & Create Saskatoon, be sure to visit Leica's blog at http://www.10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/)

 

3T's with Kimber McGray!

Creating new embellishments from existing products is always a crowd pleaser so when we spotted this cute button flower SCT design team member Kimber McGray had on the Jillibean Soup blog recently, we just had to share!  Kimber used the crepe tissue ribbon from Jenni Bowlin Studios, a little Tombow adhesive and the super fun (and versatile!) Jillibean Bean Blossom to create a new embellishment for a card! 

 

First Kimber used the tape runner to add adhesive to the back of the Bean Blossom.

 

Then stamped some adhesive in between the ruffles to tack them down.

Voila!  A fun little embellishment...and perfect for a card!

 

So go ahead and have some fun creating a new embellishment!

And don't forget...

 

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