Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog

May sketch challenge entries...and a WINNER!

Happy Wednesday friends! A couple of weeks ago we challenged you in THIS blog post to create a cart based on a PageMaps card sketch from our spring issue!  With only a couple of weeks to create from this sketch you shocked us with the number of entries to this challenge! Thank you! Today we are going to share a selection of cards we received and our winner who was randomly selected! We love some of your sweet comments too...

"Wow, this sketch was so timely and perfect-- I needed a very special baby shower card, and this was exactly the inspiration that I was looking for.  And I loved it so much that I went ahead and made two more cards (thank you cards this time).  I made myself a template to paper-piece the sunburst, and I had a great time playing with paper, glue, and my sewing machine :) Thanks again!" 

"I can’t tell you enough how much I love these monthly challenges! They totally inspire and motivate me to make something pretty, so thank you for that."

"Thanks for the chance to play--love the sketch, & it was fun to translate it into an interactive card! :)"

This was timely, because I've actually had to make quite a few graduation cards for my son's friends (class of 2017! :-) )

We love that you're loving these monthly challenges!

Just to remind you, here was the May sketch: 

And here are some lovely entries:

Card by Andrea LaVigne

Card by Cindy Pearce

Card by Cynthia Baldwin

Card by Eva Walker

Card by Julie Ogilvie

Card by Majken Pullin

Card by Manda Johnson

Card by Natalie Strand

Card by Sue Moody

Card by Teresa Medeiros

The winner of the fabulous prize package from our friends at Taylored Expressions, Lawn Fawn, Your Next Stamp and Paper Smooches which includes stamps, dies, enamel dots and a few paper pads is...

Card from Mandi Holmes

Congratulations Mandi! Please send us your mailing address to [email protected] with "May Sketch Challenge Winner" in your reference line and we'll get that prize out to you!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our May challenge! We loved seeing so many entries! Our next challenge will be announced tomorrow so be sure to check in with us!

Celebrating Canada's 150th birthday with a special Creative Memories GIVEAWAY!

As a Canadian-owned business, this year is a big year for Canada as we celebrate our 150th birthday! We're always excited to celebrate and today we are celebrating all things Canada with a fabulous giveaway from our friends at Creative Memories!

How would you like to WIN a Creative Memories limited-edition Celebrate Canada 150^th Anniversary Bundle?! This one-of-a-kind bundle includes a custom Album Cover with a beautiful white foiled Canada design, a Paper Pack featuring 12 unique designs infused with maple leaves, Inuit-inspired patterns and other Canadian themes, plus the Maple Leaf Punch!

For an opportunity to win this amazing prize package from Creative Memories, please be sure to leave a comment below! In your comment, please tell us your favourite place to visit in Canada. Or, if you've never been to Canada, tell us where you would love to travel to in Canada! Please leave your comment by Monday, June 5th! GOOD LUCK!

This special Celebrate Canada 150^th Anniversary Bundle is only on sale until June 12th while supplies last. If you would like to order one be sure to visit the Creative Memories websites for more information!

CA: https://www.creativememories.ca/celebrate-canada-anniversary-bundle.html

US: https://www.creativememories.com/celebrate-canada-anniversary-bundle.html

 

 

Find Your Mojo: Celebrating 1 year with Mercy Tiara!

In this episode of Find Your Mojo we are revisiting some of the prompts that have been covered over the past 11 months in our Find Your Mojo process videos. We use a sketch, a photo strip, talk about using a grid, let our embellishments guide us, start with a title, and let our photos guide our colour scheme.
For this page, I used the Faith collection from Simple Stories! This layout took approx.1 hour and 40 minutes to complete and used a series of 3X3 inch photos.

Reclaim your mojo and share your layouts on social media! Don’t forget to tag me so I can check them out! Use the hashtag #findyourmojowithmercytiara so I can check out your pages!

Find other episodes of Find Your Mojo with Mercy Tiara by clicking this link!

Thank you again for joining me today! Would love to hear your comments on this episode in the comment section below.

~ Mercy Tiara (aka Tracy Banks!)

 

Card Cafe Thursday with designer Kim Kesti!

We always love inviting our industry friends to join us here on the SCT blog and today we have card maker extraordinaire Kim Kesti! We'll let Kim tell you a little bit about herself.

"As a crafting enthusiast, I’ve tried everything! Cross stitch, macramé, even decoupage, but nothing has stuck with me like paper crafting! Card making has especially won my heart because I love the idea of sharing my creations with others and sending a piece of happy mail to brighten someone’s day. Today I would love to share a “faux watercolor” technique that is so easy! I hope it inspires you to create something special.

Before adding my color, I stamped lots of floral images on my card panel with clear pigment ink and heat embossed them with white powder. **Tip- start with your larger images first, then add smaller stamps to fill in the leftover space.

How many of you have a several bottles of color splash, shine, or mist hanging around your craft space? Well, it’s time to dig it out! As long as these products are water soluble, you can create your own watercolor palette. I simply took the cap off my bottle and dabbed a bit of splash on a large clear block. I added some additional water and then “smooshed” my stamped panel onto the block. The color is quite a bit lighter than the original splash because of the extra water added – so pretty!

 

 After letting the first color dry, I repeated the process with two additional colors. That’s it! Easy – peasy!

Supplies: Stamp set Gold Blooms by Richard Garay; Cardstock, Ink, Splash, and Embellishments by Fun Stampers Journey

I finished the card with a simple sentiment and a few embellishments; I love how it turned out!

Next, I tried this same technique again; but this time I smooshed the color from the block onto watercolor paper. The watercolor paper really soaked up the color beautifully!

Supplies: Stamp set Dahlia Burst, Cardstock, Watercolor paper, Ink, Splash and Embellishments by Fun Stampers Journey

Thanks for letting me share this fun technique! We can’t all be watercolor artists, but I think we all can dip paper onto a clear block! Give it a try, won’t you?" ~ Kim Kesti

 

 

THANK YOU you so much for joining us Kim! We love your cards and your quick and easy technique. To see more of Kim and her work, be sure to follow her on:

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.kesti

Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/kimkesti/

Blog  http://www.kimkesti.com/

Pinterest  https://www.pinterest.com/kimkesti/

 

Planner essentials with Jillibean Soup!

Welcome back to another planner feature with Scrapbook & Cards Today and Jillibean Soup’s Day 2 Day collection! In our last post, we introduced you to our new planner collection that released at the beginning of the year. Today we’d like to share with you some of our team’s planners that show HOW they used these fun products!

  

Designer, Rebecca Kappel used the monthly date stickers to number her calendar. Our calendar pages come undated so you can start using them today and continue using them into next year with no problem going from 2017 to 2018. You can also see she used some of the removable arrow stickers and notes. These are great to highlight a specific event or make a quick note and add it to a square in your calendar. Tip: If you don’t get the task complete, move the note to another date!

 
Designer Leanne Allinson used a few of the stamps that fit perfectly inside each of the squares on the planner pages. Tip: She added a few of the fun cardstock stickers and epoxy stickers for a pop of color and to add a bit of fun to a daily event.

 
Leanne also used a bit of our washi tape to just bring a smile to her face! Tip: The fun paper clips – such as the big thumb tack clip, help keep your place in your planner as well as add a bit of whimsy.

 

Designer Wendy Antenucci went decked out her February with some of the removable note squares with the cute puffy stickers added to them. She also added a few of the epoxy hearts and stars along with some of the die-cuts from the Hardy Hodgepodge collection. Tip: They perfectly coordinate our Day 2 Day collection. As do all the other Jillibean collections.  It’s like we ‘planned’ it!

 

Wendy also used the stamps here to frame a few embellishments. Got to just love how those stamps fit perfectly inside the planner squares!

Designer Summer Fullerton had a blast playing with the different supplies. I think her favorite is the wine glass clip she used on the upper left corner of her planner.

Our friend, Megan Hoppener used the stamps, washi tape, clips and epoxy stickers to ‘scrapbook’ in her planner. Tip: We love how she thought outside the box and added photos from her week. A great way to keep memories and not just the daily schedule!

To see more of our Day 2 Day products be sure to visit our website and to see more projects, be sure to follow our blog!

 ~ Kimber McGray, Jillibean Soup

Butterfly decor with Marla Kress!

Hello SCT friends! I recently had the pleasure of working with the Chasing Dreams collection by Maggie Holmes for an upcoming project and loved everything about it! While I can't reveal that project yet, I created another one to share with you all.

I paired this collection with two sets of butterfly dies from Sizzix and it was a match made in heaven! Here is a close-up of the décor piece,

Oddly enough this piece started with some old gift card boxes that I had collected (yay for recycling)!

You could also do this with shadowbox frames, regular frames, jewelry boxes basically anything will work. I spray painted the boxes, backed them with patterned paper and started layering the interiors.

Here they are grouped together:

And an angled shot so that you can see the dimension inside.

I hope you enjoyed this project. Thank you for checking out the SCT blog today!

~ Marla Kress