Today I am off to see my friends at our local crop – so hopefully will have a day of being creative (and chatting of course!) … so now I’m updating my blog to share another DT project.
I made another scrapbook page using the Kingston Crafts vellums – this time I mixed a few together to make a page about our trip to the Christmas lights display at Dunham Massey.
I thought the bright colours of the vellum and the cardstock strips I teamed them with worked well with the colourful lights.
I overlapped the strips to the left hand side of the page.
I then embellished with acetate stars and the strings of lights from the acetate and vellum holiday kit and lots of sequins!
Really enjoyed putting this together!
And now I need to grab stuff to take with me to play with as I’ve not organised anything yet!
This card came about because I was going through photos on my phone and I had done a screen shot of a card made by Vicki Wizniuk for last years 30 days of Christmas challenge that I loved and wanted to have a go at!
And so here is my version!
I punched 30 circles out and then used a panel that was just smaller than the card front and added glue to the bottom two thirds and just started adhering the circles to it – but only the top part of the circle touches the glue and the rest overhangs the row underneath. Then I used a strip of red and then the panel of the patterned paper at the top.
I then trimmed down the side and top to be around 1cm smaller than the actual card base.
I ‘fluffed’ up the circles so they had a little ‘movement’ and then decided to wrap some thread and add a bow on the red strip at the top.
Next I added my topper. I chose the Christmas tree cut apart element and mounted it on green and then raised it above the thread on foam adhesive.
Next I stamped a sentiment from a magazine set and mounted that on the green.
But before I adhered it I added the liquid pearls to the star on the tree and added additional ornaments with the pearls. This gives some additional texture to the card topper.
After adding the sentiment I added a panel of the patterned paper inside with one more circle punched out.
Thanks so much for the inspiration Vicki – I loved making this … might have to give it another go but with different papers at some point! Of course using my faves the Christmas Tags and More dsp makes it easy to find a topper or focal point to go with the card!
Hi there – my design team post for Creative Knockouts today is ‘for the kids’ and we’ve been sponsored by Dr Digis for this challenge and I chose to use Trevor’s Tremendous Treehouse for my playful card!
I decided to print a larger image as I could see there was a lot of detail in the image and then used my pencils to colour in the image, taking a bit of care to blend the colours a little give depth to the image and some shading.
I am not the best colourist in the world but I like how I did this image… especially given I did this just after getting my craft room back into operational shape a couple of weeks ago and so had been very out of practice with crafting!
Because it was a larger image I then kept the card itself pretty simple … a couple of cardstock mats under the image and then I decided to use one of the Kingston Crafts 5×7 card blanks and then spotted the pouch of scrap strips panels I had made and decided to use a couple for both the front of the card and on the inside.
I added a foiled sentiment onto the green which I think makes it a bit special with that touch of the gold – but kept it fairly simple – no bling – because it’s clearly a card for a boy!
The bright colours of the cardstock strips and the fun background really help the image pop I think – a fun card for a boy!
… although I would have loved a treehouse like this growing up – just would have switched the sign and the flag! 🤣
The fab hello sentiment vellum was crying out to be made into a bright and cheerful card.
I kept it quite simple with the layer of vellum onto the pink card blank. I adhered it carefully in areas where I knew I would be able to cover it with an element on the top!
I added a doily and then some circle die cuts across the card.
Then I added the butterfly chipboard shapes and sentiment.
I then added some colourful enamel dots from my stash to finish off!
I did manage to find some time to get a couple of the Hey Little Magpie challenges for the (inter)national scrapbooking weekend. And I managed to film this one!
This challenge was to use the sketch Kirei gave us …
And I used this for my page to share the pictures of my Mums birthday celebration.
Used papers that were from the pile I put aside for the #100patternedpaper challenge and also some embellishments from the stash – a mix of 49& market and some HLM bits and bobs.
Love how the page came out and good to be scrapping again at my new desk!
I love the stitching I also added in to add texture to the page.
So Kingston Crafts have brought out another set of glitter glues – some colours are the same from last time (which fortunately included the clear as that’s the one I use the most of!) – but also some new colours – a black, silver and pink- so concentrated on those colours for this fun 3d piece of artwork!
I decided to show the fab coverage that these glitter glues have by adding to the wooden stars I had in my stash. then I let them dry and created a fun textural background from lots of bits in the stash and then added a good coat of gesso over the top of the background.
Next I took the KC shimmer sprays and sprayed with both the silvery colour and the bright pink.
Again I had to set that aside to dry before glueing all the stars in place onto the front.
Then I had to decide how to finish off. I went with a heat embossed wood veneer and some black acetate stars.
I really love how this looked and just needed to then finish off with some fun offcuts of trim and ribbon to the top of the hanger.
Really is such a fun and textural project – so much dimension and most importantly shine with all that sparkly glitter!
Love how this helps to show off the new colours of this fab glitter glue! And it did get to have a brief moment on tv too – so a lovely little ‘as seen on tv’ project!
Yesterdays plan for doing loads of scrapbook challenges for (inter)national scrapbooking day didn’t exactly work as ended up at the walk-in centre with my poorly Mum. Managed to obtain the medication she needed and she had her mind put at rest on some symptoms so it was worth the change in plan, but does mean I am sharing a DT project rather than the scrapbook pages I had intended!
So I decided that I really wanted to try embossing on the card blanks and this worked so well.
I stamped the large Swallowtail using versamark onto the blue coloured patterned blank. I then embossed it with white.
This was so lovely and bright against the background. I decided that it needed a little more ink to just help to ground it so blended the Salty ocean ink on to the card around the swallowtail.
I love the shadow effect it gives it!
I kept the card simple with then a finish of some enamel dots and the sentiment.
Simple but beautiful!
Love the graphic background of the cards and how the image works on top with the embossing!
Now the plan for today is to get some errands done and then I hope for some time crafting! Maybe today I will get to those pages I wanted to make?
Today is (inter)national scrapbooking day and I am hoping to join in with a few challenges later but have some errands to run this morning so decided to make my #scrappinsaturday post one of the design team samples I already had ready to share.
I wanted to make a very different for me scrapbook page by incorporating the glitter glue – don’t know why but it isn’t something I often think to use when scrapbooking.
But I think you’ll agree it really stepped up the chipboard shapes to make them fun!
I started by inking and then coating the chipboard shapes in glitter and then left them to dry.
I decided that the photos of our Peony tree in bloom was the best subject to use the glittery flowers with so started with a base of the pink with a smaller panel of the vellum at an angle. Then I wanted some quite graphic lines in there to contrast the softer pretty elements so decided to sew some wonky boxes using my machine.
This gave a fun base to the page. I added my photos and then started assembling the flowers and leaves in their glittery goodness! I glued them in place and then left it overnight – it’s always important to remember it can take a little longer to dry on vellum.
Next morning I finished the page – adding in the title, some stickers and the journalling.
Really love how the glittery flowers and leaves give the page some real wow factor!
Keeping the rest of it quite simple allows the photos to shine with the glitter elements adding just the extra touch of sparkle.
Also love how the colours of the glitter work with the layer of colour underneath – so cool!
So a fun scrapbook page – I think quite different in style to my normal pages but I love it!
Another card made using the fab glitter glues to step up my card into something super sparkly!
And yes I went Christmas! And yes the dies I am obsessed with! And because I am still in catch up land and still organising my room this is my Festive Friday for this week!
I went with something a bit different to create a fun background using the black glitter glue … I created some squiggly lines (I did use a stencil to guide me a bit so they are evenly spaced).
I then worked on the die cuts. I actually cut them all out of white cardstock and coloured them all with alcohol markers.
Once I had put them together in their clusters I then added the glitter glue – yellow to the centre, orange to the berries and pink to the larger pod type elements.
Again set them aside to dry as I know I am bad for keeping prodding at them as impatient to move on and then messing them up! 🤣
Once dry I added them to the panel and added the sentiment. I then stuck a couple of layers of scrap card stock under the panel to just slightly raise it above the card blank.
Delighted with this – so much sparkle and love how cool those lines are in the background!
Again this made an appearance on Hobbymaker.tv last weekend so it’s getting the title of “as seen on tv”.
I know first of the month is meant to be patterned paper but I think with everything going on I can be forgiven for putting that challenge and KCC challenge aside for a couple of months – I am sure normal service will resume soon – but for now I’m very much in catch up land!
I know I have done leaves as a theme for make it masculine before but given I am still in the process of getting my room straight I didn’t think about repeating themes and instead just grabbed what I wanted to play with!
I chose to work with the tropical leaves press plates I got in the sale at spellbinders and foil them onto green cardstock and make a green themed card!
It took a while to make because I hadn’t planned anything and was using this project more as a chance to try out the filming set up and just have a play. So you can see the video here on my YouTube and check out the process.
I love using the glimmer machine (I did have to check I was doing it right when I started as it had been packed away for so long!) – but the results are so pretty!
Inside the card I kept it simple with a different foiled leaf and the white panel.
Love the sentiment die cut from Alex Syberia too! A great set of dies for finishing off a card!
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