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!
I really wanted to get as many of the glitters used for this one using the new set of glues from Kingston Crafts … so I pulled a little strip of rainbow striped paper and turned it into a banner.
I added coordinating glitter glue to each of the stripes … this was a little fiddly as a slight wobble of the hand can make it go out of the stripe but it was generally not too bad as it was only a 1” wide strip.
After putting that to one side I then worked on the background. I used the letter/number embossing folder to add texture but kept the colour simple as a purple block.
I also die cut a circle to add the focal points to.
For the focal point I added a sentiment from the rainbow paper kit and a heart and then decided to glitter them up too!
I then adhered it all together being super careful as I hadn’t left them to dry (I recommend having more patience than me!)
I think it makes a fun and colourful card! And it got to be seen on tv last Sunday … so you know what that means … yes it becomes an “as seen on tv” project.
I had so much fun making this card at my new desk! 😀 I did have to open loads of boxes and drawers and cupboards to find what I was after but it was worth it and at some point I will know where things are!
Our theme for make a mark is just about colouring in or using mediums and I decided to go for a very floral card so stamped the small floral element from Charming Day eight times and then watercoloured with inks.
And I chose my colours based on a ColourCube card (yes I have unpacked these and got them close at hand so I will be using them lots I hope!)
So I chose card 090 and loved the fresh colours … I decided that my interpretation of these colours was Real Red, Strawberry Slush, Tangerine Tango, Tangelo Twist, Bermuda Bay and then Cracked Pistachio in the oxide.
I think it worked well – albeit a more muted because of the watercolour.
Once all were coloured I fussy cut them out. I know there is a die set but it wasn’t jumping to hand so I went with easy and fussy cut instead!
Next I went through the scraps pouch and found coloured cardstock that I thought would work with the inks/ cube combo.
I also had leftover of the creamy white cardstock I had stamped on so that became the base layer. I didn’t want it plain though so took a sentiment stamp from the set and stamped in the cracked pistachio.
Next I decided on the layout and arranged it – I distressed the edge of the two smaller strips and then also tucked a scrap of the chevron ribbon I had grabbed underneath. I added some foam adhesive under the coloured panels so they had some dimension and separation from the back panel.
I then glued the flowers into place (adding foam adhesive where they were hanging off the raised panel) and grabbed a sentiment already embossed and die cut.
I decided then that I would add this to a Kingston Crafts card blank (these were on Hobbymaker at the weekend if you didn’t see them – a great product to play with as it makes finished cards look elevated with the patterned base!)
Inside the card I added some leftover strips of the cardstock to a panel of the creamy white and then one of the leftover florals I had saved for this! I also stamped that lovely scripty sentiment – so nice!
I then decided the front needed something extra so went with splattering some black shimmer … it was a risk doing splatter so soon into having a new desk/decor but I managed to keep it contained and it was fine!
Delighted with this card – so much fun and lovely colour combo!
The box filled with colourful everyday card blanks and adhesive runners was a joy to open and see bright colours and fun patterns – really helped to cheer up a grey and rainy day when it arrived at my house!
My first thought was to grab some of the embellishments in the rainbow kit that I hadn’t got around to using and make a cheerful encouragement card!
I mean you can’t get any more happy on a card than this!
It is a simple card – after all with that fab colourful pattern on it you don’t need to go overboard on design – I used some die cut bits from the other kit and then some of the bakers twine to create a fun extra texture.
So happy – so colourful – so bright! Perfect example of how fun the Kingston Crafts products are.
New Kingston Crafts goodies to share with you now that Martin has shared them on Hobbymaker tv … and first up 12×12 colourful vellum! Oh yes please! This kit is perfect for scrapping due to the size but also what a fun texture to add to your pages! Well that was what I thought when I saw it so I did end up making a few pages as my design team samples. 😀
I made a very zingy green and blue page with the vellum.
I decided the layout would have a central bright green square on the dark blue base and then a white torn element across the page.
I added the torn vellum to both the central element and then underneath top right and bottom left to create a few different textures.
Next I had a dig around and found the cloud strip in my stash from the summer paper kit. I also grabbed the title element at the same time as thought it was perfect for the page.
I grabbed more navy and mat the photo and also created an oval tag to the left of the photo.
I then grabbed some chipboard leaf elements to decorate the page.
I added the photo and then clustered the leaves both around the photo and then the bottom section of the page.
I finished off with some of the enamel dots from that summer paper kit I still had leftover and then trailed the twine from the tag!
Love this zingy page! It didn’t end up being an ‘as seen on tv’ project but plenty of other samples I made did so look out for those over the next few days/weeks as I share the projects I made for all the goodies that got released!
First thing to say for today’s Scrappin Saturday is that I made this page back in January when participating in the Winter Team Challenge but for various reasons only just getting around to sharing it!
Second thing to say is that this is an adaptation of a page kit designed by the lovely Sarah sold via HeyLittleMagpie.
The basic design is as Sarah had it – although she had two photos whereas I just have the one. I added the green blended ink and the blue rub ons, the oval tag to the left of the photo, the ruffled trim below the photo and then the title.
Otherwise it’s pretty much as Sarah designed it!
I added the blue and the green to meet the requirements for the challenge. And the same with the oval tag as it needed an oval or an egg shaped something!
The page had to be about a Mum (hence the pic of my Mum), to include stickers (this included lots and lots) and then was about the Outdoors!
Well the photo is from when we decided we would try and be hikers – it didn’t last long – so we were definitely in the outdoors!
Such a pretty page kit – just love how easily this came together thanks to Sarah’s design.
It’s not just Festive Friday – it is also Christmas in July April time where I share the card made for the theme in our FB group – which this month is – snowflake wishes!
And it is the first project I made in my newly decorated and almost finished off craft room!
I don’t really know where everything is yet and some stuff is currently housed on the floor but it is operational again finally and this was my first project on the new desk!
I started with the snowflake background stamp from Kingston Crafts which I stamped in a pink and orange ombré type effect and then cutdown the panel.
I added a velum layer so it was just a little smaller than the background to soften it a bit and then looked in the scraps pouch for coordinating cardstock I could make tags from.
I found the calypso coral and I think it is pumpkin pie cardstock and edged them with ink and turned them into tags. I then took tiny scraps of ribbons which I had saved from an old project and worked well together and added those. I did use the tiny attached for a couple of them and then tied the other two on.
I then grabbed the pouch of scrapbooking supplies that my friend Helen gave me – perfect for adding some die cu snowflakes and the puffy sticker for the sentiment along with the little sparkle sentiment.
I added it to a teal card blank from Kingston Crafts as I liked the contrast and then added a strip of the off cut inside the card.
And so a lovely funky card and my first project on the new desk! Whoop! Looking forward to more creations soon!
I did video this – it’s a challenge sorting out the set up and not there yet but I will get there I am sure.
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