84 posts categorized "Scrapbooking"

May 04, 2012

Spellbinders Spring Blog Hop and Giveaway Day 6

I’m so excited to be participating in my FIRST Spellbinders™  Blog Hop and Giveaway! Great tools make crafting fast and easy and the Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® Machine and Spellbinders™ Die Templates make scrapbooking a snap! For this color blocked page featuring beautiful blossoms I used the Spellbinders™ Shapeabilities® S5-105 Floral Tags and applied a few techniques.

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Supply List:
Spellbinders™ Paper Arts Supplies:
Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® Machine
S5-105 Floral Tags
E8-001 Classic Scallop

Cross Promotional Partners:

Xyron Adhesive
Elmer’s 3D foam tape
Bazzill Basics Cardstock
Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock
ClearSnap ColorBox Ink
Others: Ultrafine Clear Embossing Powder, Embossing Ink, Heat tool, Spray Mist, Brown Journalling pen, corrugated alphabet letters and patterned paper.

Instructions:

To start, I arranged both flowers, the leaves and the plain tag dies on the base plate facing cut side up, leaving space between the rows of dies.
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I cut/tore patterned paper and green Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock and arranged on top of the dies.
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Cut and emboss. Remove the leaves and the plain tags from the dies. Leave the remaining die cuts in their dies.

Orange Flower Technique:
 Apply embossing ink through the die, using it as a stencil. Remove from die and cover with embossing powder. Tap to remove the excess powder and set with the heat tool. Apply Clearsnap fluid chalk ink in peach to the embossed flower. Remove the excess ink from the embossed areas with a damp rag. The embossed area will act as a resist. Set the flower aside.

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All Other Flowers Technique:
Select a Clearsnap fluid chalk ink in a color in the same color family as the patterned paper (or use embossing ink if you just want to add some gloss but no color to your design). Apply the ink through the die, using it as a stencil.
Remove die cut from die and add Ultrafine embossing powder. Remove excess and set with heat tool.

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Leaf Technique:
Sand the embossed areas and edges of leaves.
Select a Clearsnap fluid chalk ink similar to the color of the paper and ink the sanded areas.   

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Banner Technique:
Score 5 plain tags in the middle widthwise.
Run through a Xyron adhesive machine.
Fold tags on the score line over a piece of baker’s twine

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Crop 2 photos to 3.5 x 3.5 inches. Adhere to a 4 x 12 piece of patterned paper, leaving a 3 inch space between the photos (for the plain photo tags).
Arrange photo strip and plain paper tags as per the project photo and adhere.
Add the banner and floral elements with Elmers 3D foam tape for added dimension.
Fluff the floral elements.
Embellish by adding the title (mist first to add color) and the Classic Scallops die cuts (the top cut is trimmed in length). Add the journaling and accent lines to the design with the brown journaling pen.

And THAT’s it! All that technique and it still took me less than 60 minutes to assemble this page! LOVE THAT!


The Spellbinders™ Spring Blog Hop will begin April 30th, and will end on May 5th, 2012. It consists of 16 individual and one grand prize drawings.  Enter the Spellbinders™ Spring Blog Hop by visiting the participating blogs each day.


From each Blog Hop post, click on the Blog Hop "Enter HERE" at the end of each blog to open the entry form. You may only enter once from each blog each day.


Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one winner from each participating blog to receive all of that day’s products. The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants that sent entry forms from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open. For the full list of official rules please click RULES.

**Enter the contest by clicking HERE**


Thanks for stopping by today! Make sure you visit the other fabulous designers below to increase your chances of winning!


Linda Lucas

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March 26, 2012

Run, don't walk....

to The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline, IL to pick up the latest releases from Reminisce...including

Their Easter line-Happy Easter 2012

Chaw12 easter

Their Graduation/Prom Line-the Graduate

Chaw12 grad

Chaw12 prom

Their Travelogue Line (my fave from this release!)

Chaw12 italy

Toodles! Thanks for stopping by!

 

March 17, 2012

Upcoming Classes!

I have 2 upcoming classes...both at The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline, IL. Call the store directly at 1 309.736.7242 to register!

Fast, Fun and Fabulous Layouts-Saturday, April 28th 10AM, $24

FFF april 2012

 

And a Friendship mini-album class-Saturday, April 28th, 1:30, $28

This one's all about working with canvas, foil and inks of all types!

April 2012 mini album

Hope to see you there!

February 10, 2012

Only one spot left!!

Only one spot left in my Saturday Class at The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline, IL! Call them at (309) 736-7242 to register!

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Hope to see you there!

January 30, 2012

Spring is COMING!

Spring has sprung! Not that we've really had any winter here this year...and it was 50+ F today! Looking forward to another unseasonably warm day tomorrow too!

With that said, I created some spring-y projects for Xyron's recent appearance on HSN! Love the DCWV paper stack that I got to play with too...Lemon Flower...and some Xyron Shapez by Spellbinders (the flower pot flowers!)

Let's start with my fave...the flower pot with paper flowers! This one was time consuming, but oh, so worth the effort!

Hsn jan12 flower pot

Next a thank you card:

Hsn jan12 thanks card

A layout highlighting my nephew's personality:

Hsn jan12 mister serious layout

And finally, an altered frame featuring my youngest niece:

Hsn jan12 altered frame

Thanks for popping by today!

 

January 14, 2012

Two layouts...

Two layouts to share today...the first was created with some Picadilly from Basic Grey (available at the Scrapbooking Studio)...love how 'springy' this one feels...

All smiles

the second uses a Studio Calico kit (County Fair) and is based on the Sunday Sketch up on the Studio Calico blog...the picture is my son and his cousin in their Christmas duds...

Cousins full

Of course, everything is held together with my trusty Xyron Mega Runner Adhesive (I LOVE that thing!)

Got to get busy with some last minute CHA projects (9 to be exact)...so see you all later!

December 20, 2011

FINALLY! Some creative time...

I know my family is probably looking for some Thanksgiving pictures...BUT I'm happy that I got a chance to do some creating this weekend, so I'm putting up a crafty post today!

I had a chance to pull out my American Crafts AMY TAN products...such FUN! Love the colors and the textures...here's what I created...

Amy tangerine butterfly box

I've seen these butterfly boxes before, and the 'science' geek in me is drawn to how they resemble specimen displays...I used my Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Butterfly dies and adhered the beauties to a punched grey circle before mounting on the cardstock with the printed quote...LOVE this project!

AMAZINGLY...I created a couple of cards...

Amy tangerine mom card

Amy tangerine hi card

Those that follow my blog know that I publicly complain about my card making abilities...perhaps I've turned a corner?

Lastly, but not leastly, I created this photo-less layout documenting our family's road to our Iowa HOME!

Amy tangerine the road home

All these FAB Amy Tan (and the Tim Holtz die) products are available at The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline (or Bloominton)...check 'em out!

ps. if you're in a holiday mood, check out my handmade ornaments on the Reminisce blog!

July 09, 2011

Some layouts (FINALLY!)

I finally got some crafty time in last night...since we've been busy with buying/selling homes, crafty time has been a bit of a luxury lately...but I got out to the Scrapbooking Studio last night...and finished a couple of layouts!

Here's the first one, about my niece Marika, who just turned one...she's a DOLL! love her to pieces and she's such a happy baby! the best!

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I used the American Crafts Margarita line...love the bright fun colors! I pieced the sun accent together using punched banner shapes and some punched circles, all layered and highlighted with white pen!

The second layout makes good use of the pictures that Sarah Sunstrom took of the kids at our spring photo shoot (and of course, some more AMERICAN CRAFTS Margarita!)

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I bought a bunch of hexagon punches at a scrapbook garage sale this spring and was DETERMINED to use them...they worked well here and inspired the title of the layout too!! With two chemists as parents, my kids will never escape the 'nerdier' side of my sense of humor! poor things!

We were home (Canada) for the recent long weekend--celebrated a cousin's wedding and my parent's 40th anniversary...once I edit the pics (I started shooting in RAW format, so no sharing without editing...bummer) I'll share a few favorites here!

Thanks for checking in! Toodles!

May 01, 2011

The Baby Album is FINISHED!!

Amazingly, the baby album I'm making for my chiropracter is FINISHED!! I was lucky enough to get away on Friday night and crop with Amy from the Scrapbooking Studio and Shelly from Sweetooth Scrapbooking.

I started the evening by sortings and cleaning up my alphabet letter stickers....the mess had been bothering me for a while, but it's tough to sort with little hands around!! Then I went about finishing the baby album that I had started last week (see the cover HERE). I used (mostly) Teresa Collins Chic Baby Girl and Posh papers and embellishments....love the bright pink, light pink and black color combo!!

Here's the inside cover and the first page...all the photo mats are black...the larger ones will hold a 4x6 picture and the smaller squares will hold a 2.75 x 2.75 inch picture...since the recipient is a non-scrapper, I tried to keep the photo requirements consistent and uncomplicated.

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The inside pages...

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On the right hand page above...I covered the 'remember' on the posh die cut with the word 'beautiful' from the same die cut sheet...

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and since mom has a twin sister (I can't even tell them apart!), there's an auntie page in the album!

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Here's the last page and the inside back cover...it was close to 1 AM when this got done, I'm thinking I'll have to realign that title as a result!!

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So glad that this project is finished...I'm going to wrap it up in dark pink tissue paper and tie it witht the rest of the satin ribbon! Can't wait to give it away!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

April 11, 2011

Some 'guest' craftiness....

Hello all!!!

Last month I was lucky enough to guest design/blog over at the SEI Lifestyle blog...I shared 2 recipes and 3 crafty projects....here are the projects....

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Some misting magic on the SEI pearlized papers....love IT!

A repurposed pencil box...made a great gift box....AND it turns out, the Moxie Fab World  blog is having a Gift Wrap Challenge that this fits BEAUTIFULLY!!!

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even dressed up the 'insides'...

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And my person FAVE from the week...an altered frame to hold inspirational quotes...and an entry for ANOTHER Moxie Fab World Blog Challenge, Home Decor....

Inspire frame

and a new found love for crepe paper, especially the metallic kind...

Inspire closeup

AND....NEXT month, I get to guest design over at Allison Davis' Sketch Support site...super excited about that 'gig'!! Already started creating....just can't share yet!!!

Toodles all...hope to be back later this week with more crafty goodness....

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