Charli's 2020 Album Flip Through

Good morning friends

Today's share is really just pictures. I have created an album for Charli's 2020 year of memories, as I do each year. Yeah year it is a different album. I add photos to it as the year progresses of things I think she will want to remember in the future. I never know how much space I am going to need. One of the great things about this years album is that it uses the same type of binding as a Traveller Notebook so I can add to it as I wish.

The album as it stands has 4 double pages (16 actual pages) plus the insides of the front and back cover.

The paper's I have used throughout the album is Kaisercraft's Roseabella range.

I have a flip through video for you to check out here. I show all of the interactive parts of the album. There is a lot of activity in this album so I do recommend you watch the video.

I followed a tutorial by ScrapQueen to make this album, you can check her album out here. She is great if you are looking to make albums and her tutorials are very easy to follow.

Well thanks for dropping by today and spending the time to read my blog

I really do recommend that you check out the video because this album is soooo interactive and it is very hard to show it in photos.

Till next time
Hugs
Julie

In Dreams Art Journal page

Good morning to you.

I hope you are all in a good space as you join me here today.

I have an Art Journal page to share today. It did not take me very long to create this page and I encourage you to give it a go. It is very simple, a good project for a beginner.

I have used my Happy Planner disc bound notebook that I have taken for an art journal. I stick two pages together and give the front a coat of Gesso before I start.

You can watch me create this page here in this video

This is my page.

To create the background I used acrylic paints in colours:- Creative PL Cadmium Yellow Hue, Duncan Red Carnation, Duncan Sunrise Orange and Duncan Ultra Metallic Solid Gold. I applied them to the page using a sponge and a pouncing motion to give the paint a little texture.

Some detail was added to the background with Creative PL Titanium white acrylic paint which I watered down slightly and used an empty toilet roll to create circles and then watered the paint down a little more and used my fan brush to create random splatters.

The black circles in the background were made using a stamp, that I think came with a magazine at some stage, and Stazon Jet Black ink. I have used two of the four circle stamps that came in the set.

For the focal point I wanted to make a dream catcher. I combined Kaisercraft's Flower stencil and TCW Mini Peacock Feathers stencil to do this. I have used Mont Marte Modelling Paste through the stencils.

I wasn't sure if the focal point would stand out enough from the background but once I had let the paste dry and outlined the whole design with my Micron fine permanent black pen I was happy that it did. I did think of colouring the whole dream catcher in Yellow but decided to stick with the white.

I printed out my title and attached it to the page using Mat Gel Medium.

Using a permanent fine black pen I gave both the page and the title a ragged outline to help bring all of the elements together

So as I said earlier a simple page that would be a great start for a beginner.

You can check out my YouTube channel and watch the video here. You will also find a link in the description box of that video to all of my other Art Journal videos if you would like to watch them.

I have to say a big thank you to all of the people who have subscribed to my channel over the last 2 weeks. You have made this girl very happy.

Till next time
Hugs
Julie

Two Cards using DCWV Scripts and Music Notes paper pad

Good morning everyone

In today's post I am sharing with you two of cards I made using DCWV Scripts and Music Notes 12" x 12" paper pad.

I bought this paper pad on clearance for $15, (full price $29.99) it has 36 sheets of single sided patterned cardstock which is very thick and beautiful to work with and 6 sheets of foiled vellum. What a bargain........

You can watch these cards being created on my YouTube channel here. I hand made the flowers using stamps, heat embossing and dies. This process is also in the video.

These are the cards. They are 5.25" square, cut from white cardstock. Each of them has a lightly patterned paper on the inside of the card.

Let's start with the card below.

I chose 2 patterned papers and one of the vellums. The black paper was cut to 5" square, the apricot is 4.75" square and the vellum is 4.5" square. The two papers were layered on to the card base using double sided tape. The vellum was not attached yet because I needed to know where the embellishments were going so I could use glue behind the embellishments to attach the vellum without being able to see the glue.

I used another patterned paper and a die to cut the 10 layers for the larger flower and 7 layers for the smaller flower. I inked the edges of all of the petals and then rolled them around my hole piercer  to give then some dimension. You can see this in the video here. A pink crystal was added to the centre of each flower to add some bling.

I used a piece of Finnabair lace which I have attached with glue approx 2" up from the bottom of the card, I also applied a line of glue on the other side of the vellum behind the lace to attach the vellum to the card base.

I gathered up the grey paper flower, white leaves and pink rosebuds from my stash and arranged them on the card front. When I was happy with the composition, I attached them with liquid glue and hot glue.

The greeting is a sticker from a pack my Mum gave me, I have attached it to a piece of white cardstock, trimmed it to size and attached it to the card with foam tape.

Note: I have added glue behind all of the embellishments between the patterned paper and the vellum to keep the vellum in place.

Card No. 2

The flower on this card was made using a stamp from Embossing Arts Co. It is called 192-GB Giant Flowers and has 4 different flowers on the one large block. I have had this stamp for at least 15years so it is probably not available any more but I use it a lot and it is one of my favourites.

I stamped the flower four times onto patterned paper, with Versamark Clear ink and then heat embossed it with Stamp-It Superfine Detail Embossing Powder. These were then fussy cut. I cut the petals right down to the centre circle of the flower and then rolled the petals around my piercing tool. Each layer was then glued on top of another so the petals were staggered. Three crystals added to the centre completed this flower.

I chose 4 patterned papers for this card. the sizes I cut them to were, 5", 4.75", 4.5" and 9 squares @ 1.25".

The edges of all of the papers were distressed with my distressing tool and black ink.

Double sided tape was used to layer them onto the card base.

To embellish the card I cut another piece of the black patterned paper 4.75" x 1.5" and a piece of vellum 4.75" x 1.25". After distressing the edges of the black paper I attached it to the card base using foam tape.

I used another piece of Finnabair lace which I attached so it was poking out from under the black patterned paper.

I gave the Imaginarium chipboard piece a coat of white acrylic paint before attaching it to the card.

I attached the flower and a couple of leaves with my hot glue gun.

The greeting is from my page of computer printed greetings, I have matted it on a piece of white cardstock and attached it to the card with foam tape.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my cards. I would love it if you could check out the video over on my YouTube channel here.  There is just so much more detail to be seen in the video.

Thanks for dropping by and spending your time here with me today

Till next time
Hugs
Julie

"Family Get Together" Double Layout

Good Morning

I am back on the Off The Rails Scrapbooking Design Team and today I am sharing my first layout created for them using the February Moodboard

This is my layout

This is the Moodboard

I created a process video for this layout and you can see it here

Both of these pages are the same so the description for one is the same as the other.

I started with 2 sheets of Kaisercraft - Love Notes - Dreamy paper and I cut that to 11" square. These were then attached to plain black cardstock that had been trimmed to 11 1/4" square.

Using my palette knife I applied a liberal coat of Gesso to the LoveNotes paper to mute the pattern but thin enough that you could still see the pattern lightly through it.

When the gesso was completely dry, it was left overnight, I used my hot glue gun to attach this assembly to a sheet of DCWV orange burlap. I have a whole pad of these burlap sheets and wanted to use some. I thought it would make an interesting border to my page. The two layers of cardstock on top of the burlap gave it enough strength to hold its shape and be quite stable when it is picked up.

Next step was to apply some Candied Apple Distress Ink through a Kaisercraft stencil using a blending tool. I do not know the name of the stencil but it is one of those that have 4 of 6" x 6" stencils on a 12" x 12" piece. I have cut the stencils up and thrown the packaging away so the name is long gone. The stencil has assorted sized cubes on it.

I had not used this technique before and really enjoyed doing it so decided to get a little more adventurous. I used a Scrapbooking Australia circle stencil and a Prima zigzag stencil, laying the zig zags on top of the circle and applying Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink through the double layer so I gat zig zag filled circles. Before I lifted the stencil I used my Uniball Eye Micro black pen to draw around the circles

Stencils were my main tool in creating this layout and for my next element I mixed some Sunrise Orange Acrylic paint with Mont Marte Modelling Paste and put it through TCW's Chevron stencil, in three areas on each page. I allowed this to dry and then drew a rough outline around each chevron.

I chose some patterned papers from my stash, the orange one is PaperWerx - Organic Collection, The yellow is Prima - Eire Collection and the red with the black text is Craft Concepts - Vintage Grunge Collection. I cut two pieces of the Yellow 1 @ 5" x 4" and 1 @ 5" x 3".

three pieces of the Red 1 @ 6 1/4" x 3/4", 1 @ 5 7/8" x 1 1/2" and 1 @ 4 7/8" x 1"

and two pieces of the Orange 1 @ 6 3/4" x 1" and 1 @ 5 1/4" x 1"

All of the photos were matted on the Red cardstock and cut to 1/4" larger than the photo so they had a 1/8" border all around.

All of the papers have had their edges inked with black ink.

I wanted to add a bit more black to the layout so I used a swirly heart stamp and some Archival Jet Black ink to stamp randomly on the page. I have had this stamp for may years, it used to be attached to a wooden block. I removed the wooden block because they were too bulky for storage and in doing so I lost the brand and name of the stamp.

Using Tattered Angels Chalkboard spray and a brush I splattered Tomate Cerise over the layout using masks in the photos so they did not get any splatters.

To create the title I used Kaisercraft's Alphabet Upper Case DD700 and black cardstock to die cut the letters and attached them to the layout using glue.

Wow a long post today.

Thank you for spending some of your day here with me today

I hope you will pop over to my YouTube channel and check out the video showing just how this page came together

Till next time

Hugs

Julie