Alcohol Ink on Acetate

Today's post is a quick one to share a video that shows how I created

 a nice bright acetate sheet coloured by alcohol inks.

I have used Paper Mill alcohol inks.

The colours used are Poppy, Leaf, Emerald, Rose, Turquoise, Citrus, Amethyst. 

Shimmer colours Magenta, Amethyst and Pearl.

You will find the inks here

The process video is below.

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

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Julie

How do you store your Dies?

Good morning

Today I have a question for you

How do you store your dies?

Currently I store mine in the Avery Elle storage pockets

They come in an assortment of sizes and the ones I use are, 

Extra Large - 6 3/4" x 9 3/8" (50 Pack)

Large - 5 1/2" x 7 3/8" (50 Pack)

Small - 5 1/8" x 5" (50 Pack)

I cut a piece of white cardstock that is slightly smaller than the pocket and put that inside the pocket.

I attach a piece of magnetic sheet that is large enough to hold the die/dies to the cardstock with glue.

I use my label maker to add a label to the pocket.

I write on the cardstock how many pieces are in the die set so I know I have got them all when I am packing up.

I store all of my packets in clear containers.

I have made category labels to fit into the containers so I can sort my dies 

and hopefully make them easier to find.

I always try to cut one of each die when I receive it and place it in the packet.

 I use this to try for size when I am trying to decide what to use on my project.

I store any un-used die cuts from my projects in the back of the appropriate packet.

If the die set has matching stamps I store these in the back of the packet.

I currently store these in with my die storage but not sure whether I should keep them with my stamps. 

In fact I think I have some in the stamp storage bins and some in the die storage bins.

Perhaps they should have their own bin?

I store my stamps in the same type of bins, sorted by type.

I would love to know how you store your dies and die/stamp combinations.

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Julie

Set of three floral cards

Good morning

Today I am sharing three cards I created just for fun.

All of the card bases are cut to 5 1/4" x 10 1/2", scored and folded at 5 1/4" on the long side

 then folded to make a 5 1/4" card.

Let's start with this card. It is probably the simplest of them all.

The stamp I have used is Woodware JGS447 Whimsical Flower - Daisy May.

I have stamped with Versamark Embossing Ink and 

embossed with Super Fine Detail Black Embossing Powder.

I used Kaisercraft's Brush Tip Markers to colour the image then fussy cut it.

I cut a piece of acetate 5" square and ran it though my Big Shot with a Daisy embossing folder from Couture Creations.

The flower was attached to the acetate using Art Glitter Glue.

This was then attached to a 5" square piece of white cardstock.

This panel was then added to the card base which was created from cream pearl cardstock.

To create the sentiment I heat embossed "happy" from 

Scrapbook.com's Happy Birthday To You stamp set and 

"Birthday" from Woodware's A Birthday Moment stamp set.

I trimmed these close to the text, inked the edges, mounted them on chipboard

and attached them to the front of the card

For the inside of the card I cut a piece of white cardstock 5" square 

and stamped the daisy image so it overhung the right hand edge of the cardstock.

I inked the edges of this panel and attached it to the inside of the card.

For the second card I cut a pieces of yellow cardstock 5" square.

I also cut two pieces of white cardstock,  one 5" square and the other 4 1/2" square.

Using an all over daisy designed stamp I heat embossed the image onto the 5"

 yellow piece and the 5" white piece of cardstock, being sure to line them up perfectly.

I used Mustard Seed and Carved Pumpkin Distress inks to colour the flowers on the white cardstock and Peeled Paint and Pine Needles Distress inks to colour the leaves. 

I applied the colour using a water brush.

I then trimmed 3/8" from each side of the stamped white panel, making this panel 4 1/4" square.

The floral panel was attached to the plain white cardstock and then attached to the yellow stamped panel.

This panel was then attached to a white card base.

The sentiment was die cut from yellow cardstock, 

mounted on a piece of white cardstock that is 3" x 1" 

and attached to the card front.

To add a little something to the inside of the card 

I mounted one of the pieces I trimmed from the edge of the stamped/coloured panel 

on some yellow cardstock and added that to the left hand edge of the inside panel.

I had fun making the flowers for this card.

I used Alcohol Inks on acetate.

I used Paper Mill alcohol inks in Poppy, Rose, Turquoise, Citrus, Emerald and Leaf. 

I also added some Shimmer Magenta, Shimmer Amethyst and Pearl to the mix.

I purchased all of my Alcohol inks from Riot Art

I added drops of the ink to the acetate and then used my 

Couture Creations blower/puffer tool to move the ink around.

Check the video out to see how much fun this was.

I used Stayz In Place Inkpad in Jet Black to stamp Woodware's Mini Scented Bloom

three times onto the dried acetate sheet.

I also stamped several of the leaves from Heartfelt Creations Botanical Rose stamp set.

This ink was not as dark and crisp as I would have liked it to be and I found I had to go over the image with a black permanent marker to be able to see it properly.

I fussy cut the flowers and leaves.

I cut two pieces of white cardstock, one 5" square and the other 4" square.

I ran these through my Big Shot with a 

Cuttlebug embossing folder that created an all over dot design 

I also cut a piece of yellow cardstock that was 4 1/4" square.

I attached the large piece of white cardstock to the yellow cardbase.

The small white cardstock was attached to the 4 1/4" yellow cardstock. 

This panel was then attached to the card front with a piece of chipboard behind it.

The flowers and leaves were attached to the front of the card

 and gems were added to the flower centres

 

On the inside of the card I added white cardstock measuring 5" x 3 1/4" to the centre.

I cut two strips of white cardstock 5" x 5/8" and two strips of the acetate 5" x 1/2".

The acetate was attached to the white cardstock and then one strip was attached 

at the top of the inside panel and the other to the bottom.

The process video is below

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my cards today. 

You may find it easier to follow my description if you watch the video.

Once again, thank you for spending part of your day here with me today.

Till next time

Stay safe

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Julie

KS4U Masculine Cards for July 2021

 Good morning

Today I am sharing three cards I created using my DT kit from KS4U

I have used a paper pad from Bazzill Basics called Timeless and as it is in the creams fawns and black colourings so I thought it would be ideal for a set of masculine cards.

All of the cards are 5.25" square and all of the patterned papers have been inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Card No. 1

This is a gatefold card.

I cut my card base to 10.5" x 5.25" and scored at 2 5/8" and 7 7/8" then folded the edges

 into the centre on the score marks

I cut two pieces of patterned paper for the front of the card at 2 3/8" x 5"

The three pieces of white cardstock that form the pennants across the front of the card are

 3 1/2" x 1 1/4" with a fishtail cut into one end

The patterned papers on top of the pennants are 3 1/4" x 1"

A piece of white cardstock was cut to 2 7/8" x 3/4" to hold the greeting

The greeting is stamped using one of the stamps in the Woodware - Word Fragments stamp set and StazOn Jet Black Ink

A piece of the same patterned paper that is on the front panels was trimmed to 5" square and added to the inside of the card.

Card No. 2

For this card I have two patterned papers and a piece of white cardstock layered on top of each other to form the base of the front panel. The edges of these papers have been distressed using my Prima Distressing tool before I applied the ink.

Paper sizes are:-

Patterned paper 1 - 5 1/8" square

White cardstock 4 7/8" square

Patterned paper 2 - 4 3/4" square.

I added a small black brad to each corner of this panel

To add a little colour to the card I cut a piece of teal burlap to about 4" square and added that to the front of the card.

I used my We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board to create a 3 1/4" x 2 3/4" envelope from patterned paper. This was attached on top of the burlap

Using my Spellbinders Label One dies I cut a square frame white cardstock to fit inside of the envelope.

This is where I added my computer generated greeting.

I had planned on leaving the white greeting panel loose in the envelope so it could be

 taken in and out but I did not like the way it moved around as the card was handled

 so I attached it to the envelope with a dab of glue

Card No. 3

I decided to use a black background panel for this card so I cut a piece of 

black cardstock to 5 1/4" square which will be attached to the white card base.

I also cut a 4 1/4" square and a 4 1/4" x 2" piece of the same black cardstock

Patterned papers were cut to 5 1/8" and 4 1/8" squares.

The 4 1/8" patterned paper was attached to the 4 1/4" black cardstock 

and a black brad was attached in each corner.

The 5 1/8" patterned paper was attached to the 5 1/4" black cardstock and then 

attached to the white card base.

I wrapped some fibres around the remaining piece of black cardstock 

and attached that to the middle of the 4 1/8" piece of patterned paper.

I used my Spellbinders Circle dies to cut a circle from black cardstock that is 

approximately 2 1/2" in diameter and a 2 3/8" circle from a patterned paper.

 These were attached to each other.

I made three small pennants from a scrap of the patterned paper that were 5/8" x 1"

 and matted these on some black cardstock.

The greeting is another of my computer generated greeting that I have matted on black cardstock.

The pennants and the greeting were attached to the circle 

and then attached to the card with some craft foam behind it.

You can see the full process video below

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

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Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks July Cyber Crop

Hello  hello

Today I want to share a post showing the layout I created for the July Cyber Crop at Mystical Scrapbooks.

The feature product at Mystical Scrapbooks this month is dies and you will receive 20% of all dies in stock. You will find the store here so check it out.

The theme for the month is 1, 2, 3

The challenge is to use 

1 Stencil, 

2 Mediums and 

3 colours 

 

Here is my layout

I have used two 4" x 4" photos on this layout that were taken when a group of us went cruising in November 2006.

For the background I used Ice Cold cardstock.

Using Dusty Attic's Criss Cross Stencil I applied Modelling Paste randomly around the page.

 Once that was dry I applied Watering Can Archival Ink with a blending tool through the same stencil.

The papers I have used are Uniquely Creative's Choose Your Own Adventure.

I have used 

The Story - Layer Cuts

Ready?...Go!

Journey

from the Collection Pack

along with 

Nostalgia Cardstock

I have cut 

The Story - Layer Cuts (reverse side) to 6" x 10"

Journey 2 @ 1 3/4" x 10" (use the reverse side for 1)

Ready?...Go! 1 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Nostalgia Cardstock 1 1/2" x 12"

I used a La La Land Scalloped Border die to die cut the scallops in the Nostalgia Cardstock

Once I had inked the edges of all of the patterned papers I attached them to the layout using double sided tape.

I then machine stitched around the page and all of the patterned papers.

I would suggest if you are going to machine stitch on your layout that you stitch each of the patterned papers before you attach them to the page. It would be so much easier.

I created a small cluster to the lower right hand area of the layout and added a few embellishments in other areas of the layout using fussy cut items from The Story - Layer Cuts sheet and a strip of the Journey paper.

I used a black fountain pen to draw faux stitching around these embellishments.

For the title I use white alpha stickers attached to a piece of the Nostalgia cardstock

The date the photos were taken was handwritten below the bottom photo.

Here is my process video

Once again thank you for spending part of your day here with me on my Blog

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Julie

Mini Album for Charli

Hi there

A quick share today to give you the link to see the mini Album I created for my Grand-Daughter for her 2021 photos.

I followed a tutorial by

Michelle Allen

Creative Operation

Here is a link to her video.

My video gives you flip through of the whole album.

I hope you can check it out.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today.

Till next time

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Julie

KS4U July Layout

How are you today?

It's very cold here and I have got the heater on during the day. 

That doesn't happen very often so it must be cold.

I want to share a layout I created using a 6" paper pad from my July DT kit from KS4U.

They have got a 50% off sale on their Zibbet store only at the moment so check it out. Nothing better than getting beautiful things at bargain prices.

https://marketplace.zibbet.com/kraft-supplies-4-u

I recently purchased a course from Allison Davis called Sketches for 6" x 6" Paper Pads.

The idea is to use up your 6" paper pads on scrapbooking layouts. The course goes for 20 weeks and has a different sketch each week.

This layout was created using the sketch from Week 8.

The paper pad I used for this layout is from Basic Grey and is called Indian Summer

I have cut four 1 1/2" squares from 10 of the papers from the pad.

I did not use them all but having the variety gave me choices of what papers to place next to each other. I think I ended up using 29 squares.

I followed the sketch to place the squares on a 45 degree angle, inked all of the edges and then attached them with Art Glitter Glue.

I cut two piece of patterned paper, 3/8" x 6" and attached them to the top of the layout

 so they joined in the middle and looked like a 12" strip. 

I inked the bottom edge of these strips before I attached them.

Once they were in place I used my sewing machine and black thread to stitch straight lines through most of the squares.

I trimmed my photo down to 3 1/2" x 6" and matted it on white cardstock that is 1/4" wider and longer than the photo.

I inked the edge of the white cardstock, added some craft foam to the back of it and attached it to the page.

To embellish my page I used my Scan N Cut to cut some scalloped hearts from white cardstock and some plain hearts from three of the patterned papers I had used for the squares.

I inked the edges and layered the coloured hearts on top of the white ones.

These were attached to the layout around the edges of the photo.

The title was also cut on my Scan N Cut from black cardstock and attached underneath the photo.

The date the photo was taken was hand written under the title.

Click below to watch the process video.

As always, thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

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Julie

July Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning

Today I am sharing a layout I created for the July 2021 Challenge at Mystical scrapbooks. 

The theme for the month is

There are two challenges and my challenge is to use:-

1 Die Set

2 Photos

3 Patterned Papers

This is my layout

As you can see I have used 

1 Die Set (Uniquely Creative's Tags Tops & Tails)

2 Photos (3" square photos of my Grand Daughter on her school sports day)

3 Patterned papers ( Ready?...Go!, Journey I have used both sides of this paper and Authorised Personnel Only.)

All of the papers are from Uniquely Creative's - Choose Your Own Adventure paper range

All of the papers on this layout have had the edges inked using Kaisercraft's Bark ink cube

To create the background I used an assortment of star stamps, that I had in my stash, to stamp randomly with StazOn Jet Black and Versa Color Cardinal Red inks.

I cut four pieces of the patterned papers so they measured 3.24" x 4", inked the edges and attached them to the page with double sided tape

I cut two of each size of the tags in the die set from Find Your Way as well as four of the ring reinforces in white cardstock.

I attached the ring reinforcers to the page using Art Glitter Glue.

I matted my photos onto black cardstock so they had a 1/16" border on each side.

I then used my sewing machine to stitch around the page, the patterned papers, the tags and the photos

I attached the tags to the layout, with glue, after I had threaded white crochet cotton through the holes.

The photos were mounted onto some craft foam before being added to the page.

The title was cut using my Scan N Cut from the Find Your Way paper

I fussy cut a few embellishments from The Story - Laser Cuts paper and added them to the layout

The date the photos were taken was hand written on the label at the bottom right of the layout.

If you would like to watch this layout come together here is my video

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie