MTCC #60

Hello

Today I am sharing the three cards I created for Challenge #60 at Make the Cards Challenge.

The challenge is to have a black background for your card.

I made three cards.

All of my cards have a white 5 1/4" square base made from white cardstock.

I cut three 5" square panels of black cardstock to use as my card front panel.

Each of my cards has had a layer of Deco Foil's Transfer Gel Duo applied through a stencil.

The mandala and flower stencil do not have any 

brand name on them but the other one is TCW - Mini Labyrinth.

Card No. 1

I applied a pearl powder over the design on this card using a soft brush.

The colour I used is #673 Interference Violet and as you can see it is quite bright.

Once the design was covered with the powder I wiped over the whole panel 

with a dry tissue and all of the excess powder came off

I attached my black panel to a piece of purple cardstock that is 5 1/4" square 

and attached that to my card front.

To embellish the card I cut a floral emblem from an all over piece of lace

and attached that using Art Glitter glue.

The sentiment is from a kit by Uniquely Creative.

Card No. 3

I have burnished Rose Gold gold leaf into the design on this card.

Add some of the loose gold leaf to your card front and then rub it into the design using your finger.

You need to be relatively firm in your application.

Once the design is covered brush the excess flakes off.

I have cut a piece of co-ordinating metallic paper to cover the front of the card base and then added my black panel to that.

A transparent sticker from Kaisercraft's Happy Birthday sticker pack, 

was added to a piece of the same paper I used for the background.

I cut a fishtail in each end of the title piece before attaching it to the card front 

with a piece of scrap chipboard behind it.

A fine piece of lace was added to the bottom of the black panel 

before the panel was attached to the card front. 

Card No. 3

To enhance the design on this panel I used Deco Foil -Summer Rainbow foil.

A piece of foil was laid over the design and then I rolled over it with my brayer.

You can use your fingers or a bone folder if you do not have a brayer

The sentiment is from Paper Rose's Big Sentiments 1.0 pack.

I have run that through my laminator with the same foil.

Here is my process video

I hope you enjoy watching my video

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

DT layout for Off the Rails Scrapbooking

Good morning

My layout today was created for the Moodboard over at Off the Rails Scrapbooking

This is the Moodboard

This is my layout

I have used Kaisercraft's Now Boarding and After Five patterned papers.

They are very old and I don't think they are still available.

I have trimmed the mustard coloured cardstock for the background to 11 1/2" square.

I trimmed the bottom of the mustard cardstock on an angle from the bottom left corner up about 1" on the right hand edge and backed that with a piece of Now Boarding - Terminal patterned paper.

The mustard background was attached to black cardstock.

I used TCW Chevron Tiles stencil and Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink, applied with my domed blending tool, to create a pattern on the mustard cardstock.

I also ran around the edge of each of the squares on the stencil with a fine black pen to outline each shape.

Now Boarding - Cabin Crew was trimmed to 6 1/2" x 8"

After Five - Corsage was trimmed to 3" x 10 1/2" A fishtail was cut in each end

Now Boarding - Boarding Pass was cut to 2 1/4" x 9 1/2" A fishtail was cut in each end

All of these were then matted onto black cardstock that was cut a 1/4" larger, 

giving a 1/8" boarder all around.

The photos were also matted on black in the same manner.

These were attached to the layout. The largest piece of patterned paper and the photos were 

attached with cardboard behind them.

To embellish the page I used a tab from the collectables pack and several items that I had stamped, heat embossed and fussy cut using a Kaisercraft stamp set. 

I can't remember the name of the stamp set but I could look it up if anyone would like to know its name.

The title was printed on Now Boarding - Boarding Pass and attached between the two photos.

Here is my process video

I hope you enjoy watching it.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks March Cyber Crop

Good Morning

The layout I am sharing with you today is for the March Cyber Crop over at Mystical Scrapbooks

The theme this month is Mood boards and the mood board I have used for this layout is this one.

I have used the colours for my inspiration, although I used paler tones of the pink and mauve.

I have also added gold to the mix

 I have used Studio 73 - Timekeeper patterned papers for this layout.

The Pink background frame is plain cardstock

The 11 1/2" patterned paper that is layered on top of the pink cardstock is the Clock Keeper paper.

I have used my TCW Tile Texture stencil to add Deco Foil - Transfer Gell Duo 

to the whole background. I let this dry and then rubbed foil on top.

I used two foils for this, one is a blue/purple mix that I have had in my stash for approximately 20 years,

the other was Gold Fab Foil.

I was really happy with the mix of the two foils.

From the Feathery Friends paper I fussy cut the large image that takes up the right hand edge of the page.

I inked the edge of it with my black VersaColor ink cube, added cardboard to the back then used liquid glue to attach it to the layout along the right hand edge of the page.

To embellish the page I fussy cut seven tags from the Tag & Shapes paper,

inked the edges, added a black eyelet using my Crop-O- Dile 

and threaded some black & white Baker's Twine through the eyelet.

I have used two 6" x 4" photos and a 1 3/4" x 1 3/4"photo.

I filed the edges of the photos with an emery board before attaching them

so some mauve cardstock leaving a very fine border.

The photos and tags were attached to the page using double sided tape.

I attached two tags to the bottom right of the page.

One is flat on the page and the smaller one has some cardboard behind it to raise it a little.

From the Memory Maze - Criss Cross Hearts chipboard set I chose one of the open hearts and one of the small solid hearts and added gold foil to them

The larger heart was attached on top of the two tags at the bottom of the layout and the small heart was attached to the bottom left corner of the bottom photo

The title comes from the Dusty Attic - Mini Captions #1 chipboard pack

I have heat embossed this using Versamakrk Embossing Ink and 4 coats of black embossing powder.

Here are a few closeup photos.

Here is my process video.

I hope you enjoy watching it.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks Cyber Crop

Good morning

Today I want to share the layout I created for the February Cyber Crop at Mystical Scrapbooks.

This is the sketch I used.

This challenge requires you to use the sketch and to add gold to your project.

Here is my layout

The outer frame of the layout is Kaisercraft's Time Machine - Mechanism paper that I have cut the middle out of leaving a 1" frame.

The background of the layout is Uniquely Creative's Drive & Fly - Engine paper

 that I have trimmed to 11 1/2" x 11 1/2"

I used Kaisercraft's Crackle stencil and some black Gesso randomly to add some interest at the top and bottom of the layout.

Once the gesso was dry I rubbed Art Alchemy Metallique Wax in White Gold.

I trimmed Uniquely Creative - Drive & Fly - Train to 7 1/2" x 12"

and two strips of Mechanism 3/4" x 12".

The strips were added to the 12" edges of the Train paper

Next I trimmed a piece of Kaisercraft - Time Machine - Ironclad to 4" x 10" and tore the two 4" edges.

A little more gold was added to the layout by heat embossing a frame from Memory Maze's Junky Frame and Arrows chipboard with embossing ink and Stampendous Aged Gold embossing enamel.

I cut the frame in half so I could off set it on my layout.

I used an emery board to file around the edges of my photos and matted them onto the Mechanism paper.

I also added some scrap chipboard to the back of the photos.

I used my Scan N Cut to cut my title and three tropical leaves.

Time now to attach all of my elements to my page. I used Art Glitter glue for this.

Here is my process video

I hope you pop over to Mystical Scrapbooks and check out the Cyber Crop

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Layout for Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning, good morning

Today I am sharing a layout I created for Mystical Scrapbooks. 

The theme for November is to scrap lift a favourite layout. 

This is my second layout for this month. 

Here is my layout

and this is the layout I have lifted.

It is by Mandy Melville from November 2016.

I loved the simplicity of the layout

You will find her blog post here.

I turned the layout on its side as my photo was portrait orientation

while the one on Mandy's layout was landscape orientation.

I used Uniquely Creatives Days of December paper collection for this layout.

As the photo is of my Grand-Daughter in one of her theatrical performances

I wanted to have lots of sparkle on this layout.

The photo started life 6" x 6" but I trimmed it down to 3 3/4" x 6"

I used a sheet of American Crafts POW Gold Glitter Paper as my background.

I did not want to waste this beautiful paper so I cut a 1" frame from it. 

This gives me the centre section to use on other parts of the layout. 

I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to 11 1/2" square to use as my background.

To add some interest to my background I used 

Nuvo Glitter Drops- White Blizzard, through TCW Stencil - Two Hearts

The Nuvo Drops do not stand out from the white cardstock very much

but they do add lots of texture and sparkle.

Next I used my Prima Stitched Rectangle stamp and Versafine Onyx Black ink

 to stamp some straight stitched lines randomly on to the background.

I used Hero Arts Infinity Rectangles die with my Big Shot to cut six assorted sized rectangles from the gold glitter card.

I cut "The Season" patterned paper to 6 1/2" x 5" and 3/4" x 2" and

"Good Cheer" patterned paper to 4 1/2" x 4" and 3/4" x 2 1/2"

I cut a fish tail in one of the narrow ends of the two smallest pieces of patterned paper.

I inked the edges of all of the patterned and glitter card.

I filed the edges of my photo with an emery board and matted it onto some black cardstock.

Before adding it to the patterned paper cluster, 

I attached some chipboard to the back of the photo mat.

For my title I used Dusty Attic Picture Perfect chipboard.

I used my VersaMark Embossing Ink to heat embossed the chipboard

 with gold on the top and black on the bottom.

You can see how I did this in the process video below.

Now that I have all of my elements ready I attached them to my layout background

I used my Uniball Mico black pen to draw a double scribbly border around my page

As a final sparkly touch I sprinkled 28 Lilac Lane gold sequins onto the layout and attached them using liquid glue and my Silhouette Pick Me Up tool.

Here is my process video

I hope you enjoy watching it.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

November Cyber Crop at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning.

Today is the start of the Cyber Crop weekend at Mystical Scrapbooks.

The theme for the month is to scrap lift a favourite layout

and the added requirement for this challenge is to add some texture to your layout.

You will find the Cyber Crop here.

This is the layout I have scraplifted

You will find a link to the Pinterest post where I saw this layout here.

This is my layout

I have used Black Cardstock for my background, Coco Vanilla's These Days paper collection, The Crafter's Workshop Chevron Tiles Stencil, Peachy Keen Nuvo Vintage Drops and Dress My Craft Frosted Sugar Powder on this layout

Each of the pieces of patterned paper are 3/4" x 2"

All of the embellishments were fussy cut from the patterned papers except for two wooden buttons from the same range

The added requirement of adding texture was met by putting the Nuvo Drops through the stencil and then adding the Frosted Sugar Powder while the Nuvo Drops were still wet.

Here is my process video

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie