Mystical Scrapbooks April 2022 Cyber Crop

Good morning

My layout today is for the April Cyber Crop over at Mystical Scrapbooks. You will find the crop here.

This month the theme is colour palettes and for this particular challenge you can choose any colour you like but your project has to be monochromatic, meaning you can use any number of shades of your chosen colour with a minimal amount of black and white.

I have chosen pink for my colour.

I have chosen Uniquely Creative's Serendipity patterned papers to use today

I started with white cardstock for my background

I added Modelling Paste coloured with Starfish Glimmermist through TCW Two Hearts stencil.

This added a lot of pink to the background and minimised the white.

I splattered the background with Artiste Spritzing Ink in Black Night, Glimmermist Cherub Pink and Glimmermist Iridescent Gold

The final addition to the background was random stamping using Versafine Onyx Black Ink and Kazzaz Reason Season Lifetime, Kaisercraft Grid and Kaisercraft Numbers stamps.

I cut two strips of deep pink and two strips of pale pink cardstock to 1/2" x 12, inked the edges with my Versa Color Black Ink cube and attached them to each other with the light pink on top and about 1/4" of the dark pink showing above it.

I added a torn strip of pink washi tape to each of these strips and a pice of pink glitter washi layered on the first washi tape.

These were attached to the top and bottom of my page.

Time now to start with my patterned papers. 

I cut:-

Serendipity - Adore - 10 1/2" x 2"

Serendipity - Providence 1 1/4" x 12" and 3/4" x 12",

I used the floral side for the 1 1/4" piece and the woodgrain side for the 3/4" piece

I inked the edges with my black ink cube

I used double sided tape to attach these to the centre of my layout, layering them on top of each other, widest paper on the bottom working up to the narrowest paper.

I also added two small strips of the glitter washi so they will poke out from 

behind the photo when I attach it.

I am using a 6" x 4" photo, I have filed around the edge of the photo with an emery board before attaching it to a 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of the dark pink cardstock.

To give my photo some lift I have added a piece of sticky backed craft foam before attaching it to the layout slightly above centre.

To embellish my layout I have fussy cut a doily from Serendipity - Carefree and selected several items from Uniquely Creative's Gums & Roses Creative Cuts pack.

I have inked the edges and attached them to my layout

The title is a tag from the Creative Cuts pack, I have added some pink ribbon and attached it to the layout with sticky backed craft foam behind it

Here is my process video if you would like to check out

Don't forget to check out the Cyber Crop, they are always fun and there are prizes to be won.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Design Team layout for Off the Rails Scrapbooking's January 2022 challenge

Good morning

The challenge over at Off the Rails Scrapbooking this month is 

Re-use, Recycle & Repurpose.

I have interpreted that as using items from my stash that have been there for many years.

You will find the challenge here.

The photos on my layout are of my Mum taken while we were celebrating her 89th birthday

in December 2021

The chipboard frame has been in my stash for so many years 

I have no idea where I got it or what brand it is.

I have given it a coat of Gesso then sprayed it with Tattered Angels Chalkboard spray in white

and when that was dry I sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmermist in Iridescent Gold.

The patterned papers are from a 12" paper pad by DCWV called Love & Grace.

I purchased this pad from Spotlight a few years ago also.

I used Art Glitter glue to attach a patterned paper to the back of the frame

I trimmed the background patterned paper to 11 1/2" square

and attached it to a 1" white cardstock frame.

I took this to my sewing machine and stitched a row of zig zag 

and a row of straight stitching around the edge of the patterned paper

The frame was then attached to the background using my hot glue gun

The two 6" x 4" photos were attached to the layout using foam squares so they sat flat over the frame.

To embellish the layout I cut a 3" x 4" cut apart from one of the sheets of patterned paper,

cut the top so it looked like a tag, then heat embossed around the edge of it

with embossing ink, fine gold embossing powder and my heat tool.

I used my Crop-O-Dile to add a gold eyelet to the tag.

 I threaded some sheer gold ribbon through the eyelet.

Using Woodware's Mini Garden Spray stamp, I stamped and heat embossed

the flowers onto white cardstock. I used the same gold embossing powder.

I fussy cut these flowers.

I used my hot glue gun to attache the tag and the flowers to the layout.

The tiny embroidered flowers and leaves were another item from my stash and had been given to me by my Mum. I loved the idea of using them on this layout about her.

I added a coat of Wink of Stella to the flowers. Unfortunately I picked up the white one instead of the clear one and instead of giving my flowers a nice sparkle I managed to dull down the gold detail of the heat embossing.

*Note* I used a baby wipe to wipe over the flowers a day or so later and luckily removed a good amount of the white

The title is heat embossed chipboard numbers. 

I have used the same embossing powder I used 

for all of the other heat embossing.

I have used Art Glitter glue to attach the title to the bottom right of the frame 

Here is my process video if you would like to watch this layout come together

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

 

Layout using shaker elements

Hi there

Today's layout uses three shaker elements as embellishments

I have created see through shakers so the patterned papers behind the shakers is still visible.

The patterned paper I have used on this layout is from the Kaisercraft Workshop Collection

The background is a sheet of Navy Cardstock

I have torn two strips of Courageous and two strips of 

Dashing to layer at the top and bottom of the Navy cardstock.

The centre panel is a 8 1/2" x 12" piece of Tough paper

For a little interest on the background I created some splatters using Antique Brass Glimmermist

The title is the branding strip from Courageous 

that I have matted on some of the Courageous patterned paper.

I used my stitched heart die to cut five white heart frames

 in each of the 3 sizes and one of the frames in each size from Courageous

I used Art Glitter Glue to attach the white layers on top of each other.

I cut 2 acetate hearts, of each size, using the largest die I used to cut each frame.

Once I had all of my white layers attached, I attached one of the acetate hearts and then the Courageous frame on top of that so I had my white heart frames, an acetate heart and then the blue frame.

I turned the hearts upside down so the acetate was on the bottom

 and added Bronze heart glitter to each frame. 

The remaining acetate hearts were then attached 

trapping the glitter between the two layers of acetate.

This creates a see through shaker element so the patterned papers can be seen through them.

My photo is 6" x 4" and I matted that on a piece of white cardstock that is 6 1/8" x 4 1/8"

 and then onto a piece of the Courageous patterned paper

 with torn edges at the top and bottom of the photo.

To finish my layout off I have added tiny dot of Nuvo Glitter Drops

 in Midnight Blue randomly to the background.

Here is my process video. I hope you enjoy watching it.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Curtain Lace cards

Good morning

Today I want to show you what I made with the curtain lace I coloured in this video

https://youtu.be/LHf7FFlzq5w

All of these cards use a purchased pale pink satin card base that measure 5 7/8" square

Each of these cards use Kaisercraft's Secret Garden patterned papers.

Card No. 1

I have covered the front of the whole card base with the curtain lace.

To do this I used Satin Mod Podge

I cut a piece of gold cardstock 4" x 5 7/8"

Pink checked paper 2 @ 1" x 5 7/8"

Grey patterned paper 2 @ 1" x 5 7/8"

Floral patterned paper 2 1/4" x 5 7/8"

I attached the patterned papers to the gold cardstock to create a panel for the front of the card.

I created two flowers using pale pink velum and my Couture Creations CO724161 flower die.

When I placed them on the front of the card they faded into the background.

I used the same die and white cardstock, to create two flowers. 

I inked the edges of the cardstock with a gold ink cube to help the flowers stand out

and tie them to the gold already on the card.

A little Nuvo Glitter Drops in White Blizzard added to the centre of each flower

finished the flowers off and added a little sparkle to the card.

I die cut the sentiment four times from white cardstock and once from gold cardstock. 

These were attached to each other with the gold layer on top.

The sentiment was then added to the centre right of the card.

Card No. 2

I chose three papers from the pad and trimmed them to 

5 1/2" square, 5 1/4" square and 5" square.

The edges of each piece was inked with a black ink cube and attached to the card base, 

largest layer on the bottom working up to the smallest layer.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 5 1/2" x 3" and attached some of the 

white (uncoloured) curtain lace to it using Mod Podge once again.

A strip of burgundy patterned paper was cut 1" by 5 1/2" and a 

strip of gold cardstock was added to the 

top and bottom of this strip, with approximately 1/4" showing. 

This was added to the card front with a layer of chipboard behind it.

I created another of the pink velum flowers so I had three to place across the centre of the card.

The centre of the flowers is a little squirt of Pops of Colour - Glitter - Champagne

To create the sentiment I stamped "It's Your Day" from the 

Woodware - Word Fragments stamp set with my Versamark clear ink

and added Superfine Gold Embossing powder before heat setting it.

I trimmed the sentiment and matted it onto some of the 

same gold cardstock that I have used on the card already.

This was attached to the card with a strip of chipboard behind it

so it sits flat against the lace layer.

Card No. 3

This is perhaps the simplest of the three cards.

I cut a piece of patterned gold cardstock to 5 5/8" square

and a piece of white cardstock 5 3/8" square.

I ran the white cardstock through my Big Shot

 with a rose patterned embossing folder, 

I think it is a Kaisercraft folder but not sure.

As the embossing folder was not big enough to cover the 

whole piece of cardstock I trimmed it down to 4 7/8" square.

I must put some square embossing folders on my shopping list.

I cut 4 circles from the coloured curtain lace, in decreasing sizes.

When I layered them on top of each other I lost the definition of each circle

so I cut circles from the pale pink velum to match the size of the lace circles, 

inked the edges of the velum with a black ink cube and 

attached the lace to the velum using Art Glitter glue.

Next I attached the four circles on top of each other to create my flower. 

Three black crystals added to the centre of the flower 

bring in a black element to go with the sentiment.

The finished flower is approximately 3 1/4" in diameter.

The flower is attached to the bottom left of the card front.

The sentiment for this card was cut using 

Uniquely Creative's Brush Scrip Sentiments die

 and black cardstock.

Here is my process video

I hope you enjoy watching both my videos and try this technique for yourself.

It is very easy and lots of fun and I still have the cardstock I created to use on another project..

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie 

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Three Gold & White Cards

Good morning.

Today I want to show you three cards I created using gold and white.

I have used 240gms smooth white cardstock and 

Pearlised gold cardstock for each of my cards.

Let's start with this card.

The card is 5 1/4" square.

I have cut the pearlised gold cardstock 5" x 5" and 5" x 1 3/8"

and white cardstock 4 3/4" x 4 3/4" and 5" x 1 1/8"

I used an embossing folder (Spellbinders I think) 

to emboss roses into the 4 3/4" piece of white cardstock

I layered the 1 1/8" white cardstock onto the 1 3/8" strip of gold cardstock

then attached chipboard to the back of that panel.

The embossed piece of white cardstock was attached to the 

5" piece of gold cardstock and the panel was then attached to the cardbase.

I wrapped a piece of gold organza ribbon around the layered strip

 before attaching it approximately centre of the front of the card.

A white flower from my stash and some gold leaves 

cut with Uniquely Creatives Little Leaves die along with 

a die cut gold bow embellish the front of the card.

The greeting was also die cut. The shadow is the same pearlised gold cardstock 

and the "hello" is white cardstock.

To finish the card off I added some splatters with a mixture of Gold Glimmermist

and Gold Spritzing Ink by Artiste.

The second card is a shaker.

The card base is 6 1/4" x 10", scored at 5" on the 10" side to make a 6 1/4" x 5" card

I also cut two pieces of white cardstock 5 3/4" x 4 1/2", these will become my shaker element.

There is one piece of the pearlised gold cardstock that measures 6" x 4 3/4". 

This is the background layer between the card front and the shaker panel.

I cut Hero Arts Flower Garden Fancy Die 

from one of the 5 3/4" x 4 1/2" pieces of white cardstock

I trimmed around the die cut negative so there was only about 1/2" of the

pattern left of the die cut.

I cut a piece of acetate to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and attached that to the back

 of the negative of the die cut.

I then used glue to attach the die cut panel to the outside of the acetate

 so it inlayed neatly into the edges of the die cut negative.

Foam tape was attached to the back of this panel making sure not to allow any

of the foam tape to show through to the front.

With the back of the shaker panel facing up I added the course gold glitter

 and sealed it in place by attaching the other piece

of 5 3/4" x 4 1/2" white cardstock.

The gold cardstock was added to the card front then the shaker panel

was attached to that.

To embellish the card I stamped Woodware's Mini Garden Spray stamp

 twice onto the gold cardstock. 

I used myAntistatic Powder Tool, Versamak Ink and White Embossing Powder for this. 

Once I had fussy cut them I shaped the petals using my flower shaping tool

and then layered one on top of the other using foam squares 

to give the flower added dimension.

I used the same Leaf die to cut three leaves from the gold cardstock

and added these to the card front, tucked under the flower.

The greeting was stamped using Woodware's Word Fragments stamp set then

 heat embossed using myAntistatic Powder Tool, 

Versamak Ink and Gold embossing powder.

The third card is once again 5 1/4" square

This is probably the simplest of today's cards.

The cardstock for the card base is 5 1/4" x 10 1/2" scored and folded at 5 1/4" on the 10 1/2" edge.

The gold cardstock is 5" square and has been embossed with 

Couture Creations Washed Away embossing folder.

A pretty lace from KS4U was added near the left hand edge of the card front

I used Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die and white cardstock 

to make the flower for the front of this card 

The greeting is a stamp and die set from Kaszazz called "Hello"

I have used gold embossing powder.

I also added a die cut bow to finish this card off.

Here is my process video

I hope you will try making one or more of these cards. They are all quite easy.

If you would like a tutorial on how to make the flower on the last card

let me know in the comments and I will make a "how to" video for you.

I learned how to make this flower from a YouTube video about 10 years ago

and I use it quite often. It is a very handy flower to use when you want

a nice sized focal point for a card or an embellishment for a scrapbooking layout.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

KS4U August Mini Album

Good morning

A quick post today to share with you the flip through video of the mini album I made using my DT supplies from KS4U.

Flower alert - there are a lot of hand made flowers in this album.

I have used Basic Grey's Indian Summer 6" paper pad to decorate this album

The flowers were made using Cheery Lyn B311 Chrysanthemum Strip

and Couture Creations CO724161 Flower dies. 

The leaves were cut using Uniquely Creative's Little Leaves die.

The chipboard was given a coat of White acrylic paint and then sprayed with 

Docraft's Spritzing Ink in Gold

Here is my video

Hope you enjoy watching it.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie