Believe In Magic Art Journal Page

Good afternoon

I am a bit early today, I normally post on a Wednesday but seeing as how tomorrow is Christmas day I thought I would share my post with you today.

Today's post is about an art journalling page.

This  page is whimsical, with pastel colours

I have recorded the process of this simple page. You can see the video here.

I am using a page out of my disc bound journal which started life as a Happy Planner notebook. I have glued two pages together with Gel Medium and given one side of the page a coat of white Gesso.

The colours for my background are Pan Pastels. I have applied Phthalo Blue Tint, Turquoise, Orange Shade, Permanent Green Tint, Hansa Yellow and Bright Yellow Green randomly all over the page, with a sponge. I then sealed the pastels by lightly spraying with water. Once this was dry I applied another coat and sealed it in the same way as the colour was lighter than I had planned.

I used TCW81 Swirls and Dots stencil to apply Faber Castell Texture Luxe - Pearl all over the background. Some of the paste got under the stencil which I do not particularly like but it worked out OK.

The unicorn image came from a book with animal images in it. I photocopied the image onto the smooth side of some watercolour paper. Using my Semco Pearlescent water colours I coloured and shaded the image.

The image was then fussy cut ready to attach to the background.

Before I attached the image I added some stamping using a clear stamp, unfortunately I don't know the name or the brand of the stamp, with both black StazOn ink and Encore gold ink. I was very light handed with the black as I did not want it to overpower the page and used the gold to fill the background.

I attached the unicorn using Matisse Mat Gel Medium, which of course, took the pearlescence away from the image so I gave it another coat of the watercolour.

Next step was to add the detail back into the image. I did this with my Fude ball black pen and a Uniball eye micro black pen

I used my Stabillo All pencil (black) to add some shading around the unicorn and add a border to the page. I also added a scribbly boarder using my Fude Ball pen.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Sizzix Cherish Alpha dies. This was attached to the page with Aileens Original Tacky glue.

Don't forget you can watch the whole process over on my YouTube channel here.

Thanks for visiting my blog today and spending your time here with me.

Till next time
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Julie

Scrapbooking Layout "Year Six Social"

Good morning,

It is getting close to Christmas now, only one week to go.

My layout today is not a Christmas one but a layout to record the memories of my Grand-daughters first school social.

I recorded the process and you can see the video here.

I purchased a Kaisercraft 12" x 12" paper pad of the "Rosabella" paper range because the colours in it went well with the colour of the dress in the photo.

I created a sketch to give me an idea of how this layout would look and worked from that.

My background is a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock, to this I added some Mont Marte Modelling Paste that I had coloured with some Duncan Plum Blossom acrylic paint and put through a Kaisercraft 6" stencil. I did not cover the whole background, just here and there. I then set that aside to dry.

I chose 6 patterned papers from the paper pad and cut them to the sizes I had drawn in my sketch.
Patterned paper No. 1 - 1 @ 4.5" x 9", 1 @ 7.5" x 1.5", 1 @ 2" x 1" and 1 @ 1.5" by 2.5"
Patterned paper No. 2 - 1 @ 4" x 7.5"
Patterned paper No. 3 - 1 @ 1.5" x 11" and 1 @ 3" x 0.75"
Patterned paper No. 4 - 1 @ 6.25" x 1.5", 1@ 1.5" x 0.5", 1@ 2" x 0.5" and 1 @ 2.5 x 0.5
Patterned paper No. 5 - 3 scalloped circles 1 @ 2", 1 @ 3" and 1 @ 4"
Patterned paper No. 6 - 1 @ 4.25" x 1.5" and 1 @ 1" x 0.5"

For the circles I used my Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circle Large and Lifestyle Crafts Nested Lace Circles dies. I then used Couture Creations "Washed Away" embossing folder to add a bit of extra detail. I wiped my black ink pad lightly over the circles to help the embossing stand out.

I then inked all of the edges of all of the patterned papers and attached them to the background.

Once I had my basics in place I played around with the layout a little adding a few more strips of patterned paper where I thought it needed it.

The photo started out as a 5" x 7" but I trimmed it down to 2.75" x 7"
I had the small photo left over from some other photos I had printed for the second of this two page layout so I decided to add it to this layout. I matted it on some white cardstock and used cardboard behind it before I attached it to the layout so it had a bit of extra height.

It was at this stage that I decided to add the pennants. I wanted some embellishments but did not want to use flowers hoping for a more fun look to the page. I used a die to cut the three layers of each pennant in a different patterned paper, inked the edges and then assembled them using foam squares between the two triangular shapes. These were then attached to the layout using glue.

I put a white brad on the inside edge of each pennant run and then I applied a fine row of glue at the top of the pennants, wound some white crochet cotton around the brads and stuck it along the top of the pennants.

A crystal gem at the centre of each pennant and a very small title attached to one of the strips of the layout, finished this layout off.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my layout, but don't forget you can see the whole process over on my YouTube channel here.

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Thanks for sharing your time here with me today
Till next time
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Julie

The last 15 Christmas cards for 2019

Today's post is a bit different to my normal posts. There will not be a description of how each card was created......just photos.

There are 15 photos in this post so it would go on forever if I wrote how each one was created.
I think the best thing would be that if you want directions on how to create a particular you can leave me a question in the comments and I can give you the directions you want.

So let's get started....

Well I hope you like the cards.

There is a video showing a walk through you can watch here if you want a bit more detail.

Don't forget if you have questions leave them in the comments and I will get back to you.

Thanks for dropping by
Till next time
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Julie

Christmas Cards No 13 - 15 2019

Good morning

Three more Christmas cards today. I will be making one more video after this one for Christmas cards and that will be it for Christmas cards this year.

I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas cards and have given some of them a try. They are mostly simple designs and would look great in any Christmas papers you might have in your stash.

Once again I have videoed the process while I made these cards and you can see the video here.

These are the cards I want to show you today

I have used the DCWV Merry & Bright paper pad that I have been using for all of my Christmas cards this year and all of the cards have a 5 1/4" square white card base cut from sheets of white cardstock.

All of the papers and embellishments have had their edges inked with a black ink pad.

Let's start with this card.

This is a double Z fold card. The base card was scored at 2 5/8" and 5 1/4".  The first score is a mountain fold and the second is a valley fold.

The top Z was cut to 9 1/2" x 3 1/2" and also scored at 2 5/8" and 5 1/4". The first score is a valley fold and the second is a mountain fold

I chose a patterned paper (White and Gold) and cut 1 piece 5" square and 2 pieces 2 3/8" x 5". These were attached to the 3 top areas when the card is fully opened.

From the second patterned paper (Pink) I cut 1 piece 4" x 3 1/4", 2 pieces 2 3/8" x 3 1/4" and one piece 3 1/2" x 2 3/4"

The largest piece and the two smallest pieces were attached to the top of the smaller z folded card. Be sure to have the largest section to the left when attaching these papers.

I cut a piece of a third patterned paper (Black) 3 3/4" x 3" and attached that on top of the largest pink piece.

The last piece of pink patterned paper was then attached on top of the black patterned paper.

I used a Christmas tree die and cut three Christmas trees from Gold cardstock. Two of these were attached to the front of the card and the third was attached to the first inside panel of the smaller Z fold cardstock. I used glue to attach these embellishments.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 1 7/8" x 2 3/4" and attached that to the last inside panel so I would have a place to write my personal greeting.

The Greeting on the outside of the card was cut using Elizabeth Craft Designs 745 Merry Christmas die and black cardstock. This was attached at the bottom of the card using glue.

I had a change from Christmas trees to stars for embellishments for the next card

I cut the first patterned paper (Black) to 5" square and the second patterned paper (Pink) to 4 1/4" square. I also cut two pieces of white cardstock, one was 4 1/2" square and the other was 3 3/4" square.

To make the stars I used the fourth smallest die from the Nellie's Multi Frame Star Die set, and cut 12 stars in assorted patterned papers.

All for the patterned papers and white cardstock were layered on top of each other in decreasing order and then the stars were arranged in a wreath shape on the top.

The greeting uses the same die as the previous card but this time I cut it with gold cardstock, attached it to a piece of white cardstock and matted that onto some of the black patterned paper that I had used in the layers.

Foam squares were used to attach the greeting in the top left section of the card front.

It was back to Christmas trees to embellish this last card. It has a front circle overlap, short of a gate fold card but not really.

I have chosen three patterned papers for this card, although you can only see two. The third one is on the inside of the card and does the same job as the main patterned paper (Pink) on the front.

From the first patterned paper I cut a 5" square and the second largest circle from Spellbinders Standard Large Circles die set. I cut exactly the same from the second patterned paper to use inside the card.

The third patterned paper (Black) was cut to 2 3/4" x 5"

I cut some white cardstock 3" x 5 1/4"to mat the black patterned paper and the largest of the circles from the Spellbinders Standard Large Circles set.

Both patterned paper circles were attached, one each side, of the white circle and a score line was added about 1/2" in from the edge. This was folded in and attached to the inside right hand edge of the card base using glue. The 5" square piece of patterned paper two was attached over the top of the join to disguise it.

An embossing folder was used to emboss a Christmas tree pattern on some gold cardstock. I am not sure what brand the embossing folder is, it came in a set I think and I have thrown the packaging away. I fussy cut around the edge of the tree and matted it on some white cardstock so it would stand out more against the patterned paper.

To assemble the front of the card I attached the 5" square pice of patterned paper then the white cardstock so it was approximately 1/2" from the left hand edge of the card and then the black patterned paper on top of that. Next the embossed Christmas tree was attached on top of the black.

The two Christmas tree embellishments on the circle were cut using a die and black gloss cardstock and attached using glue.

The same Merry Christmas greeting that I used on the previous cards was attached to the inside of the card to finish this card off.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cards today. If you want more details you can check out the video here.

Thanks for spending your time here with me today
Till next time
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Julie

Art Journal page - Unique

Good morning

Today I am sharing an Art Journal page that I created as a break in my Christmas card making.

I had been thinking of doing this technique for a while now. I have heaps of metal embellishments and am trying to use up my stash.

You can see the video here.

I added some Mont Marte Modelling paste through Kaisercraft's "Script" stencil.

I used Atelier Heavy Gell Gloss to attach the metals to the page and then set it aside to dry.

Next step was to cover the whole page with Gesso and let that dry as well.

I sorted through my mists and decided to go with pinks and purples. The colours I used were, Glimmermist - Iridescent Gold, Fully Purple, Basically Bare, Black Magic & Gold.
Dylusion Ink Spray - Bubblegum Pink and Lemon Zest and Chalkboard - Chalk.

I sprayed with these colours until I had the look I was trying for, this required many coats which were dried between each application.

The two feature pieces were given a coat of Gesso, sprayed with colour and set aside to dry before I attached them to the page using craft foam and my hot glue gun. The gems were attached with clear drying glue.

I added more detail to the background using a dotted grid clear stamp with StazOn Jet Black ink and Encore Gold ink.

I felt that the background needed more colour so I used a Kaisercraft clear stamp "Bubblewrap" and Archival Chrome Yellow to add more of the yellow to the background so the yellow of the butterfly looked like it belonged on the page.

I added a border to the page using both black and white acrylic paints in a fineliner bottle.

The title is a clear sticker from The Craft Stall

Don't forget you can see the process video here.

Thank you for spending your time here with me today

Till next time
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Julie

Three of my Christmas Cards for 2019

Good morning

I have been back from Egypt for one week now, sometimes it feels like I have been home for months and sometimes it feels like I only got home yesterday. Hopefully I will get back in the swing of things soon.

Today's post shares with you three Christmas cards I have made this week of the 30 I have to make for the year. These three bring my total made so far to 15.

All of the cards use papers from my DCWV Merry & Bright paper pad and some gold cardstock from my stash

I recorded the process and you can see the video here.

So let's start with this card. It is a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" top opening card.

I chose three patterned papers. I cut one to 5 1/4" x 4", two pieces of the black paper, 1 @ 4 3/4" x 3 1/2" and one @ 1 1/2" x 5 1/4" and the third patterned paper to 2" x 5 1/4".

I used my Prima distressing tool and a black ink pad to distress all of the patterned paper edges.

I used a die to cut each bauble out 3 times from white cardstock. I then glued them on top of each other to create four nice thick baubles to embellish my card.

Double sided tape was used to attache the 1 1/2" piece of black patterned paper to the 2" piece of pink paper, then using glue I attached the baubles and the gold twine so the baubles look as though they are hanging from the twine. This panel was then attached to the larger black patterned paper that had been attached to the background piece of patterned paper.

The twine was then attached to the larger panel and wrapped around to the back of the patterned papers.

This panel was then attached to the card base using self adhesive craft foam.

To create the "Merry Christmas" greeting I used an Elizabeth Craft Designs die and some gold cardstock and attached this to the lower part of the card, using glue.

I cut the card bases for the next two cards from a sheet of white cardstock. They are 5 1/4" square.

The second card has three patterned papers also, the largest is 5" x 5" The lightest paper is 2 3/4" x 5" and the pink paper is 2" x 5".

Once again I have distressed all of the papers with my distressing tool and black ink.

I cut a piece of the gold glitter mess so it was about 5" long by it's full width (which is less than 5")

I used double sided tape to attach the largest piece of patterned paper to the card base, laid the mesh on top of that and then attached the next two layers of patterned paper using glue. The glue behind the 2 3/4" piece pf patterned paper holds the mesh in place.

The greeting was once again cut from the gold cardstock using a die I bought on the internet.

I made the baubles to embellishments the final card using two Kaisercraft stamp sets. One is from the Sparkle stamp set and two are from the Merry Christmas stamp set.

I used Versamark clear ink to stamp the images and then heat embossed them with fine gold embossing powder.

I then fussy cut each bauble and added a star shaped brad.

The black patterned paper measures 5" x 5" and the pink measures 2 1/2" x 5".

I mounted the pink patterned paper on a piece of white cardstock that measures 2 3/4" x 5" to give the patterned papers some separation.

The edges of all of the papers has been inked with a black ink pad.

The black patterned paper is attached to the card base with double sided tape and the white cardstock is attached on top of it with self adhesive craft foam for a little dimension.

Finally the pink paper is attached onto the white and then the baubles are placed on the pink paper.

I have used the "Merry Christmas" on the middle baubles as my greeting.

These three cards are very simple and easy to make so I hope you try them out. You will be amazed how different they look when you use different patterned papers.

If my description is a bit hard to follow, don't forget that you can see me make these cards on my YouTube channel here.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my Christmas cards today

Thanks for dropping by

Till next time

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Julie

Easel Christmas Cards

Good morning.

I am back after two weeks in Egypt. What an experience. Loved every minute of it.

I have made two easel cards and one "M" fold Christmas card to share with you today.

You can see the video here

Lets start with this one

I cut 2 pieces of cardstock 5 1/4" x 10 1/2". One I scored at 2 5/8" and 5 1/4". The other one was scored at 5 1/4", 6 3/4", 8 1/4", 9 1/4" and 10 1/4".

Fold the first piece so the 2 5/8" score line creates a mountain fold and the 5 1/4" is a valley fold.

Fold the second piece so the 10 1/4" scoreline is a valley fold and then alternate mountain, valley etc until you get to the 5 1/4" scoreline which will be a valley fold.

I chose two patterned papers but you could have as many as you like.
From patterned paper no. 1 I cut 1 @ 5" x 5" and 2 @ 5" x 3/4".
From patterned paper no.2 I cut 1 @ 5" x 5",1 @ 2 1/4" x 5", 2 @1 1/4" x 5"
I then distressed and inked all of the edges of the papers.
You can see from the photos below how I have placed these papers

To make the little bar that holds the card open I cut a piece of cardstock 5 1/4" x 3/4" and a piece of patterned paper 5" x 1/2". Distressed the edges of the patterned paper and inked the edges of both pieces. I used foam tape to attach this to the card 1 1/4" from the bottom flat edge.

The tag decoration on the card was cut from the cut apart sheet in the paper pad and mounted on a piece of gold cardstock. I then added a gold eyelet and some black crochet cotton. I used d/sided tape to attache this to the back panel of the card.

The Santa face is a stamp that I have had for quite some time. I have stamped it with my Versamark Embossing ink and then added black embossing powder before heat setting. Watercolour pencils and a water brush were used to colour the hat pink and a gold gel pen filled in the holly leaves and berries. Once I had fussy cut the face out I attached it to the centre step of the card.

The Christmas trees on the front step of the card were stamped on white cardstock using Kaisercraft's Sparkle stamp set and Versamark ink. They were heat embossed with gold embossing powder and fussy cut.

The greeting was cut using black cardstock and Elizabeth Craft Designs 745 Merry Christmas die. This was attached to the front flat section of the card using glue.

This card looks similar but it does not have the base running under the "steps", you can see what I mean in the side on view of the card. This card does not use as much cardstock either.

Cut one piece of cardstock 5 1/4" x 12" and one 5 1/4" square.
Score the longer piece at 1 1/4", 2 1/2", 4 1/4", 6" & 9"
Starting with the score at 9" create a mountain fold and then alternate between valley and mountain folds until you get to the 1 1/4' score which should be a mountain fold.

Attach the 5 1/4" square piece to the card base so the back of it rests between the 6" and 9" folds.

I chose three patterned papers this time. From patterned paper no. 1 I cut 1 @ 5" x 5" and 1 @ 1" x 5".
From patterned paper no. 2 I cut 1 @ 1 1/2" x 5 and from patterned paper no. 3 I cut 1 @ 1 1/2" x 5 and 1 @ 1" x 5"

I inked the edges of the papers and attached them to the cards as per the photos below.

All of the decorations on this card are die cuts cut from gold cardstock.

I have used Memory Box Snowflake Ornament, no name Christmas trees and the same greeting die as I used on the previous card.

They were all attached to the card using glue.

The final card for today is slightly different.

To make the base of this card I cut a piece of cardstock 5 1/4" x 12"

I scored it at 5 1/4", 9 1/2" and 10 3/4".

Starting with the 5 1/4" fold make a velley fold , a mountain fold and then another valley fold.

This card also has two patterned papers, from patterned paper no. 1 cut 1 @ 5" x 5" and 2 @ 4" x 5".
From patterned paper no. 2 cut 4 @ 1" x 5"

Ink all of the edges and attach the patterned papers to the card base as shown in the photos below.

to create the panel that hold the greeting cut a piece of black cardstock to 3 1/4" x 2 1/2", a piece of patterned paper to 3 1/8" x 2 3/8" and a piece of gold cardstock to 2 1/2" x 1 3/4". Ink all of the edges and layer them on top of each other.

Attache this to the front of the card as shown in the photo.

The greeting for the inside of the card is a Kaisercraft stamp from the set called Merry Christmas stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

Once I had fussy cut the image I attached it to the inside of the card using glue.

The decoration on the from of the card was die cut from black cardstock using Memory Box Snowflake Tree die and attached with glue also.

Thank you for spending your time here with me today.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my cards. If you would like more detail check our the video

Thanks for dropping by
Till next time
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Julie

Pink Christmas Cards 2019 Cards 1 - 3

Good morning

I bought a DCWV paper pad called Merry & Bright and I thought I would use this pad to make my Christmas cards for the year.

This post talks about the first 3 cards.

You can watch the video here if you would like to see how these cards came together.

I have used a cream pearlescent card for the base of these cards. I cut a piece of cardstock 5 1/4" x 10 1/2" and folded it in half.

All of the patterned papers have been matted on black cardstock that is 1/8" larger in each direction than the patterned papers

I cut a piece of patterned paper 4 5/8" square and run it through my Big Shot with a Cuttlebug embossing folder that created aChristmas bauble pattern. I ran a Versa Color Old Rose ink pad over the embossed pattern to help it stand out more.

A second patterned paper was cut to 2" x 5" and a third piece measures 1 1/2" x 5"

I used a Penny Black stamp set called Winter Wonderland to stamp a Christmas tree on a piece of the off cuts from the card bases. I then used Zing Black Glitter embossing powder to heat emboss the design. I trimmed the cardstock to a tag shape, added an eyelet and threaded some crochet cotton through the eyelet.

The 4 5/8" and the 2" pieces were added to the paper with double side tape, attaching a strip of lace under the 2" piece. The 1 1/2" piece was attached to the card using foam squares. The tag was then attached on top of the card using glue on one half and foam squares on the other half.

The greeting is created using my computer and printer, then I swiped my Old Rose ink pad over the greeting before mounting it on black cardstock. This was attached to thecae at the bottom of the tag.

A piece of patterned paper was cut to 5" square and attached to the inside right of the card. I stamped a verse inside the card using a thINKing Stamps stamp. It says We wish you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in the shape of a Christmas Tree.

The second card is very easy and straight forward. I have had the patterned paper that had the Christmas trees printed on it for about 5 years. I can not remember the brand of the paper but I think it could be Kaisercraft. The colour went well with this paper collection so I fussy cut three trees out.

I cut a piece of patterned paper to 5" square and attached that to the card base. On top of that I added a piece of Organze mesh with Glitter that I had trimmed down to fit.

The Christmas trees blended into the background more than I wanted so I mounted them on an off cut from the card base. I used foam squares and glue to attach the trees over the top of the mesh so the glue would hold the mesh in place also.

The greeting is computer generated once again, attached to a piece of cardstock and then attached to the card using foam squares.

The final card for today has two layers of patterned paper that have had their edges distressed and inked. The pink paper is 5" square and the black paper is 4 3/4" square. These have been attached to the card base using double sided tape.

I used a Magnolia stamp to stamp the trees on some white cardstock with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with Gold embossing powder. I fussy cut the trees and attached them to the card front with foam squares.

The greeting was generated on my computer and matted on the two patterned papers. This was then attached to the card with foam squares.

I used Starlight Rose Scribbles (similar to Stickles) and added spots to the trees to give the look of Christmas tree decorations, I also added gold star stickers to the tops of the trees.

Three simple but effective cards for Christmas.

Don't forget to check out the video here

Thanks for dropping by today.

Till next time

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Julie

70th Birthday Cards

Good morning

I was asked by a friend to make 2 birthday cards for her Mum who was turning 70 and she wanted to include some photos in the cards. One was to be from her and her husband and one was to be from her children.

These are the two cards I made for her.

You can see the video here.

The first card is the one for the children to give their grandmother. I made a twist and pop card using a tutorial I saw on YouTube by Alicia McNamara at Papercraft Secrets. You can see her video here.

Each of the cards are 6" x 6" and cut from 300gsm White cardstock.

The papers used on this first card are a 6 1/2" paper pad from Kaisercraft's Secret Garden range.

I chose 4 papers and attached them to the inside and outside of the card base.

Inside I have the pop and twist section that I have made from white cardstock. I cut a piece 4" x 12" and scored it at 3", 6" and 9" and then folded it so I had a mountain fold at the 6" score line and a valley fold at the other two score lines. 

I then covered three of the sections with patterned paper. I did not put any patterned paper on the first section because the photo I was going to attach there was the full size of the panel. The photos for the other sections were smaller so I attached white cardstock photo mats to the patterned paper so the photos would stand out nicely from the background.

I die cut a couple of different sized scalloped hearts using my Do Crafts Scalloped Hearts die and used them to lightly decorate the photo panels. I was careful to not add too much bulk because I wanted to be sure that the card would close properly when the photos were added.

The actual mechanism that attaches the pop out piece to the card is a bit difficult to explain and you can see it clearly in the video but I will try explaining it here.

Start by cutting a piece of cardstock 8" x 3", using a pencil make a mark at 2 1/4" and 5 3/4", rotate your cardstock and make a mark at the same measurements on the opposite edge. Score at 4"

Rotate your cardstock on your scoreboard and score at 1 3/4" on the 3" edge.

Use a pencil and ruler and lightly draw a diagonal line between two of the marks you have made on the cardstock. One mark at the top and one at the bottom. Do the same with the other two marks so you end up with a pencil line cross that intersects at the centre point of the mechanism. Score along both of these lines

Make a mountain fold of the centre score line that runs through the 8" length

Then make a valley fold for the two diagonal folds.

Fold the centre of the mechanism up into a mountain fold at the same time as you bring the two ends down and towards each other. This makes a shape like a house with a pointy roof. The bottom part of the house is in two sections

Measure up 1 1/4" from the bottom of one of the legs and draw a line across then flip the house over and draw a line 1 1/4" up on the opposite leg.

Attach double sided tape to each section from the bottom, up to the line.

Take your folded pop up section and place it between the two leg and lay it down. Use the tape to attache the two parts together being careful to centre the pop up piece between the leg section.

Using your ruler and a pencil make a mark at the 3" mark on the inside fold of the card base.

Attach the pop up piece with the point of the roof on this mark. I used both d/sided tape and glue just to be sure it would stick well. Once you have one side stuck down, close the card to attach the other side.

As I said this is a bit hard to describe and hopefully I have covered all of the steps but please if you are going to try this, check out the video first.

To decorate the front of the card I have covered it with some tulle, then used Tim Hotlz's Tattered Florals die to create a flower (the process for this is in the video as well) a doily, some leaves I have cut from patterned paper using Tim Holtz's Tattered Leaves die and some fabric leaves from Manor House.

The greeting is clear stickers from Kaisercraft that I have attached to some patterned paper, mounted on some foam squares and then attached to the card. The 70th was cut using Apple Blossom Large Numbers and Suffixes die and some of the patterned paper. To finish the card off I added a few blue sequins to the card front.

The papers for the second card are from 13@rts. The chipboard is from Little Birdie, the resin was made by me and the paper flowers are also from 13@rts I think. The lace is from my stash, given to me by my Mother

I decided on a "shabby chic" look for this card. I tore the two patterned papers so they were slightly smaller than the layer they were to go on top of and then inked the edges with a Cinnamon ink pad from Versa Colour.

I had a piece of velum with gold text on it so I added that as my top layer.

I trimmed the chipboard down to fit across the card and then attached it to a dark piece of patterned paper so it stood out from the background nicely.

I attached all of these layers to the card base, also attaching the lace under the chipboard backing as I went.

Using the flowers and fussy cut leaves I formed my floral cluster and attached it with my hot glue gun.

I also used my hot glue gun to attach the resin heart.

To create the greeting I used a stamp that came with a magazine I had purchased and my black Stazon ink and stamped onto a piece of white cardstock that had been die cut into a label shape. Once again I used my hot glue gun to attach this.

On the inside of the card I used some patterned paper to mat the photo and attached that to the left hand inside section and on the right hand section I attached some patterned paper where my friend can write her personal greeting.

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Julie

Theatrebugs September 2019 Layout

Good Morning,

Today's layout uses a piece of cardstock that I actually created over 12 months ago.

I went to a Scrapbooking Retreat some time ago and one of the things I bought while I was there was some Colour Blast Colour Pastes. These are thick colours that hold their shape and have an iridescent sheen to them. I used my palette knife to swipe the pastes across a piece of white cardstock. I was going to use this sheet as the background for the layout but found it too distracting. The colours of the paste I used are Singing The Blues, Lipstick, Royalty, Sunshine, Sienna and Envy

You can see the process video here.

I tore the coloured cardstock into strips to use on the layout. To create the background I used a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock and a 11 1/2" x 11 1/2" piece of purple cardstock which I layered on top of each other.

I then used The Crafters Workshop stencil called Dream Girl and some Mont Marte Modelling Paste to create some white texture on the purple cardstock.

When this was dry I used double sided tape to attach the pieces of torn cardstock to the layout so they would lay behind the photo.

The edge of the photo was filed with an emery board and the the edges were inked with Versa Color Violet ink. A piece of self adhesive craft felt is used behind the photo to give it some height when it is attached to the page.

I had recently purchased a tiny sewing machine from Aldi so I used that to stitch around the edge of the purple cardstock with white thread. I found the machine way too noisy and hard to use so went to my normal sewing machine and added the black stitching to the coloured strips and a zig zag stitch over the white stitching I had just done.

The background needed a bit more depth to it so I used an assortment of tiny stamps along with some Jet Black Stazon ink to stamp randomly over the page. The stamps are an assortment of hearts, arrows and flowers.

The title was cut from black cardstock using my Kaisercraft DD700 Alphabet Upper Case dies. I have attached the title so it runs vertically along the left hand edge of the layout. A coat of Glossy Accents gives the title a lovely glossy finish and helps it to stand out from the stamping on the background.

The final step for this layout was to punch some hearts from the purple strip of Colour Blast cardstock that I had not used on the background and add them to the right hand edge of the photo.

I am sure you would enjoy watching the process video. It is not very long, only about 7 or 8 minutes and will give you all of the detail.

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Julie