Birthday Celebrations 2020 Layout

Good morning.

I am very happy that you are spending some of your day here with me today.

I have created a layout showcasing a photo of my grand-daughter, my husband and I at a milkshake/ice-cream cafe here in Adelaide. We took her there as part of her 12th birthday celebrations.

You can see the process video on my YouTube channel here.

I started by using Mont Marte Modelling Paste and Kaisercraft's Love Quarters stencil to add some hearts to the white cardstock background.

Next step was to use my blending brushes and some pigment inks to apply a light colouring to the left and right hand edges of the page. I am not sure what brand the apricot ink pad is but the Turquoise is VersaColor.

Using Kaisercraft's Child's Play clear stamp set and StaZon Jet Black ink I stamped randomly down the left hand edge of the layout and a couple of smaller circles in the top right area.
It was a little tricky getting a good stamped image because of the thickness of the texture paste but I was able to get a reasonable image by taking the stamp off of the block and using my fingers to push the stamp down between the modelling paste layers.

For a little more interest in the background I used Tattered Angels Glimmermist Black Magic to splatter lightly

The patterned paper I have used on this layout is from Kaisercraft's Lush collection.
From the turquoise paper I cut a piece 3" x 6" and a 1/2" strip that is 3" long
From the spot paper I cut a piece 6 1/2" x 5 1/2", a strip that is 1/2" x 4 1/4" long and a piece 1 1/2" x 3 3/4". This last piece has a fishtail cut in one end.
From the apricot paper I cut a piece 2" x 9"  (this could be shorter as most of it is under the photo and other papers, it would need to be at least 3 1/2" long), a strip 1/2" x4" long and a piece 2 3/4" x 7/8". The last piece has a fishtail cut in one end.
From black cardstock I cut a piece 3 1/8" x 1 1/8" with a fishtail cut in one end. I also matted my photo with this cardstock.
All of the 1/2" strips also had a fishtail cut in one end.

Once these were attached to the page I used an assortment of Washi tapes to add some extra interest.

I also added some more stamping using a row of small hearts and StaZon Jet Black ink here and there.

The final touch was to add a few sequins randomly to the background.

Thank you for visiting me here today. I hope you pop over to my YouTube channel and check out the video.

I would love it if you subscribed to my YouTube channel if you like watch my videos.

Till next time
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Julie

Eyes Open Art Journal page

Good morning to you.

Today I am talking about an art journal page that I have been thinking about creating for some time.

I have seen several versions of this page over the last 5 - 6 years and always thought I would like to have a go at it, so today is the day.

I have created a video showing how I created this page and you can see it here if you would like to see how the page come together.

I used a page of watercolour paper that I had cut to 8.75" x 8.25", gave it a coat of Gesso, which was unnecessary as I ended up covering it all up but I do the Gesso in advance and I never know what I am going to end up doing with the page. I also punched 4 holes in it to add it to my ring bound album.

I used some gold book paper that had black text on it for the background which I attached to the page with Gloss Gel.

While this was drying I used my alcohol markers to colour some flowers that I had stamped with StayZon ink and cut out with my Scan N Cut.  I used a simple colouring technique using two shades of each colour for each flower.

The face came from an Adelaide Cabaret Festival program book. I loved the face the first time I saw it so I have kept it in my stash for a couple of years. I cut the face out and attached it to the page, once again using Gloss Gel

I attached the flowers and leaves around the face.

I used my black Stabillo All pencil and my water brush to shade around all of the elements.

Next step was to use my Uniball Eye black fine-line pen and my Uniball Signo white pen to add details and highlights to the page.

The page's scribbly border was added using my black FudeBall pen.

The title was on the same page of the program as the face so I trimmed around it, attached it to the page and shaded around it with my Stabillo All pencil and water brush

To add a little sparkle to the page I used Nuvo Glitter Drops in the centre's of some of the flowers.

To finish the page off I cut off any overhang, re-punched the holes for the rings and splattered some watered down white Gesso onto the page.

I hope you have enjoyed you visit to my blog today

Don't forget to check out the video here.

Thanks for dropping by
Till next time
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Julie

Cinderella Layout

Good morning

Today I have created a layout as part of my Design Team work for Off The Rails Scrapbooking. I have used the March mood board.

You can see the challenge here. Why not pop over and have a look and perhaps enter. There is a great prize up for grabs.

The photo is of my Grand-Daughter when she was playing Cinderella in a production during the January school holidays and I felt that the "dreamy/boho" feel of the mood board was ideal for this photo.

I have created a video showing the process of creating this layout. You can watch the video here.

This is the mood board

and this is the layout I have created.

Here is a close up so you can see a little more of the detail.

To start the layout I used Mont Marte Modelling Paste through Kaisercraft's Doily stencil, using just a part of the design at the top of the page.

Once this had dried I used Dylusions Ink Spray in Vibrant Turquoise, which I watered down to apply colour from the top of the page letting it run through the stencilled design and down to the bottom of the page

Kaisercraft's DD100 Feather die was used to cut about 13 feathers from a pale blue patterned paper and white cardstock. These were then coloured using the same ink as I had used on the background. I did not cover the feathers completely with the colour as I wanted to vary the depth of colour and the placement of colour on each one. When they had dried I inked around the cut edges with black ink.

My Uniball Eye Micro black pen was used to outline the doily design.

The feathers were attached to the layout using Aileen's Original Tacky Glue, then the black pen was used to draw in the strings that attached the feathers to the dream catcher and to give the feathers a scribbly outline.

The Craft Shop Enamel stickers were added to look like the beads that always seem to be in dream catchers and to add another element and texture to the page.

I used an emery board to file around the edges of the photo, which I had trimmed to 4.5" x 5". This was then mounted on a piece of black cardstock that was slightly bigger than the photo. I used some cardboard from an old carton to lift the photo up from the layout.

A scribbly boarder was added to the edge of the white cardstock using the same Uniball pen.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Sizzix's 662667 Alphabet die and attached under the photo. The date the photo was taken was hand written under that.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about this layout. Don't forget you can see the process video here. If you have not subscribed to my YouTube channel yet I would love it if you would. Why not pop over to Off TheRails Scrapbooking and have a go at their challenge. You could win a prize.

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

Three Acetate Cards

Good morning to you

Glad you can join me today. Today's post is to share a set of three cards I have made using acetate as the front of each card.

You can watch the video here if you would like to see how they were made.

The card above is 5.25" square and is cut from a sheet of double sided cardstock.
I cut a piece of acetate that was the same size as the card
I cut a 1" strip from the front bottom of the card then I cut another 3" piece from the front of the card
Using a daisy stamp, Versamark Ink and White Embossing powder I heat embossed the daisies onto the acetate.

The pieces that I had cut from the front of the card were embossed using a Couture Creations embossing folder called Walrus & Carpenter which also has an all over daisy pattern.

The 1" piece was attached to the bottom front of the acetate, the acetate was then attached to the back of the top front of the card base using glue. a piece of cardstock was then attached to the back of the acetate.

A ribbon was wrapped around a piece of the embossed cardstock and then attached to the top outside of the card front.

Using a die I die cut a three layer daisy from the same cardstock as the card was made from. I also cut a circle of the mauve and a larger circle of white using Spellbinders Standard Circle dies. I stamped the greeting on the mauve circle, using Hero Arts Small Greetings stamps, then heat embossed it with the same embossing powder I had used on the acetate. The flower and the greeting were attached to the bottom section of the card.

This second card is the same size. I cut a 5.25" square piece from the same cardstock as the first card.
I cut a piece of acetate 5.25" x 6.5" which I scored at 5.25". I then embossed the acetate using a honeycomb embossing folder, not sure of the brand, I think it is a Spellbinders.

The acetate was then attached to the cardstock and a piece of cardstock placed over the top of the join.

A 2" x 5.25" piece of cardstock was punched along both the long edges using an American Crafts Knock out punch. This was then attached to the card front about 1" up from the bottom of the acetate.
A 1" wide piece of the patterned cardstock was attached to the back of the acetate to cover the glue that was used to attach the front strip.

I used a Kaisercraft (DD503) butterflies die to cut an ornate butterfly from a scrap piece of cardstock that had alcohol inks pounced onto it. This had been in my stash for some time.

I am not sure of the brand of the stamp I used to stamp the greeting, I stamped it onto a piece of the same mauve cardstock and attached it to the punched strip.

I attached some Kaisercraft rhinestones to the right hand edge of the card front.

The last card was the easiest. I used an all over flower die to cut the design from gold mirror card.

I cut a piece of black cardstock 5.5" x 4.5" and a piece of acetate to 4.5" x 6.5" and scored at 5.5".

The die cut was attached to the acetate and then the acetate was attached to the black cardstock and then a piece of black cardstock was placed over the area where the acetate was attached to the card.

The hello greeting was stamped and heat embossed with gold Embossing powder onto some black cardstock, trimmed to size and then this was attached to the card front.

Thanks for spending your time here with me today. Don't forget to check out the video here.

Till next time
Hugs
Julie

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

Book Cover

Hi there

Today I am sharing with you a book cover I have done on a notebook I have decided to keep for all those handy things you want to remember

Quite often when I am looking at YouTube or other social media I might see a quote I like or a technique that I would like to try, I write these things down on scraps of paper and promptly loose them so I have decided to gather them all up and put them in a book that I can refer to when I am looking for some inspiration.

The book I am using is a spiral bound book from Typo and I did not like the cover at all.

You can see the process video here.

Once I had removed the cover from the book by opening the spiral a little, I applied two coats of Gesso to completely blank out the background that was there.

Using Glimmermist Pumpkin Spice and Artiste Ink Spray in Cardinal Red I gave the cover a very liberal spray so there was lots of liquid colour on the cover and then I laid a layer of cling wrap on top of this and scrunched it up. This was set aside to dry. I usually leave this overnight but I was in a hurry with this one and only left it for about 6 hours. It was still a bit damp when I took the cling wrap off.

To make the smaller circles I used a shaded circles stamp and Jet Black StaZon ink to stamp on some scrap watercolour paper. These were then coloured using Twinkling H2O's. The colours I used are Pink Azalea, Fern, Ginger Peach, Snap Dragon, Wild Blueberry, Solar Gold and Lemon Drop.

The larger circles were cut using my Spellbinders Standard Circles Small dies and some white cardstock. To add some interest to the background of the circles I stamped with StaZon ink and Kazazz Life's Moments, Kaisercraft's Numbers and Deep Red Water Droplets stamps.
These were coloured using the same Twinkling H2O's as the other circles.

I added more texture to the background by putting Gesso through Kaisercraft's "Grunge" stencil, this blended into the background more than I wanted it to so I also added some Modelling Paste through a stencil of small squares.

I used Matt Gel Medium to attach the circles to the cover.

I wanted more black in the background so I used Kaisercraft's "Arty" stamp and StaZon ink to stamp randomly trying to avoid getting it on the circles. I should have done this stamping before I attached the circles but didn't think of it.

I had just bought a new charcoal pencil so I used that to shade around the outside of each of the circles.

I used an Art Studio .4 permanent marker, a Posca white paint pen and a Signo white pen to detail/highlight the circles.

Using a black Stabilo All pencil and a wet brush I created a border around the cover.

The final touch was to water down some gold acrylic paint and use my fan brush to make splatters all over the cover.

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

If you have a few spare minutes pop over to my YouTube channel and check out the video.

Till next time
Hugs
Julie

Two cards using Kaisercraft's Secret Garden papers

Good morning to you.

This morning's post is about two cards I made using Kaisercraft's Secret Garden 6.5" paper pad.

The 4.25" square card bases were cut from a sheet of white cardstock. I had originally thought I would make 5.25" square cards but ended up cutting them at 4.25 x 8.5". I'm happy with the way they turned out and the smaller size is quite nice for a change.

I hand made the flowers that are on one of the cards using Heartfelt Creations stamps, heat embossing and fussy cutting.

You can see the whole process in this video.

 Let's start with this card. I made this to send to my Mum with a little surprise gift.

I chose three patterned papers from the pad. One I cut at 4" square, the next was 3.75" square and the last was 3.75" x 1.75"

When I was visiting my Mum at Christmas time she gave me the green tulle, it is actually for wrapping gifts but I thought it would be good to use on cards and layouts. I have cut a piece approx 4.25" square to go behind the largest piece of patterned paper.

The gold lace above and below the green piece of paper was also a gift from her so I have added it to this card as well

I have inked the edges of all of the patterned papers and layered them onto the cardstock using double sided tape and liquid glue.

The lace was attached to the back of the green paper with hot glue and foam tape was used to attach the assembly to the card.

I have the Collectables for this paper range and used a couple of pieces from that to embellish the card. I also heat embossed and die cut a butterfly from Kaisercraft's Butterflies stamp set. I used Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing Enamel for the heat embossing, this gives a bumpy look to the butterfly.

I also added a piece of gauze behind the embellishments for some added dimension.

The greeting was printed onto printer paper and then matted on a piece of the same paper that I used to make the butterfly before being attached to the card.

The next card is a birthday card for my stash, ready for when someone's birthday creeps up on me.

I started by creating the flowers. I have used Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossoms and Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters stamps. I actually created three flowers (Heartfelt Creations Daisy Patch Flowers) but could only fit the two on this card. I now have a spare ready for my next card that requires a flower. You can see the process of how I stamped, embossed, shaped and assembled the flowers in this video.

To assemble the card I chose three patterned papers once again, this time I decided to put a layer of white cardstock between each patterned paper and to distress and ink all of the edges.

The patterned papers measure 4 1/8", 3 7/8" and 3 1/2"
The white cardstock is 4" and 3 3/4"

I have used double sided tape to attach the layers and Aileens Original Tacky Glue to attach the flowers and leaves.

Once again the sentiment is computer generated and matted on some matching patterned paper. It is then attached to the card using foam tape.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post today.
Thank you for spending part of your day here with me.
Don't forget to check out the video here.

Till next week
Hugs
Julie