Week 5 of Around the World in 8 Weeks competition at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning

Week 5 of the competition is all about Russia.

You will find the competition here

The challenge is to use a curve

The technique is distressing

The optional kit item is a flair

An entry for the competition can be a scrapbooking layout or a set of three cards. I have decided to do a set of cards for this week

The edges of all of the patterned papers on these cards have been inked to give that distressed look.

Let's start with

 Card No. 1

I used my Scan N Cut to cut the card base with the curved front and the patterned paper mat for it. 

The card is 5" square 

The base is cut from white cardstock and the patterned paper is from Bee Arty's Find Paradise range - Recharge

I have added some cheesecloth/gauze to the front panel and some turquoise spotted ribbon on top of that.

I cut a 1.5" x 5" piece of white cardstock and attached a 1.25" x 5" piece of the same patterned paper on top of it. I added some chipboard scraps to the back of this panel before adding it on top of the ribbon so it was slightly off set.

A few flowers and leaves from my stash were added using my hot glue gun so I could be sure they would stay in place. I have added some clear gems to the flower centres for that lovely sparkle

I also added one of the flairs from the optional kit amongst the flowers.

I painted my chipboard sentiment from Memory Maze's Card Sentiment 2 chipboard set, with acrylic paint before attaching it to the card front. I also used the same paint to add some splatters to the card.

Card No. 2

I saw this design used as a pocket in a journal and thought it could be used for a card.

Once again I used my Scan N Cut to cut 4 x 5" circle from Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream Sweet Serenity patterned paper.

These were then folded in half and attached to each other to create a square shape. To do this you attach half of each circle to the circle next to it making sure to keep your edges square with each other and straight. (You can see how this is done in the video. It is a bit hard to explain the process)

I attached some 5/8" satin ribbon to the back of the card making it long enough to come around to the front of the card and tie a nice bow.

To decorate the front of the card I used a couple of elements from Uniquely Creatives Gums & Roses Creative Cuts and a chipboard greeting from the same Memory Maze chipboard set I used on the first card. I heat embossed the chipboard with gold embossing powder.

I added a 5" square piece of Bee Arty Find Paradise Recharge paper to the inside of the card to write a personal greeting.

And now to the last card for this set

Card No. 3

This was a very simple card to create but quite effective I think. It certainly gives that curved effect.

I cut a piece of A4 cardstock in halves longways to give me a card base that is 5 7/8" x 4 1/4"

I also cut a white cardstock panel that is 5 5/8" x 4" from the same cardstock.

I ran the panel through my Big Shot with Ultimate Crafts Shooting Raindrops embossing folder to give it some texture.

I used my Spellbinders Standard Circles Small dies to cut a 3", 2.5" and 2" circle from three different sections of the Bee Arty Find Paradise - Recharge paper.

I cut these circles in half.

I cut a piece of the pink section from the Bee Arty Find Paradise Recharge paper to 7/8" x 5" then matted that onto a piece of white cardstock so there is about a 1/16" white border all around the pink. I added some chipboard scraps to the back of this panel.

I then added my circle halves to the front of the card starting with the largest circle and working my way down to the smaller aligning the top circles to the right and the borrow circles to the left. There is about a 1/2" gap between the top and bottom circles.

The pink panel was attached then so it covered that 1/2" gap between the circles.

I die cut the word Celebrate from the darker patterned paper and attached it to the pink panel along with a pink paper flower and a pink flair from the optional kit

This is the video that shows how these cards came together.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Week 4 of Mystical Scrapbooks "Around the World in 8 Weeks" competition

We are at week 4 of the "Around the world in 8 Weeks" competition at Mystical Scrapbooks and the country this week is France.

France conjures up images of wine, fashion, love and much more for me.

The challenge is to use fabric and paint on your layout and the optional kit item is lace.

 I have used Colour Blast Bee Arty Find Paradise Mystic Garden paper for the background of my layout

The paint on my layout is the white acrylic paint that I have sponged through Kaisercraft's Lattice stencil to the whole background

I also used Turquoise acrylic paint to colour my chipboard which came from Dusty Attics Mini Captions #1 set and some white cardstock to cut my title from.

I have fussy cut the leaves from printed PVC fabric. The PVC fabric makes it very easy to attach the fabric to the page without getting in a mess with the glue showing through.

I used a bright pink cardstock to add a torn strip to the bottom of the layout and to mat my photos.

I used Kaisercraft's Alphabet Upper Case dies to cut my title, which is the name of the island we were on when these photos were taken.

The title was underlined with a fine black pen

The lace from the optional kit was attached at the top of the top photo and the bottom of the bottom photo.

Underlining the title and a scribbly border finish this page off.

Here is the process video

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

I hope you will check out the competition, it is lots of fun seeing everyone's interpretations of the themes for each country.

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Make Each Day Your Masterpiece Art Journal page

Good morning 

Today I am sharing an Art Journal page with you.

I used clothing tags to create the texture for the background.

The colours for the background are Dylusions Ink Sprays:- Lemon Zest, Squeezed Orange and Peony Blush. Artiste Spritzing Ink - Gold was also used.

I stamped Kaszazz Feathers Background stamp with Archival Inks:- Chrome Yellow, Tiger Lily and Red Geranium

Stampendous - Marks stamp was used to create the page border with StazOn Jet Black Ink

Kaisercraft Grunge 6" stencil and Mont Marte Modelling Paste were added randomly to the background.

The black circles were created using Deco Art Ultra Gloss acrylic paint and an empty toilet roll core.

The shading around the tags was done with a Big Brush Marker in Pale Geranium Lake

You can see the page come together in the video below

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Week 3 at Mystical Scrapbooks for the Around the World in 8 Weeks Competition

Hi there

Today I am sharing the layout I created for week 3 of the 8 week competition at Mystical Scrapbooks.

The challenge is Around the World in 8 Weeks and this week we are in Canada.

There is a colour challenge - use red and white

The technique is cutting- it can be fussy cutting, die cutting or using a cut file on your electronic cutting machine

The kit item is Maple leaves

This is my page

I have used my Scan N cut to cut Christmas Ornaments in black cardstock. I have backed this file with the red and white papers that the challenge asks for.

The red paper has gold stars on it and I have used gold mirror card for the metal sections at the top of each ornament

I have also used my Scan N Cut to cut the title from black cardstock.

The photos are matted onto the gold mirror card.

The maple leaves from the kit are attached at the bottom right of the larger photo.

I used a black Sharpie marker to draw a scribbly border around the whole page.

You can see the process video by clicking on the image below.

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Cyber Crop at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning.

Today I am sharing my layout for the Cyber Crop at Mystical Scrapbooks. 

You will find the Cyber Crop here. There are three challenges to tempt you.

The challenge this layout is for requires you to create a holiday/travel layout.

I have used Basic Grey's Serenade paper range on this layout

I have inked the edges of all of the papers with a VersaColour black ink cube

I have used Teal Cardstock for the background, I cut the centre from this cardstock leaving a 1" frame.

On top of that frame I places an 11.5" x 11.5" piece of the Dowager paper.

I added some splatters to this paper with Glimmer Mist's Black Magic

I cut a piece of the Shilling paper that was 5" wide x 12" following the zig zag pattern on both 12" edges.

I traced the zig zag edge onto a 7" piece of Parlor and cut this out.

The Shilling paper was attached on top of the Parlor paper.

This was then attached to the layout base with a piece of craft foam between them

I filed the edge of the photos with an emery board, inked them with the black ink and matted them onto some of the cardstock I removed from the middle of my background frame.

I added craft foam to the back of the photos before attaching them to my layout

I painted 3 pennants and one speech bubble from Memory Maze Follow Your Dreams chipboard set with Terra Cotta acrylic paint.

To embellish the pennants a little I punched some tiny hearts from the teal cardstock and attached them.

The pennants were attached to the layout in the top left hand area and the speech bubble was attached to the top right hand area of the right hand photo.

The title was die cut from the teal cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD735 Uppercase Alpha dies.

The final touch was to give the tiny hearts and the title a good coat of Glossy Accents 

You might like to watch my process video

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Week 2 of Mystical Scrapbooks "Around the World in 8 Weeks" competition

Check out your baggage claim ticket for your mood board..

The technique for this week is stamping and the optional kit item to be used is chipboard.

I have taken the colours yellow and blue as my inspiration from the bottom photo on the moodboard

The papers I have chosen for this layout are Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream range

I have cut 2 strips of Garden Variety paper to 1" x 12"

2 strips of Sweet Serenity paper to 3/4" x 12"

and 2 strips of Sun Shower to 3/4" x 12"

I have torn one long edge of each of these paper strips, inked the edges with my black Versacolour ink cube and layered them onto my white card stock background so each layer slightly overlaps the one below it.

I have fussy cut several flowers from the Garden Variety sheet of patterned paper to embellish my page.

To fill the stamping requirement I used the zig zag stamp from Kaisercraft's Bow & Arrow stamp set to stamp with Versamark Ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder to areas of the background that would not be covered by my photos

The title was cut using Kaisercraft's Alphabet Upper Case die set from the Sun Shower patterned paper

I also used the Sun Shower patterned paper to cover the chipboard arrow from the optional kit before I attached it to the layout

Here is the process video

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Three Layered Flower Cards

Good morning.

A very quick post today to show you three cards I made using layered flowers as the focal points

All of the cards are 5" square and have been cut from 240gsm smooth white cardstock.

The decorative paper is from Kaisercraft's Dream Big 6" paper pad.

Card No. 1

This card is a Z fold card.

The front white cardstock panel is 3.25" square.

The featured flower is stamped and heat embossed using Heartfelt Creations Daisy Patch Flowers stamp, black pigment ink and clear embossing powder.

After fussy cutting the flowers they were shaped using my flower shaping tool and layered onto the front panel. A rhinestone gem finished the flower off.

The sentiment was stamped using one of the stamps from Woodware's Word Fragments clear stamp pack.. This was heat embossed and layered onto some white cardstock and another layer of the pink patterned paper. This was attached to the card front just below the flower with chipboard behind it to give it some extra height.

Card No. 2

I cut a piece of cardstock 5" x 5" and stamped and heat embossed the background of daisies. I do not know the name of the stamp I have used here. I stamped it with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I trimmed this piece down to 4.5" square and cut a piece of gold mirror board to 4.75" square and layered them onto the front of the card.

For the focal point I stamped and heat embossed two flowers using Embossing Arts Co. 192-GB Giant Flowers stamp cube. This stamp is from 2001 so I don't think it would still be available. The flowers were then fussy cut, shaped, layered onto each other and attached to the front of the card in the bottom left section. 

A rhinestone gem finished off this flower.

The sentiment is from Uniquely Creative and came in a kit. I have cut the sentiment from the page and cut a fishtail in one end.

Card No. 3 

I cut a 5" square piece of cardstock and stamped and heat embossed Woodware's Five Daisies onto this cardstock and another scrap piece of cardstock.

I used some Anko Watercolour Brush Pens, that I purchased at Kmart and had been wanting to try, to colour both sets of flowers and the leaves on the 5" piece of cardstock.

Once the flowers were coloured I fussy cut the ones that were on the scrap cardstock.

I trimmed the 5" piece of cardstock to 4.5" and cut a piece of orange cardstock to 4.75" to layer between the card front and the stamped panel.

After shaping the fussy cut flowers they were layered on top of the other flowers using foam squares.

The sentiment on this card is from my computer generated greeting sheet and has been matted on a piece of the orange cardstock and attached to the card front with a piece of chipboard behind it.

So there we have my three cards for today.

Here is the video if you would like to watch the cards come together.

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today.

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Great Day Art Journal Page

Good afternoon.

Today's share is an Art Journal page I created because I wanted to play with my Alcohol Inks

I used glossy card and Adirondack Blending Solution for all of my combinations. 

The four colour combinations I created are

Reds

Paper Mill Mandarin, Paper Mill Poppy, Paper Mill Citrus and Paper Mill Platinum

Purples

Paper Mill Amethyst, Paper Mill Lavender and Adirondack Mixative Gold

Pinks

Paper Mill Pearl, Paper Mill Fuchsia Shimmer, Paper Mill Magenta Shimmer, Paper Mill Rose and Paper Mill Rose Quartz

Blues/Greens

Paper Mill Winter Lake, Paper Mill Ocean Blue Shimmer, Paper Mill Lime Green Shimmer, Paper Mill Sea Breeze Shimmer and Paper Mill Brass Shimmer

To create the background for the page I attached sewing pattern tissue with Mat Medium, scrunching it as I applied it to the page.

A coat of black acrylic paint was added when the gel medium was dry.

I sponged some white acrylic paint through a Crafters Workshop stencil called Reverse Chickenwire randomly to the page.

Using a Deep Red stamp called Bubbles Background, I stamped with gold pigment ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder in several areas.

With a dry stiff brush I dry brushed some gold acrylic paint over the whole page.

I used my Spellbinders Hexagon dies to cut two sizes of hexagons from the alcohol ink cardstock

I played around with placement until I was happy then attached the hexagons to the page using Heavy Gel Medium.

A fine black paint marker was used to give each hexagon a faux stitched border.

I used my Kaisercraft Upper Case Alphabet dies to cut "DAY" from some of the left over alcohol ink card and printed the rest of the quote from my computer. These were attached to the page using Gel Medium.

A page border was created using some slightly watered down white acrylic paint in a Fineline bottle.

You can watch my process video here

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today.

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Black & Gold Cards

 Good morning

Today I want to share with you three cards I have made using the April theme of Black +1 at Mystical Scrapbooks

All of these cards are the same slimline size of 8.25" x 4" which fit nicely into our DL envelopes.

Each card has been cut from an A4 sheet of black 240gsm cardstock. 

I have cut the cards 8" x 8.25", scored and folded at 4" on the 8" edge. 

This leaves an off cut that is suitable to cut a 7.75" x 3.5" panel from to use as a front panel on each card.

Each card also has a gold mirror card panel that is 8" x 3.75" that is layered between the card base and the black cardstock panel.

The first two cards a very quick to create, the third card (a shaker) took a little more time but not that long really.

Let's start with this card

Card No. 1

I have applied DecoFoil Transfer Gel Duo through Studio Calico's Bubbles mask with my palette knife.

Once this had dried I laid a sheet of Fab Foil in gold over the top of it and burnished it using my brayer.

The sentiment has been heat embossed with gold embossing powder, trimmed and matted on some of the gold mirror board. This was attached to a piece of chipboard before being attached to the centre front of the card.

Card No. 2

The front panel for this card was run through my big shot with an embossing folder. I am not completely sure but I think this embossing folder is from Kaisercraft but any embossing folder will give the same results.

I then used my finger to apply a couple of light coats of Metallique Wax in White Gold to the raised areas of the panel. A few light coats is better than a heavy coat so the wax does not get down into the crevices of the embossed pattern.

The sentiment was once again heat embossed with gold embossing powder, matted with gold mirror card and attached to a piece of chipboard before being attached to the bottom right section of the card front.

Card No. 3

A shaker card. 

I used my Scan N Cut to cut 3 white panels and one black panel to create the window for the shaker compartments.

I layered these panels on top of each other with a sheet of acetate between the stack of white panels and the black panel which is at the top of the stack.

The gold mirror card panel was attached to the card base.

I then added a mixture of gold and black superfine glitter, on top of the gold cardstock, where the shaker windows would be and used a good amount of glue to attach the black panel on top of that. 

I used my Scan N Cut once again to cut gold circles to frame the shaker windows.

Once again the sentiment was stamped with Versamark Ink then heat embossed with gold embossing powder

Here is my video if you would like to watch these cards come together

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Folio Flip Through

Hello Hello

Today's post is just a quick one to share with you a flip through video of a Folio I made using some of the supplies I received in my April DT kit from KS4U.

KS4U have two stores and you will find them here & here. 

They also have a Facebook page here.

The papers I have used are from Prima's A4 Pixie Glen paper pad.

I followed a tutorial by Rosa Kelly for the basic folio then added a few extra flaps, pockets etc.

You will find Rosa's video here.

Here is my folio cover

and a couple of closeups.

All of the flowers on the cover are hand made

Here is my video so you can have a look inside the folio.

This folio is for sale so if it is something you have to have send an email to juliespapercraft@gmail.com and I will contact you with info

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie