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

Mystical Scrapbooks April Cyber Crop

Good morning

Today is the start of the April 2021 Cyber Crop over at Mystical Scrapbooks

You will find the Cyber Crop here

The theme for the month is Black + 1 and my added challenge is to add at least one patterned paper that you have made yourself.

You can create your patterned paper in many different ways. I have stamped on a plain cardstock to create mine but you could use paste through a stencil to create an all over pattern, use ink through a stencil, add watercolours using the packaging technique, heat embossing and alcohol inks can also be used to create patterns on plain cardstock or even lightly patterned cardstock.

Here is my layout. For my +1 I have chosen blue.

I have used Tranquil Blue cardstock for the background frame and then black cardstock for my background.

I cut a one inch frame from the blue and trimmed the black to 11.5" square

I cut a piece of Colourblast - Limited Edition - One of a Kind to 10.5" x 10"

A piece of the Tranquil Blue cardstock was cut to 6.75" x 7.25" and then I stamped all over it with Uniquely Creatives - Wavy Words stamp and StazOn Jet Black ink

Colourblast - Limited Edition - Real Deal was cut to 5.25" x 6.5".

I filed around the edges of the photo, which is 8" x 5" then double matted it on the blue which is 8.25" x 5.25" and black which is 8.5" x 5.5" I added a piece of foam between the two mats.

The blue stamped cardstock and the Real Deal patterned paper were also matted with black cardstock. 

To create the flower embellishments I stamped, using Embassy Arts Giant Flowers stamp block, and heat embossed two flowers on the Real Deal paper and one on the blue cardstock. These were then fussy cut and had a piece of chipboard added to the back.

I used a couple of pieces of chipboard to embellish my layout. A tab from Dusty Attics Mini Tabs #2 and a heart from Memory Maze's Criss Cross Heart Set. These were given a coat of Baby blue acrylic paint. The tab was later changed to black using a permanent marker.

A piece of ribbon and a couple of rows of bling were also added to finish off the embellishing.

The title was cut using Tim Holtz Inside Out alpha die from the blue cardstock and attached to the top left of the layout.

Here is the process video

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Layout for Off the Rails Scrapbooking's April 2021 Challenge

Good morning

Today I am sharing the layout I created for the April challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking.

You will find the challenge here.

This is the mood board and the challenge is to use sewing on your project

This is the layout I have created

All of the patterned papers have the edges inked using a black Versa Color ink cube.

There are only two patterned papers used on this layout, they are both from DCWV 12" paper pads.

One is from the Get it Girl pad and the other is from the Fairytale Floral pad.

From the first paper I cut a 1" frame that is 12" x 12"  to create a frame for my white cardstock background. The white cardstock measures 11 3/8" x 11 3/8"

I also matted my photos so they had a 1/8" border on all sides with this paper

From the second paper I cut the waves using my Scan N Cut. The wave cut file is in Canvas Workspace under the Borders section. I cut four of these. This actually gave me 8 rows of waves because when you turn the negative of the cut upside down they are waves too.

I cut a piece of the same patterned paper to 11 3/8" x 3" to attach my waves to so that the white background did not show through the waves. The waves were then attached to this piece so they slightly overlapped. I alternated the two different styles of waves so they did not form a pattern.

This assembly was then attached to a piece of chipboard so it will be raised up from the background when it is attached.

Before I attached the wave assembly I made holes 1/4" in, on three sides of the white background cardstock. These holes were 1/4" apart and made it easy for me to hand stitch a border. I used two strands of white, two strands of light grey and two strands of dark green embroidery floss to do this.

Once my border was finished I attached the wave assembly to the bottom of the white cardstock background.

My matted photos were then attached to the page so the smaller photo was tucked slightly under the waves and the larger photo was tucked slightly under the smaller photo

I printed my journaling onto some of the same patterned paper I used for the waves and cut them into circles using my Spellbinders Standard Circles Small die. I was looking for a bubble effect. I used two strands of the dark green embroidery floss to stitch around the edges of these circles.

The title was also cut on my Scan N Cut using the same paper as the photo mats. The font I have used is Cairo. I seem to have taken a shine to this font of late.

The final touch for this page was to sprinkle some green/blue sequins around and attach them to the page with a dot of glue. I was looking for a bubble/glistening effect with these.

So there we have my page for today

Here is my process video

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Three cards using Cocoa Vanilla's "Sunkissed" paper range

Good morning

I have got three cards to share with you today.

I have used the A5 paper stack of Cocoa Vanilla's Sunkissed paper that were in my DT kit from Mystical Scrapbooks

I wanted to make some bright and cheerful cards and these papers were ideal for that.

I have made three cards.

All of the card bases have be cut from sheets of cardstock and the edges of all papers have been inked using my Versacolor Black ink cube.

Card No 1.

This card is 5" square and uses a white cardbase

The blue patterned paper is 4.75" square

The Feeling Fine patterned paper strip is 1" x 4.75" and the white cardstock it is matted on is 1.25" x 5"

To add a little something extra I added a strip of lace to this panel.

I have stamped a flower stamp onto the yellow patterned paper using VersaMark Embossing Ink and heat embossed with fine black embossing powder.  I created some leaves on the Good Vibrations patterned paper in the same way. These were then fussy cut

Time now to add the layers to the card starting with the blue background paper, the strip panel which was attached to a piece of chipboard before being added to the card front and then the flowers and leaves. Some of the flowers and leaves are also mounted on chipboard.

The sentiment is from a branding strip from a patterned paper I used some time ago. This has been matted on the Feeling Fine paper that I used for the vertical strip and attached to the card front with chipboard behind it.

To add some glimmer to the card I filled the flower centres with Ice Stickles

Card No. 2

This card is 4" x 8.25" and uses a pink card base.

The card base was cut to 8.25" x 8" and scored and folded at 4" on the 8" edge.

The Feeling Fine paper was cut to 2.25" x 8".

The pink cardstock had one edge punched using a Martha Stewart punch then trimmed to 1" x 8".

The Just Chillin paper was cut using Sizzix Lace Scallop edge die and trimmed to 8" long.

To create the sentiment panel I used Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circles Small dies to cut a pink and a Just Chillin circle. The sentiment is from my computer generated printout and matted on some of the pink cardstock.

To add a little extra detail to the card I attached a couple of pennants from the Uniquely Creative Gums & Roses Creative Cuts pack and a bow made from sheer pink ribbon.

For a tough of glimmer I added Ice Stickles on top of the sentiment and smeared it all over the sentiment with my finger.

Card No. 3

This card is 5" square and uses a yellow card base

I cut 4 pieces of white cardstock, one is 4.75" square, one is 3 7/8" square, one is 1.75" x 2" and the last one is 1 5/8" x 4.75" with a fishtail cut in one end.

From plain yellow cardstock I cut one piece 4" square, one piece 5" x 1 1/8" and one piece 1 7/8" x 2 1/8".

From the Good Vibrations paper I cut a piece 3 5/8" square.

The Good Vibrations (reverse) paper was cut to 5" x 1"

The sentiment is from my computer generated sentiments and is matted on plain yellow cardstock

The flowers were fussy cut from the Growing Wild paper.

The panel that holds the sentiment and the sentiment itself were both mounted on chipboard prior to being attached to the card.

Three clusters of three dots with the Ice Stickles finish this card off.

Here is the process video 

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie 

Three Masculine Cards

Good morning.

Today I am sharing three masculine cards I created using patterned papers from my  KS4U DT kit for April.

You will find the KS4U stores here and here.

Why not check out their Facebook page, they have lots of beautiful projects to inspire you from all types of artisans.

The card bases were created by cutting down a 12" x 12" sheet of 240gsm white cardstock.

All of the patterned papers for these cards came from a 6" x 6" paper pad from Authentique - collection called Original.

The burlap sheet is from Uniquely Creative.

All of the papers have been inked with Versa Color black ink

These are my cards for today.

We will start with this card.

This card is 5.25" square.

The dark blue patterned paper is 5" square

There are two pieces of burlap 1" x 4.75"

The diamond patterned paper is 4" x 4.75"

The greeting was stamped using the Happy Birthday stamp from Kaisercraft's Factory 42 stamp set.

I have heat embossed it with Rangers Embossing Antiquities powder - Colbolt.

The sentiment was stamped onto white cardstock which was trimmed to 2.5" x 1.5" and matted onto a piece of the dark blue patterned paper that measure 2.75" x 1.75"

I fussy cut 8 of the diamonds and used foam to mount them over the top of some of the diamonds on the background paper.

The sentiment was attached to the card using foam tape

Card No. 2

This card is 5.25" square

The navy patterned paper was cut to 5 1/8" square

I used  a stamp from The Creative Stamp Collection Pty Ltd (EC172 Star) and Cream embossing powder to heat emboss the stars randomly onto the navy patterned paper.

I have had this stamp for close to 20 years so it is probably no longer available.

I used my Nellie's Multi Frame Star die to cut 1 star 2.75", 3 stars 2.25" and 4 stars 7/8"

The large star and one of the small stars was cut from burlap

A piece of navy spot paper was cut to 1.25" x 4.75" and matted on a piece of white cardstock so a 1/16" boarder showed all around. This was attached to the card using foam tape. The stars were attached to the card front using an assortment of foam tape and glue so some are risen and some are flat on the card front.

To create the sentiment I stamped and heat embossed Hero Arts (C5594) Happy Birthday stamp using the same embossing powder I used for the stars on the background

The sentiment was trimmed to 2.75" x 7/8" and matted on a piece of white cardstock giving a 1/16" border. This was attached to the card using foam tape.

The small navy star on top of the large burlap star was given a coat of Glossy Accents.

Card No. 3

This card is 5" square

The navy spot patterned paper is 4.75" square

The pocket patterned paper is 2" 4.5"

The white cardstock that the pocket patterned paper is matted on is 2 1/8" x 4 5/8"

Once the pocket paper was attached to the white cardstock mat, I added a copper brad to each corner.

I also tied a piece of string around this panel and secured it with sticky tape on the back.

The panel was then added to the card front using foam tape.

The sentiment uses the same stamp as the first card and has been heat embossed using Copper embossing powder on white cardstock

The sentiment was trimmed to 2.25" x 1.5" and matted on some denim colours patterned paper which had been trimmed to 2.5" x 1.75".

This was attached to the front of the card using foam tape.

So there we have my cards for today. I hope you enjoyed reading about them.

You can see the process video below

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Layout for Mystical Scrapbooks April 2021 Challenge

Good morning

Today's layout is for the April challenge over at Mystical Scrapbooks.

The theme for the month is Black +1 and this challenge is to use 3 elements from this grid. The elements must be in a line on the grid. The line can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

For my layout I have chosen pink for my plus one and the three elements are Fussy Cutting, Tag and Chipboard (diagonal top left to bottom right)

The paper I have used on this layout is Uniquely Creatives's Serendipity- Happiness

I tore two opposing edges of the Black Cardstock, cut two strips of the Happiness patterned paper to 1.25" x 12", inked around three edges of the patterned paper and attached those to the top and bottom of the black cardstock to make it back to 12" x 12"

I fussy cut the two floral clusters from the edge of the Happiness paper, inked around the edges and attached them to the sides of the layout with glue.  

I filed around the edge of my photos and matted them on bright pink cardstock (Heartfelt). They were then attached to the layout using double sided tape. I was careful to place the tape on the bottom photo so that my tag would be held in place when it was inserted.

I used my Scan N Cut to cut a tag from the Happiness paper and a mat from the Heartfelt cardstock. After inking the edges I used glue to attach one layer on top of the other. Using my Crop-O-Dile I add a pink heart eyelet to the tag. To finish the tag off I added some bright pink Rik Rac. My journalling is handwritten on the tag and the tag tucks under the right hand edge of the bottom photo.

The title was also cut from the Heartfelt cardstock. I used the negative to place my letters evenly on the top right area of the layout. The title then had a coat of Glossy Accents to give it a nice shine.

The chipboard butterflies are from the Memory Maze Wire Butterfly Set. I have painted them with acrylic paint. Once they were dry I added some Dress My Craft Frosted Sugar Powder to the bodies of the butterflies. I was not that happy with this as the sugar powder is a bit too chunky, I think something a bit finer, like glitter would have been a better choice

You can see my process video below

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie