Tutorial:- How to make hidden paper clips

Good morning

Today I would like to share a little video that shows how to make hidden/decorated paper clips for your projects.

These paper clips can be made any size you like.

I hope you enjoy watching this process video

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Journal Flip Through

Today I have a flip through of journal made with two envelopes.

I have used a DCWV paper pad called Letters From Home for this journal.

I hope you enjoy watching the video

Till next time

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Julie

Week 8 Mystical Scrapbooks Retro TV Program Competition

Hello hello

It's the final week of the Retro TV Program Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks this week

You will find the challenge here

The program for this week is Happy Day's

What a great program it was and who wasn't "in love" with Fonzy, 

I know I was. He was so cool.

The colour scheme for this week is denim and silver,

the required technique is paper tearing,

it must be a masculine layout 

and the item from the optional kit is chipboard cogs.

Here is my layout

The papers I have used are from Uniquely Creative's Country Roads paper collection

The background is a sheet of The Real Deal patterned paper,

I have used Colour Blast Honey Hive - Love and Grace A4 stencil

and Faded Jeans Distress Ink to add some interest.

My photos are 4" square.

I have used an emery board to file around the edges of each of them.

I tore two strips of The Back Paddock paper and ran them down the sides of three of the photos

This panel was added to the left hand side of the layout 

and one of the photos, which is matted on a piece of The Back Paddock paper

is featured on the right hand side of the layout.

All of the photos are mounted on cardboard.

I added a strip of black cardstock to both edges of the photo panel 

and also to the left and right edges of the layout.

I used Memory Maze Pick up Sticks Square frame chipboard 

and the chipboard cogs from the optional kit to embellish the layout.

Each piece was painted with white acrylic paint and then silver acrylic paint.

I cut the frame in half and placed it around the fourth photo and the cogs

were added to the top right of the photo panel and the bottom right of the layout.

I created a third cluster using Uniquely Creative's Silver Metal Cogs to the bottom left of the photo panel.

I also adde one of the metal cogs to each of the other cog clusters.

I cut the title from black cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD700 Alphabet Upper Case dies.

This is attached in the top right of the layout using liquid glue

All of the details are in this video.

I hope you find time to watch and enjoy it.

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks June Inspiration

Good morning

I have got two masculine cards to share with you today

I have taken a couple of requirements from Week 2 and Week 4 of the Retro TV Programs competition at Mystical Scrapbooks to create these cards.

As I have had Covid and done some casual full time work for the AEC I have not had the opportunity to create a project for these weeks and thought I would do it this way.

Here are my cards

Lets start with the first card

I created this card using a couple of requirements from Week 2

Use shades of blue and a grid design.

I have used a pale blue cardstock for my 5 1/4" card base

A piece of white cardstock was trimmed to 5" square and embossed with a 3D embossing folder

I die cut four squares from Uniquely Creative's Country Roads - The Back Paddock 

paper that are approx 2" in size.

All of the papers/cardstock were distressed with my distressing tool and my Versa Color black ink cube

Scrap cardboard was attached to the back of the squares of patterned paper before they were attached to the white embossed cardstock

This panel was then attached to the card front.

The sentiment was attached to a piece of burlap and then attached to a piece of the same cardstock that I used to create the card base.

A piece of scrap cardboard was attached between the sentient and the card front.

To embellish this card I used a few cogs from Uniquely Creative's Silver Metal Cogs.

For the second card I used some of the requirements from week 4

Vintage and Washi Tape

I have created the 5 1/4" card base using a light kraft colours cardstock

The rust coloured cardstock is from the optional competition kit and measures 5" square

The patterned paper is a 4 1/2" square piece from Uniquely Creative's Drive and Fly - Train

All of the edges were distressed in the same way the previous card was.

I added some torn pieces of Washi Tape from the optional kit 

to the bottom left and top right of the patterned paper panel

To embellish this card I used the chipboard stars from the optional kit and an arrow from 

Dusty Attic's Perfect Moment chipboard pack.

I painted them with two coats of white acrylic paint, 

one coat of Rust acrylic paint and a coat of 

Copper metallic acrylic paint

The papers/cardboard were attached to the front of the card with a piece of scrap cardboard behind the plain cardstock.

The chipboard was then attached using liquid glue and the sentiment, which is from Paper Roses - All Occasions Sentiment pack was the last thing to be added

So there we have my two cards for today

I hope you find some inspiration and check out the competition over at Mystical Scrapbooks.

Here is my process video

I hope you enjoy it

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks June Cyber Crop.

Good morning

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

The theme for this month is sketches and my layout uses this sketch

This is a nice clean open layout and here is my take on it

I added foil to the background by putting Deco Foil Transfer Gel through Dusty Attic's Criss Cross stencil.

Once that was dry I rubbed gold Fab Foil over the top of the Gel.

I used Cocoa Vanilla Daydream papers for this layout.

The yellow/orange paper is Daydream - Sun Shower

I cut it to 5" x 12"

The grey spot is Daydream - Garden Variety

I cut it to 7 1/2" x 6 1/2"

The rainbow paper is Sunkissed - Summer Lights

I cut it to 2 1/2" x 8 1/2". I cut a fishtail into one of the narrow ends.

The tag was cut from Daydream - Stepping Stones.

I cut the tag using Uniquely Creative Tags, Tops & Tails die.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Sizes 662667 Alphabet die.

I attached the title with glue and coated it with Glossy Accents.

The photos were matted onto black cardstock.

Cardboard was attached to the back of the photo matt before it was attached to the page.

Final touch was to add a scribbly border to the page and the patterned papers.

Here is my video.

I hope you enjoy watching it.

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

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

One Page Wonder for Denise Boddey Designs

Good morning

Today I want to share a great little one sheet wonder using 

Denise Boddey Daydream Story Book - Dream

Cut your sheet into 2 pieces 6" x 12"

Score each piece at 5" and 10"

Use a corner rounder on the two corners of the 2" section

Use double side tape or glue to attach one of the 2" sections 

to the outside front of the second piece applying tape/glue to two sides and the bottom.

It is easy to see this process in the video which is below

I used my Crop-O-Dial to add an eyelet to the 2" section on the right hand end of the folder.

I threaded ribbon through the eyelet and wrapped it around the album

 a couple of times and tied a bow.

I made an assortment of embellishments for this album

I used 

Craft Barn Primrose Die

We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board

Martha Stewart Score Board

Die-namics Just the Ticket die

Finniss Dies - Invitation 1 die

Denise Boddey Chipboard Arch

You can see how I used all of these things to decorate my album in my video

This is a fun, easy project and I hope you will try it out.

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

Until next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie