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

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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

Retro TV Program Competition at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning

Today's layout is for week 5 of the Retro TV Program competition over at Mystical Scrapbooks.

You will find the competition here.

The program for this week is Friends.

The colour palette is rainbow, the required item is a Coffee Cup / Champagne Glass, 

you must use glitter on your page and the bonus item from the optional kit is a fabric heart.

Here is my layout

As you can see I have got the rainbow of colours as the background of my layout.

I used Simple Stories - Hello Summer papers for this layout.

I gutted a piece of black cardstock leaving a 1" frame.

My 11 1/2" square piece of Life is Good was attached to the frame using double sided tape.

I watered down both black and white acrylic paints and used my fan brush to create splatters all over my background.

I trimmed my 7" x 5" main photo to 7" x 4 1/2" and filed around the edge 

of each of the three photos with an emery board to add a fine white border.

I cut a piece of Oh Happy Day 8" x 6" and tore along one of the 8" edges.

After inking around the edges I attached my large photo to it.

I wrapped some black & white Twine around my photo three times and tied a knot at the front.

The two smaller photos were matted onto Catching Rays with a 3/16" border on each side.

I added cardboard to the back of each of the photos and attached them to the layout.

I painted my coffee cup chipboard with white acrylic paint. 

When this was dry I added a liberal coat of Art Glitter glue and pressed 

Dress my Craft Rainbow Glitter onto it, making sure it had a nice thick coat.

I added the coffee cup and the fabric heart to the layout using Art Glitter glue

To create the title I used Sizzix 662667 Alphabet die and black cardstock.

I attached the title using Art Glitter glue and my reverse tweezers

To finish the layout off I used my fountain pen to draw a double scribbly border around the page.

You can see my process video here.

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

Mystical Scrapbooks May Cyber Crop

Good morning

The May Cyber Crop is on this weekend over at Mystical Scrapbooks

You will find it here.

The theme for this month is 1, 2, 3. and there are three challenges.

The challenge my layout is created for is to use 1 piece of chipboard, 2 photos and a 3 word title.

Here is my layout

I have used Colour Blast Limited Editions and Love & Grace papers for this layout

I cut two 2" x 12" piece of Limited Edition - Real Deal

and tore a piece of Love & Grace - Portia to approximately 12" x 10"

Using the Portia paper I applied Modelling Paste through Dusty Attic's Criss Cross stencil

I sprayed Tattered Angels Chalkboard -Teal High Heel to three areas of the paper

and added water to help it to spread out over the page

A light spray with Docraft's Artiste Spritzing Ink - Mint 

adds a little visual dimension to the sprayed colour.

Using the Mint ink and DoCraft Spritzing Ink - Black Night, I added splatters to the background.

Once all of the mixed media was dry, I used StayzOn Jet Black Ink and 

Kazzaz - Life's Moments Background stamp 

to add random stamping to the layout.

I distressed and inked the two pieces of Real Deal paper and 

attached them to the top and bottom of my 

background piece to build it back up to 12" x 12"

I used the Black Night Spritzing ink and a brush to colour a frame 

from Memory Maze Junky Frame & Arrows chipboard pack.

I also sprayed the chipboard with Tattered Angels Glimmermist - Iridescent Gold.

The chipboard is attached to my layout using Art Glitter glue

I have used an emery board to file around the edges of my photos 

and matted them onto black cardstock.

Scrap cardboard was added to the backs of the photos 

before they were attached to the layout overlapping the chipboard.

To create the title I used Kaisercraft DD700 Alphabet Upper Case 

and Die-namics High Rise Numbers dies and black cardstock.

The final touch was to add some white splatters to the background. 

To do this I watered down some white acrylic paint and used my fan brush.

Here is my process 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

Retro TV Program Competition at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good Morning

Today is the start of week 3 of the Retro TV Program Competition at Mystical Scrapbooks

The program for this week is Lassie

The colour palette is Spring Colours

The required item is a flower

The technique is Fussy Cutting

and the optional kit item is twine.

Here is my layout

The papers I have used on this layout are from Cocoa Vanilla's These Days paper collection.

I cut a piece of Family Ties 3' x 12" and 5" x 12" and used both sides to create the two strips down the left hand edge of the layout

An 8" square piece of Home Grown is used to matt my photos.

I have a 5" x 7" photo and two 3" x 4" photos on this layout

I have filed around the edge of each photo with an emery board

before using double sided tape to attach them to the Home Grown paper.

I then took all of my papers to my sewing machine and stitched around the edge of them, including the sheet of Pretty Posies that I am using for my background

I ran a double layer of the twine from the kit along the bottom of my photo panel and then backed the panel with scrap cardboard

Time now to attach all of my papers to the background page.

I have fussy cut some flowers and a butterfly from the Home Grown paper, inked the edges

and used liquid glue to attach them to my page.

A wooden button and a fussy cut pennant added to the 

top right of the photo matt complete my embellishments

The title is also fussy cut from the papers 

and attached to the layout with some scrap chipboard behind it.

I added some white acrylic paint splatters to finish.

Here is my process video. I hope you enjoy watching it.

As always, thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Off The Rails Scrapbooking May Challenge

Good morning

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

The challenge for this month is Black & White with only one other colour.

I have chosen blue as my other colour

I have gone with a simple clean layout for this challenge.

The minimalist look seems to be appealing to me at the moment.

I have added Modelling Paste through TCW Chevron stencil 

to the centre section of my white cardstock background. 

I have not been too particular with this application 

as I am looking for a random type of feel.

My colour is added by spraying Tattered Angels Jazz Blue Glimmermist 

at the top of the page and using extra water spray 

to help it run down the centre of the layout 

over some of the Modelling Paste.

When everything was dry I used Kaisercraft's Grid stamp 

and StayzOn Jet Black ink to stamp randomly over the background.

The patterned paper is from 2007, it is by Imaginisce and is 

Striped Sophistication from the Black Tie Optional range.

I tore this into strips using my Deckle edged ruler.

I inked the edges of the strips after I had torn the edges down 

to create an assortment of lengths then 

attached them to my background using Art Glitter Glue

My black & white photos were printed with the white border and measure 3" x 4 1/2".

I have attached pieces of cardboard to the back of the photos before attaching them to my layout.

To embellish the page I have painted 

Scrapmatts CB5156 Triangles 01 chipboard with black acrylic paint.

I cut the chipboard into three pieces and attached it to my page along side each of my photos

I used my fountain pen to draw a double scribbly border around the page.

A little more detail was added to the background by splattering some of the 

Glimmermist and black acrylic paint lightly, mostly to the central area of the layout.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD735 Uppercase Alpha dies.

Once it was attached to the layout using my t ruler, reverse tweezers and Art Glitter Glue

I coated it with Glossy Accents. This gives a beautiful glossy finish when it is dry

Here is my process 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