Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Back to Basics Facebook Live Series Pastes and DecoFoil
Monday, May 6, 2024
Double Page Layouts with Simple Stories Simple Vintage Spring Garden
Hello everyone! I have two double page spreads to share with you today using the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Spring Garden Collection. I also continued with the Easter theme from my last post. Get ready for some flowers, bunnies and butterflies.
For the first layout I distressed a variety of papers to layer under the photos. I used some of the cut-apart cards in the paper pack for journaling.
I also cut-apart some tags and attached some string from my stash. Finally, I embellished the layout with butterfly bits and pieces, cardstock titles, chipboard stickers, foam stickers and enamel dots.
My second layout uses the frames to the max. Even though they have embellishments incorporated, I added more for dimension.
I added some bunnies and butterflies using a variety of embellishments - bits and pieces, chipboard stickers and foam stickers.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Photoplay - To the Moon Collection
Finally, I used the sticker sheet and the 3x4 cut aparts in the collection to create baby cards. These are really sweet. All I added was foam and enamel dots and some twine and ribbon. I also used stickers for the inside sentiments where I could. This made for no-stamp cards, which are fun for a change!
Thanks for stopping in!
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Cocoa Vanilla Great Escape Traveler's Notebook by Jenn
Hello Jenn here sharing some layouts from my Camping Traveler's Notebook, using the Great Escape Collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. I am using 12x12 papers, chipboard stickers, cardstock stickers, foam phrases, puffy stickers, and ephemera from the collection to create a TN documenting our camping trips from the summer of 2023. To stretch the collection a little bit further, I am combing it with the Adventure collection from Wild Whisper Designs and a few other elements along the way.
I started with the cover for the TN, where I also incorporated some hand stitching for the Scrap Shotz Paper Crafting Facebook Group's April Challenge. Throughout the album I will carry the stitching by using faux stitching to embellish the pages, and occasionally I will add some hand stitching as well, keeping in mind how chunky my TN is getting!!! The cover is a great place to add some bulky embellishments like chipboard, buttons, flair, foam stickers, ect... that might be too thick to add inside the pages of the TN. Be sure to add extra strong adhesive to the embellishments on the outside cover because they are more likely to get caught on something or knocked off.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Back to Basics Facebook Live Series: Stamps
Hello!! This week's Back To Basics Facebook Live focused on Stamps! Karla has pulled out a bunch of stamps and inks to share all of her best tips and tricks on how to add stamping to your cards. You can click the video below to catch the live on replay now! Be sure to comment on the Live and say hello by the end of today (Friday) for your name to entered into the giveaway.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Back To Basics Facebook Live Series: Better Press LetterPress
Hello, welcome to another Back To Basics Facebook Live Series installement! This week Rosie shares everything you need to know about the Better Press Letterpress. Watch the live below to learn what the Better Press system is, how to use it, and how to incorporate it into your card making.
Monday, April 1, 2024
49 and Market - Wherever Continued
49 and Market - Wherever continues to bring joy to my crafty space …
I received the 49 and Market - Wherever 12x12 Collection Pack, Chipboard Set, Ephemera Bits, Laser Cut Elements and Rub-on Transfers 6x12 Ride in my Scrap Shotz happy joyful mail. I am excited to share with you my fourth and fifth layouts with this collection - it is so versatile, you can use it for any adventure memory!
(To my first few pages pop over here)
Build on the Pattern
For this layout, I let the pattern paper do all the work!
I found this beauty in the Collection Pack and added some of the Rub-on Transfers to the right of the page and then focused my photos on the left for balance. First I added my right side rub-ons making sure some of them went off the page and added a couple chipboard and ephemera bits as part of the run-on cluster for dimension.
Then, to balance all that right side good stuff - I created my photo cluster on the left. I printed my photos in 4x3 and used the ephemera frames on top. I added some Waxy Flax looped above each to play on the frame design. From there, I added a few rub-ons behind and then focused on added in the chipboard, ephemera and laser cut elements in and around the photos.
The final touch was some black splatters across the page with a big focus on the right side rub on area.
Play on the Embellishments
For my next layout, I focused on the air balloon embellishments and chipboards. I wanted to give a feeling of them floating up and out of the layout.
First, I created an anchor for my photos using Ranger Ink, Distress Ink - Black Soot though a Vicki Boutin Stencil a bit messily in the middle of the page. Then added some black splatters over the stenciled area.
Then I backed the photos with the pattern pages - the small photos were layered on one patter, and the main photo of me sitting outside the Aberdeen Train Station in a couple patterns a little messily. After adhering the photos down in a grid like pattern, I added a bunch of repeated phrase stamps from my stash and Whatever Rub-on Transfers around the grid - including my title, travel more.
The final touch was a couple of tags out the left of the grid and those fabulous air balloons. Layered in and around the left side of the grid pattern to give the sense of them in flight. I love the flow of the air balloons in contrast to the grid.
Just loving this collection - for those road trips, travel far or close from home, a big trip or a little adventure - this it the collection for all those things.
If you are creating with the 49 and Market - Wherever collection we would love to see! Pop over to the Facebook Scrap Shotz Paper Crafting and post a photo.
Thanks for stopping by!
Back To Basics Facebook Live Series: Embellishments
Hello!!! Wasn't that an incredible Live on Thursday with Karla? In case you missed it, Karla's Back To Basics Facebook Live was all about embellishments!!! Click the link below to watch it on replay.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
49 and Market - Wherever
Hello, hello! Have you been on a big trip lately? How about a road trip near or far? Maybe a local adventure with the kiddos? If yes, the 49 and Market - Wherever collection in the Scrap Shotz shop is for you! So many opportunities to use the collection for memory keeping.
I received the 49 and Market - Wherever 12x12 Collection Pack, Chipboard Set, Ephemera Bits, Laser Cut Elements and Rub-on Transfers 6x12 Ride in my Scrap Shotz happy mail the other day and have been in my scrappy space creating since.
Peek A Boo
For my first layout, I used a folded design to peek a boo the amazing Rub-on Transfers in the background.
I took a 12x12 pattern and folded it back at an angle. Then cut off the excess of the folded over section at the same angle as the fold to show off both the folded and background pattern. For this one, I wanted a different pattern on the fold so also adhered another pattern on top of the fold for the colour combo I was looking for.
Before adhering my folded paper combo down onto the white cardstock, I used a bunch of the Wherever Rub-on Transfers to create a messy pattern down the middle of the page so it looked like it was peeking out behind the fold. These Rub-ons are such high quality you can over lap them to make a really great look. I also added some black splatters using watered down Tonic - Nuvo Crystal Drops, Black Ebony and a paint brush, and a few with some Ranger Ink - Distress Oxide, Dried Marigold.
Once the background splatters dried, I adhered my folded pattern paper down on the right to create that peek a boo with the Rub-ons. From there, I added my photos down the fold (after adding a pattern layer or two behind each). Then it was all about tucking embellishments from the Wherever Chipboard, Ephemera and Laser Cut Elements.
Large Photo Feature
For my second layout I reached for this large 8x8 photo of standing stones in Scotland we had the chance to see on our hike of the Arran Coastal Way. When you experience something this amazing you make it the focal point of your layout!
I started with the 12x12 pattern paper called Trek as my background - adding some black splatters using watered down Tonic - Nuvo Crystal Drops, Black Ebony and a paint brush, and some repeated Vicki Boutin stamps with Paper Rose Studio Premium Dye Ink, Intense Black above and below where the photo would sit.
Then, I added a couple of patterns behind the photo to bring some dimension and contrast. I used a Wherever Rub-on Transfers to add the title ‘love this place’ directly on the photo (a little nerve racking but totally worth it - the rub-ons transfer adhered beautifully!)