Sunday Drive with Spellbinders

Hello Everyone!

Rosie here with a couple of projects featuring the Spellbinders- Sunday Drive Die Set:

There are 16 dies in the set that cute out the pieces of this card, everything you need to paper piece this cute birthday car. I die cut all the pieces first, using up some paper scraps and then pieced the car together following the image on the packaging.

Prior to glueing everything down I inked the clouds with the Lawn Fawn Cloudy Stencil and Distress Oxide Broken China ink. I created the ballon strings out of gold thread.

For this next card, I inked a sunset background with Distress Oxide inks in Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade. I then misted the panel with Altenew Iridescent Spray Ink.

I inked the sides of my grey card stock "road" with Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.

The bumper, side mirrors and taillights are cut from silver metallic card stock.

I created a shaker with the trunk birthday section and rather than place the gifts in the luggage holder, I placed them inside the trunk itself.

I backed the balloons with the same patterned paper I used for the steering wheel and luggage holder.

Again I used gold thread from my stash for the balloon strings.

There are lots of possibilities with this die set!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Die Cut Cards

Hello!

Rosie here with a few cards for your viewing pleasure😊 using some fun dies available in the store.

Can I be honest? I wasn't going to invest in the Lawn Fawn Magic Picture Changer Die but after making a couple of sample cards I was hooked; for the card above I used the Lawn Fawn Birthday Before and Afters set. I stamped the images on Copic friendly card stock and coloured with Copic Markers. 

I can't wait to use this die with some of the new Lawn Fawn release which you can preorder right HERE. 

There are a number of great dies in the store and I finally had a bit of time to create some cards with them. First up is a card featuring the Tim Holtz Destination Die:

The card front is created by ink blending Distress Oxide inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch. I then adhered Die Cut'N Bond double sided adhesive to black card stock and cut the Destination (globe) die cut. The die cuts all the pieces out as you can see in this photo:

I left a few of the die cut pieces in place as you can see below:

The sentiment is from Mama Elephant Friendship Sentiments, stamped in Versafine Black Onyx ink, heat embossed with Ranger Clear Embossing powder on vellum. The top and bottom are framed with a sliver of Best Creations glitter card stock. The sentiment is adhered with liquid glue over the die cut.

These next two cards showcase the versatility of the Tim Holtz-Thinlits Dies Retro Repeat, the set has 4 different dies that can be used to create a border or a repeating die cut across a card front. It also happens to be on sale right now at close to 50% off so it's a great value for 4 dies!

Here you can see how the die easily lines up with the previous cut to carry across the card front inked with Distress Oxide inks.

The die cut front is then layered over dark silver glitter card stock, sentiment from the Mama Elephant Friendship Sentiments set and sparkle courtesy of Studio Katia gems.

Here we have a completely different look as the silver glitter card stock is die cut with the "star" thinlet and then layered over an alcohol pearl ink background with foam adhesive.

The sentiment is die cut with the Altenew Fancy Hello die from the same alcohol pearl ink background.

I hope you've enjoyed a quick look at some of the metal dies available in the store, thanks for stopping in to take a look!

Kaisercraft First Noel and Sizzix Stars Layout and Video

Hello friends! It's Karla back today with more fun projects using Kaisercraft First Noel Collection and the Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlets Die Swirling Stars - both new products in the Scrap Shotz Store! These fun supplies are going to be awesome for your Christmas crafting! If you missed the post where I share a video closeup of all these products, along with a layout and three cards, click HERE.

Today, I'm sharing this sweet Christmas layout of my daughter's Kindergarten nativity pageant where she played Mary. I thought this paper was just perfect with the three wisemen printed directly on the background! I'm using the October Sketchy Challenge from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine, and you can see the process I used in the video below.

There are so many fun elements to layer in this collection- papers, stickers and diecuts!! I added a border sticker from the 12x12 Sticker Sheet across the top of my photos and then layered a 3x4 card from the cut apart sheet with leafy stickers from the Sticker Booklet and sweet bird diecuts from the Ephemera Pack.

The Swirling Star dies are so fun to use, just as you would sequins or enamel dots - simply glue them on wherever you like! The sticker booklet has lovely sentiment stickers - I layered one directly on the photo on the left and one under the photo on the right. I wrote my journaling directly on the page, using the grid pattern as a guide.

Here's a look at the process video where you can see exactly how I created this layout-

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the Scrap Shotz store to check out the Kaisercraft First Noel Collection and the Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlets Die Swirling Stars, and don't forget you can always browse what's new HERE. Have a fantastic, crafty week ahead!

December Daily Mini Album with Lawn Fawn

Hi there!

This is my fifth year doing a version of a December Daily album.  Obviously, December is a busy time, so to make things simple I usually make my own mini album ahead of time.  The Perfectly Plaid 6x6 paper pack from Lawn Fawn is perfect for a mini album.

To start the album, cut the following pieces of heavy cardstock:

1 - 12" x 6"
3 - 12" x 5.75"
2 - 5.5" x 5.5"pł

Score the 12 x 6 piece at 3" and 2.5" from each end.

Adhere the two 5" x 5" pieces of cardstock to the outer flaps of the 12" x 6" cardstock making sure to centre the piece with an even border around it. This will be the cover.

Score the three 12" x 5.75" pieces at 3" inches from each end. Adhere the three scored and folded pieces together to make a paper chain.

Adhere the centre portion of the paper chain to the centre of the cover. Be sure to use very strong adhesive to do this step (I used wet glue) since this is the part that is the support for the book pages.

You can leave the book like this and it will give you 11 pages (not counting the covers). But, I do all 31 days of December, so I needed more pages. I cut and scored a two more 12" x 5.75" pieces and adhered them to the ends of the paper chain. I cut and folded three 5" x 10" pieces and adhered them to the centre of each panel to make flip up pages. I added more pieces and flip cards to the album until I had 31 pages.

Now that the album is finished, I wall papered every page with the Lawn Fawn paper.

For the cover, I embossed and watercoloured  the poinsettia stamp from The Ton. The pine branches and snowflakes are cut from a Kaisercraft die from my stash. The scalloped circle was cut from with my Silhouette. Swing Thickers from the September Kit  and some alphas from my stash make up the title. The dots are from Liquid Pearls in Gold.

The only page completed in the album is the dedication page. I keep all my Christmas/December Daily supplies in a pizza box and try to use any products that will work for my needs. Here, I used an old Elle Studio journaling card, some more Lawn Fawn paper cut with a Fiskars punch and the number one die cut from an old Spellbinders tag die.  The rest of the pages will be completed as the month progresses.

I have prepared a short video showing how the album looks with all the pages expanded.

I'm pretty happy with this album and can't wait for December to get started!

Thanks for looking!

The Ton Stamps - Peony Cluster Mini and Cozy Poinsettia

Hi there!

This month I got to play with stamps and die sets from The Ton.  This is a "new to me" stamp line, but I'm thinking there will be more added to my collection very soon.  The designs are so versatile and the detail is incredible.

I started with a simple card design using the Peony Cluster Mini.

After heat embossing with gold, I used some pink water colour to colour my image.  I'm quite the novice at water colouring, so I find embossing the image first is quite forgiving.

The flowers were then cut with the available die and using foam tape, mounted it on a nest of pink twine. All of that was then placed on top of the strip of pink cardstock which had been stamped repeatedly with the sentiment. To finish it off, I added some strips of washi tape, some rhinestones, and rounded the corners of the card.

Now that my creative muscles were flexed, I set out to play with the Cozy Poinsettia stamp.

The gold embossing and the water colours were still on my desk, so I used those supplies again.  This time, instead of using regular foam adhesive, I used the die to cut out some fun foam.  The larger image was quite warped (even though I had used water colour paper), and gluing the image to the fun foam keeps it nice and flat.  I think it will hold up better in the mail, as well.

I mounted the image on a piece of white cardstock and a piece of patterned paper from the Perfectly Plaid 6x6 pad by Lawn Fawn.  I embellished it with a small strip of washi at the top and some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Pale Gold.

The creative juices were flowing now, so I pulled out my Copics and started colouring.

Again, I'm no expert in Copic colouring and I only have a few markers.  I started by stamping the image with Black Archival Ink. The markers were R05, R27, R89, G24, G17, and YR09.  Then, Stickles were added to the centers.

Using an A2 sized card, I cut approximate,2 3/4 inches off the front of the card base and replaced it with a piece of Hot Off the Press Acetate. To cover the seam, I placed some washi tape. I stamped the sentiment on top of the acetate with Staz On Ink. 

Whew!  Lots of words to explain three pretty simple cards.  But, I just love how they turned out.

Thanks for looking and for any products not linked, please be sure to check out the store.

Tim's Tiny Houses

Hello!

Thank you to everyone who popped in to the Scrap Shotz pop up shop on the eve of our {inter} National Scrapbook Day crop. We were so happy to have you stop by, say hi and shop in person.

A great big thank you as well to:

-Kim Evans who stopped by to do demos on Friday, graciously assisted the team with set up and came back on Saturday to do more demos. Visit her Emerald Creek blog for creative challenges and inspiration.

-Nicole Wright who shared her knowledge of all things mixed media designing and teaching our first ever Scrap Shotz class. Click here to visit her blog and see her amazing work!

-Wild Whisper Designs owners/creators Suzy and Heather for the fabulous Make and Take shaker tag they taught our NSD croppers. Click here to visit their blog full of fabulous inspiration using Wild Whisper Designs products. Scrap Shotz is thrilled to be able to carry this Made in Canada (right here in Calgary) line, click here to see what's in the Scrap Shotz store.

Of course a huge thank you to all of our NSD croppers most of whom are regular shoppers in the store as well. We hope to see you all back for our Fall Crop sometime in October.

If you attended the crop hopefully you had a wee bit of time to take a look at all the samples the team created.  I was tasked with the Sizzix Alterations dies

 for Tiny Houses, Cityscapes Thinlits 

the Ella and Viv-Adventure Emporium Collection Pack

and here is what I created adding in stickers from the Scrap Shotz March kit along with Nuvo Crystal Drops and Distress Spray Stain.

This paper is stunning in real life, it will make fabulous Father's Day cards and I think it would be outstanding for Harry Potter themed layouts.


I'll be back shortly to share the team's April Scrap Shotz Monthly Kit projects, be sure to follow Scrapshotz on IG to get the first look at the most current projects.

Happy Crafting😊