Alcohol Inks and Foils

Alcohol inks continue to be popular and I can understand why! You can make beautiful backgrounds in minutes, each unique and stunning. Adding some foil takes the alcohol inks to another level.

Check out the card I made below -  I followed the video by Kelly Latevola. What I found in my house, the alcohol inks were tacky, not wet and the foils adhered beautifully after waiting 2-3 minutes.

Here is a close-up - and I will never get tired of the WRMK Next Gen Embossing Folders - amazing!

What I love about alcohol inks is that it is so easy to find new colour combinations - I am loving teals and butterscotch these days!

Here is another card using the WRMK Next Gen embossing folders. With this color combination, I cut up a cover plate die and mounted it on the alcohol background - it just popped!

 If you haven't tried alcohol inks, I encourage you to give it a go; if you have them in your stash, dig them out!

Amelia Rose Collection Projects

Hey Scrap Shotz Fans!

 I'm excited to be back to share with you a few more projects which feature Prima Marketing's Amelia Rose Paper Collection. You can buy this collection as a kit from the store and it comes full of patterned paper, stickers, ephemera, flowers, journaling notecards and washi tape. Note, this is not part of our regular kit program. 

The Amelia Rose journaling notecards are full of inspirational quotes which were the focal points for my two projects today. For my first project, I created this pretty "Find Your Tribe" tag. Read below as I have a full tutorial below so that you can recreate it at home.

To start, pull out one of the Tim Holtz Etcetera - Small Tag. 

Trace the tag around a patterned paper piece as well as the ring for the top of the tag. Cut both traced pieces out. Distress the edges of the tag piece. Ink the edges of both pieces using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Next, you'll need to cut a patterned paper piece that measures 4 3/4" x 7 3/4". Lay a dotted stencil over top of the top left corner of the paper. Using a palette knife, apply texture paste through the stencil. Repeat the previous two steps, but this time, lay the stencil in the bottom right corner of the patterned paper piece. 

With the texture paste dry, rub Rose Gold Wax over top of the stenciled dots. On the bottom portion of the paper, choose a spot and tear the paper up. In the top portion of the paper, choose a spot and tear the paper down. Distress the edges of the paper. Ink the edges of the paper using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

You'll need to cut two other patterned paper pieces. One piece will measure 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" and the second piece will measure 5" x 8". Distress the edges. Ink the edges of the two patterned paper pieces using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam. 

Choose three tickets. Distress the edges. Ink the edges of the tickets using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the journaling notecards, you'll need to take out four notecards. All will stay the same size, except the notecard with the postcard, you'll need to cut that one down to 2 5/8" x 3 3/4". Distress the edges. Ink the edges of all the pieces using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam. 

From the white dot patterned paper, you'll need to cut a piece that measures 4" x 5 1/2". Cut a piece from the grid patterned paper that measures 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". Choose two borders from the bottom of the patterned papers. Cut one border to 4 3/4". Cut the second border to 4 1/2". Distress the edges of all pieces. Ink the edges of all the pieces using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the patterned paper with the butterflies and feathers, fussy cut two butterflies and one feather. Ink the edges of the images using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the floral paper, fussy cut out four single flowers and one flower bunch with a feather in it. Ink the edges of the images using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Choose two large pink flowers, eight pink roses, four cream roses and eight black roses.

From the ephemera package, pick out the pink ruler, the clock and two arrows.

Now it's time to assemble your tag.

Adhere the tag patterned paper piece to the tag. Adhere the top of the tag patterned piece to the top of the tag piece. Adhere the top of the tag piece to the top of the tag.

Adhere the 5 1/4" patterned paper piece to the tag. Adhere the 5" patterned paper piece to the 5 1/4" patterned paper piece. Adhere the 4 3/4" patterned paper piece to the 5" patterned paper piece.

Adhere one of the tickets 1" from the top of the patterned papers. Foams square the white dot patterned piece slightly underneath the ticket. Adhere another ticket 1 1/8" from the right of the white dot patterned paper.

Foam square one of the notecards on the bottom left hand side of the white dot paper. Adhere the second notecard to slightly underneath the ticket on the white dot paper. Foam square the third notecard slightly over top of the first two cards on the right hand side of the tag.

Adhere the "Find Your Tribe" notecard to the grid patterned paper. Adhere the third ticket to left hand side of the tag where the notecard is. Foam square the "Find Your Tribe" notecard to the center of the white dot paper.

Adhere the two borders and the ruler border underneath the "Find Your Tribe" sentiment. Off setting them as desired. 

In the bottom left hand corner, adhere the clock, one large pink flower, four black roses, two cream roses and four pink roses. On the right hand side of the sentiment, adhere the arrow.

In the top right hand corner, adhere one large pink flower, four black roses, four pink roses and two cream roses. 

In the top left hand corner, adhere the fussy cut flowers, butterflies and feather. Use foam squares where desired. 

To finish the top of your tag, add a pink ribbon bow.

Here are a few closeup shots of the finished tag.

Here's the finished "Find Your Tribe" Tag.

For my last project, I created this quick but pretty card using the scrap patterned paper pieces that I had.

Once I adhered the inspirational notecard on the card, I layered in amongst the flowers different images. Once the flowers and images where adhered, I added in a few sparkly rhinestones.  

In the top right hand corner, I kept it light by just using flowers. Once the flowers had been adhered, I added in a few of the sparkly rhinestones. To give some character on the right hand side of the card, I tore part of the paper. 

Here's the finished card with all the elements.

Scrap Shotz Supplies Used:

- Prima Marketing - Amelia Rose Delux Kit

- Black Soot Distress Ink

- Texture Paste

- Tim Holtz: Etcetera Small Tags

Other Supplies Used:

- Roses 

- Dot Stencil

- Art Alchmey Metallique Wax: Rose Gold

Make sure to stop by the blog on as the Design Team has a lot more inspiration to share with you this month.

Thanks for joining me today!

 

January Kit Release - Kaisercraft Documented Projects with Katelyn

Hey Scrap Shotz Fans!

Today, I'm back and sharing with you three more projects that I created using the fabulous January Kit which features Kaisercraft's "Documented" Collection. This line is filled with awesome masculine papers perfect for manly projects as well as vintage projects. 

To kick off my three projects, I created this masculine project using one of the Mini Clipboard from Tim Holtz's Idea-ology Line, some of the Kaisercraft Documented paper and Collectables as well as chipboard gears. Read below as I share with you how to recreate my altered mini clipboard at home.

To start, remove the hardware at the top of the clipboard. Choose three pieces of patterned paper from the Documented paper pack. 

You'll need to cut the following papers:

- Patterned Paper #1: 4 3/8" x 6 7/8"

- Patterned Paper #2: 4 1/8" x 6 5/8"

- Patterned Paper #3: 3 7/8" x 6 3/8"

Once the pieces of paper have been cut, round all four corners on each patterned paper piece. Distress the edges of each patterned paper and ink the edges using Bark Ink and a blending tool with foam. After the edges have been inked, Adhere the 4 3/8" patterned paper piece to the clipboard. Adhere the 4 1/8" patterned paper piece to the 4 3/8" patterned paper piece. Adhere the 3 7/8" patterned paper to the 4 1/8" patterned paper piece. Punch two holes at the top of the clipboard. Re-install the hardware at the top of the clipboard.

Place the words stencil on the right hand side of the clipboard. Start dabbing Emboss It Ink through the stencil, inking as much of the stencil as desired. Lift the stencil up and sprinkle Dirty Sand Embossing Powder over top of the stencil area. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool.

From the ruler paper, cut two rulers out. Once ruler will measure 4" long and the other ruler will measure 3 3/4" long. Adhere the 4" ruler 2" from the bottom of the clipboard. Adhere the 3 3/4" ruler 1 3/4" from the bottom of the clipboard. Adhere a couple of collectables on the top right hand side of the clipboard.

In the bottom right hand portion of the clipboard, adhere four different collectable images.

Pick out a Found Relative and cut the card down to 2 5/8" x 5". Distress the edges of the card and ink the edges using Bark Ink and a blending tool with foam. Use foam squares to adhere the Found Relative 5/8" from the right of the clipboard.

From one of the strips at the bottom of the patterned papers, choose one of the sayings and cut it apart. Distress the edges of the sentiment strips and ink the edges using Bark Ink and a blending tool with foam. Adhere the sentiment to the left of the Found Relative.

Next you'll need four gears from the add on kit. Apply Emboss It Ink to each gear. Sprinkle Rocky Road Embossing Powder overtop of each gear. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool.

Adhere one of the gears in the bottom right hand corner of the Found Relative Card. Adhere the other three gears in the top left hand corner of the Found Relative Card.

Here are a few closeup shots of the altered mini clipboard.

And here's the finished Whatever You Are, Be A Good One Altered Mini Clipboard.

For the second project out of the three, I created this fun quick and easy "Wander without Reason" card. 

To the left of the sentiment, I layered a couple of the rulers from the ruler paper. One ruler measures 3 1/4" long and the second ruler measures 3 1/2" long. The third ruler is from the collectables package. 

To finish off the card, in the bottom right hand corner, I layered five different elements from the collectables. 

For the last project using the January Kit, I created this masculine "Make Every Day Your Best Day" card. 

To add some extra interest and patterned to the ledger paper, I placed the Words stencil on the left hand side of the paper. With the stencil down, blend Bark Ink through the stencil on desired sections. Lift off the stencil. 

I stamped the ruler and the Make Every Day Your Best Day sentiment onto a ledger piece from the collectables packaged. Most of the elements on the card came from the collectables package. I layered in rulers from the ruler paper. The gears are embossed using Rocky Road Embossing Powder and then adhere using liquid glue. 

To finish off the ledger paper, I rolled the top right corner down and bottom left corner up.

The January Kit is available in the Scrap Shotz's store. Make sure to stop by the blog as the design team is sharing more crafty inspiration.

Supplies Used:

- January Kit

- January Kit Add on

- Tim Holtz/Idea-ology: Mini Clipboard & Found Relatives

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Baked Texture - Dirty Sand and Rocky Road Embossing Powder

- White Cardstock

Thanks for joining me today!