Awesome, Hug and Hello: Altenew Mega Bloom Stencil

Hello Scrap Shotz peeps!

Rosie here sharing projects created with the Altenew Mega Bloom Stencil. 

This is a 6x6 stencil that will completely cover an A2 sized or 4 ¼" x 5 ½" card front.

I made two cards beginning with the foiled image.

I applied DecoFoil transfer gel through the stencil on a 6x6 piece of white card stock and set aside to dry, it takes about an hour to dry. Once it was dry I placed a sheet of Deco Foil Summer Rainbow Transfer sheet (cut down to 6x6) over the image and ran it through my Minc machine. An FYI, heat is required to transfer the foil with this medium. 

If you don't have a Minc you can use the Deco Foil Transfer Gel Duo medium instead as it can be used with your die cutting machine to press the foil into the media.

This next card uses the off cuts from trimming the original 6x6 foiled panel down to a 4" x 5 ¼" panel.

I glued the strips over top of white card stock inked with Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink through the Tim Holtz Gradient Dot Layering stencil.

I then inked white card stock with Abandoned Coral and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink and die cut 'hello' with the Photoplay Say It With Stamps Hello Die Set. It's adhered to the shadow die cut from black card stock and mounted on the card front with foam adhesive. 

Prior to gluing it down I sprayed it with Glitter Dust Aerosol Spray

For this card I inked the bloom with Altenew Chamomile and Snapdragon ink, adding pencil details with Prismacolor pencil crayons.

The sentiment is from the Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Stamp Set Background, die cut with the coordinating Simple Strips Die and the sentiment "mat" die cut with the Simple Strips Backer Die.

I embellished the bloom with Studio Katia Gold Foil sequins.

I hope you've enjoyed these projects, I had a great time making them :).

Happy Crafting!

Embellishments - Inspired by Shape

Hello, hello - Brande here again with a little post all about how the shape of an embellishment inspired the design of my latest project for Scrap Shotz!

When flipping through all of the oh-so-pretty collectables of the Scrap Shotz December 2019 Scrapbook Kit I was really drawn to the gold and foil ornaments. I decided to play on the shape, the shine, and the texture of these ornaments for all my design decisions.

For the shape, I went through the goodies in the kit to find all the circles. In addition to the 3 ornaments - I found the 2 circle titles 'Season's Greetings' and 'Merry Christmas', wood veneer circles, the glass circle curios, and a gold die cut that resembled the shape of the wood veneer circles. Perfect! I also went through the papers and cut random circles out of any that felt especially pretty to me at that moment. Solid scrapbooker decision making at its best!

For the shine, I did a little simple packaging smoosh technique in the background with some Nuvo Mica Mist, Antique Gold from the Scrap Shotz shop. I also painted the wood veneer with the Antique Gold - compared to the foil on the papers and collectables, the wood veneer looked plain and I feel they had shine envy. (wink) I also took a little bit of Antique Gold on a paintbrush and rubbed the edges of each of the paper circles. Some splatters on the page with the Gold tied it all together.

For the texture, I was super keen to use the gold / white twine included in the kit. So I wrapped it loosely around and within the circles. This was super easy - I was able to hook it behind the ornaments that were popped up on foam and then go back and tack it down in a few spots with glue. For a little more texture I did use some Staz On Black to stamp some messy circles in the background and added some gold sequins and black enamel dots around the circles too - these last few items are from my stash.

I finished the layout off by matting the whole thing on some of the Bazzil Cardstock, Kraft in the kit (which I also used to mat my photo) and a few more Nuvo Mica Mist, Antique Gold splatters. My title is part of one of the branding strips from papers in the kit - love Kaisercraft for their branding strips. So useful!

Ever been inspired by an embellishment shape? Give it a go! If there are hearts in your kit - add way too many hearts (in a good way) all over your page or better yet, cluster your embellishments into a big background heart shape. If you are keen on florals - consider sketching and fussy cutting some black and white stems or leaves to tuck and peek from behind the florals of the kit you are working with. So many possibilities - embrace the shape ... and the shine, and the texture!

February Kit, Cards with Cathy

It's Cathy back to share some more ideas for the February Kit, featuring Vicki Boutin's All The Good Things. There is so much to love about this collection. I am a huge fan of the paper and the stamp and die set. The hanging lights on chains is fabulous!

For this post, I created 3 very different cards using the papers, the paper clips, Stamp and Die Set 1, and the Mixed Media Sticker Set.

First up is one I created on a Distress Oxide background and used just the arrow die cut.

No fancy technique for these backgrounds, I just smooshed my ink pads onto my craft mat, misted them and then smooshed my cardstock on them.

I used the arrow die and cut out my pieces first. I then used the script stamp from the set and stamped over the entire card front in Black Archival.

I fussy cut out the flowers from a 12X12 sheet and then stamped the saying in three spots, this stamp is great for being able to stamp the words one at a time. I used an exacto  knife to cut the edge of the large rose and then just curled it up a bit.

First card complete

The second card is probably my favorite. I loved the stamp, the background paper makes me swoon and I watched Eileen Hull do some foiling today and I knew I has the perfect paper that needed foil accents.

I stamped the image in Archival Black and let it dry. I then went over spots with my glue pen. Once that was dry, I placed the piece of foil over it and burnished it on.

Mine is not perfect, I didn't want it solid, I wanted it to look a bit aged.

I used one of the Mixed Media Stickers layered on another of my fave pieces of paper from this collection, foiled the edges and attached it with foam tape.

 And for my last card....I used a bunch of the off cuts from my layout and from my other cards. 

I went with bright and cheery on this one. I just used strips of paper and cut the little tails on each end and layered them up. My middle sentiments are from the mixed media set, just love the watercolour look.

These little birds are paper clips, just trimmed down the clip part so it fit on the edge of my sentiment. How cute is that little bluebird and the design on his wings is so pretty.

Tucked under the edges are more good words from the sticker set.

Wow! What a great new collection from Vicki Boutin. Head on over to the Scrap Shotz store and get signed up for these fantastic kits to keep you creating!

Have a great Valentine's Day everyone! <3