Break time

I will be drawing the Prize draw at the end of the month.

I will be having a break for 2 weeks starting today so nothing but the winner will be posted here .

Enjoy
Happy Crafting!

How to make circle netted flowers

Hello all. Sorry its a bit late but here is my Wednesday how to:

Last of the three embellishment videos.
4min 59sec long

You will need:

• Cardstock (can be scraps. plain or patterned)
• scissors
• Fiskars circle squeeze punches
• Netting from supermarket fruit packaging
• Brads
• White acrylic paint

Have fun!

Show-n-tell day

Here I am with my portrait painting of my kiddos…..

I haven’t done much but believe it or not its taken a while to get there.

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I also made some lollipop flowers. Thanks to Grande_latte at Tally Scrapper for the tutorial on their blog. Great way to do them!

And here are my yellow rose friendship banner.
large rose is 6inches wide!!!

I’ve had heaps of fun experimenting with those roses. I’ve made many now and still love doing it. I used Fiskars lace boarder punch on this banner too.

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Oh and I’ve been experimenting with photoshop…

I took a photo of a blured butterfly and instead of deleting it like I normally would have I experimented with it.

• I tinted the photo red.
• put a sponge filter over the background.
• put in the title and used fancy swirl lettering for the boarders.

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Scrapbooking? yep!!!!

Very experimental page lol had fun doing it! Using prima carstock and flowers.

My kids love making things with their friends! More prima carstock and journalling note page.

I loved doing this page. more experimenting with crushing my own gardenflowers directly on the page. (bottom right corner) – “natural inks” lol I used a bit of prima carstock here and velvet leaves.

More Prima carstock and journalling note pad page.

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Some storage ideas for you….
Foam packaging, squewer sticks and hooks.

And a glass-less frame with cardboard backing with plastic hooks on the front to hold my embellishments.

Heaps of fun!

 

take care and happy scrapping!!!

Cardstock roses….

Hey you have to check these out!

Do you believe they are handmade by me?
lol
Yes I did! If you want to check out the video go to Fiskars Crafts and read my post there.

OOOOHHHHH I got to make some other types of flowers too. I’m addicted!!!

Sketch #6 – 1 photo layout

This layout could also be turned into a two photo layout if wanted. Its a nice simple one. Sorry no layout example done.

updated page

I have just updated my hand cut stamp page gallery.

Link is at the top of the blog. Thanks for looking!

Todays how to – making Swirl embellishments

Todays How to is a video on how to make your own clear swirl embellishments for your scrapbooking.

1 min 45 sec long

You can stick them on a project with clear glue, brads, eyelets or foam adhesive with a flower ontop to hide it.

Below are examples of where I used them on my layouts….

Have fun making your new embellishments.
Happy crafting.

Gen 13:2
Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Show-n-tell day!

I’ve still been creating and no slowing down here!

First we have the art……

The above is having a go at a new technique I learned on Wetcanvas.com with watercolour paints. Its using and painting negative space to have a painting. The lesson is found here.

I also did a lino cut of some sand dunes. Well they ended up more like wood grain to me but no problem I can still use it with my scrapbooking. I printed it onto toned cardstock with two different colours of inks at once. With groovy results! This was the print making challenge for Feb from Wetcanvas.com click here to view it and see what others have done.

The above is the finished painting of “the little knitter”. I’m really happy with her and hope to do more paintings in the future in the process I did. ie: dead layer first then colour wash layer afterwards.

I am also starting to paint a portrait of my kiddos.
This is my photo referance….

it is fully a photoshop job on this photo. Have a look at my process of painting it on wetcanvas.com I have a WIP thread there explaining how I’m approaching this painting. I’ll be doing it with acrylic paints on 20×24 inch canvas.

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Scrapbooking:

Above is my latest page of my altered calender. I’m keeping the original photos and original text and covering the actuall calender part up. The black represents death. the green represents life the bling represents the tears of Christ.
Using hand stamped cardstock and hand made flowers. With hand made clear glitter swirls.

The above is another page of the same album.
I used hand acrylic paint stamped cardstock. Plasterers/joining tape and other odd stuff from my stash.

I started my own art journal too. Its an altered cd holder.
here I used cuttle bug butterfly and flower cut out on plain cardstock with plasterers/joining tape over the cardstock. Cloud9 letter stickers. scrap bit of netting from grocery packaging and a bit of paper with watersolouable pencil on it. Under all that I had sanded the tin then finger painted on it with white acrylic paint. I’ve sealed it with Modge Podge.

Sketch#5: 1-2 photo layout

My next door neighbour (a brand new scrapbooker) did this layout:

 

I did a 2 photo layout based on the same sketch.

How to make butterfly Embellishments

Here is a video on how to make some Butterfly Embellishments.

You will need:

• Fiskars Texture plate
• Fiskars texture tool
• Fiskars Ultra Shape express
• Fiskars Butterfly template
• Some mesh bags (plastic) – the type that food comes in at the supermarket.
• Paperclips
• glitter glue
• Adhesive (foam and tape)

Skills learnt:

• Enhancing an embellishment
• readying an embellishment before use

Video is: 6min 58sec long

 

Thank you for watching.