Celebrate Card

Here is the card that we learned about at camp and here is a mini- tutorial on it.

It's just adorable!!!!

Quilling is not for the faint of heart.. but these flowers are awesome.

Precut your leaves from your favorite die cut machine and special flower. There are many in the market.  You'll want to gather the flowers in the different sizes and roll up the edges. You'll glue the littlest into the next size up keep it squeezed together.

It will look something like this. From here you would lay it aside and let the glue be setting. 

Here you can see that you'll want to roll the edges. Tuck in some flowers and leaves. The coordinating papers really help so you can flip them over to alternate the patterns

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Here you can see I placed a doily and used foam tape to add depth and dimension, so that later I could tuck in those pretty tags. Also go ahead throw on the bling. That step will then be out of the way.

 

Here you can see more of the round scalloped embellishment with the tags tucked in. Also layer a smaller circle on top of the scalloped piece.

Below you can see what  I used to paint the pretty chippie, from Creative Embellishments.

Here are some close ups for you:

Here you can see the 2 tags used. Tie some pretty ribbon to make a bow and adhere some pretty metal embellishments.

As you can see .. tucking in various elements adds depth to this wonderful card.

Thanks for looking and Happy Scrappn!

SOUS - CIRCLES

Sad to say this is my last post for Stuck On U Sketches!
boooooooooohoooooo.
What a fun great team. I am so grateful for my time there.
Our challenge this week is all about CIRCLES!!!!!!!!!!
Hop on over to SOUS to check out what our fabulous girls created.
Here's my contribution:

First you will want to start with a foundation page. Then pull out a nice contrasting piece of paper. Choose your favorite punch and work your way around the edges. You'll want to position the picture where it looks best for you. For me I was going for a circular draw. I made the arrows lead the viewer into the picture.

and now a few close ups. A simple page but full of wonderful smiles!

From here you can see a close up of the gears and arrows for a more masculine feel.

This is my son and my sister  taken several years ago! 

Here you assemble the gears and flowers to anchor the photo down and to represent masculine and feminine within the photo. Choose complimentary colors to match the photo and papers. Choose your favorite glue to adhere your papers and embellishments.

So there ya have it. Super simple but dynamic page to really focus on the photo and to satisfy both the masculine and feminine.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great summer! Thank you so much to LEAH AND NANNE! You ladies are fabulous!!
Remember to smile and Happy Scrappn!

Cereal Box Fun Tut for Scrap That!

Hello there! I'm excited to be here to share a little tut with you. Isn't Srap That! an amazing place to learn new things!  
Have you had a chance to check out our hop?? It start's here! 
The supplies you will need for this tut: one cereal box, one punch, Gesso, foam brush or something to paint with, ink, and die cutting machine to emboss with, embossing folder, Heat tool- optional.

1. Take your punch that you want to experiment with, punch it out and then paint it with Gesso. 

2. Now if you want to hurry it along just a little bit you can use your heat tool to dry it faster.

3. Now that you are pretty sure its dry take your emboss folder and whichever die cutting machine you have. I used my Cuttlebug.

Here you can see I am feeding it in using my Genius platform system. It's pretty awesome.

4. Look at that! Really cool right?  However....

I had other folders that I thought I should try. I couldn't stop and you might not be able to either!! 

Experiment and play til you see something that you really like. I've included some examples. I did try to restrain myself and not use every folder I owned. 

Now if you notice this butterfly comes in our main kit. It was a really nice thin material. 

5. Now get out your ink and lightly go over your embossed items. I even rubbed two different colors on one of them. I did get excited about the inks too. 

Then I had another thought!!! What if after the Gesso I went ahead and INKED the item. I used my Tim Holtz Metallic Distress Stain from my stash.. to paint the butterfly and THEN I embossed it. 

Here is the end result. I love how this turned out as well.  I think there is a place for both methods! 

What do you think??

Here I used both creations on my project using the Main Kit Only for this layout.

Thank you for looking. I'm running a challenge over at Scrap That! Come join me for a chance to win a beautiful prize. 

Happy Scrappn!!