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Fall in Love with the Fall issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine

September 15, 2020 No Comments

The Fall issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine will be showing up in your mailboxes, at your Local Scrapbooker Stores, and on Newsstands! The Fall issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine is PACKED with paper crafting, card making, scrapbooking, photography tips and tricks, organizational inspiration and so much more! Here is a little taste of some of the gorgeous cards you will find! These leaf cards were designed by Emma Mills Mumford. How stunning! Emma was able to blend the ink on her cards perfectly using the Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blender Brushes. WOWZERS! Get your copy of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine today! Happy crafting and happy FALL everyone! PS – Speaking of getting organized-have you entered to win a $500.00 shopping spree with Best Craft Organizer yet? What are waiting for? It is so darn easy to enter your name to win win win!

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Picket Fence Studios – The Hen House and Tracy McLennon

June 25, 2020 No Comments

Hello crafty friends! Tracy McLennon here on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. Today I have such a fun little card to share featuring a cute little stamp set from Picket Fence Studios and coordinating dies. I also used some of my favourite Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L products and Ranger inks. I started by creating a simple blended background for my card using white cardstock, a Ranger blending tool & mat, and Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks. I was going for a moody sunset kind of backdrop. To add a slightly distressed border I stamped the Ranger Tim Holtz Early Espresso Distress Oxide ink onto my mat, misted it with water, and then drug the edges of the blended background through it. Let dry. This is also when I stamped the card sentiment in the bottom left-hand corner of the card using Ranger Archival ink. I stamped the super cute…

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Picket Fence Meets Brother ScanNCut

June 11, 2020 2 Comments

Hello everyone! Kerry Engel here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Blog! I’ve been looking at stamps differently lately. I like to see if there are ways that I can deconstruct the different design elements so that I can cut it apart and create layers. The Beauty and Song stamp by Picket Fence Studios is a stamp that has a lot of opportunities to go a bit crazy with layers. Here’s how I put this one together. Step 1. Stamp the image on cardstock and use the Brother ScanNCut to precisely cut the stamped image from the cardstock. TIP: This stamp has some open ends. The Brother ScanNCut scans the outside edge and requires a black edge. The opened-ended leaves on this stamp needed to be closed in. The Brother ScanNCut did an amazing job of cutting out this complex stamp. I was suitably impressed with how it cut perfectly…

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A BIG Hello with Beauty and Song!

June 7, 2020 No Comments

A BIG hello from Kim! Just popping in to share a quick look at some inky fun I was having, that will get added to a card base to send off to a friend! I recently got this new Picket Fence stamp set: Beauty & Song . I love all the details and look forward to using it lots more. It’s a big stamp, so you could easily use the entire image of parts of it. For this project, I stamped the sentiment on a piece of computer paper, cut around it and added some repositional adhesive to the back. Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L makes a great adhesive with the perfect amount of tack, that is easily removed when needed. I positioned the sentiment to mask the area where it would eventually be permanently stamped. I stamped my main image over the mask using a stamp positioner. Using my Life…

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Paper Glaze by Picket Fence Studios – WIN WIN WIN!

May 20, 2020 6 Comments

WINNER UPDATE – Congratulations to Zelda Smith – this week’s lucky winner! Hello WEDNESDAY! YAHOOOO!!!! It’s the most wonderful time of the week!!!! Okay, you seriously need to win all these fabulous Paper Glazes! Paper Glaze is a smooth, creamy medium used to create texture and shimmer. Use on your paper projects by pushing through a stencil, dabbing onto die-cuts and/or a stamped image, or watering down to use as watercolor or wash. Once dry Paper Glaze can be colored with dye or alcohol ink. Techniques to try with Paper Glaze: * Mixing colors for unique shades. * Adding ink refill for different hues. * Dropping alcohol ink on top of dried Paper Glaze. * Blending dye ink or watercolor on dried Paper Glaze. * Adding to glitter cardstock. Prize package includes one of each Agapantha Purple Cornflower Blue Fern Green Leaf Green Peony Pink Marigold Orange Daffodil Yellow Brown…

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Girlfriends Make the Best Accessories with Kerry Engel

April 23, 2020 3 Comments

Art Impressions stamps capture real life for so many women. The confident ladies strutting their stuff in the Girlfriends Make the Best Accessories stamp reminds me of me and my friends when we go for lunch. I wanted to make the ladies a bit glitzy so I used the paper piecing technique on their sunglasses and purses. A little glitter goes a long way! I also tried something different for me, I applied Ranger Tim Holtz Oxide inks onto foiled Therm O Web Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates paper. It turned out really well. The inked and foiled background looks like a Vegas night sky. Here’s how I created this look: 1. Stamp the Art Impressions Girlfriend stamp on watercolor paper and fussy-cut the ladies. 2. Stamp the Ranger Oxide Inks on a non-porous surface and add water, using a paintbrush paint your stamped image 3. Stamp the image a second…

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Koala Tags designed by Kerry Engel

April 9, 2020 No Comments

The fabulous Kerry Engel has been playing with Elizabeth Craft Designs dies and WE LOVE the results! Check out these adorable Koala Tags! Kerry designed the tags using Elizabeth Craft Designs Dies Elizabeth Craft Designs Bear Hug Sentiment Stamps Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink Therm O Web iCraft Mixed Media Adhesive Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blending Brushes LOVE LOVE LOVE! Kerry is a MORNING crafter! Every morning before she heads off to work she takes some time in her craft room. Once or twice a week she shares what she has been working on, within the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Instagram Stories. Be sure to follow us on Instagram so you won’t miss what is cooking at Kerry’s house! CLICK HERE Stay safe and well everyone!

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Elizabeth Craft Designs Planner with Kerry Engel

March 12, 2020 3 Comments

I have made 2020 the year that I take the planner plunge. I have two planners going at the moment; one for every day and a Vacation scrapbook-planner for an upcoming trip. For my vacation planner, I’m using the Elizabeth Craft Designs Champaign colored album with the powder blue inside. I like the pop of blue on the inside! I have a confession to make. After only a few weeks of creating planner pages… I’m totally addicted! I am loving the challenge of figuring out how many different ways I can use the dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs Planner Essential line. There are pages, tags and many embellishment dies to choose from. You can create planner pages and tags out of a lot of different materials. I came home recently with this fabulous paper shopping bag: I knew the minute I saw it that I had to reuse the map…

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Day #2 of 12 Days of Giving

December 13, 2019 139 Comments

Let the PARTY BEGIN! HO HO HO! How the contest works. Each day for 12 days in a row we will be sharing four or five prize packages with you. There will be 58 WINNERS! Visit the prize sponsor on Facebook (LIKE THEIR PAGE) and say hello from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine or CSM. Please take the time to visit our sponsors. Without our amazing sponsors, this contest would not be possible! Names will be drawn randomly and you can win more than once if you enter your name each and every day! Winners will be announced on Dec 24th. Just in time for Christmas! Scroll down to see the prizes – to find the links to visit the sponsors AND to enter your name to win today’s prizes. Day#2 of 12 Starts NOW! Our first prize is from Picket Fence Studios Set of 10 – Life-Changing Blender Brush set from Picket Fence…

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Let’s Shake Our Tail Feathers Stamp Set by Picket Fence Studios

November 15, 2019 2 Comments

Design team member Kim Gowdy had some serious fun playing with the Let’s Shake Our Tail Feathers stamp set by Picket Fence Studios! Check out this GORGEOUS card she designed. Here is the Let’s Shake Our Tail Feathers stamp set by Picket Fence Studios that she used. She paired that set with the Picket Fence Studios The Hen House stamp set and coordinating die. That chicken makes a perfect peacock! Kim used Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks to color the card. The ink was applied using Picket Fence Studios The Life Changing Blender Brushes. Everything on Kim’s card was adhered using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L including 3D Foam Square to pop up the peacock! Here is another look. It’s Friday night! A perfect time to “shake those feathers”.