Check it out, Nicole Wright here with a promise of spring for Tuesday with the Team! I wanted to create a lot of texture so why not stamp on canvas. I created this 5×5 card using a few of my favorite Sizzix dies including the Birch Thinlit die. I used various Sizzix dies to create the foliage including Tattered Pinecone, Layered Leaf and Tattered Leaves. I love inking up these filigree metal leaf charms from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies. Ranger’s Peeled Paint Distress Paint is perfect for distressing these metal charms. I created my own leaves with watercolor paper and an assortment of Ranger Distress Spray Stains peeled paint, lucky clover and twisted citron. I inked the leaves with Ranger Distress Inks peeled paint, lucky clover and twisted citron right onto the canvas. The Birch die is cut onto watercolour paper where I inked and blotted with Ranger Distress Inks…
Walking into the Sizzix booth, my heart pounds with excitement…the displays always impress! Although Sizzix is branching out into the fabric industry, the focus is paper crafting. Along with embossing folders, Sizzix is probably most well-known for dies and die cutting. The Tim Holtz “Alterations” line is still very popular. There is a new Vagabond 2, the electronic version of a Big Shot. Accompanying the Vagabond 2 are new tools and products, even storage cases for embossing folders and dies. The Big Shot has a new friend! A storage caddy! It fits on the side and attaches to the Big Shot. We all like to stay organized and this caddy will surely help! Sizzix has also released patterned paper pads that fit perfectly through the Big Shot and Vagabond without cutting down to size. Cutting pads are now in 4 different colours…so you can’t lose them on your studio desk…
Sizzix has teamed up with Echo Park Paper Co! The result are some fantastic dies you are going to fall in love with that coordinate perfectly with Echo Park Co! paper products! Just in time for Valentines Day! CLICK HERE to see more!
Check out Tracy McLennon’s take on our Dec Sketchy Card Challenge featuring BoBunny and Sizzix! Tracy created the card using the BoBunny Altitude Collection Along with the Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits Holiday Green die The entire card was based on our monthly sketch over at It’s a Sketchy Challenge! We would like to see your take on this sketch – CLICK HERE JOIN THE FUN! Merry Card Making!
Hello everyone – Tracy McLennon here – the newest member of the Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine Design Team! I know it’s not often that someone would come across a violin that they could make pretty. But I will admit that is one of the perks of having a band/music teacher husband that has other music teacher friends. It came up in conversation one night about how sometimes you collect broken and unusable instruments, instead of throwing them away. Then, there was mention of this 3/4 size violin, unusable and ready for the garbage. I put a stop to that! I love to decorate for the holidays! My style is very classic, greens, reds and golds. So I knew what direction I would go with this piece. I started with a light sanding all over, so that the paint would cover a little easier. It took about 3 coats of the cream…
Check out these cards design team member Nicole Wright designed featuring Sizzix and Ranger Ink! Visit Nicole’s Blog for all the details! LOVE IT! Merry Christmas
Hi, it’s Connie Nichol here today with a scrapbook layout I created using the November sketch from the Canadian Scrapbooker sketchy challenge and some of the new Creative Memories products. A couple of years ago I participated in a hummingbird photography workshop in British Columbia. It was an absolutely amazing experience and I have enough hummingbird photographs to last me several lifetimes. I used patterned paper from the Creative Memories ‘Brights’ designer paper pack and the Bubbles Border Maker to dress up my paper edges a little bit. The Creative Memories Border Maker System is very unique – you slide your paper into a positioning guide where it is firmly held by a magnet and then you move a punch cartridge stepwise down the paper edge. The cartridges are interchangeable so you can easily swap out different cartridges for different borders. To make my picture pop, I used dimensional foam adhesive…
We have sooooooooooo many things go be thankful for!!!!! I have so enjoyed these past few weeks of THANK YOU cards that we have been featuring on our blog! Thank you Kim Gowdy for creating this card featuring May Arts Ribbon, DCWV and Sizzix! SUPPLIES: DCWV cork, Sizzix dies, May Arts twine, Stampin’ Up! cardstock, Beacon Adhesives. The DCWV cork is so much fun to work with! Mix it with some Sizzix dies and some of our favourite May Arts twine and you’ve got t made! Happy Thankful Thursday everyone
Monday morning is here and we are grateful and thankful for all Core’dinations ColorCore cardstock and Sizzix do for the paper craft industry! Connie Nichol has paired these two great companies up – and they do look great together SUPPLIES: Core’ dinations ColorCore cardstock and sanding block, Sizzix embossing folders, dies and stamps, Clearsnap ink, May Arts ribbon, Tombow Xtreme adhesive. Have a happy Monday everyone!
Hello everyone! Kelly Klapstein here to share my layout based on the November Sketchy challenge. Here is the November sketch: This Fall has been so beautiful in Alberta, and I snapped so many photos of the amazing golden colours of trees. I just had to scrap them! The paper collection and leaf die cuts are from Momenta. I used my Sizzix Big Shot to die cut and emboss these pretty leaves. I used Tombow Dual Brush pens to hand letter the title “The Golden Hours” and write the journaling. I also used the Tombow pens to create a watercolour effect on the background, which is Canadian Scrapbooker Superstock. Click HERE to shop for this awesome cardstock…which is super heavy weight and great for all projects. I used some Stampin’ Up! stamps and Clearsnap ColorBox Frost White pigment ink to add a distressed effect to the outer edges of the paper. My…
