Happy Mother’s Day! We hope you have time this weekend to do take some photos, do some scrapbooking and record those wonderful family memories. The May sketch is up in our Sketchy Gallery ready to inspire you! I was lucky enough to spend some time scrapbooking on National Scrapbook Day and designed 2 layouts based on this sketch. The first one features the Simple Stories “Heart” collection. I did a little brush lettering with the Tombow Fudenosuke soft tip brush pen to add “you have my” to the title. For the second layout, I rotated the sketch a quarter turn clockwise and used Fancy Pants Designs “Me-Ology” collection. I’m trying to scrapbook more photos of myself this year, and the ME-ology line is perfect! I used the Tombow Monotwin to doodle on the layout and add some interest with black lines. The Monotwin has 2 tips of different sizes…
Kelly Klapstein is BACK AT IT AGAIN with the watercolour techniques! WE LOVE IT! Check out this YOU INSPIRE ME card SUPPLIES: Core’dinations ColorCore cardstock and vellum, Momenta Groove Tool, metal charms, stencils and patterned paper, Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies, Tombow Dual Brush pens, Xtreme Adhesive and foam tape, Clearsnap ink, May Arts twine, Westcott scissors and trimmer, unknown watercolour paper. Featuring products by: To see how Kelly created this cards WATCH Web Show #89: Watercolour Stencil and Stamps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTkGaj7zM4 Have a wonderful weekend everyone! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
Hello Everyone! I have been having a lot of fun lately with the new Tim Holtz Distress Crayons from Ranger. You might know that I’ve been slightly obsessed with watercolour and creating watercolour effects with different products. So I used the Distress Crayons to design this Mother’s Day card. Here are the Tim Holtz (Ranger) supplies I started with to create the stamped flowers: Distress Watercolor Cardstock, Waterbrush, Collage Brush, Distress Collage Medium, the Distress Crayon (Seedless Preserves). I brushed the Distress Collage Medium on the Distress Watercolor paper using the Collage Brush. Just remember to clean your brush well right after and don’t let the medium dry on it. Let the medium on the paper dry completely and then scribble some distress crayon colour onto it. Why did I add the medium first? I find the Distress Crayons move better and dissolve into a watercolour more easily, but…
Happy Tuesday! Tracy McLennon here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog! Life In Color, what a great name for a collection…nicely played Simple Stories. That being said, I love the colours in this collection, so vibrant and rich. I have always loved earthy tones, I think it comes from the fact that I have a red tinge to my hair…pinks and purples just do not work for me. But since Sean and his beautiful girls came into my life, they have brought me an entire rainbow of colours I can now craft with! Now I’m living a Life In Color! Project Recipe: Simple Stories- Life In Color Collection – Patterned Papers, Cardstock Die Cuts, Stickers, Cardstock Stickers May Arts Ribbon- Yellow Burlap String Tombow Xtreme Adhesives tape runner Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock I love all of the bits and pieces available in this collection. I did some fussy cutting of the…
Kelly Klapstein was on our Technique Tasters – Web Show #88 – teaching how to create these beautiful watercolour cards! SUPPLIES: Core’dinations ColorCore cardstock, ART-C Groove Tool, Momenta patterned paper and stickers, Heartfelt Creations stamps, Tombow Dual Brush pens, Fudenosuke pen, Xtreme adhesive and foam tape, Clearsnap Smooch ink and ColorBox Fluid Chalk ink, May Arts twine, unknown watercolour paper, Westcott scissors and trimmer. Featuring products by: To see how Kelly created these cards WATCH Web Show #88: Scrapbooking with Watercolours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NUcQo9Hkwk Happy Scrapbooking everyone! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
Christy Riopel is on our show today teaching us how to use die cuts as stencils! Check out this layout she created SUPPLIES: FabScraps patterned paper, Stampin’ Up! cardstock, ink and adhesives, Elizabeth Craft Designs dies, Tombow Mono Liquid Adhesive. Photo by Rose Koziel Christy’s layout features products from our fabulosa sponsors! Watch this video to see how she created this layout from start to finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bre8y0asnwQ There are so many tips and trick in this video – you need to watch it – TRULY! Happy Scrapbooking everyone!
Hello! Kim here, just logging in to share my take on this month’s Sketchy Challenge! This month, for the most part, I stayed true to Kelly’s sketch. As always, a sketch is a fun place to start creating from…especially if your mojo is on hiatus. I pulled out my “A Year to Remember” collection from Creative Memories, and had fun going through the many different embellishments to find the ones that I felt worked best. I really like the colour palette of this collection, and look forward to pulling it out again. Here’s a detail shot of the banners. I cut between each banner, so I could add some texture and movement to it. I also curled and distressed the edge of some of my paper…I love texture and layers, but still need my pages to be flat enough to fit in my albums. Another layer I have added but…
Christy Riopel is on the show today sharing with us some tips and techniques for layering dies! Here is the layout she has created SUPPLIES: Simple Stories patterned paper, stickers and chipboard, Stampin’ Up! ink, stamps, cardstock and Big Shot die cutting machine, Elizabeth Craft Designs dies, Tombow Mono Liquid adhesive. Christy used products from these awesome companies. Want to see how she put this gorgeous project together and what specific products she used? Watch our latest web show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOZL5T4pYI Happy LAYERING everyone! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
Kelly Klapstein is back working with the Brother ScanNcut, Heartfelt Creations, FabScraps, Tombow, Clearsnap and May Arts Ribbon. Here is the easel card that she created SUPPLIES: Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies, FabScraps patterned paper, Brother ScanNCut electronic cutting machine, Clearsnap ink, Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine , Tombow Dual Brush pens and adhesive, May Arts Ribbon twine. Watch how she created this card from start to finish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXW8OV0vSg Happy Scrapbooking everyone! FOLLOW US on YOU-TUBE to see all our web shows SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
Whoooooo’s Sooooo Cute??!! By Cathie Allan I am so excited to share with you this layout that is a direct result of me working with Creative Scrapbooker Magazine on their “Technique Taster’s Show” that is broadcast by Shaw Television and then becomes part of the “library of web shows” that Creative Scrapbooker Magazine has. SUPPLIES: Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock, Clearsnap pigment ink, Art Screen, embossing powder, stylus and white foam tip, Art Impressions stamps and dies, May Arts ribbon, Tombow Dual Brush pens, Sizzix dies, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. My series of shows was a set of 3 different segments that you will get to see in just a few months. For each segment, I created a project where I stepped out some very fun and inky backgrounds that I believe you are going to love. I kept them easy and “colorful” and you will be able to use these…
