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Watercolor Techniques with Pigment Ink

March 29, 2018 1 Comment

Cathie Allan is on our web show today playing with her Clearsnap pigment inks. Cathie has a super cool coloring technique that will have you watercoloring like a pro using….PIGMENT INK! Yep you read that correctly! Grab a coffee and check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7hlcM1WdAw&t=5s Here are the supplies that Cathie used Heartfelt Creations stamps and coordinating dies Clearsnap pigment inks Clearsnap Archival ink and Top Boss embossing ink Clearsnap stylus and white foam tips Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock The Cathie Allan Position-it 2 by Ecstasy CraftsBe sure to follow Creative Scrapbooker Magazine on YouTube for hundreds of scrapbooking ideas – CLICK HERE Happy Scrapbooking Everyone!Subscribe today to Creative Scrapbooker Magazine – HOLD IT! READ IT! LOVE IT!

In Cards

Aloha featuring Heartfelt Creations and Stabilo

June 16, 2017 3 Comments

Hello everyone Kerry Engel here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. I’ve loved plumeria since I first went to Hawaii in (cough, cough) 1974. I just couldn’t resist Heartfelt Creations Plumeria and their Tropical Paradise Collection. It just makes me smile. It reminds of Hawaiian leis, beaches and Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles” (it was 1974, remember?). To create the flowers I stamped one set in pink (and one in orange) Clearsnap ColorBox ink. I left everything on the stamp positioner so that I could stamp on top and then emboss once I was done coloring. I embossed with Clearsnap ColorBox clear embossing powder.I coloured the stamps with Stabilo Carbothello chalk pastel pencils. I blended the colours with a blending nib. I did the same thing with the Parrot. I followed the instructions on the Heartfelt Creations website on how to put together the plumeria. https://www.heartfeltcreations.us/video/150/ez-steps-to-create-plumerias I also highlighted the flowers…

In stamping

Technique Tasters Web Show #98 – Resist Colouring using Inks, Stencils and Stamps

January 12, 2017 4 Comments

Cathie Allan is our web show creating one heck of a cool background! CHECK OUT THOSE circles! SUPPLIES:Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock, Clearsnap ink, stylus, white foam tips, Art Screens, Smooch Accent tips and Top Boss ink, Art Impressions stamps and dies, Sizzix dies and Big Shot die cutting machine, Tombow Dual Brush pens, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. You seriously have to grab a coffee and watch this resist colouring in action – you are going to LOVE IT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEZVTaWy0g Happy Scrapbooking everyone! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!

In Christmas

Christmas Stair Art with Cathie Allan

January 5, 2017 7 Comments

Cathie Allan here. I just wanted to share a little of my “Christmas Stair Art” with you. I have been creating “Stair Art” with my rubber stamps for many years. I started creating these on 6X6 blocks of wood. I would use my stamps and acrylic paint to create them and I place them in the corners of my stairs. These have always made me smile. Last year I started creating them with Superstock, which I fortify and now they are “so much faster” to create. No prepping of the wood. No waiting for sealer to dry and they look AWESOME. I am sharing a couple of the “older, on the wooden block” ones that I made in previous years (if you look real close you can see that these were done in 1997)and the one that I created this year. This year’s is all done with Impression Obsession Stamps,…

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Tuesday with the Team with Cathie Allan Featuring Art Impressions and Clearsnap

July 19, 2016 No Comments

Stamping with your Dies by Cathie Allan Mediums and tools that multi-task always have a special place in my creative heart. I totally enjoy looking at my creative tools, toys and mediums from various sides to see what I can get them to do for me other than the “intended use” suggested by the manufacturer. For this blog post I decided to play with the “Heart Clasp Die” from Art Impressions. This die makes a lovely wrap for a card but by joining two of these dies I was able to wrap my scrapbook page and then of course wrapped my photo. I then took this die a “stamp step” forward by applying ink to the backside of the die I thus was able to use it as a stamp. Look at that die “go”!! To begin I made the Art Impressions, “Heart Clasp Die” perform as a stamp. Apply…

In Layouts

Tuesday with the Team with Cathie Allan

May 17, 2016 No Comments

SUCH A HANDSOME “DEXTER” PUPPY! By Cathie Allan Here is a quick and fun layout using some “timeless stamping tools”. I kept the steps for this “altered scrapbook layout” simple and fast. After stamping the “Line Background” stamp from Frog’s Whiskers Ink several times on our Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock (my favorite cardstock for my projects) in Clearsnap ColorBox Blackbird, Fluid Chalk ink I added super quick coloring with my Tombow pens. Quess what? I have been stamping a long, long time and my Tombow pens are years old and still are full of ink and ready to go. The capping system is so good on these particular pens that you will get every bit of ink out of them so long as you put the caps back on. I love this! I did not do any “fancy coloring” I just added color. After that I used my Clearsnap ColorBox…

In Contests

Why Not Win Wednesday with CLEARSNAP

March 13, 2013 73 Comments

WINNER UPDATE – Congratulations to Gail Richard – this weeks lucky winner! It is Wednesday and we love giving stuff away EVERY SINGLE WEDNESDAY!!!!! This week we are giving away this inky prize package from the wonderful people over at Clearsnap. It contains everything to create a gorgeous Cathie Allan project! The project itself is stepped out in Canadian Scrapbooker Basics Volume 6 which we have included in this prize package! YOUR GONNA LOVE IT! This prize could be yours! Why not eh???? Visit Clearsnap on facebook – CLICK HERE – Say hello from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine! To enter to win this contest leave a comment right here under this blog post. You have until Friday March 15th at midnight to enter! Good luck everyone!