Wednesday Morning Scrapbooking 28th Oct

Time for another sneak peek of this weeks Scrapping Class to be held at Hooked on Scrapbooking, Edith Street Innisfail. The theme is Heritage or Family Tradition. I Have used a range of papers from Basic Grey "Mellow". The tree is designed by me and features heart shaped leaves. I have used a large 8 x 10" photo cropped a little on the first page and two standard 4 x 6" for the second page. As usual this layout can be adapted to suit your own size of photos and other various themes such as outdoor, autumn, gardening. I look forward to seeing you in class.

Lv Sharyn

Waterfall cards

Don't you just love Waterfall cards, from beginning to end they are so much fun.

Card Recipe:

STAMPS: Great Friend

CARD: Purely Pomegranite, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White

INKS: Purely Pomegranite, Wild Wasabi

ACCESSORIES: Crop-a-dile, ribbon, linen thread, scoring blade for personal paper trimmer, white brads, stamp-a-ma-jig

INSTRUCTIONS:

The waterfall piece is cut at 23 x 5cm, and scored at 5, 7, 9, 11cm. The four stamped squares are 5cm and the mats are cut at 5 1/2 cm. Remember to place the tape only on the bottom where the last square is positioned.

For any further instructions you can email me at ascorsi@bigpond.com .

Lv Sharyn

Tea bag folding

Hi fellow crafters,

I have a little card here for you to help inspire those X'mas ideas. The tree is just formed from a series of teabag folds. Starting with a square of 7cm then 6cm, 5cm, 4cm, and lastly 3cm at the top. In a envelope the tree sits perfectly flat, but when put on display it really pops to give the branches a lifelike look. I have kept the rest of the card fairly simple just using ribbon and a christmas rub-on. The colour combination I have used is Always Artichoke, Rose Red, and Baja Breeze.

Lv Sharyn

One for the Boys

Just a quick post to show you a card using Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black and Pacific Point (not my favourite colour but I'm learning to use it). The Skull stamp is a small one used from Stamp It. I've used my trusty old dymo labeller for the Happy Birthday. The Large Skull has been cut from the Cricut machine using Indy Art cartridge and coated with Crystal Effects. Enjoy.

Lv Sharyn

Yummy

With soaring temperatures here in North Queensland, and dust from storms reaching us also, I thought we could use a little cooling off. What a cute card for a girl of any age. Remember that ice-cream comes in any flavour these days so you could always do it for a boy using Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue (banana, mint, and blueberry flavoured ice-cream). That sounds so yummy I might do one for myself.
If you don't already own a scallop circle punch this is just another reason why you should. By cutting off 5 scallops it works so well as a scoop of ice-cream. Notice the grid technique for the waffle cone. It is just done using a bone scorer and ruler.
I have used for the sprinkles a stamp from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds (which is unfortunately discontinued), but you could dot in sprinkles with a writer pen. I have also dotted a little Crystal Effects to make them glossy.
Happy Birthday sentiment is from Occasional greetings.
Colours used are:
Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel. How Delicious it all sounds.
Enjoy

Lv Sharyn

Makeesha's Sketch Challenge 13

Thanks Keesh for such a fabulous sketch yet again. They always manage to get my creative juices flowing. I really felt like doing a pretty card and I've had a thing for So Safforn at the moment.

CARD RECEIPE:

STAMPS: Soft Summer, Weathered Background

INKS: Pink Pirouette, So Saffron, Staz on Black

CARDSTOCK: Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, So Saffron, Watercolour paper, A Walk in the Park designer paper.

PUNCHES: Scallop border, Scallop Square, Slit

ACCESSORIES: watercolour crayons (regal rose, so saffron, certainly celery, close to coco, bordering blue) Aqua painter, pink pirouette striped grograin, linen thread, dimensionals, sponges

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Scallop border punch is used down the side of a folded Very Vanilla A5 card.
• A narrow strip of pink pirouette is placed underneath this.
• A piece of so saffron is used to cover the front of the card and stamped with the weathered background in so saffron and edges are sponged as well.
• cut 3 square scallops from pink and place an even spaces down right side of card.
• cut 3 x 3cm squares from designer paper and glue to square scallops.
• stamp using staz on black the flower from Soft Summer stamp set onto watercolour paper twice, and colour with crayons and aqua painter. It is hard to see in the photo but I have gone around lightly with bordering blue following the edge of the stamped image to create a soft shadow. Sponge with pink around the edges of watercolour paper.
• from second image cut and mount the flowers and leaves onto first.
• stick this to a peice of pink with a wide border down the bottom.
• use the slit punch to make a hole for the ribbon. Tie ribbon off with some linen thread or cotton. Place on front of card. See photo for placement.

Enjoy

Lv Sharyn

More X'mas Cards

Hi fellow cardmakers,

I have a couple of more X'mas cards for you today. I have borrowed this stamp set off a friend (thx Brenda) only now I have fallen in love with it and must have one of my own.

The second card is done using the colours of So Saffron and Brocade Blue. I have actually cased this colour scheme off the Splitcoast Stampers site, the designers name is Lori Boyd. Notice how the background has been stamped first with Whisper white and Brocade blue before being embossed with the Cuttlebug. I have stamped the tree in versamark onto gloss cardstock and ran a brayer inked with Brocade Blue backwards and forwards on the surface. This resist technique has a real magic feel to it when your stamped image starts to materialize from the card.

My first card uses Riding Hood Red and Garden green, colours that are pretty traditional as far as Christmas goes. The only difference here is that before embossing my Whisper white cardstock through the Cuttlebug, I inked the the inside of the folder with my Red ink pad. I rubbed it on the surface that has the brand name. When it cames out the snowfakes remain white but the debossed area has changed colour. A little messy but very effective.

Enjoy

Lv Sharyn