Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mini Album RS

Hello!


I made this mini album last week. It was quick and easy...and I like the results.

How I made it:

I used plastic cards (like from old memberships) to make sturdy font and back covers.


I made my own patterned papers so the mini album was really unique.
I started by making the background of my pages, I used Distress Ink and water; it’s one of my favorite techniques by Tim Holtz. Tap the inkpad directly on the craft sheet, spray some water and place your paper on that puddle to get wonderful results.


I used: spiced marmalade (orange) and broken china (blue) on every page.

I stamped some of the pages with flowers (Heroarts) and some words.


I added some shimmer to some pages: I stamped with Dusty Concord (purple) Distress ink and rub a bit of Perfect Pearls with a brush.


Cut photos to size. Ink borders with black StazOn; I wanted a big contrast with the colorful backgrounds I made.

I adhered 2 pages to make them stronger, and I only needed to work on one side without worrying about the back.


I was very careful to measure the first time I open the holes on one of the plastic cards to use it as a template for trimming and opening holes in place on every page using a Crop-A-Dile.


I cover the 2 plastic cards with my patterned papers, front and back, using glossy accents to make sure the cardstock was going to stick to the plastic, don’t forget to open the holes before gluing the other side.


I like large letters, so I used only the initials of my title, I inked them with some of the broken china Distress ink, using the ink blending tool, added a flower which I also inked a bit, and for the brad in the middle, since it’s made out of cloth I soaked it in broken china Distress ink and water, then added some perfect pearls and dried it with the heat tool. I also added a strip of some leftover patterned paper that I had.


I glued down all my photos. Then I doodled a bit and added journaling, also put some premade chipboard messages. I inked all the borders of every page directly with the ink pad of the Vintage Photo Distress ink.



I hope you liked it, email me or comment on my blog if you have any questions or suggestions.



What I used: regular cream cardstock; 2 plastic cards (old membership); 2 metal book rings; flowers and letters from Melissa Frances; Matte Accents; Distress Inks: broken china, spiced marmalade, vintage photo, dusty concord; black StazOn, Perfect Pearls; K&Company chipboard; black permanent marker.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Little book of wonders

Hi!
This is another creation @ class with Carolyn Peeler at Bambola Casa Creativa.
Soooo beautiful!!! Enjoy...

Secrets to vintage, shabby chic layouts


A few weeks ago I took some wonderful classes with Carolyn Peeler at Bambola Casa Creativa. I had soooo much fun! I enjoyed meeting new people and sharing all that time with Carolyn and the girls at Bambola.

Something nice about this classes it's that I did 2 layouts about me, it's the first time I scrap about myself.

They told me I needed some black and white photos and rushing to find them I remembered these ones...I love the results.
I tried to copy everything Carolyn did on her originals because I wanted to learn her style, later on I can combine that with my own and I can tell it's going to be good....



Of course I couln't finish them during the class, but it was very easy to complete them at home.
I think I need to get a sewing machine very soon, I love those stitches on my pages and it takes forever to handstitch them ;)


Friday, June 18, 2010

My favorite smiles




Hello!

Finally I'm posting a scrapbooking layout. I made it about a month ago, but I took the pictures yesterday, so I'm posting it today...




It's a simple layout, but colorful enough to show the love and happiness in the pictures. They are not the best pictures but I just loved the colors.

I wanted to add some texture, so I combined 2 types of chipboard letters for the tittle and also changed the color with some ink to tone down the original color. And I added some handstitching to make a border.


What I used: Bazzil cardstock: white and green; Scenic Route Paper: metropolis scrap strip 1; American crafts Thickers: Jewelry box (chipboard letters stickers) and Glitter letter stickers.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

My card featured on The {stamps} of Life blog


Hi!!!
I opened my email today to find a nice surprise...One of my cards has been featured on Stephanie Barnard's blog.
I'm a club member for her stamps and I decided to make a card with the last set I received: kites2fly.
Card's name: The sky's the limit.
I'm glad I wasn't too lazy to upload it to her gallery ;)
I'm soooo happy!!!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

The Sky's the limit!




This week has been a very productive one for me. I'm working on so many projects at the same time that I haven't been able to finish any of them, but it's coming soon...I took some wonderful scrapbooking classes and met great people that share this hobby, but I'll tell you the story when I finish one of the projects so I can show you what I'm talking about.

I've got my new set of The {Stamps} for Life and wanted to try making a quick card.

Set #10 Kites2fly.




This is how I made this card:


  • Stamped the kites and colored them with chalk and cut them out.

  • Stamped the clouds and cut them out to use them as masking for my sky background.

  • White card base, I inked with two tones of blue and three tones of green to simulate sky and grass for my background, making sure the clouds stayed white with my masks.

  • Stamped the strings, bows and message.

  • Glued down the kites, adding some dimensional adhesive to the one on top.

  • The final touch was adding some stickles to the clouds.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Doodles

I love doing this activity with my students, they have fun doing it and the results are amazing. And it's just doodles... Usually we hide names or objects, depending on the students ages. This one I'm showing you here I hid my daughter's name. I was in a waiting area and being very bored with a few hours to wait I decided to doodle a little bit. It took me a while to finish it, but I took a wonderful doodling class at Get It Scrapped and finally I completed the whole page with some more ideas they gave at that class.

Here you can see how I started this...

Blue Card


Hello!

I made this quick card with some scraps I had around my desk. It's simple but nice, and useful for many occasions.

I used The {stamps} of life.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

My very first album


Today I decided to show you my beginner album...it was a scrapbooking kit I bought online, I don't remember the brand, and I didn't even know the meaning of the word "scrapbooking" at that time, I just got it beacuse I was pregnant and wanted to have a special album for my baby, and I bought it pink without knowing she was a girl. I just took a guess and I was right!

When I got the kit I read the instructions and started to see all these possibilities to decorate an album. Later on I printed pictures and made my album, there is a mixture of pages I did totally on my own (sometimes I want to remake them because I don't like them, but they remind me how much progress I've made) and others where I got some advises from my fellow scrappers.

My kids love browsing through this album...so do I...