Club Scrap Shades of Winter Blog Hop

Shades of Winter Blog Hop!!

Today I am working with Club Scrap's Shades of Winter.  So this is an absolutely perfect kit for me - it snows buckets here in Montana!!  For the last two days it has basically not stopped snowing.  I shovel and shovel and turn around to find MORE snow right where I shoveled!  It's crazy.  I had to venture out onto the roads today and I don't know what happened to all the plows around town - but they are slacking on getting the streets plowed - I was never so happy to get back home and feel safe and sound once again!

So my inspiration was the gorgeous snowflakes in this kit.  I made 3 versions of cards using the snowflake images.  All three cards used similar technique with a bit of spin on each one.

Supplies:

Cardstock

Versamark ink

Embossing powder

White acrylic paint

Embossing tools (or improvise)

Instructions:

1.  Ink the background of the card front using a similar color ink as the background or black.

2.  Use versamark and stamp images, use embossing powder and heat emboss images.

 For a bit of twist on this dark blue version - Draw a diagram on the front of the card like this: 

Then stamp the teeny tiny snowflakes along to lines - creating a large snowflake - doing this method you can create as large a snowflake as you want.

For the red version of this card - I stamped the smaller snowflakes in the shape of a Tree.  You could to this for various shapes like candy canes, bells, ornaments, etc.

3.  Next I used a white gel pen and drew lines from the snowflakes up to the top of the page, creating strings that they hang from.

4.  Next I used some embossing tools with different sized heads to create little dots along the 'string'.

I also added dots to the large snowflake filling any gaps between the little snowflakes I stamped.

I think these turned out pretty good - you can do a number of different designs with the dots on the strings.

Thanks for stopping by...now for more great stuff -

go check out Cheryl's blog hop project!!!
Or if you want to start at the beginning,
go check out Club Scrap!!!

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

December Art Team Challenge

December Artist Challenge

December Artist Team Challenge is to select one (or more) of the December forum challenges and create a project that meets that challenge. We hope to inspire more folks to check out the variety of ongoing monthly challenges and possibly increase participation.

If you want to start at the beginning of the hop, start HERE.

December monthly challenges can be found here: http://clubscrap.com/forums/forum/other-stuff/challenges/

I chose the Card Sketch challenge.  Here was the sketch used for the challenge:

I used Club Scrap Boardwalk kit for this card.

I used Club Scrap Paris kit for this one:

I used ClubScrap's Shades of Winter kit for this one:

Thanks for stopping by!!  Check back soon for more fun stuff!

Now go check out LILIAN's project next!!!

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Challenge post

Well I am feeling a bit overwhelmed ... so many things to do this month with Christmas just looming around the corner...my kids are so much older and their gift ideas are out of this world expensive. They don't want 'toys' anymore...so I can't really get good ideas out of them...I know if I need to get items ordered, I need to do it now...and then there's cleaning, planning, researching and various other tasks to accomplish before the end of the month.  Oh and yeh, I can't help but self impose extra work on myself, like I have decided I want to paint a painting for each of my boys for Christmas, and maybe even one for my son's girlfriend...try painting when the kids are always around!! But I don't wanna run them outta the house, shoot just a couple more years and I won't have em around at all... It doesn't work too good - but never the less, I still want to do it...so anyways - here I am making a card for the card sketch over a MojoMonday instead of doing any of my much needed chores!!

Here is my take on the sketch using ClubScrap Oopsy Daisy kit.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Digital layout - December calendar page

Here is my December page out the 2016 Calendar I put together.  I created it with the ClubScrap
Aurora Borealis digital kit.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Club Scrap Paradise Blog Hop

Paradise Blog Hop!!

Today I am working with Club Scrap's Paradise kit.  If you haven't seen the adorable little parrot rubberstamp in the UM sheet - check it out - it was my total inspiration for this project.  I love parrots, my kitchen is decorated in parrots...Love their bright colored feathers - makes me Happy!!

So I made two projects - The first as shown above - is a parrot in a cage within an explosion box.  The second project - you are probably going to think I am a little nutty on the 2nd project - but hey - I think it is cute, so I went for it!! It is a parrot in birdcage necklace!!

So for both projects - I did some paper piecing to create very colorful parrots.  I stamped the parrot image onto all the bright colored cardstock and trimmed out the pieces of the parrot and then glued it all back together.  I did the reversal - to create both sides of 1 parrot for the first project. only 1 side for the 2nd project

PROJECT 1:
Cut 2 hexagonal pieces, a larger one and a smaller one.  Then trim 1/4 in strips of 12 in paper, you will need 18 of them for the bars and a couple extra for additional supports on the cage.

 Adhere strips to largest hexagon as shown:

 Score one of the 1/4 in strips and score (in my case every 1.5in) to the dimensions of the medium sized hexagon. Adhere overlapping flaps.

 Now I needed something to hold my hexagon strip up, in order to glue 18 strips to, so I had some bead canisters.  I set the hexagon piece on top of the beads, then placed the hexagon strip on top of it.

 I then glued the strips to the hexagon strip as shown:

 Leave an opening to provide a way of removing the beads.

 Next I slipped a tall bottle of paint into the center and place my teeny tiny hexagon on top of lid.

 I then adhered all of the strips to the small hexagon as shown:

 Remove the bottle.   Then I punched a hole in the parrots head and fed a large wire flat head pin.  determine where to bend the wire, that will allow the parrot to hang just perfectly.  Then use a glue dot and adhere to the small hexagon.  (I did add some extra 1/4 inch pieces for aesthetics about an inch from bottom on bars - but not required) Now you and glue the last strips to the close up the cage.

 Lastly, I stamped some of the other images from the kit (leaves, flower, pineapple) and embellish the cage as shown:

 I created a VERY simple explosion box and lid to hold the parrot/cage:

PROJECT 2:
Cut a piece of cardstock just about the size of the parrot. Cut 2 circles a large one and a medium one. The large circle needs to be the same width as the cardstock cut.  Once you add the smaller circle - then trim the cardstock piece to angle down to bottom circle as shown:

 Add that adorable parrot!!!

Adhere 5 strips of 1/4 paper onto top of smallest circle.  Cut another identical circle and adhere over the top (to hide the strip ends).

 Add some jewelry hardware to make cage into a necklace:

 Now adhere the strips to the bottom of the cage.  Cut another circle the same size as bottom and adhere over the strip ends.  Add a flower embellishment.

Add a string and wear with pride - teeheehee - its a bit gawdy and certainly NOT waterproof - but hey its still adorable!!

Thanks for stopping by...now for more great stuff -

go check out Cheryl's blog hop project!!!
Or if you want to start at the beginning,
go check out Club Scrap!!!

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin