Papercrafting during my free time
18 Sep 2011 Comments Off on Card and Tag for the Sketches4All event
in Cards and Projects Tags: Barefoot and Bliss, Bo Bunny, chipboard stickers, Helmar, patterned paper, rubons, Summer
Sketches4All is having an End of Summer Sketch event filled with sketches and prizes. Last I checked, there were 11 layout, card and tag challenges posted! All projects submitted need to have a School, Fall, or Summer theme to them. Here are my takes on sketches #3 (card sketch) and #4 (tag sketch):
TFL!
Materials:
Bo Bunny Barefoot and Bliss papers
Barefoot and Bliss chipboard stickers
Barefoot and Bliss rubons
trim from stash
Adhesives:
Helmar adhesive runner
18 Sep 2011 3 Comments
in Cards and Projects Tags: bling, Bo Bunny, card, cardstock, Challenge, chipboard, dimensional, stickers
Romy posted a really cute sketch for the Bo Bunny card challenge. I decided to play along to use up some of my Gabrielle scraps and also play along with the Sticker Challenge on The Paper Variety at the same time! 😀 I managed to use 6 stickers on this card. Here’s my take on the sketch combined with the sticker challenge:
Materials:
Bo Bunny Gabrielle papers
Gabrielle cardstock stickers
Gabrielle stickers chipboard
Gabrielle Layered Chipboard stickers
Gabrielle trinket
Queen & Co rhinestones
Adhesives:
Helmar Adhesive runner
Helmar Zap Dots (foam dots)
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
If you’d like to take a look at Romy’s sketch I used for the card or if you’d like to submit your own entry, CLICK HERE.
If you’d like to play along with the The Paper Variety sticker challenge, CLICK HERE.
14 Sep 2011 Comments Off on Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Altered Box
in Cards and Projects Tags: altered art, altered box, Beynd the Page, Fancy Pants, Helmar, Kaisercraft, pink paislee, Unity Stamp Co., Webster's Pages
Today I’d like to share a fun project I got to work on for the Firefly Expression Blog. This week they’re featuring Kaisercraft, so the base of my project is their Beyond the Page All Purpose Box which is available in their store for $8.99. I wanted to show how you can easily mix old and new products with this fab line, so I used Webster’s Pages Country Estate Papers from their previous release, Pink Paislee’s Butterfly Garden rubons (received in my August prize kit from Marivic at Berry71bleu) and older Fancy Pants rub ons. The little pearls on the lid are also by Kaisercraft and are available in the Firefly Expressions Store for just $0.50.
See that fabulous green, blinged out butterfly on the front? It was also included in the fab prize pack Marivic sent me. Be sure to check out her fun September challenge for your chance to win an incredible kit too! 😀
And of course EVERYTHING is held together using fantastic Helmar adhesives!
I started out by slightly sanding, then painting it with vanilla acrylic paint. I didn’t coat it heavily because I wanted a lightly whitewashed kind of look to it. I then used the Helmar acid free glue to adhere the Webster’s Pages papers that I cut to size and fussy cut to layer images onto the lid. I then added a fabulous Unity stamp sentiment, some rubons and bling.
The cameo and resin bird are adhered with Helmar 450 Quick Dry and I used Liquid Scrap Dots for the butterfly. TFL!
13 Sep 2011 2 Comments
in Cards and Projects Tags: altered project, Cosmo Cricket, Lily Bee, note holder, October Afternoon, pink paislee, teacher gift
Nearly every Monday, Helmar has live Ustream classes that are really fun to watch. The ladies that participate each week are so much fun to chat with and there’s a different creative project featured each week. On August 22, 2011, Tracy was the host (sometimes it’s Jess aka Kinderstampo), and she made the cutest little post-it note holders that I thought were just perfect for teacher gifts! This year I needed to create 5 gifts (Matthew’s teacher is on maternity leave after having baby number SEVEN so he has a long-term sub). Here’s the link to her recorded show: Note Holder Tutorial
In the video, Tracy shows how easy they are to make using regular square coasters with rounded corners, but I didn’t have any on hand and it didn’t seem likely that I could just duck into a restaurant and grab a few. lol But…last week Larry happened to be waiting for the car to be inspected and went to lunch with his boss. While out, he actually remembered that I needed some and snagged me 10. So he not only remembered that I needed them, but also remembered how many! How great is THAT?!! 😀
Anyway, I decided to make one a little different and used a 4×8 scalloped chipboard rectangle that I cut in half to create the 4×4 size I wanted. On another one, I trimmed of a 1/4″ off of one side to give it a different shape. So far, I’ve made 4 out of the 5 I need, so keep an eye out for #5 coming soon! Here’s how mine turned out:
I went ahead and took a pic of the inside on two of them because there are two things that I do that are not in Tracy’s video. The first difference…though I do bind with the seam of the rings on the inside of the covers, so it’s not exposed, I also glue the rings down using Helmar 450 Quick Dry to make it easier to open and close. The ring is then attached to the base and the cover is free to move along it’s track w/o taking the rings with it.
The second difference…In Tracy’s video, she removed the backing on the post-it pad and glued the pad to the base. For mine, I also removed the backing, but I glued just the top 1/2″ (the part that has the removable adhesive already on it) to a piece of 3″ x 3″ cardstock which is the same size as the post it pad. I then added a strip of patterned paper to the base where it is only glued on the 2 side edges. Once dry, you can then slip the cardstock backing that you added to the post it pad under that strip to hold it neatly in place. Normally I would match the pattern so you can’t see where this strip is, but for one I used contrasting paper so you can easily see what I’ve done.
TFL!
Distressed Scrapper 