Feb 22, 2012

A Sketch with Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer

I created this sketch in Adobe Photoshop with the idea that I would create with two funny images from two summers ago. My husband built one of those giant play structures in our backyard on a scorching hot weekend. We don’t have a pool (no room for one because of the play structure, plus they cost a fortune), so my husband decided to get in the baby pool with his clothes on and a beer in hand to cool off. He’s a goof that way, anything for a laugh. I had my daughter get in the pool with him, hold my beer and pretend to drink it (don’t worry, I’m not really giving beer to minors, just hard liquor! KIDDING!!!).

I liked the idea of incorporating my title into a pennant banner, and as always, I planned to use a lot of layering. You are welcome to use my sketch if the mood strikes you. If you do choose to use it, I would love to see what you create – don’t be shy!

Sketch 3

Here’s the result of my sketch. I used Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer. I deviated a little bit from my original plan and added a sunburst in the background, which I cut with my Silhouette Cameo. I also created my title in two tiers, half of it using a simple stories pennant cut out of their paper and the other half is American Crafts Thickers. I machine stitched through the Thickers for two reasons, 1. I love the look and 2. sometimes Thickers need a little bit of extra help to stay put. Other supplies include twine from the Twinery, a brad from Basic Grey, ribbon from May Arts, stickers from Little Yellow Bicycle, a Sassafras die cut, buttons and pearls from Prima and my new secret weapon, my Epiphany Crafts star tool. You can create epoxy embellishments yourself out of any patterned paper. There’s something really satisfying about lining up the image in the punch window and creating a perfectly custom embellishment in about 2 seconds flat. I love this thing. I must get MORE!

Summer Silliness

Thanks for dropping by! I hope that you enjoyed my creations today.

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Feb 19, 2012

Creating a Sentiment with Twine

Howdy y’all! I recently picked up an awesome kit containing October Afternoon’s Sasparilla line from My Scrapbook Nook. I’m really loving this paper. It’s so fun! I have created a couple of cards so far, including the one that I’m going to show you today.

I’m all about trying everything and anything under the sun when it comes to crafting. I discovered a neat way of  creating a title or sentiment with a little bit of glue and some twine. Here’s how:

  1. Gather up a piece of paper, some twine, some strong glue (I like to use Beacon’s 3-in-1 Glue or Helmar’s 450 Quick Dry), sharp scissors, a pencil and an eraser.Step 1

  2. Hand write (like I did here) or print out a sentiment on the paper from your computer. Keep your eraser handy just in case you don’t like it on your first try. Remember to keep your sentiment BIG. This technique doesn’t work very well otherwise.Step 2
  3. Apply glue along your pencil lines, working in small sections at a time. Be careful to not get any glue seepage. If you do, carefully rub it with your finger once it starts to dry a little bit and it should come off. Don’t let it completely dry, or it will be there for good.  Apply your twine to the glue lines and press it down.Step 3
  4. This image shows the completed sentiment.You will notice that I used more than one piece of twine. I cut it at appropriate spots to make for a cleaner look. For example, the left side of the ‘h’ is made up of one small piece of twine and the right side of the ‘h’ into the loop of the ‘o’ is another piece of twine. I have circled all of the spots where the pieces of twine are cut to show what my strategy was.Step 4
  5. Lastly, I fussy cut around the twine sentiment. This is optional, you could apply your twine sentiment directly to your card or other project. I decided that this approach was right for my card.

Here is my completed card. I hope that you like it!

Howdy

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Feb 16, 2012

I Have Some Serious Issues!

… paper issues, that is! I am pleased to tell you that I’m now part of the Paper Issues Creative Team! YAY! Thanks again, Cassie! I appreciate your vote of confidence. :)

Here is a complete list of the newest members of the Paper Issues Team:

Leah Farquharson
Aimee Maddern
Amy Tsuruta
Audrey Yeager
Christine Heeren
Cristin Drewes
Heather Leopard
Izzy Anderson
Kate Vickers — ME!!!
Lizzie Oakley
Missy Gener
Nina Yang
Patricia Roebuck
Sarah Andreotti
Lori Wilbanks
Marlene Gomez

Oh, and here’s a card that I created right before Valentine’s Day. This one was for The Scrapbook Queens Design Team.

 

Just My Type Card

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Feb 15, 2012

The Paper Variety Photo Inspiration Challenge

2012 is a leap year! So, our end of February challenge is a photo inspiration challenge based on this poster from the movie Leap Year.

Some ideas

  • green/grey/white color palette
  • engagement theme (she’s holding a ring)
  • project featuring a couple
  • include a froggy (“leap”)
  • use a popular movie title

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I decided to use the colours in the poster for my layout. I used papers from Echo Park’s For The Record line and Crate Paper’s Portrait collection, along with embellishments from My Mind’s Eye and Crate. The alphabet stickers are from Sassafras and I used a stamp by Jenny Bowlin underneath the Go Train logo. The tags are by Basic Grey and the train die cuts are from Silhouette America.

My son is a real train fanatic so I have done several train layouts of him. The Go Train (Toronto, Canada’s commuter train system) has extra significance to us because my Dad was Senior Vice President of The Canadian Car Division of Hawker Siddeley when they built the trains from the late 1960′s to the mid 1970′s. When my Dad was in charge of the division, they built the Go Transit commuter trains that you see all around the Toronto area, the TTC street cars and subway cars and a few more well-known trains, including some in some major cities in the U.S.  My son calls the Go Train, “Grandpa’s Train”.

Grandpa's Go Train

Thanks for looking! I can’t wait to see what you come up with for this challenge!

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Feb 10, 2012

First February Reveal for Scrapbook Queens

Hi Everyone! I just wanted to share my first February reveal for Scrapbook Queens. This month I chose papers from Echo Park’s Life is Good line. I used a lot of mixed media on this project. You can’t see all the sparkle very well in the photos, but it is really glamourous in person. As usual, I did a lot of fussy cutting on this layout. I love doing that! Something about cutting out little tiny pieces of paper is very satisfying!

The large pink doily is a wood doily from Maya Road. I applied Melon Mambo embossing powder by Stampin’ Up to the doily and heat embossed it. After that, I stamped on top of it again with my Kaiser Craft script stamp using StazOn ink in black. Last, I applied a few dots of Viva Decor Pearl Pen in white and some rhinestones by Cosmo Cricket and Colorbok.

If you look closely, you can see that I fussy but out my daughter’s hand from the photo to make it look like she is holding onto the Echo Park flourish sticker. I overlapped the sticker on the picture and the wood doily to make it look like she is trying to climb out of the picture!

Little Beauty

Here’s a detail shot of all of the fussy cutting. After I fussy cut something, I love to make it appear dimentional by adding some type of 3D embellishment to it, in this case it was those glitter candy dots by Recollections and I also like to pop up the fussy cut items with 3D dots. I used foam squares by Scrapbook Adhesives.

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This image gives a bit of a feel for the glitz and glam of the background. I used two different Crafter’s Workshop masks to get the look. First, I used the 12X12 Kasbah template with Ranger’s Perfect Pearls mist in Interference Red (don’t let the name fool you, it’s really pink!). Then, I used the 6X6 Chevron template with gesso. While the gesso was still wet, I applied glitter by Martha Stewart. The gesso acts as a glue for the glitter. Once that was dry, I stamped on top of it with a script stamp by Kaiser Craft. I used black StazOn for that, just to make sure it stuck to all the elements. I didn’t want it to come out blotchy. Last, I stamped with pink paint by Plaid Enterprises using bubble wrap as my ‘stamp’.

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That’s all for now! Thanks for joining me.

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Feb 9, 2012

Howdy Pardners! A Fun Card with October Afternoon’s Sasparilla Line

Yeehaw! I’m lovin’ this line. I’m glad that I lasooed the February Kit from My Scrapbook Nook which features papers from October Afternoon’s Sasparilla Line. The kit is still available, so go and round one up while you still can!

Here is a fun Valentine’s Day card that I created last night with my new loot.

You are Wanted

Thanks for looking.

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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