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Jan 1, 2012

The Paper Variety’s Black & White Challenge

Join us on The Paper Variety for a Challenge!

 

 

You could win this awesome prize with October Afternoon’s Farmhouse line!

 

 

I really loved this  challenge! I picked up Lily Bee’s Head Over Heels Collection from the January My Scrapbook Nook kit and it was so appropriate for a black and white theme! I also used papers by Crate Paper and Pretty Little Studio. To add to the black and white with a splash of colour theme, I edited my photos to black and white, but I left my daughter’s red outfit and her striking blue eyes in colour. Her eyes are so striking as it is, but with this type of treatment, they really stand out!

I stamped my red heart with red paint and a foam stamp by Donna Downey on a transparency, and I added it to the layout on the reverse (unstamped side) where the colour was more consistent. I added a bling flourish by Prima on top and wrapped some black twine by May Arts around the heart. I also used Maraschino twine by The Twinery, white ribbon with bling by Harmonie and black and white striped ribbon by My Mind’s Eye. The ribbon slider is from my local scrapbooking store, Scrapbook Queens.

For my journalling, I incorporated the strip from the bottom of the paper into my sentence. The background paper is called “Smitten” from the “Head Over Heels” line, and that became part of my sentence. The rest of the sentence is made up of stickers by Glitz and Basic Grey.

 

Love Never Fails

 

Some detail shots:

 

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I really love how this one turned out. Thanks for letting me share it with you!

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Dec 13, 2011

Paper Weaving for Scrapbooking and Cards

I’m loving anything that reminds me of quilting in scrapbooking lately. Here is a really fun and easy technique to add a lot of interest to a page.

  1. Start with 12 strips of 12 ” X 1/4 “. Mine were from all different papers, but this works well with papers that are all the same or some are the same, some are not. Anything goes, really.

     

  2. Lay out half of the strips length-wise and half of them width-wise overlapping them. Rearrange them until you’re happy with the way that the patterns are playing together.

  3. Weave them together as shown here. Start at the bottom and work your way up. The pattern is under over under over, etc.

  4. Once you have completed the weaving and you’re happy with the way that it’s looking, very carefully move your weaved paper over and put some adhesive directly on your background paper as shown here.

  5. Again, very carefully, move the weaved paper back over to it’s original spot and apply it onto the adhesive. Don’t press it down until you’re happy that everything is lining up as it should. I had to pull on mine a bit here and there to get it square.
  6. Trim off the ends to your desired length. I trimmed mine at random lengths and angles. Here is a closeup.

    Here is my finished layout! I hope that you like it!

    Here is a closeup of the misting and the heat embossed camera stamping.

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Nov 15, 2011

SYC Reveal & Challenge, plus a Chevron Tutorial!

Hi everyone! This is my first challenge as a member of the Design Team at Scrap Your Crap! I hope that you will join in on our challenge this month. For Challenge #59 we had to use 3 different colours of mist. Now, I’m not an expert with glimmer mist, so this took me FOREVER to get right! I created two layouts, I didn’t like the first one enough to use it. I also went through about 5 different tries on my background before I finally created something that I could live with! LOL! Needless to say, I put in a lot of mileage on my mists and I think that I gained some new insights. My number one insight is that I can’t mist a page without having to iron it flat afterwards. I don’t know how people are able to do it and keep it perfectly flat. I misted, let it dry a bit, then I ironed it with a regular iron on a dry heat setting with a sheet of parchment paper over top. It worked like a charm! I’m sure that there a million tricks on how to mist without needing to iron, and I’m equally sure that I wouldn’t be able to do it properly! LOL!

Anyhow, here is my layout. I hope that you will visit Scrap Your Crap and see what the rest of the DT created. They are a talented bunch of ladies! I’m proud to be among them. :-)   Don’t forget to scroll down to the bottom for an easy tutorial on creating a chevron border.

I should also mention that I won most of this paper from Scrapbook Circle through a member of their DT, Nicole Nowosad’s Blog. So, again, thank you Scrapbook Circle and thank you Nicole! I love this kit! It’s fabulous!

 

Hello New School - Amy Tangerine - American Crafts

 

No room for journalling? No problem, hide your journalling under a page element, or in a cute little pocket, like I did here.

Hello New School - Amy Tangerine - American Crafts

 

Pop dots add interest and dimension to a layout.

Hello New School - Amy Tangerine - American Crafts

 

Hello New School - Amy Tangerine - American Crafts

 

Now, down to business … How to create a chevron border

1. Download my FREE chevron template in either PDF or JPG format, whichever you prefer.

2. Trim your cardstock or patterned paper down to about 4 inches X 12 inches. The border template is just a little bit more than 3.5 inches wide.

3. Set your printer to print on a custom paper size, in this case 4 X 12 inches. Every printer is different and there are hundreds of models out there, so I can’t feasibly put instructions up for this part. If you have difficulties find your nearest teenager and set them to work! LOL! They should have you set up in about 2 seconds flat.

4. Open the file and print it onto your paper.

5. Cut along the lines and apply to your layout!

… Now, if this is too technical for you, or your printer just won’t cooperate here are some alternate instructions:

1. Take a scrap piece of cardstock and trim to a 2 inch square. Cut in half along the diagonal to make two triangles. This is your template.

 

Chevron How to

 

2. Grab the piece of cardstock that you want to create your border out of. It should be at least 4 inches wide. Flip it over onto the side that you don’t want to see (the bad side).

3. Line up the triangles like this and trace them out. Trace them in the same way all the way to the end of the cardstock. It will look something like this.

 

Chevron How to

 

Chevron How to

 

4. Turn your triangle templates the other way and trace them again off setting them from the already traced triangles by half. You will start to see the chevron pattern appear.

 

Chevron How to

 

5. Cut along your chevron pattern. Do not cut through the centre line! You should end up with something like this:

 

Chevron How to

 

I hope this works out for you! Let me know if you love, hate or are simply indifferent about this tutorial! ;-)

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Oct 20, 2011

Falling for Autumn (and planning for Christmas)

I have had this paper from Crate Paper’s Lemongrass collection FOREVER! You can get it from Crate Paper’s Overstock Web site for a deep discount! The whole collection kit can be had for $11.50, plus if you are in the U.S. and you spend more than $50 shipping is free. Not bad, eh?

I have been procrastinating on scrapping my Fall pictures from last year. In fact, I haven’t scrapped anything from the Fall of this year, either! Eeek! I’m falling more and more behind as I type this! This picture is of my youngest daughter, she is 21 months old now, so these pictures don’t even look like her anymore! They are awfully cute pictures – I guess I was just waiting for the right time and the right idea to come along to scrap it.

Crate Paper layout - Scrapsation, Kate Vickers

 

Right now I’m working on an Advent Calendar from Kaisercraft. It’s a pretty big project. I  didn’t realize when I took it on how time consuming it would be! LOL!

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Sep 16, 2011

My Mind’s Eye Blog Challenge 27

I’m at it again! Another challenge entry. This one is for My Mind’s Eye Blog Challenge 27. Here are the details:

The challenge: Design a layout based on this fabulous sketch and use “Back to _______” as your theme (sketch by Anam Stubbington).  You get to fill in the blank. Find out more about the challenge on the My Mind’s Eye Blog.

I used “Back to the Beginning” and did a layout of me and Mark from way, way, way, back when. We were young once, it’s true! Back then my “babies” were my dog, Leela, and my horse, Cash. Now I have real babies (3, or 4 if you count Mark), real responsibilities and real bags under my eyes to go with my real wrinkles! LOL!

ALSO, keep your mind’s eye and your mouse on my Blog next week; I’m going to have my first giveaway! It’s going to be a good one, so stay tuned!
MME_LayoutSketch_2011_09

Here is my entry. I used lots and lots of Viva Decor Pearl Pens around the elements on my page. I love this product! It’s a dimensional iridescent paint. There is also a clear version called Glass Effects, which is a bit like Glossy Accents, but with more body to it.

My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge 27, Kate Vickers, scrapsation, 12X12 layout

Here are some close-ups.

Title and ribbon embellishment:

My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge 27, Kate Vickers, scrapsation, title

Details:

My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge 27, Kate Vickers, scrapsation, details

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Jul 5, 2011

Sassafras Lass, you are so stylish! ;-)

Sassafras Lass, you are so stylish! ;-)

These series of photos were taken just a week ago and were totally impromptu, yet they turned out to be the most insightful photos, delving deep into my daughter’s character! She was trying on my older daughter’s sunglasses on our front step and she spotted some neighbourhood kids coming down the street and got excited. She was smiling and pointing at them. These photos truly capture just how fashion-conscious, social, beautiful, charming and funny my little girl is. She really makes me smile. She is so innately ‘girl’ – without me even trying to influence her.

The paper, by Sassafras Lass, from the Cherry Delicious line is a bit older. It’s wild and wacky and went really well with both the feeling and theme of the photos, as well as the colour scheme. I have had this paper stashed away for almost a year and when I pulled it out, I knew immediately that it was the right paper for these photos. The layout itself is fairly simple. As is ‘my way’, I added a lot of layers, used a lot of 3D dots and clutter to make it more interesting. I’m not a ‘whitespace’ person. I try… yet my ‘whitespace’ just ends up filled up with embellishments or layers of paper and photos.

The most interesting thing about this layout, to me anyway, is the use of Hambly Screen Print, rubons. I haven’t used them before, and I have to say that I was really impressed! They are great quality, easy to use and super sticky! My only qualm with them is that because they’re so sticky – you have to be really sure that you want to put them on if you put them down. There’s no turning back and changing your mind. Once you lay them on (even gently, without rubbing) – they are ON! I made a mistake in the top left hand corner of my top left picture by trying to move a rubon. I eventually ended up hiding my mistake by covering it with the ‘Admit One’ Sassafras ticket and the Sassafras flower. I love how the ‘ribbon’ rubon at the top and the pennant rubon at the bottom under my title worked out though. The pennant rubon really highlights my title and makes it that much more interesting and special. Take a look for yourself…

Sassafras Lass Cherry Delicious Single Page layout - Scrapsation

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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