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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.

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

Linking up to these parties.

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!

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

Pop dots add interest and dimension to a layout.

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

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!

Linking up to these parties.

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Nov 11, 2011

Hambly Screen Prints Overlay, Amy Tangerine and Two Cute Kiddies!

These pictures are over two years old now and my older two kids don’t look like this anymore. I love these two pictures of them on the plane heading to Orlando, Florida. My daughter was really excited, it was her first time going to Disney World and the trip really was ‘magical’ for her. We took her to Bibbity Boppity Salon and she met all kinds of Princesses. We had dinner with Cinderella at Cinderella’s Gala Feast at the Grand Floridian Hotel. That was an amazing dinner with great entertainment! I highly recommend it. My son was super excited to be on the plane as he loves all things mechanical, mostly trains, but planes are exciting too.

Here is the layout that I came up with. I thought that the combination of American Crafts Amy Tangerine paper and Hambly Screen Prints overlays was magical too! I hope you agree (or, I will get my Fairy Godmother to turn you into a pumpkin! LOL!).

Here is how I came up with the plan for my layout. I was immediately drawn to the circles in the Amy Tangerine, “Work in Progress” paper and thought it would be really cool to cut out some of them and add something interesting in behind them.

Amy Tangerine paper

I took out my Martha Steward Punch All Over the Page circle punch and removed a few of the circles. I lined in up on the top side and then flipped the paper over to punch through as shown here.

Amy Tangerine and Hambly Screen prints background with punch all over the page punch

I ended up with this, a very ‘holey’ paper!

Amy Tangerine with punch all over the page punch

Next, I flipped the paper over and added circles of some Hambly Screen Prints white woodgrain overlay to some of the holes, not all of them, as you will see.

Hambly Screen prints overlay

On top of that, went vibrant pink paper by Bazzill Basics.

Amy Tangerine and Hambly Screen prints background with punch all over the page punch

When flipped over onto the good side, you end up with a really amazing background with a super interesting twist to it with the white wood grain over top of the pink. In some of the holes I also weaved through some small strips of paper and made them into little pennants sticking out of the blue dot background. I think that it adds a lot of panache and coordinates really well with the pink woodgrain circles.

Hambly Screen prints woodgrain background with little pennants

For my title, I layed the last of my Hambly overlay on top of some craft paper. I stitched the word “World” first in a pink/red variegated floss and then stamped the word “Hello” in black StazOn ink on top of it, slightly askew. The globe is a Jillybean soup stamp heat embossed with black Clearsnap embossing powder and then punched out with a circle punch. It is layered on top of an American Crafts Amy Tangerine tag. You will notice that I cut down the overlay a bit more in my final layout and machine sewed it onto the page. I love sewing on paper. It gives a feeling of finality to my projects.

stitched and stamped title on Hambly Screen Prints overlay