Glimmer Mist

Dec 15, 2011

Believe Layout with Authentique, and a Challenge from SYC

We got these pictures taken of our kids with Santa Claus at my husband’s work holiday party. They turned out really well. I’m trying to track down the photographer so that I can get more prints.

I created this layout with one of the pictures. I used Authentique paper’s Wonder collection. I love this Christmas paper line. It’s very pretty and classic. I cut the rosette, ‘Believe’ title and the ‘Merry Christmas’ embellishment with my Silhouette Cameo. The snowflake on top of the rosette was cut with my Sizzix Big Shot with a Tim Holtz die. It is made out of a plastic mirror material.

Scrap Your Crap has another challenge on! This time, the challenge is to use buttons. I created this Christmas card. I hope that you like it! If you would like to play along, join us here: http://scrapyourcrap.blogspot.com/

Handmade Christmas card, buttons, Scrapsation

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Post Categories: Authentique, cards, Challenge, contest, Echo Park, handmade card, Scrap Your Crap, scrapbooking, scrapsation, Tutorial
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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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Post Categories: 12X12, American Crafts, Amy Tangerine, cards, Hybrid, Sassafras Lass, Tutorial, Unity Stamps
Post Tags: 12X12, american crafts, Amy Tangerine, Glimmer Mist, paper weaving, sassafras, scrapbooking, scrapsation, tutorial, unity stamps

Mar 27, 2011

Graphic 45, Once Upon a Springtime layout

I absolutely adore Graphic 45′s Once Upon a Springtime paper. It was love at first sight! I had to have it even though I didn’t know what I was going to do with it! I bought it a few months ago and finally came across the right pictures for the layout. I got some great shots of my two girls with Tinkerbell and her fairy friends at Pixie Hollow in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The girls enjoyed visiting with the fairies a lot. The cast members told us that we were going to shrink down to fairy size in order to be the same size as the fairies when we entered Pixie Hollow. Alison was worried that it might hurt, but the cast members assured us that we wouldn’t feel a thing. I didn’t feel anything – it was completely painless! Alison believed their story, and later told me that she felt a slight tingling sensation!

Graphic 45 Once Upon a Springtime single page layout

Unfortunately, the pictures were a little too vibrant for the paper. Tinkerbell’s outfit is almost a fluorescent green and the paper has more of a kelly green in it. I toned the pictures down by desaturating them in Photoshop. You can do this by following these easy steps:

Open the file/picture in Photoshop
Next go to the Layer menu and select Layer – Duplicate layer…
Click on your duplicated layer, and press Shift + Ctrl + U to completely desaturate the image (ie. create a black and white image), or click on Image -Adjustments – Desaturate and play with the saturation scale to desaturate the image to your desired result.
Save the edited image by going to the File menu and selecting Save as… or press Shift + Ctrl + S. I recommend saving the image under a new file name so that you don’t overwrite the original image.

Once I had my photos edited and printed, I started to think about my page layout. Like I’ve said before, some papers ‘tell’ how they should be used in a scrapbook layout, and this one certainly does that. I individually cut out all of my fairies and sprayed all of my paper with Sheer Shimmer Spritz in Sparkle by Tsukineko. This mist is a bit more subtle than some others, adding sparkle without actually influencing the colour of the paper. I added 3D pop dots behind my main fairies in order to add dimension to the page and to make the fairies even more of a focal point. I also created a lot of layering to add interest to the whole project.

Materials used:

Sheer Shimmer Spritz in Sparkle by Tsukineko
Graphic 45, Once Upon a Springtime Tags, Once Upon a Springtime 12X12 paper, Once Upon a Springtime Frames, Primrose Cottage 12X12 paper
Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Peeled Paint
3D dots by EK Success
Scotch ATG adhesive
Tim Holtz mini attacher
Photoshop CS4
Font, La Belle Aurore, from dafont.com

Linking up to these parties.

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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