Featured Projects by Tracey S.

Hi, its Tracey S. here to share my projects created with the ScrapThat! "From Sunrise to Sunset" June Kit. This kit is packed with gorgeous scrapbooking goodness!! 

My first layout uses the Main Kit only and is based on Amy's gorgeous June Sketch.

"Bree"

MK Only

Close-Ups

I used Grand Peony, Bitty Blossoms, and Tattered floral dies to create these hand crafted flowers from kit cardstock and patterned paper. The Prima canvas flower was inked to coordinate. I simply adore the black mesh in the kit ~ so shabby chic when painted white then scratched to distress. I pulled apart some of the gems from the Sunrise Sunset gem sheet to scatter across the page.

More of my Bitty Blossoms flowers and a bejeweled flower trinket from my stash.

This butterfly is created using kit paper die cut with Wonderful Wings dies, then inked and brushed with stickles. The body was created with gems pulled from the Sunrise Sunset gem sheet:

 

My Vintage Rusted Ironwork Chipboard Tutorial can be found here:

Amy's June Sketch:

Challenge details can be found here.

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Photo booths are all the rage these days. This fun and whimsical photo of our daughter, Maria and her younger cousin was taken at our Elizabeth's wedding reception. The colors of Prima's Sunrise Sunset are so vibrant and fun. I had fun stenciling, and misting and creating a fun and funky flower from the chevron vellum included in the kit.

"Cousins"

MK, EAO, FAO

Close-ups

I used one of the fabulous Prima Zipper flowers and paired it with hand crafted flowers and colored some of the kit flowers with mists. The white flower is from a previous ScrapThat! Kit. I added a chipboard piece to anchor the title created from the kit alphabet set and used more of the fabulous grunged up kit mesh.

I used the chevron vellum cut with Tattered Florals dies to create this fun flower. I added a gem and snippet of eyelash yarn from my stash to finish it up. 

I used this Prima Sunrise Sunset stencil from my stash with molding page and mist to created the mixed media background and a lovely butterfly left from my May Anniversary Kit. 

This layout is the inspiration for my "Summer Stenciling" DT Challenge for June. Details can be found here.

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My parent's home is a summer gathering place for our family. Abby is showing off her messy hands resulting from an afternoon of fishing. I pulled in the blues from the lake to accent this page. 

"Abby"

MK, EAO, FAO

Close-ups

I used the main kit carnation and tissue flower which I lightly inked, another of the fabulous FAO Prima zipper flowers, and more FAO Petaloo flowers that I changed up with paint and glimmer mist. I also added some flowers handcrafted from kit cardstock and a couple twine flowers. The Maya Road butterflies were also altered with alcohol inks. The chipboard leaves are from my stash.

A close-up for more detail:

A close-up of my corner cluster. I just love the flat gems included in the kit and used them for flower centers and for extra bling in my cluster here.

For a touch of sunshine to this page, I inked the kit doilies and cut another from kit paper to layer at the corner of my photo. The kit hinge clip adds at touch of fun too.

The corrugated board from a postal shipping box was painted, then inked and heat embossed with clear embossing powder for a wavy, watery photo mat. I also tucked in a bit of a vintage map from my stash. This fabulous alpha set has several different alphas in a variety of shapes and sizes.

 The ScrapThat! June Kit is available in our store.

Thanks for dropping by to check out my projects!! 

~ Blessings ~

How I made my background!

Hey everyone Laura here!  I love these papers and I love to alter my pages a bit so the two worked perfectly together!  I thought I would show how I made the background on a couple of my layouts!

You will need;
a mask
mists
paper towel
molding paste
old credit card or paint spatula

so figure out where you want your mask at

then add your molding paste and spread it using your credit card

carefully lift the mask

allow to dry

once dry, spray your mists

and add other colors

bunch your paper towel and dab your sprayed areas

you can repeat if you think you need more color

To finish I added some gesso around the edge of the paper

Here is the finished result!

I also used this technique on these backgrounds with this months kit!

Thanks for stopping by and I can't wait to see your creations!

Embossed Metal Technique with Kelly Klapstein

Hello Everyone!

It's Kelly here with you today to share an easy and wonderful technique about embossing metal.

In the June kit are a couple of metal embellishments:  Maya Road butterflies...

...and a standard office document clip...

I altered both with my own Stampendous "Frantage" Aged Embossing Enamels.

I used Ivory to alter the clip and the Copper to alter the butterflies.

Here is a video tutorial I made that shows you how I transformed these metal elements:

You can click HERE to watch this on YouTube and subscribe to my video channel.

I hope you are enjoying your June kit as much as I am!

Layout of the Week, June 16th

Happy Sunday, everyone! Sandi here today with my choice for Layout of the Week, June 16th.

Although I really wanted to go with a masculine page in honor of Father's Day,  I was just so enamored   with Dana Tatar's "My Heart is at the Beach" layout that I had to choose it!

I just love the soft watercolors that she created herself along with the wonderful mixed media and oodles of texture with the netting, ribbon, flowers, feathers and shells. And of course the double photo for twice the impact! I can't stop looking at it! 

Dana, big congrats on a very well deserved LOTW! I will send you the code for your blog blink. Don't forget that you are eligible for 10% off in the Scrap That store on kits and add-ons from 2012. 

Help me congratulate her!

Tips and Techniques by Zoe Nemburt, our June Featured GD

Hey there, Zoe here with you today, and I have a few techniques to share with you. I love details in scrapbooking, and I've always believed that it's the little things that count. We always start with a plain piece of paper... so lets start with the background. I just so happened to order this checker stencil not knowing I would receive the Sunrise Kit from ScrapThat! I was pretty happy when I found out, as the stencil is designed for the same line by Prima... I love it! I think it's my most fav stencil to date. 

So I used this stencil to add ink first, I know it sounds simple but do you have any idea how many times I've used the modelling paste or gesso and then wished I had of inked first?? Well that's just me... I see the final piece in my head and try and get there as fast as I can and forgetting all the steps. So always stencil with ink first and then add your paste. Trust me! I like to use Tim Holtz distress inks and applicator, I gently swirl the applicator sponge in a circular motion to get a nice even coverage a little bit of ink goes a long way.

I also use old credit cards for my modeling paste, and my favorite brands are Liquitex and Golden usually whichever is discounted :) 

We received this awesome ribbon in the kit. It is wired... which is great as we can have some fun with this... I wanted to scrunch the ribbon up, securing the scrunches with a sewing machine is usually the best way to hold them in place but we don't all have sewing machines (I do, but for now lets pretend I don't) so this ribbon you can slide it down on the wires and then tie once you have the right amount of scrunchiness!! 

Once you are happy you should have something like this :) just add dabs of glue to adhere it to your layout or sew it in place, if you sew, make sure to sew closer to the edges so it will not flatten your ruffles.

Ok I admit it... I'm a frugal scrapper... but I also enjoy layers and embellishments and flowers and and... you get the idea. So here is an idea to make your supplies go further. In the Main Kit you will receive this awesome chipboard swirl. Well why dont we make that TWO chipboard swirls :) VERY carefully you can pull apart if you slide you nail or fine scissors around the outside edge and slowly peel away.

Now, lets get some paint going and make these chipboard pieces become part of our page. I used a yellow heavy body paint by liquitex, you don't have to use heavy body but it was the closest to my desk!  And I know it's bright... it won't stay like this for long :)

Once your paint has dried you can add some alcohol ink. I don't have many colours but these are hazelnut and wild plum... they actually worked really well for the colours of my page.

I decided the bright yellow was wayyyy too bright so I dulled the colours down by using a white distress stain... love this stuff! Just dab it on.

Last but not least I added crackle glaze this is definitely an optional stage, keep in mind the drying time is overnight for this stuff to crackle fully. Once dry add to you page.

Add some dimension with pop dots and pop your titles off the page.

One of my most favourite things to do with wire stemmed flowers is to twist them into spirals... again... details :)

And here is my final page and a couple of detail shots.

I also LOVE to add little spots of Gesso to my finished layouts, you can really see it in my detailed shots here.

I really hope you enjoyed my tutorial.

Happy Scrapping.

Be sure to stop by Zoe's blog, Designs by Zoe, to be inspired by more of her gorgeous work! 

June BAP with Amarilys

Amarilys here and today I want to share with you how I made my "Sweet Escape" layout! Now, I have a lot of steps and pictures for this BAP but don't be scared! i just wanted to make sure that you were able to follow along and see everything I did  :)


Step 1. Use your The Crafters Workshop 6"x6" small brick template and either store bought or homemade (HERE's link for a great tutorial) texture paste and apply randomly to your background paper.


Step 2. This is how it will look when you are done. Let it dry completely overnight or you can speed up the process with an embossing tool.


Step 3. Run the whole sheet through the Distrezz-it-all tool and do two tears on your layout, top and bottom.


Step 4. Use the Prima Notary background stamp and stamp it twice on a cream color cardstock with archival brown ink.


Step 5. Adhere the background paper unto a white cardstock and tuck in a strip of the stamped cardstock under the peek a boo areas. Ink all the edges and machine stitch around the layout as shown.


Step 6. Add a 10" piece of the wide wired ribbon to your layout.


Step 7. Mist a small white doily with brown, red and yellow glimmer mist and add to the bottom right side of the layout.


Step 8. Add your contrasting photo over the center of the page.


Step 9. Add both flowers from package on the Flower Add On kit to either side of the photo.


Step 10. Fill in the clusters by adding some more blooms and a button.


Step 11. Finish by adding a title, some Dress It Up-Flats and butterfly or two to finish your layout.

Thanks for stopping! I hope that you are inspired to make something with this amazing kit! If you want to see more of my creations, please stop by my blog.