How To Make a Pen Holder

Hi Guys! I'm Mabel and it's my turn again to create a tutorial for Off the Rails Scrapbooking!

My project today was inspired by OTRS November Mood board which you can find more details HERE!

As you can see, the theme is about recycling. So I decided to make a pen holder out of toilet roll.

The toilet roll I got measures 3 inches wide and 3.5 inches tall. 

I'm using natural jute hemp cord and twirled it around the toilet roll. 

Next, I cut of the circumference of the toilet roll after I traced it on a piece of cupboard. I glued it to one side of the toilet roll to create a base. I then tidied up the rough edges by continuing to glue the hemp cord such that it'll cover the edges.

Now that the surface and the base were done, it's time for colours and embellishments!

I randomly painted white gesso on random areas to create some contrast with the burlap colours.

I also cut up a piece of chipboard from dusty attic (which I can't remember the name anymore I'm sorry!) and painted it with an even coat of white gesso.

This is how it looked like after embellishments. I'm using some flowers from Prima Marketing and from local craft stores (which were brandless). The floral vellum was made using Martha Stewart Adhesive Silkscreen with an even coat of white gesso.

And here's the final look!

I used Colourarte's Silks in Guatemalan Green, African Jade, Mango Tango and Pink Anthurium to achieve this result.

To achieve this soft-washed effect for the flower in the picture below, I simply dilute my colours and applied the colour with a wet brush at the bottom of the flower. The colour will spread and create this effect.

That's all for this tutorial!

Thanks for reading and I hope you like it!

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Recycle

Hello ORT friends,

Today I want to show my layout for our monthly challenge!

I loved the proposal to work with the theme of recycling!

The colors are beautiful and are perfect each other, and also love because they are the colors of the flag of my country.

Let's start?

1 - First, separate a textured white cardstock, watercolors, gelatos, brush and, spray with water.

2 - The first color brown, I know my watercolor in the tube. I diluted a bit of watercolor with water and

applied with the help of the brush, making splashes.

3 - I repeated the process with the color green.

4 - And I did the same procedure with the gelato. I used the baby wipe to spot the sheet.

5 - I made a circle with wire and put the photo.

6 - Now, decorate with flowers, sparkles and buttons.

7 - Add a title or journaling.

8 - With a fine tip pen, draw a frame.

Project details!

I hope you like the project!

This year was the last. See you again in January!

I wish a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!

Luciana W

October 2015 Challenge Winner

It's that time of the month again that we get to thank all of our members who entered the challenge. We all love to see how the mood board and design team have inspired you.

Congratulations 

Heike Bruhn

Please send Candy an email to claim you prize.

Natural Elements

Today we have Sandi on the blog with another one of her clever and gorgeous tutorials

Re-use, Recycle, Re-purpose project.

I have always enjoyed re-using or re-purposing items from my recycling box, I re-use wrapping paper where I can, ribbon, boxes, paper bags etc. Boxes are perfect instead of wrapping paper, giving your present a personal touch and making it very special for the person who receives it.

With my mums birthday coming up soon I thought it was a perfect time to decorate a box for her to place her present in. So while I was on my camping and geocaching holiday with my hubbie I thought I would take my scrapbooking supplies along and create this for my mum.

Items used:

Recycled items including:

-Cardboard box that I received my computer battery in.

- Photo of mood board printed for colour reference and picture inspiration 

- Bottle base found at my campground on the ground

-Ring pull from a can: found at my campground on the ground 

-Empty pill blister pack

-Twine from presents and miscellaneous places.

Natural elements from my camping holiday:

- feather from 'Kryal Castle' in Ballarat

-gum leaves and nuts

-flowers

Scrapbooking supplies:

-Ranger Gesso from Kaszazz

-Ranger Gel medium (matt) from Kaszazz

-Set of watercolours

-Deco Art media Crackle Paste White.

 1. Remove labels from box and cut out verse and recycle symbol. 'Green' one of our child care crocheted cats watched over the process of this project to be able to go back and share the techniques with the children ( the child care cats travel on holidays with our families and staff, writing about their adventures in their books.).

2. Place gesso on with spatula then let dry. Then add crackle paste to area you want to crackle.

 3. Using the flat side of the blister pack add gree water paint that has been mixed with Matt gel medium and then place the painted pack surface onto the gesso area of the box in a stamping style. Repeat with a yellow watercolour mix. 

4. Splat surface of box with orange, brown, green and yellow waterpaint.

 5. Thanks to my friend Fiona's inspirational idea, I have twine tied around my molding paste container ready for use. I have 1 string, 2 string variations.

 6. I looked around the campsite and found a variety of leaves, nuts, rubbish and flowers to use to decorate the box. 

7.I placed brown watercolour paint to the base of the broken bottle and when I placed it onto the box moved it slowly twisting it in a circular motion to obtain a circle and not just a dotted circular line.

  

8. Adding the verse and recycle symbol and the natural/recycled elements to my box finished off my project.

 

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