Tutorial tags with kraft and foil by Luciana Warnowski

Hello friends, Luciana today with you!

You turned out how beautiful our mood board is? How much inspiration this month?

And today we will make beautiful tags with kraft paper, sewing and foil. 

1 - Cut two tags to the desired size on kraft paper and sew the edge.

I sewed a tag on the machine because it broke.

I finished seams in hand!

 2 - Choose some texts or words for your tag in adhesive rub-on and apply foil

 3 - Make splashes with metallic or other acrylic paint.

 4 - Paint a doily, I used Color Bloom to paint.

5 - Decorate with flowers and chipboard.

6 - Paint the ribbons with Color Bloom.

 7 - Apply sequins to finish.

Products: christine adolph foil card kit flora bella #971793, prima marketing flowers #564469, 590420, vinetta meadowlark #556105, french riviera #586133, royal ,enagerie diana #583354, color bloom 2 colors spring dan delion #588748, fairy pond #588823, acrylic paint art alchemy metallique pink blush #963217, rich turquoise #963231, chipboard momento divertido, lace ribbon, sinshine yellow sequins and princess mix sequins by dress my craft, gem-tac permanent glue.

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Dawid's mixed media tag tutorial + video

Hello everyone.

Today I decided make a mixmedia tag. I made a video, where you can see, how I made them.

And my video for you.

Hope you like it,

thank you for visiting

Dawid

Xmas cards, easy and fast.

Hi Off the Rails Scrapbooking readers!

Here is Tamy, all the way from Brazil :) 

I am here today to share something cool, pretty and easy with you.

Giving a card along with a gift is always a thoughtful choice. In Brazil for Christmas, we have a tradition among friends and family that we call "Secret Friend", I believe you guys call it "Secret Santa"? I love being part of it, do you?
Well, with this in mind I created this beautiful holiday card, hope you enjoy it!

The clipbord box is always a good choice when you have to create a card, specially if you have to do it in a short period of time.

First you must choose the decorations you will want in your card and than you have to grab:

-Card base (the size you desire)

-A decorative paper to add to the base

-Laces, ribbons, buttons, anything you like... 

Paste the decorative paper ate the base of the card using double-sided tape or glue.

I used a red satin ribbon through an ornament and than made a bow. I made a flag with tracing paper and to decorate it I traced dots using a white pen.

On the decorations I used foam tape (3D tape) and added it to my card creating a cute finish. I hope you have enjoyed this project :)

I would like to thank you all with all my heart. I have just started with handmade scrapbook and the experience of sharing them with you make me very happy.

My work is made with a lot of love and care so I hope you guys are enjoying my projects and 'spending time' with me.

For the next year I wish we can make art and may all our dream come true.

Merry Christmas to you all and a wonderful 2016

♥If you like it, please leave a comment ♥

God bless you

♥ Find me ♥
Tamires Giroto
XOXOXOXOXO

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Make Something Useful For Next To Nothing

Making Something Useful For Next to Nothing

Hello, it's Wendy here to show you how I made this guest book for my niece's recent birthday. I chose black, silver and pink because they were the colours of the decorations at her party.

It cost around $4 and scraps from my stash to make this and my niece loved it. First I started with a water colour sketch book.

I chose this because it's acid free, which gives the flexibility to add photos to go along with the guests' autographs and memories. The problem with this book though was that it had a plastic, see through front cover and a brown cardboard back cover.  So, I covered the front and back with black card stock.

This is the front cover. A 12x12 piece of black cardstock, cut like this, was a perfect fit. I did this for the back cover too. I glued the flaps to overlap and provide extra strength - effective, but not very pretty. So I covered the inside joins with some glitter patterned cardstock, on the inside of the front and the back covers, to give a nice finish. 

Next step, I used Washi tape to decorate both covers, and provide extra strength.

Then I glued two layers of organza ribbon and a layer of glitter tape across the front and back covers like this.

I extended the ribbons so they could be used as a tie to keep the book closed.

Then I started to add the embellishments. Firstly a metal embellishment, topped with a flower, for both the front and the back.

That's the back finished, now for the rest of the embellishments on the front, including a photo of the guest of honour.

My niece loves bling and champagne, so I took my lead from there. I had metal champagne embellishments and bling in my stash .... so no problem. The final bit of  decorating was to pretty up the spiral spine. This I did with pieces of ribbon in the black, silver, pink colour palette.

The very last step was to spray the front and back covers with a protective cote of fixative. I used Crystal Kote in matt.

I hope I've given you some ideas. Thank you for stopping by.

Cheers

Wendy :)

Pretty Things

Hi Off the Rails fans!

It's Sue here with you today sharing a quick & easy project I recently created for my daughter's bedroom. We are always looking for "pretty" things to add to her room, and when I found some mini wooden frames lurking in my craft cupboard I decided to make them into something cute for her.

Here is what I created...

To create this wall hanging, I started with my 3 tiny frames like this...

After removing the glass, I gave them a very light coat with white spray paint, which I then rubbed back with sandpaper to give them a worn, shabby look.

I then cut a piece of patterned paper to fit in each frame and adhered the wood veneer pieces on top. (All patterned papers and wood veneer pieces are by Cocoa Vanilla Studio.)

Next, I cut a length of wide satin ribbon and affixed it to the back of the frames using hot glue. (Had the frames been larger or heavier than these, I would recommend using a staple gun for this step. Fortunately, these are so tiny the hot glue is sufficiently strong enough.)

Once dry, I was able to affix to the wall using only a thumbtack. (I told you it was only light!) It was such a quick, easy and inexpensive project. And the best part was  - she loved it!

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to come back regularly and see what other inspiring ideas the Design Team has in store for you.

Happy scrapping!

Sue X

Ravishing Ribbon

Hello there! Not only do I own lots and lots of washi tape, I also have managed to gather and hoard many boxes full of all kinds of ribbons. I have lace, velvet, organza..you name it! I then had been using netting (like the one that comes with veggies from the grocery store) recently on a few cards like a stencil and thought that this technique would probably also work with ribbons. So I went and tried:

 I first took a piece of blue plain cardstock (also a color I don´t use that often, so good for this kind of experiments) and placed a wide lace ribbon over the paper and protected the rest of the cardstock with a piece of office paper. I then sprayed the lade with white ink (Dylusions) and carefully lifted the lace.

This is the result. A lovely lacey pattern. I then added some ink splatters for additional interest. You know me, cannot live without ink splatters :). 

Next I placed the wet side of the ribbon onto the blue cardstock and used a brayer to press the wet ink onto the paper. This now created a really nice opposite image of the ribbon. You have to be fairly quick as the ink soaks into the ribbon and dries up quite fast. 

This is how the finished cardstock piece looks like. 

And this is what I made out of that paper. I really like the look of these Christmas cards!

I also made a second piece and used it as a layout background. Now just imagine the possibilities here! You can not only use those ribbons, but also find ways to use up your colored cardstock tones you might otherwise not want to use. 

Have fun experimenting!!!

Sanna