Card tutorial with Julie

Hello to all of our Off The Rails Scrapbooking friends.

Today I am sharing a card tutorial with you. I have made this card to send to my Mum with a letter inside because I know that she checks her letterbox each day and I think it would be nice for her to receive a surprise letter.

This is the card. Hope you are inspired to get your bits and pieces out and create along with me.

I have used a 6" x 6" card base in a pearlised cream. For my patterned papers I have chosen a Kaisercraft 6 1/2" paper pad and Collectables from the Secret Garden range. A couple of old flowers that I have layered on top of each other and secured with a brad, a beautiful lace motif that my Mother gave me and some diamanties.

I have cut a piece of patterned paper the same size as the card, distressed the edges, adding a small tare on the top edge. All of the papers used on this card have distressed edges that have then been inked with a black Versa Colour ink pad.

This was then attached to the front of the card base.

I then chose a self patterned piece of paper and cut it to 5 1/2" by 5 1/2", treated the edges and attached it centrally on the patterned paper using foam tape

The 3rd piece pf patterned paper was cut to 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", edges treated the same as the other papers and attached 1/2" in from the left hand edge of the second patterned paper

I found a little run of hearts in the collectables packet so I inked the edges of it and attached it along the edge of the patterned papers as shown here.

Using my hot glue gun I attached the pink flower and the lace motive to the card.

I also found an assortment of embellishments that I wanted to include on the card in the collectable pack. The blue arrow is attached using the hot glue gun also as I have stuck it on top of the flower and I wanted to ensure it was going to stay in place.

The blue ticket was attached to the sentiment using glue and then the sentiment was attached to the card using foam tape

I thought the flower needed a bit of greenery around it so I dug around in the collectables again and found the leaves and attached them  as shown.  The diamanties were also added at this stage.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and I would love to see what you create using this as inspiration.

Thanks for coming by Off The Rails Scrapbooking today

Till next time

Hug

Julie

Packaging Transfer Technique by Sanna

Hello there! The other day while I was creating a layout, I finished a sheet of word thickers and was left with a piece of white shiny paper the thickers had been attached to. I also had some ink daubers standing on my table. That moment it came to my mind that I might be able to use the white piece of packaging paper like a craft sheet. So I tried how it would work.

I wiped some dauber ink onto the surface and then pressed a piece of white paper onto it. Worked really well! 

There even was enough residue ink left over to take a second "print". This time the colour was not so strong anymore and you could even see the forms of the thickers peeking thru the ink on the paper - can you see the slight heart pattern on the background?

I even made a third generation background from the same inked area. There the colours and patterns are very soft, but I find it still makes a great background. Since this piece of paper is punched, the ink also seeped into the lines where the words used to be and created additional deco elements. So I fussy cut the heart and used it on one of the cards as an embellishment. 

Then I just glued the pieces on my card bases and decorated them. This is how they turned out:

For this card I used only a piece of that inked paper, stamped with a script stamp over the ink and added some doodling around the edges. I also added a piece of glitter tulle and some leftover butterflies I had punched out previously from other leftover paper pieces. 

This card background is made form the second generation print and I added some faux stitching around the big heart and then drew some additional stitched hearts here and there. After that I added some melted silver crayon droplets and various embellishments. By the way, the flower is punched from paint sample sheet. I used two different colours, layered them over each other and fastened them together with a brad.

This card is made from the first generation print. I have added some stamping, yarn and silver wax crayon as decoration. I also layered some older flowers to a bigger one and added a brad on top. See the white heart in there? that is the one I fussy cut from the sheet :). So I have again managed to accomplish some serious stash busting with these cards. Hope you get inspired and have some fun with your stash!! 

Sanna

Distress Glitter and Chipboard - The Perfect Match

Hello there, Sanna here with another post on how I try to use my stash up. Now some of you probably also have these grey chipboard pieces stored in your stash. I have them too :). So far I found it quite hard to use them, but not after I discovered Distress Glitter. I love to play with grey chipboard pieces and cover them with Distress Glitter!!

Here are a few cards I created:

The chipboard pieces look now much better in my opinion :). And I am starting to notice a slight difference in my stash already!!!

Happy crafting,
Sanna

Splashing Good Times

Hello friends!

Jelissa in today to share a layout I created for Off the Rails Scfrapbooking with some tips on how to use up stash as well as a fun way to use your Ranger's Distress Stains.

Here's the very simple layout:

I used white card stock for my background and some of my friend Olga Heldwin's new paper collection (available at the 13arts store). 

For my background, I upcycled some old Thickers which I have not used for ages. It doesn't matter what color or font you have, just cover them with a layer of gesso and they are ready to be altered. 

To create the splatters, all I did was point my Distress Stain bottle downwards at the card stock and gave a very gentle but firm tap. If you want more dramatic splatters, just hold your bottle a little higher and come in with a little bit more force. 

Thanks for dropping by!

Using Up Your Stash

Hi there! One of my goals this year has been to use my stash and I mean really try to use it up!! I have quite a lot of product stored in my scrap room and it needs to be used. Some of the products are quite old already and not so trendy anymore, so I sometimes find it hard to incorporate those on my scrapbooking layouts. What I do then is I create cards. They are perfect for using up older product!

Here are three cards (well, four, but three with step-by-step photos) I created with some "older" product. I also combined some newer or my favorite products with the older ones, that way it was not so hard to use it all :).

These are some of the products I chose to use. It includes some old journaling stickers, some REALLY old rub-ons (they are from the time I originally started scrapbooking) and then just some older, but not that ancient rub-ons that I don't use anywhere else anymore.

For the first card I used the green and blue rub-on flowers (the really old ones). I combined them with a stamped modern background and used a My Favorite Things stamp set with some Hero Arts shadow inks for stamping the background image.

Next I added some Glimmer Glaze splatters over the stamped area. This is one of my recent favorite products and I use it practically everywhere. Talk about an addiction ;-) ...

Next I just took a piece of white plain cardstock and rubbed the flower rub-ons onto the paper, then fussy cut them. After that I took some 3D foam tape and glued the flowers on their places. All I needed to do next was to stamp the sentiment and my first card was done. This is how it looks like:

over to the next one :)...

Remember the paper tapes by Heidi Swapp? They are a tad older product too. I have those in my stash (of course) and I wanted to use some on this card. I first dry embossed the card base with a Sizzix dry embossing folder and then cut a long strip of the Heidi Swapp paper tape and glued it down alongside the embossed edge.

Next I took some journaling stickers and glued them down on a piece of white cardstock.That way their backs will not be sticky. I then adhered 3D foam behind them and layered them over each other.

I also covered the sewing machine picture with the second label as it didn´t in my opinion match the card theme at all.

After that I added a stamped circle sentiment to go with the label cluster.

I then added some wooden embellishments and a couple rub-on hearts from a rub-on booklet I haven´t been using that much. Now I only need to add a sentiment and the second card was ready. And it looks like this:

and now to the next card:

For this card I used two pieces of leftover patterned paper and some of the rub-ons showed above.

I adhered the rub-ons onto a piece of white cardstock, then fussy cut those and glued them down onto the card with 3D foam pads. The banner shaped piece of patterned paper was my starting point for this card.

I then added a second piece of patterned paper over the banner, some more rubbings as well as a stamped sentiment that I fussy cut and then glued down on it´s place. These cards are all really fast and easy to make and perfect for using that older stash up. This is what the third card looked like:

 And here is one more card idea you could use leftover pieces and older product for:

Take a piece of leftover blue cardstock, place a stencil over it (I used a The Crater´s Workshop stencil here) and apply blue ink. Next take a sheet of leftover alphas and randomly adhere them over the stencilled area. After that add a piece of leftover ribbon and some random die cut pieces, tabs or tags that you have in your stash as additional decoration and your card is done. I´ve used Sassafras "die cut cards" for this purpose. This makes a nice card for a little boy´s birthday :).

I hope these cards inspire you to take a second look at your stash and use those products you keep on organizing from a to b, but actually not using (we all do that, don´t we). But now it´s about time to reduce some of that stash :). Have fun creating!!!

xoxo, Sanna 

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