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.

Thank you for visiting us!

I hope you are inspired and participate in our challenge! See you soon!

March Mid month reveal with the DT

Welcome to the mid month DT reveal.

The team have some really great projects and you've still got plenty of time to join this months moodboard + stitching challenge.

Here are three projects to get your creativity flowing...

Luciana

Joan

Dawid

This month we thank our two wonderful sponsors:

Great inspo from the DT.

Hope you can play along.

Louise
xo

Scrapbook layout tutorial with Candy

Welcome again to another month

My layout today is made from a kit I bought from Kitaholics.

And yes the photo is off my grand daughter Zarna Rose.

The heart was printed on the pattern paper.

So I cut it out carefully with a craft knife. I used a needle and

carefully poked some holes around the heart design, 

Then hand sewed around the heart with the twine.

I also added some thin gold washi tape. 

I cut a piece of cardstock and taped it to the back of the background piece to fill the heart hole shape.

Using foam tape, tape the heart to the background. 

I have added flowers, papers and embellies to the layout and also went around using my 

finger with gold paint and then added some black ink to the edges as well.

Products used

White cardstock

Simple Stories Love and Adore collection papers

Pink and white twine

Thin gold washi tape

Black ink pad

White doily

Chipboard frame

Kaisercraft gold paint

Prima flowers

Wood veneers

Flair button

Puffy stickers

Thank you for visiting

Candy Chelepy

2017 design team

Louise's stitching scrapbook layout + process video "Happy"

Hi Crafters

Louise with you today, sharing a new layout for the March moodboard

"Happy"

This month we are challenging you to use the inspiration board and include stitching on your project.



I just love the bright colours of the board.
I've replicated this and used lots of blue and pink + patterns.

I could have stitched around the whole layout, but I really like the minimal stitching at the top.

I've used papers and elements from the Maggie Holmes "Chasing Dreams" collection - so pretty.

Here is the process video for completing this page.



Thanks for visiting.

March 1st Challenge reveal with the Design Team

Hello Crafters

Welcome!
We hope you'll love our March challenge as much as we do ...

This month we'd like you to be inspired by this moodboard.

As an added challenge - your project should also include stitching.

Our team has done a fabulous job to inspire you ...

Candy

Tania

Louise

As always we are grateful to our fabulous sponsors ...

So much inspiration!
We can't wait to see your creations.

Happy scrapping!

Louise xo

A Hand Stitched Background

Hello everyone!

Nicole here today and I am so excited to be sharing with you 

my first tutorial post for Off the Rails Scrapbooking!

You've probably already seen my layout HERE on the mid-month DT reveal on April 16th,

inspired by the beautiful green and pink mood palette, and you might have wondered 

how I created the stitched hexagon design on my background. 

Well, read on because I'm going to show you!

First, I used a stencil as my guide, overlaying it my background paper 

and lightly tracing the desired pattern with a pencil on to the paper.

 

It's a bit difficult to see because I went very light with the pencil,

 but you can still make out the original pattern of the mask.

I then took out one of my favorite and most used crafty tools, my piercer, 

and a good old block of styrofoam.

With the styrofoam block underneath my paper, I started piercing each corner of the hexagons.

I sometimes used the stencil as a guide for my piercing to make sure 

that all my holes were at the right places.  I also decided to create 

a smaller circle pattern among the hexagons by piercing 6 holes 

at the corner of each tip where they intercept.

You can now see the holes that will need stitching.

I was then ready to erase the pencil lines.

I decided to start stitching the smaller circles as they would then serve as guide

for the stitching of the hexagons.  I used 1 strand of regular pink embroidery thread.

Always keeping the desired pattern in mind, I went on stitching tiny circle after tiny circle.

Then came the hexagons' turn!  I used 2 strands of black thread for the hexagons 

to make them pop out more against the green background.

I make sure to keep everything together on the back of my background with regular tape.

Here's a close-up of the my stitched pattern.

You can see that the thickness of the 2 strands make the hexagons stand out more.

And there you go... 

You can now see how it all looks on my finished layout.

Those who are familiar with my work know that I add handmade stitches to most of my layouts.

Yes, it does take more time and patience, but you will agree that the end result is worth it.

And you can use any stencil as a guide or even draw in your own pattern

 (as I often do) so the possibilities are endless.

Stitching just gives any project that extra creative touch that says 'handmade from the heart'. :)

Thank you for joining me today!

If you want to see more of my creations, visit me on my blog HERE.