Traditional garland - with Jae Hee Lee

Hi, my Craft friends.

 

In February, our  Mood board  is a recycling operation.

 

 

Korea has a holiday called "New Year's Day" that celebrates the New Year.

Shall we share my work with you on the feeling of the New Year?

 

 

1. Prepare tape paper and small pieces of paper.

 

 

2. Apply white jetso to tape paper.

    

 

3. Prepare a piece of paper of the desired color.

    

 

4. They turn the paper around.

 

 

5. Each station puts tape paper on a paper strip.

 

 

6. Cut paper box into tag shape.

 

 

7. Attach a background paper over the tag shape and attach a traditional paper.

 

 

8. Attach tape on it and decorate it with various die cuts.

 

 

 

9. Stamping the impression of the New Year and attaching traditional knot and tassel.

 

Completion of New Year's Garland !

Garland with a feeling of holiday and Korean traditional feeling.

How is your recycling work?

Thanks for working with me.

 

 

Quick and Easy Background Technique

Hello and welcome. Narelle here. Today I have a really fun and easy technique to share with you. It is a background technique that will see you make three backgrounds with only one ink up of the stamp. Clever huh!

Before I show you how to do it, I wanted to show you the three cards I ended up with using this technique.

I will show you how to do it, then give you a better look at each card.

For this technique you will need a Stamparatus or other stamp positioning tool. You will also need 4 pieces of Whisper White card stock and a piece of Vellum all cut to the same card front size.

The first step is to place the vellum into the Stamparatus and position your stamps.

Now pick up the stamps with the acrylic lid, ink them up and stamp onto the Vellum.

Ink takes a long time to dry on Vellum and herein lies the secret to this technique.

Place two of your Whisper White pieces directly over the stamped Vellum piece. Then, without reinking the stamps, stamp again. Press firmly as you want to make sure that the wet ink on the vellum transfers to the piece of Whisper White card stock sitting directly on it.

This will create a mirror background as the ink transfers to the card stock, so that is your second background piece. The third background piece is created by the ink still left on the stamps transferring to the top piece of card stock.

I kept repeating this process until I had the leaves all around the edge of the card stock. When you are finished you are left with three background pieces that all look the same but different. You can see below that the bottom one is the original Vellum that I stamped on. The one in the middle is the piece of card stock directly above the vellum and the wet ink transferred to the card stock. The top piece is the top piece of card stock that got inked up with the remaining ink on the stamps.

I absolutely loved doing this technique. It was so cool to see it come together. And what a quick way to make a heap of backgrounds.

Here are the finished cards. All the same but different.

This first one is the Vellum card. I mounted the Vellum piece onto another piece of Whisper White so the stamping stood out as I backed it with Bermuda Bay card stock. The stamping was lost when I placed the Vellum onto the coloured card stock.

This one is the middle background where the ink transferred from the Vellum.

And this final one was ink left on the stamps when stamped the second time.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and will try this technique soon.

Thanks for dropping by.

Have a great day.

Cheers,

Narelle

February Challenge Reveal with the Design Team

Hi there fellow artists!

For the month of February, we'd like to see your projects based on recycling!  I'm sure that somewhere in your stash, there is at least one little item that you've kept aside to use on a layout!?  Now's your chance!

Have a look at how what our Design Team put together (and be sure to keep your eyes out for future inspirational projects through the course of this month!):

Lisa-Marie

Candy

Carol Theng

Cherie Craig

Scraplifting but using your own style - by CathyS

This month you have no doubt noticed that we have all been scraplifting out teammates. Well I chose to scraplift Lisa-Marie but then added the twist of my own style to the page too:

I really admire Lisa-Marie's many layers that she always uses on her layouts. They are very distinctive and so effective. This is the layout I was inspired by:

My only problem though is that I don't very often scrap single photo layouts so needed to find a way to incorporate multi-photos onto a single photo scraplift. You will see those three small photos on the bottom right, they were added after I had finished most of the layout... more in line with my style and just helped with telling the silly story. I also hand-journalled on my layout after I had photographed the finished page, just so that I would have the story, but it would be too personal to share here.

So my challenge to you is not to be scared of scraplifting a layout, but always remember to somehow make it your own and true to your style too.

Happy scrapping till next time,

CathyS

Cherie’s January 2019 Parents Layout

Morena from New Zealand.  Parents are our first foundation of family.  My dad passed late last year and so he has been in the forefront of my mind.  His oldest brother sent me some photos of my dad and his brother and sister that we had never seen before.  It was lovely to see my dad as a small boy and each time I look at the photos I see how like him my own brothers were as children, which is something we had never known.  My parents established firm foundations from which I have built my own family and looking back I am so grateful for these foundations.  

I generally like to use more than one photo on a layout to tell the bigger story.  The main photo is a 6x4 portrait and the smaller photos are 3x4 landscapes.  Start  by matting the photos.  The main photo is double matted – white then black.  The three smaller photos are single matted on white as older original photos would have been when printed.

I cut the circle frame in half and then tore down each side carefully, tearing towards me so the wide edge would be on the top. Then I inked both torn edges, using two different dye colours which I had pulled out of the colours on the circle frame.

Next play with the position of the photos – I place the main photos first and then the smaller photos.  Fussy cut around the elements on the circle frame so you can slide photos under so the elements are still visible.  Ink the edges of all cut pieces using the lighter ink.

Once you are happy with the placement of the photos position the large photo strip.  Ink the edges of the three tags.  I used the brighter ink colour for this.  Layer the tags and the smaller photo strips as shown.

Finally add some journaling if you want to the bottom tag and string to the tie hole.  I finished off by gluing some metal cog embellishments I buy through Ali Express for a reasonable price.

Happy scrapping fellow scrappy friends

Arohanui

Cherie

January Mid-month DT Reveal

Hey there Off the Rails fans... 

We are a little late with our mid month reveal - someone needs to slow January down!

This months challenge is all about new beginnings and we starting out as new parents. 
So get out the kids photos and have some fun with this challenge. 

Thank you Off the Rails Designers for the inspiration this month. 

Brenda

Lisa

Juili

This month our DT member Louise has kindly offered a package of scrappy goodies - posted for free in Australia.

Make sure you've checked out her blog and

YouTube channel: here

 Happy Scrapping.

Brotherly Love - Layout

Hello my friends!

Today is Luciana with you, after a long time without post!

This month we were challenged, the idea was to inspire ourselves in other designers of our team, and make the project inspired by your designer.

I chose friend Lisa Schill Moen. It has a simpler style, works with coordinated elements in a very cool way.

The hardest thing is to do a layot with only paper and cutouts and make it look beautiful! Without using other elements such as chipboard pieces, buttons, paste, flowers, etc.

Elements that I usually use and a lot in my projects.

But it's always good to get out of our comfort zone and make the neat scrapbook!

Our mood board this month is inspired by our parents.

This is my page.

I started the layout layout, overlapping the two chosen roles. Lastly I put a textured white cardstock. I used coordinated papers from the same collection, unfortunately I do not remember which brand are these papers.

I used a Mandarin Blush pigment from Coloarte in the background. Its glow is subtle, just to tone the background.

I used some Simple Stories stickers to decorate.

On the white cardstock I made the false seam, I stuck it and passed the thin black pen.

I put the title with alphabet stickers.

With scraps of torn paper I made details on the page, this one I used the stapler.

The jar is a cut of the paper itself, and I used pieces of tangled line.

I did a jornaling, pasted another golden title with alphabet sticker and stars.

This is Lisa's page that inspired me!

 I hope you enjoy and are inspired to participate in our challenge!