*{CraftChaos}*: July 2012

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

July tag: The Olympics

This is my July contribution for Tim Holtz

12 tags of 2012.

This time my tag is a card for the Olympic Games,

because the games will start coming Friday July 27.

I used the new bright colors of alcohol ink and pitch black. kraft papers

and a stamp with London on it from the Papillon set

and the rings stamp from the Bitty Grunge set.

This is the finished card. With layers of the Brittish flag as

kraft colors in the background as well as the ribbon.

I made the number out of metal from a can

of soda and used the numbers die that I won from Sizzix.

Why 30 you may ask, that is because these are

the 30th Olympic Games.

The rings are grungy and colored and sprayed with

canned air in the exact same colors of the Olympic rings.

I used: Sail Boat blue, Pitch Black and Watermelon on top

and Sunshine Yellow and Citrus green.

You can find all info of the 12 tags of 2012 on

the blog of Tim Holtz.

Have a creative day!

Baby Bragbook finished

Owen has come in our lives on July 2nd (2-7) of this year

and he is our little star!

He is the firstborn to my firstborn, who was born on the

7th of Feburary (7-2). Great date!

So here is the finished bragbook I made for him.

This book has only pictures of the first day he is with us.

The base of this book is a chipboard book with round tabs

that I bought especially to make this.

You will notice I used many different papers

and stamps from all kinds of different brands.

Here you see all the pages of the book. On the round tabs I

glued punched out yellow circles and you can read

Baby Owen on the tabs. I made the letters with a Tim

Holtz die called vintage market alphabet. You will notice

I have used these letters all over the book.

(larger version of all pictures when you click on them)

Background paper is by Paper Salon called bliss boy.

I love using papers that are great to use on both sides.

Behand dthe pictures there is some hidden journaling.

Paper here is by Basicgrey collection Nook&Pandry.

I found this cute baby feet embossing die that I used

here. The colored digital pictures are by Create with TLC.

Here you see one proud grandma!

Paper Salon paper again. Letters and frame are

by Michael Strong and embossed with glitter embossing powder.

The orange paper is by Echo Park, serie Dots and Stripes.

Stamps are by Stampin Up! Fund flowers and brads for

embellishments as well as some baker's twine.

More Echo Park paper. This time I used the Essentials set.

Onesies cut out with my cricut and some buttons added

with scrapfloss. A clothes hanger and some measuring tape

from Tim Holtz collection and baker's twine again.

Paper by My Mind's Eye and it is the Lime Twist collection.
Stamps by Stampin'Up!. Alle new titles are printed with
the computer Stars cut out with dies from Spellbinder.

This is the back of the book. Cute picture

of Owen's tiny feet. The subway art in the

background i found on the internet.

Just google baby boy saubway art.

Some ribbons are knotted to the bookbinding rings

that keep the pages together.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Brewed Awakenings 2

Good Morning!

Did you have your cup of coffee yet?

I did and here is my 2nd card with the

Club Scrap Brewed Awakenings paper.

It is a standing card made out of apiece

of 5,5"x 3,75" folded in half.

On top of the card I made a 4,75"x 3,25" pannel.

I decorated this backfround with the

stencil that is found in this kit.

You can use this stencil for cards as well ad

for scrapbook pages.

On the oval pannel (made with spellbinders)

I used a technique called: Pixel Embellishments

and the instructions for this technique can be

found on Splitcoaststampers HERE.

The charm and the fibre is included in the kit.

Are you awake now? Want to see more?

Soon........

Creative greetings,

Brewed Awakenings 1

Yesterday my new Club Scrap pizzabox arrived.

Inside was a kit called Brewed Awakenings.

This kit has not only scrappapers, but also

projects inside with tutorals to follow online

(you get a password when you buy the kit).

These tutorials by Kay Williamson and Tricia Morris

are very instructive and even have written

instructions to go with it as well.

Before starting to use the stamps,

they have to be prepared.

They are unmounted and need to be cut.

I want to share with you how I do this

before shareing all the artwork I make

out of this box.

I start with cutting the rubber and but it on a newspaper

with the backside up to smear "Mount-It" adhesive on it.

This needs to dry. It is a kind of glue that will stay sticky

and so i can use this to stick the stamp to an acrylic blog.

While waiting for the stamps to dry, I could not resisit

and use my old Club Scrap Mocha Java stamps and paper

to make these two cards. Unfortunately these stamps are

all sold out, but you can always try and find them on Ebay.

Now the stamps are dry. And one can stick them to a plastic

background. So this is what I do:

I make a mirrored copy of the sheet that comes with the stamps.

I glue them back to back and

I stick the sheet into a laminated pouch and laminate the

stamp sheet.

When the sheet has been trough the machine it is

ready to stick the stamps on.

When all the stamps are on the sheet, I keep

the stamps in a file like this:

On one side you can see the stamps and on the

otherside you see the rubber. I keep one year

of Club Scrap stamps in one folder.

Now I can stamp!

For my first project I used:

the stencil from the Brewed Awakenings box

the unmounted stamps,

a sheet op paper cut 4,5 x 5,5

one of the pannels

Club Scrap hybrid inkpad earth and sandstone

brads from my stash

First I used the stencil to add the word

coffee to the pannel. I made it in two colors

with the hybrid ink pads.

Light on the top and dark on the bottom.

When it was dry I stamped the cups and colored

them with the faber castel pencils from the

Full Circle kit.

With one of the word stamps I finish the stamping.

The border of the pannel is distressed and

added some earth color with a blender tool.

This is the finished card:

Please come back again to see the other

projects I am going to make soon.

Have a creative day!

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Create with TLC July Blog Hop

Hello all!

Here another Create with TLC Blog Hop with

Words, Timeless and Beautiful artwork for YOU.

I hope you came here via Jennifer's Blog

and grabbed her freebie and let yourself be inspired

by her wonderful artwork.

Now on to my work. I have stepped down from the

Design Team, because I have broken my arm 6 weeks ago

and slowly am getting back into crafting again.

Still need some fysiotherapy.

I am honoured to be part of this blog hope and you will be

surprised what this wonderful new design team

has in the making for you.

So let's go:

I have made two card this time.

The first card is one you can use for any ocassion.

( click on the image and safe it

to your computer for personal use).

This beautiful image is printed on paper, white

or as I have done on colored paper. I colored the
image with copic markers and used a little glitter glue
on the butterflies. The background is a few layers
of scrap paper on top of each other and the borders
are all distressed and colores with victorian lace distress ink.

Another reason why I stepped down from the
Design Team is because this week my first grandchild
was born and I need some time adjusting
(my DD and SIL live with us temporarily).

So for my second card I used the image for
a scrap card with a photo of my new grandson.
Today he is 6 days old