Club Scrap Botanical Blog Hop

Welcome to the Club Scrap Monthly Blog Hop.

This time the spotlight is on the April kit

~Botanicals~

Hope you arrived here from Deb Weller's Blog
and enjoyed her wonderful art work.

Last week I had to make something inspired by
pinterest for the Artist Team Blog post
and because my pizzabox arrived so late
I did not have much time and there was another technique
I wanted to try. I saved it to share here with you
in combination with my project.

For the technique I want to share with you
I got out my Distress Stains and tried to
match them up with the Botanical papers.

and the technique i will be using is called "Bingo Blast".

Why? well use your distress stains like you play bingo.

Push them wih a liitle force on your paper and

if you use different colors you get something like this:

Doesn't this look like flowers? I helped it a little more

with stamping some of the flower stamps on top.

For the stamping I used black ink.

The result of using this background is this:

The sentiment is one of the cut outs, that came with the kit

as well as the ribbon and the shiny brads.

This is how it looks when you stamp on top

with more colored inkpads.

And from that background i made this gatefold card.

On top Iused a stamped flower and one of the woodsies

 that came with this kit. The sentiment is printed

with the computer in the font that belongs to this kit.

For this background I stamped the flower with

versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder.

On topof the flower a splashed the ink. 

I thought it was a little to white,

so I added some of the other colors.

Then cut it into 4 squares and colored all sides with green ink.

With  a spellbinder I cut out 4 squares from the light green paper

and taped the stamped images on top. I was not going to use

these for a card,but for some table decoration.

I took  decorated 12x12 piece of paper and cut this into

a 10,5"x 10,5"square. Score at 3,5"and 7" both ways

and cut to make this into a box.

Decorate the box first with a ribbon and add the

stamped images on top with foam tape.

The next blog with Botanical inspiration'
is Janet's Blog.

If you happen to loose your way,you can always
goback to the Club Scrap Blog
where you find all the participants.

Thank you for looking.
Have a creative day!

Sunday scrap page: tulips

Sunday scrap page with tulips in a pocket page.

These pockets for scrapping make it so easy to fill a page.

The photo's on the left are just tucked into the pocket.

The right site is a pocket of 6 x 12 inch and is filled with a piece of

Club Scrap Homestead green paper stamped with the large

tulip stampby Michael Strong. I only stamped lightly with red ink

for i wanted it to be a soft background image to the pictures.

On the top I used the smaller tulip stamp for decoration.

I stamped it in versamark and embossed it with red  embossing

powder. After heating it with the heatgun, I turned the paper

and layed it on a soft rubber from a mousepad  and used one of those

pergamano pens on the back to emboss the flower. This way the 

white showed through the red of the flower.

The journaling is printed on vellum,so you see the stamped

background through.It is fasted with tiny red bads.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Saturday card: Lily

Birthday card today for avery good

stampoing friend with

  Michael Strong's

Lily stamp set.

Here is how I made this card:

I started with stamping the background with

a light grey and leaving a strip of white.

Then I covered the stamped area

and with orange and green ink I covered

the white strip.

This is how it looks when the strips of post-it have 

been removed. Ready for stamping.

I stamped the large lily in black on top of

the strip and a sentiment is also added.

To finish off the card I added tiny sticky

gemstones in the heart of the flower.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team: Pinterest inspiration

Today the Artist team of Club Scrap

shares with you where they

got their inspiration.

Yes, on pinterest! This is such a large

board of inspiration, there is always

something that  tickles you to get crafty.

I chose to cards with these techniques:

1. colored strip:

http://karrenj.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/delicate-florals.html

2.bokeh,

 a technique I wanted to try for some time:

http://www.createwithme.com/2014/09/bokeh.html

On the Club Scrap Blog I shared 

2 cards more or less like the card I found.

This time I used the colored paper

of the Botanical kit. It comes also with this

wonderful sentiment, that fits the colored strip

just perfectly.

The second technique is the "Bokeh" technique.

On the Club Scrap Blog I did it as I found the tutorial

on watercolor paper. Then I had the idea of just

adding the ink right to the white paper and see

if i had a same impression.I taped down the whate paper 

with washi tape o all 4 sides. Thenused 3 colors

for the background and colored randomly.

Used the transparant circles and

white inkpad for the bokeh effect.

This is how it ends up after I finished with the 

white ink. It is just more brighter then with

the watercolor paper.

I stamped on the background with one of

 the UM Botanical stamps and purple ink.

For the finished card I printed the sentiment 

using the Cardenio Modern Font.

The flower is stamped and die cuted with a circle 

punch and cut in with scissors.

In the middle all is hold together with

a colored brad that also came with the kit.

Thank you for looking and I hope you

come back on April 29 for more Botanical

inspiration with the Club Scrap Blog Hop.

Have a  creative Day!

Happy Earth Day

When I opened my computer this morning

I noticed google had an image. This always means somethig

and it happens to be Earth Day today!

What a coincidence I had planned to do

some seeding with Owen today.

What a fun way to celebreate Earth Day.

We planted seeds for sunflowers.

Now we have to wait to see them grow.

But ofcourse I had to make a card too.

I got out my distress stains and papers

and gottowork:

I did the direct to paper method and

sprayed some water drops on it to.

I used broken china and the new

cracked pistachio.

And here is the finished card.

I used Club Scrap papers from my stash

(meaning I don't know from what kit)

The border and sentiment are from Take Wing

and the flower from this month Botanicals kit.

Have a creative day!

Sunday scrap page: Garden Center

Yesterday I shared with you a new technique

I found on internet on a card, today I used the technique

on a scrap page.

If you are interested in the technique

(it is super easy!) take a look here:

http://www.howweelearn.com/gorgeously-groovy-tie-dye-art-kids/

This week I took my grandson to the gaden center

for picking out some new flowers for the garden.

 

The border of this page is created with flowers,

a ribbon and a sentiment.

The papers for this page are by Club Scrap

and are from the kit Bon Apetit (June 2012).

The word "hello" is a die from Stampin'Up!

and the flowers are the large and mini cloisonné flowers

by Michael Strong. I embossed them with a mix

of embossing powder I have fromall kinds of left overs.

The heart of the flower is a punched out piece

of blackpaper.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC. I was looking

through the sentiments I have and this one seemed just

a fun one to add to this page for i take Owen on many 

learning experience trips!

Thank you for looking and

have a creative day!

Saturday card: pastel background

I discovered this wonderful technique on internet

and I had to give it a try.

You find all the details here:

http://www.howweelearn.com/gorgeously-groovy-tie-dye-art-kids/

You need:

watercolor paper

oilpastels

and an eraser

First you color with the pastels

and then you use the eraser.

A very simple but beautiful technique

that makes beautiful backgrounds.

For the card I used

Michael Strong's mini cat stamp

and a sentiment from an old StampinÚp! set

called Here, Kitty Kitty!

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day.