Club Scrap Artist Team is travelling

This is the Club Scrap June kit: National Park

We were asked to create something that has to do

with traveling. As I have just been on holiday,

I have some great pictures frommy trip to Italy

and the colors of this kit fit perfectly.

What I love fromClub Scrapis their ALSB instructions.

You find them HERE.

This way it is easy to scrap your photo's.

As I have my mind on other things, like are the babies going

to be born when i need my projects to be finished, I kept it

fairly simple this time.

Also I needed to decorate my photo diary of my vacation.

The book was dark blue and i started out by putting

a layer of gesso on it.

Gesso is quickly dry and i could go on to

the next layer.

Next I took some distress acrylic paint. With a dabber

it is easy to color. I used tie dye.

For decoration I used the Adobe stencil and 

the mahogany distress dabber.

Here is the finished front of my book.

The ribbons are frommy stash.

A close up on the decoration.

This was a quick and easy way to decorate my book.

This month I just don't have more time

for elaborate techniques.

If you want to see the first inside page of my book,

please go here:

http://craftchaos.blogspot.nl/2015/06/sunday-scrap-page-italy.html

For all projects of the artist team, see the main post

on the Club Scrap Blog.

There is more to see at:

Debbie's Blog

Roni's Blog

Wendy's Blog

Thanks for looking,

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Italy

The page for today is the opening page of my vacation diary.

Tomorrow you can see the front of my diary.

For this page I have used:

Clup Scrap National Parks June 2015 papers

Club Scrap Destinations July 2010 sentiment

Michael Strong circle, alphabet and mini bird stamp.

Tim Holtz Rays stencil

Chocolate Baroque Echoes of Italy stamp

For the sun and the rays, I used Fossilized Amber distress ink

(one of Tim's new colors). I used it with a blender tool

for the rays. For the sun I stamped it and embossed it with

clear embossing powder. For some extra shine I added a 

few tiny sticky gemstones.

The mini bird is stamped and embossed with copper 

embossing powder and cut out and added with foam tape.

The letters are stamped on green paper with white embossing powder

and cut out with a punch. This way  the Italian colorsof the flag

come alive in this page.

This sentiment is embossed with red embossing powder.

Now this is finished, i can go back to the inside of the book.

I am sure you wil see more soon.

Thanks for looking!

Have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch Card: photo card

Here another card with a photo my friend has send me.

Of course for today I looked for a sketch i could use

and I found it on the Retro Sketch Blog.

For the background I used some papers from my 

scrap blocks.I cut the picture and the layer with

some photo spellbinder dies.

The shell is a stamp by Michael Strong and is first embossed it

with silver embossing powder. This stamp also has a matching die.

First cut the die out of a piece of scrap paper and lay this on top 

of the stamped image. Mark the dotswith a pen.

Then lay the die on top of the image and make sure

the tine dots match the dots on the sides of the die.

The use your cutting machine and this is the result.

Here the inside of the card.

I added another shell and a plain one stamped with 

Mike's paisley background stamp.

The sentiment on this card is digitaland printed

with the computer.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

I want to enter this card for

the Retro Sketch challenge

Cuttlebug Mania: use a sentiment

Creative Color challenge: Ocean theme

Cardz 4 Guyz: use a die or punch

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap National Parks Blog Hop

This month the Club Scrap kit is called

~ National Parks~

and I hope you came over here from 

Janet's Blog

and enjoyed seeing her wonderful project for this hop.

Now you won't believe me saying this: but this kit

 was not for me, no feeling with parks at all.

As you know paper has two sides and I do love

 the colors of this kit  These colors are perfect for:

coffee cards!

so I got out my coffee stencil and stamps from

Wat's Brewing to make this card.

The background is layers made with the stencil

and the burlapthat came with this kit is a 

perfect embellishment.

Also the colors of this kit are great for my Italy

pictures. I took the ALSB instructions and 

used layout 13&14 

You find these free instructions HERE.

As you turn the pages all of them have a plain color.

That makes a boring page,so out come the stencils!

With the adobe stencil and some acrylic paint

 ( antique linnen) I decorated the paper.

And for the kraft colored paper I used the stencil 

fromCape Cod , ink and a blender tool.

If you loose your way along the hop,

you can always go back to the main page on the 

Club Scrap Blog, where you find all

the links tothe blogs that participate.

Now for the next blog, you can see what

Cathy Grey

has come up with for you.

Happy Hopping!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop sneak peek

Here a little sneak peek of

 my post for tommorow June 24:

Have a creative day!

Morning Coffee

While waiting for a friend to arrive

I decided to go into my craft room

for some cleaning up........

but then I noticed an unfinished tag 

and some stamps and just could not resist myself!

So after an hour or say playing instead of cleaning,

this is the finished tag!

I had that tag lying on my table distressed with coffee

stains. So with Tim's star stencil and some red distress ink

I added some sparks to the background.

On the top of the tag I made this embellishment from shrink plastic.

It is a stamp from my stash, stamped with black ink on the shrink plastic

and cut out with a circle die. Made the hole before shrinking!

The sentiment is a stamp from the Club Scrap Mocha Java um stamps.

Stamped on white paper,distressed with tie die ink and cut.

Glued to the background and with a black marker added 

the boxes around the words.

The bird is from the wonderful stamp set

Crazy Birds by Tim Holtz.

I stamped it twice. First on the tag to have the 

little feet there and then on white paper

for coloring. I also used the Dot Fade stencel by Tim

on the bird to give it a little extra.

I colored the bird with distress markers,not direct to the paper,

but used the marker on my craft sheed, added a few drops

of water and used a pencil to color.

After cutting out the burd, I placed it with foam  tape

on the stamped bird on the tag.

The tree branch is a sizzix die from Tim and the leaves

are a small hand punch.

This coffee die is an old QuicKutz die called

coffee and tie and you can use it with the big shot too!

I decorated the cup with some Club Scrap stamps.

Now I want to enter this tag for these challenges:

Challenge up your Life: Monochrome

Sweet Stampin': Bingo Board: Distress- Brown - Trees

Allsorts: Use a stamp
Fantasy Stampers: Favourite color:coffee color!

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Have a creative day!