Club Scrap October Artist Team YouTube Challenge

Last month the Artist Team looked at Club Scrap's Pinterest for

inspiration. This month it is 

Club Scrap's You Tube Channel

that we are looking for inspiration. 

Wow are there many tutorials to choose from!

 I had a hard time picking one. 

I hope you have arrived here from

Jennifer's Blog

and seen what video she had picked.

You find all participants on the 

Club Scrap Blog.

Now  here is what I picked: a card folio.

I thought with Christmas soon, I make a version

with Christmas cards.

Below you find Tricia's card folio video tutorial

and if you want to read about it and  print all

the instructions than you go to

 the Club Scrap Blog HERE. 

I went through all my boxes for papers, stamps and digital images

so please forgive me if I do not mention all the kits I used.

I had a package of the Quad Prints to use for the 

outside of  the card kit and on the cards as well.

This is the closed card kit, that is absolutely fun 

and easy to make if you follow all Tricia's inscructions

and have the printed paper sizes and scoring at hand.

Here the open card kit. It fits easy 6 cards and

as much enveloppes. A great gift too.

Here my 6 cards in the pocket of the kit

and here a quick look at all of them.

Here the first two cards. I love my Gnome stamps.

(The girl version is still available)

The images are colored with zig markers.

The snowflakes and sentiment are rubber stamps 

from Shades of Winter.

 For the 3rd card I  made use of the digital version 

of the Gnome for the Holidays and the owl rubber stamp

from the Scandinavia kit. For the female gnome there 

is a seprate digital version here.

For the 4th card I used the quad paper and rubber stamps

from the Celebrate kit (Jan 2016). The Happy New Year

stamp is from Verve stamps.

For the firework stamps I used two colors of ink that I applied

befor stamping.

Card 5 and 6 are so called bridge cards. You fold them flat

for sending, but once out of the envelop you have them folded 

out and standing up.

Here is the flat version. The left side is in a fold

and the right sight is open. 

The card measures 4,25 inch x 5,5 inch flat.

Here is the card folded out. Inside I stamped the sentiment

and outside i uded the digital images. The gnomes are cut out 

with scissors.

Here another one. I just loved the sentiment and

had to use it. Hope you get lots

of inspiration for your Christmas card.

Now hop over to

 Pam's Blog

and see what she has found interesting to make

and give it her own twist.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Artis Team Challenge: one layer

Welcome to another great  Club Scrap

Artist Team challenge. So what is the challange

this month?

Inspired by Tricia's May blog hop layout,

the June challenge is to create pages or cards

with ONE LAYER (not including the photo).

Hopefully you have arrived here from

Jennifer's Blog
and seen what she has come up with.

Here is my contribution: a scrapbook page.
I happen to make this picture last Tuesday when we  were
babysitting the twins and I just knew this was for the Challenge.

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While we have coffee the twins get cookies and they

both love to help to make the coffee too!

So i started out with making the strip behind the photo

by cutting a piece of scrap paper  12 x 3 inch and

fasten this with washi tape to the background. 

With a blending tool and brown ink the shadow of this

strip is crrated.

Next the scrap paper is cut in half and laid down on 

the line of the border and then used the coffee ring 

stamp from the original Mocha Java kit.

I cut some of the rings to fold over the picture to 

intertwine the picture into the collage background

(this was done after I did all the collage stamping).

I used stamps from several of the past Club Scrap kits"

Feb 2013 Up Up and Away: newspaper and some sentiments 

Feb 2011 Comic stamp and sentiments

2007Mocha Java Remix row of cups

2016 Coffee Break sentiment

Also some handwritten sentiment are added

 with a black marker. 

The comic stamp is colored with pencil.

Now it is time to move on to

Pam's Blog

and see her wonderful artwoork

If you loose your way, you can always go back

to the Club Scrap blog and see all the participants.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team challange: add texture

I made this patriotic card with my stencils

for the Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge.

If you click on the link you find several 

tutorials to do this challenge.

I also want to add this card to the 

blog of Diana Larson for the Patriotic Challenge.

I used the Club Scrap shapes stencil (2012) to make

the stars on the blue part of the card.

Here is star number 1 and 3 more where added.

The sentiment came from another stencil with

the freedom banner. Not sure, but I think it

was a Club Scrap special kit.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap May Technique Challenge: Stamping on the Edge

Every month their is a technique challeng on the

Club Scrap Blog.

One of the members of the Artist Team will come up with

a fun technique to try, this month it is Roni Johnson.

She came up with the idea of doing this "stamping on the edge".

As I neede a birthday card for my SIL, who loves to cook, I got

out my Club Scrap 50's Kitchen stamps from March 2015.

After stamping the big collage stamp and coloring some of 

the images with pencil, I cut them out with a scissor.

The blue background is embossed with this fun kitchen

embossing folder (sorry no firm is mentioned on this).

The sentiment is also a stamp from the 50's kit.

For the technique of the "stamping on the edge" you see 

a tutorial on the Club Scrap blog HERE.

So after I finished the embossed panel I arranged the tableware

on the edge and cut away part of the blue embossed paper.

I used some of the left over scraps inside the card.

Isn't this a fun technique?

I hope you give this a try too and link your card to the Club Scrap blog,

using at least 50% Club Scrap materials.

Thanks for looking and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge: Bouquet

Hello!

Here we are with anothe Club Scrap Artist Team challenge.

This month all of us received a sheet of unmounted rubber stamps

to play with:

The 2016 Reatreat stamps called Bouquet

and you find them here.

The start of the blog hop is on the

Club Scrap Blog

or did you come here from Pam's Blog

and enjoyed seeing her projects. 

A few weeks ago I played in a color challenge. As I am not

very good in coloring, I came across this fun and easy technique

that I want to share with you. Works great with these beautiful

flower stamps. One can have never enough flower cards, for

they are great for any occasion.

1. Start with coloring your panel with a color ink.

I used Club Scrap lagoon.

2. Pick a stamp and start covering your panel fully

with this stamp. Do not stamp full inkted, but stamp

it off on a piece of paper befor you stamp on the panel.

3. A second time use the stamp fully inkted on the panel.

Cover all of the panel.

4. Dry the panel after stamping, maybe use a emboss budy.

Now you stamp the flower with versamark and emboss

the flower with white embossing powder. Stamp as

many flowers as you want. I stamped a horizontal line of flowers.

5. Now the flower is colored with a blue aquarel pencil.

Color heavy around the lines and next take a waterbrush

to fully color the flower.

6.  Stamp the flower on a piece of post-it and

cut it out with scissors.

7. Cover the embossed and colored flower with the cut

out post-it note. 

8. Take a flower stamp with a stem and with black

ink you stamp this over the flower.

9. After stamping it looks like this. Remove

the post-it note and put it on the next flower and repeat.

10. And this is how it looks after all the flowers have

a stem. Now it is time to finish of the card.

Here a version in red (fuchsia ink) and red pencil.

And a version in sandstone ink and yellow pencil.

For more ideas with these wonderful Bouquet stamps

go to Jennifers Blog

and see what wonderful inspiration she has for you.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge

Here we are with another team challenge

from the Club Scrap Artist Team.

This time we were given two rubber stamp sets

and some bling gemstones to create cards,

lay outs or a project with.

I hope you arrived here from 

Pam's Blog

and seen her wonderful artwork.

First I show you the stamps:

This is the Girlfriends set and you find it HERE.

and the other set:

Enchanted Forest, which is HERE.

We were also given some wonderful

sticky gemstones.

Only the stamps took a VERY LONG time to

arrive here to play with , so Club Scrap send me 

the digital Enchanted Forest images

and I started to play with the quick layout.

This was a learning experience for me, for I had no idea how

to add the picture. Luckily I found a patient colleague at

work, who explained to me how to do this and it worked!

The page is with a picture with my DD and GS, when we

were visiting Fairyland in April. You see Red Riding Hood

and Sleeping Beauty. Perfect for this page.

Then suddenly my pizzabox arrived (when you read this

it is Friday and I got my box on Thursday). So quickly 

I cut the stamps an made 3 cards to share with you.

For the two outside cards I used this month

technique challenge: stamping with an acrylic block.

I can tell you, it is a perfect technique for quick cards.

Take an acrylic block, some stamp pads, cardstock

and a spray bottle with water.

Add the ink of the pads direct to the acrylic block

and spray it lightly 

Now you stamp the block to the cardstock

and this is the result.

On top of the colors I stamped thes flowers from the

Girlfriends set.

Here is the first finished card.

I added the sentiment and colored it

with pencil in the same colors as the ink/

The card is finished of with some of the 

gemstones in the hearts of the flowers,

For the 2nd card I colored the flowers 

a little more with pencils. The are aquarel pencils

so after coloring I added a little water to it.

And here is the finished card. Love the flowers,

they are great for note cards.

The last card is made with the Enchanted Forrest

stamps and the sentiment is from Gnome for The Holidays

from 2013. Here I share how I made the background:

In the middle you see the finished background.

I used copy paper and circle dies to make thes masks.

I started with the paper with the smallest circle and

yellow ink. Then covered the small circle and used the

larger circle template to color with orange ink. The largest

circle covers the yellow and the orange and now with blue 

ink I cover all of the background. The spots are made 

with drops of water. The background is ready for stamping.

Now this was it for today,

but this month we have many more inspiration for you.

On Saturday Nov 26 we have a Christmas inspiration 

Blog Hop for you.

On November 30 ther is the monthly kit Blog Hop.

Now for more stamping inspiration go to

Jennifer's Blog.

If you happen to loose your way, you can always go back

to the Club Scrap Blog.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!