Club Scrap Blog Hop: Lagoon

Welcome to the montly Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month the theme of the kit is Lagoon

and is such fabulous blues papers and

great stamps for wonderful pages, cards and projects.

I hope you have come over here from 

Pam's blog

and seen her wonderful inspiration.

I had a totally different project in mind and then we went to

the Sealife aquarium in The Hague/ The Netherlands.

So perfect to scrap with these papers!

I used two of the ALSB pages for it and added my own touches.

The left page is a general page with the entry

of the aquarium, the fishes and owen getting

his pirate diploma.

I added some silver embossed sea stars to the page

and teal jewel stickers from the kit.

Also on the cut out fishes strip I added some jewel stickers.

I love using the cut aparts, they look perfect in place.

And here the righ page. My daughter took this awseome picture of

Owen kissing the seahorse lamp in the aquarium. 

On the ALSB discription there are 3 coins on the squares, 

but I needed those for something else, so I used

the small sea star stamp to take the place of the coins.

I just love looking at this picture and the sentiment is just 

made for my page!

So here is the project that I wanted to make and 

couldn't resit making it anyway.

After googling Lagoon projects on Pinterest, I had many

ideas and made a lot of them come true in this

garden light/decoration project.

I wanted to paint a glas pot, but when I looked in t garage 

for a fitting pot, I came across this perfectly colored jar.

With hemp and my macramé skills from some early days

I covered the pot. When arriving at the bottom, I took

all the ropes together and bound it with an extra piece.

To make the pot hang  adding 2x4 ropes and made some knotting

the other way so I could tie the jar to a hook in our

gazebo and added a candle inside.

For decorating I stamped, embossed and colored

the sea star, the sea horse, and printed the mermaids tail.

All were cut out and glued to the jar in between

the netting. 

On pinterest I saw all these wooden beach signs

and i wanted those as well. I made it out of  paint

stir bars. Fist a layer of gesso and next some acylic paint.

When all was dry I stamped the sentiments on top.

As I did not want too many pictures on my blog post

so i made some collages so you can see the jar from

all sides. I added alse some stickers on the pot.

When the light is on in the dark it has a wonderuleffect.

Sorry, I could not make a good picture in the dark.

Underneath the jar the ropes are also decorated.

Here I added the coins, glued the shiny sea stars that

came with the kit, added more stamed woodsies,

a few real shells and a mermaids tail.

Well, that was it for this month. Hope you will go on

the see what 

Jennifer

has come up with on her blog.

If you loose your way, you can always go to the

Club Scrap Blog

where all the participants are linked

and where you can also link your own project.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Mermaid

Have you seen the

  Club Scrap Lagoon Kit?

Beautiful blues and great stamps of mermaids

 and fishes and matching sentiments?

You have nbo idea what to do with it?

Well, tomorrow is the monthly blog hop

and the arist team has come up with some

wonderful cards, scrapbookpages and project.

Hope to see you again tomorrow.

To wet your appetite I made this mermaid card.

The mermaid's tail is from the digital kit and so beautifully

colored, I just added some glitterglue and the sea star

is also from the digital kit. The sentiment is one of the real

rubber stamps and embossed with silver embossing powder.

You also see teal jewel stickers looking like air bubbles

all over the card.

The bottom is a combination of a metal diecut

and the jewel stickers. Behind the die cut I added

the light teal paper for contrast and also some glitter glue

to make the bubbles shine.

See you tomorrow!

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day.

Club Scrap August Technique Challenge: Heat-Embossing

On the Club Scrap Blog there is a technique challenge

every month. This month it is heat-embossing

and this is my card with the sea horse stamp from the 

Club Scrap Lagoon kit from August.

To give my card more depth I took a variety of inks

from very light to dark brown.

Start stamping with the lightest color a few sea horses.

The next color and a few sea horses.

And the next color,

The the last layer is with versamark and 

black embossing powder.

After layering the card on dark brown paper I mounted

the panel on kraft colored paper from another kit. 

The sentiment and the sea star are both from the 

Lagoon kit.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

CAS and CS Lagoon

With the new Club Scrap Lagoon kit I

played challenge #117 on the Addicted to CAS blog.

You find all the details on the

Addicted to CAS Challenge Blog,

As my real stamps have not arrived yet, I printed the

mermaids tail and the sentiment first on 250 grs

white cardstock and cut it to cardsize and folded it so now 

there is a card of 4,25 x 5,5 inch.

Next I printed the tail again on copy paper and 

cut it out to cover de tail on the card. I got some of 

my Club Scrap stencils and inks  out to make a matching 

background by using belending tools in various colors.

In the end I used a wave and a dotted stencil to

create the background

amd adding some blue splashes with a brush as well.

Here a close up to the background.

This is how I created my one layered card.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap August kit: Lagoon

Each month starts for me with a new digital kit

from Club Scrap. This month the theme is Lagoon.

If you are interrested in these digital images, go HERE.

The whote kit, as seen above, is only $ 4,95.

The paper kit takes another week to arrive.

My first card card was inspired by the 

challenge I noticed on the

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge blog

with a beachy theme.

So I printed a few of the digital images on heave

250 grams paper and took some other papers from various

kits. I cut into the seaweed to make the fish swim through.

The sentiment is also printed and cut with an oval punch.

I printed the seastars in various sizes and in the center

I added a golden metal dot from a previous Club Scrap

kit. I added the seastars with foam tape.

Now the mermaid tail is covered with glossy accent

to make it really shine and before letting it

dry I added tiny golden pearls to give the tail

amore shiny and fishy effect.

Thank you for looking 

and have a creative day!