London Calling card2

I am having fun with my

Club Scrap

London Calling unmounted stamps!

Suddenly I had this idea of combining

it with the Club Scrap 2012 What a Hoot!

unmounted stamps.

I share with you how I got all these stamps

into one picture. For these you need some

extra post-it paper to do a little masking trick.

First stampthe owl and the sentiment.

Now stampit again on a post-it note

and cut out the owl. For the sentiment I cut

 it out like a talking balloon in a comic book.

Cover the owl and the sentiment with the 

post-it cut out and stamp the large

London Calling collage on top.

Remove the masks and color the image

with pencils of your choice.

After coloring I added the London Calling sentiment and ribbon.

Matted the image and glued it to the card. Done!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Constellations

Where has the first month of 2015 gone?!

Here we are with anothe Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month the name of the kit is:

CONSTELLATIONS

Hope you have arrived here from
Marya's Blog

and seen her wonderful project.

Just a note: if you happen to loose your way,

you find all the participants on the

Club Scrap Blog.

Here is my project:

It is a gatefold card with a surprise inside

For this card I started with a 8,5 x 11 inch piece of cardstock.

The finished card is 5,5 x 8,5 inch. Yes a large card.

The paper is  folded it outside in like this.

So when you close it, it looks like this.

For the inside of the card I cut two papers

of 5,25 x 8,25 inch

One of the two pieces can be a decorated piece of paper

and the other piece can be plain (black here).

The black paper needs to be scored at

0.25" and 4,25" leaving another 4"left.

Leave this on your table for later on,.

Now we are on to the decoration.

For decoration I used a calendar. Yes in January I alsways

make lots of calendar cards, this way my card is of use

for my friends the whole year round!

I found this free printable calendar here:

http://www.onlineprintablecalendar.com/blank-yearly-calendar-notes-landscape.html

The finished panel looks like this.

Behind the calendar I added a piece of

constellation paper colored with ink with a blending tool

and added some shiny dots that came with the kit

to give it some bling.

Now here you see the construction of the inside

of the card:

Yes: inside the card is an easel construction!

So the 0.25" part of the black paper is glued to the 

card and the other part is folded in half.

On the lower part of the black paper you glue

the panel with the calendar.

The othe side looks like this.

But you know an easel card stands up.

For this you make some decoration

underneath the bottom part of the card

and your card looks like this:

I used the "wish"stencil that also came with the kit

and stamped a birthday sentiment from 

the unmounted greetings rubber stamps.

To make the card stand up I tied a ribbon on the top

of the wish with a button from my stash.

Now the card can stand behind the button.

Now we are nearly finished.

We just need something to keep the card closed.

I made a beld around the card by using the black paper

again. The strip is 2 x 12 inch.Just fold it around the

card for size and glue ends together. I used this map

on top for decoration,but you could also add a sentiment

on top. Colored with inkpad and blending tool

and some dots for extra bling.

Before sending you off to the next blog, I just  have

to share this card with you:

This card just popped into my head,

remembering the stencil and stamps I have from 

the set "A girls night out" that go perfectly

with the Consellation stamp sentiment for a wonderful

Valentine card. The sparkly stars are made with 

another fun stencil from the Sparkle kit with

a sparkly dot in the middle.

I started out this card with the stenciled girl

in ash and the smaller girlis stamped. I love it

when i can combine some of my older stamps and stencils!!

Ok, this is enough for today.I have a scrap page nearly finished,

bu for that you have to come back another day.

Now you will be in for more inspiration on 

Lisa's Blog

Thank you for looking and I end with

my grandson's favourite quote:

Have a creative day!

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!