Valentine decoration

How about some romantic  table decorations

for Valentine?

You need some empty glass jars.

Any size is ok

and as many electric lights as jars.

You can use white or colored paper.

Measure the hight of the jar and cut your paper.

I used my new Tim Holtz Valentine stamp

on the paper. I cut out a heart with the new Tim Holtz

sizzix die and distressed the top of the paper.

Added some ink with a blender tool on top and

bottom and around the heart.

Now I stamped for mini cloisonné hearts by

Michael Strong with versamark watermark

and embossed them with oriental express 

embossing powder and cut out the hearts.

For one embellishemnt you need 4 hearts.

Fold the hearts double. Add a piece of double sided

tape on one half of the heart. Take a piece of ribbon

or thread and fold double, so you have a loop

on top of the heart to hang it from. Stick all the

hearts together.

Use double sided tape to adhere your stamped

 paper to the jar.

Take your ribbon or thread and fasten it around the jar.

First make one not, add your heart embellishment,

make another knot and a bow if you like that.

{ut the electric light onside and you are ready!

Have a creative day!

Love ATC for GM 35

These ATC are my contrubution for

Grungy Monday 35:
A Hotz-ian ATC

meaning: use at least one Tim Holtz product

or technique that you can find on T!im's

website: http://www.timholtz.com/

I used the new cupid die and painted them with

rock candy distress crackle paint.

When it was dry I brushed some victorian velvet

distress inkt on top. The hearts are also done

with the same crackle paint..

For the background I used Kraft core paper

and a Tim Holtz atc sunray embossing folder.

I love using the tickets and on one i stamped part 

of a text from "Good Thoughts"cling stamps.

Buttons with wax thread and glitter

fibre finish of these atc's.

Have a creative day!

Faux Postage for Valentine

 Valentine cards are so wonderful to make

and while I am into all these postage cards for Club Scrap,

I also made some for my Michael Strong group.

 

I needed a fitting sentiment and I found one at 

Create with TLC. When you married to the most 

wonderful man, he is not only my Valentine, 

but my heart keeps fluttering even when I think of him!

So this is my card for him.

This is what I used:

Club Scrap paper

Bakers twine from my stash

Michael Strong mini cloisonné heart

Create with TLC sentiment Heart Flutter

Club Scrap wings and love sentiment.

 For the Faux Postage technique there is a turorial for you

just a few posts before this one.

You find it here:

http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/2012/02/club-scrap-technique-for-febuary.html

BTW don't forget the BLOG HOP

on the 18th of Febuary.

If you like fairy tales, do stop by!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap 2012 PSL

What is the Pro Scrapbookers League™ ?

 
 Club Scrap's® Pro Scrapbookers League™  is a fun and exciting online papercrafting league where you can hide away for a few weeks during the cold winter to your special crafting place — and best of all it costs nothing to participate! It was developed in response to scrapbookers and cardmakers all over the world who were hoarding their fabulous Club Scrap® materials and looking for some inspiration to complete projects. With the help of Club Scrap's® own Assembly Line Scrapbooking™ and Cardmaking — the PSL™ makes the whole process fun and easy by forming teams for camaraderie, presenting weekly crafting challenges for productivity, and offering exceptional discounts and prizes for participating. Don't miss out on this incredible experience!

 

Of course I have to enter this fun and exciting challenge.

I entered the cardmaking and the scrapbook team

and these are my first two cards.

They are made with Club Scrap "All that Jazz" paper

and "Vogue" stamps. The flower is punched out with

3 sizes of punches and bound together with a tiny

button from my stash.

If you go to the Club Scrap Galleria, you can see

all the entries and be inspired!

Have a creative day!

Time to play

I noticed such a fun word-art on  the

Create with TLC blog,

that I just had to make this card.

I googled the background on internet

as well as the Monopoly money.

The sentiment is also by Create with TLC

and the words time to play I added with 

little clear stamps by Stampendous.

How to make a ticket like this,

you can find on my blog in another post,

where I have a tutorial for you.

You find it HERE.

 I have als some great news.

Create with TLC will have another

wonderful blog hop for you on the

18th of Febuary and you know what

this means:

LOTS of FREEBIES!

Hope you will stop by again!

Have a creative day!

Weekly Chronicles 5

 

 (click on picture to see large version)

On the Club Scrap forum there is a new feature:

The weekly Chronicles.

Weekly Chronicles is an inspirational adventure intended to help capture "everyday" moments in your life through a scrapbook chronicle of photos and journaling. Ultimately, you'll have created a keepsake that can be cherished by loved ones for generations to come.

Whether you’re a paper or digi scrapper, you'll love this challenge! Although the concept is not completely new, Club Scrap® has seasoned it with our own tried and true Assembly Line Scrapbooking method to help make your journey more enjoyable and stress-free!

 This is my page for this week

where the theme was: a different point of view. 

 (click on picture for larger version)

 I used Club Scrap Adobe papers

Michael Strong letters and numbers

Michael Strong mini cloisonné cat

and a quote found on the internet

(font - Beyond Wonderland)

Have a creative day!

Valentine inspiration again

 

This card looks like a normal card from the outside

and pops-up  from the inside.

To make a card like this you need

2 cards: one for the inside and

one for the outside. I used  5 1/4 inch x 10, 5

piece of paper for a square card..

You can use any size of card, there is just one

thing that you have to think of:

the size of the heart. When you fold it outwards,

it should stay in the card, so do make a

trial version before you make the real thing.

 

This is the template of the inside of the card.

Put the heartshape against the fold of the card

and draw the lines where you will cut with pencil.

Cut the hears from the fold side (middle of the card)

to the ouside where you leva about half an inch fastned to

the card to make the hears pop out.

 

I decorated the hearts with embossed hearts

and the letters LOVE, also embossed.

The corners are die cuts, decorated with tiny gemstones.

 Used stamps:

Cloisonné hearts and alphabet stamps by Michael Strong

Sentiment by Stampin'Up!
The rosette on the front of the card is made with
Tim Holtz rosette alteration die.
Digital scrap papers by Create with TLC. 

 

Have a creative day!

Color Challenge

 Over at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

I found this fun color challenge and I just

had to make a card.

The sock monkey is an image by Bugabo Stamps

and the sentiment circle is an image by

Create with TLC.

This was the picture of the colors

that is used for the color challenge.

Doesn't it look inviting?

I colorred the Sock Monkey with copic markers

as well as the sentiment.

The rosette is made from scrap paper

with the Tim Holtz rosette die.

The hear is cut out with a spellbinder

and embossed with a tiny hearts

embossing folder. The music paper is

a piece af scrap paper.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Technique for Febuary

 For Febuary I chose the Faux Postage technique.

Great for Valentine cards, but you can use it on

any other card too. It is an old and loved

technique and there are many tutorials out there.

Here is mine:

Supplies:

besides stamps, ink

and your favourite color material

you need:

a faux postage template

(click on mine and save to your pc)

or make your own in word

cutting knife,

pencil,

ruler

transparent paper

(click and save to your computer)

Resize it to how you want to use it.

You can use one or more

stamps for your card.

 Place transparen paper on top of the

stamp template and mark with a pencil 

how many stamps you want to use

and cut out these windows.

Put your stamplate underneath the windows.

It is handy to fasten this with masking tape

or celotape to keep it from moving around.

You can stamp with any color ink.

I stamp with black, because I want to color

it when finished.You do not have to

stamp within the wondow. The transparent paper

will make sure you only see the stamped images

inside the stamp lines.

 With a sponge and some light brown ink

the stamps are colored around the images.

Then I take my copic markers and color the images.

 This is how the stamps now look, when you take them

from underneathe your template. You can add a postage number

if you want or other postage items.

If you have a postage scissor, you can cut around the stamps

to make them even look more real. I also added some ink around the 

border with a sponge. Now you are ready to use the stamps for your card.

Stamps I have used

are all by Club Scrap

Let me count the way 2006

  Fizz 2007

Valentine's 2008

Paper Club Scrap Navajo January 2012

Have a creative day!