March specials at Scrapping Turtle.

you rock [card] || Scrapping Turtle.

Remember the February specials at Scrapping Turtle? The Crafter's Workshop stencils are 20% off this month! Better hurry - you only have a few days left! 

The design team is featured on the ST blog today with some examples using The Crafter's Workshop stencils. Here's the card I made:

I used the Mini Falling Stars stencil by TCW and my Tim Holtz distress inks.

insta love|ScrapMuch?!

This was a fun page to make about something that happened to me last summer! The sketch this week was sort of not my typical style,but sometimes it's good to be forced outside of your comfort zone. Here's the sketch for this week's Sketchy Friday at ScrapMuch?!

I ended up following this sketch pretty closely. I wasn't sure how to start this page - I was thinking about twine or washi for the diagonal on the page. Then I realized I have a Paper Trey Ink stamp that matches the sketch exactly! For the patterned upper half of the page, I used a pale pink ink and a stamp from PWP to create the subtle patterned background.

I actually love how this page turned out. Creating my own "patterned paper" on half of the page was really fun and something I should do more often!


If you want to play along with us - and we hope you do! - Just link up your creations HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize. You have until February 28 at midnight to participate in any of this months sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!


supplies
stamp: Paper Trey Ink (SimpleValentine); Paper Wings Productions (Art Textures);
ink: Studio Calico Color Theory (clean slate); Tim Holtz Distress Ink (spun sugar; evergreen bough);
cork: Elle's Studio (Sycamore Lane); Studio Calico
embossing powder: American Crafts Zing! (aqua)
date stamp: Studio Calico
stickers: Heidi Swapp; Lily Bee; Webster's Pages;

many thanks [card].

Howdy everyone! I found a challenge this weekend on the Paper Smooches website. Their challenge theme this time was anything goes. Doesn't get much easier than that, right?;)

I used the Geo-Graphic stamp for my background and heat embossed with pink and a yellow. Using white embossing in the lower left corner, I stamped a sentiment stamp from Word Salad. Then I lightly misted over the heat embossed image with a Heidi Swapp Color Shine spray.

I die cut two tags from the MFT Flags and Things die set out of project life cards. I've mentioned before that I don't typically do pocket style scrapbooking, but I do sometimes get kits and use the kits for other embellishments or pocket style mini albums.

 Thanks for looking!

supplies
stamps: Paper Smooches (Geo-Graphic; Word Salad)
ink: TsukinekoVersaMark Clear  
die: My Favorite Things (Flags and Tags)
embossing powder: American Crafts ZING (grapefruit opaque; butter); My Stamp Box (white)
mist: Heidi Swapp ColorShine (Primrose)
paperclip: Two Peas in a Bucket

loving you is so easy [card].

This morning before work, I decided to work on a card that could be used for Valentine's day. I used the challenge prompt at City Crafter this week - You Matter.

For this card, I started by feeling inspired by one of the Unity Stamp Co kits I got on sale last week. I heat embossed with some silver sparkle embossing powder from Stampin' UP!

Then I decided I had a really great embossing folder that would be great on this card. So I used my Spellbinder's Grand Calibur to emboss the base of my card. I roughed up the top layer of cardstock with my Tim Holtz distressing tool.

Next I added the sparkling heat embossed hearts onto the distressed heart base and tied on some pink May Arts ribbon. Then I remembered I had a cute Paper Smooches heart die cut so I used some distress inks to color some white cardstock and then die cut the hearts and stuck them on the front.

On the inside of my card I used the two same distress ink colors to color the background and then I used a sentiment stamp on the inside. Stamping on the inside of my cards is something new for me.

Happy Valentine's day!

supplies
inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Spiced Marmalade; Pickled Raspberry)
embossing folder: Darice (Layered Hearts Background)
die cut machine: Spellbinders Grand Calibur Die Cutting Machine
dies: Paper Smooches (Hearts)
embossing powder: American Crafts WOW! Neon Glitter (Carrot); Stampin' UP! Emboss Powder (Shimmering Silver)
stamp: Unity Stamp Co (Love Is)
ribbon: May Arts

love you [card]|Stick It Down.

Hi there! Today I'm sharing my card for the February Stick It Down sketch challenge. If you haven't yet seen the sketch on the SID blog, here it is:

I normally make smaller cards, so I had to size this card down to make it work for me. I only used two columns instead of three, but I still used three rows. I went with a love theme, in honor of Valentine's day this month. I heat embossed a hexagon heart stamp in three different colors and fussy cut them out. I choose three coordinating colors of chipboard heart shapes to match my stamped images.

Then I used my Spell Binder's Grand Calibur to die cut a chicken wire die onto a scrap paper. I used the die cut shape as a stencil to make the background on my card. I blending three coordinating ink colors over the chicken wire stencil that I made to get my background. When I was done blending the ink, I removed the chicken wire "stencil" that I used.

blending two colors so far

Lastly I stamped my sentiment, added twine, and adhered my chipboard heart pieces. I like the mix of colors and that this could actually even be a masculine card since my primary colors are blue and green. Here's my card:

Here's how to play along:
1. Please no back linking. Your project may be combined with other challenge blogs, but must be created after our sketch is posted.
2.  Please link back to Stick it Down from your blog post.
3.  You can rotate, flip, or alter the sketch, but we hope to see how the sketch inspired your creation.
4.  Please follow the sketch format, single page layouts for single sketches, etc....traditional only, no digital!

5. Link up your projects HERE. Good luck!

supplies

steel die: My Favorite Things Die-namics (Mini Chicken Wire)

stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop (Simple Sentiments; Pattern Craze)

embossing powder: American Crafts ZING! (grapefruit opaque; leaf opaque; blue metallic)

inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (spun sugar; peeled paint; faded jeans); StazOn (jet black)

joy.

I found the January sketch on Scrapbook Circle and whipped up a quick layout... but didn't get it posted in time. I used the Teresa Collins Tinsel and Company Christmas line.

where flowers bloom... || Paper Wings Productions February link up: red.

This month the link up theme at Paper Wings Productions is RED.Valentine's day is in the air around here! My V day mantle is all set up in my downstairs family room and I made a little goodie bag for the link up party at PWP.

This is just a kraft bag, approximately 5" x 7" size. I used heat embossing with one of the flower stamps from the Mini Flowers cling stamp set to start the background on my bag. Then I used one of the texture stamps from the Art Textures stamp set and inked it with a mix of Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mist + Faber-Castell's white gel medium. I stamped the background of the bag and then blasted it with my heating tool to dry it. The gel medium helps to create a true textured background, but as a resist. You can't really see the pattern until you start working with ink blending on the background.

I should note - add a scrap piece of paper to the inside of your bag before you start working on the exterior of the bag.

So now I have my heat embossed flowers and my resist texture. Now I add my sentiment, which is from the Flowers cling stamp set. I stamped it with StazOn ink so I would get a great crisp image that didn't rub off. I sprayed a fine mist of that same Moon Shadow Mist onto the bag, blasted it with my heating tool to dry it, and then I started ink blending the background with red ink.

Then I got to work on my tag. I basically used the same ideas - heat embossed a stamp from the Art Textures set, heat embossed the flowers with red this time, and then spritzed some of that mist on the background. I also stamped the flowers with a mixture of the gel medium + the mist to get a resist image of the flowers, then I used my red ink blending on the background. 

I dropped some candies in the bag, used twine to attach my tag to my goodie bag, and now I'm all set for the big day! I hope you'll join us on with your RED creations. You can post your link up HERE. Have fun!

supplies
stamps: Paper Wings Productions (Flower Words; Mini Flowers; Art Textures;)
mist: Lindy's Stamp Gang (Sweet Treats)
twine: Timeless Twine
ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (barn door); StazOn (jet black)
embossing powder: American Crafts ZING! (rouge; white opaque); Tim Holtz Distress Powder (fired brick)

color challenge at ScrapMuch?! + Stuck?! Sketches [+ a giveaway!].

This month ScrapMuch?! color challenge is pairing up with the Stuck?! Sketches challenge! The ScrapMuch?! design team was invited to play along and I loved this color comb. It reminds me of spring, which I am definitely anticipating! I pulled out some summer photos from last year. Here's the color challenge:

Aren't those pretty colors? Here's the Stuck?! Sketches sketch:

Here's my page:

We hope you join us on this fun challenge this month! Just link up your project HERE before February 28, 2015 to be in the running for one of our prizes!Good luck!

supplies
patterned paper: Lily Bee (Urban Autumn)
alphabet stickers: SN@P! Studio by Simple Stories
vellum die cuts: Basic Grey
circle stickers: Lily Bee (Pinwheel)
labels: Chic Tags (Love Note)
enamel dots: Prima Sugardots
journal card: Elle's Studio (Summer Lovin')

ALSO: It seems I'm perpetually cleaning and organizing this scrapbook room of mine. I have so much stuff I thought I'd put together a Valentine's day embellishment package and do a giveaway! Because who doesn't like a giveaway, right?

This is a photo I snapped earlier, but I've already added more to it. Yes, that's some old school Hambly.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway will end Thursday, Feb 12 so that I'll have enough time to ship it out for V day!

All is Calm|ScrapMuch?!

Happy February and the first Sketchy Friday of the month at ScrapMuch?! We've got another great sketch release today:

Sketchy Friday

I shrunk this sketch down to 8.5 x11 size, which meant losing one of the photos. I still hadn't scrapped much of Christmas and I loved this photo of our living room this year with one of our trees. I used a bunch of embellishments from Chic Tags, Glitz Design, Elle's Studio,and a Christmas stamp set from Studio Calico.

I really like the way this turned out using the smaller scale. Always remember, sketches are just a starting point. You can manipulate them however you need to for your pages!

How to play along: Link up your creations HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize! Thanks for stopping by today!

supplies
most items were from the Scrapbook Circle Favorite Elf kit
patterned paper: Studio Calico (Magical) [grey]; Glitz Design (Hello December) [yellow];
stamp: Studio Calico
3x4 card: Glitz Design (Hello December)
ink: StazOn (onyx black); Tim Holtz Distress Ink (peeled paint; crushed olive)
brads: Teresa Collins (Tinsel and Company)
die cuts: Chic Tags
sticker tag: Chickaniddy Crafts (Jolly Good)
alphabet stickers: American Crafts Thickers (Dear Lizzy Fox); (Amy Tangerine Muse)

February promotions at Scrapping Turtle.

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Yes to... Love.

I found a sketch on the Back Porch Memories blog and made this page. 

I combined the sketch challenge with Kelly's Scrappy Friend word challenge. I used the word LOVE.

That 'yes to...' card is from the SC Walden PL kit. I trimmed it down and then fussy cut 'love' heart from another PL card. I don't formally do project life, but I sometimes do pocket style scrapbooking so every once in a while I pick up at PL kit. I also use the PL cards on other projects so that helps keep my PL card stash from getting too large!

I am loving my new MFT dies. I only used two from this die set but I just love being able to make my own little labels. This is from the Accent It - Labels and Tabs die and I used my Spellbinders Grand Calibur Die Cutting Machine to die cut these babies.

Thanks for stopping by today!

supplies
ink: VersaFine (onyx black)
bobby pin: Studio Calico
dies: My Favorite Things (Accent It - Labels and Tabs)
chipboard: Basic Grey (High Line)
patterned paper: Fancy Pants
stamp: Sweet Stamp Shop (Distressed Chevron)
artist pens: Faber-Castell (deep scarlet red; magenta; scarlet red; orange glaze)
date stamp: Amy Tangerine
staples: Tim Holtz tiny attacher