Inspiration for Get Inky! Challenge 19: Christmas

We've got an exciting Christmas challenge going on at the Get Inky! Challenge blog and I'm blogging to inspire you to join in on all the fun!!

I've always wanted to try out the corrugated cards. This one has a gusset for those pop-up cards and honeypop cards etc. I started by coloring some Color Me paper with 2 radiant rain daubers in a random pattern. I love how it made a third color wherever the two colors overlapped.

Using 3 Get Inky! Stamps from the 2013 Holiday set (available on Etsy), I created a banner from kraft cardstock to top the card. The stamped images were colored with Copics (and on the edges of the banner to mimic inking), adorned with Epoxy circles and popped up on foam tape. The Ho Ho Ho embellishment and the red grommet ribbon complete the look. I actually stapled the ribbon on, but wiggled the ends out of the top layer of ribbon so it wouldn't be seen. Tricks of the trade!!

Here's some more views...

Supplies:

• Get Inky! Stamps - 2013 Holiday stamp set 
• Recollections - Kraft Corrugated Cards (5.5" x 5.5"), Ho Ho Ho embellishment, Kraft Cardstock, foam circles
• Color Me paper with silver embossing
• Luminarte Radiant Rain daubers - Mallard and Poppy
• Fiskars - red epoxy embellishments
• Copics - R29, R59, G00, G85, G17
• Red grommet ribbon - stash
• Memento tuxedo black ink

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this project and will consider joining in on the challenge! Merry Christmas!!

La-Vie

Resist Technique - Dollar Scrapbooking - CKC Lancaster 2012

 

I'm here again to share a technique learned in the Thursday night technique workshop at CKC Lancaster 2012! Dollar Scrapbooking lead us in the resist technique with Luminarte and paintable papers. We worked on the left scrapbook page in class and had the option to buy the right hand page to do at home or at the crop. I HAVE to have the companion page because most of the time I use these pages in gift albums for my friends and family (since they are beautiful but usually not my style). I now own several colors of the H2Os and have used them on a project for the Christmas holiday - thanks to my new-found organization using The ScrapRack!

 

To tell you the truth... I would be quite afraid to layer all these patterns and colors myself so it was very cool to experiment under the lead of Dollar Scrapbooking. Here's a closer look at the first page.

 

We were given flowers that were white with silver heat embossed patterns on them. We used different colors of Luminarte Radiant Rain Twinkling H2Os to color in a random pattern. Using a paper towel we wiped off the color that settled on the embossed parts so they would show through. I love this effect! We were each given a huge transparancy quote to use on the page. I traded with someone else who had no use for "always together forever."

 

 

This is the second page I put together at home months later. The color instructions and pictures were very helpful. The layout is stunning and very shabby chic.

 

 

So I decided to use it for a friend's baby first year scrapbook (a best seller at C'est La-Vie Designs Unlimited, LLC!). Here's how a little personalization brought across the theme.

This layout documents the 9 months of pregnancy. I used opaque and transparent epoxy pregancy stickers as well as a bling "mother" sticker. Hey! A little bling makes everything better!

On the other page, I added some more of the opaque and transparent epoxy pregancy stickers from my stash including spots for small pics of closeup belly shots at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Trimesters. My friends loved it and will enjoy adding pictures once the baby arrives. This to me is love personified. Sharing yoru heart, time and talents with others. [ can you hear my heart singing? ]


La-Vie

Merry Christmas Banner Swap

 

It's a first for me... I was honored to be invited to participate in a Merry Christmas banner swap. There are 14 letters that were assigned (one each) to 14 participants. I got the last s in Christmas.

 

The guidelines were, create a pointed banner that is 3.5" x 5" with the bottom cut so the distance between the middle and one side is 1.75" wide. Classic Christmas colors red, white and green and that the letter had to be a solid color. The holes were to be punched half inch in and half in down.

 

Everyone was asked to make 14 identical letter s banner pieces and mail it to the host. She will collate and return a full Merry Christmas banner (minus the piece you made for yourself) in the mail before the holidays.

 

Here's what I came up with...

 

Supplies:

1. Banner1 cut at 5.25" - Cricut cartridge Pretty Pennants - DCWV White Chipboard
2. The pennant didn't have a deep enough notch at the bottom so I measured and cut it
3. Layer - Banner1 cut at 4.25" - Cricut cartridge Pretty Pennants - Hot off the press color me paper in swirls or silver flourish
4. Hot off the press color me paper in swirls or silver flourish - colored with mallard and poppy luminarte raidant rain twinkling H2Os
5. Banner top - Brntop1 cut at 5.25" - Cricut cartridge Pretty Pennants - American Crafts foil cardstock
6. s cut at 3" and ! cut at 2.75" - Cricut Cartridge Mickey Font -DCWV Glitter cardstock
7. To add dimension I raised the letters on 1/8" thick (1/2" circle) sticky dots from The Paper Studio.
8. Adorned with dimensional epoxy sticker from Jolee's Boutique.

 

Here's my 14 banner pieces. It was so much fun! I am hoping to share the entire completed banner here on the blog once I receive it. But first, I will ask the permission of the 13 other talented ladies and get back to you...

 

until then, stay cool and stay crafty!

 

La-Vie