Always Grateful for You

21 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by PaperCanvasCreations in Cards, Paper Crafting, Technique

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Close To My Heart, CTMH, Distress Inks, Doodlebug Designs, Newton's Nook, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Vellum, Walnut Stain, Watercolor, YouTube

Hello everyone, today I am wrapping up my Thanksgiving cards. I cannot believe it is this week already. It has been unseasonably warm here in my neck of the woods, so that means the holidays are sneaking up on me more than usual!

My card today uses the Falling For You stamp set by Newton’s Nook. The moment I saw this set, I had to have it. I did mask off the very beginning of the sentiment so I could add my ‘Always Grateful For’ which I pulled from CTMH Always Grateful stamp set.

Always Grateful for YOU card

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink on watercolor paper and used white embossing powder. Then I smooshed Distress Inks in Peeled Paint, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Walnut Stain, spritzed it liberally with water and smooshed away! This is a messy but fun technique and one I use quite often…I thought I invented it, then I saw people use it on YouTube, so I guess it wasn’t such a unique idea. HA! Finally I spattered some more Spiced Marmalade.

The card base is Doodlebug Designs Flea Market line, I saw all the adorable critters and one of the papers has a sunflower pattern, so it was a must have.

The ‘Always Grateful For’ part of the card was gold embossed onto a strip of plain vellum, and wrapped along the top of the main sentiment.

Close up of details

I hope you enjoyed today’s card. I would like to wish you and your loved ones a blessed Thanksgiving.

Happy Scrappin’!

Ah, Autumn!

30 Wednesday Sep 2015

Posted by PaperCanvasCreations in Design Team, Layout, Paper Crafting, Technique

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CTMH, Distress Markers, Foiling, Jennifer McGuire, Sunsational Stamps, YouTube

Good day! Do you love autumn as much as I do? Ah, Autumn is the sentiment I chose from my CTMH collection. This fabulous image named Fall Tree is from Sunsational Stamps.

I tried a new technique that I thought would add just the right somethin-somethin, and that was Foiling. I have heard mixed reviews on the MINK foiling machine, so I could not justify buying one until all the bugs are worked out of them…so how did I do it you ask???? I used a laminator. I happen to follow a terrifically talented artist Jennifer McGuire and she has a YouTube showing how to use a basic laminator for the heat and pressure needed to transfer the foil to the image, and low and behold it worked! By the way, I borrowed the laminator from my fabulous daughter, love you sweetie!

Image with just the gold foil.

The trick to getting the foil to stick to the pattern on the paper is to print the design out on a laser jet printer or use a copy machine, the foil needs toner to adhere to the paper. I printed the Fall Tree image and proceeded to shade in a few of the leaves with a black marker, then I copied it (for the toner). I heated up the laminator, once the indicator light lit up to let me know it was hot enough, I placed the foil shiny side up onto my design and put it into a folded piece of copy paper, this substituted as a carrier sheet, then I just fed it into the laminator. I used Spiced marmalade, Peeled Paint, Fossilized Amber & Barn Door Distress markers to color the leaves and Copic E33 & E37 for the tree. I just love how it turned out!

I plan to use this in a scrapbook layout with some pictures we took at the arboretum last year.

I hope you enjoyed today’s post and perhaps it inspired you to try the foiling technique on your next project. Please be sure to follow our blogs by clicking on the button on the left for Paper Canvas Creations and clicking on this link http://sunsationalstamps.blogspot.com to get to Sunsational Stamps blog. Like us on Facebook too, so you don’t miss a thing. Happy Scrapping!

Oh Baby!

03 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by PaperCanvasCreations in Mini Albums, Paper Crafting, Technique

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Authentique, Bazzill, Doodlebug Designs, Graphic 45, Laura Denison, Little Darlings, Quick Quotes, Tim Holtz, YouTube

Oh baby this was a fun project to do! I love creating mini albums and this was my first attempt at a Z fold album. My inspiration was Laura Denison with Following the Paper Trail, she has some very good YouTube tutorials on many different albums, but this one seemed to be just what I was looking for. There is a lot of room for pictures and journaling, so much so, that some of the more embellished detailed patterns could be left blank. Now on to the nuts and bolts of it.

First off the best instructions to follow is watching Laura’s YouTube, I will add the link at the bottom of this post. I used Graphic 45, Little Darlings paper line. This paper has been discontinued however they do have comparable lines currently out that could be used for a baby album or obviously any paper line would work, just make sure you have a full paper pad or close to it of whatever coordinating papers you want, this is a deceivingly large album. I was somewhat freaked out by the fact that the half pad of 12×12 papers were irreplaceable, so with that said this album was less therapeutic than most projects can be. 😉

The cover was distressed with Tim Holtz Tea Stain. I made the banner with Epiphany’s banner epoxy which spelled out the baby’s first and middle name. All the alpha stickers used in this were Authentique and all the alpha rub-ons were Doodlebug. Doodlebug makes the best rub-ons I have ever used.

I embossed all the fold-out photo mats. I used three different designs and alternated them. This added interest to an otherwise blank (if only temporary) piece of paper. I made the larger photo mats of patterned paper, so no extra steps were needed with these.

The tags were done with Bazzill paper and I used a Kraft and a swiss dot Baby Blue, these were cut at 4×6 and I made a template to give the top a traditional tag appearance. On I added either Graphic 45 Little Darlings or Botanical Tea to the tags…I was running out of my Little Darlings paper because I had to use a lot of it to fussy cut out all the adorable pictures. I found Botanical Tea had a couple of designs with birds and nests that fit the baby theme and the colors matched perfectly. WIN!!! On the flip side of the tags added some headings to encourage the mommy to journal.

Quick Quotes makes some wonderful products and I have a nice collection of their vellum poems and saying. I used a few quotes regarding parenting and babies. There was a beautiful poem about adoption that fit the bill perfectly. I embossed a couple of the vellum quotes to add interest.

Here is the link for the Z-fold mini YouTube, and I hope you enjoy the pictures of a few of the pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGL_fo0RZs