May 13, 2011

Oh happy day! Its another friday and that means another sketch!

We certainly hope that you enjoy this one and hope you will take part

in using this beautiful sketch made only for SOUS.

Thanks to our very own, very talented Ness!

Her designs are just stunning and she's been gracious enough

to design sketches for us this month, so you have another to look forward to!

I am so sorry, due to Blogger issues (for us and I am sure a ton of others)

part of this post got deleted so I am back to edit and add back...

We've got CANDY!

Also thank you to Ness and her store, Scrap with V we have

a terrific prize package of an assortment of A2Z Scraplets

chipboard. We hope you'll enjoy something crafty from

Australia! You have this month to win the prize...play along with

each of our challenges this month for more chances to win.

Every participant goes in the hat to win. Winner will be

announced our first post in June. You have 2 weeks to claim your prize.

Please contact me at mrsbealash AT aol DOT come with

your address and we'll send that off to you from Aussie! Thanks...

All submitters are ALWAYS welcome!!

And a peek at a sample of what you could get...

And our original sketch...

And here is what our fab DT has done...enjoy!

World Traveler

Nanné Harry

Nanne's Creations

Sweet Pea

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

Together

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

Cold Day

Beatriz Guzman

Amazing Grace

I Adore You
Bonnie Friesen
Pretty Little Somethings

Savannah
Fern Riley
Ferns Creations

I Adore You
Ness Waller
Crafty-Ness

Love is in the Air
Stine Ursin
My hobby blog

Discover, Learn, Explore

Wanda Boardley

A Scrap Happy Place

Enjoy

Dawn Gallop

Creations by Dawn

Aspire

Annette Gearside

http://annette-momentintime.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for coming by and we look forward to seeing what you all do this month with our sketches..have a super weekend!!!!

Flower on transparencies tutorial

Good morning! This is Beatriz from Amazing Grace bringing you this easy and useful tutorial.
Were a day early this week due to Mothers Day.. Hope this will give you fab ideas for your Mother's day cards :)

Supplies: 
Transparency, rhinestones, a paper punch, paper, scissors and adhesive.

Step 1: 
Punch a flower out of plain cardstock.  Use a temporary adhesive the secure a piece of transparency to the negative space of the flower.

Step 2:
Adhere rhinestones along the pattern, filling in the negative space.

Step 3:
Once the space is filled gently remove the transparency from the flower.

Step 4:
Trim around the flower image.

Step 5:
Voila! It is done and ready to use as your newly created embellishment.

Now you  have another great idea on how to make your own embellishments. Have a fabulous and blessed weekend!

Beatriz

 Design Team

Sketch Reveal-April 29,2011

TGIF ladies..

Boy, is it getting hot outside or is it just me?..LOL I'm not complaining, loving all this wonderful spring weather after the long harsh cold winter we just had .. So, the only problem that comes to mind is "should I go outside or should I stay in and scrap?".. hmmmmm..LOL I stayed in to scrap..

and speaking of scrapping, we have a lovely sketch for you this week and we found it over at www.pagemaps.com.. We love how versatile the sketches are and the variety is out of this world..

Here is this week sketch:

Sketch by:

Page Maps

Our Design team has been super busy and created some amazing layouts using the same sketch and for once I have to say, everyone has outdone themselves this week.. I'm truly impressed!!

so, without further a-do, lets get to the layouts shall we:

Best Buds

Nanné Harry

Nanne's Creations

Hide And Go Seek

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Creative

It's a Boy .. make that 2!

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

You are so Fabulous
Annette Gearside
Moment in Time

My Turquoise Season
Beatriz Guzman
Amazing Grace

Gentlemens Quarterly

Bonnie Friesen
Pretty Little Somethings

Dusty Potter
Dawn Gallop
Flipflops & Poptarts

Easter Egg Hunt
Fern Riley
Fern's Creations

A Night In Paris
Stine Ursin
My Hobby Blog

Strike a Pose

Wanda Boardly

My Scrap Happy Place

True Beauty

Ness Waller

Crafty Ness

We want to thank you all for stopping by and taking a look.. Hopefully these layouts and the sketch have inspired you to stay inside this weekend to scrap !! LOL and if you did scrap, do link up your layouts using Inlinks cause we absolutely love stopping by and seeing what you have created..
Have a great weekend everyone..
Hugs

April 22nd Tutorial ~ Two-Toned Background

Hi everyone!! Fern here, and I've got an easy way to make your own two toned (or you can use more colors if you want) background for your layout or project..  I did this when I was making cards and thought to myself, why wouldn't it work on a large piece of scrapbook paper?!!  So the next time you can't find the right color of paper to go with that special photo, or maybe you want more of a vintage look, you might want to give this a try..   I will apologize right now for the photos..  They were taken inside and the lighting was a little to be desired... 

Things you will need:

2 Colors of  Inks -  I used Stampin' Up Classic Ink ~ Always Artichoke and Elegant Eggplant

Light Colored Cardstock - I used Stampin' Up Very Vanilla Cardstock

Spray Mister filled with water

Heat Tool

Crumpled piece of Plastic or Wax Paper  - I used Plastic
And finally something to put under you cardstock so you won't get ink/water all over the counter.. I used a couple of plastic bags..

1)  Take the lightest Ink color and rub it all over the cardstock, but leaving some white spaces...

2) If you are using Craft Inks or Pigment Inks you will need to use your heat tool to heat set the color..

3)  Take the second color and rub it over the first color letting some of the first color show through..

4)  Now, mist the whole sheet with water..

5) Now take the piece of plastic and start dabbing the watered ink, moving the inks to add color variations. 

If you don't like what you see, go ahead and touch it up.. 

Once the desired look is achieved, set the ink with the heat tool.. Use as desired.. 

Be sure and click on above photo and the following photos to get a better look!!

Here is a layout I did using this piece of cardstock...  I took this photo outside so the colors are much brighter!!

Now I also did another page using the SU Very Vanilla Cardstock, but this time I used Tim Holtz Antique Linen, Tim Holtz Tea Dye, Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick and SU Pretty In Pink...  I first rubbed the Antique linen on the cardstock,, sprayed it with water... then crumpled the cardstock, flattened it out and rubbed the Pretty In Pink, then a little TH Tea Dye and just a very little TH Worn Lipstick... sprayed with water again.... dabbed the the colors and then heat set...  Here's what it looks like...

You can see the layout I did with this background here...

I hope you will try this technique and if you do I would love to see how it turned out!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

If you want the list of things I used on this layout just visit my blog.

Have a wonderful day !!! :o)

Happy Easter Everyone!!!

Hugs!!

Friday sketch challenge reveal-April 15, 2011

Can you smell it yet? Oh, I can..... Spring is definitely in the air.. The birds are singing and the pretty little flowers are starting to peak out their little blooms... and speaking of flowers, We have a beautiful sketch for you today by a very talented lady named Liz Qualman.. You can check out more of her sketches by clicking HERE..

Here is this weeks sketch:

Sketch by:

Liz Qualman

Our Design team has been busy creating wonderfully detailed layouts for you to be inspired by.. I absolutely love different they are even though everyone has followed the same sketch.. So, without further a-do, lets get to the layouts:

"ZOO"pendous Day

Nanné Harry

Nanne's Creations

Family

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

Happily Ever After

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

 

Fairies in my Garden
Annette Gearside
Moment in Time

Farquhar World
Beatriz Guzman-Farguhar
Amazing Grace

 Avery
Bonnie Friesen
Pretty Little Somethings

Easter
Fern Riley
Ferns Creations

You are So Beautiful to me
Ness Waller
Crafty Ness

Venner
Stine Ursin
Hobby blog

Circus

Wanda Boardley

A Scrap Happy Place.

We also have a blog candy winner to announce this week.. We want to thank all of you wonderful ladies for submitting your wonderful works of art for us to view..
Its always such a pleasure to see what you have created..
We have randomly picked a winner and so, our blog winner is:
Jessica Navarro
congratulations Jessica and thank you for playing along!!
You can't win, if you don't play..
Please leave a comment below and email Nanné (breadesi9er@hotmail.com) your mailing address..
You have two weeks to claim your candy..


I think thats enough excitement for one post ..LOL
Thank you all so much for stopping by today and we hope you have a minute or two out of your busy schedules to work a little magic with this sketch and submit it in to us to view.. We'd love to see it...
Hugs