NSD 2018 - Tina's Fill Your Box Part Three - More Than Just Cards.

Hello Crafty Friends!
How are your stationery boxes going? Want to fill them with some more loveliness? Check out Tina's final box fillers... they LOOK like cards but.......

What a Fantastic month this has been. So many amazing projects and wonderful work from everyone.
Here I have the last of my Fill Your Box project. As the name suggests these are more than just cards, each card has a pocket on the inside for photos, tags and notes. The cards are quite thick because of the layering and when they are filled inside, so I kept the outside simple to make sure they would fit nicely inside the large pocket in the Stationery Box.

The card base I made in black cardstock, cutting four pieces  measuring  5 ⁴/₈" x 9" and folded in half on the 9" side giving me four cards measuring 5 ⁴/₈" x 4 ⁴/₈".

I cut out each layer  ¹/₈" smaller and cut these all out first.

Then I just put all the cards together inking all the papers from the kit with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Here is the completed Box and all the extras.

I really hope you enjoyed this series of projects, this kit is so full of wonderful products I haven't even used half of them yet.

Thank you and Happy Crafting

Tina xxx

This beautiful kit can be purchased HERE along with many other products.

NSD 2018 - My Favourite Thingy - Donna's Non Existent Tutorial - Sparkly Flowers

Hello Crafty Friends!

We're almost ready to wrap up the month but hey! You still have a few days to get those challenge entries in. Today Donna shows us just how quick and easy it is to add that special bit of sparkle to your projects.....

Hi All,

I hope you are enjoying the National Scrapbook Month with Aunty Vera and

the Creative Team. How many challenges have you done??

Have you joined in my challenge 'My Favourite Thingy' - Waterfall Album.

Don't forget there are prizes this month so make sure

you keep this page as your very Favourite...

Have you checked out all my videos on youtube yet? If not then get going and have a look and don't forget to Thumb Up me (hehe)..

Enjoy this final, well nearly non-existent tutorial

for  'Sparkly Flowers'..

You will need Spray adhesive and glitter and well.. Flowers of course..

Spray the Flowers and dip them into the fine glitter.

These are gorgeous...

See how Pretty they are..

Simple eh!!!

Hugs

Donna xx

YAH GO TEAM DONNA YAH

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NSD 2018 - Sarah's Technique Share #2 - Stencilling (Mother's Day Layout)

Hello Crafty Friends!

I love all the different techniques that are being showcased on our Creative Team's challenge projects! Today Sarah plays with stencils - so versatile!! 

Hi friends! I hope you're all having a fun crafty month. I'm back today to share another technique with you all: stencilling. There's so many different ways to use stencils and I love all the different effects you can get from them. You can see on the stencilled pocket below from my May pocket spread the kinds of colours you can get through a stencil. For this page I used distress inks with the botanical dream stencil from the May kit to create this gorgeous psychedelic background.

Another way you can use stencils is to create layers with texture paste. Here I used a stencil from my stash with some texture paste to create the background on a journal cover.

I then painted over the top to make the stencilled flowers pop. You can see a close up here.

I couldn't resist using the beautiful stencil from the May kit on another project, so I decided to create a scrapbooking layout as a gift to my mum for Mother's Day. Starting with the point and shoot paper from the 'I'd Rather Be Crafting' collection, I used the stencil to create a background. I wanted to use some sprays from my stash, but as the wood grain was so dark I used some white paint first and then sprayed over the top.

I then decorated the page using some of these gorgeous Calacatta Prima flowers. They're so beautiful!

To balance the page I used this simple sentiment from the Simple Stories Crafty Girl stickers.

And that's this page done!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing the different ways you can use stencils in your projects. 

If you'd like to see my process for the Scrapbooking page you can check out my video HERE

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You can find all the information you need about the Challenges HERE

Post your photos for my challenge in THIS ALBUM for a chance to win

Purchase the May Kit HERE

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Thanks for tuning in!

xx Sarah xx

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Color Burst techniques with Suzanne - ombre effect

Hello Crafty Friends
A fun tutorial from Suzanne today on creating an ombre effect using your Ken Oliver Color Burst. make a few of these tags in between your NSD Challenge projects..... or show us how clever you are and use this technique in your challenges!

Hello everyone.  I hope you have all been having fun with the awesome challenges that the Creative Team have set for everyone this month.  You still have some time to complete some of the projects, so make sure and give them a go.

My little album was very simple and I really didn't use too many techniques so I had a play around with the color burst from Ken Oliver.  This product is such fun to play with (if a bit messy) and it is very versatile which makes it exceptional value for money.

I used some mixed media paper for this tag and some acrylic paint to create an ombre effect on the tag.  I used some orange paint and just added different amounts of white paint to each pan to create a different shade of orange.

I used the Ken Oliver Color Burst (Rouge) and the TCW Stencil (Botanical Dream) to do some Ombre Stenciling on the orange Ombre tag

I mixed the Color burst with my texture paste.  You only need a little and be careful where it goes as it flies away very easily.

This is my lighter shade

I then added more rouge color burst after I had done part of the stenciling to achieve a darker shade

Here you can see the darker pink texture paste at the top and the lighter paste at the bottom

I then used the Gorgeous Stamping Bella (Callista loves to craft) stamp on some mixed media paper and coloured her with my Prisma colour pencils.  I then added some of my handmade flowers and the love sentiment

On the other side of the tag I used some rouge color burst in white paint to create an Ombre effect

Here you can see the different shades that I made for my tag

I used a pouncer to apply the paint as it makes it very easy to blend the colours with one of these

I applied a couple of coats of paint

I the used a 3 x 4 cut-a-part from the Echo Park paper (I'd rather be crafting) to finish off my tag.

Thank you for taking a look at my tag.  I hope you enjoyed it. 

See you next time.

Suzanne xoxo

NSD 2018 - Fill Your Box Part 2 - Four Little Cards and Four Little Tags.

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's been wonderful seeing all the Challenge entries coming in to our facebook crafty group!

Are you entering Tina's Stationery Box challenge? Here are some more bits of loveliness to fill your box!

Go Team Tina!!

Hello everyone.

I hope you have all been enjoying this month of fun and challenges. Thank you for all those participating in the challenges. I must say the projects have been so amazing.

Today I have four little cards and four little tags to fill the front smaller pockets of the Stationery Box.

                      Four Little Cards.

I made these cards to measure 3 ¹/₂ " x 3 ¹/₂ ".

I cut 4 cards from black cardstock at 7 " x 3 ¹/₂ " and folded them in half. Each of my layers of matting were cut smaller than the previous. The amount will depend on how much you want the bottom layer to show. I used the papers from the kit and the pocket pages also from the kit, which I cut at 3" x 3" to fit the top of the cards. I kept them simple because they need to fit into the front pocket as well as four envelopes. 

     Four Little Tags

I like my tags nice and strong, so I always cut a front and back from the designer paper and a middle tag from natural craft card ( 280 gsm). When I make larger tags, I use two layers of the craft card. I really like how they feel. You can use cereal boxes also, they will give you a nice sturdy tag.

I used the stickers from the kit and some fussy cutting to add dimension. The paper string that came in the kit was a perfect finish to the tags.

Here are the cards and tags in the Stationary Box.

I hope you have enjoyed this little project, I will be back with more ideas on filling the Stationery Box.

Please be sure to check out the other Team Members Challenges during this month of creative fun.

Thank You and Happy Crafting.

Tina xxx

You can find all the information you need about the Challenges (including the boring fine print) HERE.
Post your creations in THIS ALBUM for my Challenge.

You can purchase this beautiful kit HERE along with many more wonderful products.

NDS 2018 - Donna's Favourity Thingy - An Itsy Bitsy Tutorial on Colouring Modelling Paste

Hello Crafty Friends!

A Craft Quickie for you today from Donna..... colouring modelling paste. Now this is just so much fun you don't even need to have a project in mind - just colour and play and the rest will fall into place!

Go Team Donna!

Hi All,

Here I am back again with an Itsy Bitsy tutorial on colouring

Modelling Paste with the May kit.

Place Modelling paste on a craft sheet.

Add a few drops of Color Burst and mix well..

You now have this..

Now wasn't that just quick FUN...

(I did say Itsy Bitsy lol)

Hugs

Donna xx

YAH GO TEAM DONNA YAH

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You can find all the information you need about the Challenges (including the boring fine print) HERE.
Post your creations in THIS ALBUM for my challenge

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Please visit me on my FB page  HERE
And
My Youtube Channel HERE



NSD 2018: Sarah's Technique Share: Watercolour Resist Tags

Hello Crafty Friends!

How are you all going with our NSD Challenges?

Today Sarah shares one of the techniques she used in her multi-technique pocket layout..... watercolour resist.

But beware!.... this can become quite addictive!!

Hi Friends! I hope you're all having fun with this month's challenges. I'm here today to share one of the techniques I used in my pocket page layout; the watercolour resist. For this technique you simply clear emboss a stamp onto card and then watercolour over the top.

You can use distress inks like I did on this tag here.

Or if you want to use more traditional watercolours, you can use a watercolour set like the Prima Confections I used below.

If you want super vibrant colours you can't go past the Ken Oliver Color Bursts like this beautiful rouge colour found in the may kit. 

I love this technique because depending on the colour choice, stamp design and medium, you can get so many different results. Here are the three tags I made - but you could also use this technique on cards, art journaling pages, or in scrapbooking layouts.

See the full tutorial for this technique HERE

You can find all the information you need about the Challenges (including the boring fine print) HERE

Post your photos for my challenge in THIS ALBUM for a chance to win.

Purchase the May Kit HERE