... and the Sky is Grey - Suzanne's Six Frame Photo Display

Hello Crafty Friends!
Do you find that sometimes scrapbooking papers are so adorable you just want to hang the papers on your wall? Well why not?!
Today Suzanne shows us a clever way to frame some of your favourite paper elements and create  a fun feature for your home.

This project was so quick and fun and would be so cute in a childs room.  I used a wooden six frame photo display from Kaisercraft that I picked up at Spotlight on clearance for a few dollars.  I painted it a cream colour.

The gorgeous papers from Simple Stories 'sub zero' has so many wonderful elements to choose from.  Below are the six that I chose to use.

I trimmed them all and glued them onto the back of the frame.

I used the Santoro ribbon from the kit to hang the frame

I glued the ribbon between the frame piece and the back

I added glitter to some of the frames to finish off this project

Thank you for having a look at my very simple project.

You can see a process video HERE.
You can purchase the kit here HERE.

See you next time
Suzanne XoXo

...and the Sky is Grey - Tina's Decorative Hearts

Hello Crafty Friends!
I had to laugh when Tina said she tried really hard to not create Christmas craft with our July Kit..... because I love Christmas Crafting... so would totally have allowed that! lol
But I was really excited to see that today Tina is sharing a couple of her beautiful decorated hearts. You'll fall in love with these vintage beauties!!

Hello everyone. I'm back with another project for Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft July kit. I told myself I would not make anything Christmas themed, which is very hard for me because I love Christmas crafting and I do it all year. I think I have managed to make something that I can hang on the tree at Christmas and on a cabinet door if I wanted to any other time of the year.
Here I have made two Decorative Hearts using the beautiful Scrapberry's - Winter Joy metal embellishments.

I started with two foam hearts, cream satin and a cream stretchy lace.

The foam hearts have a mould line all along the diameter and I cut along here about 1cm deep all the way around. I then cut the four pieces of the satin bigger than the heart and carefully tucked the fabric along the hearts edges that I cut in to. Cut off any large excess fabric and tuck the rest in.

Next I added the lace in the same way.

Now It's time to decorate. I used a beautiful vintage trim {that belonged to my mother} which I love and will think of her every time I look at these hearts. I also used some sequins and beads that I attached with pins.

The trim was attached with a hot glue gun around the edges of the hearts. I then attached the hanging ribbon along with small roses from I Am Roses. Silver/cream beads and sequins are pinned along the edges of the hearts and I added some dangling beads on one and a heart charm on the other. Finally I added the gorgeous metal embellishments from the kit on the front of the hearts.

Now my hearts are ready to hang.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Thank you and Happy crafting.
Tina xxx
The July Kit can be purchased HERE

... and the Sky is Grey - Suzanne's Winter Tree Card Play

Hello Crafty Friends!
Nothing says winter like bare branched trees. And Suzanne's cards using the Darkroom Door stamp from our July kit are just breathtaking!!So evocative of a clear winter's night!

Hello everyone. It's wonderful Winter and I absolutely am loving this time of year in Queensland.  The days are so beautiful and warm and nights are lovely and cool so you can snuggle up in bed.  The best of both worlds, right.  Anyway, it's also the perfect time to stay in and craft with the July kit from AVSC which is called ...and the sky is Grey.

For this project, I have used the Darkroom Door Woodlands Stamp and the Hero Arts 'Winter' ink cubes. Both are in the July kit.  I'm going to use a technique that will hopefully give the impression of the moonshine hitting the branches of the tree in a dark forest.

 I used some smooth white cardstock and stamped the Woodlands stamps with VersaMark ink on my stamp platform.  I made sure that the card was pushed right up into the corner of the platform.  This layer, when covered with clear embossing powder, will stay white and this will be the layer that looks like the moon shining on the branches.

The cardstock is right up in the corner of the stamp platform.

After stamping with the Versamark ink move the paper about 1mm down the stamping platform.

After you have stamped it once with the Versamark, move the paper down about 1mm. Now you can  stamp with Jet black archival ink followed by the Versamark ink over the top of the black archival ink.  If you have Versafine black onyx ink you could use this instead of the two layers that I used.

Take the stamped image from the platform and cover the stamped area with clear embossing powder and heat set this.   I cut a circle from some cardstock (This is a mask for the moon) and placed it on the card where I want the moon to be.  I then used the cornflower inkpad to colour around the circle mask followed by  the Navy inkpad around the outside of the cornflower and then I used some black archival ink around the outside of that.   The clear embossing powder will resist the ink and you should see a white area on top of the black embossed area that looks like the moon shine hitting the branches.

Using a mask for the moon and inking with the  cornflower inkpad

I made one using the versamark ink and embossing powder and another with black archival ink.

Here you can see that there is the white area on top of the branches

I layered the stamped piece onto some cardstock and added a sentiment. 

I think these cards will make great cards for men, which  I have great difficulty making. 

Thank you all for having a look at my project.  Stay warm and well.

Till next time,

Bye for now.

Suzanne XOXO

You can watch the video of how I made these cards HERE.

You can get the kit HERE.

You can watch the unboxing of the July kit HERE. 

... and the Sky is Grey - Tina's Memory Keeping Cards

Hello Crafty Friends!
A card is a card is a card right?
Nope! Not when you use it in your memory keeping!
Join Tina today and create a set of cards that will be doubly special as they are designed to hold special memories....

Hello everyone. I hope you are enjoying this wonderful winter weather as much as I am.
Here in Victoria, we are currently enjoying school holidays and my husband and I are taking our two girls and two friends to the snow. I thought I would make a card for my youngest daughter and her friends which we will fill with photos from the trip as a keepsake for them.

The first thing the girls have been talking about is having a mega snowball fight, so I thought that it would make a perfect theme for a card.
The base of the cards I cut from a metallic cream cardstock at 8" x 4" and score at 4". I cut all my pieces from the papers from the kit. All the edges are inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Here is the finished card, a snowball fight with friends. I think my Bella is the little penguin.( I have added the Snowman's arms after taking this photo).

The second card is a Shaker card. Again, all the pieces are cut from the papers in the kit and I used a circle die to cut the Shaker window. As always, all my pieces are inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

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 I cut a piece of acetate and adhered it to the back of the striped piece. I used foam tape on the back and added my background piece before adding the sequence mix from the kit.

What's the go to drink to warm the kids up at the snow? Hot chocolate of course, and that is the theme of the third card. I just love the Snow Flake paper from the kit. I used this as my background, then layered the cut out of the Hot Cocoa piece. The 'Escape To The Mountains' banner I placed on foam tape and added some snowflakes from my collection.

The three cards are complete and are waiting for the photos from the trip to be added before I give them to the girls.

Thank you for joining me today and Happy Crafting.
Tina xxx

The July Kit can be purchased HERE

... and the Sky is Grey - Suzanne's Tag Mini Album {5 x 7}

Hello Crafty Friends!

What's even better than Winter? A mini album to store your favourite winter memories!!
Join Suzanne as she creates a gorgeous tag mini album.... be sure to watch her youtube video.... it will have you pulling out your craft supplies and wanting to make this album NOW!

Hello everyone.  I'm happy to announce that Winter has finally arrived in South east Queensland and I am loving it.  I love the few weeks of cooler weather that we get in Queensland because for most of the rest of the year it is scorching hot.  Something else that I love is the gorgeous July kit from Aunty Vera.

For this project I decided to make a cute little tag mini album and it is super quick and simple.  I used the horizontal elements page from the Simple Stories 'sub zero' collection and some cream cardstock for the inside pages.  I simply cut across the page leaving the two horizontal 4 x 6 cards together on the 4 inch side.  I folded them in half.

I cut some cream cardstock the same size and placed them alternately in the mini album

I made the cover and spine with some heavy cardstock.  The covers measure 5 x 7 inches and the corner has been taken off at 1 inch on each side to form the tag shape.  I made the spine 5 x 1 3/4 inches with a 3/8 inch spine.  I covered these pieces with the sub zero paper.

This shows the inside and outside of the cover of the mini album.

I sewed the pages onto the spine and then decorated the pages with some of the cut aparts and some die cuts.

Below are some of the pages in the album.

To finish off the mini album, I put in two eyelets and used some of the ribbon from the kit as a closure for this cute little album.

Thank you so much for having a look at my mini album.  I hope you are enjoying all the projects from the Team this month.

You can watch the process video HERE.
You can buy the kit from Aunty Vera HERE.

Bye for now and stay warm.
Suzanne xoxo