Fire & Ice Blog Hop

Fire & Ice Blog Hop

 Welcome to this month's ClubScrap Blog Hop!  

Well I know this technique has been around forever, but honestly I had never tried the technique out myself.  When I saw the cutouts from this month's kit - I thought it would be a perfect chance to give it a try.  There is instructions all over the net for this "Waterfall" technique if you need further instructions than my photo shots here.

Supplies:
Yellow cut outs from kit
Blue cardstock to mat cut outs
11x3 yellow cardstock strip
1x5 blue cardstock strip
5x7 orange card back (folded measurement)
4-3/4x6-3/4 blue cardstock mat
2 brads
piece of ribbon
circle punches
adhesive
Rubberstamp
Ink

Instructions:
1.  Mat cutouts

2. Adhere the ends (about 1 inch on each side) of the 1x5 strip to the mat, then use brads as well to adhere the 2 pieces together

3.  Take yellow strip and score a line at 3inches, then at 3-3/4, 4.5, 5-1/4.  Adhere the cut outs to the yellow strip.  Start with the first piece and adhere the entire backside, then with the next 3 just adhere in the 3/4in section.

Repeat until all have been adhered

4.  Punch a circle out of the card mat.  Punch another circle out of a piece of scrap.

5.  Adhere the orange circle onto the yellow strip.

6. Add ribbon.

7. Slip into card front and adhere yellow strip to blue card front as shown:

8.  Adhere card front to card back

9.  Once adhesive has set, you will be able to pull on the handle and move from panel to panel to panel.  You can rubberstamp a saying when fully open.

Thanks for visiting my blog during the ClubScrap Blog Hop!

Wanna see some more great creative ideas using this month's Fire & Ice kit from ClubScrap???  Just check out the next participant in the Blog Hop, please visit Jill P's Blog for more!  You can also visit ClubScrapCreates for the full list of participants.



The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

"Treasure Hunt" themed ATC cards - ClubScrap Retreat Swap!!

Well I am sooooo excited to be at ClubScrap Retreat RIGHT NOW!!!  

One of the very first events we always do at retreat is a Get-to-know-you Swap!  When we check in for retreat, we are given 5 names and during the weekend, we have the goal of hunting these 5 folks down and giving them whatever we've made.   Every year the art we make changes, one year it was inches, another puzzle pieces, greeting card, etc.  This year the art was an ATC card.  An ATC card is 2.5 inch by 3.5 inch.

After a bit of brainstorming with my sister, she came up with the fabulous idea to incorporate a Treasure Hunt into this years swap for our ATC recipients.  More about that in the next blog entry.  But because we were going to incorporate a treasure hunt, I wanted to make my ATC cards to match that treasure hunt theme.

For my cards, I decided to make little clipboards out of wood.

1.  I bought a 12x12 piece of 1/8th inch thick plywood at Joann's Fabric and cut it into the 2.5x3.5 pieces.  Used a belt sander and sanded down the corners to round them off and to make the edges nice and smooth.

2.  I painted each of the wood pieces with gesso paint.  Let dry.

 3. I used gelatos and spritzed water on the wood along with my trusty finger to rub the gelatos around.  The first one blow shows the purple drawn on, after spritzing and rubbing the watered gelatos around, it looks like the 2nd one below:

Here is the batch of them together, I did a variety of colors:

4. Used rubberstamps and stamped images with black ink, use heat gun to fully dry:

5.  Used rubberstamps and stamped images with versamark and then embossed sentiments with white embossing powder:

6.  Added the final embellishements which included a flower, the clip, some chain with a fun compass ring and some ribbon.

7.  For the final bit of fun, I attached the 'treasure hunt' to the back side for folks to do if they opted to.


The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Tutorial - Metal Tape Flowers

Supply list:
Cardstock
Metal tape (Home depot)
Embossing folders
alcohol inks
sanding paper/pad
Flower punches

Instructions:
1. Take a piece of cardstock and cover it with metal tape.

2. Emboss the metal tape covered piece of cardstock.

3. Apply alcohol inks to piece.

4. Sand the side of the cardstock that has the raised ridges to return them to silver.

5. Punch out images or cut out an image as desired.

6. Give your flower petals life by rolling or pinching or whatever look you like.

7. Punch a center hole in each and use a brad to attach together.


TFL DebDuzScrappin

Jewelry Organizer

Soooo with all the jewelry I have been making, I decided I needed someplace to put it all. So I went out and purchased a 10x14 photo frame to convert into the jewelry organizer.

Supply list:
Photo frame
Paint (teal, purple)
Gesso (white)
Mat board
aluminum screening material (Home depot)
Ribbon
Cardstock
Adhesive
Staples/Stapler


FRAME:
1. Paint wooden frame with white gesso. Let dry.

2. Paint about a 4-5 in. section with teal and then next section in purple, leaving just a small sliver of white showing between the two colors of paint. Let dry.

BACK/CENTER:
3. Remove glass and mat board from frame. Cover mat board with patterned cardstock.

4. Cut 1/2 inch strips of matboard and adhere along each of the four edges.

5. Cut a piece of aluminum screening mesh the size of the mat board. Staple to the 1/2 in matboard pieces.

6. Insert back into frame. On mine - some of the 1/2 in mat board pieces where showing, so I adhered ribbon around all four edges.

7. Measure and mark a dot 1 inch apart all along the lower edge of the frame. Drill small starter holes and then screw in cup holder hooks into frame. I also added 2 hooks along each of the sides.





The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Project - Lotus Kit - 8x8 Scrapbook part3

Here is the last 4 pages inside my handmade 8x8 (Lotus kit) scrapbook from ClubScrap.



The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Cards - Money holders set #2

These are just some super simple money gift cards. I just cut the cardstock about a 3/4ths inch longer and half inch wider than a dollar bill. Made some score lines at the center, leaving about a 1/4 spine. In the spine I punched holes and fed waxed thread through and tied on the outside. On the inside you can just tuck your dollar bills and it creates sort of a "book" look. Rubberstamp and embellish front as desired.

Materials in the project from the Jubilee kit from ClubScrap.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin