Club Scrap Sunflowers Card Tutorials

Club Scrap Greetings To Go - Sunflowers Collection

So glad to be back blogging again. This month I had the great pleasure of being the Club Scrap Greetings to Go guest artist as shown on the Club Scrap Blog. Even after making all those cards I still wanted to make more with the beautiful Club Scrap Sunflower Collection. Here I've posted another set of cards I made to showcase some of the techniques I used.

Additional Sunflower Cards

Seed Pack Pocket Card

Seed Pack Pocket Card

The seed pack card is based on the Club Scrap August Card Sketch has an added slide out greeting panel in addition to the seed packet.

August Card Sketch Challenge from the Club Scrap Forum 

The card sketch challenge can be entered in the Club Scrap Forum and you'll have chance of winning a gift certificate.

Base - 3-3/4 inch x 11 inch print scored at 2-3/4 on each short side

Make the pocket base as shown above.  Where the base sides meet tear the edge, leaving 3/4 inch un-torn on the left.  Curl the edge with a pencil to make the opening. Ink edges if desired.

Inside pullout from a 5-3/8 inch x 4-1/4 inch panel.

Make a tab using an envelope punch board or other desired method and trim off excess.  Cut slits on each short side 1/2 inch from the bottom, 1/2 inch wide x 2-1/2 inch long.

Install pocket closer and tabs to hold pull out.

The pocket is made by using a 3/4 inch x 5-1/2 inch strip scored in half. Cover the inside edge with washi tape to ease sliding the pull out. Small 1/2 inch tabs hold the end so the pull out cannot be removed. Decorate as desired.

Use a small scrap to attach the bottom and top covers of the pocket.

This shows the card ready to place the top piece over the pull out.

For an easier pull out just leave off the slots and tabs.

Finish the Card with Watercolor Pencil Enhanced Wood Buttons

Asymmetric Folded Card

Asymmetric Folded Card 

For this card I scored the light green base (11 inch by 4-1/4 inch) short sides at 2 inch on one side and 3-1/2 inch on the other.  Then I scored the green base (8-1/2 inch by 5-1/2 inch) short sides at 1-3/4 inch on one side and 2-1/2 inch on the other.  To make sure you have place for each panel fold the card and place panels before attaching the two base pieces together. To the embossed panels I added Inktense watercolor pencil to the flower for this card.

Tall Graduated Background Card

The background was made using distress ink in progressive colors and a torn sheet of paper.

The Distress Ink Color Progression

Use a Torn Sheet of Paper and a Different Color on Each Layer

Shimmer Watercolor Card

This is a new card using Lindy's Stamp Gang magicals to watercolor the image. These are similar to Color Bursts, but they have extra shimmer. This gave a wonderful shine to the watercolors.

Watercoloring with LSG Magicals

Double Stamped Card

This card shows the double stamping technique that gives a muted shadow to the image. I used a MISTI for stamp positioning, but any type of positioning tool will work.

Stamp with White Ink

Move Card Over about 1/16 inch and Stamp in a Dark Color

Bonus Double Stamp Card

Bonus "Mistake" Card

Here is what I thought was a mistake. After double stamping on the light green I found it too light for the white stamping to show. To see what would happen I clear embossed the large sunflower and then sprayed the panel with LSG Starbursts in Mission Bells Brown and Clam Bake Beige.  It was a surprise how the white ink resisted the spray and how yellow the flower looked against the brown. 

It turns out this card is perfect for the Club Scrap August Technique Challenge:  vintage/sepia coloring with embossed images. If you go to the Challenge post Linky section you can vote for your favorite. If I'm luck that might even be this card. 

As a bonus here is how I used multi-color gilding leaf to make the greeting. First I stamped and heated the sticky heat embossing powder until it looked shiny. This goes faster than regular clear embossing, but it all needs to be "wet" for the technique to work.

Tap Down Leaf on the Sticky Image

Scrub with a Gentle Sponge Scrubber to Clean off Excess.

I had a great time making these cards and hope you found some ideas you liked. If you came here from the Club Scrap Blog Thanks for checking my tutorials out. If you haven't seen my Greeting to Go cards go to the Club Scrap Blog.

Thank you for stopping by,

Debby H.

Blueprints Card Box

Welcome to the Blueprints Collection Blog Hop! To return to the start of the hop here.

I love the images in this collection and it is perfect for the my Stacked Book Box Project Components kit.  Kay made some beautiful versions of this shown here.  I started with the smallest box and had so much fun that I only finished one box for this hop.

My "Create" card box

• Blueprints Stencil and Modeling Paste
• Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray
• Stamps from Blueprints and Time of Your Life 
• Clear and white embossing powder.  
• Blueprints papers, ribbon, charms, and washi tape
• Martha Stewart Punch Geometric Frames
• Gelli print and acetate

The 5 x 7 box is the perfect size for cards.  So I made eight cards with the blueprints papers and stamps using a few other items.

Cards 1 & 2

• Blueprints ribbon
• Club Scrap Hybrid Ink
• Watercolor with Intense Pencils
• Painting with Distress ink 

Cards 3 & 4

• Metal Brads
• Club Scrap Hybrid Ink

Cards 5 & 6

• Blueprints ribbon
• Club Scrap Hybrid Ink
• Painting with Distress ink 
• Martha Stewart Punch Flourish Lace
• Metal Brad and staples

Cards 7 & 8 Closed

Score 5 1/2 x 12 Green at 3 3/4 and 7 3/4 for bi-fold card

Time of Your Life Stencil

Blueprints ribbon

Club Scrap Hybrid Ink

Painting with Distress ink 

Martha Stewart Punch Flourish Lace

Metal Brad and staples

Cards 7 & 8 Open

Thank you for reading. Your next stop is with the talented Janet from Dishing with Janet and the beginning of the hop is at Club Scrap Blog here.

Happy Crafting,
Debby H

Interactive Cinema Album

Welcome to the Club Scrap Cinema Collection Blog Hop! I'm so glad you've stopped by my blog.  If you would like to return to the start of the hop here is the link.

The Club Scrap Cinema Collection is so beautiful I decided to make an album for myself. I love pockets and flaps so I chose to make a single segment version of Laura Denison's Foto Folio Two. The materials are taken from the Club Scrap Cinema Collection unless otherwise noted. To that I added some embellishments, art work, punches, and of course pictures. 

I worked on most interior pages during a weekend crop, but I forgot to bring my CS Cinema UM stamps (Oh No!). Turns out the CS Cinema cutaparts were able to see me through most of the album. 

For the cover I add flowers, leaves, "Melt It" buttons, and distressed tin embellishments as described in my Club Scrap Greetings to Go Cards' post. In the background you can barely see the Cinema reel stencil that I colored in with a wine marker and silver pen.  The tabs were made with some Crop-a-Dial corner punches and all was antiqued with Distress Stain in Black Soot. Throughout the book I have used the cutaparts numbers to make similar tabs to divide up the pictures. The punch used on the cover is Martha Stewart Deco Fan corner and edge.

Tab one "4th of July" shows our day at the lake. The photo is black and white colored with Distress Ink in various colors.

Tab two "Sunset" features Cinema stars UM Stamps in Lindy's Stamp Gang Hydrangea Blue Moon embossing powder on the black panel. 

Tab Three "Band" includes some art work leftover from my Cinema Cards using Izink with the CS Get the Picture Collection stencil.

 

Tab Four "Sports" features a movie quote to go with the sepia baseball photo.  The title was printed with CS Cinema Digital Collection art work and font.

On the inside flap, the CS Cinema Lite collection tan letters were colored with Inktense pencils and water activated to get a distressed look. 

Tab Five "Scouts" uses small 1" x 1.25" pictures on a filmstrip cutapart as in the CS Creates post "Four New Ways to Use Cutaparts."

Tab Six "Cats vs Dogs" uses letters colored with back Inktense pencils and a filmstrip cutapart.

Tab Seven "The Grad" includes a dry embossed panel colored with Brushed Pewter Distress Paint using a brayer to color only the embossed locations.

Tab Eight "Friends" features stamped camera images from the Club Scrap Get the Picture UM Stamps made with Picket Fence Distress Paint. The flap uses a Martha Stewart Deco Tassel corner punch for the tin embellishment. Stamped sentiments are from the CS Picnic and Dungarees Collection.

During the weekend crop I said I wish I could use a video to show the interactive nature of this album and a friend said sure you can.  So, she helped me learned how to make a video and edit it. Here is a video flip though on my new YouTube channel "Debby's MIPC."

Thank you for reading and watching. Your next stop is with the talented Janet from Dishing with Janet and the beginning of the hop is at Club Scrap Creates here.


Happy Crafting,
Debby H

Oopsie Daisy Shine On Canvas

Welcome to the Club Scrap Oopsie Daisy Collection Blog Hop! I'm so glad you've stopped by my blog.  If you would like to return to the start of the hop link here.

I just fell in loved the Oopsie Daisy art work as soon as I saw the Club Scrap Kit.  So, after many false starts trying making my own version of collection's daises, I decided to used the art work from this 8.5 x 11 printed paper as my canvas focal image.  

I started by making a sky background on my 12 x 12 canvas using Derwent Inktense blocks in blues using a water mister to blend.  Once dry the Intense is permanent, then I added Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst Spray in Hydrangea Blue allowing it to puddle and added spots of Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst Spray California Poppy Gold.

The main flower image is was cut out from two sheets of paper.  First I stamped the Daisy definition stamp in ash Club Scrap hybrid ink and heat set to make it permanent. I love using heat set hybrid ink in all the wonderful Club Scrap colors for any wet mixed media or watercolors. Next I added a layer of Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst Spray in Glory of the Seas Gold. The flower center was enhanced with flower soft added to the center.  Next the cut daisies were mounted with foam squares to add dimension.  The lettering uses the Club Stamp collection Vanilla Thicker letters with Lindy Stamp Gang Embossing Power in Morning Glory Azure for extra shine.

The canvas border is painted with grey acrylic paint and Club Stamp collection paper. Half inch strips of caramel paper were mitered.  The black Club Stamp collection paper was cut free hand in a wavy pattern strips.  Each strip was colored lightly with a gold Playcolor metallic paint (from a past Club Scrap Kit) and distressed the edges, before layering on the canvas.

The artwork in this collection is beautiful and I had a lot of fun making this canvas.  Your next stop is with the talented Janet from Dishing with Janet and the beginning of the hop is at Club Scrap Creates here.

Thank you for reading my post,

Happy Crafting,

Debby H

Doorway Journal Cover - Tim’s Compendium III Challenge #5

So here is my 5th Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities Volume III challenge entry. The challenge is hosted by L3 Studios, learn more about the "CC3C" challenge here. To play along you need the book for the technique. Below is my challenge element - 39. Distressed Watercoloring - Part 1. This was my first time doing this technique and it was lots of fun!  The doorway stamp and quote are from Club Stamp.

Once I finished the watercolor I needed something to put it on, so I used it to cover a composition notebook and I'll use the pages to art journal and for additional CC3C challenges. 

Here is a list of supplies used:

• Composition Notebook
• Hero Arts black ink
• Club Scrap Doorway Stamp
• 140 lb Mixed Media Paper
• Distress Markers
• Club Scrap Quote Stamp
• Distress Ink
• Club Scrap Cardstock
• Club Scrap Geometry Collection Stencil
• Stencil Girl Boarder Stencil
• Inktense Pencils
• Pearls
• Martha Stewart Punch

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and your comments are greatly appreciated. 

Happy Creating,

Debby