Club Scrap ALBC - Week 1: Metallics

Club Scrap Assembly Line Boot Camp**

Week 1:  Metallics

Welcome to Club Scrap’s Winter Boot Camp and my entries for week 1.  The challenge for week 1 is to use Metallic paper, embellishments, inks, paints, etc. in your cards, pages, or projects.

** Assembly Line Book Camp (ALBC) = eight weeks filled with challenges to help you get more done.  Every entry on the Club Scrap Creates blog earns:

·         Money for Operation WriteHome (OWH) donated by Club Scrap

·         An entry in Club Scrap  prize drawings

It is a great reason to scrapbook, make projects, and cards with encouragement from friends on Club Scrap forums. You can join in here; it is no pressure, just fun. 

Entries 1 and 2:

These are Birthday cards made using a stamped Bokeh technique from Julie at CS Creates.  I then totally “CASEd” the wonderful card made by Marya using this technique. My metallic elements are the blue and green banners using the CS Graffiti metallic paper.  Papers: CS graffiti & misc kits, Stamps: CS Tribal collection, Inks: CS neon ink (love them).  The card's greeting alternates between right and left sides.  Inside is a pocket for gift card tokens.  

 

Happy Crafting,

Debby

OWH Card Bowl Enties

Welcome

Today I am working on cards for Operation Write Home's Card Bowl.  The challenge is to make three masculine cards for OWH using three different challenges this weekend.  

(1) Masculine Ode to the teams! - this card shows my support for the Seahawks by using there colors.  Growing up in Seattle I can hardly support any other team.  

(2) OWH sketch challenge #210 - Here is a card using similar supplies to the Seahawks card, but adding brads per the sketch. Again this uses the Club Scrap Graffiti Collection.

These cards uses supplies from the Club Scrap Graffiti collection.  The blue and green paper is a wonderful metallic finish paper. The card is a Z-fold where the right edge is on the inside.  The chalk look is using white embossing power and a white Prima fluid chalk inker.

(3) ODBD color challenge brown - Here is a card in brown and burgundy based on Retrosketches #100.  

(4) And I made an extra for the Retrosketches #100 challenge

For this card I used papers from the Prima Marketing All Star paper pack; stamps from Stampin' Up and Club Scrap; and Club Stamp Fibers.

These cards along with many others I make will go to OWH.  I hope you will join me in supporting OWH. They collect hand made cards (blank inside) to send to our soldiers, so they can keep in touch with their loved ones.

Happy Crafting,
Debby

Graffiti Card Art Box

Hello and Welcome to the Club Scrap 

Graffiti Collection Blog Hop!

I was a bit late starting my project this month, because of all the wonderful articles in the Club Scrap Creates Graffiti Scrap Rap e-zine has caused a plethora of ideas to swirling around in my head.  Once I settled down the Graffiti collection has helped me focus on two things I have wanted to do for a while (1) get back into card making and (2) play around with my Gelli Plate.  

To make my Assembly Line Card Making (ALCM) IdeaDecks more accessible I make this card file using a scaled down version of Laura Denison’s Accordion Recipe Box Pattern and video.  My box is 6 x 4 x 2.5 inches.  A bonus is that I can use the cute tins the Idea Decks came in for an altered project; it may even turn up next month. ;-) What I really like about this pattern is the way the box opens to create an easel for the idea card.  I colored in some cut aparts to decorate the box and finished the top with Glossy Accents.

Next, I pulled out my Gelli Plate. I had to have, but until this weekend I had not used it.  Club Scrap Creates was there to inspired me with this post from Tricia. For my first experiments I keep it simple only using the Graffiti squiggle heart stamp and some bright acrylic paints.  Here are some of my very first samples.  It was great fun to just mix colors, so I made a bunch more. 

Finally it was time to ALCM some cards.  I selected the Seven of Hearts from Idea Deck Two to make four Matchbook Cards.  I always have trouble following directions, so I used the sketch a starting point.  The Gelli Plate art panels became the main panel of the card and I used the diagram to cut my other papers efficiently.  I stamped greetings in neon and India ink and again colored them.  I added a yellow/orange paper from the Club Scrap pattern basics to the mix as distressed mats and finished with Graffiti Ribbon. 

I hope you have enjoyed all the inspiration from the blog hop this month.  Your next stop is with Janet and Dishing with Janet or you can return to Club Scrap Creates for the full list. 

Until next time,

Happy Creating,

Debby

Aspen Journal

Welcome,

I loved the Club Scrap Aspen Collection so much I have another project for you.  I am Fitbooking with iClassyGirl and this is my journal made with the Aspen collection.  I was inspired by Kay's cut out stencil on her scrapbook page on Club Scrap Creates, so I made a journal using the stencil with cut outs.

I cut out part of the stencil image on the wood veneer paper and colored the remaining background with blue Distress Stains.  The quote and is clear embossed and inked.

On the inside of the black chipboard I used textured paper from Club Scrap Lock and Key and reversed the stencil.  The First page is the leaf paper with a stenciled image staggered to show through.  This time I colored the trunks with a white Distress Marker. The leaves were clear embossed on the Aspen tan paper colored with distress stains in yellow and orange.  To add a little more dimension they were raised on foam squares. 

Inside I made pages with tabs using my envelope score board punch and Aspen paper.  The pages were made by putting Aspen digital kit images behind light lines on text weight paper.  The journal is just under one half an 81/2 by 11 page, so I printed the pages at home, making them double sided.  Then I simply trimmed and punched holes.

I hope you have enjoyed this post.  I really look forward to 2014 and the great changes in store.
Happy, Creative, New Year,

Debby H

Aspen Cabin in the Woods

Welcome to the Club Scrap Aspen Blog Hop!

As soon as I received my Club Scrap Aspen Collection I started to work on my cozy Aspen cabin.  The cabin has a classic A frame look with "logs" flanking the doorway made from the wood paper in the Aspen collection.



The pattern is the November Bird Abode: Home Tweet Home from Laura Denison, but I took it in a completely different direction from the original. I added wood accents through out.  The handmade paper made a beautiful textured roof.  The charm is from the Aspen Greetings to Go set.

Inside there is room for a tall mini album and a ledge to put in a pen. I made the mini album using another one of Laura Dension's patterns, the Envelope Bypass Mini Album using #10 envelopes.  The cover features a skeleton leaf sandwiched between acrylic sheets, a cut apart, an image stamped on canvas, and Aspen button tied with linen thread.  The binding uses paper clips and gathered Aspen ribbon.

Inside are tons of pockets and tags. It was great having all the Aspen cut aparts and stickers to decorate the internal pages. I used a selection of punches for accenting the edges of the pockets: EKSucess English Ivy, and Martha Stewart Flourish, Flourish lace, and Cherish.    I can't wait to get my pictures in this one.

Thank you for stopping by!  I loved the aspen collection so much that I have another Aspen project in work and I'm planning another post by New Years.

You can return to Club Scrap Creates for all the hop links or you can continue on to Janet at Dishing with Janet to see the next post in the hop.

Happy Crafty New Year,

Debby H 

Gnome Goodies

Welcome to the Gnome for the Holiday Blog Hop

 

 

When I think about holidays I think of baking.  I get out those familiar family favorite recipes and make them fresh with my own children.      As I opened the plan text file to print my recipes, I thought how about I give these recipes a holiday make over.  And then comes out Club Scrap's Gnome for the Holiday…..

I used my digital software and CS Gnome digital kit to make an 8 ½ by 11 page to hold two 4 by 6 recipe cards. 

 

Then I printed them on cardstock.  Now I can send the new recipe cards to everyone in my family, too.  

You next stop is Debbie at DebDuzScrappin'. To get back the start off the hop go to Club Scrap Creates.

 

Happy Crafting,

Debby

Fire and Ice in the New Year

Welcome to the Club Scrap

Fire and Ice Collection Blog Hop!



You are a paper crafter, so maybe you'll understand this:  Does paper ever talk to you and tell you what it wants to be?  Sometimes it is a whisper sometimes it is a shout. 

Even though it is November the Fire and Ice collection shouted Chinese New Year to me.  I always get together with friends to celebrate in our own low key Americanized way.  The Chinese New Year is on January 31, 2014 and it is the year of the Horse (Chinese Year 4711).  One tradition we follow is to give family and friends red and gold envelopes with money to bring luck to the receiver and giver.  With the Fire and Ice collection I made a mini Chinese temple to hold the red and gold envelopes. 

All the papers and supplies used are from the Fire and Ice collection.  The basic mini-house is from "A Wee Village" pattern by Laura Denison at Follow the Paper Trail.  This little five inch tall house is made out of light weight chipboard.  I decorated the house using a corrugating tool for the roof paper, Martha Stewart Notched Square punch, and E K Success Modern Cube punch.

The envelopes were made with the We R Memory Keepers Envelope punch board (5-1/4 square measure to 2-3/8 mark).  One style uses gold Distress Paint with the Fire and Ice stencil and "Happiness" stamp.  One style uses a CS Equestrian horse stamp and CS Rhapsody number stamps.   I used foam square with a circular Fire and Ice cut apart for the envelope closure.  The envelopes are just the right size for gift cards, too. 

Thank you for stopping by today!  Your next stop is with Janet at Dishing with Janet.  To return to the beginning of the hop go to Club Scrap Creates. 


Happy Crafting,

Debby