The Unique Scrapper: Technique

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Friday, December 28, 2018

Have You Seen the Love of Color How To Book from Close to my Heart (CTMH)?

Purchase your Love of Color book on my Close to my Heart website.

Perfect for any level of paper papercrafter!

Sunday, August 19, 2018

New Disney Layout

I am slowly catching up on my Disney Albums, one layout at a time.

Here is my most recent layout, featuring photos of my daughter Irelyn.

Often times when my husband has the older kids with him on a ride, I am able to take candid shots of Irelyn and my son while we are waiting for them.

Sometimes we get really cute pictures, sometimes someone is just hot and tired.

These three photos turned out pretty well.

This particular trip was back in May, during my birthday and Mother's Day weekend, so the weather wasn't too bad.

I kept this layout relatively simple, but incorporated products from a few different companies. The Black, Lemon, and Ruby cardstock are all from Close to my Heart.

I tried a new technique with the Block Alphabet Thin Cuts from Close to my Heart.

I simply die cut the letters of Irelyn's name with the Cuttlebug, then on a separate sheet of cardstock I took, Candy Apple Exclusive Ink, one of our new colors releasing September 1st and distressed it.

Then I layered the piece with the die cut letters over the distressed piece for the effect you see in the photos.

I embellished the page with a little Red Shimmer Trim also by Close to my Heart. It's one of my favorite embellishments.

I love that it already has adhesive on it.

The second part of the challenge was to use some of your older stash.

I pulled out some of my older Creative Memories photo mats from 2007, and used the blue print, solid and the yellowish journal box on the page.

Also from Creative Memories, I used an older Disney punch for the Mickey head on the right side of the layout.

Finally, I took a white gel pen and simply placed a few white dots randomly on the page for an extra touch.

I love how simple it was to make this layout and it is slightly different with all the photos to one side, from how I usually set my pages up.

I entered my layout into the following challenges:

Pile It On! Challenge Blog- Try A New Technique/Use Your Oldest Stash

A Bit More Time To Craft- #74 Anything Goes

Crafting By Designs- August Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp-Monday Challenge-Sprinkles and Splatters (White Ink Dots)

Love to Craft Challenge Blog- Anything Goes

Classic Design Team-August Challenge #8

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Magically Masked - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

As mentioned in a post a few days ago, I recently signed up for an Artist Trading Card (ATC) Swap on Splitcoaststampers.

I've been a fan of the Splitcoaststampers forums for swapping for years.

For the ATC Swap, there are 4 categories.

They are Vintage, Disney, Shades of 1 Color, and Bugs/Insects.

So I present to you one of the 4 Artist Trading Cards for the Vintage category.
"Vintage Buggie"

I chose this artistic style to highlight the "Magically Masked" technique for this month's Blog Hop.

I used nearly all Close to my Heart products for them.

The "Good Times" sentiment and the Volkswagon Beetle are from the

July Stamp of the Month "Highlight Reel".

When you purchase $50 in products you can purchase
"Highlight Reel" for only $5!

There are also 9 other Close to my Heart Consultants
sharing their amazing artwork with you,
so please be sure to make your way around the entire Blog Hop.
You are going to love this month's artwork!

If you are coming from Wendy's Blog, you are on the right track.
Should you get lost along the way, all participant's links can be found here.

On White Daisy cardstock, I stamped the sentiment first, in Saffron ink.

I then masked the sentiment and stamped each Beetle in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

I then colored each Beetle in with Copics.

I mounted the White Daisy piece to a piece of Tangerine cardstock.

I then used Tangerine ink to distress the edges of the front of the card

and mounted the card onto chipboard.

Then on the back, I mounted a piece of Tangerine cardstock.

Then used my ATC information stamp on the back on White Daisy cardstock.

I also distressed the information portion of the back with Tangerine Ink as well.

Thank you so much for stopping by, before heading over to Sarah's Blog, please consider leaving a comment and enjoy the rest of the creative talents in this month's Blog Hop!

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Triple Stamped Card for a Few Challenges

This week I wanted to feature a card that was not only beautiful, but it doesn't include patterned paper, so it's the perfect technique for those that are just starting out in the stamping world and may only have a few supplies.

This post will just feature the card itself, but I will have a tutorial posted in the next few days.