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Monday, September 7, 2009

Coast to Coast Cards and Layouts...

by Issa

I fell in love with this kit at once! I made use of the recent long weekend to play with them... can't resist! And so I came up with 2 cards and 6 layouts with all these YUMMY goodness and here they are...

Cards, CARDS and Cards!

Miss You Card...

Materials Used: green, black and white cardstock, Graphic 45 Communique Collection-Communique paper, green and brown polkadot ribbons, brown pigment ink, glittered glue and Ranger glossy accents.

Instructions: Cut a 4 1/2 x 5 1/2" piece of green cardstock and fold it into half. Using a script rubberstamp and pigment ink, stamp on the right area of the card. Cut the PEN design of the Commuique paper and adhere it using foam tapes on the left side of the card. Make a knot using the two polkadot ribbons and adhere them on the lower area of the card. Diecut the MISS YOU letters and place them on the right side of the cards on top of the stamped images. Enhance the letters with glossy accents and glittered glue.

Thank You Card...

Materials Used: Graphic 45 Communique Collection-Society Page paper, Teal green cardstock, green polkadot ribbon, WRMK precious metal hardware-buckles and eyelet, glittered glue and Colorbox fluid chalk ink.

Instructions: Using the buttom part of the Society Page paper (including the paper tab...hehehe!), fold it into half. Get a 2" strip of the teal green cardstock, tear on one side of it and ink with fluid chalk ink. Adhere it on the buttom part of the card and top it with the green polkadot ribbon. Embellish the ribbon with metal buckle and eyelet before your permanently adhere it. Place the word THANKS on top of the teal green cardstock and decorate it with glittered glue. Card #2 is done!

Layouts, LAYOUTS and Layouts!

Just Having Fun!

Materials Used: Kraft, brown and green cardstock, Graphic 45 Commuique Collection-Commuique paper, My Mind's Eye Bella Bella French Flea Market-French Flea Market paper, Daisy D's rub on transfers, Prima flowers, center flowers from Ytet, brown polkadot ribbon, Fancy Pants felt shapes and pins-Harvest, blue blings and Colorbox fluid chalk ink.

Instructions: Cut 4 pieces of 3 1/2 x 3 1/2" patterned papers, distress all 4 sides of each piece using fluid chalk ink and adhere them on a brown cardstock. Cut the brown cardstock and adhere it on the right part of the kraft paper. Mat your photo with green cardstock, then adhere it on the left portion. Place the scalloped shape felt on the buttom part of the layout. Now to embellish the page... put the rub on-title on the lower right box. Adhere the brown polkadot ribbon on top of the scalloped felt, bundle up some flowers, blings, a butterfly and some pins under your photo. Then put some blings on the centers of the circle designs on the upper right box. Journaling strips should be place on the right corner of your photo.

Live, Love, Laugh and Eat!

Materials Used: MME Bella Bella French Flea Market-French Flea Market paper, Graphic 45 Playtime Past Collection-Child's Play paper, orange cardstock, black corrugated board, Fancy Pants pins and felt shapes- Harvest, Adorn It cardstock stickers, Colorbox fluid chalk ink, Ranger glossy accents and Tattered Angel glimmer mist-Riptide Blue.

Instuctions: Spray on the glimmer mist on the center of the Child's Play paper. Cut an 8x7" size of Frech Flea Market paper, distress all sides, ink with the fluid chalk ink, then adhere on the right side of the base paper. Cut a 4 1/2 x 5 1/2" corrugated board and adhere on top of the French Flea Market paper. Mat your photos with the orange cardstock and adhere them on top of the corrugated board. Fold the left portion of your base paper going in and secure them with pins. Attach a 6x3" corrugated board on the upper left portion to still attain a 12x12" base. Adhere your strips of journaling on that area. Embellish your page with cardstock stickers on the lower left area and to complete your title, place your diecut letters under the stickers. Top the diecut letters with Ranger glossy accents. Then place the felt shape hearts on the right corner of your bundled photos. And you're done with your second page!

3 of Us...

Materials Used: My Minds Eye Bella Bella French Flea Market-Rouge Bird paper, Graphic 45 commuique Collection-Society Page, Teal Green cardstock, Adorn It cardstock stickers, American Craft Thickers glittered chipboard letters, Prima Callope flowers, All About Scrapbooking pearl conchos, WRMK precious metal hardware buckles, green and brown polkadot ribbons.

Instructions: To save some parts of the base cardstock, cut an 8x8" size in the inner portion of the cardstock, set aside for matting your photo. Cut an 8x11" size on the Society Page paper. Cut a 4x11" size on the Rouge Bird paper and hand tear on side horizontally. Adhere both papers on top of the cardstock, Society Page paper on top and the Rouge Bird on the bottom part. Adhere the Adorn It flower strip sticker on the left portion of the page vertically. Then adhere the two polkadot ribbons vertically. Green one covering the joining area of the 2 patterned papers and the brown ribbon under the green one. Use metal buckles to embellish your ribbons. Then, mat your photo with the left teal green cardstock. To journal your page, cut the right part of the bracket shape journaling sticker and adhere it on the upper right part of the page. Embellish your page with flowers, conchos and brads. Lastly, place your title on the upper right portion of your page.

Her Life's Blessings...

Materials Used: My Minds Eye Bella Bella Frech Flea Market-Sophia and Frech Flea Market papers, brown and rose cardstock, Adorn It cardstock sticker, glittered glue, Ranger glossy accents and Colorbox fluid chalk ink.

Instructions: Use the Sophia paper for your base and cut a 5x4" size on the right side of it, set aside the fallout paper for further use. Then, cut 8x7" of the French Flea Market paper and distress the 4 sides of it. Adhere it on top of the window created to cover it. Mat your photo with brown cardstock and adhere it on top of the French Flea Market paper. Use the 2 strip designs of the Adorn It cardstock stickers and adhere them at the buttom of your photo. Use foam tapes on the swirl design strip to create depth on your page. Get the fallout portion of the Sophia paper and handcut the flowers and leaves, use them to embellish your page by putting them on the bottom part of the photo. Then use the heart sticker of Adorn It and put it on the center of the flowers and leaves. Put glittered glue on the leaves to give it a shine. Journal your page on the lower left corner of your photo. With the use of diecutting machines and dies, cut your titles and adhere them on the upper left area of your page. Top it with Ranger glossy accents to give it an epoxy look. And it's DONE!

New York City...

Materials Used: Graphic 45 Commuique Collection-Classy Correspondence and Commuique papers, orange and black cardstocks, Basic Grey Mini Monos chipboard letters, Antique red acrylic paint, Ranger glossy accents, Tattered Angel glimmer mist-riptide blue, Colorbox fluid chalk ink, Prima Artistry and Callope flowers and brad and EK Success sticko ticket sticker.

Instructions: Trace and cut a bracket shape paper on the Graphic 45 Classy Correspondence paper. Cut an 8x5" opening on the upper center of the base paper. Set aside the fallout portion of the base paper for further use. Adhere an orange cardstock on the back portion to close the opening. Roll the edges of the opening leaving it a distressed look. Mat your photos with black cardstock and punch holes on the top and buttom part leaving it a computer printout paper effect. Spray glimmer mist on the upper left and under the opening portion of the base paper. Adhere your photos inside the created window area. Hand tear a part of the fallout paper and adhere it on the lower portion of your photos. To embellish your page... cut the Liberty prints of the Commuique paper and adhere it on the lower right part of the window with the use of foam tapes. Bundle some ticket memorabillias or stickers. I used the letters NYC as initials of my title, paint your chipboard letters with acrylic paint and top it with Ranger glossy accents once dry. Put flowers on the buttom part of your title. For the journaling... I always love to use strips on my journals. Cut your journals into strips and distress them with fluid chalk ink, then adhere them on the lower center part of your page.

Speak Your Heart...

Materials Used: My Minds Eye Penny Lane-Free Bird "Beauty" Fond Circles Paper and Bella Bella-French Flea Market Paper, Graphic 45 Commuique Collection-Commuique Paper, orange and brown cardstocks, Adorn It cardstock sticker, Pompom brown ribbon lace, foam flowers, Prima Artistry flowers and Callope flowers, All About Scrapbooking pearl conchos, Colorbox fluid chalk ink and glittered glue.

Instructions: From your scraps of cardstocks and patterned papers, cut half inch, 1" and 1 1/2" of strips and then roll and secure each roll. Make at least 17 to 20 pieces of them. Cut 8x 3 1/2" MME French Flea Market paper and 8x 2 1/2" Graphic 24 Commuique paper, hand tear both papers on one side horizontally and distress with fluid chalk ink. Cut "A Specimen" portion of the Graphic 45 Commuique paper. Mat your photo with orange cardstock. And to assemble the different papers... adhere first the cut "A Specimen" paper on the middle top part of the base MME Free Bird "Beauty" Fond Circles paper, followed by the 8 x 3 1/2" MME paper then on top of it, adhere the 8x 2 1/2" Graphic 45 paper on the bottom part of the base paper. Using foam tapes to give a depth on your page, adhere your photo on the right part of your base paper. To embellish your page... adhere the brown pompom ribbon lace on the right side of your photo and another one in between the top and buttom printed papers on your left. Put a 4" double sided tape or put glue under the brown pompom ribbon lace and line up your rolled papers on it. Its your choice to choose the order and sizes of papers to be place, secure them properly so it will not fall apart. Arrange and adhere your bundle of flowers at the buttom part of your photo. You can use conchos and brads to decorate the centers of your flowers. Put the Adorn It cardstock sticker on the left side opposite your flowers. To finish your page... put glittered glue on the distressed papers to give it a shine. And you're done!

Thanks for looking!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

HOME COOKED

HALLOOOOO! We're on a roll here with updating our Gallery... :D More ideas and this time YUMMY layouts, cards and mini album by ISSA LUCIDO. A runner up of the Philippine Scrapbook Idol 2008 and one of our new DTs, Issa's scrapbook style grabbed my attention with her mix of techniques and well-balanced layouts. I asked Issa to create as many layouts, cards and mini album with the April 2009's kit, HOME COOKED, and she didn't disappoint! :D

Famous Lumpiang Ubod...
Materials used:
Adorn It pps- Aunt Mame Collection (Red lined paper and Recipe Jumble)
Moxxie recipe card
Cardstocks orange and black
ribbons
lace
ric rac
eyelets
AC Slick writer pen
Faber Castell watercolor pencils
Moxxie letter rubons
MME card and frame
Jolee stickers
Steps:
1. Get the left 6x6 recipe jumble pps, put double sided tapes on 3 sides of the pps, leaving the top area open. That will serve as a pocket.
2. Punch 6 holes on the right portion. 2 holes about half and inch apart, then follow it downwards. Secure eyelets, then tie the orange ricrac on the first set of eyelet, followed by some red lace, then green ribbon.
3. Write the recipe on a recipe card. Mat a small photo. Then insert them on the pocket.4. Adhere a 4R photo on the MME frame then mat it with black cardstock. Adhere the matted photo on top of the made pocket.
4. Insert a card on the right side of the matted photo, journal here.
5. Put rubon letters on the upper left portion of the page. Using a slick writer pen, draw a cloud like image around your title. Use a watercolor pencil and just color the inside of the cloud. Then get a wet paint brush and just spread the watercolor in a going in motion, making a fading effect.
6. Write a subtitle on top of the rubons. Then embellish it with some more stickers.

My Sweet Life...

Materials Used:
Pink Paisley- Fascinating pps
Adorn It, Anne Mame Coolection- Recipe JumbleDelightfyl-Sweet Baby Shower, A Girl is frame
cardstock-black and orange
Moxxie letter rubons
ribbons
laces
buttons
DMC thread
Brillance fluid chalk ink
Potholder
eyelet outlet brads
Jolee's sticker -bowl and spoon
glittered glue
Steps:
1. Cut 10 x 6 inches of Adorn It-Recipe Jumble pps, then distress all 4 sides using a paper distresser or a scissor. Apply ink on all sides.
2. Mat small photos with orange cardstock and the big one with black. Get the Delightful frame and just simple squeeze out the big photo.
3. Adhere the pps on the upper right area of the Pink Paisley pps for the base paper.
4. Assemble and adhere your photos on top of the 10x6 pps.
5. Sew all sides of the base pps with red embroider thread.
6. Get 3 kinds of ribbons or laces, measure 2 1/2 inches each and fold into two, then sew them on the upper right corner of the 10x6 pps. Secure it with buttons.
7. Stamp on the lower right corner of the base pps... that will serve as the journaling area too.
8. Use Moxxie rubon letters for your title adjusten from the stamped area.
9. Embellish with Jolee stickers and potholder brad.


Fine Dining...
Materials Used:
Moxxie- Table Service pps and Home Cooked pps
Cardstocks- white, red, black
Delightful cardstock bracket card
Orange ricrak
eyelets
K & Company Letters to go
MM acrylic paint
Moxxie letter rubons
black pen for doodling
Potholder brad
Steps:
1. Measure 1 inch on all sides of the Table Service pps, then cut it leaving the center open. Set aside center fall out pps.
2. Adhere it on a white cardstock.
3. Get a 76x 8 1/2 inches piece of Home Cooked pps. Distress and apply ink on all 4 sides. Adhere it on the center of the base paper. Punch two eyelets on the top left area and another pair on the lower right area.
4. Mat your photos with black and red cardstocks. Adhere the big one on top of the Home Cooked pps and the smaller one on the lower left side of the photo.
5. With a foam brush, simply run a stroke of beige acrylic paint on the upper right area of the layout. Let it completely dry up before topping it with Moxxie letter rubons.
6. Use a black pen to doodle on the inner portion of the cut frame pps... it gives a highlight effect on the page.
7. Write journaling on the bracket card and adhere slanting under the smaller photo.
8. Embellish your page with K & Company letters to go, potholder brad and some rikraks on the eyelet holes and make a neat knot.



Look Who's Cooking...
Materials Used:
Round scrapped pps
Moxxie-Homecooked pps
Adorn It-Anne Mame Collection, Recipe Jumble
Pots brads
Pompom red lace
cardstock red
Moxxie rubon letters
Colorbox gold ink
Brillance ink red
glittered glue
Ranger Glossy Accents
Prima flowers
MM silver brads
Steps:
1. Mat your photo with red cardstock, distress all sides with paper distresser or scissors, then apply gold ink all around.
2. Cut 2 strips of pps (Recipe Jumble and Home cooked). Adhere pompom lace at one side of the home cooked pps. Distress and ink one side of the Recipe Jumble pps
3. Cut 4 designed flowers at the back of Home Cooked pps. Using your cutter, cut the inner petals of the 2 cutout flowers.
4. Adhere the 2 pps on the left side of the base, then followed by the 2 photos. Embellish it with the cutout flowers, prima red flowers and brads on the lower left area. Put a pot brad on the top part of the Home Cooked pps and another on the buttom part.
5. Diecut your titles with red cardstock and top it with Ranger glossy accents to get an epoxy effect. Adhere them under the photos, then use Moxxie rubon letters for the lower title.

Sweet Life
1. Cut 7x10 pps and fold into half for the base of the card.
2. Cut 2 1/2 x 5 pps and adhere on the top portion of the card.
3. Adhere ricrak ribbon on the buttom part of the red pps to cover the edges.
4. Stamp on the buttom left side of the card.
5. Embellish with flowers. In this design, I made a strip flower and topped it a little diecut flower and a button.
6. Cut our mini letters for the sub title...


Thanks
1. Cut 7 x10 cardstock for the base of the card.
2. Cut 4 x6 pps and use a corner rounder on all sides. If you have a corner rounder, you can trace a coin and just cut it.
3. Paper tear a strip and adhere in the upper portion of the card. Then attach a pompom lace on top of the strip pps.
4. Hand cut a design of flowers in one of the pps and adhere them on top of the strip paper using foam tapes.
5. Use rubon letter on the right buttom part of the card.