Shabby Flower Tutorial

I was asked by a few people how to make the flower on the cards I created the other day (seeTHIS post).

So today I have created a quick step by step tute, showing how I made them. Pop over to the forums at Little Scrapbook Shop >>> HERE <<< to find out how.

Take care and ciao for now,

New Monthly Challenges over at LSBS

Looking for something to challenge you and cheer you up during these cold winter days?

Well, look no further than Little Scrapbook Shop, where we have the first of our monthly challenges ready for you!!

Challenge 1 is mine - its a colour and cardmaking challenge and here are the 2 cards I made which meet the criteria. . .

Challenge 2 is by Lauren - its a sketch challenge and what a great sketch it is too.

Head over to the Little Scrapbook Shop Forums for all the details. There is a great prize for each of the challenges and you have a whole month to get them completed.

Hope to see you there.

Take care and ciao for now,

One Product 3 Ways - Stamps! at Little Scrapbook Shop

Good Morning Bloggers!!

Today I have a treat for you! I have just loaded a tutorial over at Little Scrapbook Shop, showing you 3 ways with stamps. Below is a peek at the cards I made. Details on how to get these results can be found in the forums over at LSBS. Click *HERE* to see the thread in the forum.

Create a background for punching out shapes:

Shrinky Dink Fun:

Paper Piecing:

Product information
~ stamps - The Greeting Farm, "Later Sk8er", "Journey", Buddies"; MME Lost & Found "Madison Avenue "Pretty""
~inks - Stazon Timber Brown
~ cardstock - Bazzill Basics
~ Patterned Papers: Echo Park "littlegirl", Kaisercraft
~ Brads
~ Flowers - Green Tara
~ Ribbons
~ Buttons
~ Punches - Martha Stewart - large butterfly, hydrangeas 3
~ Journaling pens - white & brown
~ The Crafters Workshop Template -
~ EK Success punch - retro flower large
~ Other tools: distressing too, heat gun, adhesives

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!!

Take care and ciao for now,

A quick card share . . .

Yes, I know, 2 posts in 2 days hehehe.

Today I thought I would share with you some very cute little cards I made towards the end of last year. I just so love this little "Milton with Card" stamp from Wild Rose Studio (you can get these at Little Scrapbook Shop :) )

TIP: I colour in my stamped images in colours that I like and then choose the cardstock and mix and match patterned papers to go with the colours I have used in my images. It works surprisingly well.

~ Add some interest to your card by rolling the corners instead of sticking them all down

~ tear an edge of one of your papers and add some sparkles

~ punch a border around 2 sides of your patterned paper for a slightly asymetrical look

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Product information

~ Wild Rose Studio Clear Stamps - Milton & co - Milton with Card + acrylic block
~ Stazon Inkpad - saddle brown
~ Patterned papers from: Echo Park, Prima, Basic Grey , October Afternoon+ scraps in my stash
~ Bazzill cardstock
~ Ribbons
~ FLowers
~ Buttons
~ i-rock tool & clear & coloured gems
~ Cosmo Cricket alphabet stickers
~ Martha Stewart Border edge punch (available by pre-order)
~ Other ~ Watercolour paper, watercolour paint, handmade flowers and a pin from my stash.

All text and images Copyright © Deanne Stewart-Mills and Little Scrapbook Shop 2011

I will have some more for you tomorrow :)

Take care and ciao for now,

4-7-11 ~ 7 Wonders ~ Challenge 1 ~ Pyramid at Giza

Howdy Bloggers!

Well silly me, I keep forgetting to keep my blog up to date. Our first challenge went up atLSBSon Sunday for our 4-7-11 challenges.

I was first up and my challenge is to create a pyramid-shaped mini album/art work. I have a step by step which you can see in the forum by clicking HERE

Here are the photos of the project I created - a Fairy Garden.

Enjoy.

Product used:

~ Bazzill cardstock
~ Ribbons
~ Wild Rose Studio Stamps
~ Stazon Inkpad - Jet Black
~ Flowers (a mix of lots of brands)
~ Kaisercraft round gems
~ Basic Grey Stickers Chipboard Alphas
~ Kindyglitz
~ other - watercolour pencils, circular paper clip

Take care and ciao for now,

Its been a long time between drinks . . . .

Wow, its been a while since I have been on here {blushing}.

I have been very busy and also very lazy!! I am teaching several days a week in the community now, so that keeps me on my toes. I teach knitting and crochet on Wednesdays and cardmaking on Mondays and twice on Thursdays. Next year I have the opportunity to teach a couple more days a week too, and hopefully that will pan out!

Since I am here, I thought I would share with you some things I have been creating and teaching. I have been away from my blog since March, so there is a lot to put up here! I will put it up over several days.

Also, its CC weekend at Little Scrapbook Shop this weekend, so I will pop my challenge up after it has gone 'live' (but that is another post :) ).

I also have some news on the Stampin' Up! front, but that is also a rant for another time.

Enjoy the photos to follow. Drop me a line and say hi - I'd love to hear from you.

This is a card created using bleach. (sorry, the pic is quite blurry - will fix asap)

Products used: Stampin' Up! stamps, RST verse stamp, Cuttlebug, distressing tool

The following cards were created for Little Scrapbook Shop.
Click on the photo to go to the forum for a closer look and product details.

This layout was created using an Artist Trading Card as the inspiration.
The gorgeous young man in the photo is Angus, the son of a good friend of mine, Jenni.
For a closer look and to see the rest of the collection I made using the set of ATCs,
click on the photo and it will take you to the LSBS forums where you will find
all the information about products etc.

This gorgeous calendar is a little something I created while away at Little Scrapbook Shop Retreat in August 2009. I love dragons and loved these chipboard dragons I found in the shop!
For more information about the products used, click on the photos and it will take you to the forums.

Cards to Share

I have been playing with some of my new stamps (and new 2nd hand stamps) and these are the cards I created.
As always, you can click on the images for an enlarged view.

Urban Prairie Card

Products used:
(please note that all links will take you to Little Scrapbook Shop)
~ Basic Grey Clear Stamps Urban Prairie, Wild FLowers
~ Acrylic Block
~ Stazon Inkpad Jet Black
~ Basic Grey 6x6 pad Urban Prairie
(the papers in these books are the ideal size for
cardmaking and for matting photos on layouts!)
~ Bazzill basics cardstock (beige)
~ KaiserCraft Round Gems
~ Adhesives - mounting foam, double sided tape
Other - rub-ons from stash, ribbon, square card, water-based markers

Techniques

The coloured image was created by colouring in the stamp with water-based markers, then "huffing" on the stamp to moisten the ink again. It was then stamped straight onto the back of the Bazzill card (flat surface).

All edges are distressed with the inkpad to 'dirty' them up a bit.

Just Because Card

Products used:
~ Butterfly Stamp (Anita's stamps)
~ Basic Grey 6x6 pad Urban Prairie
(the papers in these books are the ideal size for
cardmaking and for matting photos on layouts!)
~ KaiserCraft Round Gems
~ Adhesives - Pritt Power Gel, double sided tape,
Glossy Accents (dimensional medium)
Other - rub-on's from stash

Techniques

The butterfly image was stamped onto the pink paper, then I cut away all the background with a scalpel. I then stamped the image onto various pages from the 6x6 book, then cut out and paper pieced the images onto the pink square. I adhered the round gems to the centres of the flowers, then added a layer of Glossy Accents to the flower petals and the butterfly bodies and parts of their wings.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.
Have a great day,

Deanne
xx

Happy Thoughts Canvas

Hi all,

I was playing around with some new stamps yesterday and wanted to created a shaker card using the owl stamp. I made the little shaker window, then mounted that onto the green PP, then onto the blue bazzill.I liked it so much that I wanted to turn it into a canvas. For some reason, this owl makes me feel very happy in my heart, so I wanted my canvas to be something that would make me happy, or remind me to be happy and also to be something inspirational.

I can write on the acetate (over the yellow pp) again and again, as I have used an erasable whiteboard marker.

As always, you can click on the images for a larger view.


Products used:
(All links go to Little Scrapbook Shop)
~ White 30cm canvas
~ Clear stamps. (I used a set by Chatterbox, but there are heaps of fantastic stamps in the shop to choose from. Click HERE to go and browse at all the great stamps Cath has (see, I have left you some!!) hehehe
~ Acrylic block
Stazon inkpad Jet Black
~ various rubons from stash including: Making Memories, Kaisercraft, Autumn Leaves Rhonna Farrer (not the same set, but these are just fantastic!
~ Patterned papers from paper stacks by K&Co and Basic Grey
~ Acetate
~ Large Brads
~ KI by Bazzil (Orange Peel) - Boogieboard
~ Microbeads
~ Adhesives - Pritt Power Gel, mounting foam, doublesided tape

Here are some close up shots of the canvas

Utensils Tin (altered Milo Tin)

I have a hideous utensils draw, so messy and impossible to find anything, so I decided to make myself a utensil holder to keep near my stove.

I had this enormous milo tin (something like a 1kg tin I think) and thought it would be ideal, as my utensils have long handles.

I just got the photo of it today, as my camera has been MIA for about a week, and I just found it last night (yay!!). Unfortunately, I splashed tomato sauce onto my tin last night, so the thickers are a little dirty looking in the photo. Oh well, it is meant to be used, and is near my stove, so it was inevitable lol.

Hope you like it.

Products used:
(all links go to LSBS shop)
~ Paper flowers by - KaiserCraft, Prima, Rebecca Erickson, FTI and my stash (and Jenni's stash - thanks Jenni!!!)
~ KaiserCraft Round Gems
~ Bright patterned papers from my stash
(I am sure I got these from Cath, but I am afraid I can't remember what brand they were. However, Sandylion/Kelly Panacci have a great range of bright pp's)
~ Striped Grossgrain ribbon from my stash
~ American Crafts Thickers Foam stickers "Eggnog" white
~ Adhesives - double sided tape, Pritt Power Gel

Got Straws? Altered tin

I needed to put our straws into something a bit nicer than a plastic bag, so I popped them into an old coffee tin. As most of you know, I can't have "naked" OTP items being used, so, of course, I had to cover it.

This is the result.
I was very happy with the finished product and love that the stripey straws I use match my tin.

Products used:
(all links go to LSBS shop)
~ Reminisce 12x12 shimmer paper from my stash
~ KaiserCraft Fozz Felt (cut up to use shapes individually)
~ KaiserCraft Round Gems
~ American Crafts Thickers Foam Stickers "Eggnog" white
~ KI Memories Red Carpet Mini Sashes
~ Adhesives - Double sided tape, Pritt Power Gel
Other - Jac paper (double sided adhesive sheets)

BLING BLING Calculator

Surprise surprise, something made almost entirely from bling!!!!! hehehe.

Thanks to Jenni, who told me about seeing a bling calculator in the first place. I spent 3 hours one night blinging this darned thing lol, and went through ALL of my Kaiser silver gems, and quite a few of the kaiser flower gems.

Some of the pink bling is from a KaiserCraft Rhinestone Word. I love these because I can cut them up and use the different sized blings however I like. I am yet to use a word I have bought as a whole word
The tiny pink bling is from. . . er, I can't remember actually, but it may have been mobile phone bling that I have had in my stash.

Enjoy!!! Products used:
(links will take you to LSBS shop)
~ KaiserCraft Round Gems
~ KaiserCraft Flower Gems
~ KaiserCraft Rhinestone Words

Friendship Cards for LSBS DT

Hi there,
More creations - this time some friendship cards I made using some fabbo KaiserCraft stamps. Just LOVE LOVE LOVE the Kaiser clear stamp range!!!

Products used for all cards:
(additional products used are listed under the individual cards)
~ KaiserCraft Clear Stamps "Friends" + acylic block
~ Stazon Inkad - Jet Black
~ KaiserCraft Round Gems
~ Ribbons (some from stash, some available at LSBS)
~ Basic Grey patterned papers
~ Cardstock in various colours
~ Adhesives - mounting foam and doublesided tape

Additional products used:
~ Bella chipboard shape (thanks Jo)
~ Black Gel pen for doodling
~ Stampin' Up! Scallop border punch
(available from 1st December!)
Additional products used:
~ Black Gel pen for doodling
~ Stampin' Up! Scallop border punch
(available from 1st December!)
Additional products used:
~ Plain white cardstock
~ Pink inkpad (for the edges of the white circle and around the edge of the white card)

Bye for now,
Deanne
xx

More creations for you

Hi all,
This is the first of a few posts today - I am just popping up some things I have recently created.

First up is my Gingerbread man Countdown Calendar. I was inspired by Kerryn's Countdown Gingerbread men calendars, so had to make one of my own.

Products used:
(all links will take you to the Little Scrapbook Shop shop)
~ KaiserCraft OTP Wooden Gingerbread man album (thanks Jenni)
~ KaiserCraft Paint (green - thanks Jenni)
~ KaiserCraft 12x12 Christmas paper (mine was from last year's range, but there are some lovely papers in this year's range)
~ Silver rings (KaiserCraft have silver and lots of other colours too)
~ Ribbon from stash
~ Various Rub-ons from stash
~ KI Memories Little Softies
~ Large brads (with the prongs removed with shank pliers)
~ Adhesives - Pritt Power Gel and Pritt power glue stick
~ Rik rak from Jenni's stash (check out the rik rak in the shop here)
~ Crop-a-dile and large eyelets (from stash)
~ white cardstock and cold laminate (clear self-adhesive vinyl)
~ The little xmas tree and lollie etc are from a $2 pack of wine glass charms from a bargain shop.

Some techniques used:

Used Pritt glue stick to adhere paper to the gingies after I coated them with green paint.
The eyes are made from large brads which had the prongs removed with a button shank removing tool. They are stuck on with the Pritt Power Gel (I LOVE this stuff!!!!!)

Have a great day!
Deanne
xx

More Christmas Cards

Ok, last post for today. Here is another set of Christmas cards using my November DT pack.
Enjoy!!

Deanne
xx

Products used for all cards:
Products used for all cards:
(Additional products used are listed under the individual cards)
~ Bazzill Cardstock
~ American Crafts MiniMarks Rub-ons Christmas Book One

Circle Tree
Additional Products used:
~ Basic Grey PP Wassail "Laurel Leaves"
~ KaiserCraft Pearls
Other - circle punch, olive green inkpad

Techniques:
~ used the circle punch to cut out the laurel leaves and inked the edges
~ The trunk of the tree is a bell rub-on

Christmas PresentsAdditional Products used:
~ Basic Grey clear Stamps Tannenbaum + acrylic block
~ KaiserCraft Pearls
~ Basic Grey PP Wassail "Merry Happy"
~ KindyGlitz Crystallina
~ Mounting foam

Techniques:
~ Stamped 3 trees on the card in olive green, then masked them off and stamped off the trees to create lighter images (to create distance). Lisa has a tops tutorial on masking HERE.
~ Cut out individual gifts from the pp and adhered them both flat and with mounting foam then decorated the ribbons with KindyGlitz.

Partridge in a pear treeAdditional Products used:
~ Basic Grey PP Wassail "Sleigh Ride" & "Laurel Leaves" (the reverse side)
~ Basic Grey clear Stamps Tannenbaum + acrylic block
~ Grossgrain ribbon - Cream
~ Other - olive green inkpad, Fiskars shape cutter - circles

Techniques:
~ Cut a piece of the "Laurel Leaves" pp and stamped randomly with the snowflake stamp.
~ Using my circle cutter, cut the circle from the "Sleigh Ride" pp, then larger concentric circles from the green and cream Bazzill. Inked the edges with the olive inkpad.