Debbie - Pumpkin Album

Altered Basketball Album
By: Debbie Nicholas

Supplies used:
Bazzill orange cardstock
Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper - Gomez
Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper - Morticia
Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper - Uncle Fester
Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper - Wednesday
Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper - Pugsley
Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper - Grandmama
Elsie Flannigan Basket Ball Album

How to:
This album screamed Pumpkin to me! 
I tried in so many ways to make it a simple transformation into a round pumpkin but it only looked realistic once i carved it up and gave it one of those simple Pumpkin smiles :)  

I simply cut into the bottom of the book and then covered the outside in Bazzill cardstock.   Following the lines of the teeth i sketched peach ink in arches to give it a more rounded look.

The pages were really thin and there were so many of them that i thought it would look better as a bulkier album.  I stuck together 4 pages at a time and then covered them in the different sheets of paper.  Ink the edges as you go.  The eyes and nose were cut from the patterned paper and adhered to the front of the album with double sided tape.

The album is blank inside apart from the fabulous patterned papers and ready to be worked on with photos from this years Halloween party :)

Debbie - Halloween Candle Favour Bags

Candle Favour Bags
By: Debbie Nicholas

Supplies used:
Bazzill orange cardstock
Rusty Pickle Gomez patterned paper
American Craft Orange ribbon
drippy goo punch
crop o dile
Cellophane card bags

How to:
I bought a large pack of these spice scented candles and thought they would be great as a little grown up treat goodie bag after our Halloween Party.  The kiddies love sweets but whats nicer for an adult than some smellies :)

Cut strips of bazzill the same width as your cellophane bags and punch the bottom edge with the drippy goo punch.  For decoration i adhered a strip of the Gomez paper to a darker shade of bazzill and inked the edge.  This was then place in the centre of your drippy goo bazzill.

I popped 3 of the candles into a cellophane card bag and folded them in half.  Place the folded card over the top and punch 2 holes with the cropodile.  Thread your ribbon through this and it will hold it all in place :)

Debbie

Halloween Candle Tin
By: Debbie Nicholas

Supplies used:
Rusty Pickle Adams Family patterned paper - Pugsley
Rusty Pickle Adams Family patterned paper - Uncle Fester
Rusty Pickle Adams Family patterned paper - Morticia
Bazzill orange cardstock
American Crafts Premium ribbons
Fancy Pants Harvest Buttons
Rusty Pickle Halloween Stickers
Drippy Goo punch

How to:
I covered the biscuit tin with orange bazzill cardstock. I then added a strip of Pugsley paper around the middle and fastened it in place with double sided tape.  Ontop of this i then added a strip of the American Craft ribbon and finished the centre off with a rosette made from one of the Rusty Pickle Halloween Stickers, the edges were inked and it was mounted onto crinkles Morticia paper.

I punched 2 strips of the Uncle Fester paper with the drippy goo punch and adhered those to the top and the bottom of the tin. This was then finished off with a little strip of the Morticia paper.

The lid was covered in co ordinating papers and finished with a spooky halloween sticker, again from the Rusty pickle range.

The candles were simply covered with a strip of the Uncle Fester paper and one of the little pop out images inserted into the space between the candle and paper.  **this would need removing before the candle is lit**
The last candle was given a little collar using the Fancy Pants buttons.  I simply threaded the buttons with coloured jute and fastened it at the back of the candle.

Emma- Rusty Pickle

Today's gorgeous project was painstakingly produced by Emma.  Be on the lookout for a future remake of this project utilizing products from the Scrapbook Outlet Online site and sizzix dies (to help cut back on some of the time.)   

Pirate/princess birthday table decoration (cake stand).

by Emma Trout

SUPPLIES

Rusty Pickle circular chipboard album

Rusty Pickle black cardstock

Rusty Pickle patterned papers: Alvilda, Anne Bonney, Elizabeth Swan, and Jane de Bellewille

Rusty Pickle black lace and pink Gingham

Bazzill cardstock (pink and white)

Doodlebug sugar coating

Claudine Hellmuth multi-medium gloss

Fiskars threading water punch

Stix2 anything glue dots

Other:

Pringles tube, kitchen roll, plastic plumbers pipe, wooden skewer, polystyrene ball, acrylic paint, kitchen sponge, pearl string, small paper doily, small lollipops, shredded tissue paper, string, eyelets, and 6 x small polystyrene balls or real cupcakes! Blue-tack, 8.5” doilies, black sharpie pen, ¼” punch

HOW TO

Glue two pieces of the circular album together and leave to dry.

Cut two pieces of the circular album to 6” Diameter, glue together and leave to dry.

Cut two pieces of the circular album to 4” diameter, glue together and leave to dry.

Mark the centre of the three circles and cut a hole just wider than the diameter of your plastic pipe.

Bottom layer:

Paint both sides with pink acrylic paint and allow to dry. Cut out the black ‘diamond’ shapes from the Jane de Bellewille paper and arrange around the outside of the circle with the points facing the centre circle. Glue into position. Apply a layer of gloss multi-medium with a sponge using a dabbing action (this leaves a nice finish when dry).

Glue a length of black lace onto white cardstock to go around the circumference of the circle, trim the excess and then glue to the edge of the circle. Finish with a string of pearls.

Middle layer:

Paint 6” circle with black acrylic paint and allow to dry. Glue a small doily in the centre then apply a layer of multi-medium with a sponge.

Gather the gingham ribbon, fixing the gathers with pins, and then sew to fix into place using black thread.

Glue ribbon around the outside of the circle.

Top layer:

Paint both sides of 4” circle with white acrylic paint and leave to dry. Cut out swirls from Jane de Bellewille paper and arrange around the centre hole. Glue into position and fix using multi-medium applied with a sponge.

Cut out diamonds from Jane de Bellewille paper, fold in half and glue. Trim any excess paper. Glue diamonds around edge of top layer, again trimming any excess.

Assembling the stand:

Push the plastic pipe through the centre holes of the chipboard circles. Measure the spacing you require for each layer and remove pipe. Cut kitchen roll to your measurements (in between bottom and middle layer, and the top and middle layer) and cover kitchen roll with the striped Alvilda paper.

Cut the bottom 10cm off a Pringles tub and cover with Alvilda paper. Cut a hole in the centre for your pipe and finish with a strip of white Bazzill cut using a threading water punch.

Push the pipe through the bottom layer circle and the Pringles tub (so it forms a base).Add the bottom layer applying glue around the joins. Add the kitchen roll ‘sleeve’ and repeat for each layer until the stand is assembled.

The lollipop holder (top layer)
Paint the bottom half of a large polystyrene ball with multi-medium and cover with black sugar coating. Knock off excess and allow to dry. Repeat using white sugar coating for the top half. Cover the join using pirates cut from Elizabeth Swan paper.

Push a wooden skewer into the bottom of ball, add glue to top layer hole then place the ball into place on top of the stand (the skewer goes inside the plastic pipe).

Cover lollipops with patterned papers, finish with paper spirals and push into the polystyrene ball.

Middle layer:

Draw an 8.5” circle and a 6.5” inner circle onto black and white card. Cut out the circles and then cut the circle into quarters. Wrap each ‘quarter’ around itself to form a cupcake holder and glue the end. You could also add a circular base.

Cut the outside inch from the 8.5” doily and use to decorate the outside of the cupcake older. On the white holders colour the doily with black sharpie pen. Finish with the fleur-de-lys pattern cut from Jane de Bellewille paper.

Now for the sore fingers part!!

Punch ¼” circles from the Elizabeth Swan paper with a circular centre in each. Fix circles round the polystyrene ball using glue dots until they are covered.

Mould a small piece of blue-tack to form a cherry for the top of cake. Apply multi-medium and sprinkle with pink sugar coating. Allow to dry and glue on top of each ‘cake’.

Arrange cakes into position.

Bottom layer:

Cut three black and three white bags from Bazzill cardstock. I used a template from this site: http://yayoi.senri.ed.jp/departments/OISTech/OISDT/gr7dt/templates.htm

Decorate the bags with patterned paper and add a rose or pirate to decorate the front of each bag. Mark and punch two holes on each side at the top of the bag and set eyelets. Add string loops to form handles. Fill the bags with shredded tissue paper and treats. Add to the cake stand.

Use the stand as a table decoration and enjoy the party!

Kirs- Skate Queen

Skate Queen

by Kirs de ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
Paper: Hambly Screenprints, Scenic Route
Chipboard accents: Rusty Pickle
Bling bling: Heidi Swapp
Adhesive Pearls: K&Company
Flowers: Prima Marketing (Painterly Flowers - Summer Singles/Music Notes)
Heart mirror: Heidi Swapp
Wires by flowers: Making Memories , light multipack
Felt

Letters: Scenic Route and Doodlebug Design

HOW TO:
For the special accents on the chipboard: take a stamp with lines (or row of dots). Then you press him on chip board, then again in fourth (90 degrees) stroke. So you get a squared effect.
For the wires: take a pencil or pen and wrap the wires around it.

Rachel- Eat Me

Basically we always have a ton of food that we would not normally have BUT come the new year I'm needing to start a diet. So I made this crate to help with my new years resolution to diet by inviting others to help polish off the goodies it contains!

Eat Me

by Rachel Burgess

SUPPLIES

Wooden crate
White emulsion paint
Fancy Pants happy Holidays Candy Cane 12x12 patterned paper
Fancy Pants happy Holidays snowfall 12x12 patterned paper
Fancy Pants All fall printed ribbon
Ranger Distress Ink Worn Lipstick
Small piece of sponge
Stapler
Basic Grey Undressed chipboard Monograms
Ranger Glossy accents
Fine iridescent glitter
Fancy Pants flowers Claire de Lune
Rusty pickle button bottle turquoise
Manila tag
Heidi Swapp Swirl clear stamp

HOW TO
Paint your wooden crate white and set aside to dry.
Cut 4 3x12 inch strips of the Candy Cane paper and crumple up. Attach one to each side of the crate.
Cut 4 2x12 inch strips of the Snowfall patterned paper, crumple and attach centrally to the paper strips that are already in place on the crate.
Tie a length of ribbon around the centre of the strips.
Ink the edges of a tag and stamp with the swirl clear stamp. Decorate with flowers and buttons and threat beneath the ribbon tied around the crate.
Use the sponge piece to colour the chipboard letters red and once dry cover with glossy accents. Sprinkle with the glitter whilst still wet and set aside to dry.
Once dry attach the letters to the crate and fill with treats!

Kirs- Halloween

Halloween
by Kirs de ven-Smit

SUPPLIES

Paper: Rusty Pickle Costume Party, Bazzill Cardstock Krafts, Black and Orange
Embellishments:
- Making Memories Pebble Brads Spellbound, Making Memories Glitter Clears Spellbound
- Rusty Pickle Tag Set Costume Party
- and another things from private stock-box (such as spider, bat, flower and felt branches)
- woolen yarn, black.
- fabrics
Cricut and sewing machine
Uni Poscapen Orange , correct-pen (white) and fineliner Black
Ink orange

HOW TO
Cut the Costume Party paper half and paste on the right side at the Kraft paper. Make 4 squares from different materials and add stitching to them, a little bit in the middle. The photo is cut with the cartel scissors and the lines are drawn with uni poscapen orange. Paste him just over the dust around the fabric. Continue to add the embellishements. Create a spider web with the black wool.
Happy Halloween!!

Boys Will Be Boys

At the Mega Scrap-A-Ganza event, many of the designers from the blog met for the first time. I sat down with Natalie and we talked a bit about scrapbooking and through the conversation, she became dubbed, "Miss Card-Maker." Natalie loves to make cards for us, so it's a special treat to get a layout from this talented lady.

Don't forget, Natalie will be teaching at the Mini Scrap-A-Ganza event this weekend in Stratford Upon Avon!




"Boys will be Boys"
by Natalie O'Shea

SUPPLIES
Bazzill Basics Black textured cardstock
Making Memories Garden Party Glitter Dots Aqua patterned paper
Hambly Studios Mod Circles transparency
Rusty Pickle Pop Star Cole patterned paper
Rusty Pickle Pop Star Tag Set
Rusty Pickle Pop Star Rub-ons
Sakura white Gellyroll doodling pen

HOW TO
Cut two 12" x 3" peices of the Aqua glitter paper and attach to a sheet of black cardstock - one vertically and one horizontally. Attach a strip from the transparency over the vertical peice of paper. Staple the three doodled file tabs from the tag set to the right hand edge of your photo and attach the photo to the left hand side of your layout using 3D foam tape. Attach the doodled heart, title tag and brackets using 3D foam tape where shown. Cut the four All Boy stars from the sheet of patterned paper. Use 3D foam tape to raise two of the centre stars onto two of the cut out circles. Attach to the layout as shown. Add a rub-on to the edge of your photo and onto the transparency. Add white doodling around the edge of the layout and the sides of the patterned paper with white pen by copying some of the designs from the patterned paper and tags.

It's Never too Late!

It's never to late to do something nice for mom. Kirs used circle plaques from Creative Imaginations to make a beautiful tribute for her mother.




Wood Circle Plaque : Creative Imagination - Kristina Circle Ribbon Plaque
Patterned paper: Scenic Route – Laurel Crosstide Lane, Charlotte Meat Street Foral, Jenni Bowlin – Turqoise Wallpaper, Imagination Project – Office Supplied
Paper : old paper, crepe paper and small traces papers
Pen : poscapen
Bling: Heidi Swapp
Letters : American Crafts Thickers and Rusty Pickle – Island Summer
Ink: Colorbox
Stamps
Scrapbook tape : Prima Mark Inc. - Clearly IOD (crowns)
Ribbon
Stickers : Elsie – Love
Rub ons : Heidi Swapp
Pin
Glitter stick : Marab Fun Liner Glitter
Flower : Doodlebug Designs
Buttons
Felt frame : made with Sizzix (scalloped frame)
Chenille


How to Do :
Cut out three different papers the same size as the plaques and adhere. The outer edge of each plaque is framed with chenille.

Plaque 1:
The rainbow is made by making three circles (in different sizes). Color in each circle and position it under your photograph so it looks like a rainbow. Frame the photo with ribbon.

Plaque 2:
Cut birds from the Scenic Route Laurel paper. The frame is stamped onto office paper and decorated with ribbons and a pin. Use a strip of crepe paper and make cuts along the top to make the grass.

Plaque 3:
The sunbeams underneath the photo are made by using 4 strips of paper. Ink the edges with orange. The cloud is selfdrawn onto office paper and used as a small journaling spot. Cut a little house from the Luxe Designs Color Me paper.