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.

In Honor of Memorial Day

Since today is Memorial Day for the United States, our very own American born designer, Jessica, made a special layout focusing on the loss of her husband's uncle, Sgt. Ronald Summers. Sgt. Summers served in the Vietnam war for only 6 months before he died from a gunshot wound.

SUPPLIES:

Paper: Heidi Swapp World Traveler "Dots," BasicGrey Motifica "Chalk."

Clear Overlay: Hambly Screen Prints Grandma's Wallpaper

Rubons: Daisy D's Rubon Tape "Baseball Stitch," Joann's Crafts Typed Alphabet

Die Cuts: Heidi Swapp World Traveler "Glossy Extras"

Army Medal: Li'l Davis Li'l Trinkets & Treasures "Honor Badges"

Stickers: K&Co Army Stickers

Letter Stickers: Sticko "Nostalgiques by Rebecca Sower"

Ink: ColorBox "Black"

Paper Clips

3D Foam Dots

HOW TO

First arrange your photos on the Heidi Swapp "Dots" paper. Allow an inch border. Roll the edges inward. The paper is thick, so you may have to rub it between your fingers to soften it. Once the paper is rolled, ink the edges to hide most of the white core that may become exposed.

Use the Daisy D's Roll on Rubons to make an inner stitch of the square. Once the rubons have dried, adhere your photos in a random pattern.

Attach the newly distressed photo mat to a piece of Hambly overlay. Use foam dots since a hidden picture tag will go behind here.

The journaling is made with rubons. I like to work backwards when I use these. For some reason, they are centered better.

Origami Card

When Jessica began scrapbooking, she bought alot of those photo mat stacks. Years later, they are still sitting in her scrapspace, mostly unused. Until now! She shows us a way to make a origami style card utilizing the mats as a base. It's a great project for any holiday.

By the way, "Mahal Kita" mean "I Love You" in her mother's native language of Tagalog (a dialect from the Philippines).

The mini album/card folds so that it is flat, but opens to expose four seperate pages!



SUPPLIES

Cardstock Mat Stack: DCWV Spring Mat Stack

Cardstock: Bazzill, DCWV "Scalloped Stack"

Patterned Paper: DCWV "Blossoms and Butterflies," "Nana's Nursery (Boy)." Creative Imaginations "Cream Lined Scallop"

Photo Corners: Heidi Swapp

Rubon Stitches: Daisy D's

Flowers: Prima Sprites, Heidi Swapp

Felt: Queen & Co. Fun Felt

Buttons: Fancy Pants

Cardstock Stickers: Love, Elsie "Lola," DCWV "Blossoms and Butterflies,"

Chipboard: K&Co.

Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts "Remarks," SEI "Ally's Alphabet," American Crafts "Thickers Hat Box."

Stickles Pink

Bone Folder or Scorer

Ribbon

HOW TO
You will need 4 pieces from your mat stacks (if you don't have this, cut cardstock 4.5" x 4.5"). Put to the side for now.
Cut a piece of cardstock 4" x 4". Score the square diagonally and then in half. Using a bone folder, fold along the scores so that your square looks like this:

Unfold your square and lay it flat on your table. Position it like this:

Put glue on the sections marked with an "*". Be sure not to move your square from this position!!
Now you will add your mat stacks where the glue is. This might be a bit tricky, so practice laying your mats down first before gluing. Once adhered, your card will look like this from the back:
You can see that the whole square is on the mat stacks, but only certain parts are glued. This will allow you to fold your card into one piece.

Once your base is dry, you are ready to decorate! I cut spring themed patterned paper to 4" x 6" and placed them atop the mats. It's best to keep your embellishments to a minimum so you can fold it flat.

It's Really Not THAT Hard

Fanny brings us a fun, bright layout titled "Oh! Que c'est dur!" (Oh! It's Too Hard!). She shows us that it's really not that hard to create a layout with lots of pictures.

"When I took these photos, I originally planned to do an album. But there was just a problem: what could I say about each picture? So I made a layout with one pocket (where I put the 2 tags with 4 pictures) and one “door” on which I glued the largest photo. When you open the door you can see the last hidden photo and read the journaling."





“Oh que c’est dur!”

Papers: Fancy pants “Kewl collection” (Exquisite, Groovy), Bazzil (peach)
Ribbons: self-adhesive ribbon, Chatterbox ribbons
Flowers: Bazzil Wings, Heidi swapp
Foam Stamps: Making Memories
Letter Stickers: Doodlebug white stickers
Chipboards: Fancy pants paisleys 6x6 chipboard
Paint: Making Memories Glitter Paint
Grunge board
K and company: page clip (Classic K McKenna Embossed Page Clip)
Cardstock tags (big size)