Kirs - Hair Model

Hair model
By: Kirs de ven-Smit

Supplies:
paper Pink Paislee - Spring Flowers
kraft cardstock
Tim Holtz Color Wash - Pesto
Prima Flowers -  Essentials - SummerSingles Music Notes - Sweet Hearts
Heidi Swapp Strass\
Basic Grey Opaline Pearls
paper coasters

How to:
Some flowers are cut, so they can be pasted on the photo and / or paper , you do it easily with a sharp knife.
A piece of kraft cardstock on which the picture will pasted, is sprayed with a little Color Wash, on the left.
For a large flower is using 3 pieces coasters, each piece is slightly smaller than the other. If you look closely at the photo, I have  cut a piece of stem from the flower dessin  paper and pasted on the large flower. Further edited with various embellishments.

Carole - The things I love about you

The things i love about you
By: Carole Maurin

Material:
Papers:
We are memories keepers collection “frenzy”: Mania
Making memories collection  just chillin girl paper pad
Die cuts: creative imaginations, my mind’s eye
Brads: chatterbox, creative imaginations, kaisercraft, basic grey (lemonade
collection) and my mind eyes (colorful Christmas collection)
Grungeboards: Tim Holtz
flowers: prima, imaginisce, daisy d’s
acrylic paint: silver

How to:
Place one of making memories 20 x 20 cm papers on the font. Cut 2 stripes of 20 x 2 cm in another one.
Cut one creative imaginations die cut and use it to make a frame. Adhere it on the 20 x20 paper. Place the stripes, one on the right and the other on the left a little more high. Then adhere the picture just over the die cut frames you’ve created before.
Paint the gungeboards with silver acrylic paint. If it is too big or if you need a smaller form, you can just cut it. Place the grungeboards in the corners.
Decorate with die cuts and flowers. Put different kind of beautiful brads in the flowers’ hearts.

Jessica - Jacobo

JACOBO
by Jessica Summers

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock:  Bazzill
Patterned Paper:  Piggy Tales "Itsy Bitsy Spider;" Creative Imaginations Lace Cardstock
Chipboard:  Tim Holtz Grungeboard Wings
Felt:  Fancy Pants
Foam:  American Crafts
Letters:  Making Memories, Piggy Tales
Journaling Tag:  Prima
Glitter Mist: Tattered Angels
Paint:  Blonde Moments Suet Blue
Miscellaneous:  Embroidery Thread, black pen, glue dots

HOW TO:
1. Paint Grunge Board wings and set aside to dry.  Lightly mist background cardstock with glimmer mists in coordinating colors.
2. Cut your 2 pieces of patterned paper.  The first is 3" x 9" (7,6 x  22,9 cm) and the second is 7.25" x 7.25" ( 18,4 x 18,4 cm).  Cut a piece of lace cardstock 6" x 5.75" (15,2 x 14,6).  Cut a solid piece of cardstock the same size and fit behind the lace.
3. Layer your papers onto the background paper.  Using a circle template, lightly draw an 8.5" (21,6 cm) circle and stitch over it with coordinating thread.
4. Add the photo, and journaling tag under the photo.  Layer a couple of hearts ontop of the wings and adhere to the top left of the photograph. Wrap the hospital baby bracelet around the hearts.
5. Journal baby info onto the tag using tiny alphabets.

Stephanie - Moments like this

MOMENTS LIKE THIS

products
card stock bazzil
patterned papers 7 gypsies
prima flowers felt gate bling stamps
tim holtz grunge board crackel 3d accents
mustard moon letters
making memories paint
printable acetate
others my own stash

steps
1 print your photo onto printable acetate then mount it onto white fabric place to one side

2 using a card Bord box paint over the top slightly watered paint leave this to dry.Using a credit card make the painted strips as shown once dry go over the paint with 3d crackle accent once this is dry cut the card into three strips and mount onto your card stock as shown

3 cut two strips of patterned papers and clue into place i cut the worded bird out of the patterned paper and placed it to bottom left hand side of the layout

4 take your photo and distress the edges of the fabric then glue into place stamp an image to the right hand side of the photo then place the prima bling on top  adding flowers and stamped butterfly's

5 cut a section to your proffered size of the felt gate and place as shown then add your painted grunge board overlapping the felt  then add butterfly's and the title to complete the layout

Stephanie: Tats my Girl

tats my girl

by Stephanie Garbett
SUPPLIES
bazzil card stock
patterned papers basic grey, october afternoon, dcwv
stamps tim holtz, prima, basic grey, autumn leaves
letters making memories, prima
brads making memories, basic grey
zing embossing powder

HOW TO
1 cut two squares of card stock two different sizes distressing the edges mount onto black card stock

2 cut a large piece of patterned paper glue into place slightly to the left hand side of the card stock as shown

3 using an 8 /8 piece of patterned paper cut a border like the yellow one as shown

4 cut three strips of other patterned papers different sizes placing the largest one behind the photo

5 stamp several stamped images onto transparency place to one side to dry

6 using a butterfly stamp emboss the image as shown

7 glue the two strips of the patterned papers at the bottom right hand side of the layout then using your stamped swirls tuck them behind photo as shown glue into place

8 add stamped wording to the right hand side of the photo stamped onto the transparency add butterfly flourish the the bottom right hand side of the photo the centre piece to my butterfly is the actual photo of my daughters tattoo enlarged and cut out

9 finish of the layout by adding title and distressing the edges

Fanny- Quand petit plume fait son carnaval

Quand petit plume fait son carnaval

by Fanny Delobel

SUPPLIES

Papers: American crafts craft fair: "Elanore Battington" craft fair: "Pearl Bobbinhauser"

Bazzil: kraft
Making memories: Noteworthy 4x6 Spiral journaling book
embellishments:
flowers:  Heidi Swapp, Fancy pants: crocheted flowers
Tim Holtz grunge boards
miscellaneous: brown feather
Alpha: American crafts: Thickers(foam): daiquiri light green, Making memories: tiny alpha Brown,
Brads: Basic Grey
stamps: "observation" 7 gypsies stamps
Miscellaneous:  White pen, brown ink

HOW TO
Cut a strip of craft fair paper ("Pearl Bobbinhauser" 15cm x 30 cm) . Add trimmed strips of kraft bazzill to make "borders" .Adhere papers to the middle of the brown american crafts paper.

Draw white lines along the edges of background and distress it.Mat you photos with kraft cardstock and adhere them in the middle of the layout.

On the top of the background add a "journaling spiral book " sheet. Add embellishments.Ink your papers and embellishments...And finally, write your title with alpha stickers.

Girls just wanna have fun

by Mireille Divjak

After making an album for Amber's friend Chelsey Amber got a little jealous, she wanted something too... so with the circles I cut too much.. I created this layout!

SUPPLIES
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Scrap Within Reach * Emmerson Collection - cotton candey - sweet pea - Freckles
Punches: EK succes / Make Me!
Coluzzle mal
Distressor: Tim Holtz
Hugz- Scrapworks
Ribbon: Heidi Swapp
Pen: American Crafts / Sakura / Zig
Alpha's : American Crafts
Floss: DMC
Stickers: Carolee's Creations


HOW TO
Punch different size circles using a circle punch and I used coluzzle templates.
distress the edges using your distressor
Create faux stitches on your cardstock and on the circles by punching holes with a needle and draw them with pens
create a diagonal overlapping the circles.
punch flowers and butterflies and outline them with a zig marker
use the Hugz as flower centers
stitch a few "stars" with reg. DMC floss

Emma- Scrap Within Reach

The old pump.

by Emma Trout 

SUPPLIES
Bazzill cardstock white
Patterned papers: Scrap Within Reach (Industrial Park Collection) Warehouse, historic district, the factory, industrial loft, market street.
Making Memories dye (Wheatgrass)
American Crafts Zing embossing powder (Gold)
Tim Holtz stamp (Stamper Anonymous)
Making Memories eclectic brads (bug collection)
Ranger alcohol ink (slate grey)
Scrapworks alpha stickers
Tags,string, fabric mesh, ribbon.

HOW TO
Mix the dye with one cup of warm water. Brush directly onto the cardstock background. The dye leaves a lovely smooth tint on the cardstock.

Add matted photos to tags with strips of patterned paper then layer up onto layout with more torn and cut strips of patterned paper. Cut out the cogs and add to layout as embellishments. I also drew two corn ears onto patterned paper, cut them out and added to the layout.

Stamp and emboss the stamp onto glossy cardstock and add to layout.

Paint the foam alphabet with alcohol ink to colour it and allow to dry.

Finish by adding the journaling tag, dragonfly brad, mesh, ribbon bow and the title.

Zarah- October Afternoon

This layout is about how the apple sometimes is VERY happy to be falling pretty close to the tree...

My mother was a very special person, and the journaling says:

"If all I ever succeed in, in life, is to be a bit like you... Then I've reached my goal!"

SUPPLIES
White and black (and a TINY bit of brown) Bazzill

October Afternoon papers, from the gorgeous Cherry Hill collection
Alphas from Musterd Moon and Making Memories
Grungeboard by Tim Holtz/Ranger
Flowers & leaves from Prima The black blower that I stamped on the cream Prima, is by American Crafts, the Thanks-set
Apple chipboard from American Crafts. I've altered it slightly, adding a small rose leaf that I cut up and a stem of brown Bazzill
Wing ghostshapes made with white ink on regular overlays, and the stamps are from Heidi Swapp
Other, random stuff from my drawers:
Scrappy Floss by Karen Foster, no name buttons and pins, black brads, red staplers, lace, black raindrop and one KaiserCraft pearl.


HOW TO
The layout is basically just made with layers of the wonderful 8x8-papers from October Afternoon. With the squared one, I've cut it off beneath the apple-patterned paper and used the strip to make it seem longer than it really is.

All the edges are scraped with a pair of scissors, and then inked.

The dictionary print paper is torn on one edge, and scalloped on another. I've used a piece od scallop edges Bazzill to get that shape. I just traced, and then cut it out.

The tag is just a piece of white Bazzill that I've rounded the corners of, and stamped with a stamp from the Thanks-collection by American Crafts.

The arrow is simply a piece of a spinner from Cosmo Cricket. You can easily make your own by cutting one from Bazzill and mounting it on 3d-dots for height, adding a push-button to the center. (Or layer Bazzill to get faux chipboard.)

For the frame, I stamped a 3x3 Wedding Frame by American Crafts on a piece of overlay plastic, and cut it out.

I marked the text below with a green Memory Marker, that's also made by American Crafts.

The silver heart is just a raw piece of grungeboard with two layers of glue and "white" glitter by Making Memories.

Fanny- My Mind's Eye

Little Queen
by Fanny Delobel

SUPPLIES

Papers: MME papers: Penny lane collection: Maggie May "Katty Lou" Adorable swirl paper
Bohemia Bella collection: "Mother" bird, "Pretty little Girl" Mini Harlequin/ brown
Bohemia blossom collection: "Mi amore" floral/ light pink
Rub-ons: Basic grey Urban Calligraphy Rub-Ons (black)
Grungeboard dots elements
alpha: basic grey chipboards
Flowers: heidi Swapp white flower
Prima hydrangeas
pigments: Blonde moments suet lilac lustre
miscellaneous: butterfly stamps, 3D adhesive foam, brown ink (distress), gold stickles, white pen and white acrylic paint

HOW TO
Take Brown paper and cut 30cm x 30cm frame...Keep the center (floral paper).
Cut swirl paper (29 cm x 29 cm) and adhere it on the "brown frame.". Distress and ink the edges of the swirl paper.
Take harlequin paper and light pink paper and cut 2 "parts of circle" (a bigger one in the pink paper). Cut scalloped edges in the pink paper. Ink the papers and adhere them on the lower part of the background (in the right corner).
Mat your photos on the brown paper and adhere them with 3D adhesive foam.
Cut flowers in the "mother bird" paper. Adhere them with 3D adhesive foam too.
Write title with chipboard (ink them). Finally add flowers, rubons, grungeboards, stickles and pigments (on the embellishments and the edges of papers and photos).

Mireille- American Crafts

Hollands Next Topmodel
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: American Crafts
* Teen Line
- Drill team
- Head cheerleader
-study hall
- Sadie Hawkins
- Home Coming Queen
Paint: Ranger Paintdabbers
Pen: American Craft & Sakura
Fiskars Border punches: Effervescence and Threading Water
Xyron Wishblade
Tim Holtz Distressing Tool
Stars: Making Memories Shimmer Jigsaw preglittered chipboard

HOW TO
I distressed all the edges with the distressing tool. The stitches around the layout are faux-stitches made with a pen.
I put made photo mats with the border punches.
I made the title with the wishblade, used the spare part of the paper where the title came off as a stencil for the title on the left side of the spread (just tapped some paint with a paint dabber).
I outlined the stars with a black pen.

Rachel- Piggy Tales

Dating Memories
by Rachel Burgess

SUPPLIES
Piggy Tales Ballad of Mulan Collection Pack:
12x12 Dragon Patterned paper
12x12 Black Hill patterned paper
Chipboard shapes
Barn doors
Cardstock letter stickers
Big Bite
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Grungeboard Swirls Elements
Fancy Pants Biggest Board Wild flowers
White acrylic paint
Red ric rac
Ranger Distress ink : fired brick & Walnut Stain
Small pieces of sponge or cut n dry foam
Ranger Stickles Diamond
Sticky foam pads

HOW TO
Cut an 8x8 inch piece of each patterned paper.

Print your photograph onto white card 8 inches tall and cut another piece of dragon paper at 8 inches tall. Rip the left hand edge of both of these two pieces and ink with both inkpads. Layer the pieces together as shown to form 2 base sheets.

Edge the centre of the red circular chipboard shape with the glitter glue and attach to the top left corner of the left hand page. Curl the edges of the red flower upwards and ink with the walnut ink. Edge with the glitter glue and layer over the chipboard circle.

Use the sponge or cut n dry foam to colour 2 grungeboard swirls all over with the red ink. Start at one end of each and begin to paint white, blending and fading the white as you go. Later these over the chipboard flower and top with the star chipboard (trimmed and edges curled up. Highlight the centre of the star with glitter glue. Paint three chipboard flowers white and edge with glitter glue. Layer these over the grungeboard swirls.

Edge the red barn door die cut with walnut ink and then stickles. Once dry attach your photograph behind and trim away any excess. Curl one corner of the front flap up and ink. Attach a bracket piece either side and a flower to the front of the flap that has been painted white and edges with glitter. Paint a grungeboard heart red and use the big bite to punch holes in it to correspond with the holes in the black button chipboard piece. Edge both pieces with glitter and layer with a grungeboard swirl that has been painted white. Tie with a piece of red ricrac and layer onto the barn door.

Attach a length of red ric rac across both halves of the layout add the title usinf the alpha stickers on one half and the barn door piece on the other.

Lucy- **KAISERCRAFT**

For the next week, we have a company from Australia that specializes in using real wood for their albums and embellishments. Their lines are constantly expanding and the designers have a week full of gorgeous projects to showcase a few things they have to offer.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

by Lucy Folch

SUPPLIES
Kaisercraft crown album
Kaisercraft patterned papers skull girl collection
Kaisercraft self adhesive crystals and pearls
Kaisercraft paper flowers
Kaiser craft brads
Tim Holtz grunge board
Buttons
sharpie
thread
MM acrylic paint
Gel stickers
stickles

HOW TO
Start painting all the pages of your album after it's dry you can sand the edges taking away some paint if you like.
And then the main thing is just to have bits and pieces to decorate as you wish.
For the skulls I painted in white and with a brown stamp pad I just made it looks a little distressed.
There really are no secrets on this one.
Just play around with your Kaiser supplies and have tons of fun :)

Carole- TATTERED ANGELS

Tattered Angels Layout

by Carole Maurin

SUPPLIES

Paper: Crate Paper, Prima

Die Cut: Prima

White Papers Flowers: Imaginisce

Tattered Angels: Olive Vine and Black Cherry

Grungeboard : Tim Holtz

Embossing gold powder: Ranger

HOW TO

1) put the stars grungeboard on the front paper and spray the first taterred angels. let it dry and then spray a little bit of the other color. Remove the star. You got such an original front paper

2) spray tattered angles on white flowers to have a shiny coloured effect. Emboss the stars with gold powder and adhere it on the font paper. Cut the flowers on the prima paper and mix it with the imaginisce papers flowers around your picture.

Carole- Christmas Ornaments

With Christmas just around the corner, we want to give our readers a little bit of a headstart on their crafts. So starting today, we are have the 12 Days of Christmas. Carole is first, with 2 handmade ornaments.

Christmas tree ornament
by Carole Maurin

SUPPLIES
chipboard: making memories (star), maya road
embossing powder gold: ranger
distress embossing powder: tim holtz for ranger
flower and leaves: prima
little bell

HOW TO
Emboss the round chipboard with distress embossing powder. Emboss the edge of the star with gold embossing powder and adhere it on the other chipboard. Decorate with flowers, leaves and a little bell.

Christmas tree ornament
by Carole Maurin

SUPPLIES
prima got flowers?
little pins
sequins
a polystyrene ball
ribbon

HOW TO
Just stick the flowers and the sequins all over the polystyrene ball. Then adhere a piece of ribbon.

Jessica- **BASICGREY**

Our last project for the week uses an older line from BasicGrey, Obscure. Altering the backside of a canvas is one of my new favorite things to do. It's fairly easy and you get alot of dimension when you layer everything with popdots. Don't be afraid to double or triple the foam dots up either!


Tomorrow, A Daily Inspiration will start a "12 Days of Christmas" spotlight to get your scrapping mojo back where it belongs. We have lots of gorgeous projects lined up for you, so stick around through December for lots of new inspiration!

Altered Canvas

by Jessica Summers

SUPPLIES

Art Canvas: 30cm x 30cm

Paper: BasicGrey Obscure- Evasive, Random, Flint, Define, Pose

Chipboard: Magistical Memories

Stamp: Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous

Ink: Ranger Archival

Paint: Making Memories

HOW TO

Start by painting the inside and outside edge of the wood frame with a coordinating color. Once dry, cut your background paper a couple of centimeters larger than the middle portion. Adhere to canvas. Measure paper to fit around the front edge of the frame. Cut corners at a 45 degree angle for a nice, finished appearance. Freehand draw and cut a volcano with billowing smoke. Distress the edges with ink for more dimension and adhere. Cover your chipboard and ink the edges. Use pop dots on the chipboard and photo. Layer 2 or 3 pieces of foam for more height. The grass is cut larger than the bottom portion of the frame. The extra overhang is then cut into strip and curled around a paper piercer.

Carole- **CRATE**

We start our week off with a new spotlight featuring Crate. Carole did a beautiful job on a spacious layout using a die-cut Crate paper.

"silence je tourne"
by carole maurin

SUPPLIES
Die-cut paper: Crate Paper

Stickers Alphabet: Jenni Bowlin Studio

Glitter transparency: Fancy Pants

Rub-on: BasicGrey "Off Beat"

Ticket: Tim Holtz

Acrylic paint, dymo, plastic ribbon, buttons

HOW TO

Use a toothbrush with acrylic paint to make a textural effect on your die-cut paper. Adhere the transparency, the ticket and your small picture. Stick your title on the opposite side of your layout. Decorate with buttons and rub-on.

Rachel- Strapbook Shooting Prompt

Scrapbooking and photography go hand in hand, but not all of us are professionals. Do you ever wonder what your ISO setting should be on a sunny day? Or maybe what your white balance should be when shooting in the shade. Rachel came up with a "cheat book." Inside this mini are different settings for your DSLR. It is small enough to hang off of your camera bag strap too!

Strapbook shooting prompt
by Rachel Burgess

Materials
Chipboard tags – Bazzill
Crop a Dile
Beaded chain

Flowers –Bazzill
Slide Mount – Creative Imaginations
Ribbon – Creative Imaginations

Stamp – Tim Holtz
Black colorbox chalk inkpad
Ranger paint dauber – a peachy one and a black
Small gold brads
Paper – Chatterbox artsy.licious fine flocked paper in willow.
Cream cardstock

How To
Cover one side of each chipboard piece with the paper and apply a torn strip to the centre of each of the other sides having first coloured the edges with the peach dauber.
Colour the cream edges of the tags with the peach dauber.
Stamp the stamp onto cream cardstock using the black ink and cut out.
Colour the edges of the stamped piece with the peach dauber and once dry distress the edges with your finger nails.
Colour the back of the slide mount with the black dauber and set aside to dry.
Attach the stamped piece to the front piece of the chipboard
Punch a hole in the corresponding corner of each chipboard piece and the corner of the slide mount.
Use the beaded chain to link the chipboard pages together adding flowers and tied lengths if ribbon either side.
Attach the charts or prompts you are likely to benefit from when on the go!

We Now Return!

A quick apology to our readers for the lack of updates. This past weekend there was an openhouse at ScrapbookMate's Warehouse to celebrate it's 5th year being open. Half of the design team went to Amsterdam for two days of workshops and make and takes for some of the wonderful retailers in Europe. For the remainder of the week, I'll post some of the lovely projects that were taught.

First up is a mini album Mireille made using the FaLaLa line.

Falala Mini Album

Supplylist:
Chipboard Album; Ziage Stadium book
Patterned Paper: Making Memories- Falala line
Glittered Poinsettia Red
Skinny stripe
*pinsettia stripe
*music note
*geometric
*snowflake
Holly Berries: making memories
Glitter foam Stickers: Making Memories
Glitter Pebble stickers: Making Memories

ink: stazon
Stamp: Prima journaling stamp
white Marker: American Crafts - Galaxy Marker
Tools: corner rounder ; Oval punch
tim Holtz distress tool
Crop a dile

How to:
cut two sheets of paper 30 x 12.5 cm, two sheets 27 1/2 x 12,5, two sheets 25 x 12,5; two sheets 22, 5 x 12.5; two sheets 20 x 12, 5 ; two sheets 17,5 x 12, 5
I started out with putting the glittered up paper on the cover and on the back
I cut 10 small strips of 5 x 12,5 paper and put those strips on the left side of each mini album page.. following to match the large sheet on the other side so if the if the right side of the page holds a stripe pattern and I put a small strip of music paper over the stripes.. I would start the left part of the album with a large sheet of music paper. I distressed all the edges of the patterned paper before adhering them.
I covered up the part where the patterned paper meets with a ribbon
I cut out ovals and distressed the edges. The ovals from the oval punch are the exact size of the wallet size pictures so they fit perfectly behind it to give it a lil extra dimension.
I used my marker along the edge of the photo to also give a bit extra dimension.
the half oval behind the picture leaves space to add stickers or other embellishments.
I used journaling stamps, cut them out of the patterened paper and distressed the edges. Now you can journal on it.
I used the vellum inbetween. did nothing special with it just used it as protection sheets like the old fashioned photo albums.
I used the ribbon with the lil balls at the edge of each right page.
Decorate your album with the flowers, leaves, glitter and pebble stickers.

Mireille- **MAKING MEMORIES**

On the wings of Friendship
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Cardstock: Bazzill BLing
Patterened paper: MM 5th Avenue
*S Die cut
*Sophia Geo floral
*Sophia Harlequin
*Sophia Floral
Paint, Pearl Glaze and Glitterglaze: Making Memories
Blossoms and Buttons: Making Memories
Colorboard Stickers: Making Memories 5th Avenue
Tiny Alphabet: Making Memories
Grungeboard: Tim Holtz
White pen- American Crafts
Black Pen; sakura
Glitter Alpha's: Scrapworks Shimmer Shapes
Ink: Colorbox
bling: Heidi Swapp
alcohol ink: ranger

HOW TO
Lay strips of patterned paper along a curved ruler and tear so you get "wavy " paper.
Distress the edges using the Tim Holtz distressing tool.
Paint the grungeboard elements first (I used white for the wings and red for the heart).
Once it has dried paint with the red glitter glaze over the red paint and with the pearl glaze over the white paint.
I used the tiny alpha's for the "subtitle" layed them down in a curve and outlined them with a black pen.
I only had clear bling and decided to make that blue using alcohol inks.
I used buttons, flowers and stickers to embellish my project.