My scrappin' life

Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Crew Member Wednesday. It's Linda's turn today and she created a gorgeous little gift box. Isn't this just the perfect idea, right in time for Christmas?!! 

 

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Hi there.

December is getting closer and for many people it’s the season for giving gifts.

Today I want to share a box I’ve made.

 

I’ve found this flat box at a local craft store. I took it apart and and added pattern to it with a Carabelle Studio embossing folder designed by Birgit Koopsen
I then painted the outside with black acrylic paint and let it dry.
I inked the black paint with Distress Oxide and let it dry.
I then went over the red ink with gold acrylic paint using a sponge. The Distress oxide ink mixed in to the acrylic paint and gave it a red gold look. When dry I built the box and started on the star decoration.
To create the star I used embossing powder gold and then some gold ink spray. Cut out the stars and decorate the box after closing it.

 

Products used in this project:

 

Wishing you all a creative season!

Linda

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Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today it's Hermien's turn and I think her idea comes just in time to prepare for your Christmas gifts. Because, who would not love to receive a beautiful handmade card with their gifts?!

 

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Hi,

While the sun is making a real effort to let me believe summer is still here (yeah don't you love an autumn like this?) I am sitting at my kitchen table writing a short story about my two little cards for this month's BMMAC contribution..

It started with some left over paper and folding..what to make? Small ..hmm why not make a bigger little card to attatch to a gift or bouquet..you all know how small the 'normal' cards are and while writing a wish or thank you note you are forced to write very tiny or use less words than you wanted to? On this folded card you have much more space to say what you want to say!

I began with gesso and paint and the flower mask on one side, on the other side I used the circle mask and different colors (blue & yellow and purple & turquois) then embossed the stamps and added some text ..added some extra paint where I wanted to and at the inside of the cards I made gesso circles to write in..Used my black marker at the edges..now this post is ready I am thinking about making punch holes and ore some wire, but didn't do that... edit: I did☺ see pics!..have fun!

Products used in this project:

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! It's crew member Wednesday and today we have Karin with a set of gorgeous tags! Love, love, love the colors!!

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I got inspired by the beautiful colors of nature and the falling leafs and therefore I decided to create something with one of Birgit's gorgeous leaf stamps!

I started with a gelprint out of my stash and cut it into two tags.

Then I stamped them with the "leaf" stamp.

The next thing I did was stamping the "leaf" on a sheet of paper and I colored them with ecoline markers.

I cut them out and glued them on the already stamped images on the tags.

And as a final touch I added some splashes of gold ecoline.

Product used in this project:

Karin

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Crew member Wednesday With Karen

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and today we have Karen who made a beautiful pencil case in bright and happy colors. So easy to do but such an awesome result!

 

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Welcome everyone to another team tuesday from me, Karen! This month I was a little stuck for an idea so I decided to procrastinate and tidy up my stash a little. I was very glad that I did because I found this little paper pencil case that was perfect for altering.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial I made for you showing how I created this perfect pencil case for my pens that always seem to be lying around everywhere!

 

Products used in this project:

Karen

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Karen

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Crew Member Wednesday. Today we have Linda with an amazing, fun and colourful art journal spread. I think her creatures are really cool! Check out the video to see her process :)

 

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Hello !

Today I want to share a fun art journal project I’ve made. I was inspired by the big eye stamp Birgit have created and had to use it for a creature, some way or another. This is the result, fishes and other creatures in a fantasy water tank. Enjoy!

 

Products used to create these pages:

     
             

 

Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today Hermien is here with another set of beautiful cards! She made these while she was dealing with a broken hip, can you imagine?!

So leave her some love people :)

 

 

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Hi, its Hermien again with some flowery cards. I had plans to make a small book but unfortunately I broke my hip and was not able to climb stairs (my hobby/happy space is still upstairs, next month I hope to move down stairs!) so maybe next month!

Decided to stay in the circle mood, but this time a little bigger, I used my round gelli plate to color the background, embossed the flower stamps and added some extra color, my camera was not able (or its me?) to catch the fluor orange, so it's really much brighter than on the pics..! I distressed  the edges and used a white marker to scribble some text.

 

Products used for this project:

  

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! It's crew member wednesday already again and today with have Karin with an absolutely stunning project! What can I say, I'm just totally in love with this colourful side table she created!!

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Hello! For todays post I pimped a little Ikea side table

1. I started with a circle of white paper and put a layer of gesso on it and allowed it to dry;

2. then I chose the colors I wanted to use and applied the paint on the paper with a (credit) card;

3. After it dried I used a lot of stencils randomly on the papercircle with ink and paint;

4. I stamped some flowers and colored them with ecolinemarkers and glued them also on the paper;

5. and finally I doodled a bit on the circle whit a white pen and applied a layer of varnish.

 

Products used in this project:

    

Karin

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karen

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and today we have Karen who made a lovely card using tissue paper. You all know how much I love tissue paper, right?! And aren't those embroidered marks the coolest?! Love this!

 

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Welcome everyone to another team Wednesday from me, Karen! I’m excited to share this tutorial today with you to give you some ideas to add some simple texture to your artwork. Adding in different paper weights and products can really help you to level up your creations. 

I’m using a small watercolor postcard to create on this time. I find that when I’m feeling a bit meh about my creativity it can really help to work on a piece that’s not inside my journal. It shakes up my creative brain a bit and I come up with new ideas.

I’m using the Scribble Feather stamp set and I’m going to be stamping onto this lovely purple tissue paper that I saved from some packing. I’ve also pulled out my Prima watercolors, this is the decadent pies set and some scraps of book text and gelli printed tissue paper.

I started off by stamping my feather using Staz On in black. I used my water brush to go around the edge on the tissue paper and that way I can control where the tear is going to happen.

I spread some water onto the postcard and then just dropped in some water color to it and let it mix. Honestly I could do this all day, it’s so soothing and magical.

I played around with the placement of my papers until I was happy with them. I wanted to see quite a bit of the watercolor texture and still have the feather was the focal point. I just added glue (with a glue stick) to the middle part of the feather. I wanted to make sure that I kept some of the texture if the tissue paper lose to mimic the feel of a real feather. 

For a final bit of interest I took some embroidery thread and added in some lines of stitches as the side. I think this just ties the whole piece together really nicely. 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and you’re inspired to add in some stitches and textured layers into your own work. See you again soon!

 

Product used in this project:

 

Karen

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Karen

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Crew Member Wednesday. Today Linda is sharing how she created beautiful stickers and used the left over sticker paper to create some lovely cards! Check out the video to see her process :)

 

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Hello !

Today I want to share a fun project. I got some label stickers from a dear friend of mine in various papers and shapes. The ones I’ve used in this project where glossy and circle shapes. After I did the sticker sheet I was so inspired that I had to use the leftover sticky paper and make some cards.

Here is a video showing how I created this project :)

Enjoy!

Products used in this project:

  

 

 

Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today Hermien is here with another set of beautiful cards. What a great idea of her to make the new trend fit her kind of projects!!!

 

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Hi, it's Hermien here :)

It's almost impossible not to hear about the new trend in stamping: the ATCoins! The samples made me happy so I made some for BMMAC! Because I am not a person who loves to trade and collect I turned the first 3 coins into little cards –>what else ☺

I started by stamping and stencilling on a piece of watercolorpaper, added some extra paint and then punched out circles.

I wanted a little more color so I stamped a variety of stamps onto red painted paper and cut them out after which I applied them to the circles.

I used the A5 Circles Background to stamp a background on some cards and glued the ATCoins on top.

Products used in this project:

        

Hermien

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