My scrappin' life

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! Welcome to Crew Member Wednesday. Today it's Karin's turn and she made a clean and simple yet eye catching colourful project using Ecoline markers. She is thinking about framing it and I think she definitely should! 

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Hello, it's Karin here!

Today it's my turn to make something for the Crew Member Wednesday and I made something clean & simple and I had fun creating it!

I started on a piece of cardboard (30x 40 cm or 11,81 x 15,75 inch) and I used one of Birgits stamps on it. I loved the kind of Mandala shaped patern which emerged.

I gave the peacock feathers some color with ecoline markers and that was it. I think I'm going to frame this creation.

Stamp used for this project:

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karen

Hi there! It's Crew Member Wednesday again!! Today Karen is sharing a fun and easy technique that let's you spice up a simple notebook in no time! Wouldn't this make a lovely little gift?!!

 

 

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Hi everyone! It’s time for another Crew Member Wednesday and for this project I wanted to keep it super simple, something that can be very easily recreated!

I was in need of a new notebook to pop into my bag so I can sketch on the go or jot down notes and inspiration wherever I go. As this was a notebook that was going to be living mostly in my bag I knew it needed to be simple in decoration as it was going to get some abuse! 

I’d been dying to try out the Wow bonding powder with the foil sheets so I decided this would be the perfect project for that!

I took my notebook and the scribbled feathers stamp and stamped the feathers with my versamark ink pad. You can use any pigment based ink pad for this but as the versamark is designed for embossing powders I stuck with this.

There are a few methods to using the powder and the foil but I went with the easiest one, melting the bonding powder and whilst it was still hot I rubbed the foil onto it. You need to press quite firmly and I just used the back of my nail to make sure I got all the little bits.

I added another feather, the opposite way around, and went with a dark blue foil this time. The dark blue definitley shows up more that the pale blue and it did seem to transfer better. I still like the imperfect texture of the lighter blue though.

I’m delighted with my little notebook! It’s the perfect mix of practical and decorative. The foil decoration isn’t going to come off or become damaged like a stuck on embellishment would and the foiling was a lot easier than I thought to do!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and give making your own little notebook a go!

Products used in this project:

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and we have Linda today sharing a very cool art journal spread in which she included a photograph of herself. I love how this turned out and as always Linda rocks the black and white with a little bit of color!

 

 

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Hello !

Today I want to show you a personal and very intuitive made art journal page. I started to prep the page with white gesso, due to the thin paper in the book. I could also have made a background collage to make the page sturdier, but this time I went for only a layer of white gesso. Before I started I took out a few stamps and masks to choose from. I also decided to only use black and white paint and ink, but changed my mind along the way and added some colored ink and ephemera.

Here is the process video, enjoy!

Products used in this project:

   

Linda

 

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karen

Hello! It's Crew Member Wednesday again!! Today Karen is sharing a beautiful mixed media tag with beautiful colors and I love that sunny yellow and her home made washi tape using my "I heart washi" stamp set!

Check out the video to see Karen's process!

 

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Hi everyone! It’s time for another Crew Member Wednesday and this project sees me creating on a jumbo sized tag just to shake things up a bit and get outside of my Art Journal. Working on a different size or substrate is like taking a walk to get some fresh air for my creativity!

I made my own paper washi tape by using Birgit’s stamps and this time I tried stamping on top of some medial tape. The results were not quite what I was expecting but I loved the translucent effect anyway.

I also got to play with the art masks and I was going to fussy cut the leaves when I remembered I had my scan and cut! I traced the design and cut out my own leaves to use in black card stock.

 

I hope you enjoy watching my tutorial and you get inspired to try out a new size or item to get creative with! 

Products used in this project:

  

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! Welcome to Crew Member Wednesday. Today it's Karin's turn and she made 3 lovely cards using an Art Printing Plate and the Gelli Arts® gel printing plate. I think they are totally cool and yes, life is pretty awesome!!

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Hi, it's Karin here, showing you how I created these fun cards :)

 

I used the Gelli Arts® gel printing plate and one of Birgit’s Art Printing Plate designs.

I used different colors of paint on the gel plate.

I drew a figure on a piece of paper and used it as a mask. I placed it on a phone book page, drew aroud it, cut it out and and glued it on the cards.

I also made some marks on the cards with a white pen and some glitter markers.

Products used for this project:

 

Karin

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday!! 

Here's Hermien with some lovely birthday cards. Now who would not love to get a pretty card like that in their mail box?! I sure would! :)

 

 

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In our family we celebrate a lot of birthdays in April/May, including my own ☺ so birthday cards?!?

Used some left overs, a small piece of paper I used to clean my brayer and stencils

I wanted to use I stamp set on each card, thought that I did so, but...I cheated a little (you will see)

the blue green card I made on valentine's day...just embossed the hearts and masked them while stamping the small circles, stamped the hearts again in green in the background and doodled a little border, finally I added the small hearty branches and used a a gel pen to color the small hearts red and distressed the borders

the yellow red card was simply stamped, no embossing, colored the circles with acrylic pens and the knitted circles with watercolor glued some washi and distressed the borders

I love the fact that you can turn scraps into cards..!

Products used for these cards:

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and we have Linda today showing how you can create a fun little case for her glasses from Kraft-text paper. What an interesting product and an awesome way of using it!

 

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Today I want to show you a project where I’ve used Kraft-text paper for the first time. It feels like leather, act likes fabric and is made out of paper. Great to use with your sewing machine. As my first project I made a spectacle case for my reading glasses I always need to bring with me. I was inspired to make this just by looking at the beautiful eye stamp Birgit has designed.

Her is what I used.

First I measured up the paper for the case and an extra pocket for the lens cleaner

I stamped one of the eyes on  tissue paper so I could turn the image and make a perfect pair of eyes.

First stitching the pocket on to the sleeve, then I stitched the case together

The backside of the case looks fantastic with half of the Mandela stamp

I made a flap so I am able to close the case.

Some color was needed, nothing like blue on brown paper.

A white gel pen creates nice contrast to the black and brown.

The case ready to care for my glasses

Detail of the flap and pocket

Products used in this project:

Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hi,  welcome to Crew Member Wednesday. Today it's Karin's turn and she made a really cool project! A birthday calendar!

What a great way to keep track of all those important dates and festivities. Just looking at it is a little celebration :)

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Hi, it's Karin here!

A few weeks ago I threw away my old birthday calender and therefore I decided to make a new one.

I made a couple of gel prints and used a lot off different stamps and stencils on them. 

I cut them into the right sizes and colored some of the stamped images with acrylic paint markers.

And at last I taped the  already printed  months on the gel prints and I clipped them on the clipboard and there it was…my new birthday calender!

Products used in this project:

    

 

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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Crew Member "Wednesday" With Karen

I'm a day late, oops, but better late then never, right?! Today we have Karen sharing a lovely art journal spread that she created in an old book. Awesome colors and I love that home made washi tape using my "I heart washi" stamp set!

Check out the video to see Karen creating these wonderful pages!

 

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Hi everyone! It’s time for my latest Crew Member Wednesday and this project sees me playing inside of my altered book art journal. The page I ended up creating is a really simple one but I love the colors and vibrance of it.

 

I made my own paper washi tape by using Birgit’s stamps and I love how they turned out on the grid paper. It gives a lovely contrast to the book text on the spread page.

I hope you enjoy watching my tutorial and you get inspired to dig out your own altered book journals and get working inside of them! 

 

Products used for this project:

 

Karen

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and we have Linda today showing an altered deck of cards that allowed her to do a little creative something while traveling through Japan (oh my, how lucky is she!!??). I think this is an awesome idea :)

 

 

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Today I just have a short introduction to my video. Right now I’m on a 3 week trip to Japan and with limited space for creating when travelling, I needed something that was small and easy to take with me. I’ve altered a deck of cards, 52 single cards all ready for the last touches when I’m on the road. Hope you enjoy the video and hopefully it can inspire you to do something similar when you have limited space, both in what you can bring with you and where you are creating.

 

Products used for all 52 cards:

    

Linda

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