Kirs- Making Memories

Olivier's File

by Kirs de ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
Making Memories - Just Chillin-
4" x 8" Spiral Bound Notebook Just Chillin Boy
paper Just Chillin Boy flocked camo - checker
Alphabet Stickers : Passport Canvas Alphas
chipboard shapes
ink Memories TM Brown
Making Memories Paint espresso
cricut - cartridge Base Camp
fineliner brown
cardstock brown
cardstock kraft
rope

HOW TO
For the pages of the minibook: cut kraft cardstock 15 cm by 20 cm. Take the papers from a spiral bound notebook, adhere them on the cardstock and distress them with ink for the older effect. Do the same on the cover with the flocked camo paper.
For the subsurface with the Olivier's alphabet, I have used paper packaging from the alphabet stickers. It has a nice wood effect that you can recycle it. Punch holes along the edges and thread a rope through them.
Edit them further with old pieces of paper and die-cuts made with sponge. Letters are made by the cricut and finishing with the fineliner.
The pages are bound with a rope, so you get a tough look.

Kirs- Love for 15 Years

Love for 15 years
by Kirs de Ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
Paper : Crate Paper, Mia Collection,
Die Cuts : Crate Paper, Mia Collection
Lace Cardstock : KI Memories Lullaby Lipstick
Overlays : Hambly Screen Prints Mini Graph Pink
Sticker : American Crafts Thickers , Vinyl Vera Vinyl Accents Taffy
Paint : Making Memories, White
Stamp : Letterstamp Provo Craft
Old paper
Cardboard corrugated
Fineliner Dark Brown
Poscapen Pink

HOW TO:
For a nice effect with the words: cut from the lace cardstock these words - i love you - hugs - and kisses, and edit it with fineliner. At first I have made a heart from the overlay and drawn it with posca pen. Paste this heart behind the picture, then the words. . Before I added a picture, I first edited the background with old paper, piece of paper and white paint. I like to use white paint for the softer effect.

Jessica- **MY MIND'S EYE**

If you are like me, you are probably behind on your scrapping. I can never seem to catch up! Occasionally I will do a layout filled with small photos from the month. By doing this, I at least have a page done with all the important events and I can always go back in later to rescrap some of the photos onto seperate layouts. I chose to scrap about our first Christmas holiday in Germany and all of the different things we saw and did.

Weihnachten in Deutschland

by Jessica Summers

SUPPLIES

Cardstock: DCWV

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye Snowed In- Flakes, Christmas Dots

Die Cuts: My Mind's Eye Snowed In

Miscellaneous: ProvoCraft Cricut, Opposites Attract Cartridge, Buttons, Black Pen, White Signo Uniball Pen.

HOW TO

First start by editing a batch of photos from a month's period. I used Photoshop Elements 5 to group the photos, adding a 10 pt white border. I stacked the photos to save time. After I printed it out, I cut around the outside edge (rather than cutting out and gluing each individual photo).

Use a die cut paper as a template and cut a snowflake to put under your photos. Outline the edges and adhere to your cardstock.

Adhere your photos on top, using pop dots for more dimension.

The Opposites Attract Cartridge was used to cut out the letters on the Cricut.

Add your journaling around the photos.

Rachel- SoHo Squirrel **TECHNIQUE WEEK**

"We met this little fella in Washington Square Park in New York City. I was tring to convey the whole point that this fab little park full of very friendly squirrels was just a little square in the middle of streets of sky scrapers."

Rachel made a little city of sky scrapers on her layout and to add more dimension, embossed the papers.


So Ho Squirrel
by Rachel Burgess


SUPPLIES
Bazzill cardstock Lilac, gold and brown
Photograph
KI Memories Love, Elsie Toby Cabana self adhesive fabric
KI Memories Love, Elsie Toby Chit Chat rub ons
KI Memories Love, Elsie Toby big ribbon
White poster paint pen or poster paint with fine tipped brush
Olive and brown inkpads
Sticky foam pads
Provocraft Cuttlebug with embossing folders:
Emboss a2 divine swirl
Emboss 2x2.75 explore
Die squirrel

HOW TO
In this case the photograph was edited to be faded except for a circle immediately around the squirrel.
Print photograph and trim to 5 inches square
Cut a 6 inch square of the self adhesive fabric and attach to the bottom left corner of the lilac base.
Cut the brown cardstock into smaller pieces to fit the swirl embossing folder and emboss. Cut some sky scraper shaped from these embossed pieces, ink the edges with brown ink and some of the pieces entirely and arrange to overlap the outer inch of the two joins between fabric and lilac base using sticky foam pads to create some dimension.
Edge the base of these with the ribbon.
Use the discover folder to emboss the word onto your photograph and highlight it with the brown inkpad. Ink the edges of the photograph also and layer onto the base.
Die cut 3 acorns from the brown and gold cardstock. Piece together using the gold for the nut and ink lightly with the olive green ink. Layer over the bottom left corner of the photograph.
Add the title using rub ons and some decorative doodling with the white poster paint pen.


Just a little reminder!

Evi's Castle

In my book, Mireille is the altered craft queen. She sure does know how to transform plain projects into beauties! Today she alters a Creative Imaginations Bare Elements Castle Book into a magical mini.

"Evi's Castle"
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Castlebook: Creative Imaginations- Bare Elements- Reyna Castlebook
Patterned Paper: Creative Imaginations Narratives- Karen Russell * Cream Sweet Pea * Script Noir
Paint: Making Memories
Stickles: Ranger
Paper Lace: Creative Imaginations Sweet Pea
Rub-ons: Hambly Screen Prints Wings
Flowers: Prima
Microbeads: Provocraft

HOW TO
Use the castle album as a template and draw on the backside of the patterned paper. Cut out the shapes and adhere them to the album. Use pink on one side of the album and black on the other side. When you close your album, it should be pink on black on pink.
Outline the patterned paper with Ranger Stickles.
Determine the position of the picture and paint the background with two shades of pink.
Adhere the photo and use the rubons.
Put some paper lace at the bottom and decorate it with flowers.
Use some tacky glue in the center of the flower and sprinkle microbeads in the wet glue.

Sunshine Coast

Today's layout from Giselle uses the new BasicGrey Boxer line. The colors of the paper matches perfectly with the atmosphere of her photos.

SUPPLIES
Paper: Basic Grey Boxer
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Die-Cuts: Basic Grey Boxer
Chipboard alphabet: Cherry Arte
Other alphabet: Cut using Provocraft Cricut
Flourish shape: Tim Holtz Grungeboard
Stamp: 7 Gypsies
A scrap of semi-gloss photo paper
Inks: Color Box Chalk Inks, brown and blue

HOW TO

Print a photo measuring 2.5" x 3" and hand cut a 'window' frame shape from the photo paper to fit over it.
Glue the photo to the back of the frame.
Ink a Grungeboard flourish shape first with brown and then with blue ink, dabbing to give a mottled finish.
Colour the title letters in the same way matching the brown hues of the patterned paper.
Cut a strip of Boxer paper measuring 11" x 3.5", tear & ink the lower edge.
Glue this to the background cardstock approximately 4" from the top edge.
Add a 6" x 4" photo 1.5" from the top edge and 1" from the left edge.
Attach the framed photo at an angle to the right of the main photo.
Glue the Grungeboard to the left of the photo with pvc adhesive.
Stamp the 7 Gypsies circular dots in 3 places, as shown, using a scrap of paper to mask parts of the image.
Add a circular die-cut shape to the top stamped image & a flower die-cut to the centre.
Attach the title using pvc adhesive & hand write the journalling.