Stephanie - My lil' Pumpkin

MY LIL PUMPKIN

By: Stephanie Garbett

products:

card stock bazzil
patterned paper basic grey
making memories brads paint
daisy dees rubons
stamps autumn leaves
thickers letters
delish chipboard letters
ribbon making memories
hat pin oasis

steps:
1 start off by watering orange and green paint then using a foam sponge make a sweeping movement to achieve the effect as shown splat a few black drops of paint too

2 cut four strips of patterned paper and place as shown i then distressed the two photos to give them an orange tint; then i glued them into place curling up two of the edges

3 using a crafters template i then stencilled half a circle using black paint once this was dry i added the ribbon and brad under the photo to give this a little more detail i stapled an x at the top of the photo

4 add your lettering as shown then i used a few rubons finish off the layout by adding some stamping and a few chosen embellishments a very simple layout to achieve i finished off this layout by chalking all around the outside of the card stock with black cats eye ink

Mireille- **CHATTERBOX**

Wall Decoration
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Frames: Chatterbox Artsy.licious Luscious frames - chocolat
CuttleBug heart
Birds and Glimmer mist: Tattered Angels
Ribbon: Chatterbox Splendid ribbon
Chipboard Flowers: Maya Road
Paper Flowers: Prima Marketing Inc.
buttons: Foof-a-La
paint: Making Memories

HOW TO
Paint the chipboard flowers in chocolate brown.
Spray the birds, the heart, the chipboard (once it's dry) and the clear buttons with glimmer mist
(if you don't have glimmer mist you can create some yourself by mixing some ink refill with perfect pearls (both by Ranger) and put it in a minimister.. shake well.. and you're ready to go..)
Punch holes in the frames with the crop a dile.
Tie a ribbon through it and then tie it through the chipboard flower and the clear button and attach.
Decorate the corners of the frame with flowers and birds.
For the top frame create an inner lining with lace ribbon.

Emma- Working Together

Working Together

by Emma Trout

SUPPLIES

Bazzill cardstock (white)
Patterned papers:
7 gypsies- Sushi (Saki)
Basic Grey- Colour me silly (Wonder)
Scenic Route- Laurel (River walk)
Doodlebug- Frosty Dot
Creative Imaginations- (Honeydew) Teal notebook paper
Cosmo Cricket- Cogsmo (cogs)
American Crafts brothers rub-ons
7 Gypsies word stickers
Doodlebug paper frill
Crafters Workshop template
Journaling stamps - Autumn Leaves (stitched), Paper Salon (monogram builder)
Letter stickers- Artic Frog
Acrylic paint brads.

HOW TO
Dry brush yellow acrylic paint, and then sponge red paint onto your cardstock. I also added teal paint to create corners on the layout. When dry, glue circles of patterned papers onto the layout that will fit inside the circular rub-ons. Cut a rectangle of “Frosty Dot” and stick down the centre of the layout with a Doodlebug paper frill. Layer photos down the centre of the layout adding the date with a Paper Salon monogram stamp on yellow card. I also added a strip of “Honeydew” paper under the bottom photo that I had used a hole punch along the edge (Cutting into the holes with scissors to create a notebook effect). Add brads, word stickers and cogs. Finish with the title and journaling.

Christiane- Smells Like Teen Spirit

Smells Like Teens Spirit
by Christiane Müller

SUPPLIES
PP - BasicGrey OFFBEAT: Nonchalant, Unexpected, Impromptu, Unpredictable, Casual, Light Hearted, Novel
Letter Sticker - BasicGrey: Stella Ruby
Buttons - Foofala
Stamp - Autumn Leaves
Pens - Sakura, Signo Uniball
Distress Ink - Ranger

HOW TO
Cut a big circle with scalloped edges and punch holes inside. I made the holes with an eyelet-setter. Add four more circles from the different OFFBEAT-papers as the background for the photos. The stiches are faked with white and black pens. The branches are also cut-outs from patterned paper. I've used some BasicGrey mini-monograms as a template for the big title. Journaling is made on foil.

Mireille and Moniek- **MY MIND'S EYE**

Today we have two layouts focusing on summer traditions. The first comes from Mireille. "Every year we take pictures on top of the Fort in Pula. Years ago it was just pictures of me. Then pictures of me pregnant. Later it was pictures of me and Amber, then pictures of Amber and me during my second pregnancy. Last year we had someone else with us to take the pictures and then all four of us were in the picture. It became a true tradition to have our pictures taken at the end of our holiday. To bad that this beautiful tradition came to an end. This year again we took someone else to take the pictures and found out the fort had been sold. There were big closed gates and no way we could climb on top to take pictures. For the first time we took the pictures in front of the fort in stead of on top."

Summer tradition
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Cardstock: Bazzil
Patterned paper, Rubon titles, rubon alpha's , transparency and rubon swirls: My Minds Eye
Ink: Stazon
Stickles: Ranger
Buttons: Foof-a-la
Ribbon: chatterbox
tag: quickuts
pen: Sakura

HOW TO
I used 2 sheets of patterened paper and 3 sheets of cardstock for this layout. Cut out a large flower out of cardstock and one out of patterened paper. Distress the edges with Rangers distressing tool. and outline with Stickles. Adhere the flowers to the background sheet. Adhere the picture on yellow cardstock and cut a scalloped border (I used the edges of my fiskar circle cutter which has a scalloped pattern. )
I used MME rubon titles and rubbed them on cardstock. Cut them in a rectangle and a tag, then distressed the edges and inked them. Cut a hole with the crop-a-dile in the tag, cut edges out of the transparency and adhere them with clear glue to the tag. Tie a ribbon through the hole and add a mini tag.
I cut out flowers out of the patterned paper, crumpled them and adhered them with gluedots for dimension. Add buttons. Take four clear buttons and rub the initials of your family members on the button. Adhere with a gluedot. Print journaling on your cardstock and cut it into strops. Outline with a black pen and decorate with mini flowers cut from the patterned paper

Our second project is from Moniek. "On our summer vacations, I usually buy my kids a disposable camera for them to take their own photos. And I found out that it is awesome to see our vacation through their eyes. They take pictures of stuff I never would choose to photograph! I keep all their photo’s, even the blurry ones, because I love them all. I have put them together in a small album and put some of my journaling in between."

Bette's Summer Vacation Photos
by Moniek Jannink

SUPPLIES
Paper: MME Garden Party – My sunshine sunburst stripes / my sunshine lazy days / my sunshine sunny days
Cardstock: Bazzill – pinecone / cream puff
Clear Stamps: Making Memories – journaling / Hampton Arts
Brown and black ink
Black Stazon ink
Quickutz Studio skinny mini
Ribbon

HOW TO
I have used a very old SEI album I had in my stash for years and covered it with MME garden party.
Ink all the edges of the papers with brown ink.
Adhere ribbon on the front of the album.
Print part of the title on cream Bazzill and then stamp jounaling stamp on top. Handcut journaling stamp and adhere to front of the album.
Handcut 2 flowers from the Lazy Daisy papers and use them as two 0’s
Use QK to make letters and adhere these to the front.
Use the Hampton Arts stamps to embellish your album.
The SEI album comes with 4 x 6 page protectors and I stamped on the pageprotectors with Stazon Ink in order to embellish some of the pages. I also adhered some stamped and handcut journaling spots on top of the pageprotectors for journaling.

Jessica- Teacher's Survival Kit

Next month, my little girl will begin pre-kindergarten. Her teacher will be coming over to our home prior to school starting for an initial meeting. As a present, I made (with a little help from my daughter Anberlin) a "teacher's survival kit." It is filled with 2 mini tag albums. Each individual page has a small positive reminder.

Teacher's Survival Kit
by Jessica Summers

SUPPLIES
Patterned Paper: October Afternoon- Detours "Gazebo, Walk in the Park, Fruit Stand." Love, Elsie- Toby.
Die Cut Paper: Making Memories Noteworthy
Alphabet Stickers: Jenni Bowlin Chalkboard Alphabet
Chipboard: Maya Road Trees
Ranger Perfect Medium
Embossing Powder: Ranger-Gold
Paint: Making Memories Manila
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Tea Dye
Buttons: Autumn Leaves, Fancy Pants
Box- We R Memory Makers Card Box
Ribbon: American Crafts, Miscellanious Organza
Small Embellishments: Jolee's
Tools: Sizzix Big Kick, Cricut Machine (Christmas Cheer), Heat Tool (Marvy Uchida), 3m 414 ATG, sandpaper, felt, embroidery thread, glue dots, staples.

HOW TO
I altered a box that held a set of blank cards for this project. Cover each side individually with paper, trim excess with a craft knife. To get your paper edge closer to the box's edge, run sandpaper along the sides. This will distress your paper, but also get rid of any small excess.
For the tree, first stamp the trunk with the Ranger Perfect Medium and emboss gold powder onto it. Then cover the "leaves" part with a piece of green felt. The contrast of the two will give it more dimension.
Thread each individual button, the adhere using a strong glue dot. The tags were cut using a Cricut, then the edges distressed with Tea Dye ink.
Each tag reads:
-A rainbow to remind you that after every storm there is a calm and a star to remind you to shine!
-An eraser to remind yourself that everyoe makes mistakes. That's ok; we learn by our errors.
-Clothespins to help you "hang in there."
-Candles for those days wen you feel you need to light a fire under you students.
-Tea bags to remind you to take time to relax daily.
-A gift to remind you that your students are a gift to you and you are a gift to them.
-A puzzle piece to remind you that without you, things would not be complete.
-Animal cookies for when your classroom seems like a zoo.
-Smiley faces to remind you to wear a happy face.
-Rubber gloves for when you need a helping hand.

The tags are then decorated with various Jolee's embellishments and other things from my stash.

Moniek- 2 Cards

Happy birthday
by Moniek Jannink

Supply list
Cardstock: Bazzill pommegranate
Paper: My Mind´s Eye 29th Street
Mellow "Happy" Jolly Dotty / Cherry paper
Mellow "Pretty" Beautiful Blossoms / Peachy Paper
Mellow "Cheerful" Happy Stripes / Rosy Cheeks Paper

Chipboard: Autum Leaves by Rhonna Farrer . chipboard panels & icons
Alphabet sticker: Mustard Moon Cardstock Stickers - brown
Scenic Route teal date label - cardstock stickers
Happy Birthday rubon: Pebbles Inc - duplicate rubons - brown
Red organza ribbon
brown ink
embroidery floss
Date stamp

Gefeliciteerd

Supply list:
Paper: Imaginisce Baby Powder (double sided!)
Cardstock: Bazzill Parakeet and Cream puff
flower die cut: Imaginisce Baby powder collection - animal crackers
Epoxy brad: Imaginisce All kinds of happy collection - sweet treat
Label: Quickutz die cut
embroidery floss

Mireille- Vierluik

Mireille made this wallhanging for her mother. She has pictures of her grandchildren everywhere but nothing coordinating. This wallhanging is pretty dimensional so she added several pictures from different angles. As part of the background, Mireille used a very old dictionairy that belonged to her grandfather. It was from 1935 and a way to incorporate his memory with the great grandchildren.

Vierluik
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Memory Boards- Jenna Wilson- Junkitz
Patterned Paper: Creative Imaginations- Karen Russell Blue Bell Noir / Cream Blue Bell
Stickers: Creative Imaginations- Karen Russell Blue Bell ABC
Alpha's: Cricut
Stickles: Ranger
Perfect Pearls: Ranger
Ink: Stazon and Colorbox
Gesso
Paint: Making Memories
Stamps: Heidi Swapp
Cardstock: Bazzill
Buttons: Foof-a-la
Scrappers Floss: Karen Foster
Clips: Making Memories
Flowers: Prima
Crowns: Maya Road
Ribbon: Making Memories
wood hearts and butterflies: Action

HOW TO
I put a coating of Gesso on the blank memoboards, after drying I added a second layer of Gesso and while that one was still wet I added paint (blue for the 2 boy's and purple for the two girls)
I painted the two small wooden hearts blue and the two butterflies purple.
I ripped pieced of cardboard from a box, peeled of the upper layer and painted it white.
I painted two crowns blue and two crowns purple. after drying I coated them with glitterglaze, added lines with stickles and used the hotfix to add some bling.
I cut 4 rectangles from the dictionairy, adhered them to cardboard and then painted them with perfect pearls using purple and blue perfect pearls. (mixed it with water and then used it as a paint to give it a soft shimmer)
The wings are Heidi Swapp stamps, and I also painted them with perfect pearls. Outlined the wings as well as the dictionairy rectangles with stickles.
This project needed a lot of drying time.
While different parts where drying I played with the patterened paper.
I used parts of torn patterned paper as a background. I also used the cricut to create the letters and numbers for the title, giving them a "shadow" with blue and purple painted cartstock.
Then I took the buttons and traced them on patterned paper. After cutting I used them behind the clear buttons to create coordinating buttons with the paper.
I adhered the alpha stickers on a piece of cardstock and cut them with a little border. I painted the edges black so they stood out more. Then I used a small circle punch to punch the flower centers out of the patterned paper.
I cut four rectangles from heavy cardboard to go as a mat for the photo's.
I painted them white and painted the sides with purple and paint.
After everything has dried it's time to put your project together.
Start with adhering the black and white photo's (these were edited in Adobe's Lightroom) to the white mat. Add wings behind the mat on the right height. Adhere the pieces of dictionairy on the backside below the wings.
Put the patterned paper with a slight tilt on the cardboard, then add the picture with wings and dictionairy parts (again with a slight tilt).
Adhere the crowns on the picture itself and the buttons also on the the picture in the lower corner.
Add the alpha's with the clips and finish decorating by adhering the flowers (I adhered the small patterned paper circles with gluedots, then used some stickles on the flower leaves) and the wooden hearts and butterflies.
Now it's time to adhere the whole project on your memoboard. Please remember to leave enough space for the name / title at the bottom.
I adhered the year's on the pieces of dictionairy, added ribbon to put it all together.

Snow Fun!!

Winter may be over, but it is never too late to scrap about it! Here we have a fun and bright mini album from Kirs.

"Snow Fun"
by Kirs de ven-Smit


SUPPLIES
Chipboard book: Chipboard Card from the Creative Imaginations
Paper : Scenic Route Laurel, Making Memories, Imagination Project Harlequin, SassaFrass Lass Serendipity Owl Pals
Felt: orange and pink
Stamp: Maya Road Singleton Message Stamp
Ink: Staz On Black
Stickers: Heidi Swapp Price Tags
Embroidering thread
Fabrics
Ribbons
Cricut
Cricut cartridges : Fabulous Finds
Clear stamps : Autumn Leaves
Adhesive tapes : Crystal Lines Tape Prima Marketing Inc.
Craft knife
Crop-a-Dile
Bookbind-rings

HOW TO
Frontpage
Cut the orange felt about 1 cm larger than the size of the chipboard. Adhere it and decorate with fabric, ribbons, letters and a flower (selfmade with crepepaper).
The first page is covered with fabric (the same way you did the front cover). Then emboider a frame around the outer edge.
On the second page, cut the chipboard card in two pieces and adhere the papers and ribbon. On the left page, stamp the message stamp with black ink. For the right page cut a 'bread tag' using the Cricut. Add your photo and adhesive tape.
For the third page mount chipboard die-cuts from the Art Warehouse, type Harlequin. Smudge it with the orange ink or paint it. Make the dots with the blue soufflepen. Adhere the fabric on the left side, then the moult and the black flower. For the right side adhere the paper, photo, frame, rub on letters and embellishments.
The fourth page is made with old paper, papers, ribbons, a piece of KI pop culture, used as a tab.
Cut the chipboard card on the sixth page into two pieces, at the horizontal line with the pinking scissors. The journaling spot is made on a piece of transperancy, stamped using Staz On Ink.
The letters on the seventh page are made using the Cricut with the Base Camp Cartridge. Add the journaling pads from the Creative Cafe (Creative Imaginations).
For page 8, hand cut a crown a craft knife. Using the cut piece as a template, draw the crown on the fabric (the same size as the page), and cut it out. Adhere the fabric on the page.
The nineth page uses the same crown as a template again, but this time it is used on cardstock.
The last pages are made the same way as the first.
Finally, make 4 holes in each page. When making these holes be sure to check placement on each card before punching. You need to be sure that the pages that were cut in half are independent from each other.

The Roman Baths

"The Roman Baths"
by Giselle Homer

SUPPLIES
Cardstock: Bazzill 8.5" x 11"
Papers: Basic Grey Boxer
Scalloped cardstock: Bazzill
Journaling circle: Creative Imaginations Narratives Note Paper
Stamp: Autumn Leaves
Ink: StazOn
Chipboard letters: American Crafts
Letter stickers: Carolee's Creations Adornit
Photo turns & embellishment: 7 Gypsies

HOW TO
Cut a piece of patterned paper 4" x 11" & glue it at an angle along the left of the cardstock base
Cut an 11" edge from the scalloped cardstock and glue this behind the left edge of the patterned paper
Arrange four photos (sizes ranging from approximately 4" x 3" through to 2" x 2.5") as shown
Trim the journaling circle and glue this over the uppermost photo and underneath the small photo
Hand write your journaling
Add the title using the stickers and chipboard letters in the space to the left of the small photos
Stamp 2 images above and below the journaling circle to make a visual connection to the photographs
Cut a circle of patterned paper to fit behind the circle embellishment & write the date, glue this between the 2 smaller photos
Add the 2 photo turns to the left edge of the top photo

Happy Mother's Day from ScrapBookMate!

Today, Moniek shares a cute little mini album she made her mother for Mother's Day. It hold photos of her children. Next to each photo, she stamped a journaling spot for her children to write a small note to their grandmother.

We hope everyone has a wonderful day. Happy Mother's Day!





SUPPLIES
Paper: BasicGrey Sultry - stylish / dressy / citron / patina / delectable /
Cardstock: Bazzill: Hukkary / limeade / petunia
Flowers: Heidi Swapp
Imaginisce: Cha Ching Brads
Ribbon - Bazzill
Autumn leave clearstamps / journaling blocks
Making Memories foam stamps / dingbats
acrylic paint
Quickutz cookie cutter - scallops
embroidery floss
tie wraps
corner rounder
black ink


HOW TO
Cut pages from 1,5 mm chipboard to 9 x 13 cm. 1,5 mm chipboard can be rounded in a corner rounder, so round all corners of your pages.
Cut pages from BasicGrey paper to 9 x 13 cm.
Cut small strips of BasicGrey paper of 2 x 13 cm.
Diecut scalloped strips with Quickutz cookie cutter using Bazzill paper.
Layer flowers and big brad and attach to the paper you want to use for the front of your album. Use the same paper for the back of your album.
Glue this paper with flower to front the first chipboard page and attach ribbon to the back before you glue your photo to the back.
Glue all your BasicGrey paper to the chipboard pages and attach small BasicGrey strip and scalloped strip on the left side of your page.
Attach the photo to the left page of your album and the BasicGrey paper with stamps on the right side of your album.
First stamp with foam stamp and acrylic paint.
Let it dry and then stamp journaling block with black ink.
Punch holes with your Crop-a-Dile and bind your album with tie wraps.

Girls Only!

Although Mireille made this doorhanger for her daughter, it could easily be made into a gift for dear Mom. Create a "do not disturb" sign when some quiet time is needed. You can even make it for yourself to hang on your scrap room door to warn any unwanted visitors that they are about to disturb a creative flow. The options are endless!

SUPPLIES:
Doorhanger: Creative Imaginations, Bare Elements, Latynn
Rubons: Die Cuts with a View
Patterned Paper: Luxe Designs- Trinket line- Be Mine
Bling: Heidi Swapp; Junkitz (hearts) My Minds Eye (rhinestones)
Large Flower: Heidi Swapp
Preglittered Flowers: Making Memories
Small flower: Prima
Alpha's Heidi Swapp
Paint: Making Memories
Glitterglaze: Making Memories
Stickles: Ranger
Hatpin: Fancy Pants
Pen: staedler
Ribbon: Offray
Button: Foof-a-La
Glossy chipboard hearts: Heidi Swapp
Xyron- Create a Sticker
minitag- quickutz

HOW TO:
Paint the front and back of the doorhanger (3 shades of pink) by squeezing a dash of each paint onto the surface. Blend the colors with your fingers. Once the paint is dry, coat the hanger with Glitter Glaze. Cut circles from the patterned paper and layer them. This will serve as a mat for your photo. Place your photo and frame it with bling ovals. The letters were ran through a Xyron Create-a-Sticker to make them adhere. Outline the letters with a pen. Finish the project with different flowers. Embellish the top right flower with glitter, ribbon, a hatpin, and buttons. Use stickles to complete the look of your new doorhanger.

Getting Creative with Mireille and Bare Essentials

Here is another project using Creative Imaginations Bare Essentials. The Netherlands very own Mireille sure does know how to rock the alterables!











"Recipe for a Family of Four"

SUPPLIES:
Recipe box - BE- Creative Imaginations SAM
Gesso
Paint: Making Memories and Ranger Dabbers
Patterned Paper: Creative Imaginations- Narrativves by Karen Russell (Cream Blue Bell, Blue Bell Noir, Five Blue Bell Notes)
Buttons: My Minds Eye
Stamps: Autumn Leaves
Flowers: Prima/ Bazzill
Hatpins: Fancy Pants
Ribbon: Offray
Perfect Pearls: Ranger
Stickles: Ranger
Bling: My Minds Eye
Brads: Creative Imaginations and K&Company
Tags: Making Memories
Page Pebbles: 7 Gypsies
Grungeboard: Tim Holtz
Distress Ink: Ranger
Embossing Powder: Artemio
Perfect Medium: Ranger
Pen: Identi pen-Sakura
Decorative Tape- Prima
Paper bird- Prima



HOW TO:
For the journaling cards I inked a part of the card (where the stamp went) with light yellow ink. I stamped with Perfect Medium and poured embossing powder on the medium. Gently wipe off excess powder and heat emboss. I then covered the rest of the card with light and dark blue ink using the ink blending tool. I made a border with stickles and wrote the journaling with an identipen.


For the Tab- cards I painted them with paint dabbers first. Then I made the border with stickles. I used old boxes, tore off small parts and then tore off the upper layer to reveal the corrugated cardboard. I painted that and used a contrasting color for the edges. I used parts of my grandfathers old dictionairy (I found that emotionally a good idea since he isn't with us anymore but this is about his grandchildren and great grandchildren.) I adhered the parts of the dictionairy to cardstock, painted the pages with perfect pearls, and painted the edges.

I adhered the pictures on cardboard too and painted the edges white. I finally layered the patterned paper, cardboard, picture and dictionairy part and embellished it.


For the recipe box itself I covered that with Gesso giving it a structure, then added a second layer of Gesso mixing it with various shades of blue. I stamped it with perfect medium and added white embossing powder with a blue glow. I used borders of prima tape and stickles and used lots of grungeboard, flowers and a paper bird as decoration.

Noah's Growth Chart

Our next project is brought to you by Mireille. It's a gorgeous monotone growth chart she altered from BE (Bare Elements). She showcases the growth of her beautiful son, Noah. Each section has a photo of him. The very bottom of the chart starts with a photo from April, his birth month, and goes up each month so you can see him grow! Please take a moment to visit her BLOG.

**Out for Pub**