It's all about Babies, Buttons, Brads & Buckles on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's all about Babies, Buttons, Brads & Buckles on the Emerald Creek Dares blog for this weeks two week challenge. For this challenge I wanted to focus on the babies, buttons, and brads part as there seems to be a lot of babies born in the spring. So, for my project I decided that I would create a baby girl clipboard, which works easily as a home decor piece. Make sure to read through the entire post as there is a surprise at the bottom. Lets get started on how you can create my Baby Girl clipboard at home.

To start, you will need to unscrew the top off so that you can gesso the clipboard base. Once the top of the clipboard is off, cover the edges of the clipboard surface with a layer of gesso. After the gesso dries, apply 3 coats of Antique Linen Distress Paint. Because Distress paint is opaque, the more coats you apply the less of the gesso you will see.

After your finished painting you clipboard base, it's time to move on to painting the clipboard piece.  Apply a layer of Antique Linen Distress paint over the entire top of the clipboard and let it almost completely dry. While it is slightly wet, take a piece of paper towel with a bit of hand sanitizer on it and rub off some of the paint. This gives it a slightly distressed look.

While your still working with the Antique Linen Distress Paint, you will want to cover the top of 4 Flower Wheel Brads with the Antique Linen Distress Paint. And then repeat the same steps as you did with the top of the clipboard. This is the last item that needs the Antique Linen Distress paint.

To add some interest to your patterned paper, take a heart stencil and apply texture paste to give it a 3D look at the top left and bottom right hand corners. Once the texture paste is dry, with a blending tool apply a layer of Antique Linen Distress Ink over top of both heart stencil patches. This will get rid of the white from the texture paste.

For the flowers, you will want to use the Tattered Florals Die from Tim Holtz and cut out a variety of patterned flowers. You will need to cut out 4 small ones and 1 medium sized one. 

After the flowers have been cut out, take your blending tool and Antique Linen Distress Ink and ink the edges of the flowers. Once the edges have been inked, sprinkle Iridescent Embossing Powder on the edges and emboss with your heat tool.

Some finishing touches that you will want to add to you clipboard is some cream tulle underneath the banner strip. Once the tulle and the top image have been adhered then you can start working on your flowers. Place a brad through one of the small flowers and then adhere it to the top left hand corner. Adhere a small flower to the middle of the medium flower and then place a brad through the centre of the small flower. Adhere the medium flower to the bottom right hand corner in the middle of the corner. For  the remaining two small flowers add the last two brads to the middle of each flower and then adhere one to the left of the medium flower and adhere the other to the right of the medium flower. To add some extra detail, take some glossy accents and apply it to the centres of the blue flowers.  To finish the clipboard off, add a cream bow to the top.

Products used from Emerald Creek:

- Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder

- Flower Wheel Brads

Other Products Used:

- Ranger/Tim Holtz: Distress Paint: Antique Linen and Distress Ink: Antique Linen

- Ranger Ink:  Texture Paste and Glossy Accents

- Ranger/Dina Wakley: Palette Knife and White Gesso

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil

- Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Mini Clipboard

- Tim Holtz/Sizzix: Tattered Florals

- Graphic 45: Precious Memories: Baby's Breath, Cuddle Time, Cherish, Cutie Pie, Sugar & Spice, and Pat-a-cake

- Melissa Frances: Cream Tulle

- Hug A Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Cream

Since I couldn't leave out the baby boys, I created a Baby Boy clipboard also. To create the clipboard, it's the same steps as the girls clipboard, the only difference is you will use Broken China Distress Paint and Ink as well as adding buttons and twines to the clipboard instead of tulle and flowers. 

Products used from Emerald Creek:

- Metal Button Brads - 4 hole

Other Products Used:

- Ranger/Tim Holtz: Distress Ink: Broken China and Distress Paint: Broken China

- Ranger Ink: Texture Paste and Glossy Accents

- Ranger Ink/Dina Wakley: Palette Knife and White Gesso

- Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Mini Clipboard

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil

- My Minds Eye: Twine and Buttons

- Graphic 45: Precious Memories: Baby's Breath, Cuddle Time, Puppy Dog's Tails and Pat-a-cake

- Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: White

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Cathy

Shilpa

Claudia

Pam

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Baby Girl Clipboard. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Anything Goes Challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a brand new challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares blog, featuring "Anything Goes". When we received this challenge I was excited as I could create anything I wanted. For my project I decided that I would create a grungy mixed media canvas and I will show you how I created it, so that you can make it at home. Lets get started on how you can create my grungy mixed media canvas at home.

To start my canvas, I covered my Wood Tray from Prima with Black Gesso. You will need to allow 20 minutes for the gesso to dry.

Once the gesso has dried, apply Embossing Distress Ink to the tread mark stamp and stamp onto the now black canvas. Continue applying ink and stamping until the entire canvas is covered. After the canvas has been stamped, sprinkle Onyx Frost Embossing Powder overtop of the entire canvas. Tap off excess powder and emboss with heat tool.

After the tread marks are embossed, spritz the entire top of the canvas with Black Soot, Picket Fence, Pumice Stone and Perfect Pearls Mist. Allow at least 45 minutes for the canvas to dry.

After the spray has dried, I applied Embossing Distress Ink to the four corners. Once the ink is applied to the corners, sprinkle Hammered Metal Embossing Powder to the corners and then emboss with your heat tool.

After the corners are embossed, apply Mushroom and Gold Adirondack ink lightly over top of the embossed corners. Allow 10 minutes to thoroughly dry.

The next layer for the canvas is the faux metal embossed panel. To create this piece, cut a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of 100lb white cardstock and apply a Foil Tape sheet to the cardstock. Using the Riveted Metal Embossing folder, run it through your big shot. Once the foil is embossed, paint on black gesso over the entire embossed surface. Before the gesso completely dries, take some hand sanitizer on a piece of paper towel and remove the gesso from the foil. You will end up with some gesso on the lines of the embossed piece. Once the gesso completely dries, apply Mushroom Adirondack Alcohol Ink to the entire embossed image. Allow 10 minutes for the alcohol ink to fully dry.

The final piece that needed to cover was my barbed wire circle frame from Southern Ridge Trading Company and applied a layer of Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire piece. Once the ink was applied, I covered the entire barbed wire circle with Hammered Metal Embossing Powder and tapped off the excess. After the extra embossing powder is removed, emboss with a heat tool.

After the barbed wire circle frame was embossed, I applied Mushroom and Gold Adirondack Alcohol Ink randomly on the frame. Allow 10 minutes for the alcohol ink to fully dry.

Some of the finishing touches on my grungy mixed media canvas was adding the picture in the middle of the frame. Along with adding three gears to the top left hand corner, the Industrial Edision lightbulb in the bottom right hand corner and then the Believe Buckle Connector word in the bottom middle of the canvas. To finish the believe word, I added linen ribbon that I tinted with vintage photo and then put the ribbon through the charm having it span the entire length of the canvas. 

Products used from Emerald Creek:

- Onyx Frost Embossing Powder

- Hammered Metal Embossing Powder

- Industrial Edison Bulb Charm

- Believe Buckle Connector Charm

- 100lb White Cardstock

Other Products Used:

- Southern Ridge Trading Company: Barbed Wire Circle Frame - Large

- Ranger/Tim Holtz: Adirondack Alcohol Ink: Gold & Mushroom,  Distress Ink: Black Soot, Vintage Photo & Embossing Ink, and Distress Spray Stain: Picket Fence, Black Soot & Pumice Stone

- Ranger Ink: Foil Tape Sheets & Perfect Pearls Mists: Perfect Pearls

- Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brush & Black Gesso

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Mixed Media 2 stamp

- Tim Holtz/Sizzix: Diamond Plate & Riveted Metal Set - Embossing Folders

- Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Found Relatives, Mini Gears & Linen Ribbon

- Prima Marketing: Wood Tray

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Julia

Cathy

Diana

Shilpa

Claudia

Pam

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my grungy mixed media canvas. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Love Layout on the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog

I'm back on my blog today to feature a Mixed Media  "Love" Scrapbook Layout for Southern Ridge Trading Company. Our Monthly Challenge this month is all about love, which gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, there is still time to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my "Love" Scrapbook Layout and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.

To start my layout, I applied a thin layer of heavy white Gesso randomly in the middle of my patterned paper. Once the Gesso dried, I painted a layer of Dark Velvet and Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint over top of the Gesso.

After both layers of paint had dried, it was time to add some hearts. To do that, I placed my stencil in the middle right of the page, and applied texture paste through two rows of the heart stencil by Tim Holtz. I repeated the same step with the stencil in the middle top left of the page. Once the texture paste hearts had dried, then came the fun part of spritzing my entire page. I used Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal, Pressed Petal and Perfect Pearls Mist to cover the middle, texture paste hearts and parts around the painted middle of the page.

The spritzing will take a while to dry, so I would leave it for at least 2 hours before moving on. Once the spritzing is dry, I used my chicken wire stamp and applied Black Archival Ink to it and slightly stamped over top of the bottom right hand row of hearts and then right over the top of the two top rows of  hearts. 

I wanted to liven up my Rectangle Scroll Frame so I covered it in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Dark Velvet Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire frame. After the crackle paint had dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire frame. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts.

The next piece I wanted to liven up was the Love Word  and a heart so I covered them booth in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint had dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire heart and love word. After the crackle paint dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire heart and love word. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts on both pieces. 

For the Heart Scramble background, I sprayed it with two coats of Vintage Coal Colour Bloom. 

The last element I created to finish my layout was embossing the tips of my large flowers and medium flower with Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder. 

Some finishing touches for my layout included adding a variety of smaller black and white flowers around the larger pink and purple flowers. 

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

-Rectangle Scroll Frame

-Love Word

-Heart Scramble Background

-Heart

-40mm Purple Flowers

-40mm Pink Flowers

-15mm White and Black Flowers

-10mm White Flowers

Other Supplies Used:

-Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brushes & Palette Knife

-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Black Soot Distress Ink & Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy

-Ranger: Perfect Pearls Spray- Perfect Pearl, Texture Paste & Archival Ink - Black

-Prima Marketing: Acrylic Paint - Dark Velvet & Vintage Rose, Heavy Gesso - White, Color Bloom - Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal & Pressed Petal & Tales of You & Me - Contes des toi et moi

-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder

-Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil

-Bo Bunny: Distressed Textures Stamp

-Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark

I have added this project to the Anything but Cute Challenge - Grungy Love: http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/02/challenge-10-grungy-love.html

Thanks for taking the time to check out my "Love" Scrapbook Layout. Stayed Tuned for some more inspiration next week!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Lucky Clover Challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a new challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares blog, featuring "Lucky Clover". When we received this challenge it took me a while to figure out what I was going to do. I don't normally do anything for St.Patricks Day, so this was a great challenge for me. For my project I decided that I would create a fun St. Patricks Day themed tag. 

To start my tag,  I blended Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto the tag with my blending tool. Once I was happy with the blended colour, I spritzed some water onto the tag to give it a  watermarked effect. 

After the watermarks had dried, I added some shamrocks on the background of my tag using the smallest heart from the heart stencil by Tim Holtz and Lucky Clover Distress Ink.

Before the background on my tag was finished, I went around the edges with Tim Holtz Embossing Distress Ink. Once the ink was around the edges, I covered the edges using Vegas Gold Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek. After the edges were covered, I heated the embossing powder with my heat tool. 

I wanted to use the Floral Frame Corners in a couple of the corners on my tag, so I covered them using Gold Adirondack Alcohol Ink to continue keep on my gold and green theme. 

I wanted to add a Leprechaun onto my tag, so I used the Paddy stamp from Emerald Creek and stamped it onto white cardstock.  I coloured my Paddy using Lucky Clover, Black Soot and Antique Linen Distress Markers. Once the colouring was done, I precision cut around him.

The next part was the fun part, creating my own custom shamrocks. The nice thing about shamrocks is they don't have to be perfect, so I took my Dina Wakley - Collaged Hearts stamp and stamped four small hearts onto my white cardstock. Once they were stamped, I covered the hearts with Embossing Distress Ink and sprinkled St. Paddy's Day Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek over top of them. After the hearts were covered with the embossing powder, I heat embossed them and then cut them out with scissors. 

After the large shamrocks were created, I moved on to creating two sets of smaller shamrocks. Since I didn't have smaller stamps, I used the large heart from the heart stencil by Tim Holtz. I created 8 hearts using Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Ink. Once I was happy with the colouring of the shamrocks, I cut each one out. With the leftover white cardstock, I blended Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron onto the cardstock and then cut out strips for my shamrocks. 

The final piece that I needed to create for my tag was a title. I blended Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto another piece of white cardstock. Once the colour was the way I wanted it, I took some alphabet stamps I had and stamped "LUCKY" onto the coloured cardstock. After the tittle was stamped and cut out, I went around the edges with Embossing Distress Ink and then sprinkled Vegas Gold Embossing Powder over top. Once the embossing powder was on, I embossed it with my heat tool.

Some finishing touches for my tag was placing the shamrocks were I desired first before adhering my gold corners to my tag. I also wanted to hide my Paddy, so I placed him amongst the sparkly clover to draw a bit of attention to him. Once the other two shamrocks and the title were placed, I adhered the gold corners. The final finishing touch to my tag was the custom ribbon, I dyed it with Lucky Clover Distress Spray Stain and Perfect Pearls Mist in Perfect Pearl.

Products Used from Emerald Creek:

- Paddy

- Vegas Gold Embossing Powder

- St. Paddys Day Embossing Powder

- Floral Frame Corners

- Twisted Citron Distress Ink

- Lucky Clover Distress Ink

- Lucky Clover Distress Spray Stain

- 100lb Cardstock

- Heart Stencil 

Other Products Used: 

- Ranger/Tim Holtz: Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Gold Mixative, Distress Markers - Lucky Clover, Antique Linen & Black Soot, Blending Tool/Replacement Foam

- Ranger/ Dina Wakley: Collaged Hearts Stamp Set

- Ranger: Archival Ink, Perfect Pearl Mist - Perfect Pearl, #8 Manilla Tags

- Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Crinkle Ribbon

- Amy Tangerine: Documented Alphabet Stamps

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Julia

Cathy

Diana

Shilpa

Claudia

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my "Lucky" St. Patrick's Day themed tag. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn