Thank You Card

I'm back on the Southern Ridge Trading blog today to share with you a Thank You card featuring some of our new pre-releases.  You'll want to head over to our www.chipboard.ca store to see all the new pre-releases, plus starting this weekend, we will be sharing some of our new releases being debuted at CHA.

Make sure to head over to the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog so that you can learn all about how I created my Thank You card. While you're checking out my project, make sure to participate in our monthly challenge. You can find all the details here on how to enter. 

- Katelyn

Gladiolus Sympathy Card on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

The Emerald Creek design team is sharing all this week some of the new products that will be released at Creativation (formerly known as CHA) on Saturday. There are some fantastic new products that you won't want to miss out on, so make sure to get your order in early! It's all about the new products for our projects this month and the design team has created some wonderful projects for you.  For my piece, Kim challenged me to use the new Gladiolus stamp, so I ended up creating a sympathy card that features the new stamp as well as the fabulous new stones. I'm warning you now, that you'll definitely want to order all the stones! Grab a cup of your favourite beverage and enjoy reading my tutorial so that you can recreate my sympathy card at home. Also make sure to scroll down to the bottom as I'am also sharing my class I will be teaching in the Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Booth. 

To start, apply Emboss It ink to the You are in our thoughts stamp. Stamp onto a piece of 100lb White Cardstock. Once the sentiment has been stamped, sprinkle Midnight Black Embossing powder overtop. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. Let your sentiment cool. Once your sentiment has cooled, cut it down and create a banner out of it. 

Take a edge distressor and distress the edges of the sentiment banner. With a blending tool, ink the edges of the sentiment banner with Black Soot Distress Ink. With the edges inked, on the sentiment banner, mount the sentiment onto a piece of black cardstock. With the sentiment on the black cardstock. Cut around the banner leaving a 1/8" of black showing. Take a edge distressor and distress the edges of the black cardstock banner. With a blending tool, ink the edges of the black cardstock banner with Black Soot Distress Ink. 

Next, you'll want to apply Jet Black Archival ink to the Gladiolus stamp and stamp onto a piece of 100lb White Cardstock.  Reapply the ink to the stamp and stamp another flower image. When stamping your flower, make sure to leave enough room around both flowers, so that you can create a base to adhere your coloured gladiolus. Cut one of the flower images to 2" x 3 3/4".  Once the flower image has been cut, distress the edges of the paper and use a blending tool with Black Soot Distress Ink on it to ink the edges of the paper. 

Colour the other flower using Candied Apple and Mowed Lawn Distress Markers. Once the flower has been coloured, fussy cut it out. After the flower has been cut out, use your blending tool with Black Soot Distress Ink on it to go around the edges of the flower. Adhere three black stones in the centre of each flower. Once the three black stones have been adhered in the centres, adhere a silver/gold stone in the middle of the black stones.

Cut a piece of 100lb White cardstock that measures 3 1/2" x 4 3/4". With the cardstock cut, apply Emboss It ink to the Kimilese stamp and stamp onto the top portion of your paper. Reapply the Emboss It ink the stamp and stamp onto the bottom portion of the same piece of white cardstock.  With the words stamped, sprinkle Midnight Black Embossing Powder over the entire piece of cardstock. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Let the embossing cool. With the embossing cooled, apply Candied Apple and Festive Berries Distress Ink over the entire surface which ends up creating your own custom background paper. Once your happy with the red ink on your paper, distress the edges of the paper and then ink the edges using Black Soot Distress Ink on a blending tool.

Cut a piece of black cardstock that measures 2 1/4" x 4". Use a edge distressor to distress the edges of the paper.

Cut a piece of red cardstock that measures 4" x 5 1/4". Use a edge distressor to distress the edges of the paper. Once the edges have been distressed, ink the edges using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink.

Now it's time to assemble the card. Adhere the non coloured flower to the black piece of cardstock. Foam square the black piece of cardstock 1/2" from the left and top of the custom background paper.

Adhere the custom background to the black piece of cardstock. Adhere the black piece of cardstock to the red piece of cardstock.

Foam square the coloured Gladiolus to the black and white Gladiolus image. 

Cut a card base from 100lb White Cardstock that measures 5 1/2" x 11" and score at 4 1/4". Adhere the "You are in our thoughts" banner to the right of the Gladiolus image. Once the sentiment has been adhered, adhere the card front to the cardbase. To finish the card, add seven black stones in the bottom left and top right corner to create photo corners. 

Here are a few close up shots of my card.

Products Used From Emerald Creek:

- Midnight Black Embossing Powder

- Gladiolus Stamp ( Coming Soon)

- Our Thoughts 

- Kimilese

- Stones: Black Tourmaline & Pyrite (Coming Soon)

- 100lb White Cardstock

Other Products Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Candied Apple and Black Soot. Distress Markers - Candied Apple and Mowed Lawn.

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber and Jet Black Archival Ink

- Bazzill Cardstock: Red and Black

- Tombow: Mono Aqua Glue

- Misc: Heat Tool 

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team taking part in this challenge:

Jess

Cassandra

Cathy

Deb

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Gladiolus Sympathy Card. Don't forget  to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $50.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

If your attending the Creativation show coming up this weekend, you'll want to make sure to stop by the Emerald Creek Craft Supplies booth which is #1930 and check out the classes that we will be offering all weekend. This is my  project that I will be teaching on Saturday, January.21st from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. You'll have your choice of creating one of the two tags that feature a variety of Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Stamps, Embossing Powders and Charms as well as Wild Whisper Designs new paper collection. 

- Katelyn

From the Heart - Die Cut Team Design Challenge

Today we're kicking off a new design team challenge "From the Heart" on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog.  All of the design team members on the die cut team were challenged to create a card featuring hearts. With the challenge in mind, I created a fun XOXO Valentine's Day card featuring a few of the new dies from Moda Scrap and Els van de Burgt. You'll want to read below as I have a tutorial for you so that you can re-create my card at home.

Using the Entwined Hearts, die cut the small heart with three hearts inside of it twice using pink double dot paper.

Use the Love Sentiment die and cut out the XOXO sentiment out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Using a blending tool, blend Spun Sugar Distress Ink overtop of the XOXO sentiment. 

Using the Stitched Fishtail Banners Die, cut the 3/4" banner out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Once the banner has been cut, flip the banner die to the non pennant side and cut out the other side to create the banner pennant on that side. Using a blending tool, blend Candied Apple Distress Ink overtop of the banner.

Use the Stitched Heart die and cut out the 2 1/4" heart using White Soft Finish Cardstock. Use a blending tool and blend Spun Sugar Distress Ink overtop of the stitched heart.

Use the Stitched Heart die and cut out the 3 1/4" heart using White Soft Finish Cardstock. Use a blending tool and blend Candied Apple Distress Ink overtop of the stitched heart.

Using the Heart Background die, cut the background out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. 

The last piece that needs to be die cut is, die cutting the 

4 1/4" Fitted Rectangle out of White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Pull one medium sized doily from your collection.

Adhere the heart background to the fitted rectangle.

Add foam squares to the back of the doily. Adhere the doily to the middle of the heart background.

Adhere the pink heart to the red heart. Adhere the red heart to the middle of the doily.

Adhere the banner to the middle of the pink heart.

Adhere the XOXO sentiment to the middle of the banner. To finish the banner, adhere a small heart to the left of the "X" and adhere a small heart to the right of the "O". 

To finish the card, adhere three small hearts to the bottom right hand side of the layered heart. Adhere the card front to the card base. Once the card front is adhered to the cardbase, apply Glossy Accents to the XOXO.

Thanks for joining me today! Make sure to head over to the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to check out the rest of the team's wonderful creations. I hope that I've inspired you to re-create my XOXO Valentine's Day card at home.

- Katelyn

Elizabeth Craft Design Products Used:

- Love Sentiments

- Stitched Hearts

- Entwined Hearts

- Heart Background

- Fitted Rectangles

- Stitched Fishtail Banners

- Clear Double Sided Adhesive - 6mm

- White Soft Finish Cardstock - 12x12

- White Soft Finish Cardstock - 8.5" x 11"

Other Products Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Candied Apple and Spun Sugar. Blending Tool and Replacement Foam.

- Ranger Ink: Glossy Accents

- Doily

Love You Note Pocket

I'm back on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog sharing my first post as a design team member. With Valentine's day right around the corner I created this beautiful Love You Note Pocket that is perfect for that special someone in your life.  My note pocket features a variety of their dies, paper and adhesives.

You'll want to make sure to make your way over to Elizabeth Crafts Designs Blog to read all about how I created my beautiful Love You Note Pocket, so that you can recreate them at home. 

-Katelyn

2017 Scrapbook Planner

2017 is here and that means it's time to start thinking about creating a new planner. Today I'm on the Graphic 45 blog sharing with you a 2017 Scrapbook Planner using Children’s Hour, Café Parisian as well as a variety of other collections from this year.  Having a planner that will allow me to document birthdays, important events or things and being able to scrapbook those special moments during the month is so important to me. You'll want to head over to the Graphic 45 blog to check out the rest of the photos of my project.

Tip: Add policy envelopes into your planner as a way to hold important receipts, ticket stubs or other important pieces of paper.

Tip: Add different size papers and fold outs into your planner to add some extra interest as well as give you more space to document your memories.

This is just a few of the photos of the inside of my planner. To see more pictures of my 2017 Scrapbook planner, you'll want to head over to the Graphic 45 blog. I'm warning you though, that you'll want to grab a cup of tea or coffee before reading the post as the post is top heavy with photos. 

Supplies Used:

- 12” x 12” Café Parisian: Confectionary

- Café Parisian 12”x12: Patterns & Solids

- 12”x12” St. Nicholas: Sweet Tooth and Bells & Bows
- 12”x12” St. Nicholas: Patterns & Solids

- 12”x12” Off to the Races: Run for the Roses and Elegance Running
- Off to the Races 12”x12” Patterns & Solids

- Children’s Hour 12”x12” Pad
- Children’s Hour 12”x12” Calendar Pad
- Children’s Hour 8”x8” Calendar Pad

- Hallowe’en in Wonderland Deluxe Collectors Edition
- ABC Primer Deluxe Collectors Edition
- Secret Garden Deluxe Collectors Edition

- Café Parisian Chipboard 1 & 2
- Café Parisian Flowers
- Café Parisian 12”x12” Cardstock Stickers
- Café Parisian Ephemera Cards
- Children’s Hour Ephemera Cards

- Staples: Ivory Mixed Media Album, Shabby Chic Ornate Metal Keys, Square Black Policy Envelopes, Square Red Policy Envelopes & Shabby Chic Metal Door Plate & Knobs
- Vintage Photo Distress Ink & Blending Tool
- Mixed Media Cardstock
- Doilies
- Sookwang Tape
- Foam Squares
- Edge Distressor

- Scissors
- Crop a Dile
- Black Journaling Pen
- 1 3/8” Circle Punch

- Katelyn

Walking In A Winter Wonderland Scrapbook Layout

I'm up on the Southern Ridge Trading blog today to share with you some inspiration for our current monthly challenge which is all about "Winter".  With the challenge in mind I created a Winter Scrapbook Layout that's sure to inspire you.

Make sure to head over to the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog so that you can learn all about how I created my Winter Scrapbook Layout. While you're checking out my project, make sure to participate in our monthly challenge. You can find all the details here on how to enter.

- Katelyn

Sneak Peek

I hope that you are having a fabulous start to your New Year. I wanted to quickly share with you a sneak peek of a new project that will be on Graphic 45's blog. You'll want to mark your calendars for Friday, January.6th. I hope that you'll take the time to stop by the Graphic 45 blog and check out all the photos of my project. I will be sharing some photos and other details about this project on Saturday on my blog.

- Katelyn