Another Last Minute Gift Idea

Did you manage to finish everyone's gifts? Target and Starbucks both have wonderful hot/cold Travelling Tumblers that allow you to create your own designs for them! A great way to make use of this is to grab up a digital scrapbooking kit (or get a clean scan of a layout that you make) and print it on glossy paper or even plain copy weight paper! (I love owning a small ream of glossy paper from the office supply stores! It's great for alcohol inks, Posh Rainbow Sponges, and other inking techniques . . . It's also wonderful for using with Versafine Ink Pads and photographic rubber stamps!)

You can taper your images to match the shape of your tumbler, like I did, or simply scrap away! Plus, you can continue to give new designs as gifts at each new holiday or birthday!

Insulated Tumbler Liner - Club Scrap Digital Retro Trial Kit
This layout is printed on a sheet of glossy paper (not cardstock, but lighter weight paper) and trimmed to fit a slightly tapered "Create Your Very Own Tumbler" from Starbucks with a little modification for some other tumblers as holiday gifts! How could I resist this photo! A woman at IKEA made Uatchet's wreath on the left and I made Nekhebet's on the right at their Midsommar Festival this year!

Club Scrap Digital Trial Kit Retro Sept 2006, Iron Orchid Designs Figgy Pudding Kit for ribbon, Leonardo Font, and custom made brushes complete with hue, color, and lighting alterations and perspective shifts in order to get the tapered mat.

Insulated Tumbler Liner - Club Scrap Digital Retro Trial Kit
Here is another version of the same layout, altered to fit on a smaller mug and with a coffee theme for the children's teachers and Scout Leaders. The photo is one that I took when we visited the American Girl Place Cafe in NYC this year!

My Butterfly Digital Calendar for 2007!

These calendar pages were all created with Club Scrap's 2007 Digital Calendar Kit! I altered the lighting, hue, and color on many of the pages as well as having added custom frames, text, and my own photographs and then printed them all out at 8"x10" to give in Acrylic Box Frames as gifts! The printed versions are slightly paler than the web versions because I printed on plain white cardstock.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digtal version of a layout from the January 2006 Framed Kit) & Palatino Linotype Font
The dimensions and placement of elements are altered on the layout, with a custom Pepper frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the February 2006 Let Me Count the Ways Kit) & Palatino Linotype Font
A Pepper frame and text were added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the March 2006 Paisley Kit) & Art Nouveau Caps Font
The lighting and color are altered on the layout, with a custom frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the April 2006 Color in Black and White Kit) & A Charming Font Superexpanded
The lighting and color and hue are dramatically altered on the layout, with custom frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the May 2006 Nature's Wonders Kit) & Enchanted Prairie Dog Font
The lighting and color are altered on the layout and text was added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the June 2006 Collections Kit) & Decaying Kuntry Font
The lighting and color are altered on the layout, with a custom frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the July 2006 Surf's Up! Kit) & Hobby Font
The hue, lighting, and color are dramatically altered on the layout, with a custom brushed frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the August 2006 Wheel & Sprocket Kit) & Jayne Print Font
The lighting and color are altered on the layout, with a custom brushed frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit, Club Scrap DigiDeluxe November 2006 Interior Designs Kit & Palatino Linotype Font
I adapted an 8.5"x11" Digital layout for this calendar page, added printed mats, custom borders, an additional laminate chip, text, the calendar text, and my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the October 2005 Wild Wild West Kit) & Carnivalee Freakshow Font
The lighting and color are altered on the layout, with a custom brushed frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the November 2005 The Written Word Kit) & Garamond Font
The lighting and color are altered on the layout, with a custom brushed frame and text added as well as my photograph.


Club Scrap Digital 2007 Calendar Kit (featuring a digital version of a layout from the December 2005 Musical Interlude Kit) & Script MT Bold Font
The hue, lighting, and color are altered on the layout, with a custom brushed frame and text added as well as my photograph.

Stenciling Revisited Tutorial!

Please check out my new Stenciling Revisited Tutorial(recently moved to this blog)!

In the past, I had a bin full of stencils gathering dust. I used to look at them mostly as a tool to use as templates or with pencils, markers, and dry embossing stylus tools. But there are so many more ways to use them and create stunning results . . . If you have stencils that coordinate with your prints or your stamps, then there are so many more ways to tie them into your finished pieces! Why not use the inks that you are already using with your stamps on the same project, but incorporate your stencils into the work, or the same embossing powders, etc?

To use your ink pads, pair them up with some wonderful tools. There's the ColorBox Stylus, Ranger's Cut 'n' Dry Foam, cosmetic sponges, Ranger's Cut 'n' Dry Nibs, Provocraft's Chizzel-It, Niji's Waterbrush, regular paintbrushes, and more! Alternately you can use liquid or dimensional paints, dry embossing tools, Ranger's Perfect Medium Marker or VersaMark's Marker and embossing powders, pigment powders, or chalks, etc.

Visit my tutorial for all the details and images!

Club Scrap Digital™ (CSD) Now Available in Smaller Monthly Kits!

Here's more proof that Club Scrap™ listens to their members! Some members wanted just the pre-made digital layouts, some wanted only the digital papers and embellishments, and others wanted the whole kit 'n' kaboodle! Well now, you have three choices for membership! And three choices for individual kit purchases! They've even re-released the previous CSD kits in the new smaller versions!

This layout was created using the Farmer's Market 10/06 CS DigiLayout #7 with the Zero & Zero Font. It is a very quick layout and a lovely design to work with!

These two layouts were created using a portion of the Interior Designs 11/06 DigiLayout #19, DigiGoodies Xtra #19 (laminate brads) and the font Script MT Bold. In the left hand layout I adjusted the Hue & Saturation to change the colors of the layout, enhancing the pattern in the paper through the color shifts! The smaller blue version uses the original color scheme, which just wasn't a match to this pair of photographs! Changing the colors of the papers and embellishments is always a wonderful option to exercise and you may also easily add as many of the DigiGoodies that you like to a premade DigiLayout! This time around, I simply added some digital brads, but other times I've gone hog wild with alterations and additions!

You can also always work from scratch! The Artist's Trading Card shown to the right is one example! It uses mostly the Retro 9/06 CSD Free Trial Kit along with the ribbon from the Farmer's Market 10/06 CSD Kit. I went to http://jacksonpollock.org to create the paint splattered background! (At that website, each move of your mouse will splatter digital paint all over your browser... click on your mouse to change colors!) I saved separate layers of the Pollock paint splatters and cut and pasted the textured CSD Paper into the shape of the splatters, added shadows, and adjusted the brightness to better fit my photograph! In "real life" I've matted a photographic print of the piece on actual papers from the kit and edged the photograph in Ranger's Black Soot Distress Ink!

The piece below made more use of a single printed paper and a coordinating transparency image from the same Retro 9/06 CSD Free Trial Kit. I copied the pattern within the foiled border image to create the page border and fill in the Transparency border images. I also used swatches of the paper, altering the Hue & Saturation to create the deeper shade of pink for my mats and finished the piece out with the Fabulous 50s font!





Made with Club Scrap Digital's Farmer's Market 10/06 Digital Kit. Club Scrap's ALSB Layout #11; "Zero & Zero" font; Digitally "chalked" edges from the Farmer's Market 10/06 DigiRap; Korean text translates to "girl" and "tiger";

The Written Word 11/05

The Written Word 11/05 is such an elegant kit! There's even a gorgeous ink pad created for this kit by Stewart Superior... And the stencil for this kit is to die for! It works so well with dimensional paint, with ink, with anything your heart desires!

The card to the left is a 10 minute card that I created for an online challenge! It uses both the Cream and Medium Blackberry Papers from this kit as well as the Stewart Superior Memories Blackberry Ink Pad and both sheets of Unmounted Stamps from the kit. It also uses the Gold paper from Time & Space December 2004. I simply used Ranger's Cloudy Peri Sea Shells Ink Pad with a mixture of stamps to create a collaged background piece and then rubbed the Blackberry Ink Pad across the edges and into the Cream paper before stamping the sentiment onto the card. So simple, but such lovely colors and textures!

On these simple Flagbooks I used The Written Word's stencil along with Time & Space December 2004's Gold and Asian Artisan January 2004's Cream Frost papers. I applied Delta's Texture Magic Dimensional Paint in white through the stencil using a palette knife... it gives such a rich texture to the finished covers!

The focal stamp was the Club Scrap Sr Expression Collage Stamp (now extinct) using Ranger's Black Soot Distress Ink and Gold Embossing Powder. The overall design for the book construction can be found via Club Scrap's wonderful episode of Flag Flip Book CDS-1739 Carol Duvall Show HGTV.

The cards shown below were created at Club Scrap's August 2006 Main Retreat duing Karen Wyngaard's Assembly Line Card Making Class, with 15 cards taught in total! These cards all use Let Me Count The Ways February 2006's Greetings To Go card kit along with plain white paper, Greetings For a Year Stickers, LMCTW 2/06 stamps, plus stencils from County Fair 7/04 and The Written Word's stencil!

The top card was made by simply applying ink through the stencil and along the edges with the ColorBox Stylus Tool and Sponge Tips while layering additional mats and a sticker onto the card base!

6 Cards Using Club Scrap's Collections 6/06 Kit

Here are a series of cards that I have offered in classes.

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go with additional stamps from Wheel & Sprocket August 2006, Nature's Wonders May 2006, Color in Black & White April 2006, and Greetings for a Year. All inks from Ranger's Adirondack and Archival collections.

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 - Greetings to Go card bases, POPs; Club Scrap Color in Black & White April 2006 - Unmounted CSt Stamps, WM CSt Life is Art Stamp; Ranger - Adirondack Pitch Black Ink Pad; Katia - Sevilla #29 Ribbon;

Congratulations Card... Club Scrap- Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go card bases, POPs, Unmounted CSt Artistic Renderings Stamps, CSt WM Collector's Log Stamp; Ranger - Adirondack Ginger & Caramel Ink Pads, Archival Sepia Ink Pad;

Happy Holidays Card... Club Scrap- Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go card bases & POPs, Unmounted Greetings For a Year Stamp; Ranger - Archival Sepia Ink Pad;

Club Scrap- Greetings for a Year UM Stamps plus Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go card bases, POPs, Unmounted B&B and CSt Stamps; Ranger - Adirondack Ginger & Caramel Ink Pads, Archival Sepia Ink Pad; LumpyStuff.com - Slide Mount; Glue Dots - Mini Glue Dots;

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 - Greetings to Go card bases, POPs; Club Scrap Nature's Wonders May 2006 Unmounted CSt World of Wonders Stamps; Club Scrap Greetings for a Year - UM Stamps; Club Scrap Egyptian August 2003 - Border POPs; Ranger - Adirondack Pesto & Red Pepper Ink Pads, Archival Sepia Ink Pad; Sizzix - Sizzlits 38-9745 Tiny Tag Set; Katia - Sevilla #29 Ribbon; Yasutomo - Waterbrush Niji clubscrap.com;

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 - Greetings to Go card bases, POPs; Club Scrap Wheel & Sprocket August 2006 - Unmounted B&B and CSt Stamps, WM CSt Wheels Go Round Collage Stamp; Ranger - Adirondack Stream & Red Pepper Ink Pads;