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!