Sumi Painting ATC Cards and Display

When the April 2009 Pure & Simple SR Kit came out it included a Sumi paintbrush and some instructions, in the Scrap Rap, to help you learn a few different traditional Sumi designs! I tried my hand at a few of them, and some others, and some came out great, while others were OK ;) It'll take some getting used to, but it's such a fun thing to try and the black watercolor paint is incredible for very solid abstract patterns that remind me of the Zentangles that we did at the 2008 Main Retreat! And, since the Club Stamp kit included an awesome ATC Art Display (complete with an easel and a tacky mount to stick ATCs on and off of the display whenever you feel like it), I just had to put it together! I think that I'll add a few small mirrored tiles/rhinestones to the display, but I'm loving solid black with the rich texture for now!

Now, I'm anxiously waiting for my shipment of the two brand new Crafter Classics, Nature's Wonders in vibrant fucshia, lime, and lavendar... plus Color in Black & White in bold primaries (and b&w, of course)!

Club Scrap - Pure & Simple 4/09: Niji Black Watercolor Tube, Sumi Paintbrush, SR Scrap Rap painting instructions, Borders & Backgrounds UM Stamps, CSt UM Stamps, CSt Project ATC Art Display, Spring Green, Black, Grey, and White Papers;
Ranger - Nick Bantock Collection: Chartreuse Leaf; Adirondack Dye Ink: Citrus, Lettuce; Adirondack Pigment Ink: Pitch Black;

Take It Out of the Album: Expandable Files and Altered Word

Every month, Club Stamp includes a brand new project that often has nothing to do with scrapbooking, but uses our scrapping and stamping supplies! Today I'm sharing one of those projects, the same project with alternate papers, a project of my own, and a 6x6 beaded book based on one from the 2007 Club Scrap Main Retreat. These make wonderful gifts and also great workshop projects!




These 5"x7" Expandable Files were the project for the March 2008 Avant Garde Club Stamp Kit and feature papers from that kit. You can take it a step farther and add "feet" to the bottom, stamp on it, embellish it, add tabs, etc, the sky is the limit! The kits are now only available in ATC size in alternate colors, but I can create new kits in your choice of sizes and colors for your banquet or purchase!


Here is the same project, but it uses papers from the Simply Beautiful May 2007 Kit with tabs cut out using the Kit for a Cause Stencil.


This fun little altered sign is another great project for your banquets! I have more signs, mostly of "Bistro" and "Cafe" but also a few others! We would use a mix of textured cardstock, stamping, painting, and inking and can seal them if you wish!

Club Scrap: Mocha Java Remix 2007 Stamps; Collections 6/06 Brown; Ivory Elegance 12/06 Cream Translucent and Ivory Plain;
Ranger: Adirondack Ink in Ginger; Archival Ink in Coffee and Sepia; Distress Ink Pad in Brushed Corduroy; Distress Paint in Brushed Corduroy;
Michaels: Bistro Wooden Sign;


This little handmade book can be made in any color scheme and theme, with prints or solids! It uses the same stitch-bound binding technique as other projects that I've offered, but adds some beads to the outer spine and doesn't use a hard cover. Plus there are beads or brads added to the otherwise simple pages! Have your guests bring photos for 10 pages and the two covers to have a great workshop!

All of the photos in the book are from the Chinese New Year performances at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. The Melody Dance Troupe and the Gund Kwok Lion Dancers were the featured performers.

Club Scrap: Generations 4/08 - Berry; Avant Garde 3/08 - Apricot, Dark Aqua, White; Study in Red 1/08 - Light Red, Dark Red, Black; Sparkle 12/07 - Brown Metallic; Serengeti 11/07 - Yellow; Retro 9/06 - Dark Raspberry; Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 - Green; Asian Artisan 1/04 - UM Font Stamps; Assorted Kits - Beads;
Making Memories: Antique Mini Brads;
Nicole: Brown Waxed Linen Thread;
Stewart Superior: Palette Ink Pad - Noir Black;

Butterflies and Swirls... When Handmade Books and Purses Meet!

Today I went to a party for a butterfly loving friend and just knew that I had to make her this gift! I paired up the great Bistro 7/07 Club Stamp Album Purse with this month's Be Still 9/07 Serene Swirl Stencil and Bugs 5/02 Jr Butterfly & Flower Sprigs Stencil to decorate the cover and create a matching card for her!







Supplies Used: Bistro 7/07 CSt Album Purse Kit, Grape and Tangerine Papers; Be Still 9/07 Serene Swirl Stencil; Bugs 5/02 Jr Butterfly & Flower Sprigs Stencil; Wings 7/05 CSt UM Stamps; Ranger Adirondack Inks in Wild Plum and Sunset Orange with Cut 'n' Dry Foam; Stewart Superior Palette Noir Blank Ink;

Explore Triptych Card

Oh my goodness, things have been BUSY around here! Please forgive me for my lack of recent posts! I'm going to try to make up for it!



Club Scrap - Stratosphere 4/7 CSt Project Cosmic Card, CSt UM & WM Stamps, Art Nouveau Stamp, Jr Alpha Stickers, & papers in Dark Blue, Light Blue, Green, & Fuchsia; Textiles & Notions 9/4 Palette Ink Pad in Noir Black;

Scrapbook Takeout - Spring Fling 2/7 Prima Petal Poetry Flowers & Chipboard Buttons; Passion For Paisley 3/7 American Crafts Sadie & Annie Felt Flowers; Journal Jammer 4/7 Swirl Stamp; Wonderful Whimsy 6/7 Lil' Davis Designs Sky Paint;

Lil' Davis Designs Acrylic Paints in Bubblegum, Huckleberry, & Pistachio; Asst Rhinestones; Fun Foam; Silk Flower;

Inspired, thanks to Ann, by Elsie's 52 Scrapbooking Challenges Book... by a whole slew of them!

Unfortunately, the Sky Paint doesn't show well in the photo, but it has a neat effect, almost like clear embossing! I did smear a green paint fingerprint on the center piece and decided to run with it and just fingerpaint in some of the swirls for a more interesting background! I also hand painted and paint-stamped 3 pieces of cardstock that I cut into strips for the pages. And.. of course I loaded up the felt flowers with painted doodles!

The back of the piece has solid panels, flanked with border strips, where the kids will each list things that they are thankful for from their father... he has that sense of adventure and I want them to write about it so that we can give this to him for father's day!

Scrapbook Take Out's Cyber Crop!

I'm under the weather again, but trying not to let that stop me! Scrapbook Takeout is having a Cyber Crop all weekend long! (Today is the last day, but images can be posted through midnight EST tomorrow!) We've been having a blast with all kinds of silly games, door prizes, and 15 awesome challenges!

I believe the only challenge that remains will be the one for children, hosted by my own daughters! It'll be posted at 2pm EST today! Definitely join in!

I'm going to list the inks from my "Name That Color" card challenge in the comments for that blog post! It was a blast, but I think noone was creating during that hour... just hunting Ranger's website and making a few new addicts of them!

Anyhow... here are a few of the challenge entries that I managed!

Club Scrap DigiGoodies Kit Refresh 02/07 Papers, Bambino Font, and My Kids' Photos by Me!

This layout was created for Francine's Ad Challenge using this page of an old O Magazine!

The text reads:

E - Easter Egg Hunt April 16th, 2006
The kids adored having their Easter Egg Hunt at Mimi & Papa's house this year! They bonded so well with Jordan & Jason! They also could no resist helping one another on their quests!

While they can squabble at home, they can't help but cooperate everywhere else!

Club Scrap DigiGoodies Ivory Elegance 12/06 Kit plus Xtra from Farmer's Market 10/06 DigiGoodies Kit; Girls Are Weird Font; Created for the "-tion" challenge where you needed to use a word ending in "-tion" as your title/theme.

Club Scrap Refresh 02/07 Greetings to Go & Fizz 01/07 Crazy About Fizz UM Stamps; Ranger NonStick Craft Sheet and Nick Banktock Sapmoss Green & Chartreuse Leaf Ink Pads; Angelwings Radiant Pearls Bitter Apple; Niji Waterbrush; Sizzix Hearts #38-0157;

This card was made for the altered die cuts challenge AND for a little girl's St Patrick's Day birthday! I layered die cuts, stamped on them, layered heart stamps, used monoprinting with water and ink, then water and Radiant Pearls!

Club Scrap: Painted Desert 5/05 Sand & Embossed Sky Solid Papers, Nature's Wonders 5/06 Daisy Stencil, Matte Board, Bookbinding, Padding, & Laminating Adhesive, ColorBox Stylus with Sponge Tips; Ranger: Adirondack Ink Pads in Juniper, Lemonade, Peach Bellini, & Shell Pink; AC Moore: Bargain Ribbon;

I created this mini squash/explosion book for the "No Patterned Papers" challenge!

I made the bracelet using my own the Club Scrap Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 CSt Bracelet Project and a few other Club Scrap Beads. The layout used Club Scrap Digital Kit for Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 plus plus DekoSide Font.

This little digi layout was actually for an early challenge to do a layout of an object, no humans allowed! It is also made specifically for my 6x4 Kodak Digital Picture Frame!

Be My Valentine

A friend inspired me to make my husband a list of one hundred things that we love about him. And, since I was dying to play with the latest Club Stamp 01/07 Fizz Stamper's Project: Pocket Book, I decided to combine them!

The project combines a CD Literature Envelope with a host of embellishments and a variety of suggestions for how to use them! I chose to use the simple accordion spine, slid into the pockets of the CD Literature Envelope to make a small book with 6 inner pages.

I took advantage of the semi-glossy covers on the CD Literature Envelopes to apply Ranger Adirondack Cranberry Alcohol Ink to them, diluted with Ranger Alcohol Blending Solution. I then embellished the covers with additional Club Scrap 01/07 Fizz items including Club Stamp Cutouts, Circle My Heart Stencil, American Craft Silver Metallic Marker, and papers in Black, White Translucent, Dark Pink, and Light Pink. I also used Club Scrap Valentine's Day 2007 Love Stamp, Stewart Superior Palette Hybrid Ink Pad in Noir Black, Score-It, ColorBox Stylus Tool with Sponge Tips, Ranger Black Soot Distress Ink Pad, Pink Venice Daisy Ribbon, Moda Dea Ticker Tape Art. R117 in Pink Passion, and Scrapbook Takeout 02/07 Spring Fling's Prima Petal Poetry & Fancy Pants Biggest Board Chipboard Flourishes.

On the inside of the book, I also used Club Scrap 01/07 Fizz's Still Love You Tomorrow Sr Heart Stamp, CSt Circles & Heart Collage Stamp, CSt Crazy About Fizz UM Stamps, & American Craft Black Precision Pen, VersaColor Orchid Ink Pad, Sizzix Skooshy Font, plus Scrapbook Takeout 02/07 Spring Fling's Doodle Rubber Stamp Sheet.

Not one to leave my children out of the love, I made the following Valentine's! The girls each received one of the Fizz cards on the left, filled with gushy text inside, while Sebek received the non-traditional 2007 Valentine's Day Kit card on the right.


To make the girls' cards from the Club Scrap 01/07 Fizz Kit, I used the Score-It Tool to emboss horizontal lines in the Dark Pink paper every 1/4" and then used direct-to-paper inking with the Stewart Superior Palette Hybrid Ink Pad in Noir Black. I tore strips of Black and White Translucent paper, then edged the white with Ranger Black Soot Distress Ink on my ColorBox Stylus with Sponge Tips. I used the American Craft Silver Metallic Marker with the Circle My Heart Stencil to add the word "love" and I also inked the edge of the scored paper. For one last embellishment, I used the small heart from the CSt Crazy About Fizz UM Stamps on Light Pink paper.

On my son's card, every element is from the 2007 Valentine's Day Kit. I took on a journaling challenge in which I had to write all of the personal sentiments on the outside of the card! On the inside I used the two sentiment stamps from the kit and signed the card one last time!

The kids also had to make 94 Valentine's for their friends and teachers! We managed to make them all for under $10 (if you don't count the ink and the Club Scrap DigiGoodies 02/07 Fizz Kit that Uatchet used to design the insides with)!


This is another batch of cards using the Club Scrap 02/07 Fizz Kit. We used thin strips of either Dark Pink or Light Pink paper from POPs as our base with a printed digital scrapbooking design, on the inside, by my 7 year old daughter, Uatchet! Using factory assembly line style production, we used the Score-It and a Bone Folder to quickly crease and fold all 94 cards, we taped down a strip of Offray Black Feather Edge Satin Ribbon, covered it with a small square of Black paper, and a single flower from just under 2 yards of Pink Venice Daisy Ribbon before tying a bow!