Milestones Books with Rainbow Inks

To create these papers, we're going to use Ranger's Posh Impressions Rainbow Sponge Inks, but ditch the sponges! Instead we'll be monoprinting with a combination of the Rainbow Inks and the Perfect Ink Refresher and then using a brayer with the Rainbow Inks and water from a Mini Mister, we'll imitate the technique from Tag 11 of Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas 2008 but use the Rainbow Inks instead of Distress Ink Pads!

All of the juicy details, plus some step-by-step photos, can be found as a tutorial in the Ranger Ink Link Yahoo Group's files as a Guest Inkling for today! If you haven't joined yet, it's a great little group with tons of great designers, store owners, and crafters of all levels... plus tons of Ranger "experts" (including their signature artists) to help inspire you and answer any questions! Each month, I host a new challenge, sponsored by Ranger, with three random winners who get sent some awesome loot direct from Ranger! Every group member is welcome to play along and the challenges vary from product or technique to theme based challenges! And, every week, there is a new Inkling chock full of directions to create a new project or technique!

Supplies Used

• Ranger: Posh Impressions Rainbow Sponge Ink Earthones in Eggplant & Butterscotch plus French Country in Kiwi; Perfect Ink Refresher; Non Stick Craft Mat; Brayer; Mini Mister; Adirondack Alcohol Inks in Denim, Eggplant, Lettuce, and Pearl; Ink Applicator Tool; Perfect Medium; Gold Embossing Powder; Heat Tool; Adirondack Dye Ink Pad in Eggplant;
• Club Scrap: Milestones 12/08 Create Milsetones CSt UM Stamps, B&B UM Stamps, Digi Green Tea Print, and Boysenberry, Earl Grey, Green Tea, & Soft White Plain Cardstock;
• Bind It All: 1/2" Black;
• Glossy Paper;
• Manila Tag;
• Craft Iron;


• Gloves (These are optional, but if you don't use them you will have TONS of ink all over your hands and deeply embedded in your fingernails.)

Digital Hybrids and Flash Cards

Still working on kicking the winter colds/flus and my blood pressure drops which come whenever I catch a bug :( But I did manage a few new things :)

The newest is a hybrid of Digital Scrapbooking and actual papers... a simple little jewelry holder for some pieces that I made as gifts! I've put earrings, pendants, and rings in them so far!

Tricia Morris had posted a sample jewelry holder on ClubScrapChat.com and it inspired me to make these new holders with the popout hanger section! I had been using mini gift bags from my Sizzix machine up until now, but I had a few new pendants which were too long for the bags and decided it was time to mix things up a bit!

I used the Serengeti 11/07 CS Digital Kit to create the simple holders (with my contact info on the back as the jewelry designer). The inside is made simply by taking the Yellow print and using the magic wand to select all of the yellow for deletion, then using Enhance >> Adjust Color >> Color Variations in PSE to remove a little green from the piece (since it is printed on the actual greenish-yellow paper I wanted the original background to show through and for the colors to be less distorted). I used the same Color Variations on the outside cover to remove some blue and green (it will make the lion charm appear reddish on your screen but will print truer to the original color on top of your Light Teal paper).

I simply used my X-Acto knife and ruler to cut horizontal lines for the pop out bars and used my bone folder to score vertically at the ends of each pop out section... The Score-It tool did the main folds at the center quite nicely! I also added a little color using Direct To Paper inking with Ranger's Distress Inks in Peeled Paint and Broken China on all of the edges and on the inside of the Light Teal paper wherever it would be visible! These were some very quick and simple holders!

I also wanted to share a few of the Korean language flash cards that I've begun for my kids! When I am ready to print a large batch they'll be printed on photo paper with the edges inked and matted on cardstock... possibly even laminated, I haven't decided!









I adored the animal stamps/transparencies from the Serengeti 11/07 Club Scrap Kits and really wanted to incorporate them into these cards with some zoo photos (yeah, I need to get a better zebra shot!). To do so, I used the paintbrush tool with a very soft brush to color a layer underneath the transparencies and erased most places where I went outside of the lines, maintaining a little bit of a transparent look to the finished pieces. I used the brush in the same colors to fill in the romanized version of each Korean word by making a text layer, simplifying the layer, selecting the area the layer took up, then opening a new layer and painting into my selection with the brush.

I also die cut the Korean font out of other papers from the kit and stretched and altered some of the transparency images to make frames or mattes for my photographs. On the Zebra card, I used the same transparency for the three accent squares and then stretched it for my photo frame, erasing the lines inside of the box.

On the lion card, I made ready use of the pattern making tips from the Serengeti 11/07 DigiRap. I also used the same Color Variations to alter the lion charm, and even used the burn technique from the Great Outdoors 10/07 DigiRap!

I know that they aren't too complicated... But I am planning to print them out at about the size of a license since I have the perfect laminating pouches for that size and also some playing card box kits from Club Scrap, way back to Wild Wild West 10/05!

Academy - 2 Mini Books, 2 Bookmarks, and 2 Layouts!

Can you tell that I'm really loving the new Academy 8/07 Kit from Club Scrap? Here are two Mini Books, two Bookmarks, and one Digital Layout in two color options, all using the same kit! For the first projects, I took the theme and ran with it!




For this Mini Spiral Bound Book, I used photos from school events for the 2005-2006 School year and then laminated each page in driver's license sized laminating pouches! I trimmed the pages down so that the tabs were actually protruding... My Crop-A-Dile came in handy for creating nice and even hole punches for the spiral binding!

Supplies Used: Club Scrap - Academy 8/07 CSt and Jr WM Stamps, B&B and CSt UM Stamps, and Cardstock in Blue, Brick, Brown, and Tan; Ranger - Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber in Aqua, Archival Ink Pad in Coffee; We R Memory Keepers - Crop-A-Dile; ABC - Heat Seal Laminating Pouches;






These little treats are samples of new free gifts that I've made for my customers! The top image is of a lined notebook with a handmade laminated cover, sharing designs and techniques with the laminated bookmark below it. I stamped my images with archival ink onto glossy paper and then colored the images in with Distress Inks using a Niji Waterbrush plus both Cut 'n' Dry Nibs and Foam! The bottom bookmark was made by monoprinting with the extra ink from the top projects and then collage stamping over it!

Supplies Used: Club Scrap - Academy 8/07 Kit CSt and Jr WM Stamps, B&B and CSt UM Stamps, and Cardstock in Blue and Tan; Niji Waterbrush; Ranger - Archival Ink Pad in Coffee, Cut 'n' Dry Foam, Cut 'n' Dry Nibs, and Distress Ink Pads in Aged Mahogany, Brushed Corduroy, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, and Weathered Wood; We R Memory Keepers - Crop-A-Dile; Duck Brand - Heat Seal Laminating Pouches; Bridgeport Memo Book;


This pair of Digital Layouts is identical, except that I altered the hue of the background and "9" block to match the shade of the curtains in the photo! You may recognize it from this month's DigiRap :) I was careful to use a feathered edge when cutting the digital version of the Edified Felt, keeping the edges soft like they would be in real life! I also made use of the Ivy League stamp image to create an all over background pattern on the Brick paper.

(Please click on the blue version if you wish to see the full sized image.)

Supplies Used - Club Scrap Digital Academy 8/07 Kit.

Remember, this is the same kit that I used for my Ducklings layout and ATCs! Love the versatility of it!