Don't Forget To Dream Card

Here's a "simple" little tri-fold card that incorporates solid papers, rub-ons and embellishments! The one tool that really helped facillitate this card was the Tonic 12" Small Base Guillotine Trimmer (larger ones would work as well, and even the mini!). Because of its precision in making even the tiniest of cuts, I was able to slice the long, thin, border rub-on in half and create thin strips of Apricot cardstock for the card!

The chipboard created a wonderful opportunity for both dimension, and an interesting edge for one of the card folds! Also, notice how cute the rub-on flowers look on the snaps? If you have a bin full of large snaps and brads, why not dress them up a bit with tiny rub-ons or stamps?

And, of course, the Wings Kit is on sale all month long! Isn't the Apricot paper just wonderful??

Club Scrap Wild Wild West 10/05 Brick Paper; Club Scrap Wings 7/05 Apricot Paper; Club Scrap Tonic 12" Small Base Guillotine Trimmer; Scrapbook Takeout Spring Fling 2/07 Fancy Pants Vintage Summer Rub-Ons; Making Memories Snaps; Creating Keepsakes Mega Chipboard Kit; Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabber in Lettuce;

Varsity Double Layout & Transparency Technique!

I've mostly used my Club Scrap Varsity 6/05 Kits for their paper colors, love that dusty color palette and the soft fabric-like texture. But I was recently inspired to get out some of those sporty prints and get scrapping! (You know I never scrap in order, just when the mood hits!)

Here's a double layout from the last Pawsox (Minor League) Game that we attended! One side is about the mascots, the other with a shot from the game.

Have you ever wanted a great transparency overlay, but what you were looking for just didn't exist? One of the wonderful things that Club Scrap does is give you full permission to scan and reprint their idea cards! So you can take the images from their unmounted stamps, scan them in at any resolution and print them at the size you wish! You can get special transparency film for your printer, or do what I did! I enlarged the baseball frame from the Borders & Backgrounds Idea Card and printed it on some paper from my recycling bin, then traced it onto my transparency with a Slick Writer and painted on the backside. I found that this image worked best when I painted outside of the lines!

I used the same paint to make the metal alphabet match as well as my journalling box! To get an aged look on the journalling box, I applied the paint to the cardstock and then quickly blotted some off with balled up plastic wrap (from opening a package of scrap supplies!) to give it some texture and show small hints of the paper from below it!

Another thing that I did was to stamp directly onto craft felt with StayzOn and cut it out for my pennant title. Also, I used foam squares to raise the sports jersey print and the baseball snap.

Club Scrap: Varsity 6/05 Papers, B&B Idea Card, & CSt UM Stamps; Fossils 6/04 Font UM Stamps; Chapter One 6/07 Grey Striped Paper; Collections 6/06 GTG Foam Square Stickers;
Plaid Folk Art Butter Pecan Acrylic Paint;
Clearsnap Fluid Chalk in Dark Moss;
Tsukineko StayzOn in Timber Brown;
American Crafts Slick Writer in Cranberry;
Colorbok Sticky Stitches in Solid Cool Brights & My Type Punched Metal Alpha;
Making Memories Baseball Snap & Washer Words;
DCWV Fall Rub-on Stack 2;
Light Blue Craft Felt;
Staples Transparency Sheet;

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!