Saturday 29 May 2021

  Good morning

Week 5 of the competition is all about Russia.

The challenge is to use a curve

The technique is distressing

The optional kit item is a flair

An entry for the competition can be a scrapbooking layout or a set of three cards. I have decided to do a set of cards for this week

The edges of all of the patterned papers on these cards have been inked to give that distressed look.


Let's start with
 Card No. 1


I used my Scan N Cut to cut the card base with the curved front and the patterned paper mat for it. 
The card is 5" square 

The base is cut from white cardstock and the patterned paper is from Bee Arty's Find Paradise range - Recharge

I have added some cheesecloth/gauze to the front panel and some turquoise spotted ribbon on top of that.

I cut a 1.5" x 5" piece of white cardstock and attached a 1.25" x 5" piece of the same patterned paper on top of it. I added some chipboard scraps to the back of this panel before adding it on top of the ribbon so it was slightly off set.

A few flowers and leaves from my stash were added using my hot glue gun so I could be sure they would stay in place. I have added some clear gems to the flower centres for that lovely sparkle

I also added one of the flairs from the optional kit amongst the flowers.

I painted my chipboard sentiment from Memory Maze's Card Sentiment 2 chipboard set, with acrylic paint before attaching it to the card front. I also used the same paint to add some splatters to the card.


Card No. 2


I saw this design used as a pocket in a journal and thought it could be used for a card.

Once again I used my Scan N Cut to cut 4 x 5" circle from Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream Sweet Serenity patterned paper.

These were then folded in half and attached to each other to create a square shape. To do this you attach half of each circle to the circle next to it making sure to keep your edges square with each other and straight. (You can see how this is done in the video. It is a bit hard to explain the process)

I attached some 5/8" satin ribbon to the back of the card making it long enough to come around to the front of the card and tie a nice bow.

To decorate the front of the card I used a couple of elements from Uniquely Creatives Gums & Roses Creative Cuts and a chipboard greeting from the same Memory Maze chipboard set I used on the first card. I heat embossed the chipboard with gold embossing powder.

I added a 5" square piece of Bee Arty Find Paradise Recharge paper to the inside of the card to write a personal greeting.

And now to the last card for this set
Card No. 3


This was a very simple card to create but quite effective I think. It certainly gives that curved effect.

I cut a piece of A4 cardstock in halves longways to give me a card base that is 5 7/8" x 4 1/4"

I also cut a white cardstock panel that is 5 5/8" x 4" from the same cardstock.

I ran the panel through my Big Shot with Ultimate Crafts Shooting Raindrops embossing folder to give it some texture.

I used my Spellbinders Standard Circles Small dies to cut a 3", 2.5" and 2" circle from three different sections of the Bee Arty Find Paradise - Recharge paper.
I cut these circles in half.

I cut a piece of the pink section from the Bee Arty Find Paradise Recharge paper to 7/8" x 5" then matted that onto a piece of white cardstock so there is about a 1/16" white border all around the pink. I added some chipboard scraps to the back of this panel.

I then added my circle halves to the front of the card starting with the largest circle and working my way down to the smaller aligning the top circles to the right and the borrow circles to the left. There is about a 1/2" gap between the top and bottom circles.

The pink panel was attached then so it covered that 1/2" gap between the circles.

I die cut the word Celebrate from the darker patterned paper and attached it to the pink panel along with a pink paper flower and a pink flair from the optional kit

This is the video that shows how these cards came together.


Can't wait to see what you create for this weeks challenge
Till next time
Stay safe
Hugs
Julie

Friday 14 May 2021

May Cyber Crop

 

Welcome to our May CC


3 challenges and over a week to complete them, so I hope you can join in! 

We have a bingo game played on our chat page on Saturday.

We chat here - Facebook Chat page

And up load our page here - Facebook Gallery Albums

Challenge 1

I have a sketch challenge for you.  Due to work commitments and not enough hours in the day I've picked a PageMaps one this month.


And here's my take.



Hope you have fun with this sketch.

Donna

Challenge 2

My challenge for you this month is to create a holiday/travel layout.

I know travel has been a bit restricted lately but you could use photos from travels before we heard about Covid or you might have been on a nice little weekend away that it is time to scrap

I have used Basic Grey's Serenade paper range on this layout

I have inked the edges of all of the papers with a VersaColour black ink cube


I have used Teal Cardstock for the background, I cut the centre from this cardstock leaving a 1" frame.

On top of that frame I places an 11.5" x 11.5" piece of the Dowager paper.

I added some splatters to this paper with Glimmer Mist's Black Magic

I cut a piece of the Shilling paper that was 5" wide x 12" following the zig zag pattern on both 12" edges.

I traced the zig zag edge onto a 7" piece of Parlor and cut this out.

The Shilling paper was attached on top of the Parlor paper.

This was then attached to the layout base with a piece of craft foam between them

I filed the edge of the photos with an emery board, inked them with the black ink and matted them onto some of the cardstock I removed from the middle of my background frame.

I added craft foam to the back of the photos before attaching them to my layout

I painted 3 pennants and one speech bubble from Memory Maze Follow Your Dreams chipboard set with Terra Cotta acrylic paint.

To embellish the pennants a little I punched some tiny hearts from the teal cardstock and attached them.

The pennants were attached to the layout in the top left hand area and the speech bubble was attached to the top right hand area of the right hand photo.


The title was die cut from the teal cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD735 Uppercase Alpha dies.

The final touch was to give the tiny hearts and the title a good coat of Glossy Accents 

You might like to watch my process video


Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time
Stay safe
Hugs
Julie

Challenge 3

Our final challenge is a 3-2-1 ... Your free to create anything you wish, but you need to have,,,

3 Pattern Papers

2 Die cuts

1 Bling

Here is Louise inspiration for this challenge:



This is a 9x12 layout. 
If you've never created 9x12 have a go at it ... it really challenges the creativity.


I've used Water colour to layer the background and then added some bling

This was great fun, can't wait to see your challenge entries.

Happy Scrapping




Due date Sunday, 23th April- Midnight. 

Upload your challenge entry to the albums on our Mystical Scrapbooks Facebook Chat Page.

Our chat is private, and we love to have new crafty friends join us.

We will be giving away 1 gift voucher valued at $20.00 and each entry receives 1 ticket into the draw.....So the more challenges you do the more chance you have to win!

We will also have a surprise prize!! Our DT members will choose their favourite layout and I will send that lucky person a surprise in the mail.

Happy Scrapping
Mystical DT team