Dale's Gallery Pick

Hi girls. It's Dale joining you today. I've picked lisajane's little elves layout this month.  Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Dale's lesson for November 2014

Hi everyone,

It's a busy time of year. I found some time today to make a page with an altered paper that I made earlier in the year. It's handy to make some different backgrounds to use in later pages.

The yellow piece of paper in the picture below is about 8" by 8". My friend Karin has a gelli plate, which she made herself. It has a few bubbles in it which kind of add interest I think. You can go to Youtube and search for gelli plate and template and a bunch of videos will come up. You can learn a lot from these on how to use gelli plates.

We sprayed some ink on her gelli plate and used her brayer to smooth it out. Then we placed a piece of paper over it and brayered over it quite firmly to create a pattern on that piece of paper. We put it aside. The template had left a wonderful pattern on the gelli plate. We put the yellow piece down on it and brayered over it. The negative image is what you can see on the yellow piece. We though it looked better than the first image.

I've trimmed the yellow piece of the blank yellow showing around the gelli plate image and used a corner rounder. Then I took a wavy trimmer and sliced it twice. I moved the centre piece higher on the page as I wanted to create movement for the eye. I think the pattern created ties in with the snake's skin really nicely.

Another technique I used was with the background paper, which is a Tim Holtz core cardstock. The core of this piece is kraft, whilst the front is a lovely colour green. I used a sanding block to sand away some of the green to make it more rustic looking.

Here is the finished layout.

Thanks for looking and I hope I have inspired you to go and create.

Dale's layout for Tracey's Cyber Crop challenge

Hi there scrappers. It's Dale here.

I've had a go at Tracey's mood board challenge. I love the colour scheme she has chosen.  Here is my layout.

I didn't have any new year's eve photos as we didn't do anything to celebrate last year. I've chosen to scrap a photo from a party I went to this year. It had the right colour tones and happy note that the challenge asks for. I encourage you to have a go.

Also, don't forget my November challenge. You have until the last day of November to do this.

Dale's Gallery Pick

It's my turn to spot something special in the gallery. I really couldn't go past Debi J's entry for my summer mood board cyber crop challenge. Her layout just embodies the Australian summer in every way. Don't you agree?

Dale

Dale's Gallery pick

Hi everyone. It's Dale here with my pick from the Gallery at Mystical for October.

I've chosen this layout by Joolz that she did for Tracey's September cyber crop, white plus 1 with a twist. The little fishes are soos cute.



Don't forget all the birthday challenges that are currently running. Lots of fun to be had.

Mystical birthday challenge from Dale

Hi scrapper's. It's Dale here.

It is Mystical Scrapbooks birthday and we are having a month of challenges to celebrate.

My challenge to you is I'd like you to:

MAKE A CARD USING THE COLOURS BLACK, WHITE AND ONE OTHER COLOUR OF YOUR CHOICE.

I have made two examples, one with an extra colour of red and the other using yellow. They are both very similar in design. You can make whatever design you like.

Get your entry into the gallery by the end of this month to qualify. Don't forget you must use the criteria I have set.

Dale's tip for October

CARD TUTORIAL - PRESENT BOXES

Hi everyone. It's Dale here on the Mystical blog today. As it is birthday month here at Mystical I have decided that my tutorial will be on how to make cute little present boxes. These boxes can feature on any card or scrapbook page. You can make them for birthdays or even Christmas if you choose.
Only 16 weeks to go til the big day. I'm sure some of you are thinking about making your cards already.

Your list of supplies you will need might read like this:

square punch or trimmer
small flower punch
ribbon
patterned paper and cardstock
twine
adhesive

Start by punching or cutting out squares. You can use the same sizes or vary it up.
Then cut some small pieces of co-ordinating patterned paper, cardstock or you can use ribbon or twine. These will represent the ribbon over your present wrapping.

 Attach these with your doubled sided adhesive.

Punch out some small flower or other shape to go on top to represent your ribbon flower. I used a small flower and a splat. I coloured around the edge of the splat in the centre present with green pen to co-ordinate with the ribbon.

Then your presents are ready to go on a page or a card. I've made a simple card using white cardstock, a strip of green and white patterned paper and some tiny alphas for the sentiment.

I hope this inspires you to make your own present boxes.

Dale's Gallery Pick

Hello scrappers.

Today's gallery pick is by me, Dale.

I've chosen to highlight one of the September challenge entries. It is by Joolz (Julene).



I would like to travel on this. Looks so comfortable. Great layout Julene.

Don't forget to join in the September challenge, set by Tracey.

Dale's September 2014 tutorial

Hello everyone.

I'd like to show you how I made a Father's Day card for my Dad. He loves to go out on the ocean in a boat and fish, or fish anywhere really. He had a boat for many years but sold it to buy a caravan. Mum is much happier as she gets seasick and couldn't join in the boating.

One of the latest Collections at Mystical is Thoughts Wandering by Manor House Creations. There is a paper that has journal cards on one side (here in the store). I thought it would suit a card for my Dad.



First of all I gather supplies I thought I might use. This can be great as inspiration if you're not sure what to create.

I cute some cream cardstock for the base of the card. Then I cut some Crate Paper woodgrain paper and inked the edges to be the background on the front of the card.
I have added the journal box with the ship on, top right corner of the MHC paper. No reason to just use these cards on a scrapbook page.
Then I added a couple of stickers and a die-cut on the right hand side.
Then I chose a Flourish with a bling yellow flower with a jeweled centre. No reason a bloke can't have a flower on his card I say. I've also added the rhinestones as well.

Lastly I have added some Adorn It tiny alphas to make the sentiment.

I hope my Dad will like this card. I know my Mum will. She keeps all the hand made cards I give to them both.

I hope I have inspired you to go and make a card yourself.

Dale's gallery pick for September

Hello scrappers.
I hope all if well in your part of the World.
I was having a look through the gallery this morning and I've decided to pick Deb W's creation for Tracey's background challenge as the one I wish to highlight.

It's so soft and pretty and really different. I think the page is ideally suited to the special photo.



Don't you agree?

Dale x

Dale's tip for August

Hello fellow scrappers.

I have a couple of great tips for you this month. They're about card making but will also apply to layouts as well.

First of all, stick to only 2 or 3 colours. This will make your project really pop. Neutrals such as black and white are always a good choice.

Second, make more than one. Your supplies are already out. Why not make use of them by making multiples. If you like the design it is really quick to make more than one, rather than getting everything out again on another occasion.

For my cards, I chose to use cardstock as my base and make them open upwards instead of sideways. I used a different punch on each one along the base to add a feature. I've added a piece of black cardstock and some stickers from Kaisercraft and a couple of pearls from Kaisercraft. Done.

Dale's Gallery Pick

Hello there. It's my turn to pick from the gallery of pretties.  This one catches my every time due to the wonderful vibrant colours.



Well done DebW, staunch supporter of Mystical Scrapbooks.

Don't forget to do the August challenge which I set people. Get busy scrapping!

Dale x

Challenge for August set by Dale

Hello fellow scrappers.
I can't believe it's August already.
This month's challenge is set by me, Dale. I would like to see you use:

CHIPBOARD AND BLING

Here is my example.

Everything I used is from the Mystical store.
The chipboard is Twiddleybitz Basic Arrow shape which I have used as it came but attached some ribbon and Kaisercraft rhinestones to jazz it up.
I've used a Simple Stories Take a Hike Sn@p Pocket to put my journalling into. I have also dressed it up a bit. These are really cute and make your page interactive. Always a fun thing.

You have until the end of August to get your entry into the Mystical gallery. The other Designers will also be doing this challenge so watch out on the blog for their posts.

Dale's July 2014 lesson

Hi there. Dale here with this month's lesson.

Today I'm doing a lesson on card making. It's a really simple card that I've made with the July Mystical Kit.

I've used the yellow cardstock, some white cardstock, the grey and white twine, washi tape, the Hello wire balloon word and the Simple Stories DIY Boutique and Echo Park Capture life patterned papers. I've also used my own yellow pen and a square punch.

Firstly, I assembled my bits and pieces.

I have punched out a square and a frame from the Echo Park paper. I inked in yellow around the square.

The DIY Boutique paper is terrific to alter. I have coloured in yellow pen  in the frame to match my design. You can see on my Sunset layout that I used two coloured pens to match my design using the same technique.

Then I stuck down all the other elements.  I didn't forget to adorn the inside of my card to match the front. A card gives a great overall impression if you also decorate the inside.

Here is the finished card.

Kit Release

Now for the exciting new's we have been hinting about for the last few week....

We are releasing our very own Mystical Kits!  

Each kit has been designed with the busy scrapper in mind, and each kit will come with 2 Multi Pocket Pages along with exclusively designed elements that are not available anywhere else! *

Kits will only be available in limited numbers, and will be available in the shop from tomorrow.

For our first kit we have an exclusively designed chipboard set from Memory Maze.  This set is a must have for anyone with travel/holiday photos.

  Here's some sneak peeks at DT member Tracey Campbell's pages using our new kit.

Here is DT member Dale Tiernan creations with our kit.

She has designed a layout and a card for the July colour challenge. She has used all of the colours except sky blue.  Dale has produced a layout and a card with her Kit.

Here is Dale's layout entitled Sunset.

Here is Dale's card entitled Friends.

More kit details will be released tomorrow!
Take Care
Donna 

Dale's gallery pick

Hi everyone.
Are you looking forward to joining in the Mystical cyber crop this weekend?

In the meantime, here is my pick for July from the gallery.



It is a page by DebW for Tracey's challenge from our June CC.
One of my fave backgrounds is woodgrain. Love. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this time round Deb.

Happy scrapping.
Dale

Dale's June Tutorial

Hi everyone. It's Dale here. Today I have a tutorial for you involving misting and punched shapes.

First of all, punch out some shapes from cardstock or thicker patterned paper. Any shape will do.

I have chosen hexagons.

Then I placed them on a piece of yellow cardstock and used two coloured mists.
When they had dried I removed the hexagon shapes.

I have inked around the edges of the cardstock using green ink.
I've also inked around each hexagon shape.

This is how the final layout looks.
Products used from the Mystical store include:
Pink Paislee Hey Kid Double Dutch paper and stickers
yellow cardstock
ribbon
Lilibee Key Lime Pie paper
Jillibean Sopu Grandma's Lima Bean Soup stickers
Fancy Pants Memories Captured tape sticker
Prima flower - Marri Collection Fairy







I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and it has inspired you to try this at home.

Dale's DT example for the June challenge

Hey there scrappers. Dale here with my take on Tracey's challenge.  Here is the challenge Tracey has set for us:

The Challenge if you choose to accept it is.......... to use some of your scraps that you accumulated without cutting any of them!! Yes that is right - put those cutters and scissors away right now
(I will give you permission to tear three times - that is three tears not three pieces of paper).

 

Here are the pile of scraps I had to work with. Not a huge amount as I like to use them up as I go along. I noticed that a lot of the colours seemed to match quite well so I put aside those ones.

This was a bit of a challenge. I do use my cutters every time I scrap.

Once I had my papers I went looking for a photo that would suit. I found this one of my son's birthday cake.

The only tear I did was on the orange Basic Grey paper.

This was a terrific challenge for using up some of those scrap pieces of paper we all have. I encourage you to have a go. It's a really fast page to do. Pop up your creation in our June challenge gallery. I look forward to seeing it.

Dale's gallery pick

I couldn't really go past this beautiful layout by Lizzie which she did for the May challenge.
I love a good vintage layout and the monochromatic theme is so stunning.

Tutorial - ATC by Dale Tiernan

Hi everyone. It's Dale here. I'm going to run you through creating an ATC. Perhaps you are not familiar with these term or you are but have never made one. They are a lot of fun. Here's a little run down before I start.

Artist trading cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern trading cards baseball cards,^[1] or 2 ¹⁄₂ by 3 ¹⁄₂ inches (64 mm × 89 mm),^[2] small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets.^[3] The ATC movement developed out of the mail art movement and has its origins in Switzerland.^[4] Cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc.), wet media (watercolor, acrylic paints, etc.), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc.) or even metals or fiber. The cards are usually traded or exchanged. When sold, they are usually referred to as art card editions and originals (ACEOs).

That definition was straight from Wikipedia.

I chose some products first of all.

black cardstock
Bo Bunny C-est La Vie Ephemera paper
blue ribbon and blue pen, white ribbon
sepia ink
Pink Paislee Hey Kid Element sticker
Flourish With A Bling, Grace - Pearl

There is Kaisercraft sticker sheet showing but I didn't end up using it.

1. I chose to use a black cardstock as a background. I cut it to the 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inch size and put it to one side.
2. I then cut a piece slightly smaller of the Bo Bunny paper. It had a nice corset on it that I thought would be terrific. I distressed all the edges and ran the ink along the sides.
3. I added some colour to the corset with my blue pen. 
4. Then I adhered the white mini pom pom ribbon to the waist.
5. Next I added the Hey Boy sticker.
6. I cut a piece from the pearl bling and added that.
7. Next I wound the blue ribbon around the top of the paper twice and tied it in a knot.
8. Finally I adhered the paper to the black cardstock.
9. All done.

Here is the finished ATC.

When these cards are traded you add your information to the back. They are fun to swap and collect. I have also added some to my scrapbook pages before. It's a like a little mini art work on your page.

Why not try making one of these. I'd love to see some ATC's in our gallery, just for fun.