Artfull Crafts: English Rose

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Tips and Tutorials from Tina

The photo in this layout is of my mum and her sisters, taken in the 1940's. I decided to play with stamps and ink, taking a sheet of white paper and transforming it with lots of stamping and distressing techniques, until I ended up with the brown/black design. I pleated and stitched one section, threading beads onto the embroidery floss. I used a mask on the green paper to add extra detail. Liz now has this layout at the shop if you are interested in a closer look.

A tutorial for you.....

And my card made using the flower...

This is actually an easel card, but I forgot to take a photo before I gave it to Liz! Must have been having a blonde day.

Another tutorial, this time for simple rolled flowers.

A layout of my bestie and I on her wedding day. I used impasto scraped over Glimmer Screens (stencils) to create the lovely texture. This is a fantastic product which I love using. I then rubbed on some Perfect Pearls once touch dry and spritzed with Glimmer Mist.

I created a frame from acetate and used Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks and Metal Mixatives to colour it. The lace was coloured with Glimmer Mist. It's so pretty and shimmery in real life.

A layout of my daughter and her friend....

The chipboard has been inked and embossed.

Another family layout. This time using Kaisercraft English Rose collection.

Happy scrapping,

Tina

Friday, March 18, 2011

Scrapping those birthday pics!

Hi, It's Tina with a few layouts to show you. Sometimes it can be hard to scrap all those birthday photos. If you're anything like me, you take a hundred photos! So what did I do with these ones from my daughters 9th birthday? I ended up doing a heap of multi-photo pages, so she has all her friends in the photos, and can remember all the fun.

The paper was quite busy so I kept the layouts simple so the focus stayed on the photos. I used a hidden journalling pocket to include extra information.

I used paint to create a base for my journalling and title on two of the pages.

I hope this has given you some ideas for scrapping those events with lots of photos.

I made a card using Kaisercraft's English Rose papers....

And discovered I could make decorative strips with my Martha Stewart Deco Fan punch by flipping my paper over . You could also make individual "flowers" by cutting them apart.

I used it on this layout...

I love this "Once upon a springtime"collection by Graphic 45.

I used Stickles and Kaisercraft bling in the flower centres.

Till next time...
Hugs
Tina

Monday, February 14, 2011

Tina - Valentines Day Eye Candy

Hi, It's Tina with some more eye-candy for you all!
This ones using the English Rose range from Kaisercraft. It's a photo of my Mum when she was a child, taken at her family home in Chicago. Don't you just love how they have matching dresses!

The Bazzill Bling cardstock is pearlescent....so pretty! The I used Kaisercraft chipboard diecuts, and did a lot of fussy cutting of the roses from patterned paper. And of course I had to add some Distress Stickles for a bit of subtle bling.

The mini paper roses are from Sullivans

Here's a few of my layouts, featuring hearts & love, that I thought I'd share with you.

I love these Prima papers that you colour yourself! I used Twinkling H2o's and watercolour pencils. The twinkling H2o's are used just like a watercolour, but have a gorgeous shimmer. They are so easy to use and can create magical effects on your layouts.