Betsy here today with two more cards made with Vintedge from Ruby Rock-it. This month, at Artfull Crafts, Ruby Rock-it is the focus on Centre Stage.
As I have said before, it is a very British collection with it's red and blue colouring and very appropriate for just now, being the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for our Queen.



I just had to add a photo of the centre of London! Red buses, big Ben and all! Have you noticed the blue sky?!! It wasn't so blue when we were there!



Another very simple card - have used my sewing machine to zig-zag round the edge of this card. The bottletop decoration was put through the cuttlebug to flatten it, added a circle of the paper then dimensioned the top. It is quite affective!
All from me today - off to Timaru to catch up on the girls at Artfull Crafts.

Happy crafting and many blessings,

Betsy.

Hi there Christine here with a layout  to show you, using the Ruby Rock-it Nostalgia Collection.




My youngest, Matthew, got a broken leg when he was 5 months old. I love this photo of him with his leg in plaster - it didn't worry him at all! He loved to sit and hit the plaster cast, it made a good sound!
I have used the chipboard pieces to make the banner and I love the cute umbrellas.

TFL

Happy Creating!

Christine

Hello. Today I have another layout from June's Centre Stage featuring "Bella" product and also the "Quotes" theme for this month. The papers are from the "Black Fusion" range (Cluster, Motif and Floral). As soon as I saw them, they said to me "Formal Occasion" and luckily this black and white photo from my granddaughter's christening was patiently waiting in the pile.


The photo is quite busy and so are the papers so I decided to fussy cut flowers from the Floral paper and mount the photo on plain French Vanilla Bazzill card - one of my favourites. After drawing a large circle in pencil, I endeavoured to lay the flowers around the circle. It just about worked with some single leaves and a few Kaisercraft pearls interspersed. The flowers are all Prima except for the Bella "Organza" brads and a couple of beaded satin flowers I picked up in a haberdashery shop in the UK several years ago.

My quote is, of course, from the Bible and for the title I used a Tim Holtz alphabet die. Apart from the fussy cutting, this was a really simple layout to put together other than those weeny single leaves which kept wandering off and disappearing when I was trying to organise everything in a circle.

I do hope that you like it. Have a great weekend.

Lindsey
x

Sandy sharing my English Tea Party projects created with Ruby Rock-It's Vintedge collection. It's  also quite fitting in view of the Jubilee celebrations. These items are among my favourite off-the-page designs.  





There is an altered photo frame, jewelled party hats and handmade tea bags filled with different varieties of custom-blends. Each tea bag is tagged with the ingredient list for easy selection by the party guests.





Ruby Rock-It also has a fabulous Bella! Bling collection which I used on these crowns. They coordinate beautifully with the colours of Vintedge and the take all the work out of tediously gluing down a border of undulating rhinestone and pearls.





I also scrapped a layout of my grandmother using this collection. IYou can see it at the Scrapbooking.com e-zine site here.

Betsy here today to share two cards made with the Ruby Rock-it collection.
Well, winter has really struck - and what a cold spell it is. Snowed yesterday and today we have a hard frost.
We, at Artfull Crafts are focusing on Ruby Rock-it for the month of June - that is on Centre Stage. Hope you all enjoy the projects that the DT have for you. Here are the cards I have made.



Isn't this appropriate for our Queen's Diamond Celebrations. The collection is called Vintedge and is very British - hence the celebration card!



Big Ben! Don't you love it? I remember standing in awe in the centre of London and viewing this.

All from me today. Remember to check out the competitions at Artfull Crafts - you could be a winner!

Happy crafting,
Betsy.

Hi there -Christine here.
Well Centre Stage this month is Ruby Rock-It. So I have a couple of cards to show you using the Nostalgia Collection. I have gone with a sewing theme- love the cotton reel ends!



I love to machine stitch on my cards - so much more fun than mending farm overalls! The lovely sayings are from Papertrey Ink and I have embossed them with white embossing powder. Love the white on the Kraft card!

TFL

Happy Creating!

Christine

Hi. Lindsey here with the first of my efforts with the Bella collection entitled "Keepsake Paperz".

Did anyone stay up last night to watch the Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant enfold? I tried to stay awake but had to give up around 2.30am. To be honest the commentary from Sky TV was less than riveting whereas this morning's coverage by the BBC on UKTV was way more interesting. I've only watched about an hour of it but it is recorded (hopefully) and I will have to watch it in bits over the following days. All I know for sure is that it rained a lot but the whole Royal Family are safe. I did think that was a bit risky putting everyone in direct line to the throne on one boat but, of course, all went well. There was lots of flag-waving, Handel's Water Music (magnificent), singing and cheering, water canons, fireworks and even a horse.

I so admire the Queen even though some of the others in the Royal Family I could do without. Her Coronation took place in the year I was born so the big events of her reign are woven into the story of my life - and that's another thing I am looking forward to scrapbooking about one day.

As I said, I haven't watched it all yet but was rather disappointed that the royal corgis didn't make an appearance.

And talking of dogs (really smooth link there Lindsey) here's a photo of the latest addition to our family. I apologise for the wonky photo of the layout but it's really the best I can do.

Just loved those Organza brads which are also by Bella. Wouldn't mind getting my hands on some more of those. The "happiness" lettering is Websters and the "Puppy" letters are Thickers "Sunset".

OK well that's it. Thanks for looking everybody.

Lindsey x

Hi Everyone - Lowri here with a good old fashioned Sunday Scrapping post! Grab a coffee, pull up a chair and read on...

WELL - with all the Design Team creating such amazing projects, it seems like ages since I posted some ideas! I have been busy creating with all the wonderful Echo Park products for my Design Team assignments as well as some projects recently for the Teresa Collins blog.  To kick off let's look at what the DT have been creating this week..


Sandy, Christine, Lindsey, Lisa and Betsy have these fabulous project posted - click on the names to be taken to the full blog post.


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Teresa Collins - Everyday Moments Projects
These projects use the lovely Everyday Moments Collection from Teresa Collins. You can see more detail on my blog here and all the products are available in the shop here.



Echo Park Hello Summer Projects
I have really enjoyed working with this fabulously fun and bright Hello Summer Collection. Nothing like these lovely bright colors to cheer you up on the cold winter days! Here are a few of my  recent creations

Favor Stand
This was so much fun to make - you can see all the details here.It is basically just a cardboard cupcake stand from the Warehouse covered in paper!


Mini Album
This hybrid album combines the digital and paper collections. You can see more pictures and details here.


June Challenge
Don't forget to enter our latest Challenge - you can see all the details here. Send us any project using Ruby-Rockit products OR using any quote OR using the sketch (coming soon)

Entering the Challenge
To enter the challenge email a picture of your project to us at entries@artfullcrafts.co.nz or drop them off at the shop to be displayed at Artfull Crafts by midnight June 29th.

If you can - please remember to include the following :

1. Your name! (You would be surprised how many people forget this :-))
2. PLEASE name the file you send with your full name.
3. Tell us if this is your first time entering - (we offer a First Time Entry prize too)
4. Your blog (if you have one)
5. If your project has a special story behind it - we'd love to hear it!

You can send us as many entries as you like. We will be featuring all entries at the end of the Challenge and you can find all the entries on our Competition Gallery.

For CHA Winter 2012, all the Ruby Rock-It designers made banners to decorate a gazebo at the booth. This was mine using the Paper Boy collection which in blue, orange and red which is a really trendy colour combination right now.



Before it was packed up and shipped out, I tied it to one of the huge flame-of-the-forest trees in my neighbourhood and captured these photos. Each kraft-based pennant is a different size and design. You can find chipboards, letter stickers, felties, border trims and ribbons in the close-up shots



Staging the project outside was a bit a more work, from figuring out the angle of the light to fielding questions about it from passer-bys but I'm glad I made the effort because it really showed off the banner nicely.



I'll have an altered project that uses just two papers from this collection. Hope you'll come and check it out  on my blog.


Ruby Rock-It Supplies : Paper Boy (PB89 Cards and Envelops, PBY10 Collage, PBY19 Border Stickers, PBY58 Nostaglia, PBY65 Die-Cut, PBY72 Cardstock Stickers, PBY73 Tokens, PBY87 Felt Icons, PBY89 Ribbon, PBY97 Chipboard Accent) Others : eyelets, twine