Saturday, July 28, 2018

This is it! Christmas in July Crop at Country Craft Creations

a Country Craft Creations project share

HO HO HO - Merry Christmas!  

This is it my friends.  Well Merry Christmas in July anyway.  Country Craft Creations has been celebrating their Christmas all day crop long, today, July 28th, 2018, on their Facebook Page, Scrapbookers of Country Craft Creations.  I hope you've signed up for the group so you get  to be a part of not only the crop but this fabulous group of designers and members.  Lots of tutorials (all for free), lots of inspiration (all for free) lots of member participation and sharing (yep again all free).  So check out Scrapbookers of Country Craft Creations!  The crop started at 11 am Mountain Time Saturday July 28th and I'm bringing in the tail end.  The best for last huh?  Hahahaha!


I'm sharing a Christmas Gift Card Holder.  
You'll need these basic supplies -

Scor Board, cutter, bone folder, scissors, etc
Glue - I use Art Glitter Glue but you are free to use your favorite
1 card base color of your choice A2 size 5 1/2" x  4 1/4" (when folded)
Decorative Christmas Paper of your choice with elements you can cut out if you so wish
Solid Cardstock to match your collection paper I'm using Artisan Red
Stickles or something to make glittery areas
Embossing ink, powder and gun - optional

Here's the video tutorial, Have fun, be creative and I hope you've enjoyed Christmas in July at Scrapbookers of Country Craft Creations 


 

 

 

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Monday, July 23, 2018

Christmas in July Crop at Country Craft Creations

a Country Craft Creations project share

HO HO HO - Merry Christmas!  Well Merry Christmas in July anyway.  Country Craft Creations is celebrating Christmas with an all day crop July 28th, 2018, on their Facebook Page, Scrapbookers of Country Craft Creations.  You want to be a part of not only the crop but this fabulous group of designers and members.  Lots of tutorials (all for free), lots of inspiration (all for free) lots of member participation and sharing (yep again all free).  So check out Scrapbookers of Country Craft Creations today!  The crop will start at 11 am Mountain Standard Time Saturday July 28th but don't wait until then to join!

There's going to be a lot of activity all throughout the day with challenges to keep your scrapping fingers active, and yes I'm participating.  I'll have a video tutorial for one of the challenges, right here on my blog and on YouTube.  Tamra, owner of Country Craft Creations, will announce the time and activities over at the  Scrapbookers of Country Craft Creations Facebook group throughout the day.  So my thought is, you want to be a member NOW so you don't miss out.  

Oh yes, did I forget to tell you????  Their are PRIZES, and PRIZES and oh yes, did I mention PRIZES you can win!!!  Stay tuned more will be posted on this blog post on Saturday!!  But I couldn't leave you without a little sneak peak now could I????

For my project you will need basic supplies
Scor Board, cutter, bone folder, scissors, etc
Glue - I use Art Glitter Glue but you are free to use your favorite
1 card base color of your choice A2 size 5 1/2" x  4 1/4" (when folded)
Decorative Christmas Paper of your choice with elements you can cut out if you so wish
Solid Cardstock to match your collection paper I'm using Artisan Red
Stickles or something to make glittery areas
Embossing ink, powder and gun - optional


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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Side Swing Mini using Authentique's Jingle Collection

a Country Craft Creations Design Team Prochject

It's always fun to create something new and fresh that no one else has done.  Today I'm introducing my new Side Swing Mini.  It's an 8" square mini with the front split into two sections each 4"x8" which swing in opposite directions to open.


I will be uploading a compete tutorial playlist walking you through the construction of the Side Swing Mini along with decorating each of the pages.  This mini incorporates two hinges one on each of the mini sides.  The hinges are 2" wide and house 3 pages.  The pages alternate side to side on top of one another.  


I've added 3 waterfalls to this mini, two are horizontal and one vertical  The horizontal ones will house 3"x4" photos 7 if you only use the one side double if you use both.  All three close with a magnetic strap. The vertical waterfall houses slightly smaller photos and has 4 flaps and the base photo mat.


This mini has lots of pockets holding mini booklets to showcase your photos.  The collection has darling cut aparts and elements to make your pages pop with Christmas happiness.


I used Artisan red cardstock for the base of the book (along with medium weight chipboard for the book construction).  The red is a great compliment to the colors in the collection.  I also used some Artisan Kraft and the green from the older 6" pad of Graphic 45's Patterns and Solids from the Home Sweet Home collection that was gifted to me from my friend Cheryl.


I'm not a good Washi tape user but my friend Paula had gifted me a roll of red glitter Washi tape some time ago and it was perfect to give some sparkle here and there.  I must admit I erred on the side of caution and glued them as well with my trusty Art Glitter Glue (also available in the CCC store).


If you've followed my projects for a while you know I like to see if I can use up the collection.  This time I have to share I even used (a lot) of the Jingle cover sheet which has the small pics of all the papers).  The Jingle above is from the header on that cover sheet, it made a perfect flag pennant for this page along with some mini clothes pins in red and green.  The  horizontal flag with the sentiment is the topper on each of the collections papers.  I use those quite often as well.

I hope you'll join me on the video for a complete walk through of this video. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, see you on the video.


The complete series sharing how to make this mini 
from start to finish is on 
the video playlist link below.
(I am in the process of uploading videos daily, please be patient I will get them all there ASAP.)

 Video Tutorial Playlist

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Saturday, July 7, 2018

Crafty Retreat at Simp Lee Memories

Hello everyone.  I was so fortunate to be able to attend a Design Team Retreat for Country Craft Creations at Simp Lee Memories, Medical Lake, Washington.  This is a Bed and Breakfast type home that caters to crafters like me.  It's owned and operated by Karen Oliphant who just happens to be Ginger Ropp's Sister, hmm perhaps that's why her crafty name is My Sister's Scrapper.



Ginger taught a class using the fabulous Graphic 45 collection Tropical Travelogue.  Oh my goodness do I love everything about this collection.  This was a super special folio she taught because it was designed for us.  Loved it, loved learning from her.  What a fantastic personality this woman has!


On today's video I'll walk you through the whole folio.  It's just gorgeous and it's so fun to learn from someone else, glean information first hand from them on how they do things.  As you all know we each have our own way of crafting but it's always nice to peek inside another's brain and see how they do it.  I thoroughly enjoyed peeking inside Gingers!

Tammy Merrill, owner of Country Craft Creations store made sure each and every one of us had a fabulous time.  I was fortunate to share a room with her and long gab sessions, something I'll treasure forever.  That she left Godiva chocolates on our pillows the first night was certainly not a bad thing either!


We all did a project. the Fan Fold Box, that Tammy had taught on the Authentique Facebook page.  After ours was constructed we blindly exchanged them with one another, I have Rosa Kelly's.  My goodness is that lady a sweetheart!


I enjoyed meeting Karen, Ginger, Angela, Bonnie, Rosa, Cathy, Tiffany, Ann Marie and Kim and of course our fearless leader Tammy.  What a great bunch of crafters to call my friends!

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

My Infatuation with Tattered Angels High Impact Paints

a Canvas Corp Brands CREW project

If you follow me on YouTube, Facebook or here on Blogger you'll know I'm primarily a mini album and cardmaker, once in a while I'll throw in some mixed media.  Today I'm really stepping outside this safety net zone to share a wonderful product I've discovered.  Tattered Angels High Impact Paint.


I have this large metal sun that we got when we first moved to Southern Utah in 2008.  Two years ago when we moved to Southwest Washington I knew this fellow would have to be part of our outdoor decor.  He brought me many happy memories when I'd look at him.  The only problem was as the high heat of the Utah desert and the rainy atmosphere of Southwest Washington had really done a toll on him.  He'd faded and weathered and not in a very pretty way.  

Trying to figure out what I'd use on him to give him new vitality that would stand the elements let me to the Canvas Corp Brands Store.  That's when I discovered Tattered Angels High Impact Paints. OMG I love these paints.  They come in small bottles (don't be fooled or scared when you see how small the bottle is) 1.35 ounces.  I had all these colors to choose from but actually only ended up using the Copper and the Antique Gold primarily, they are both Metallics.  This paint spreads like nothing I've ever used before.  I used 1 1/2 bottles on my sun, which is over 3 1/2 feet across!  It dries beautifully.  You can choose to put in on as a wash by adding more water or use it straight from the jar for more coverage.

I'm only going to give you this teaser photo here but please, pop on over tot the Canvas Corp Blog and read the full blog post with photos.  Take a look at the video below, I didn't do live, yep I was too lazy to haul my laptop, camera and tripod to the back yard.  I instead took lots of photos and will narrate you through what I did.  I hope you'll give these paints a chance when you're looking at revitalizing something around your house.  I can't imagine you won't be thrilled with the outcome.



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