Amore Laurafadora: Congrats to the Grad
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please welcome back Laura Bassen with the latest edition of Amore Laurafadora on our blog! Today Laura is showing how beautifully our white ink blends with Distress Oxide ink on kraft paper, while also showcasing our new Grad Cap stencil and Grad Party stamps and dies. Be sure to watch the video for more info, and enjoy!
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Interactive Quintuple Slider Floral Scene
Hello friend! It’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you today, sharing a project that features our brand new, Quintuple Slider die set!
The Quintuple Slider is an easy and fun way to bring some motion to your projects. And the best part is that this die works with pretty much any stamp or die set you own!
Today I’m pairing it with our new Spring Flowers 4 set! I’ve created a colorful garden of flowers, with some of the florals attached to the slider – when you pull on the mechanism, the flowers move and appear to be blooming!
I hope you will watch the video below to see how I made this card! It is really simple and I think you’ll have just as much fun creating one of these sliders as I did!
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Junk Drawer Panel by Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Please join me in welcoming the super creative Anna-Karin Evaldsson back to our blog as a special guest! Read on to learn all about this fun project and enjoy!
Hi everyone! I am so happy to be here today to share a tutorial with you. The beautiful month of May has arrived and it helps to bring a light into these hard times. I hope you are all healthy and keeping the hope up.
For today I made a wall-hanging mainly using Idea-ology products by Tim Holtz. I was looking through his Junk Drawer Baseboard set and realized that I like the vintage designs so much, that I wanted them to be the stars of a project. I didn’t want to cover them up too much and only used small embellishments. I paired them up with an old photo of my sister and me.
Pick out your favorite Junk Drawer pieces and sand the edges. Some of the edges were later inked brown, others were left white. The frame comes from the Halloween Baseboards and Layers Frames set.
Arrange the pieces on your surface. Move them around until you are happy with their placement. It is like doing a puzzle. I ended up not using the blue circle with the star. As a base I used a thick piece of 6 x 6 in cardboard, which was a piece of packaging from IKEA. I knew it would make a good base for a project. You can also use ordinary cardboard, canvas board or a deep edged canvas.
Coat your surface with gesso. Let dry. If you use a light surface, you can skip this step.
Apply a layer of matte medium to the background and carefully place Collage Paper on top. Wrap it around the edges, to cover the edges too. Add another layer of medium on top of the collage paper. I used both the Documented and Typography Collage Papers. Let dry. This makes for a great background on its own if you don’t want to cover the entire thing with baseboard pieces.
Glue the pieces to the background with matte medium. Then I decided to add some Translucent Grit-Paste here and there, as an experiment. Let dry.
Paint a little Walnut Stain and Antique Linen on the grit-paste. It increases the textured look and almost makes the paste look like sand. In the background of the photo that I used, is the sand box that my dad built for us, which actually made sand fit the project.
Pick out some idea-ology embellishments. I used a Pen Nib, Heart Gumdrops and Stars. Dip the tip of the Pen Nib in Black Soot paint. Add a drop of alcohol ink to the gumdrops and the stars to color them. I used Poppyfield, Denim and Meadow.
The alcohol ink colors the metallic stars while still letting them look metallic, since the ink is transparent.
Rub a little Picket Fence paint into the words of a Quote Token, to make them stand out better.
I also rubbed a tiny bit of white paint into the word on the Pen Nib.
Glue one of Tim’s Mini Paper Clips to the Paper Fasteners baseboard piece.
I just love the look of gumdrop embellishments colored with alcohol ink. They catch the light in such an amazing way.
Here you can see the sandy texture of the painted grit-paste. It would work great for a nautical project too.
Around the edge of the panel, you can still see the collage paper.
This is a great way of using any type of ephemera or pretty paper which you don’t want to cover up. Make them the star of the project instead, by creating a grid or puzzle type of design.
I hope this tutorial inspired you. Thank you so much for looking! Stay safe! Happy crafting! -Anna-Karin
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