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Hello! Carolyn Peeler with you today to share a card tutorial featuring the Cosmo Cricket WIP Book Art Deck and Prima Confections watercolors along with an assist from the beautiful "From all of us" floral stamp by Clearly Besotted. Won't you join me as I take you through this video tutorial of my process:
Thanks so much for watching today. Here are the links to the products used in today's tutorial. Please let me know if you have any questions in the comments section.
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Hello crafty friends! Carolyn Peeler with you today with a video tutorial that features the new Christine Adolph Adhesive Rub-ons manufactured by Prima Marketing. If you aren't already familiar with Christine's artwork, I would encourage you to visit her website and connect with her on social media. While now I am now lucky enough to call her a friend, for many years I was simply a fan who loved the projects she had published in Stampington publications, purchased the stamps she designed for Stampington and her scrapbook collections for Creative Imaginations. However, as those of you who have been watching the paper crafts industry know, the one thing that is pretty constant in this industry is change. And for many years, once Creative Imaginations were no longer licensing artists, I missed being able to find Christine's products on the shelves of scrapbook stores. This is why I was thrilled to hear that she would be licensing her designs to Prima Marketing for a new line of Adhesive Rub-ons. Her product line debuted at the most recent industry trade show, and I have been looking forward to using her line once it was available. If you are a regular watcher of Julie Ebersol's Hello Monday series of videos for Ellen Hutson, you will have also seen the highly informative video she posted about this awesome product several weeks ago. If you haven't watched it, it is well worth a look.
So, won't you join me as I walk you through a card project which demos how incredibly easy it is to use these adhesive rub-ons and foil.
(PS - as I close out on the video, I commented about how easy it was to do the foil embossing...duh! I don't know why I said embossing, so let's pretend I didn't, ok?!)
Thank you so much for your time. Before I say goodbye, I want to encourage you to stop by and visit Christine on her artist Facebook page. She shares some wonderful inspiration and product tips on it. (For instance, one of her tips is to apply her rub-ons with foil onto candles for a fast-to-make, unique gift idea? Yes please!)
Here are the direct links for the products used in today's tutorial in the Ellen Hutson store.
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Hi Friends, Carolyn Peeler with you on this Tuesday morning. Today is my last visit in the CLASSroom before Christmas, so I want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very merry Christmas & holiday season. May your holidays be filled with memorable moments and meaningful times with the ones you love.
With Christmas coming in a few short weeks, the most pressing thing on my crafting agenda is to make more Christmas cards to give to family and friends. So I wanted to design something that was pretty and simple, yet still had a homespun, shabby-chic touch. I put together a short tutorial to walk you through the process for this easy (and mass produceable!) design. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments field and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Please note, in the video I mention Aqua cardstock, then immediately correct to indicate that the background for my card front is Aqua patterned paper from the Juniper Berry 6x6 Basic Grey paper pad. I don't want anyone to be confused. The only cardstock I used is the white cardstock that I used for my card base, the banner and the tree die cut :)
Merry Christmas!
Here is a link to the products used in today's project in the Ellen Hutson store:
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Ellen's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist has become a tradition and it is a joy to be asked to take part in this celebration again and share a tag with you.
To start, I was asked to choose a Pinterest inspiration image that both Stephanie and I would use as a jumping off point for our tag. I chose this gorgeous photo by Teresa from the blog Meadowbrook Farm. I loved the use of non-traditional, shabby chic colors.
(For complete challenge information head to this post.)
Today I am combining the "Tiny Trees" Clearly Besotted stamp set with a beautiful Essentials by Ellen sentiment stamp from the "Holly Jolly" set. And, of course, sewing features prominently in my tag because I love the texture and femininity it brings to any paper craft project.
Here are the steps for my tag.
1) Stamp the trees onto watercolor paper, using VersaMark and emboss with Ranger clear embossing ink.
2) Next, prep the watercolor paper, by spraying water onto it so that the paper is wet when you paint the ink onto it. This will help the color flow with ease on the paper.
3) While you could use watercolor paints for this technique, I used Distress inks in the following colors: Picked Raspberry,Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac. I laid down a light color wash with those colors, then to add more contrast, I also used darker aqua and violet inks in Broken China and Wilted Violet. (Please note, although it is pictured here, I didn't end up using the bundled sage ink on this tag.)
After mixing the lighter distress ink with a bit of water, I brushed a light wash of the colors over top of the embossed trees. I dried the ink using the Ranger Heat tool. After the initial, light, layer of color was dry, I mixed the darker distress inks with a bit of water and then painted those more intense colors onto the watercolor paper. I laid those darker colors down as little pools of color so that it showed a cool build up of layers. I repeated this step 2 times, drying in between each step.
After drying with the Ranger heat tool, it will look a little something like this:
4) I used a Ranger #8 kraft tag as my tag base and I stamped the "It's the most wonderful..." sentiment directly onto the tag with VersaMark. Then, I embossed with Ranger white embossing powder.
5) After cutting one edge of a piece of vellum with your favorite metal die or border punch, glue it across the bottom of the tag.
6) Next, glue the watercolor strip across the bottom of the tag. You will notice that while we stamped 3 trees onto the watercolor paper, only 2 will fit on the tag. So, pick your favorite ones. In my case I had a difficult time deciding between using the aqua and pink backgrounds, or the pink/purple backgrounds. I ended up choosing the aqua and pink backgrounds as I thought it was more true to the inspiration image if the aqua was present. Glue the watercolor strip across the bottom of the tag and then trim it to size.
7) Next, I added 2 rows of straight stitching to the top of the tag,
1 row of zig zag stitching above the narrow strip of watercolor paper,
and 1 row of zig zag stitching where the vellum and watercolor papers met.
8) The final step is to add the Prima felt bow to the top of the tag.
And, there you go! The tag is ready to adorn a present or be gifted this Christmas season!
Thanks so much for joining me today!
for Carolyn's tag
From their family run business in the UK, we are very pleased to introduce today's Guest Designer - Stephanie Wincott, Owner of Clearly Besotted. Please enjoy the loveliness of Stephanie's tags featuring Clearly Besotted stamps and dies, inspired from the colors in today's Pinterest image. Stephanie, we'd like to say "thank you" for designing with us and helping to kick off our annual 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist!
for Stephanie's tags
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