Sunday, February 28, 2016

Love Layout

Katelyn here, I'm back on the blog today featuring a Mixed Media  "Love"  Scrapbook Layout. With our Monthly Challenge being all about love, it gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, you still have two days to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my "Love" Scrapbook Layout and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.


To start my layout, I applied a thin layer of heavy white Gesso randomly in the middle of my patterned paper. Once the Gesso dried, I painted a layer of Dark Velvet and Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint over top of the Gesso.


After both layers of paint had dried, it was time to add some hearts. To do that, I placed my stencil in the middle right of the page, and applied texture paste through two rows of the heart stencil by Tim Holtz. I repeated the same step with the stencil in the middle top left of the page. Once the texture paste hearts had dried, then came the fun part of spritzing my entire page. I used Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal, Pressed Petal and Perfect Pearls Mist to cover the middle, texture paste hearts and parts around the painted middle of the page.


The spritzing will take a while to dry, so I would leave it for at least 2 hours before moving on. Once the spritzing is dry, I used my chicken wire stamp and applied Black Archival Ink to it and slightly stamped over top of the bottom right hand row of hearts and then right over the top of the two top rows of  hearts. 


I wanted to liven up my Rectangle Scroll Frame so I covered it in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Dark Velvet Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire frame. After the crackle paint had dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire frame. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts.


The next piece I wanted to liven up was the Love Word  and a heart so I covered them booth in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint had dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire heart and love word. After the crackle paint dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire heart and love word. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts on both pieces. 


For the Heart Scramble background, I sprayed it with two coats of Vintage Coal Colour Bloom. 


The last element I created to finish my layout was embossing the tips of my large flowers and medium flower with Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder. 


Some finishing touches for my layout included adding a variety of smaller black and white flowers around the larger pink and purple flowers. 


Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:
-Heart Scramble Background
-Heart
-40mm Purple Flowers
-40mm Pink Flowers
-15mm White and Black Flowers
-10mm White Flowers

Other Supplies Used:
-Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brushes & Palette Knife
-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Black Soot Distress Ink & Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy
-Ranger: Perfect Pearls Spray- Perfect Pearl, Texture Paste & Archival Ink - Black
-Prima Marketing: Acrylic Paint - Dark Velvet & Vintage Rose, Heavy Gesso - White, Color Bloom - Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal & Pressed Petal & Tales of You & Me - Contes des toi et moi
-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder
-Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil
-Bo Bunny: Distressed Textures Stamp
-Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark


Thanks for taking the time to check out my "Love" Scrapbook Layout. Make sure that you enter our Monthly Challenge! We can't wait to see what you enter!

Until Next Time!
-Katelyn














Thursday, February 25, 2016

Swirlydoos Kit Club February Scrapbook Kit Reveal

Welcome to:
February Scrapbook Kit Reveal!

Thank you for joining our blog hop this month! If you came here from Cindy's blog, then you are on the right track. If not, go back to Swirlydoos' blog and start from there.  Make sure you leave a comment on all blogs for a chance to win a prize! And, make sure you have LIKED & FOLLOWED Swirlydoos on Facebook!!!

Swirlydoos is proud to bring you our beautiful February collection:


BALLAD
And check out these coordinating add ons that perfectly compliment our February scrapbook kit! 






Are you a subscriber? If so, your kit is on it's way if you don't already have it! If not, check out the Swirlydoos store to see if there are any February kits or add ons in the store!

Has it sold out? - become a subscriber and not only will you never miss a kit again, but you'll also pay less for your monthly scrapbook kits!
*Mention this blog hop and save 10% on your first kit*


 Never miss one of our kits again!




You have until midnight, eastern time, February 28th to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on 03/01.  In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Take your time. There are REALLY beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down. 
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence. 
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had, tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected. Can't wait to hear from you.


My special word is : is

The party continues over at Angelica's blog. Have fun!

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Coffee Frame with Corina Finley

Hello,

Thank you for joining me, Corina, for today's post. I have created a Winter Coffee Frame as a gift for a fellow coffee loving friend. I have left the mattes empty so she can add her favourite pictures.

I started out using a Kaisercraft Beyond the Page - Nine Frame Photo Display and painted it with Java Bean brown acrylic paint and sanded the edges. I added pattern paper to back each of the spaces. I cut pieces from the pattern paper to embellish each space, used a die from the Tim Holtz Holiday Greens collection and a variety of Southern Ridge embellishments.

Here are a few close ups of some of the Southern Ridge embellishment that I used:

The largest cup from the Paper Coffee Cup Combo. I painted with Antique Linen Distress Paint and used Vintage Photo ink and a Sakura Clear Stars pen to highlight. Added a sleeve created using decorative twine, pattern paper, cardstock and a miniature chipboard heart.

Both the Coffee Sign and Coffee House Sign are wooden and from the Coffee Grinder Set. To highlight, I used a Sakura Clear Star and a dark brown pencil crayon.


Southern Ridge Embellishments Used:

Pine Branches

Miniature Hearts
Miniature Stars

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,
Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Saturday, February 20, 2016

I heart U

Hello Fans, I've some sad news to share.
Today will be my last post with SRTC.
It's been such a wonderful 16 months or so. I have loved every moment.
Unfortunately, time isn't allowing me to be as active with my creativity.
I will miss you all as well as Karen and the team.

So for you all, here's a sweet card.
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I had a blast creating with this image.
She is just so adorable and perfect for a Valentines Card.
 
Using the girl portion of Make it Crafty Shy Teenagers
 

 
 
 
I've added some new SRTC chipboards;
 
 
Copics Used:
Skin: E04, 11, 21, 00, 000, R20
Hair: E37, 35, 31, 30
Whites: C3, 1, 00
Skirt: RV14, 13, 11, 10


Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Forever In Our Hearts

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day and got completely spoiled as you all deserve! ;) How are you making out with your love challenges? Be sure to upload your projects as well!

I'm back today with my last Design Team project as I'm going to be taking a break from the blog for awhile. I've been with Karen since she started the Design Team so it's hard to take a step back but I'll still post as I'm able to on the Facebook page, just not on a regular basis! I've enjoyed getting to know you all and am thankful for all the comments and love on my projects that has been sent my way! It's always appreciated!!

So let's get on to the fun stuff! ;) 

My project features Karen's great piece, Forever In Our Hearts. My son's dog, McTuff, passed away a couple of years ago and I thought he'd love this piece paired with a picture of his dog on a canvas. As a bonus for me, it made a lovely gift for his Birthday as well!!


I traced out the hearts on the sides of the piece as best I could then cut them out on gold cardstock so I could make them a different colour of glitter than the rest of the piece. Then, I sprayed the chipboard piece with a permanent spray adhesive then dumped Martha Stewart dark brown Glitter all over it! Then I sprayed the gold hearts I'd cut out and dumped gold Glitter all over that. I tapped off the excess and left them to dry. I adhered the patterned paper to the canvas piece then inked the edges of the paper & the canvas. Once everything was dried, I popped up the chipboard piece with foam tape and started to decorate with flowers. 

I also used one of Karen's little wooden miniature hearts, distressed with ink, then touched up with Wink of Stella to give it that sparkle. 


Look at how beautiful that glitter shines on her piece! As much as I hate the mess of glitter, I sure do love the sparkle & shine it adds to the chipboard!



Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed my project! Thanks again for checking it out and until next time -- Cheers! :)




Friday, February 12, 2016

Love Wall Hanging

Katelyn here, I'm back on the blog today featuring a Mixed Media  Love Wall Hanging. With our Monthly Challenge being all about love, it gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, there is still time to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my Love Wall Hanging and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.


To start, I needed to get my Mat Board base ready, so I primed it with a coat of White Gesso. Once the White Gesso was dry, I covered the Gesso layer in a layer of Ruby paint. After the paint was dry, I wanted to add more to my background. To get the script background, I applied Candied Apple Distress Ink to the entire script stamp and stamped onto the background. I continued apply ink to the stamp and stamping until I reach the end of the Mat Board. Before the ink dried on the stamped background, I cover the entire background with Onyx Frost Embossing Powder, then I heat embossed it. 
To add some extra dimension to the background I took my Heart stencil and applied Texture Paste to the middle top left corner and to the middle bottom right corner. Once the texture paste was dry, this came the fun part of getting to spray the entire background. I started with a layer of Abandoned Coral, then a layer of Black Soot, then a layer of Candied Apple and to finish, I added a layer of Perfect Pearls. 
Once the sprays were dry, I took Picket Fence Distress Paint, Worn Lipstick Distress Paint and Penny Paint and splatter them over the background to add some extra texture with a paint brush.


Once my background was done and the splatters were dried, I started working on the Rope Heart. For the rope heart, I covered it with a layer of Candied Apple Distress Ink. Once the Distress Ink was applied, I covered the rope heart with a layer of Candied Apple Distress Paint. After the Distress Paint had dried, I added some highlights of Black Soot Distress Ink to the rope heart where I desired. My rope heart needed some more texture so I added a layer of Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint. Once the crackle paint dried, I applied VersaMark Ink over top of the heart and then sprinkled Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder over top of the entire rope heart. Once the rope heart was covered with embossing powder, I heat embossed it so that the embossing powder just melted, leaving some bubbles. 



The Love Word was quick and easy. I added a couple of layers of Worn Lipstick Distress Paint. Once the Distress Paint was dry, I covered the entire love word with VersaMark Ink. Once the VersaMark Ink was applied, I covered the entire love word with Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder and then heat embossed it. 


For the Wood Adore Tag, it was another quick and easy piece. I started by covering it in a layer of Picket Fence Distress Paint. Once the Distress Paint was dry, I took my blending tool with Black Soot Distress Ink on it and went over the entire Adore tag to highlight the word. 


My large coral and red flowers needed a highlight, so I covered them with VersaMark Ink and then sprinkled Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder over top of them. Once the flowers were covered with embossing powder, I heat embossed each one.


Some finishing touches for my wall hanging included adding a variety of smaller black, white, red and cream flowers around the larger coral and red flowers. The other thing I added were the metal key charms amongst the flowers as well as the "Love with all your heart" sticker to the bottom left of the rope heart. 


Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:
-35mm Red Flowers
-40mm Coral Flowers
-15mm White and Black Flowers
-Red Roses

Other Supplies Used:
-Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brushes, Palette Knife, White Gesso, Ruby & Penny Paint
-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Candied Apple Distress Ink, Black Soot Distress Ink, Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy, Candied Apple Distress Paint, Worn Lipstick Distress Paint, Picket Fence Distress Paint, Black Soot Distress Spray Stain, Candied Apply Distress Spray Stain, Abandoned Coral Distress Spray Stain
-Ranger: Ultra Thick Embossing Powder: Clear, Texture Paste, Perfect Pearls Spray
-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Onyx Frost Embossing Powder, Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder, Metal Charm Keys
-Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil, Papillon Stamp Set
-Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Heirloom Roses, Small Talk
-Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark
-Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Red

Thanks for taking the time to check out my Love Wall Hanging. Make sure that you enter our Monthly Challenge! We can't wait to see what you enter!

Until Next Time!
-Katelyn


Monday, February 8, 2016

Altered Book with Corina Finley


Hello!

Thank you for joining me, Corina Finley, for today's blog post! This months challenge theme here on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog is "Anything Love"! That is such a wide theme, as it could include a person, place or thing you love!

I decided to create an Altered book with a vintage feel, where I could keep pictures of loved ones, inspiration and memorabilia. I knew I wanted to stencil with texture paste. Use some chipboard embellishments with spray mists and Inka Gold products. But the rest was left up to the creative journey!


As you can see in the picture above, the red book on the bottom is an old book which I purchased at my local reuse center for .10 cents. The middle book is also a book I purchase at the reuse center but applied a coat of white gesso to the cover, spine and back cover. The top is my completed altered book!

I covered my entire book with White Gesso and let dry completely. I then painted on a very thin coat of antique white crackle texture to the surface and allowed that to completely dry.  I placed my favourite script stencil on top of the front cover and applied a thin layer of texture paste. Once again, I allowed it to completely dry.

I choose a few different spray colours in browns, blues and copper. By opening the book in the middle and placing it upside down on my craft mat it allowed me to be able to sprayed the cover, spine and back cover at the same time. This time, I used my heat gun to speed up the drying time!


Once complete and dry, I added my detailed chipboard embellishments to the cover and adhered them with Glossy Accents. I added a photo to the wonderful Mini Scroll Frame - the picture was part of a collage 12x12 patter paper I purchase some time ago.

I then painted all the chipboard embellishments with Black Gesso. I choose a few colours of Inka Gold in copper, brown, blues, and grey. I used my finger to apply each colour to the top - keeping it light for a blended look. I then added a thin layer of clear Pico Embellisher to the top of the Mini Scroll Frame for some shine.


Southern Ridge Chipboard Embellishments used:

Vintage Clock


I enjoyed sharing my Altered Book with you and hope you liked it. Please leave me a comment below and share your thoughts!

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge here on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,
Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

I love my Friends

Happy February.
 
This month at SRTC, we are all about the love.
 
I wanted to think about all those people in our lives who we don't really recognize at this time.
Those people we lean on, cry with, laugh with, tell our deepest secrets and dreams to.
 
Nope, not the spouse.
Our beautiful friends.
 
I know I just couldn't survive without mine.
They all have a vital role in my world.
 
So here's to you, Friends.
 
 
I went a little wild with style this time but hey, my friends are a little wild :D
 
I used a pre-colored image from Simply B Stamps.
Under the Autumn Tree Brittany
It was actually colored by Betty herself.
 
Then I added a few SRTC pieces.
 
I started by inking the banner pieces but realized I couldn't see my letter.
So, I added some gesso then inked a bit more.
I also inked the other two pieces; adding some orange tone copic to the branch and
a bit of color on the label font so it would really pop.
 
The thread on my banner is embroider thread.
Super easy to get through with all 6 threads intact.
 
Other products used:
LDRS Creative Lovely View
 
If you'd like to win some fabulous SRTC pieces for yourself
share you "Love" with us here
You do not have to use SRTC products to enter.
 
 
 
 
 


Tuesday, February 2, 2016

January Challenge Winner

It's the second of a new month and that means it's time to reveal the January Monthly Challenge Winner. I'm Design Team Member Katelyn and I'm back to announce January's "Winter" Challenge Winner. Thank you to everyone who participated this month. The participation was awesome for our January "Winter" Challenge, we hope that our monthly challenge in February will inspire you to submit. You will find all of the details on how to enter and what the rules are on our blog. January's Winter Challenge Winner is Betenshi. Who created this beautiful mixed media scrapbook layout:



Karen please contact me at Katelyngrosart@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone who participated and we can't wait to see what you create in February for our challenge.

Until Next Time!
- Katelyn

Monday, February 1, 2016

A Valentine Wish for you...

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month's monthly challenge. The response was great and we loved seeing all of your creations. This month's challenge will be an easy one as everyone as it is all things Love. Thank you to everyone who entered our challenge last month and stay tuned for the winner in Katelyn's post tomorrow.

This month's will be an easy one because we are focusing on Anything Love! Bonus entries will be given for using non conventional colours.




Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the
 SRTC online store $20 (before tax) retail value
of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

And ... it's a completely RANDOM DRAW!

RULES:

- Must follow the theme
 - Your item can be a card, mixed media piece or project, whatever you can call "ART".  
- You can use any image, embellishments and any chipboard pieces you like.
- As of now, there is no limit for entries
- Must be a new project
- Can be combined with 10 other challenges
- Please link back to our blog http://southernchipboard.blogspot.ca/
- Ends February.29th, 2016 at 6pm PST

**If you use product from SRTC, that will count as TWO entries but please make sure we know via your blog post attached via Mr. Linky below or a message below this post!! 

Melissa is sharing a fabulous Love card for you, to get this challenge started.
  
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We're back this month with a new theme, 
Love and Valentine's Day!! 

And Karen has some amazing new pieces in the store for you to check out. :)

 My first DT submission this month is a Valentine's card. I used her 
piece to accent the lovely cherub on the patterned paper.



I used the LuminArte medium to colour the chipboard, then doused it with a layer of Marshmallow Glimmer Mist. I added two more wooden pieces, the LOVE heart and the Just 4 U tag. I spritzed those with Tattered Angels and then once they were dry, I used my Wink of Stella Clear pen to add a bit of extra sparkle to the wood pieces! So cute!



I hope you find some inspiration this month from the blog to help you make your creations to share the love this month! <3

Cheers! Melissa :)