Socially Scrappy Saturday

Welcome to another edition of Socially Scrappy Saturday - getting creative while catching up on my scrapbooking! 

 

My 12x12 traditional layout was inspired by playing along over at Creative Scrapbooker Facebook groups November sketch. I am really going to miss the monthly inspiration from this magazine as it closes its doors at end of the month! 

My colour palette was chosen by playing along over at Lasting Memories November colour challenge #LM774. I have chosen to use Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze and Old Olive with hints of Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry, Pecan Pie and gold foil.

I’ve chosen to get inky with some new goodies from the Online Exclusives over at Stampin’ Up!  The Friendly Foliage and Words of Beauty stamp and dies as well as the Lasting Linen background stamp. For DSP I have showcased the Timeless Plaid 6x6 paper and Gold foil DSP which was perfect combo for this colour palette challenge. 

Love the warm Fall vibes that came together with this design of accent leaves in gold, mossy meadow and Cajun craze  - going to be perfect for some Family Fall hike photos. 

Carried the theme over to a Pocket Page -  room for 3 of the 4x6 photo and two small 3x3 cropped photos and will add some journalling. 

The Lasting Linen background stamp provides some awesome texture and pairs well the plaid theme! I love the Just Because dies and Cajun Craze and Gold dots! 

Happy Scrappin’

Margaret 

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Be Totallyawake4-life 

Funky Folds Friday Blog Pop - Pop Up Corner Card

Welcome to the Funky Folds Blog Hop. We are a group of like-minded papercrafters who love to make cards with funky folds. Funky actually means "modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way"... so we are featuring cards that are not your usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style. Think 'easel', 'pop-up', 'gate fold', 'z-fold', 'shaped' or 3D cards etc. The list is endless.

 

 

All Blog Hops have an 'anything goes' theme using any type of 'funky' card fold and I've made a Pop Up Corner Card featuring the All Is Calm All is Bright kit card from Stampin' Up! It is an adorable kit with soft pastel palette of Basic Beige, Gray Granite, Lost Lagoon, Pecan Pie, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink and White.

 

 

The fold is a quick one that was pretty easy to bring together:

Measurements:  

Designer Series Paper of Choice: 5 3/4" x 7" I have used retired Winter Meadow DSP 

Coloured Cardstock Colour #1: 5 1/2" x 4 `1/4" and 2 7/8" x 4 1/8"

I have used Pool Party

Coloured Cardstock Colour #2 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" and 2 3/4" x 4"

I have used Lost Lagoon

White/Vanilla/Beige Colour #3 2 3/4 x 4" mat for insert for signature and 2 1/4" x 3 1/2" for card front

I have used Whisper White

 

Score the DSP at 2 inch mark along the length and again along the width. Tip - if your DSP has images that need to face up than make sure to orient your paper so that that intersecting score lines will be in the top left corner and your images on paper are pointing up.  

Fold the Corner down to where the score lines so that the score lines all line up neatly on both sides and then burnish. Fold the two inner diagonal score lines inward to form the corner pop up square in top left corner. 

 

Take the 2 large coloured cardstock pieces and mat the 5 1/8" x 4 1/8" onto the 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and than mount the DSP portion onto this. 

 

Pop open and mount the 2 1/4" x 3 1/3" insert so that it is up in the left hand corner so it wont show when the card is assembled. 

 

Take the 2 3/4" x 4" coloured cardstock and mount onto the 2 7/8" x 4 1/4" coloured cardstock. 

 

Using your White/Vanilla/Beige 2 3/4" x 4" card front  decorate your card front as desired. Once card front is complete than mount onto the coloured mat. 

 

Card front is than adhered to the top left corner of the card front onto the top corner square pop out.

 

Your card is complete and ready for sending out to someone special!  

 

Up next is Tammy Fite USA and I'm keen to see what she has created this month.

 

 
If you love to make cards with creative folds and would like to join in with our monthly Funky Folds Blog Hop, you are welcome to head on over to our community group on Facebook to be part of the fun.  

Happy Hoppin'

 
Margaret 
Live. Laugh, Love
Be Totallyawake4-life 

 

In the event my link above did not work here is everyone's link on the hop along: 

1. Tammy Fite, Stamp with Tammy (USA)

2. Bronwyn Eastley - AUSTRALIA

3. Cathy Pinchbeck - Australia

4. Julia Quinn - Handmade by Julia Quinn (Australia)

5. Cindy Mitchell-Clark ~ UK

6. Totallyawake4-life - Funky Fold Blog Hop - you are here.

 

7. Annette Elias - NL

Throwback Thursday

Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday where I play with my old favourites from my stash.

Today’s card design was inspired by a few challenges.

The Color Dare had a fun colour palette I chose Gorgoeus Grape / Highland Heather and Granny Apple green.

INKspirational challenge #353 of seeing stars promoted me to pull out star themed goodies!

And the layout sketch over at Build Your Stash Holiday Cards #BYSHC63 - love that their sketches include estimated measurements as a helpful guide.

I’m playing with the retired So Many Stamps & Dies and a Recollection Celestial embossing folder and some gold twine. I’ve paired with the current Greetings For You ephemera and Traditional Sparkling Sequins. 

Love how the final design came together. The purple and green is a fun combo and the stars are perfect for a Christmas card. I used the brayer to ink up the embossed stars so that the white stars pop and add fun texture. I inlaid the purple on purple stars using the Gorgeous Grape for the swirl layer and inlaid stars in Highland Heather. I’ve added Wink of Stella on the stars and finished off with gold sparkling sequins. The gold sentiment was brayered over with the Highland Heather to help tie in the colour palette. 

I end up with an extra star cluster in the reversed purples so whipped up a second card with some scraps of Irresistible Designs DSP with Highland Heather brayered to colour it. The Greetings for All ephemera which has black and white sentiments which I coloured the white with my Highland Heather ink to tie it in. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Be Totallyawake4-life

Whimsical Wings & Things Wednesday

Welcome to another edition of Whimsical Wings & Things Wednesday where I play with my favourite Whimsical treasures from my stash.

Today’s card design was inspired by a couple challenges. 

Try A Sketch On Tuesday #TSOT682 - fun circle sketch. I have flipped it from landscape to portrait.

 

 

Double Trouble Challenge Thing 1, 2 and 3. I used the TSOT sketch with round element, image or die cut, twine ribbon and Thing 3 incorporated a bird! 

I’m playing with another Enchanted Hallow Fairy named ‘Capri’ and the retired Swirly Bird stamps and dies and the mini corrugated embossing folder from SU. I’ve added in current SU products with the Greetings for You ephemera, Traditional Sparkling Sequins and my Pecan Pie, Petal Pink, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Sea Foam and Granny Apple green blends to colour my fairy. Some Wink of Stella along the snowbanks and on her wings for that extra bling bling magic!

Love how the final design came together - a pretty holiday card for a fairy lover! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Be Totallyawake4-life

Technique Tuesday Dryer Sheet Magic

Welcome to another edition of Technique Tuesday - today I am making doing laundry be extra beneficial! Not only clean clothes but a cool WOW for your cards with the Dryer Sheet Magic technique.

My design was also inspired by a couple blog challenges.  First shout out to Festive Friday’s #FF0196 Veterans Day inspo list. I have chosen red, black, watercolour, poppies and sympathy sentiments.

Over at TGIF challenge blog I am playing along with #tgif549 Everything But the Kitchen Sink … so I have lots of layers, texture, bling and several different techniques from blending, water colouring and the dryer sheet magic! I totally love an everything but the kitchen sink designs! 

I’m playing with some of my favourite retired products from my stash! The Painted Poppy stamp set and dies, Peaceful Poppy Elements ephemera package, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Pearl embellishments and the current Everyday Arches dies and Greetings for All ephemera sentiments. 

It’s such a fun way to add extra bling and texture to your card design that packs a WOW. 

So you start by creating your card front so I have stamped an image in Versamark and added black embossing powder and heat set. I watercolored the poppies with Real Red. I used my blending brush and added Old Olive for grass and Balmy Blue for the sky.

Next you want to cover the entire card front with glue - I’ve used Tombow liquid glue and used a sponge to create an even layer over the entire card front. 

While the glue is still wet cover the card front with your used dryer sheet. You want the dryer sheet to be larger than your card front and you don’t need it smooth - the wrinkles help add texture to the effect. Trim off the excess sheet. 

Working while glue is still tacky you want to cover the entire card front with glitter. I am using Dazzling Diamonds from Stampin’ Up! I love using a coffee filter to catch my cast off glitter or embossing powder and funnel back into the container when done. The coffee filter seems to have its own anti static effect.

Photos don’t due the sparkle and texture justice - even the videos not picking up all the shimmer and shine!

The final design is just lovely if I do say so myself. I love poppies, not just for their significance with Veterans Day and both my spouse and stepson having served our country, but they are just beautiful delicate flowers! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Be Totallyawake4-life 

Memories & More On Monday

Welcome to another edition of Memories & More Monday scrapbook layouts share! 

 

Today’s 12x12 layout is inspired by Sketch N Scraps November layout. A fun 3 photo sketch. You can also find them on Facebook as well if that’s your social preference.

Im playing along with a combo of current and retired goodies from my stash. Current product is the Elegant Pine Snowflakes stamp set and DSP, Greetings for You ephemera and Traditional Sparkling Sequins dots. From my retired stash Peaceful Boughs dies, Frosted Foliage dies, More Wishes stamp set, gold twine and Cherry Cobbler Stickles. 

12 x12 design layout I stuck pretty close using the sketch although I took the liberty of swapping out journaling space for another snowflake embellishment. 

I love the ripped edges for added texture and the combination of the Elegant Pine Snowflakes stamps, which I fussy cut out,  paired with the Peaceful Boughs and Frosted Foliage dies for my embellishments. 

I love the big sentiments from the retried More Wishes stamp sets when I saw it on the last chance list I thought it was perfect for both scrapbooking and cards so add to cart it went! 

My coordinating Packet page uses the Elegant Pine Snowflakes DSP which I fussy cut out the snowflakes from scraps so that none of the pretty paper went to waste! I have added sentiments from the Greetings for You ephemera “Tis the Season” “Joy” and “from our house to yours” to each 4x4 pocket and matted the 4x6 pockets with Cherry Cobbler card stock. Added some bling with the gorgeous Traditional Sparkling Sequins dots. 

 

Happy Scrappin’

Margaret 

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Slimline Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Slimline Sunday. Today’s slimline design came together through inspiration from a few different challenges.

Cupcake Inspiration had a challenge #CI629 to create something that makes you smile - and anything that sparkle’s makes me smile!

My sketch layout is thanks to Atlantic Hearts challenge #653. I flipped the sketch orientation to landscape to fit the slimline design and the focal point of leaves/sprigs and a sentiment.

CAS on Friday has a birthday card challenge which prompted my sentiment choice “Because it’s your birthday”.

Played some Tic Tac Toe challenge again #tttc282 but this time with a diagonal of Leaves, for my Free I have used vellum and die cuts for the win. 

I am playing with my new goodies from the November Online Exclusive: The Friendly Foliage stamps & dies, The Words of Beauty stamps & dies. Also playing with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder, Traditional Sparking Sequins dots and Versamark and gold embossing powder. 

I just love how it’s come together. The foliage is just so beautiful and love the sophisticated look of the clean and simple gold and white palette - it’s so sparkly! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life