October | YLA2014

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

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I sat down to do my final Yearlong Album post and realized that I hadn’t done several months – my mind is leaving me, obviously! So, rather than post the last one, I’ll catch up here this week and have them all in order for you. If you want to see what we’ve done this year just type YLA in the search bar and/or check out the Flickr album.

Here’s October:

We had fun with one of my favourite techniques – Distress Ink and water for a blendy, watercoloury background. I also added another favourite in there, shimmer!

And of course, layers of paper, die cuts, pop dots, stickers, and embellishments:

We finished off the page with some doodling and a cluster of stickers with the date:

Check back tomorrow for November’s page and don’t forget to check out (and sign up for!) my new yearlong class – My Favourite Things. We’re starting this month and it’s going to be all my favourite techniques and products, plus some of my tried and true journalling tips. Trust me, some of the new product ordered in for this class is amazing! I can’t wait to get started!

Cheers!

Distress Renewed – Alcohol Inks

21 Friday Nov 2014

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My love for Alcohol Inks has been seriously reinvigorated after designing this class! As a matter of fact, it was so much fun that I played around with some of the techniques on a Secret Santa gift – a canvas – that I’m making:

I actually had to go buy more colours I’m that excited to play with them again!

We had such an awesome fun time last night at class one participant was even giggling with glee as we spattered Ink about. I think if we spent two hours flicking different colours on page she would have left happy!

The first page is pretty simple – some Translucent embossing paste and then a layer of Alcohol Ink:

We added lots of layers with book paper and stickers:

And then we added some more!

The second LO was the most fun to do:

Awesome drips:

And texture:

And splatter texture:

I wish I had photos of the LO’s the class did because they were amazing! The colours they picked were gorgeous and the way everything blended was awesome. Unfortunately for me, that means I have a lot to live up to for the next Renewed class, gulp!

Hopefully, some of you will join us – it’s fun, creative, and a great night out with friends.

Cheers!

August |YLA2014

06 Thursday Nov 2014

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Well. I was just going to post my September Yearlong Album LO’s and realized that I haven’t shown you August yet. Oops! So, to keep these in some type of order, here’s August – you’ll get September tomorrow! 🙂

This month it was fun with strips and drips! We cut a bunch of papers into different length strips which we layered behind photos and diecuts:

You can see I added my signature doodling to the diecuts to make them pop a little more.

The drips were made with three different shades of Heidi Swapp ColorShine mist. We made a pool of mist behind the photos then let it drip to either side:

The shimmer and the slight colour variation, plus the bit of added texture and dimension from the strips is pretty awesome.

We finished the LO with the usual arrows and some bits and bobs:

Have I mentioned how much I love those cork hearts and gold stars? Love. Them.

See you tomorrow with the September LO!

Cheers,

Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | November 2014

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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I don’t know where the year is going but here I am again with new Simple Scrapper material. The rest of the Team, as always, knocked it out of the ballpark so make sure you check out the November Team Gallery. Also, we just announced some new Team members so go give them a big hello!

My Story Starter LO for this uses a picture that I’ve scrapped before but it’s one of my faves and it was perfect for this LO:

The sketch was so much fun to use and I love how my old, hoarded Basic Grey paper worked for the circle element:

I also got to break out some Prima alphas that I love and, of course, I added my usual black pen work to them:

My template LO was a fun mixed media one:

The picture of my kiddies from this fall cracked me up – Molly makes it looks like Gabe is choking her to death, she’s such a drama queen – and I wanted it to be a fun LO to match. I used a different resist technique from my normal faves and traced a stencil with a glue pen:

And then I mixed alphas for my title:

Now it’s your turn to play! Go check out all the Show & Tell links and then add your own – I love seeing what everyone makes each month, and it doesn’t have to be Simple Scrapper material so go share whatever you have!

Cheers!

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Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | October 2014

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

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It’s Show & Tell time at Simple Scrapper again and the Creative Team knocked it out of the park again! It’s really amazing how different styles use the same sketch – I love seeing them all! Go check out the Team Gallery.

My Story Starter layout this month was about one of my favourite spots, Salmon Cove:

I added some texture while re-enforcing my title by adding mist to translucent embossing paste and spreading it through a stencil:

And I had fun with the subtitle by throwing in an ampersand clip:

My template LO used an instagram pic I took of Gabe and his new friend, Holly:

We were walking home from school and though they didn’t listen to a single word we (her grandmother and I) said, they were still pretty much the cutest ever, holding hands and running. I added their initials to a vellum circle and stapled it over the picture:

I added the same vellum across the bottom of the photo, over the mist drips. It anchors the photo without covering up all that drippy goodness!

Now it’s your turn! Check out the Show & Tell post and then link up to any work you’re done this month. Make sure you look around at everyone else’s art and leave some love along the way!

Also, do you love sketches? And a supportive group of friends? We’re having a Creative Team call! Try out, you won’t regret it!

Cheers!

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Distress Renewed – Distress Ink Part 2

26 Friday Sep 2014

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I’ve been having great fun with this bimonthly class at The Paperie – Distress Renewed. This month, due to popular request, we went back to Distress Inks again and I dug deep to come up with some new ways to use them. I think I succeeded!

The results were two new ways to build backgrounds, one in a watercoloury (that’s a real word, I swear!) way and the other using a new blending technique.

The blended ink background has double stencil layers, some water dripping, and ink splats. Lots going on but still not too busy:

Layers with alphas and stickers from the element sheet:

Now, can I be honest for a minute here? I’ve never been a fan of the Tea Dye Distress Ink – it just didn’t work for me. Until this LO:

See those orangey splats? Tea Dye. Awesomeness. Love, love, love.

The watercoloury background used about 12 different colours of ink:

The perfect mix of Old Paper ink and Perfect Pearls powder for ink splats with shimmer and defined edges, plus circle stamping:

And of course, sticker layers!

I love these Distress Renewed classes – it’s as much fun for me to find new ways to use my products as it is to teach them!

Back early next week with the first in my Seasonal Mini Albums class – Summer!

Cheers!

Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | August 2014

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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How is it time for another Show & Tell already? This summer is flying by way too fast!

My template LO this month also doubled as a LO I taught for a Distress Renewed class:

I love the texture, the colours, and the template I used! Check out this post for more details on that one.

My Story Starter LO was completely different but I love that *I* was able to get three, yes three, pictures on one LO! Big deal, my friends, you know I’m a one pic LO type of girl!

I love the look of having the pics attached with washi tape, almost as if they were stuck on a bulletin board of some kind:

And I had fun with different alphas, including a Studio Calico vellum one and a Prima fabric set:

Now, go check out what the rest of the Creative Team has designed this month and make sure you add your own name to the link up. We love seeing what everyone has created recently! And remember, it can be anything you’ve made, Simple Scrapper template or not!

Back soon with the most recent Yearlong Album LO’s – I introduced everyone to the deep black joy of India Ink!

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Totally Dylusional….

05 Thursday Jun 2014

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A while back I blogged about a new class series I was teaching called Distress Renewed. This is going to be bimonthly and a few weeks ago we had our second class. This one was all about Dylusions Ink Spray – one of my most fave products!

Our first LO was all about using Dylusions to make a watercolour background with resist, complete with misted ghosting and bleach out clouds:

The second layout was showing the blendability and fun properties of the sprays:

Love how water ghosting works on these!

I also had fun with my new-to-me vintage typewriter and the alpha stickers included in the class for the title work on this one:

Finally, we made card fronts using a bunch of techniques:

water ghosting

bleachout and colouring

gel medium and crayon resist

watercolour painting and scribble

white gesso pastel

black gesso magic

And that’s it – fun times getting messy and inky! Next class will be all about Distress Paints and I can’t wait to play!

Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | May 2014

06 Tuesday May 2014

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It’s time for the May Team Gallery reveal over at Simple Scrapper and that means it’s also time for the Community Show & Tell! I love this time of month – seeing what all the other Creative Team members have designed and also checking out the art work the rest of the SS Community have made is so much fun!

My sketch LO this month is based on a Story Starter from last month’s collection – I made the same LO for Gabe but with a different template. This one – about about Molly – is made with Bella Blvd’s Molly line. You know I just had to get my hands on that!

I used lots of papers and applied a favourite technique – clear embossing paste, coloured with mist and sprinkled with UTEE. I love the shiny and textural look it gives. I also added a black Wink of Stella pen to the heart wood veneer to give it some shimmer.

My story starter this month, combined with one of the current templates, gave me this LO:

It’s a fave of mine right now – the mixed media background, photo, and story all came together the way I was hoping it would. There’s also lots of shimmer and shine with glittery alphas and metallic pens:

Now go see all the other amazing creations this month – and don’t forget to add your own!

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YLA2013 | Wrapup

28 Tuesday Jan 2014

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So this past Sunday I taught the final class of the 2013 Yearlong Album. It was bittersweet: I loved the class peeps and we had a blast getting messy and playing with mixed media this year but by this point in the process I’m a little tired of looking at the same paper and am excited and ready for the new year to start! We have some amazing new product ordered for 2014 and a new concept – exclusive sketches! If you want more details, or to sign up, contact The Paperie.

Onto the final LO’s….

This a was a jam packed class because we made 5, yes FIVE, LO’s! I was so impressed with everyone when we actually got them all done!

November was all about Primary Elements, medium transfer, Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE), and Wendy Vecchi Translucent Embossing Paste:

I love the rugged, distressed look of the transferred frame.

And the paste over a stencil is fabulous. My favourite part though, is the shine and texture:

So cool!

The December LO’s had the fun element of used paper towel collage. It looks great as a background photo mat:

And even better cut into shapes and used as embellishments:

Seriously, isn’t that colour and texture awesome?

Finally, we did the last page of the album.

I wanted to keep it simple and picture free but many people in the class added a pic and they looked great!

Most of the LO’s from past year are at my Flickr gallery under the Yearlong Album 2013 set. The ones that are missing are the couple of months where I didn’t finish adding pictures to the LO’s. I’m hoping to get those done in the next couple of weeks and then I’ll update the set with the completed album. In the meantime, enjoy the rest!