Frame It

Happy Monday!  I'm on the road this week so you'll have to wait a tad bit longer for some Vintage Botany craftiness. So I'm completing some of July's challenges with the Literature Greetings To Go kit. This month's NBUS (Never Been Used Stuff) challenge is to create a frame with stamps.  I'm not the best stamper so a Misti is a must for me. With a little practice and masking this frame turned out much better than expected. :)

 

 

 



Delft Blog Hop

Welcome to the Delft Blog Hop brought to you by Club Scrap.  Each month the talented Club Scrap owner, employees and members present a project, card or layout using the monthly featured collection. The  purpose of the blog hop is to demonstrate the beauty of paper and digital crafts.

If you just happened on the blog hop today because you're a regular reader of my blog, and you'd like to view the entire hop, you can start back at Club Scrap. If you're already hopping and linked to me from Tina's Blog, you're in the right spot.

Each member of the team is pulling inspiration from the Delft Collection. The vibrant blues and gorgeous pop of yellow of this collection honor the still-popular art style made famous by the Dutch known as Delft.

I thought it would be kinda cool to make my own tiles.  Rummaging through my stash I found these chicken tiles.  I'm never going to use these as is. However, turn them over and I have a blank canvas!

I stamped the tile with an image in Sapphire blue and then used the crackle image in Ash.  Let dry overnight. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

I decided to get a little adventurous and use the frame stamp for my title. I used the font stamps from Cruisin' on the inside. Now, there is NO WAY I would have attempted this without my Misti. I fell in love with this framed stamp and it's my new favorite.

 I colored in the flowers with a light blue Copic and added drops of Nuvo.

 

The colors of this kit work perfectly with photos from a trip to Disneyland!

I wanted to give a quick shout out to these gel pens. 

 AMAZING! I'm kind of a pen snob and I love the fine tip and how smooth these pens write. 

 

Thank you for hopping with us today! Please continue on to see what amazing project Donna has created for you!

Simple Tricks

Happy Friday!

 

I've had many people ask me how I get my sticker letters straight.  You can use a grid ruler as a guide but I found it too thick when it came down to adhering. So I took a thin piece of plastic and made two guide lines on it with a Sharpie.  One a quarter inch from the edge and one half inch line on the opposite side. This guide allows me to place the bottoms of my stickers flush with the line in whatever spacing I want. I simply position the guide on my paper where I want my stickers to go and use my whole hand to hold down the tops of the stickers and gently pull away the plastic guide.

 

With the Long Stitch Album that I posted yesterday I used my Mini-Misti. Misti stands for "Most Incredible Stamp Tool Invented" and I totally agree. I strongly held out on this tool since I had my Position It! At the Scrapbook Expo in October they had a good price on the Mini-Misti and really...there's wasn't anything else I wanted to buy.

I AM IN LOVE with this tool! In the past I would not have stamped DIRECTLY onto every page. I would have stamping on a scrap, trimmed and matted and then put it on the page. I didn't have to do that but of course I practiced for a bit beforehand.

I found the pages fit nicely in the mini-Misti with the edge at 4.25.

 

 

 

I then placed my stamp where I wanted it, closed the door, opened it and  straightened the stamp by eye. I cut a clear piece of acetate the size of the page, placed it on top of the page and stamped on it first to make sure it was straight and where I wanted it. I removed the acetate and stamped directly on the book page. It was so simple and nearly perfect every time. 

 

I say nearly perfect because of the 32 times I stamped in this book...I messed up once.  That's some good odds! Luckily the goof was on the last page and I just used my Copics to color it in a bit.

 

 Club Scrap papers and stamps. Kraft-tex.

Have a fabulous weekend!