Limited Edition pocket by Jolaine

Being a teacher myself, I know how hard teachers work so I'm always looking for cute ideas to show my daughter's teacher how much I appreciate her. I decided to make her a pocket full of treats for Valentine's day. I really like how it turned out, and I'll share how it was created...



I began by scoring a glassine bag, then measuring my bag. I knew I wanted my bag to stick out a little bit for a more handmade look. The bag I'm using is 7X4.5 and was purchased on Ebay.



I then cut a piece of brown cardstock that measured 6X10 and scored it at 4 inches. That will create a pocket that is 6 inches tall in the back and 4 inches tall in the front to nicely display our bag of treats.



Next, cut two pieces of coordinating pattern papers a quarter of an inch smaller for each panel. That means we'll need a piece of paper that measures 3.75X5.75 for the front and a second piece of pattern paper that measures 5.75X5.75 for the back panel.



I inked both pieces of paper with Tea Dye Distress Ink before adhering. I also used hot glue to attach some lace to the front border.



Instead of glue, I used my sewing machine to stitch around the bottom and sides of my pocket.



Finally decorate as desired. I used pearls, rub-bons, flowers and the little metal frame included in the kit. The sentiment inside the frame was printed onto pattern paper by combining two different font styles on my computer. I also decorated the bag after filling it up with Dove milk chocolates.



I hope you liked this tutorial. I really enjoyed creating this fun pocket, it was really easy and I hope you give it a try!
Jolaine

Altered flowers and Altered chipboard tutorials

How to alter the mistable flowers by Delaina

I used these paints to create some sprays for the mistable flowers in the kit...I simply filled the bottle 3/4 of the way to the top and added a few drops of paint. I then spayed the flowers letting them dry between coats so there weren't saturated and distorted. It's a great way and inexpensive way to make you own mists....

Delaina

Kirstine has this to share about her work on the Feb. album kit:

The album kit comes with some wonderful raw chipboard shapes!

Here's how I altered the scalloped chipboard pieces in the above layout.



First I applied two coats of baby pink acrylic paint and let them dry.



Next I painted a very light coat of white acrylic paint on top of the pink and let them dry.



Then I added a light layer of clear rock candy distress crackle paint and let dry.
I didn't want the crackles to be too obvious on these so I only used a little bit of the paint.



To help blend it all together and soften everything up, I rubbed pink chalk ink all over the painted surfaces.
That's it!

give this a try
Kristine

Romy ...photo tips and techniques and how to extend your pattern paper

Pam always puts together such gorgeous kits and the LE kit this month just blew me away. I really wanted to use every little bit of it, so I tried to use my papers in an efficient way. To show you what I mean with that, I'll post a photo of the process of making my fourth layout with this kit: 'Garden'.

When I use a small square of paper, I usually cut it from the inside of the paper sheet. In that way you can use the outer edges to mat another piece of paper. That's what I did with this music note paper too.
I also had a small piece of brown paper left, with a few flowers cut out of it:


When I stuck it all down, white cardstock was visible in the cover. But you can easily cover that up by adapting your design to it. Stick down a few other piece of paper on the cardstock to cover it up:


Use your embellishments in the left corner and you won't see anything of it anymore:

Love,
Romy

One of my newest obsessions is to print my photos with white edges. I used to mat all my photos, but this is a much more cheap solution to make your photos stand out a bit more.



Something else you could do with these photos with white edges, is use two of the same photos overlapping each other. It will make your photo really pop off the page:

Love,
Romy

Rachael...How I create a page, ribbon technique and bulky elements tip

When I create a page I assemble the whole design before I stick anything down but that can make it a bit difficult when adding elements like lace and ribbon, to get over that I attach them onto paper (if possible) so I can move them easily around the page.



I pleated the lace along the strip of paper holding it in place with a bit of repro herma and then stitched it down.

Also I have this tip:

I like to layer lots of papers and elements together but sometimes that means that they are too bulky to lay flat on the project.



On this card I stitched the lace around the edge of the circle and then added a circle of chipboard to the back, this allowed the lace room to lay flat on the card without being squashed between the two pieces of paper. I have also added piece a of chipboard underneath the two rectangles of paper. Using the chipboard also gives your project extra depth.

Rachael

Here is my ribbon tip:

Pleated ribbon or paper makes a great addition to a page, here is how I did it on this page....






Cut off the strip from the bottom of the patterned paper and run a line of double sided tape along a short lenght of it.



Pleat the ribbon along the strip.



Machine stitch it into place.

Rachael

Luzma...altering chipboard and distressed paper tehcnique

I want to show you how I painted the die cut chipboard on the Limited Edition kit







First I painted the whole Chipboard with the Glimmer glam and then I added the different liquid pearls colors all over the chipboard.I used my finger to spread them.

Also I want to show you how I distress the background paper.







First I distress all the edges and added Ink.Then I wet the edges of the papers and crumple.When everything was dry I added glue and added to the brown cardstock.

Give these techniques a try!!!
Luzma

Prima and MyCreativeScrapbook Free flower Contest!

A Month Long Worth of Prima Goodness!

Here is some exciting Prima goodness from mycreativescrapbook.com !!!
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Mycreativescrapbook.com is having a month long Prima contest. We love Prima flowers so we are giving a package of Prima flowers away to every new kit member during the contest(limited to the first 50 members). For our current members just invite a friend to join the club and you both will receive Prima flowers in your kit the first shipment of the promotion, what could be more fun! We also are having a sketch contest with a Fantastic Prima Prize. Come join in the fun by visiting My Creative Scrapbook.com visit our message board for details... Begins February 16 and ends March 14, 2012. We look forward to seeing what you create!

We LOVE Prima come join in the Fun!!!

Flower tutorial.. Wrinkled flower by Carla

With such pleasure to share a Romantic wrinkled flower technique what I have made for the LE Kit Design!!


I used the white cardstock and here more Supplies
see picture please


Now let the Fun get started

STEP 1
Punch two flowers each petal made damp (lightly) with warm water,brush the flower on one side with the Ingvild Bolme distressing tool, see picture


STEP 2
Then I cut in the petal so that It gets wrinkled and then you curl petal around the paintbrush and smash it up a little bit with your fingers.



STEP 3
Dry this with the heat gun .


STEP 4
Then place the flower layers together with glue .
And last for this flower place your beads in the center of the flower


STEP 5
And then add the wonderful Lace Ribbon from the LE KIT draped into a flower and put this in place with the stapler [see steps pictures please!!]
and so Finally done, the handmade flower is placed together.

Step 1

Step 2

And so is the romantic winkled flower



I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, thank you

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Tomoko....Detailing flowers

Detailing the flowers






1. Apply distress ink with a sponge (I love the effect where the bumpy parts of the petals get colored)


2. Use a paint brush, add some water and a little bit of shimmerz paint. Apply it on the center of the flower.


3. Apply glitter to desired part of the flower.