Trick or Treat!

There's a new color theme challenge up on the Cupcake Inspirations blog!



This week's challenge is sponsored by Newton's Nook and they are generously donating a $25 gift certificate to our randomly chosen winner!



My card features one of the images from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set. 

With a little trimming, Newton naps on the Stitched Mouthed Jack-o-lantern!

[caption id="attachment_11699" align="alignnone" width="3752"] Club Scrap® card stock, Just for Fun Rubber Stamps Stitched Mouthed Jack-o-lantern, witch hat from Stamper's Anonymous Crazy Things CMS237 Tim Holtz Collection, Cuttlebug spiderweb embossing folder.[/caption]

Make a something using our color theme and link up for a chance to win!

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Behind Every Favorite Song is an Untold Story

Music is a universal feature of the human experience. Every human culture has music. We are moved by it. We are inspired by it. We feel connected to it. It reflects something profound about who we are and our experience of the world. The power of an old song can trigger vivid memories that seem to transport us back in time and space. Every one of my favorite songs has a story to go with it. Some of them I might share and some I'd like to keep to myself *WINK*!

Music has been a huge part of my life. My mom is one of nine children and family functions were always filled with music. Someone would play guitar or ukulele and everyone would sit in Grandma's living room and sing along. The repertoire consisted of old songs that Grandma sang as a little girl during the Depression, folk songs, old hymns, the Beatles, Gene Autry, Hank Williams...you name it, they could play it and sing it! My paternal grandparents had a piano at their house. My Papaw taught me to play Chopstix and Heart and Soul. I begged to take piano lessons and took them until I started high school. I can still read music and play when I visit at mom and dad's. My husband gave me a ukulele for Christmas about five years ago and I taught myself to play. I can entertain myself for hours, until I'm hoarse and my fingers are sore!

Today's post is part of the Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge Blog Hop. The challenge this month is to visit the Club Scrap YouTube channel, choose a video tutorial with a technique that inspires us, then make pages, cards or other projects inspired by that video. I chose the Piano Hinge Book. I have a guitar tabs app on my phone, but having a collection of favorite songs in a handmade book is priceless. This way I can make notes (or write down a story) in my own handwriting. That will be a lost art one day!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGoKrycsOs]

[caption id="attachment_11577" align="alignnone" width="3111"] Club Scrap® Piano Hinge Book, All that Jazz card stock and border strip. Ribbon and gems from my personal stash.[/caption]

I copied and pasted my favorite music in a Photoshop Elements document and printed on Club Scrap® card stock. This was a song my Grandma would sing when she played guitar. I loved her voice.



Maybe I won't need reading glasses to see this in the firelight!



The piano hinge binding is so intriguing. I love how the pages mesh together like cogs on a wheel!



I'm the last stop on the hop today. Be sure to visit the Club Scrap® blog for Karen's post and the full list of bloggers for more Club Scrap YouTube inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by, come back anytime and be sure to let me know you were here!



SUPPLIES USED:

Club Scrap® is a monthly kit club and the kits are a limited-edition product. If you happened to miss out on some of Club Scrap’s paper kits, you should really check out all the corresponding digital kits! You’ll find all available products used in this project with links listed below. I link to sources for your convenience. Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you. Please feel free to message me with any questions!

Club Scrap All That Jazz Digital kit

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Scandinavia or BUST!

I've been member of Club Scrap®  for a long time. When I joined in 2008 I was a newbie scrapbooker. I had a few necessities like glue, scissors, and cheap paper, but when I received my first kit I was in HEAVEN! I had no idea that supplies like that existed! Not only did the kit have all the supplies I needed to create scrapbook pages and cards, it came with INSTRUCTIONS! I am that person, the one who reads the instructions for everything. When it's all said and done, I will know how to put something together backwards and forwards. I'm sure it's an annoying quality to those who know me well, but I will take things apart if someone puts it together wrong. Well, if you're going to do it, do it right the first time! (I hear my Dad's voice in my head every time I say that!)

This binder is full of priceless information - instructions, tutorials and lots of inspiration! It is my collection of Scrap Raps. Club Scrap® used to publish a monthly magazine that was included with each kit. The current Scrap Raps are online on the Club Scrap blog, but anything prior to 2012 is in here!

That is where I found this little gem!

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All I had to do was follow the instructions and it was "done right the first time"!

[caption id="attachment_11430" align="aligncenter" width="4680"] Club Scrap Scandinavia kit.[/caption]

Of course I had to fill the luggage with something. The instructions suggest filling with standard greeting cards and envelopes...so I pulled out my Idea Deck and chose a couple of cards with instructions for the A2 size recommendation.

Card Set A

[caption id="attachment_11431" align="aligncenter" width="423"] Cutting and assembly instructions are on the back of each card.[/caption]



Card Set B





They all fit in there AND there is still room for more or matching envelopes.



My husband gave me the nicest compliment when I showed him my finished project, "You made that? Out of paper?!"

It's easy when you know how! (WINK!)

Kelley is your next stop on the hop. If you'd like to start at the beginning of the hop, click here to head to the Club Scrap blog where you'll find the full list of bloggers.

Thanks for stopping by, come back anytime and be sure to let me know you were here!



SUPPLIES USED:

I link to sources for your convenience. Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you. Please feel free to message me with any questions!

Club Scrap Scandinavia Kit



Club Scrap White Pigment Ink



Club Scrap Assembly Line Cardmaking Idea Deck - Vol. 2



 

• Tonic Studios - Tim Holtz - Stamp Platform


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• Price: $36.99

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Fired Brick


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• Price: $5.39

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Peeled Paint


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• Price: $5.39

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Black Soot


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• Price: $5.39

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Mini Ink Blending Tool - Round


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• Price: $6.29

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foams - Round


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• Price: $6.29

 

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Meow at the Moon!

I asked Chris for suggestions for my post title. He liked Howl at the Moon, but cats don't howl.  Or do they? We've never had a cat, so I don't know. My neighbor's cat sounds like it is howling at 3 am...right under my bedroom window. I wonder sometimes if my dog is deaf, but he hears me when I open the backdoor to feed him or call him to go for a walk. He's not doing his job! Anyway, Meow at the Moon is what evolved. It doesn't really sound that scary, but don't underestimate the Tiny Black Kat!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxFjfB8Dfk]

My brother gave this book to Chris for Christmas many years ago. I read it first and "The Price" was exceptionally good! I probably shouldn't have read that story before bed though. Hmmm, maybe that howling at 3 am should worry me a little...



I'm up on the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps blog today with a spooky Halloween scene!



I didn't do anything fancy here, just some stamping and ink blending. I created this scene using three stamps - the Tiny Black Kat, Haunted Moon Tree, and Bats and a little help from my new Tim Holtz Stamp Platform! Sometimes the silhouette stamps need to be stamped twice to get a good solid print. I used Distress Oxide in black soot to stamp the silhouette images and regular Distress Inks for the background and the moon. The Tim Holtz mini ink blender was the perfect fit for the moon! The BOO letters were stamped with some tiny alphabet stamps from my stash.

The October Card Challenge is going on now!

You have until Tuesday, October 31st at 9:00 PM (EST)to enter. Make something spooktacular for a chance to win a gift certificate from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps!

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Bingo Board for Halloween



Color Throwdown #465



As You See It Challenge: Delicious Shivers! #161



 

SUPPLIES USED:

I link to sources for your convenience. Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you. Please feel free to message me with any questions!

 

• Tonic Studios - Tim Holtz - Stamp Platform


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• Price: $36.99

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Black Soot


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• Price: $5.39

• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads - Peeled Paint


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• Price: $4.49

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Ink Pads - Mini - Seedless Preserves


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• Price: $2.69

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Ink Pads - Mini - Faded Jeans


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• Price: $2.69

• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads - Black Soot


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• Price: $4.25

• Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Mini Ink Blending Tool - Round


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• Price: $6.29

 

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Make a Scene!

I don't know about you, but I have a lot of stamps. Lately, I've been challenging myself to use multiple stamps from different kits on my projects. That led to scene building!

[caption id="attachment_10761" align="alignnone" width="4576"] Orchard Art Journal Layout[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_10298" align="alignnone" width="3000"] Digital Art Journal Layout using elements from Lagoon and After Five digital kits.[/caption]

Sometimes I'm  intimidated by the size of an art journal page or scrapbook layout. That can be a lot of white space to fill. Smaller card panel "canvases" are a little less daunting.

[caption id="attachment_7290" align="alignnone" width="4051"] Adirondacks Kit [/caption]

[caption id="attachment_5918" align="aligncenter" width="575"] Enchanted Forest 2015[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1187" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Tulips (no longer available in Club Scrap's shop)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_9120" align="alignnone" width="3737"] Paradise 2016 stamp images and cardstock[/caption]

When building a scene, create the illusion of depth with masking. Masking is one of those basic stamping techniques that will make you feel like an artist! Plus, it’s really easy to do! You can layer die cuts, fussy cut a paper mask, apply liquid frisket or rubber cement, heat embossing as a resist, etc.

Here are a few masking technique tutorials to get you started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3-unFFK-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9GglygSwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEtJKDbZTcU

Start out by choosing some stamps to create your scene. I chose stamps from the Club Scrap® 2010 Adobe collection. It has some nice background images and some larger images for the foreground.

Test your design on scratch paper first. I chose the little kokopelli for my focal image in the foreground.



I applied a coat of rubber cement with a paint brush and let it dry.



I created the background by stamping the adobe jars just overlapping the focal image (so it looks like it’s behind it). I added a coat of rubber cement to the jars too and let it dry.



I stamped the mosaic border on top to look like a road. TIP: Using a stamp positioner helps with this part of the design.



I added the adobe building with the cactus for a background. (The image is smaller so it looks like it is in the distance.) After stamping the sun image (Reunion kit, December 2014), use your finger to remove the rubber cement from the images. Piece of cake!



Now that the “test” image is complete, repeat the above steps on cream card stock, stamping images in assorted colors. Add background color with Distress inks, water splatter, etc. Finally, add shadows with a touch of black watercolor. The mini scene is complete!

I finished the card by stamping a coordinating sentiment inside.



Now it’s your turn! I challenge you to build a scene using Club Scrap® stamps using any of the techniques shared above. Digital creations are encouraged, too! Get creative, build a scene and click here to link up for a chance to win a Club Scrap® gift certificate! (Link expires 10/31/2017 11:59PM Central Standard Time)



 

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