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Scraplift Design Team Challenge - Upsy Daisy

Our design team were asked to scraplift another members layouts using Upsy Daisy papers. Here is what they came up with:

Sonia - Scraplifting Tatum

The hardest part of my challenge was choosing what to scraplift from all of the goodness that Tatum creates so I ended up chosing both a card and a layout. I absolutely fell in love with this layout of Tatum’s and didn’t really want to change it too much. The varying strips of paper meant that I could play with more of the range in the gorgeous ‘Blossom’ collection and I loved the way the Prima lace was vertical on the page. The Blossom collection easily lends itself to a vintage look so I could play with some ink around the edges as well.

Sonia was inspired by this layout of Tatum's

Sonia's Card

Tatum's inspiration

Monique - Scraplifting Melleny

I scraplifted Mel's "Son" layout from the gallery - I just loved the clean lines and simple composition of her layout.

 Monique was inspired by this layout of Melleny's

Just stunning girls ... 

 



 

Studio Calico Winners

As promised, here are three lucky random blog readers who are going to be getting the Anthology Collection!!  Lets give a big congrats to...

Such amazing and inspiring layouts! I love Studio Calico!!

Posted by: Dulcinea Nascimento| August 12, 2010 at 05:33 PM

Love how the layouts demonstrate how versatile the range is! Looove it!

Posted by: Gail L| August 13, 2010 at 03:35 PM

Wow, I haven't visited here for ages - your layouts are awesome so I'll be back regularly

Posted by: Chrissy | August 17, 2010 at 03:20 PM

Ladies, please email us your mailing information to [email protected] and we will get this collection out to you as soon as possible!

Thank you to everyone who left comments, Stay tuned to see the Design Team Studio Calico - Documentary inspirations at the end of this month !!

 

Embossing Tutorial with the Creative Cutter

For this tutorial I thought I would do something a little different with the embossing tool, I hope you enjoy !

First, I chose an image from Google images and copied it to a new document in the Pazzle software.  I then vectorised the image using the Auto trace feature, or you can use any image from the extensive Pazzle library with no need to vectorise.

After the vectorisation I was left with some lines that I didn’t want to leave on my image so I manually removed them by clicking on the area with my Select Elements tool then right clicked my mouse and choose the Delete Selection feature.  This will remove the piece that was selected from the design.  Once all of this has been done you are now ready to emboss your design.

I took a piece of 0.75mm chipboard and covered it with double sided tape, then placed Heavy Duty Aluminium foil over the chipboard and trimmed it to the edge.  Then place this onto the embossing matt and emboss the design onto the foil.  Replace the blade and trim (cut) the image to the size needed

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For the second element, I used a font called Aaa_BZH Normal, selected the letter b, to give me the image used on my card.  I set my size to 2.5 “ and drew the image onto my black cardstock using my trusty Pen Tool and a gold paint marker.  Once this was done I added a 0.02 outline (Tools - Outline) to the outside of the design and cut the circle out.

 

To finish off the project I decorated the foil with alcohol inks to get the warm copper toning and added a sentiment, a button and some ribbon.  To finish Dimensional Magic was added to the design element inside my circular embellishment.

 

Here's a close up of the detail and effect of the embossing on foil and the great effect of the pen tool.

This was so simple and quick to do and is definitely a technique I am going to use on my scrapbook layouts.  Bring on Father’s day I can already see the finished layout now.

Have fun, till next time

Darelle xx 

 
 

Studio Calico Anthology Challenge

The design team has been having fun playing with the new Studio Calico Anthology Range.

Monique

 

Kell

 
 

Trina

 

Mel

 Aren't they great !!  If you would like to win a Scrabpook pack of Studio Calico Anthology collection, then post a comment, and we will randomly select 3 winners to receive the full collection.  Winners will be chosen Friday 20 August !

Easel Card using Scribble Scrabble

Trina has created this gorgeous easel card using Scribble Scrabble papers and chipboard

Distressing Tutorial with the Creative Cutter

  I hadn’t really thought about how I would use the distressing tool, but I was given the opportunity to have a play with it and am totally hooked.  I chose the 'Hibiscus' font as I have always loved these flowers they remind me of bright sunny days. After choosing the designs, I imported them onto a blank screen. 

• Goto the SHAPE dropdown menu click on Engraving then click on inside.  A new box titled engraving fill will appear. 
• I set my tool at 0.02 as I wanted to really distress my flowers, (if you only want a light finish then set it higher).  I then chose an s-sweep for the motion of the tool. Apply this to your image( if you are doing multiple images do them separately as it will be a lot faster than trying to do them all at once).  You will see that your image changes and has lots and lots of fill lines inside the image. You are now ready to distress. 
  
   
    
  
  If there is no distress feature in your cut menu, the best way to start I found is to use draw, once you have perfected the right settings for your machine you can then set up the distressing feature by adding it using the media button in your cut menu.
• I found that I had to repeat the distressing process 3 times to get the desired effect I was after, but I did reduce the pressure of my tool for the last pass through.  I was really happy with the finished flowers this will also work well with border images and lettering fonts.  The best cardstock to use is white core cardstock or the new whitewash cardstock from Co-Ordinations.
  
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When I was finished I added an .03 outline to my images (Tools - then Outline) and cut them out, remember to change back to your cutting blade for this. 




This tool definitely needs to be in your Inspiration tool kit, it adds so much dimension to the project.  One final thing always give your machine a quick vacuum to remove the debris left behind after using the distressing tool.

 Any questions regarding this tutorial just email [email protected] I would be happy to help.    

  Till next time, have fun with your Creative Cutter     
 
Darelle xx

Christmas Smiles with Kellie

Kellie has created this cute Christmas layout using Scribble Scrabble papers

Christmas pretties with Sarah

Look at these wonderful creations Sarah has made with October Afternoon papers

A little gingerbread men fun with Renee

Renee shows us some gorgeous little projects using October Afternoon.

 


 
 
 

Cute little parcels using October Afternoon

Tatum shares some cute little pillow boxes and tags using October Afternoon Christmas Papers

 
Tatum made small pillow pack boxes from PP cut 8.5" x 6"

 

The tags are based on small shipping tags which you can get for a few cents each at the newsagent.

I stamped with the Prima music script stamp and embossed in silver then misted them red.

I backed each tag with some patterned paper and stitched the edges.

To decorate I added:

• A strip of patterned paper
• A label Sticker
• A letter (there is one for each of my children...it has taken a bit of explaining for them to understand that there is nothing in them...yet!)
• A prima flower for each of the girls and a gingerbread man mounted on a glue dot for Sebastian.

I tied a tag to each box using some coloured bakers twine.

 

I think I might make 24 of these pillow boxes to use as an advent calendar this year!

 

Thanks for the great idea Tatum.