Same Set Syndrome Create and Inkspire

Good Afternoon! If you are arriving from Jennifer's Youtube then you are in the right place!  Thank you for stopping by Scrapping For Tranquility where we are celebrating another small business this month!  We are introducing you to the new, online magazine and card kits by Create and Inkspire !

I am in a wonderful hop group and we are doing a 6 month collaboration called #SameSetSyndrome where every month we highlight small, independently owned stamp companies each month.  We as a group, want to introduce you to these companies that you may have never heard of or heard of but, when you went to buy, they were not the first to come to mind.  We would like these wonderful companies TO BE THE ONES THAT COME TO MIND! Everyone in the hop get's a chance to work with a kit from the company for the month, one stamp set or possibly 2 stamp sets. Hence "same set syndrome".

Is there blog candy?  Of course there is!  You must visit, follow, leave a comment and watch all videos on all the hop's participants.  There will be one name per participant that will be chosen by random to be chosen for a $50.00 Gift Certificate, of your choice at the end of the 6 month collaboration. This winner will be announce  on December 10th on Allison Kulka's You Tube Page.  ALSO, this month  One random commentator from each hop stop will be put into a drawing and one out of those names will be drawn for this months prize of a Create and Inkspire Card kit! Good Luck!  

There wasn't much I DIDN'T like about this kit.  (actually there wasn't anything I didn't like!)  LOL.    I loved the sentiment "Friends bring color to your world " and decided to work off that.

What did I think of when I thought of that sentiment?  I thought of what my world looked like if my world didn't have color a.k.a. friends.  It would be pretty black and white huh? That is where I decided to start with making my card with my sentiment.  Taking White and Black American Crafts Cardstock from 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop, I made my base at 5" X 7".

Then making a card front at 4.75" X 6.75", I took an embossing folder by Darice called Argyle  and embossed my card front.  

Using my cameo 3, I made 3 scalloped squares at 2 inches. For my flowers , I wanted to watercolor them so I used watercolor paper and cut them at 1.75 " X 1.75 ".  Put them in my Misti and stamped the three flower stamps from the July kit.

Using Nuvo Watercolor pencils I colored my images, topping the center off with Nuvo Crystal drops-Gloss in Carnation Pink. Set them aside to dry.

Cutting a diamond shape from my cameo 3, I stamped the Friends sentiment on the diamond and then inked my edges with Catherine Poolers's Ink, Rose Petals  that I purchased from  Del Bello's Designs.

All I had left was assembly, Putting my flowers on the scalloped black squares and lining them up on my card front,  I used Pink Gingham ribbon to tie around the card front, then glued down my card front on to the base.  Gluing down my sentiment on my card front, I was finished and I was very happy with my card.  I hope you find it as pretty as I did!

Leave me a message and let me know what you think!

Your next stop is Donna, The Creative Lady!

   

Same Set Syndrome July Hop Featuring Not 2 Shabby Stamps

Hello Scrapping For Tranquility friends!  if you are arriving from Jennifer Massores Hartsgrove's You Tube Channel,then you are in the right place. I am in a wonderful hop group and we are doing a 6 month collaboration called #SameSetSyndrome where every month we highlight small, independently owned stamp companies each month.  We as a group, want to introduce you to these companies that you may have never heard of or heard of but when you went to buy, they were not the first to come to mind.  We would like these wonderful companies TO BE THE ONES THAT COME TO MIND! Everyone in the hop get's a chance to work with a kit from the company for the month, one stamp set or possibly 2 stamp sets. Hence "same set syndrome".

Is there blog candy?  Of course there is!  You must visit,follow,leave a comment and watch all videos on all the hop's participants.  There will be one name per participant that will be chosen by random to be chosen for a $50.00 Gift Certificate, of your choice at the end of the 6 month collaboration. This winner will be announce  on December 10th on Allison Kulka's You Tube Page.  ALSO, this month Not 2 Shappy has donated a $25.00 Gift certificate to their store.  One random commentator from each hop stop will be put into a drawing and one out of those names will be drawn for this months prize.  Good Luck!     

On to my project.  Not 2 Shabby gave us the choice of 2 different stamp sets to choose from.  I chose the Pup In a Cup stamp set!  It was just too stinkin' cute not to!  I could think of a million ways I could color that pup!

When I decided to color him, I really thought my Nuvo Watercolor pencils would be fun to use so that is what I did. I used colors from the Hair & Skin Tones set, Dark Shadows Set & Elementary set.

My base of my card is the Crimson Red by American Crafts from 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop.  The 6 X 6 coffee ring paper is also American crafts but I can not remember the pad it came from.  The yellow is American Crafts Sunflower also from 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop.

I finished my card off with putting a couple of the sentiments together that came with the set.  I stamped it on Neenah Paper 110lb Classic Crest Cardstock 8.5"X11".  I made it into a banner shape and did something I have only done once before, I let it hang off the edge of the card to give it a flag feel.  Finishing it with a paw print, I made on my cameo 3, with Black Precision Cardstock from American Crafts also from 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop and adding enamel dots from  C. C. Designs.  I called it done!

I hope you enjoyed my card and your next stop is Charlotte's You tube and Charlotte's Blog.

Blessings!

Patriotic Tealight Candle Holder

 Hello 12 X 12 Cardstock Fans!  This is Christi from Scrapping For Tranquility  I wanted to stop in a share a tutorial for some Patriotic, Tealight, Candle Holders I made for the 4th of July .  They were the center pieces, on my picnic tables, outside, and boy, they were a huge hit!

I got to thinking, if I had so many that liked them, at my party , maybe you all would like to see how I made them and tuck it away for your next patriotic holiday. I set out to make one more to to show you what I did.

First off, this is a lovely SVG, FREE file from Dreaming Tree.

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Starting out, Cut out all your pieces either by hand or by electric cutting machine.  I used my Cameo 3.

I ink all my pieces to stand out a bit more.  My inks of choice is the Catherine Pooler inks.

Taking  American Crafts Crimson Red , shield pieces, glue the Glama Translucent Vellum to the back of the Crimson Red pieces.

Using the Bazzill- Metallic-Gold-Mirror-Foil shield outline, glue that on top of the crimson red shield.

Finishing the shields, glue the American Crafts Denim topper, over the the top of the stars.  Make sure to line it up with the stars on the red shield.

Starting the base, using the large crimson red piece, fold up and in towards the center, on the dotted score lines. Starting on the NON-hinged side, glue one tab to the next row, hold till glue is dry. 

Do the same with the next tab as you did with the previous tab.

Move to the back where the hinge is and glue the tabs the same way way as the front.

Once you have your tabs glued , make sure to fold in at the crease and generously apply glue to all top tabs.  You then want to lay the top flap down onto the 3 glued tabs starting from the hinged side, which should be squared, slowly working your way to the non-hinged side making sure everything squares up.

We then want to put our four shields we built onto the blue base, we put together.  Lay the base flat as shown above. Put glue on the back of the shield avoiding the vellum areas that you see through.

Line the point of the shield with the point of the blue base and carefully glue shield down.  Repeat this three more times.

Putting glue on the back of your extra plain square.  You will be putting this inside the candle holder for extra support and as the bottom of the candle holder.

You can use your fingers or anything that won't ruin your cardstock, I use a ruler to help hold this down in the bottom and gently burnish it to the bottom of the holder.

I then put glue on the bottom of my blue base holder so I can gently  glue it to my red base that we made earlier.  Eyeing it very carefully to make sure I have it even on all sides.  Again, you can use your fingers or a ruler or anything that would gently help you hold these together and burnish them till they are dry and held together.

Here is your finished candle holder.  They make lovely center pieces.

This is how beautiful they glowed in the evening time.  Like I said, they were a HHHHUUUGGGEEE hit at my gathering of my family and few friends.  

These are the kind of candles I used inside .  Just small flame less, battery operated  candles.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and please visit 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop for all your Cardstock needs .

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What Inkspires You?

I have been asked over the last 25 years why I started to scrapbook and that is such an easy question for me, to leave my family all my wonderful memories of them.

It isn't as easy when someone ask me "Why did you start to make cards?" or better yet..."what was your inspiration?"  There was a lot of reasons really.  First off, just the pure joy of working with paper, like scrapbooking, but making something I could immediately share with someone else, to make them smile.

Then one afternoon, I was looking up a scrapbooking technique on youtube and came across the Triple Time Stamping Tutorial for making cards and it caught my eye.  I really loved it and watched the whole video.  I was hooked!  I wanted to make something like that!

I would like to say I saved or even took a photo of that first card I made but I didn't.  But I used a beautiful rose and leaves as my stamp and used 2 different colors.  I thought it was the most gorgeous thing ever!!!  LOL  I am sure it was secretly awful!  LOL.  I couldn't wait to give it to someone and that someone was my mother.  I was sooo proud to hand it to her and believe you me, she brought me down off my cloud 9 by opening it and looking at it.  When she finished she just laid it to the side and never said a word.  

Fast forward a couple years I decided to try the technique again for a contest and I won the contest with my card.  hahaha. I came home and kept trying.  It made me even more determined to be able to make beautiful cards.

Today, I am showing you another Triple Time Stamping card but this is for my best friend from birth.  We can go years and not see each other and pick up like we haven't missed a beat.  This sentiment by The Stamps of Life,Flip Flops 2, fits us perfect!

The Flip Flops is a stamp from the Scrapping For Less' June 2018 Flavor of the Month/Banana Split.  The stamp set is At the Beach by Scrapping for Less.

Recently, I became the owner of the new Catherine Pooler Inks.  I found this wonderful ,little, family-based, craft store that sells them a bit cheaper, called Del Bello's Designs.  They are the bomb!  I used the Midnight, Twilight, Juniper Mist, Limoncello and All That Jazz to do my stamping with.  Patty, the owner, is such a helpful, caring ,person and REALLY knows her Lavinia Stamps like the back of her hand!  LOL

I topped it off with sequins from another one of my Scrapping for Less Flavor of the Month Kits and called it a day.

I hope you enjoyed my card and how I started making cards.  I truly hope it inspires you to never give up even if you have a few you don't care for a long the way.


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Father's Day Card

Hello 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop Fans!  Christi here from Scrapping For Tranquility! I am here today to share a tutorial on a Father's Day card I put together.  I hope you enjoy it and maybe you can gain some inspiration for that father figure in your life!  

Here is the finished card we are going to make today.  It is a pair of overalls with a flannel shirt.  Although you can use any pattern paper to make a shirt with.  This just reminded me of my dad.  When picking your shirt paper, keep your dad in mind and pick what will suit him.

I started with what I use for skin tones and that is the 12 x 12 American Crafts Latte. I LOVE Latte for skin tones for with the right ink, you can make it a light skin tone or a darker skin tone.  I personally use Colorbox, Chalk, ink, Cat-eyes,  Creamy Brown.  

Using a paper trimmer, cut your skin tone down to 7" X 10 " piece.

 Score on the 10" side at 5".  Now here is where a lot of folks make a mistake, they want to fold into the score valley.  That makes your card stock peel and tear, at the fold.  Instead, you want to score and fold TOWARDS the MOUNTAIN of the score and use your bone folder to burnish your score line down securely.

Cut a piece of Denim card stock or paper to 5" X 7" .This is the back side of my denim.

Cut 2, 1" wide by 4" long stripes for the straps of the overhauls and set aside for later.

Cut a rectangle for the pocket of the overhauls in the denim paper/card stock at 2 1/2 " X  3".  Set aside.

Using a self healing mat and any kind of sharp pick, (I use a quilling pick I bought from Hobby Lobby.) prick holes for faux stitching around the edges of the overhauls, pocket and straps.  I tried to keep my holes at around 1/8 " apart.   Using a deep blue or any color that matches your "fabric" paper , use a gel pen to dot the holes you made in the paper to highlight them.  To finish the stitching take a white gel pen and connect all the dots together like stitches.  (See pictures that follow.)

Back to the pocket, on the 2 1/2 " side cut the bottom 2 corners at an angle where you are cutting off triangles.  Make sure to use a ruler so these are straight. (please note the stitching in this photo.)  I found at this point, it was easiest to stamp my sentiment on the pocket.  I used Momento Luxe, Wedding Dress, White to stamp my sentiment for on the denim, it seemed to show up the best.

Cut a 31/4" X  5" piece of pattern card stock for a shirt. This here is a plaid from the Echo Park LumberJack Collection.  Make a small cut at 2 1/2 " from each side of the 5 " side.  This will be the neck of your shirt.  Fold the slits back into triangles.  

If the other side of your card stock is a different print than your shirt side, cut two triangles to fit the folds and glue them onto the slits as shown.

Glue shirt down with double sided tape, making sure to line the top of the shirt with the top of your skin base.

Tape down the overhauls making sure to line them up at the bottom of the skin tone base.  Add your pocket with a small amount of glue around the inside of the pocket making sure not to glue the top of the pocket closed.  This is where you want to also line up your straps from the corner of your overhauls top to each corner of the card.  Cut any excess off the straps that needs to be.  You can use large gold brads to set off the strap "buttons" or if you were like me and were out of large Gold brads, I used large sparkly gold dots for my buttons.

I made my screw driver , wrench and hammer from SVG files from Cuddly Cute Designs.  Glued them into the top of my pocket.  The cardstock colors I used for the tools I will list in my supply list. This is my completed card.

12 X 12 Cardstock Shop Supplies Used:

American Crafts Latte

Echo Park LumberJack Collection

American Crafts Lemon

American Crafts Ash

American Crafts Graphite

I hope you really enjoyed this tutorial and learned something new and will apply this to your cardmaking.  Let me know if you use it and share with us!

Blessings!