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!

Pattercrafts 500 YouTube Subscriber Hop!

Hello fellow crafters!  If you arrived from Tracy Shultz's Youtube channel, then you are in the right place!I am Christi from Scrapping For Tranquility WELCOME!

We have come together to celebrate the wonderful accomplishment of Christine Patterson and her reaching 500 YouTube subscribers!  WHOHOO Christine! Way To Go!  
The hop candy, from each blog one random name will be drawn and then put into a one large drawing for a $50.00 Gift Code to Scrapping For Less!  What a fun prize!

To celebrate this accomplishment,I am all about congratulations.  In honor of Christine I made a congratulations wedding card.  It is approaching summer and doesn't everyone at some point in the summer need a wedding card?  Here is what I made:

Starting with a piece of 6" X 12" of American Crafts Precision White Card Stock, from 12" X 12" Card Stock Shop, I scored it at 6" and made a 6" X 6" Card base.  Then taking a 5.75" X 5.75 " piece of American Crafts Vanilla Card Stock, I made this my first layer.

Using an SVG Cut file from Pazzels Craft Room, I made three different sizes of  stitched, scalloped hearts and layered them together.  

The top layer being the smallest of the hearts I used a sentiment I had, from a Card making magazine, I had bought years ago, on this heart. I pop-dotted it so it stood out just a bit.  Using a few Prima Flowers and some Rhinestones from Eyelet Outlet I had in my stash I finished the card up to my liking.

I hope you enjoyed my card and finish hopping along with us! Your next stop is Kimberly Smith

Leave me a message and let me know what you thought!  I love to hear your thoughts!

Congratulations again Christine!

We are sooo proud of you!

Mother's Day Card

Hello, 12 X 12 Cardstock Shop Fans!  Christi here from Scrapping For Tranquility to bring you some inspiration for those Mother's day projects or cards!  

I did a little bit of both, a project within a card.  Take a look:

I am lucky to have a birth mom and an adopted Mama.  So I made them each these fun interactive book style cards with a ribbon to tie them shut.

When you open them up this is what you will find:

Stunning pop-up flowers just for mom!  Now, what do you think she will think of these beautiful flowers that will not die?  LOL

I bought the pattern from The Cutting Cafe.  She has some AMAZING files and even some beautiful embroidery items in her shop.  

I used colored pencils to outline my flowers and then I chose a watercolor pencil to accent the center of the flowers and paintbrush with a dab of water to finish them. 

Here is the items I used from 12x12 Cardstock Shop:

American Crafts 12 X 12 Key Lime

American Crafts Precision White Cardstock

American Crafts 12 X 12 Lavender Cardstock

American Crafts 12 X 12 Leaf Cardstock 

Regina, from The Cutting Cafe, has given us permission to post the link to her  "How-to" video, for the Pop-up Flower card. This is where you can also purchase the file.  

Pop Up Flower Card How-To

I hope you enjoyed my mother's day cards today!  Leave me a message below and let me know what you think!

Gerda Steiner's Lovely Panda's-Valentine's Card

Good Evening!  Stopping in to share a card I made my husband for Valentine's Day this year. 

I started with the base from this easel card from My Scrap Chick called the Birds & Garden Gate Easel Card.  I changed a lot of things.  Taking away the birds, the colors and the gate didn't open.  But I made all that happen.

Then taking the Lovely Panda's Set from Gerder Steiner Stamps,  I did this:

Using Red , Black, White and Green AC Cardstock, I made the Easel card base .  I took the adorable peeking Panda from the lovely stamps set, glued him to the front right of the fence as if he is peeking around the fence.

Using Annie's Paper Boutique's , You've Got Mail Stamp Set, I used the "Special Delivery" on a sign for the fence and "Your Going to Love this," for the main sentiment.

Gently fussy cutting the right side of the fence between the panda and the fence post, I made it where the fence would open.  I creased the left hand side of the fence so it would "hinge".

As you open the card , You will find the large panda from the Lovely Panda's Stamp set and the bunch of hearts!  How cute are they?

Now you will see this adorable sentiment by, Art Impressions, Valentines Bears Set saying, "Paws-ing to say Happy Valentine's Day!".

Now isn't this just too precious?????

I loved how this card turned out!

Better yet my husband loved it too!

Hope your Valentine's day was Super Great!

Supplies used:

My Scrap Chick

Bird's & Garden Gate Easel Card

Gerda Steiner Stamps

Lovely Panda's

Annie's Paper Boutique

You've Got Mail Stamp Set

Art Impressions

Valentine's Bear Stamp Set

Blessings,

Entering into the following Contest:

Gerda Steiner Designs February  2019 Valentine's Challenge

You are Magical-GDT for Miss Kate Cuttables

Happy New Year Miss Kate Fans !  Christi from Scrapping For Tranquility  starting the 2019 Guest Designers off this year.  What an honor to be joining Miss Kate's Guest Design Team for the 3rd year in a row!  I want to take just a second to say to her, Thank you soooo much for gifting me with this honor!  I have really enjoyed the last 3 years and hope to see 3 more! 

On to my project,

I am a little behind on my scrapbooking.  This is my 24 year old's newborn pictures when she was in the neonatal intensive care unit for being a preemie.  When I found these piecings of the gorgeous Sparkle Unicorn, Unicorn Head and Unicorn the title of "You Are Magical",  I knew Just what I wanted to do.

  

She was sooo tiny and had no fat on her she looked like a little Gremlin.  These photos, they had finally taken her off all the tubes and such and to me this was just "Magical".  Hence the title!  

You are Magical Title

The fantasy of the gorgeous unicorns and the beautiful stars was just how I was feeling at that moment.

Sparkle Unicorn
I used a white, lightly glittered cardstock for the the white and all the other cardstock was American Crafts textured cardstock.

The pattern cardstock I used is Doodlebug's Fairy Tale Line.

Unicorn Head

I used the Unicorn Head on the banners to give it extra dimension and to even the layout out.

Unicorn

To finish the layout  I put the Unicorn rearing up on the second page and called it finished.

I really was pleased how this newborn layout came out.  Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Blessing!