My School Days Memory Box - Kids Class

Hi everyone, it's Rachael, and I'd like to invite all you kids, and kids at heart, to join me for my final kids class of the summer.  We are going to be making a School Days Memory Box.  This project was once again inspired by my children.  My kids, particularly my son, love boxes.  He currently has five or six boxes  holding various treasures in his room. 

Last year was the first year all three of my children attended school, and I really wasn't prepared for the shear amount of "stuff" that entailed.  Valentines day cards, tooth certificates, teddy bear picnic ribbons, and countless other precious momentos that seemed to pile up around the house.  With this in mind I decided to create these memory boxes for each of my children to organize all of their keepsakes for the upcoming school year. 

 

I am offering a color palette for boys and girls, because I just couldn't resist the coordinating My Minds Eye Kate and Co. paper.  Each child will also be able to label the front of the box with their name, the school year, and their grade for that year.  These boxes will fit nicely on their closet shelves for easy storage and access.

I hope you can join me on Thursday, August 22nd at 10:30 a.m. for this fun class.  The cost of the class is $15, and kits will be available.  You can call Scrapdoodles to sign-up, or stop in and take a look at the boxes in person, my pictures don't do them justice.  When you sign up please be sure to choose either the boy or girl color scheme,  provide the name of the child, and the grade they will be in for the 2013-2014 school year.  Happy Crafting!

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Chalkboard Style Name Tags

Hi There!

I wanted to share a little project I worked on recently- our new store name tags!

Name tags in general need to be easy to read and let people know that whoever is wearing one is an employee.  Since we are a scrapbooking store, we needed to kick ours up a notch and also make them creative and cute!

I have been loving the chalkboard craze that is popular right now and decided to use that as my inspiration for our new tags.  With only a few supplies and my stash of  Lawn Fawn stamps I got to work creating!

I used Lawn Fawn's Quinn's ABC's to stamp our names.  I used smaller stamps from many of their other sets as accents to make each tag unique.  I added fish and bubbles  from the Critters Under the Sea set to Andrea's!  Pam's features the happy sunshine from the Sunny Skies set!

The chalkboard look is easy to achieve!  You need a few products: cute stamps, black cardstock, Versamark ink, white pigment ink, white embossing powder, a white pen, and a sponge or blending tool.  I also used a white mist to add some speckles.  Here are the steps I took to create this tag:

1. Cut or die cut tag from smooth black cardstock.  Punch a circle and adhere it where you want to add your ribbon later.  Cut off excess circle bit.

2. Stamp your name using Versamark ink and emboss using white embossing powder and your heat gun.  I did as many letters as I could in one shot but if I had to stamp it twice because the name was longer, I embossed between stamping.  I also used an Embossing Buddy to keep the stray embossing powder flecks away.

3. Stamp your accent stamps using Versamark ink and emboss using white embossing powder.

4. Doodle a line around the outside edge with your white pen.  You can use a ruler if you have a hard time with straight lines but I like the imperfect look you get without one even more!

5.  Once your pen work is dry, get out your sponge or blending tool and your white ink.  Sponge around the edges first, rubbing towards the center.  Lightly sponge some ink in a few different spots as well to create that dirty chalkboard look

6.  Flick a little bit of white mist on to the tag if you like that look!  Finish off your tags with pretty ribbon and twine!

Now just because we made name tags with this fun technique doesn't mean you have to!  I think it would work great on cards, scrapbook pages and on Project Life inserts!  I hope we've inspired you to get out your stamps and try the chalkboard technique!

Thanks for stopping by today!

-tessa

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Bird Cage Wall Hanging

Hello everybody!  Pat here. And I have another class coming up on April 7.  In this class, we will do many "layers"....a stencil for misting; a stencil for embossing paste; stamping; sprays; glitter; stickles; and fibers....WOW!  Talk about "mixed media"...it's so much fun. And you will walk out with a pretty wall hanging.  Supplies needed for this class are as follows:

• Basic tool kit...
• double-sided scotch tape
• regular scotch tape
• spatula
• 1/8 in score tape (or similar)
• glue runner
• hole punch (if you have one)

Some of you bought the bird cage stencil and the Donna Downey hexagon stencil...bring them if you have them...Of course I'll have mine as well...teehee....

We will be using silver embossing paste; American Crafts aqua fine glitter and silver fine glitter;aqua stickles; Art Anthology Glorious spray; Dylusions turquoise spray; pink liquid pearls; small bird stamps, archival black ink, plus 2 stencils.

Check out the photograph below or stop by the store to take a closer look.

Sunday,
April 7, at 1:00pm.
Teacher Pat
Cost:  $15.00

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Design Team Wednesday #2

Make your own Disney Princesses autograph book

Any Disney Princess would be exited to autograph this super cute pink book!!! I used the KaiserCraft crown mini album. The paper is from Pebbles's "Ever After" collection.  I also used the flourishes, bling, and flowers from KaiserCraft.  The die cuts are all from the Cameo.  I am learning so much from this AWESOME tool!!! (Can you tell how excited I am about the machine?)


This book will also be in the store this weekend. So come on by and check it out!


~Tiffany

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Design Team Wednesday with Tiffany

Disney!!!

I love Disney so much! We just got back and of course I wanted to make a mini album.  I used my newest tool to create almost everything for this album, the Silhouette Cameo.  Do you know how awesome this machine is?! Not only does it have images you can download, but you can also create your images if you can't find what you are looking for.  I made my own Mickey ears by welding three circles together.  You can also use any true type font from the your files or download from the internet.  

The paper I used for the album was from Creative Imaginations.  Of course you know me I always have to use some Tim Holtz Distressing Ink and Stickles!!!


Come by the store and the girls would love to show all the amazing things the Cameo can do. They will  also be able to help you with the paper.  The project will be in the store for you to get an up close look and take some of your own pics this weekend! 


I hope I have inspired you to create!
~Tiffany

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