Scrapbook Soup is now Make It Artsy

Over the last few years Scrapbook Soup have done more and more non-scrapbooking projects. So it should come as no surprise that the name of the show -- and the focus -- is being changed this year.

That's right! Scrapbook Soup is becoming Make It Artsy. It opens up a whole wide range of fun new projects and techniques to share. They are filming the first season of the new series in May and it will debut on TV in the Fall.

What do you think? I have seen a few of the previous recorded shows. The website is located here.

Laugher Shall Fuel Your Spirit's Engine

This journal page was created for the February Pick a Stick Challenge group on Facebook. This challenge group is like using craft supplies you have forgotten about. The prompts we had to use in the correct order are listed below. I didn't use the wild card when creating this page.

I think of this month's challenge as a collage project. I really felt out of my comfort zone when creating this page. Collage is defined as a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto your journal page.  Generally I go through magazines and tear out images that catch my eye by their shape, color or the emotion the image conveyed.  I store my images in one box and words/phases in another one. This makes it easier when searching for the perfect pieces. 

The item I used in order of the challenge: die cut flowers, my ephemera piece was a fortune cookie message [Laugher shall fuel your spirit's engine], I used pattern paper and white sharpie for the polka dots, step 4 I created a stencil using a circle punch and then applied yellow acrylic paint, I colored the bird/flower image with copic markers and then fussy cut it out for step 6, I add an mountain image from a magazine, the ticket stud and heart was given to me from a happy mail exchange with Debra, for something old I randomly stamped an background stamp in Tuxedo Mento Black ink. Final step was to add black shading around the bird and the edges of the journal page.

Challenge I participated in:

Kraftin Kimmie Challenge - Anything Goes (W)

Flowering Fields

Today, I'm sharing a sweet card idea using the Stampin Up Flowering Fields stamps.  I just adore this stamp set. I love a floral set where you can layer up images and create different textures. To create this card stamped the floral images using Memento Tuxedo black ink across a white cardstock panel. I coloured this first card direct to the cardstock with my Copic markers. I then cut the main image panel in to 3 equal pieces. Mounted the stamped images to black cardstock.

Challenge I participated in:

heARTful Challenge - Anything Goes + a stamp (March 5)

Spring has Sprung

Here's a cute and simple spring décor item created by up-cycling a Target dollar spot sign.  I love visiting the Target dollar spot to see all the neat and inexpensive items you can purchase/play with.  I bought a pre-painted box sign which had the saying, 'You can do it.' painted on the top.  I decided to paint over the message in purple acrylic paint and add a glitter circle and their dollar spot Easter/spring stickers.  For a finishing touch I added enamel dots.  I have placed this cute décor piece on my coffee bar station. 

What have you purchased from the Target dollar spot lately?

Art is Sunshine

French Provinical

I love mixing different elements like paper, punches and embellishments. The layering of stamped image gives this card an elegant effect with very little effort. I created the flower embellishment using the folded/rolled ribbon method.  You can view a how to video below.  

How to make rolled ribbon flowers.

Challenges I participated in:

Cute Card Thursday - Floral #466

Little Miss Muffet - Anything Goes (2 wk)

 

Adventure Mixed Journal Page

I started off my 2017 by participating in the 'Pick A Stick' challenge on Facebook.  The January #PASCATC0117 prompts are listed below. We needed to complete them in the correct order. I choose not to use the 'Wild Card' for this month's challenge.   

I saw this photo of the bear in one of my photography magazines and thought it represented my word for 2017 - adventure. For step 9 I used a coffee stamp and Memento ink. The background was created with green, orange and brown acrylic paint. The lace was added to a front of a tag and for the extra adhesive I sprinkled fine glitter. 

 Noticed the tag was secured with metal hinges.  I just love how this turned out.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. - Seth Godin



Birds of a Feather

This card is a simple layout using pattern paper and a stamped bird image. The image was colored with Copics. I also stamped the image again and cut out one of the birds. The layer effects adds some contrast to a simple design.

Challenges: 

Creative with Stamps - #8 Use a bird stamp (Nov)

Addicted to Stamps - #221 Anything goes (W)

Fab 'n' Funky - #328 Things with wings (W)