Wednesday's Border Punch and Decorative Scissors Projects

Kerri used her "Victorian" style decorative edge scissors to create the photo corners. She also used her MS Double Loop border/corner punch combo set to create the edging on the background paper. Then for some fun, she cut 5 strips of 1 1/2 inch x 7inch paper and used her double loop border punch down each side. She folded the strips in half and added some ribbon and buttons to create the large flower.

Jessica used the trimmed edge of a sheet of die cut My Mind's Eye paper to accent her scalloped border and deckle scissor accent on the manilla tag.

Sasya used the Martha Stewart border punch, she punched the top and bottom of the card.

Beth pulled out one of her Fiskars border punches to dress up this card and used the Gypsy with the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge to cut and layer three scallop borders for this retro-feel Thank You card.

Tuesday's Border Punches and Decorative Scissors

Christine used decorative scissors to cut strips of the patterned paper to use as a backdrop.
She used mutiple items from the July kit from Lucky Girl Crafts to create this layout.

Sara used a combination of small and large scalloped boarder punches to create her boarder, matting and bird house.

Lisa S used a border punch to add some subtle detail to her card.

Sue made the lollipop by cutting a 3 inch circle and then spiral cutting it with a scalloped edge scissors. She placed a pop dot behind the center to make it stand out and inked the edges in pink. For the stick, she rolled up a piece of scrap paper (white side out) and added some ribbon to the stick. Enjoy!

Robin used her decorative scissors by provo craft to create the 1/2 circle and the border strips at the bottom of the photos.

Sandra used various border punches from Stampin' Up to create this card. The cardstock is Bashful Blue, and the borders were punched out of the same cardstock and then trimmed down to a smaller width. This card was inspired by a scrapbook page in last months Creating Keepsakes magazine.

Monday's Border Punches and Decorative Scissors

Kim cut a 1 X 12 strip of patterned paper then used a border punch down one side. She then cut a diagonal at the right end and folded the paper in at an angle until she had a round flower.

Deanne used an old pair of Provo Craft scissors to make all the scalloped borders on this simple card. She used "Cupcake," an image from this month's sponsor: Squigglefly.

Barb used a Martha Stewart border punch to create a framed mat for her photos. She also used a MS punch for the strips of papers under the photos. The flowers are from this months sponsor - Squigglefly! Barb used watercolor pencils to color the flowers and added a paper flower and gem stone to the center of each of the flowers.

Denise used a border punch along the top and bottom of her 5x7 picture. Then she added copper pearls inside the smaller holes in the bottom border punch.

Flower Challenge Winners

Grand Prize Winner: Leanne

Carol

Sarah

Susan

Congrats to all the winners and a special thanks to all who entered this week! We enjoyed looking thru all your inspiring work! Winners email me at practicalscrappers@gmail.com to get your blinky!

Embossing Flowers

Well, Amanda has created another video for us this week.. Hope you enjoy it:0)

This week's challenge is Flowers

You can incorporate flowers any way you want: use patterned paper with flowers on it, use a digi with a flower on it, use paper flowers, etc! Just make sure to use up some of those supplies!

If you are interested in designing for us we will be starting a new design team call later this week! Stay tuned!

Again this week our Grand Prize Winner will receive their choice of 3 digis from our June sponsor Squigglefly. The deadline for entry is Saturday, June 26th at 5:OO ET.

Sketch Friday!

Ready to start the week-end out scrapping? Here's a great sketch from Lisa H. to get us going. Remember to post your pages to Mr Linky by June 30th to be eligible for the prize from Lucky Girl Crafts.

 

Here are some wonderful examples from our Design Team:

Lisa H.

Denise

 Lisa B.

Karen

Sue

Sasya

Friday's Flower Projects

Amanda used store bought flowers on her tree.

Carolina used different kinds of flowers from her stash to alter these clips and make them photo-holders. She used rub-ons, buttons, ribbon and badges to embellish the flowers.

Lisa B used some of Prima flowers to complete this card. She used Vivenne & Friends Stamp set from Peachy Keen.

Friday Flower Projects

Caroline wanted to use up some flowers from her ever growing pile. She simply used two Prima flowers and joined them together using a Maya Road pin.

Thursday's Flower Projects

Erin used an assortment of sand colored flowers by Prima to create her beach inspired wreath. She accented the flowers with pearls, gems and stickers.

Tanya wanted to show the various ways one could incorporate flowers into a card so she took out her felt and her Sizzix die and made the triad of felt flowers. She also used flowered design paper, a metal flower charm, a sentiment that included the word flowers, and a cute image of a girl picking flowers.

Karen found a fabulous tutorial on making fabric flowers and she decided to make them and use them for this challenge. Each of the flowers was handmade using fabric and attached with very strong glue to her page. See her blog for more on making these fabric flowers.

Lisa H used two silk flowers layered on top of one another and attached with a large eyelet to accent her journaling quote.

Pia used small paper flowers and added doodled stems to them.

Title in English: Best Friends

Thanks to some inspiration she got from over at Prima, Pam used this week’s Flower Challenge to create this hot air balloon. Using a Martha Stewart paper lantern and some sticky back canvas, she created the balloon and basket. She finished off this project by using glimmer mist to add the color and prima flowers and bling to add the pizzazz.

Wednesday's Flower Projects

Kerri used an SVG file from My Scrap Chick to cut this adorable little gift bag with her cricut. She then decorated both the gift tag and the bag with tiny cornflower blue and white tuelle rosettes bunches that she had found in her flower stash from a wedding album that she had made two years ago.

Beth combined flowers that she cut using the new Cindi Loo Cartridge with some sweet mini-chipboard flower stickers to tackle this challenge. She also used patterned paper featuring flowers for the title of this layout that she cut from the Give a Hoot Cartridge.

Sasya used three Prima flowers for her card, she covered them with glue glitter to brighten them up.

Jessica used flowers in muted tones coordinated to her patterned paper to accent her son's layout. To keep the flowers from being too "girly", she used plain brads and earth-toned buttons instead of flashy bling.

Tuesday's Flower Projects

Sara used a variety of card stock and fabric flowers layered with other embellishments. They were then applied on top of a flower sticker border.

Robin used some blue scrap paper to create the blue flowers. She cut a 2 1/2 inch circle then spiral cut it. Next she coiled it around until it was in the shape she desired and bent some of the corners back to give the look of a rose. Robin also used some random white flowers and prima flowers to fill in the gaps.

Sue used a small flower as a "dot" on the "I' on the baby card.

For the gift, she cut 6" strips of paper and created a border on each edge with the Fiskar's border punch then folded and layered them with petals she handcut from coordinating paper. She used two flower punches to create the center and then layered everything over a large flower brad and attached it to the package.

Sandra used a digital image from Squigglefly for this card. She printed it out on white cardstock and then coloured it in with markers. She printed outanother copy and then coloured and cut out some flowers out of the first one and popped them up on foam dots.

Lisa S. matched the flowers in the image with flower patterned paper and a flower charm.

Monday's Flower Projects

Kim made one of those fun rolled paper flowers to finish off her card featuring one of the digi images you can pick up at Squigglefly. She used just a hint of green ink along the edges of the flower to give some definition.

Barb used several premade Prima flowers on this layout but she did make the large orange flower and small orange bud from patterned paper. She inked the petals with brown ink and sprayed the flower with Glimmer Mist to add some sparkle!

Deanne made a "melty flower" as the focus of the card. She also used a flower metal brad and flower papers. The paper has been accented with orange gems to pull it all together

Denise's favorite embellishment is flowers. She decided to use some rhinestone flowers that she has had in her stash for a couple of years to add some sparkle to her page.

Corinna incorporated flowers ino her layout by using strips of floral patterned paper, a row of Prima flowers, and put flower rub-ons on her photo corners.