Friday's Stamping Projects

Jessi layered stamped flower images to create 3D embellishments.  She used paper-piecing and buttons to add a little extra detail to her card.

Thursday's Stamping Projects

Pia used a technique originally shown by Heidi Swapp called "Masking and Stamping", she used ceveral of her favorite stamps in the background of her photo. Title in English: Timeless Charm.

Wednesday's Stamping Projects

On this LO, Kerri used the Stampin' Up 4x5 "Canvas" background stamp to create the matting behind her photo. She stamped with her Versa Mark then heat embossed with black embossing powder. She also used another Stampin' Up stamp (from Looks Like Spring Collection) to create the background on her yellow cardstock.

Tuesday's Stamps Projects

Annie is so glad to use this stamp (she got this over a year ago) for the first time for this project. This card celebrates the gift of friendship. She has dolled up her punched monarch and glazed it with glossy accent for the shine.

Monday's Stamp Projects

For this spooktactular layout, Kim used some Halloween acrylic stamps from CTMH to create accents for page. The jumping spiders are stamped directly onto the patterned paper. The two spider webs are stamped on bamboo paper with black ink, then trimmed to fit the page

Ribbon Challenge Winners

Grand Prize Winner:  Libeeti

This Week's Challenge is Ribbon

I don't know about the rest of you, but I have drawers full of ribbon, boxes of ribbon, bags of ribbon, and jars with pieces of ribbon that I definitely need to use up. So open your drawers, dig in those bags, and pull out those pieces from your jars to show us your creative way of using ribbon.

Sketch Friday

Happy Friday everyone! This week's awesome sketch is from Saysa. I don't know about you, but I'm really hoping to get time to play with this one! Show us what you can do with our September sketches before Friday October 1st. for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor Meljens Designs. Check out their great selection of digital stamps!

 We've got a great example to get you started from design team member Corinna:

Corinna

Post yours below to Mr. Linky!

Friday's Ribbon Projects

Tish used ribbons as a frame around two sides of her focal picture, weaving the ends at the corner. She also tied a little scrap of ribbon around one of the letters in her title as an accent. She used a digital stamp called "Kitty Play" from this month's sponsor, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps. It was so perfect as an accent for her pictures!

Thursday's Ribbon Projects

Erin used scraps of ribbon to make a patchwork collage around her photos. A great way to use up bits and pieces! She also used the Pumpkin Magic digital stamp from our sponsor Robyn's Fetish, printing it onto patterned paper and then trimming it out

Wednesday's Ribbon Projects

Recognize those papers? Kerri was being practical and immediately used the scraps left over from her button LO project last week to create her card for the ribbon challenge this week. Kerri went ribbon crazy this week and you might have a hard time telling. She first used blue gross grain ribbon to create some separation down the center that she then hand-stitched some red floss down the center to draw the eyes in. Then she used some red yellow checked self-adhesive ribbon to create a layer of matting behind her digi stamp, "Love Ewe", from this month's sponsor, Robyn's Fetish. Next, she used that same ribbon to create a bow in the center of her card. And finally, she balanced off the left corner with a ribbon flower she created with the two different ribbons she used on this card...Whew!! That's a lot of ribbon talk!

Tuesday's Ribbon Projects

Always a theme scrappers Christine braided her ribbon and used it as a circle border for her pictures.  It fit perfectly with her pictures of her little girl with braids.

Monday's Ribbon Projects

Kim used some very beautiful ribbon to create a gathered layer to draw the eye to the photo. She also used a twisted ribbon technique to the side of mat, topped off with a deco hat pin.

Buttons Challenge Winners

Grand Prize Winner: Lori

This Week's Challenge is Buttons!

Button, button, whose got a button(or a lot of them)? Buttons have become a trend in scrapbooking and as you seek out paper lines and manufactures these days you find that most of them have cordinating buttons to match those lines. This week we would like you to pull out those buttons and show us new creative ways to use them up on your layouts, cards, or other projects. I think you will find throughout the week some great inspiration from our design team on ways you can use up those buttons in your stash.
Lacking some inspiration on how to use those buttons? Here are some great ideas that were put together from our design team members chat on our message board. Here are my top ten favorite ideas:

Sketch Friday

It's time for the week-end, and time for a new sketch! Show us what you can do with our September sketches for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor Meljens Designs. Check out their great selection of digital stamps! This week's sketch comes from Pia. What a great sketch to incorporate some digital designs into!

Here's an example from DT member Wendy to get your ideas flowing:

Post your creations below to Mr. Linky for your chance to win!

Friday's Button Projects

Lisa B took a frame that she bought for a $1 from her local craft store chain. Added some CTMH designer paper to the wood from with Mod Podge. She then sanded it down and decorated it with various buttons from PaperTrey Ink as well as some random buttons she found.

Thursday's Button Projects

For the buttons challenge this week, Amy used some yellow and orange buttons to make a sun for her Fun in the Sun Fun-Raiser layout.

Wednesday's Button Projects

Kerri used her decorative number buttons (that she got out of a clearance bin for 50 cents months ago)as a way to easily pull out her hidden journaling tag and also as embellishments on her "growing" tree.

Tuesday's Button Projects

Christine used buttons to add dimension to the cute moon and caterpillar on her patterned paper.

Monday's Button Layouts

Kim used some white pearl buttons in the lower corner of this layout to balance it out. The pearly white was perfect for the "black tie" photo!

White Core or Color Core Challenge Winners

Grand Prize Winner:  Sylvia

How awesome are those candles!!!  This card totally wowed me with the creativity!

Check out the rest of our top entries this week!

This Week's Challenge is White/Color Core Cardstock

This week we are sharing one of my favorite products to use, white/color core cardstock. Just so there isn't any confusion about what white/color core cardstock is, I thought I explain and share a little information from the Core'dinations website with you. White or color core cardstock has an inside (core) which is either white, or in the case of Core'dinations cardstock, a different color than what is on the outside of it. To learn more about Core'dinations cardstock, and some great information on how to use it, you can check out the link here.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor Practical Scrappers for the month of September.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations,

was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib.

Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5

digital stamps or digital paper sets of their choice.

You will see five of Robyn's stamps being featured throughout the week by our design team in their weekly projects-- be sure to keep an eye out for them!

You will have until Saturday, September 11, 2010 @ 5pm EST to enter your project in the inlinkz below.

Sketch Friday!

This week's sketch comes to us courtesy of Ann-Katrin. A great sketch to start off the week-end scrapping if you ask me. Show us what you can do with our September sketches for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor Meljens Designs. Check out their great selection of digital stamps!

Friday's White or Color Core Projects

Lisa B used whatever scraps she found on her craft table to make this card. The brown card stock is from CTMH as well as the stamp. She scored the card stock on her Scor-Pal and tore the bottom so that the white core of the card stock could show thru. She used scraps that were left over from other projects laying around to complete the rest of the card. The sentiment stamp is from PaperTrey Ink.

Thursday

Erin used Core Dinations cardstock for this birthday layout. She used a file and a Cuttlebug embossing folder to achieve the background texture, and passed the red cardstock through a paper crimper before trimming and sanding it. The digital image is Choo-Choo Charlie from this month's sponsor Robyn's Fetish. Erin printed an extra image and trimmed it to add more train cars.

Wednesday's White or Color Core Projects

Kerri embossed Core'dinations orange cardstock with her Cuttlebug "With Gratitude" embossing folder combo set. She then sanded the embossing with a emery board to reveal the lighter oranger core. Kerri also used another one of Robyn's Fetish digital stamps called "Daisy Days" that she colored with her Copics.

Tuesday's White Core & Color Core Projects

Christine loves polka dots so she used her swiss dots folder to emboss white core paper from DCWV.  She then sanded it to bring out the white core.  The sound of sanding paper to her is as bad as nails on a chalkboard...yuck!

Monday's Color or White Core Cardstock Projects

Kim used her favorite white core paper technique on this card. She used this beautiful petal paper from Close to My Heart, ran it through the Cuttlebug, then lightly sanded the embossed design. She really wanted the distressed embossing to be the highlight of this card.

Prepare to be wowed! White Pen Challenge Winners

If you ever needed ideas on using a white pen on your projects, this weeks entries have got 'em!  Since we only picked one last week, and frankly I couldn't decide beyond these five, we've got lots of winners this week!  Enjoy!

Grand Prize Winner:  Ujjwal

I could not believe that this patterned paper was created by Ujjwal drawing it with her white gel pen.  Wowzers!

Have you checked out the message boards lately...

We wanted to share a few of the awesome projects we've found on there lately.  Hop on over and check out the fun!  And make sure to say "hi" while you are there!

Jessi

This Week's Challenge is White Pen/White Markers

Time to pull out those "white writing instruments" and show us what creative ways you can use them. Some of you may be asking is it okay to use white pencils? Of course it is! If you write with it and it's white, show us what you can do!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor Practical Scrappers for the month of September.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations,

was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib.

Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5

digital stamps or digital paper sets of their choice.

You will have until Saturday, September 4, at 5pm EST to enter your project in the inlinkz below.

Just a reminder: Our monthly bonus challenge is still going on and you have until Tuesday, August 31st 5pm EST to enter your project. All you have to do is include water somehow on your project! You can get more details by clicking on the Monthly Bonus Challenge icon on the left side bar!

September Winners

The Bonus Challenge Winner was Christy S

The Sketch Challenge Winner was Svetik

Send me an email at practicalscrappers@gmail.com to claim your prizes!

Sketch Friday!

Ready for some week-end inspiration? Here is a terrific card sketch from Sasya! Not a card maker? feel free to adapt it for a layout.

Here are some examples from our design team. Add yours to Mr. Linky to be eligible to win this month's prize from Meljens Designs!

Beth

Annie

Tish

Penny

Alanna

Melissa

We want to see what you do with the sketch! Post a link to yours below.

Have a great labor day week-end!

Friday's White Pen Projects....

Lisa B used a digital stamp from Sassy Studios called Sailor Honey to complete this card. She accented Honey's eyes & teeth with a white pen as well as adding faux stitching around the edge of the card.


One of Erin Mc's must have products is the Signo white gel pen! She loves using it for doodling, fake stitching, and especially journaling. For this layout she used the white pen to journal on the dark brown cardstock.


Jessi used a white pen/marker to outline the paper flower and the title lettering. The paper flower was made using a heart punch and a paper lunch bag.


Melissa created this adorable thank you card using Robin's Fetish Digital Stamps, a white Signo Pen, Prism Colored pencils, and a few scraps of paper and ribbon left over from layouts she made recently. Melissa printed out her image, then colored it in with her pencils. To create the sentiment, she used the white pen to stamp the sentiment on her card. Instead of adding ink from an inkpad, she colored the stamp with the white pen, and stamped immediately on her cardstock.

Tish had a lot of fun using her white pen for drawing shapes with stencils and doodling on her layout. (You can even see hidden little messages within the doodling!)

Thursday's White Pen Projects...

Erin used her white Uniball signo to customize the pleated ribbon border by Pink Paislee.
She waited for the ink to dry before going over the letters a few times to get a more opaque effect. You can also see she used her white pen as an "eyebrow pencil" if you check out the title letters carefully!


For the white pen challenge this week, Amy used her white pen for doodling on this layout. She also used it for some shadowing on the boots.


Penny used Robyn' s Fetish Angie Angel digi-stamp for her central image. Angie has become the angel of poinsettia's in this picture. Penny used Cricut papers, the Cricut holly leaves embossing folder, punches for the leaves and the flowers. Martha Stewart color pencils, signo gel white pen, stickles and a Stampin' Up star button to create her project.


Pia used a Signo White uniball pen to draw this guitar birthday card on a black cardstock.

Wednesday's White Pen Projects....

Kerri colored the digital image "A Little Birdie Told Me" from this months sponsor, Robyn's Fetish, with her copic markers. After she was done, she used her white gel pen to doddle on the bird as well as write her sentiment.


Beth was very excited to try out a new product for this White Pen challenge. Recently she received Cri-Kits from the manufacturer to test out on her Cricut Expression machine and this project put the new product to great use. Beth replaced the blade of the machine with the Cri-Kits pen holder and the white pen from their pastel pen collection. She created the two different patterned papers you see here by selecting images from the Cindi Loo cartridge. The pen draws the image onto the paper instead of cutting it out like the blade would. She used this same technique to draw the sentiment for this card. A sheer white ribbon and some rhinestones were the perfect finishing touches to the black and white gel pen card.




Gladys create a front page of illustration of a house with roof and two windows, sun and clouds and a couple (boy and girl) in front of their house walking along the road . All using versamark and white embossing powder to heat set. The road and roof are drawn by white pen. To finish off with a hero art heart shape pearl. Lastly punch border with fiskar.


For Jessica's layout, she used her favorite white pen - a Signo uniball - to add some doodled stars, faux stitching, polkadots and journaling to this layout of her now-11-year-old son.