Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Empower Everyone Art Journal Page with Karen Bearse

Ever have one of those periods in your life when you realize some self-improvement should be the order of the day? I find sometimes the daily grind of life brings me down. I start focusing on the negative because that is what surrounds me. The media, drivers that want to run you off the road so they can get where ever they are going first, obligations pulling in every direction. Times like these I sometimes find myself sucked into a vacuum of negativity. Before I know it I am a member of their team. It really can be a struggle to stay positive, look on the bright side, and be kind. I find art journal is a great way to help bring me back to the person I want to be not what society is trying to make me. Today was a little exercise in art therapy.


One of the best ways to get out of a negative slump is to look outward. That is what this page is reminding me. Empower Everyone. Sometimes it is easier to empower other people than yourself. The over flow creates positivity within. Positivity is contagious. Thinking along those lines I chose the Barbed Wire Circle Frame chippies as my main focus.


Using the bright vibrant Dylusions paints, smoothed on my gesso covered page with a cosmetic sponge. Did you know Southern Ridge now has stencils? For my background I spritzed black through the Bubble Wrap stencil. I forgot I wanted to use the black letters so needing to lighten the images I spritz with some white. The stencil was not lined up exactly and the result is kinda cool.


The chippies were painted with the Dylusions paint & a foam sponge. I cut the circle in half, wanting the words to be the main focus and adhered it with glossy accents. After everything was adhered it felt like something was missing. I added some distress ink on a dabber using the Navajo stencil. Using irresistible embellisher around the words helped them look embedded. Finished the page off by sketchy drawing around the edge & colorizing the word Every. Just a quick fun therapeutic page! I hope you have time to get inky this week!

Southern Ridge Supplies Used:



Other Supplies Used:

- Ranger Ink: Dylusions Paints, Dylusions Sprays, Distress Ink and Glossy accents
- Dabber and foam
- Words by Sticker Nation
- Black Gel pen
- Irresistible embellisher in copper.


Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the 
Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

- Karen



Monday, July 25, 2016

Authentic Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello ladies!


Thank you for joining me today on the blog!

What’s summer without a little fishing? Well, in my family of 3 men, summer is all about fishing! Southern Ridges’ fishnet chipboard is the perfect accent for a fishing page.


I used the fishnet chipboard in its original form. I simply cut the chipboard to the size I wanted. The Authentic chipboard word ended up looking like wood grain, it was a great oops! I swiped my Walnut Distress Ink across the chipboard. There were a few pieces of shredded paper bits on my ink pad from distressing the edges of my paper and they were wiped across the chipboard. It gave a great, unexpected effect!


The Pine Branches chipboard were simply stained with Walnut Distress Stain. These are definitely a new favourite of mine! I love the delicate detail in them. They will add the perfect touch to so many pages!

Southern Ridge Chipboard Used: 


Other Products Used:

- 7 Gypsies Paper and word stickers
- Washi Tape
- Kraft Core Cardstock
- Hemp
- Reinforcement
- Edge Distressor
- Walnut Distress Ink
- Walnut Distress Stain
- Stapler

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me!

Happy Creating!

- Charlene



Friday, July 22, 2016

Live in the Present, Dream in the Future Tag with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here, and I'm up on the blog today to share with you some more inspiration for our current monthly challenge which is "Anything Summer".  With the challenge theme in mind, I set out and created a fun ocean tag.  I will share with you below how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create the perfect additions for my ocean tag.


To start, you'll need to grab the Ship Wheel and cut out the middle of it. After the middle has been removed, apply a coat of Walnut Stain Distress Paint. Once the paint is dry, place the woodgrain stencil over top of the ship wheel. With a blending tool and Potting Soil Archival ink, cover the stencil with ink so that the woodgrain image appears on the entire ship wheel. Set aside so that the archival ink can dry.


After the Archival Ink has dried on the ship wheel, place the ship wheel overtop of the Fish Net Pattern and cut a circle from it. This will be used for the middle of the ship wheel. Once the circle has been cut, apply a coat of Walnut Stain Distress Paint to fish net pattern. Set aside for the paint to dry.


From the Ocean Mix 1 you'll need to crab. Note: I used to sets of Ocean Mix 1 to get both crabs. Apply a coat of Candied Apple Distress Paint to both crabs. Once the paint has dried, apply a layer of Glossy Accents to both crabs. Set aside the crabs so that the Glossy Accents can dry.


Out of the Mini Anchors, you'll need 8 anchors. Apply a coat of Tarnished Brass Distress Paint to each anchor. Once the anchors have dried, apply a layer of Glossy Accents. Set aside the anchors so that the Glossy Accents can dry.


From the Ocean Mix 1 set, you'll need to pull off the Seahorse. Apply a coat of Stormy Sky Distress Paint to the seahorse. Set the seahorse aside to dry.


Out of the Ocean Mix 2 set, you'll need to pull off the plant. Apply a coat of Walnut Stain Distress Paint to the bottom of the plant and apply a coat of Peeled Paint Distress Paint to the top of the plant. Set plant aside to dry.


Out of the Mini Ocean Set, you'll need to cut apart 3 seahorses. From the Ocean Mix 1 set, you'll need to pull off the coral piece. Apply a coat of Tumbled Glass Distress Paint over the seahorses and coral. Set aside the seahorses and coral to dry.


From the Mini Ocean set, you'll need to cut apart 2 dolphins. Apply Broken China Distress Paint to one dolphin. Apply a coat of Tumbled Glass Distress Paint to the other dolphin. Once the paint has dried on the tumbled glass dolphin,  randomly apply Broken China Distress Paint on the dolphin. Set both dolphins aside to dry.


Out of the Mini Ocean Set, cut apart 3 starfish. Apply a coat of Broken China Distress Paint to them. After the paint has dried, apply a layer of Glossy Accents to each starfish. Set aside the starfish so that the Glossy Accents can dry.


From the Ocean Mix 1 set, you'll need to pull apart the sea shell. Out of the Trust Your Heart Wood Tags you'll need the "Live in the Present, Dream in the Future. Apply a coat of Antique Linen Distress Paint to both the seashell and the wood tag. Set aside the seashell and the wood tag to dry.


Before starting to adhere the chipboard pieces to the tag, apply four layers of beachy patterned paper to the tag. Once the patterned paper has been applied, add decorative netting to the bottom right and top left hand corners.


You'll want to start to adhere the chipboard pieces to the tag. First, you'll want to adhere the fish net circle to the back of the ship wheel. After the two pieces have been adhered together, adhere the ship wheel to the middle of the tag. Once the ship wheel is adhered to the middle, start adhering the plant, 2 starfish, seahorse and anchor to the bottom left hand corner of the ship wheel. After all the elements have been adhered in the bottom right hand corner, adhere the Live in the present tag to the right of the plant. Once everything has been adhered in the ship wheel, wrap brown twine around the ship wheel.


In the top left hand corner, you'll adhere the dolphin, crab and 3 anchors as desired. Add some seashells in varying sizes in amongst the chipboard pieces to add some extra interest.


In the bottom right hand corner, you'll adhere the seashell, crab, coral, seahorse, 1 mini starfish, 2 mini seahorses, dolphin and 5 anchors as desired. Add some seashells in varying sizes in amongst the chipboard pieces to add some extra interest.


To finish the tag, add bronze micro beads in amongst the chipboard and shells in the bottom right and top left hand corners. Allow 24 hours for the beads to dry on the tag. Once the beads are dry, add white and brown ribbon to the top of the tag and tie a bow.


Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:


Other Products Used:

- Ranger Ink: #12 Giant Kraft Tags and Glossy Accents
- Ranger Ink/ Wendy Vecchi: Potting Soil Archival Ink
- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Candied Apple, Broken China, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Tarnished Brass, Peeled Paint, Stormy Sky and Tumbled Glass Distress Paint
- Prima Marketing: Micro Beads - Bronze and Soft Gloss Gel - Transparent
- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Woodgrain Stencil
- KaiserCraft: Coastal Escape - Coral and Seashells
- Misc: 1/2 circle punch. decorative netting and seashells

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn  



























Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Planner Accessories with Ava Gavloski

Ava here to welcome you to another inspirational post at Southern Ridge Trading Co.

Are you a trend setter?
Do you have one of these?


If you have noticed, personal planners have been trending for a few years and personalized
embellishments put the planners over the top.


Take advantage of large solid surfaces of chipboard and emboss a design into the chipboard. Add some sparkle by heat embossing the chipboard.

Here I made a cat chipboard paperclip embellishment.


Next up is a couple of pink Seahorses.


To prepare the Seahorse chipboard, I embossed with pink embossing powder, heat set and then applied some stickles to give some sparkle to the Seahorse.


Think of the possibilities with any of the chipboard pieces from Southern Ridge Trading Co.


Hopefully these 2 planner clips inspire you to check out the shop, order your favourite chippies and embellish your planners to reflect your personal taste.

Southern Ridge Trading Supplies Used:



Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the 
Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!

Thanks for stopping in to see my creation.

Ava





Monday, July 18, 2016

Golden Birthday Card by Corina Finley


Hello!

Hope everyone is having a great summer! I have been enjoying the summer with my family and have had guests for the last three weeks.

I created this Golden Birthday card for a close friend of mine. A Golden Birthday year is the year that the age a person is matches the date on which their birthday falls, e.g. a person who celebrates their birthday on the 31st of July will have a golden birthday in the year the person turn 31.


Above you can see the beautiful detailed Butterfly from the Butterfly Swirl Combo set. I painted both gold and heat embossed with a Gold sparkle embossing powder for an added shine!. 

The Happy Birthday Sentiment is from the Birthday Greeting set. I used Frantage embossing powder in Chunky Gold. This type of embossing powder "Chunky" has larger granules so your end result is thicker. 

The Vintage Oval Mirror and Flourish is embossed with a regular Frantage embossing powder in Vintage Pink. I absolutely love the look and texture this type of embossing powder gives the beautiful chipboard pieces.


Above is a close up of a variety of Paper Flowers that Southern Ridge carries. There are different colours, styles and types so make sure to click on the link and take a peek!

Southern Ridge Chipboard used:

Vintage Oval Mirror Fancy

Paper Flower Assortment



Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,
Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Friday, July 15, 2016

Enjoy the Ride Card with Deb Riddell

Hello and thanks so much for stopping by today.  Deb here again to share another project for our July challenge theme of Anything Summer.  For today’s project, I made a card using Southern Ridge Trading Company’s Leafy Frame and Retro Bike chipboard pieces.  Riding your bike along a path lined with flowers and green leaves certainly says summer to me!


I started out with a piece of scrapbook paper from my stash that had some glittered flowers and swirls on it (sorry but I don’t know what paper line it is from, it was a gift from a blogging friend).  I gently tattered and inked the edges of the paper with Vintage Photo Distress ink and mounted it onto a white card blank.


I sprayed the Retro Bike with Heidi Swapp White Colour Shine spray and then did a couple of small spritzes with Salty Ocean Distress spray.  While it was still wet I sprayed again with Picket Fence Distress spray and quickly heat dried so that just a bit of the blue peeked through here and there.


The Leafy Frame was coloured with Mowed Lawn Distress ink and while the ink was still wet, I sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and heat set it.  The frame was then painted with Ranger Glue ‘n Seal and sprinkled with Mowed Lawn Distress Glitter and set aside to dry.

Three tiny Maya Road metal roses were coloured with Stonewash alcohol ink.


Two Jenni B paper flowers were sprayed with Salty Ocean Distress spray and then sprayed again with Heidi Swapp White Colour Shine spray.  I just wiped the spray off of the pearl centers while the sprays were still wet and gently dried the flowers with my heat gun.

And then the card was assembled.  I adhered the Leafy Frame to the scrapbook paper and then placed the Retro Bike inside the frame along the bottom edge.


The blue paper flowers were adhered to the corners of the frame and I added some small leaves that I die cut with the Tiny Tattered Florals leaf die from cardstock coloured with various shades of green Distress inks.

I stamped the sentiment (from a Studio G clear stamp set #VC0053) with Jet Black Archival ink and clear embossed it.


And finally I added the Maya Road metal roses into the basket on the Retro Bike along with some more Tiny Tattered Florals leaves.

This card would be suitable for birthdays or even for a graduation or congratulations on a new job.


You could also incorporate it into a scrapbook layout with pictures of your families bike riding adventures this summer!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:


Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz/Ranger - Vintage Photo, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint and Bundled Sage Distress ink; Mowed Lawn Distress glitter; Stonewashed alcohol ink; Salty Ocean and Picket Fence Distress spray; Glue ‘n Seal; Clear Embossing powder; Jet Black Archival ink
- Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Tiny Tattered Florals die
- Heidi Swapp - White Color Shine spray
- Maya Road - Vintage Trinkets Mini Antique Metal Roses
- Jenni B - Paper Flower Pearl WH
- Studio G - Clear Stamp VC0053
- Miscellaneous - Glitter scrapbook paper; scissors; paper cutter; E6000 glue; card blank; ruler; paint brush; tape runner

Hope that you have been inspired to join in our July challenge, Anything Summer, you have a chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca - a $20.00 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!  Can’t wait to see what you link up, happy creating!

Deb xo









Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Fabulous Flower Art Journal Page with Karen Bearse

I hope you are enjoying your summer! I felt inspired today to document a flower from my garden. This photo was taken using the Hipstamatic app on my Iphone. I like the artsy quality of the photo with the brick and shabby look.


Here is my finished art journal page. I am in the process of making a book using all kinds of different substrates and The Cinch to bind it together when I am finished. This gives me the freedom to design as I go and choose how it will come together at the end.


I started with the back of a square printed envelope by spritzing multiple colours of glimmer mist and letting them run together a bit. This created a nice shimmery background. As this is an envelope and I want to be able to open the other side adding a piece of cardstock with washi tape on the left side, gives a place to punch The Cinch holes but leaves the envelope free.


Did you know that Southern Ridge Trading Co. now has stencils? Let’s play with one! A fun product to use with stencils is glass bead gel. It dries like a clear glue with lots of small glass beads. You can either colour after it dries or before. I decided I wanted to tint the gel with one of the glimmer mist colours I used in my background- Black Cherry. Mix a few spritzes of colour in with the gel using a spatula & spread it across the stencil. The trick to this, is not to over work the gel or it slides under the stencil and the image is less crisp. You can see in my final piece the upper left corner is nice and defined but the upper right corner is a bit sloppy. This happened because I scraped my spatula over the same spot a few times. You really want to just scrape the gel across the stencil once. Note that in this photo the gel looks pink but it dries to a transparent black cherry colour. Make sure you clean your stencil immediately with warm water. Set page aside to dry.


For my chippie leaves “Polka Dot Swirls’ I wanted the colours to be bright and stand out against the darker background. I started by heat embossing in white. That gave me a slick shiny base which is perfect for alcohol inks.


Using 2 separate dabs of colour on my dauber allowed me to vary the colours on the chippies. Simply tap, tap the colour onto the embossed piece. Once the 2 green colours were on, a touch of copper was added in a few spots to give it a bit of metallic grungy look.


For my word chip dabbing on distress paint was a quick easy way to put down colour. I painted the whole word in Bundled Sage to create a bit of a bright background and once dry added Mermaid Lagoon and Lucky Clover again in different spots so I got the multi-colour look. A trick to get your embellies to pop off the page is to use a warm background & cool coloured embellishments. My background colours of purples, pinks and orange are warm colours and the chippies are greens and blues which are cool.


Once my page was assembled and the chipboard glued down using glossy accents, it was time to add some doodling. Using a white paint pen simply outline a few of the stencil shapes and add random dots around the chippies. This helps to brighten the page and adds some interest.


Can you see the little beads in the bead gel? I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and take a look at the new stencils. Don’t forget to join our monthly challenge & you can win the prize! Have an inky fun day!

Southern Ridge Chipboard Supplies:


Other Supplies:

- Tattered Angels: Fully Purple (Glimmer Mist), Black Cherry (Glimmer Mist) and Valencia (Chalkboard mist)
- Tim Holtz Distress Paint by Ranger: Bundled Sage, Mermaid Lagoon and Lucky Clover
- Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks by Ranger: Pesto, Citrus and Copper
- Ranger Ink: Glossy Accents and Emboss It Dabber
- Recollections: Printed Envelope and Washi Tape
- Posca White Paint marker .7mm
- Liquitex Bead Gel

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blogEach month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

- Karen