Believe Winter Canvas with Karen Bearse

Karen Bearse here today with a Winter canvas entitled Believe. I am writing this on the 18th of December. As I scramble toward the ever looming Christmas deadline I come up with the best ideas at the last second. It is my process. One year I was up until 4am Christmas Eve making Twilight ornaments for my sister & mother in-law. I of course had come up with the idea at midnight. Brilliant! This year I am trying to get inventive while there is still time to execute.

Here is my very shimmery, metallic canvas. I put a photo of my kids to give you an idea of what it will look like. This canvas has by now been unwrapped and has a happy new home in Wisconsin. I sent it with the adhesive already in place so all my SIL has to do is take off the paper backing and adhere her photo.

Southern Ridge chippies are great for adding that stunning pop of interest to your project.

Southern Ridge Trading Co. Supplies Used:

- Wood Small Marked Reindeer (I can’t stop using this)

- Snowflakes 714

- 3D Ornaments

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Embossing Powder

- DecoArt: Gesso, Crackle paste, Paint and Stencils by Andy Skinner

- Golden: Super heavy gesso and Glass bead gel

- Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Grunge board letter

- Tim Holtz for Sizzix: Embossing folder

- Ranger Ink: Glossy Accents

Please join us for our monthly contest where you can win some wonderful chippies! You can find the contest info here.

I hope you are enjoying the holidays & I wish you & yours wonderful luck, happiness & health in the New Year!!

Cheers, Karen

Happy Holidays Scrapbook Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello everyone,

Thanks for joining me today! Life is so good when it’s shared with family. Every year my husband and youngest son Remington (who is a 2nd year midget goalie) make a rink in our back yard. Remington loves being out there; he spends so much time shovelling it, maintaining it and flooding it and I just love when everyone comes over to our ‘community rink’ to skate. As soon as we get those little boys on skates we’ll have enough players to actually play a game! Haha!

I simply stained the Victoria Lace Frame and the Intersecting Circles with Walnut Distress Stain.

I was going to add some UTEE to the Happy Holiday words but after I stained them with Walnut Distress Stain I really liked how the wood grain showed through.

For the stars I started by misting them with Heidi Swap Color Shine. It was a bit to shimmering for my liking so I lightly sanded the top of them taking away the sheen. But then I found them too bright so that’s when I decided to add a little bit of glitter with Walnut Distress Stickles. I was really happy with the final look.

That’s what I love about chipboard….keep playing until your happy!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Wood Words of Christmas – Joy

- Victorian Lace Frame

- Intersecting Circles Pattern

- Five Point Stars

Other Products Used:

- My Minds Eye: Paper and Brads

- Metal charm

- Hemp

- Lace

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Stickles - Walnut Stain and Distress Satin - Walnut Stain

- Mini brads

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

Happy Creating and Happy Holidays!

Charlene

Wishing You an Abundance of Christmas Miracles Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here and I'm back on the blog today to share with you some more inspiration using our current monthly challenge which is all about "Christmas & New Years". To start, I want to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Today I've got for you a Christmas card that will be sure to inspire you to recreate it at home. Read below and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create my Christmas card. 

To start, pull out the Flourish Die Cut. Apply a coat of Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber - Clear onto the entire piece. Once the ink has been applied, sprinkle Charred Gold embossing powder over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the piece aside to allow the powder to cool. 

Next, take out four Mini Wood Snowflakes. Cover each snowflake in a layer of Brushed Pewter Distress Stain. Once the stain has dried, cover the snowflakes using Ranger Ink - Emboss it dabber in clear and sprinkle Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder overtop of each snowflake. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the snowflakes aside to cool. 

Pull out two Lg. Wood Snowflakes from the package. Apply two coats of Brushed Pewter Distress Stain to each snowflake. Once the snowflakes have dried, lightly apply some of Deco Art's Metallic Lustre in Iced Espresso over top of each snowflake.

Take one sleigh out of the Sm Wood Sleighs package. Apply two coats of Vintage Photo Distress Stain to the sleigh. Once the sleigh has dried, lightly apply some of Deco Art's Metallic Lustre in Iced Espresso over top of the sleigh.

The last piece of chipboard you'll need is one Wood Small Marked Reindeer. Apply two coats of Vintage Photo Distress Stain to the reindeer. Once the reindeer has dried, lightly apply some of Deco Art's Metallic Lustre in Iced Espresso over top of the reindeer.

Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the "Wishing You an Abundance of Christmas Miracles" stamp (designed by Karen and will be available in the store soon) and stamp onto a piece of white 100lb cardstock. Once stamped, blend Antique Linen Distress Ink over the entire image. After the ink has been applied, using scissors, cut the oval out. Edge distress the edges of the oval. Ink the edges of the oval using a blending tool and Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Before assembling the card, you'll need to cut a patterned paper piece that measures 4 1/8" x 5 3/8". Cut a second piece of patterned paper that measures 4" x 5 1/4". Edge distress all the edges of the patterned papers. Ink the edges of the patterned papers using a blending tool and Walnut Stain Distress Ink. 

Adhere the 4" x 5 1/4" patterned paper to the 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" patterned paper.

Adhere one of the large snowflakes in the top left hand corner and adhere the second large snowflake in the bottom right hand corner.

Adhere the "Wishing you an Abundance of Christmas Miracles" sentiment to the embossed flourish die cut.

Place two foam squares in the middle back of the flourish die. Apply adhesive to the top left and bottom right corners of the flourish die cut. Adhere the flourish die cut in the middle of the card, having the top left and bottom right corners sitting slightly on the large snowflakes.

Wrap a piece of cream ribbon around the bottom of the card and tie a bow on the right hand side of the card.

Adhere the reindeer on the bottom left hand side of the sentiment. Adhere the sleigh on an angle in the bottom right hand corner of the sentiment, having it sitting right beside the bow.

Adhere two of the mini wood snowflakes in the top left hand corner, slightly sitting on the sentiment. Adhere the other two mini wood snowflakes in the bottom right hand corner as desired on the sleigh.

To finish the top left hand corner, adhere two dark red roses and one brown rose slightly overtop of the mini wood snowflakes.

To finish the bottom right hand corner, adhere four dark red roses and three brown roses as desired.

Cut a card base from Licorice Double Dot paper that measures 5 1/2" x 11, score at 4 1/4". Adhere the card front to the cardbase.

Here is the Wishing You an Abundance of Christmas Miracles card finished with all the elements put together.

Here are some closeups of the top left and bottom right hand corners of the card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Flourish Die Cut 

- Mini Wood Snowflake

- Sm. Wood Sleighs

- Wood Small Marked Reindeer

- Lg Wood Snowflake

- Wishing You an Abundance of Christmas Miracles stamp (coming soon)

- 10mm Brown and Dark Red roses

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Charred Embossing Powder, Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder and 100lb White Cardstock

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Antique Linen andWalnut Stain & Distress Stain - Vintage Photo and Brushed Pewter 

- Ranger Ink: Archival Ink - Jet Black and Emboss It Ink - Clear (dabber)

- Deco Art: Metallic Lustre - Iced Espresso

- Bo Bunny: Tis The Season - Ornaments and Traditions & Double Dot - Licorice

- Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Cream

- Misc: Heat Tool

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each 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  

Accessorizing Gift Tags and Gift Bags with Ava Gavloski

Hello, Ava here to share some tags and a gift bag that I made for the gift giving season.  These cute little chipboard pieces can be used for any winter gift giving occasion.

Really,  get over to Southern Ridge Trading Co. and select any of the cute wooden chipboard pieces and discover how quick you can add interest and sparkle to any gift tag or gift bag.

How cute are these 3 projects !

Here you can see that you can use a monogram to match up to the name of the person you are gift giving.  How cute is that to add a sparkly chipboard snowflake to make a winter event shine.  

Check out the chipboard snowflakes in the Season's section.  Apply acrylic paint and some sparkle to get the look.

Here is that cute gift bag for the adventurous nature person in your life.

Paint your frog with DecoArts acrylic paint, use Colorbox Ink for the legs and add some marker dots to make the frog look very authentic.

Find the tree frog here in the Nature Garden section of the shop.  

I painted the Santa word with DecoArt Acrylic paint.  The wooden die cut words can be found in the Christmas Holiday section of the shop.

Check out the Miniatures section of the shop and see how easy it is to add a little chipboard to any of your projects.  Hope these little projects will help you plan ahead for a new year of fun embellishments.

Southern Ridge Trading Co. Supplies Used:

- Snowflake # 1

- Frogs

Other Supplies Used:

- DecoArt Acrylic Paint

- Ranger Ink: Stickles

- Die Cuts with a View (DCWV) Paper

- Brads

- May Arts Ribbon

- Colorbox Ink

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each 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 visiting.

Ava

Baby, it's Cold Outside Card with Corina Finley

Hello!

I am back with you today to share a cute Christmas Card. I love "Cheesy Sayings" and this one was just too cute to pass up!

This card is a very Clean & simple card with the lovely Snowflake chipboard embellishments. I decided to heat emboss each of the snowflake. The 2 small ones with Ranger Snowflake Embossing Powder and the larger 2 with a Dark Teal.

Adhere the Chipboard  added Rhinestones to the center of each of the embossed Snowflakes and also to a few of the Pattern Paper snowflakes.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Snowflakes 713

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each 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!

Snowflakes Merry Christmas Card with Deb Riddell

Hello everyone and thank you for stopping by today.  If you are anything like me, you are scrambling to get ready for Christmas and so I really appreciate you taking the time!  Because I know we are all crazy busy at this time of year the Christmas card project I have to share with you today is quick and easy, just a little embossing powder and ink sprays onto some wonderful Southern Ridge chipboard embellishments and you are done!

I used Southern Ridge’s Small Snowflake Wreath, Snowflakes 712, Merry Christmas Greeting Pack and Aztec stencil (which I don’t see in the store at the moment but I’m sure you could ask Karen for it if you want it).  I’m completely enamoured of the kraft, white and red colour palette right now so that is what I used for my card, read on for the very quick how to.

I started out by cutting a piece of kraft coloured cardstock to 4 ¾” x 5 ¾” and inking it with clear embossing ink through the Aztec stencil.  I then embossed it with some Iridescent Shimmer embossing powder.  The Aztec pattern reminds me of a Nordic print knitted sweater!

The Small Snowflake Wreath was then sprayed with Picket Fence Distress spray, Heidi Swapp White Color Shine spray and a touch of Brushed Pewter Distress Mica spray in a sweeping motion.  I like to use sprays for these very intricate chipboard pieces as they allow you to maintain the delicate details.

I cut one of the Merry Christmas sentiments from the Merry Christmas Greeting Pack and gave it two coats of Red Candy embossing powder.

And finally, 3 snowflakes from the Snowflakes 712 collection were given two coats of Soft Fallen Snow embossing powder.

And then the card was assembled; I cut a card blank from white cardstock and mounted the embossed kraft background onto it with double sided tape.  I tattered the edges of the kraft background and inked it with some Frayed Burlap Distress ink before adhering it.  The Small Snowflake Wreath was centered towards the left side of the card.

Add the Merry Christmas sentiment was adhered to the bottom.

The three Snowflakes 712 were then glued down the right side of the card beside the Snowflake Wreath.

I love the shimmer of the stenciling on the kraft card in the background, adds another layer of interest with minimal steps which is a real bonus at this time of year!

And as a final touch, a sentiment from Tim Holtz’s Doodle Greetings #1 was stamped on the inside of the card.

So there you go, a quick and easy Christmas card using chipboard embellishments from Southern Ridge Trading Co that looks wonderful, what more could you ask for at this busy time of year!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Small Snowflake Wreath

- Snowflakes 712

- Merry Christmas Greeting Pack

- Aztec stencil ( Coming Soon)

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous: Doodle Greetings #1 stamp

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Clear Distress Embossing powder, Picket Fence Distress Spray stain, Brushed Pewter Distress Mica spray and Frayed Burlap Distress ink

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Iridescent Shimmer embossing powder and Candy Red embossing powder

- Heidi Swapp: White Color Shine spray

- Miscellaneous: kraft and white cardstock, paper trimmer, double sided tape and wet adhesive

Thank you so much for stopping by today and if you can find a few minutes of spare time I hope you will enter our Christmas and New Years challenge, you have a chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca - a $20.00 retail value (before taxes) of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!  Hope to see you there and I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours the happiest of holidays, see you in 2017!

Deb xo