Giftbox by Dunja | You are so special || and a Goodbye

Hi Everyone, today it's my last post on the Southern Ridge Blog.

Since June 2014, when I published my first post, I showed you some inspirations. I hope you liked them. ....it's a long time and I'll thank Karen for the time!
At the end of the blog posting I will show you one more time my favorites from my time at Design Team Southern Ridge.

But now onto my last inspiration for you :)

I'll show you a giftbox i made for a special friend to give her some little presents and pack them into this box. I've decorated the box with lots of things in mixed media style.

First i brushed the box with lots of gesso to give it a shabbylook. I've used several stamps from Vildastamps and a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo.

In the centre of the box i layered some papers and a doily.

For the decoration i've used some Chipboards (Leafy Branches and Roses) and Flowers and glued them. I added some sentiments that i created with my dymo labeler and stamps from Vildastamps.

As i said, i'll show you my favourite's of my DT Term... Three Layouts and Three Cards that i made with the beautiful Chipboards from Karen.

Thank you very much for stopping by today. Hope we'll meet us again in the www ;)

All the best,

Hugs, Dunja

Winter Canvas

I'am back on the blog today to feature another "Winter" inspired project . There is still six days left to enter your "winter" piece into our Monthly Challenge. For all of the details, head here. For my post today,  I created a winter canvas.

Supplies Used: Ranger/Tim Holtz - Ground Expresso Distress Ink, Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy. Ranger/Dylusions - Dylusions Paint: White Linen. Sizzix/Tim Holtz - Holiday Words: Block. Tim Holtz Ideaology - 6x8 Burlap Panel. Emerald Creek - Iridescent Shimmer  & Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder. Viva Decor - Inka Gold: Old Gold & Brown Gold. Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts - VersaMark. Bo Bunny Sleigh Ride - Blizzard, Logs & Tradition. Bazzill Cardstock - Java. May Arts Twine - White.

To begin, I prepped the background of my burlap panel, using a blending tool and inking 1/2" in around all the edges of the panel. Once the edges were inked, I sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder around all four edges and embossed them. 

Once the background of the panel was finished, I set it aside and started working on the Cedar Trees. I covered all three cedar trees with Brown Gold Inka Gold. Once the Inka Gold was dry, I covered each cedar tree with a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and set them aside to dry.

Once the cedar trees were drying, I moved on to the Plain Banners. I covered the three plain banners with Old Gold Inka Gold. Once all three banners were covered, I applied a layer Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint over top and set them aside to dry.

I wanted to add something to the plain banners, so I pulled out my stash of Mini Wood Snowflakes. Before embossing the snowflakes, I painted them with a layer of Dylusions Paint in White Linen. Once the paint was dry, I covered them in a layer of VersaMark and then sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder overtop of them and embossed them. 

For the finishing touches on my winter canvas, I added two layers of patterned paper from Bo Bunny's Sleigh Ridge Collection. I also wanted to add the word "winter" somewhere on my canvas, so I cut it out using the Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Holiday Words: Block die, attaching it to the top of my photo. For the last of the finishing touches, I added some Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder to parts of the edges of the patterned paper. 

Here is the finish Winter canvas with all of the elements put together.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my winter canvas. We can't wait to see your project or projects for the Monthly Challenge. Make sure to check back regularly to see what the rest of the design team members are creating.

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Winter Challenge!

Hello again, welcome back to SRTC monthly challenges!  It has been six whole months since I started on the DT and I have loved every minute of it but this will be my last post as my term is up.  Thank you so much for following along and I will see you around blogland.  

Now on to my post.  To me winer is Christmas, love and Valentines!!!!!  So I have combined the two for my card.  I have used joined hearts, the heart frame and snowflake chipboard from SRTC.  I used a memory box die for the heart flourish and hearts on the left.  I added some burlap ribbon, flowers and gems from my stash.  The image is from magnolia of course and I painted her with Tim Holtz Distress inks.  I used Inka Gold paint on the heart frame and there you have it.  

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you join in on the challenge to win a chance at some really amazing chipboard.

Charms with Corina Finley

Hello!

Thank you for joining me, Corina Finley, for today's post here on the Southern Ridge Blog. I am excited to share with you my hanging charms that I have created using mainly chipboard in some lovely designs. I will be providing a supply list under each charm close up.

Natures Beauty

Green Leaf, Inka Gold in Copper, Green and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents and assortment of beads.

Rustic Cowgirl Charm

Vintage Sign Shapes 2, Horseshoes, Cowboy Boot, Inka Gold in Copper, Brown, Gold and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents and metal embellishment.

Love Notes Charm

Music Note, Vintage Sign Shapes 1, miniture chipboard heart, Inka Gold in Copper, Silver and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents, Pico Embellisher and assortment of beads.

Butterfly Wings Charm

Vintage Sign Shapes 1, Butterfly, Inka Gold in Turquoise and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents, metal embellishment and assortment of beads.

Flourishing Heart Charm

Plain Tags, Flourish, miniture chipboard heart, Inka Gold in Green, Red and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents, Wink of Stella and assortment of beads.

I hope you will play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company. 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!

Winter Goddess

Wow, it's really cold here the last few day.

So, while we are celebrating winter over at SRTC

I've chosen to use a precolored image from The Paper Shelter

called Winter Goddess

I've printed the whole image with background, then printed only the image;

a bit smaller than the other to create a nice 3D.

 

 

 

 

For my gorgeous Winter chipboard pieces; I've chosen

 

Snowflakes 713

and

small snowflake wreath

 

one of the snowflakes is covered in blue embossing glitter. The other

is done is holographic powder.

The wreath is covered in pearl acrlyic paint with just a little subtle extra on a few areas.

I hope you're staying warm where you are.

 

You've still got a few weeks to pop your winter project into our challenge here

 

 

'Keep Calm and stay in L♥ve' Canvas by Dunja

Hi everyone. 

happy new year everyone :) Ok, two weeks are gone, but there are many more in this year. Time to be creative :)

Today I have a mixed media canvas for you. First I primed the canvas with gesso. With the Dutch Doobadoo Mask Art Burlap and texture paste I made the texture on the top and bottom. Then I've used a Chipboard Heart Pattern of Southern Ridge - hearts allover, that i also primed with gesso. Then I glued the Chipboard piece on the canvas board.

I used my Color Burst colors of Ken Oliver Crafts again. This time I used Indigo Blue, Alizarin Crimson and Yellow Ochre. The colors are so bright and the result is truly unique.

 
 After drying, I whipped the edges of the canvas and the Pattern chipboard with Gesso.

The text 'Keep Calm and Stay in Love' I've done with the letter stamps by Ken Oliver Crafts. They can be perfectly combined, single words, put the stamps into one another and stamp them. The black stamping ink is also of Ken Oliver Crafts.

I hope that you like my Canvas. Thanks a lot for stopping by. Enjoy your Saturday!

stay in love ♥ 

Dunja

Loopy Banners - New Release

Ohhhh! New Releases!! And the excitement of CHA is contagious... Karen and crew are having a blast down in Anaheim sharing Southern Ridge Trading Company product!!

My second  Design Team project this month features one of Karen's new releases, the Loopy Banners! I used the small size ones which are perfect for titles on cards.

Isn't the banner pretty? I sprayed the chipboard pieces with Glimmer Mist. Once it was dry, I used some Making Memories rub-on letters from my stash to make the title. I took some embroidery floss & threaded the banners together then popped them up with pop up foam tape.

Here's a close up of the banner. The Glimmer Mist makes the chipboard sparkle in the light!

So fun & so easy!!

Have you entered our Monthly Challenge yet? Be sure to upload your winter themed projects to the blog for a chance to win some of Karen's chipboard! 

Thanks for looking! Cheers!

Melissa :)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2016 and we have a whole year of crafting ahead of us, giggle!  Part of how I see things anyway, lol.

This month's will be an easy one because we are focusing on Anything Winter!  And if your area is anything like mine, it is a winter wonderland right now.  Sooo beautiful but very cold right now, -24 C.  Burr, anyway here is my creation.

The piece from SRTC is the snowflake and the center of my card.  I added Gold, Inka Gold by Viva to the snowflake and on the clock.  The clock was cut out of a silver sheet from Quick Kutz (old stock I had on hand), which I embossed with a clock folder.  The letters are also from Quick Kutz.  The bow was cut with a Tattered Lace Die and the Snowflake die and I really can not remember where it is from.  I added gems from Close To My Heart.  The image is Destiny Snow Faery from Faery Ink.  I coloured the image with the following copic markers.  W8,W6, W4,W2, W1, W0, N8, N4, N2, R59, R34, R29, R22, R21, BG57, BG49, BG45, B06, B02 R12, RV11, RV13, E000, E00 and E01.  I added Spica-Sky Blue and Baby Blue to the wings.  I added Icicle Stickles by Ranger to the letters for some pop and sparkle!

Now I hope you are inspired to play along! You can enter here at SRTC Challenges!

Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the

 SRTC online store $20 (before tax) retail value

of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

And ... it's a completely RANDOM DRAW!

RULES:

- Must follow the theme
 - Your item can be a card, mixed media piece or project, whatever you can call "ART".  

- You can use any image, embellishments and any chipboard pieces you like.
- As of now, there is no limit for entries
- Must be a new project
- Can be combined with 10 other challenges
- Please link back to our blog http://southernchipboard.blogspot.ca/
- Ends January.31st, 2016 at 6pm PST

Winter Wonderland

I'm back on the blog today featuring a winter scene card for January's Monthly Challenge. We would love for you to share your projects with us, to do this, you can head over here to read all about the challenge and how to enter your piece or pieces. 

Here's my winter scene card:

Supplies Used: SRTC - Snowflake Chipboard & Cedar Tree Chipboard. Emerald Creek - Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder. Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Ink: Ground Espresso & Vintage Photo. Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Woodlands Die & Birch Tree Die. Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko - Silver Delicata. Bazzill - Brown & Cream Cardstock. Bo Bunny Sleigh Ride - Sleigh Ride, Flurries & Blizzard.

I started by covering the Cedar Tree chipboard piece with Ground Espresso Distress Ink.

Once the Cedar Tree was finished,  I moved on to working on the Snowflakes 713 and 714. I wanted to have some shine coming through the embossing powder, so I added a layer of Silver Delicata. Becuase the Delicata takes longer to dry, I added Soften Fallen Snow Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies over top of the snowflakes and then heated up the embossing powder. When they were all embossed, some ended up with patches that didn't get a lot of embossing powder, so I added some Ground Espresso Distress Ink over top to give them more of a vintage look. 

Some finishing touches that I added was the Woodlands tree from Sizzix/Tim Holtz, where I inked the edges in Ground Espresso Distress Ink. As well as the Birch Tree die from Sizzix/Tim Holtz, where the knots on the trees were, I blended Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso over top to make the birch trees pop. 

Here is the card with all of the elements together:

Thanks for checking out my card. We can't wait to see you project or projects for the Monthly Challenge. Make sure to check back regularly to see what the rest of the design team members are creating.

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Beautiful Birds in Winter

Yes, Macaws can learn to tolerate Winter if acclimated to it.
I love coloring birds.

Although I don't believe I've ever combined a DT Challenge, this one seemed perfect together.

 MiC challenge is "Feathers"

 

Using one of the gorgeous new Beautiful Birds

Majestic Macaw

 

Colored up with Copics

R39, 17, 14

Y38

YR07

YG09

B18, 16, 14

C10

Edges were distressed and Inked then frantage added.

 

Adding some "Winter" Pine Cones with frantage to keep in theme of our challenge at SRTC.

 

I also added some Maple Branch.

 

I know, leaves in Winter?

Well, we've just returned from AZ and I promise they have full leaved trees.

 

On the leave, I've drawn in some veining then inked the edges for shadow.

Finally adding some gesso with a brush to add some snow.

 

I also added a bit of MiC flourish called Floral Swirls.

 

make sure to pop your entry in here

 



December Challenge Winner

It's the second of a new month and that means it's time to reveal the December Monthly Challenge Winner.  I'm Design Team Member Katelyn and I'm back to announce December's "Christmas Words" Challenge Winner. Thank you to everyone who participated this month. The participation was awesome for our December "Christmas Words" Challenge, we hope that our monthly challenge in January will inspire you to submit. You will find all of the details on how to enter and what the rules are on now on our blog. December's Christmas Word Challenge Winner is Karon. Who created this fabulous card, with a few surprises inside:

Karon please contact me at Katelyngrosart@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone who participated and we can't wait to see what you create in January for our challenge.

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

January Winter Challenge

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month's monthly challenge. The response was great and we loved seeing all of your creations. This month's challenge will be an easy one as everyone as it is all things Winter. Thank you to everyone who entered our challenge last month and stay tuned for the winner in Katelyn's post tomorrow.

This month's will be an easy one because we are focusing on Anything Winter!

Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the

 SRTC online store $20 (before tax) retail value

of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

And ... it's a completely RANDOM DRAW!

RULES:

- Must follow the theme
 - Your item can be a card, mixed media piece or project, whatever you can call "ART".  

- You can use any image, embellishments and any chipboard pieces you like.
- As of now, there is no limit for entries
- Must be a new project
- Can be combined with 10 other challenges
- Please link back to our blog http://southernchipboard.blogspot.ca/
- Ends January.31st, 2016 at 6pm PST

**If you use product from SRTC, that will count as TWO entries but please make sure we know via your blog post attached via Mr. Linky below or a message below this post!! 

Melissa is sharing a fabulous Winter Layout for you, to get this challenge started.

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Happy 2016 Peeps!!

It's another exciting year at Southern Ridge Trading Company. Karen is off to the big CHA show in Anaheim soon with lots of new & exciting product to show off to the world.

This month's theme is "Winter" and I was so lucky to have been able to do up a double page scrapbook layout from when my son asked his long term girlfriend to be his wife recently! Pretty pumped to be able to incorporate some winter Snowflakes 713 into the layout celebrating their joy!

Snowflakes were sprayed with Smooch then an extra layer of Marshmallow colour from Glimmer Mists. They just shimmer in the light as you can see from the close ups!

Such a pretty way to finish up the final touches of a very special memory for them. Thanks for letting me share my exciting family news with you all! :)

Be sure to upload your winter themed projects to our gallery so that we can see what you're up to as well! 

Cheers! Melissa