To: Santa Scrapbook Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello everyone!

This photo has been such a favourite of my twin 3 year old great nephews. They are always grabbing my phone wanting to see their papa (who is sitting on Santa’s knee).

To create the ornaments I first glued paper onto the solid chipboard pieces. I sanded around the edges to remove the excess paper, and then inked them. If you have the Basic Grey Precision File set (from years ago) it comes in really handy to do the top sections of the ornaments. The kraft colour of the chippies was a perfect match for the paper I was using so I didn’t add any colour to the top ornate pieces.  I just simply dabbed on some Vintage Photo Distress Stickles to give the ornaments a bit of shimmer.

And to make them even cuter I decorated the gold string with some beads.

The wooden Santa word was stained with Walnut Distress Stain and then I added more Stickles.

Here is a little tip to make the border on the right side. Add as many strips as you want to your background paper. Once you have the desired amount simply place your paper in your trimmer and re-cut the background page to 12”. That way you’re not adding pieces of paper trying to make it 12” wide.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Chipboard Used:

- Wood Words of Christmas - Joy

- 3D Ornaments

Other Products Used:

- Kaisercraft papers and diecuts.

- Paper flower

- MME brads

- Seam binding ribbon

- Beads

- Lace

- Corrugated cardboard

- Tim Holtz Distress Vintage Photo Stickles

- Tim Holtz For Ranger Ink: Walnut Distress Stain

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! 

Thanks for joining me today!

Charlene

Peace & Cheer Gift Tag Set with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here and I'm back on the blog today to share with you some more inspiration from our current monthly challenge which is "Christmas/Winter". It's hard to believe that Christmas is exactly a month away today, so I've created a Gift Tag set for you that will be sure to inspire you to create as well as accomplish some of your Christmas crafting. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create the perfect additions to my Gift Tags. 

To start, pick out one of the stockings from the Christmas Stockings set. Apply two coats of Picket Fence Distress Stain to the top of the stocking and apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Stain to the bottom portion of the stocking. Set aside the stocking to dry.

Pull out eight Sm. Primitive Stars out of the package. Apply two coats of Brushed Pewter Distress Stain on each star. Set aside the stars to dry. 

Take one Wood Small Marked Reindeer out of the package. Apply a coat of Gathered Twigs Distress Stain to the reindeer. While the Gathered Twigs Distress Stain is still wet, apply a layer of Brushed Pewter Distress Stain over top of the reindeer to give it some extra sparkle. Set the reindeer aside to dry.

From the Wood Words of Christmas - Joy set, pick out the word "cheer" and out of the Wood Words of Christmas - Noel set, pick out the word "peace".  For both words, apply a coat of Gathered Twigs Distress stain and then a coat of Candied Apply Distress Stain. Before both coats of distress stain drys, apply a coat of Brushed Pewter Distress Stain to give your words some extra sparkle. Set the words aside to dry.

Select three stars from the Mini Wood Stars set. Apply two coats of Tarnished Brass Distress Stain to each star. Set the stars aside to dry.

For the frames on the gift tags, you'll need both of the Small Victorian Lace Frames. To start, apply two coats of Picket Fence Distress Stain to each frame. Once the frames have dried, apply VersaMark ink to each frame and sprinkle Soft Fallen Snow embossing powder over top. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. If you find areas that weren't fully covered by the powder, reapply the VersaMark Ink to those areas, sprinkle the embossing powder overtop, tap off the excess powder and then emboss with your heat tool. 

The last element that needs to be done is five of the Mini Wood Snowflake. To start, apply two coats of Picket Fence Distress Stain to each snowflake. Once the stain has dried, apply a layer of VersaMark ink to each snowflake and sprinkle Iridescent Shimmer Embossing powder overtop. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. To finish the snowflakes off, add a red/gold glitter dot to the centres of each snowflake. 

Before assembling your tags, you'll need to trace the tag around whichever pieces of patterned paper you'd like to use and then cut them out. If you are using Graphic 45 tags like I have, to make the eyelet fit through your paper, punch a hole using 1/2" hole punch. 

With the patterned paper for the base of your gift tags cut, cut two pieces of patterned paper that measure 3 5/8" x 4 3/4", this will be the second layer of patterned paper for the gift tag. Make sure to round all four corners of your cut patterned paper. 

Using your edge distressor, distress the edges of the tag shaped patterned paper pieces as well as the other patterned paper pieces. Once the edges have been distressed, take your blending tool and Vintage Photo Distress Ink and ink the edges of the papers. 

Pull out two medium doilies and ink the edges of them using a blending tool and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Adhere the tag shaped patterned paper to each of the tags. Adhere the second layer of patterned paper to the middle of the tag. Once the second layer of paper has been adhered, adhere a doily in the middle of the patterned paper. 

Adhere the small victorian frames to the middle of each doily on each of the gift tags. Once the frame has been adhered, adhere the word cheer in the middle of one of the frames and adhere the word peace to the middle of the other frame.

To decorate the cheer gift tag, add the reindeer in the bottom right hand corner of the frame. Adhere three silver stars to the top left hand corner of the frame. Once the silver stars have been adhered, add the gold stars overtop of the silver stars.

To finish decorating around the chipboard pieces on the Cheer gift tag, adhere three light blue roses, three cream roses and three dark brown roses as desired in the bottom right hand corner around the reindeer. For the top left hand corner of the frame, adhere six cream roses, four light blue roses and five dark brown roses as desired.

Here is the Cheer Gift Tag once you've added your ribbon through the eyelet. 

Here are some close up of the Cheer gift tag once all the elements had been added.

For the Peace gift tag, adhere two silver in the bottom right hand corner of the frame. With the stars adhered, adhere the stocking overtop of the two stars, where the stars meet. To finish the bottom right corner, adhere two snowflakes. In the top left hand corner of the frame, adhere three silver stars, having the third star sit on top of the other two. With the stars adhered, adhere the three snowflakes overtop of each star.

To finish decorating around the chipboard pieces on the Peace gift tag, adhere two light blue roses, three cream roses and three red roses as desired in the bottom right hand corner around the reindeer. For the top left hand corner of the frame, adhere five cream roses, three light blue roses and five red roses as desired.

Here is the Peace Gift Tag once you've added your ribbon through the eyelet. 

Here are some close up of the Peace gift tag once all the elements had been added.

Now that both of your gift tags are finished, here they are together with all of the elements on them.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Mini Wood Snowflake

- Mini Wood Stars

- Sm. Primitive Stars

- Wood Small Marked Reindeer

- Wood Words of Christmas - Joy

- Wood Words of Christmas - Noel

- Small Victorian Frames (coming soon)

- Christmas Stockings

- 10mm Cream, Red and Light Blue roses

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder and Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder 

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo & Distress Stain - Picket Fence, Candied Apple, Tarnished Brass, Brushed Pewter and Gathered Twigs 

- Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts: VersaMark Ink

- Elizabeth Crafts Design: Red/Gold Glitter Dots

- Bo Bunny: Medium Doilies

- Graphic 45: Kraft Regular Tags

- Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: White and Light Blue

- Maja Design: 6x6 Home for the Holidays 

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Glue

- Misc: Heat Tool and 1/2" circle punch

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  

Best Wishes Christmas Card with Ava Gavloski

Ava here today with non-traditional coloured Christmas Card.  I used a couple of

Southern Ridge Trading Co. chippies on this card.  When I look at this card I think of romantic days gone-by from a different era, sorta vintage like.  

To get the Southern Ridge sled to have the well used vintage look, I burnished some of Therm-o-web’s Deco Foil onto the sled and then added a sprinkle of Twinkle Dust.  You can find the sled here in the store.  The sled is called a Sm Wood Sleigh.

Next up was Southern Ridge Barbed Wire Circle frame  which you can find in the store under the Western Rodeo Rustic tab.  I applied 2 coats of Deco Art Vintage white acrylic paint.

One of my go-to pattern paper companies is DCWV.  I used 4 sheets from their paper stacks called:  Scripts and Music Notes, Luxe Lodge and Classy copper.  The

classy copper feel of the paper collection really shows off the Southern Ridge Sled chipboard.

Embellishments just didn’t want to stop on this card.  Hopefully this vintage card will inspire you to try to make a few cards with this cute little sled from Southern Ridge Trading Co.

Southern Ridge Trading Co. Supplies Used:

- Barbed Wire Circle Frame

- Sm Wood Sleighs

Other Supplies Used:

- DCWV

- May Arts Ribbon

- Maya Road: Stick-pins

- Clearsnap: Twinkle Dust by Donna Salazar

- Deco Art Acrylic Paint

- Therm-o-Web Deco foil

- Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

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

Season's Greetings Card with Corina Finley

 

Hello,

Thank you for joining me, Corina, for today's post, I will be sharing this festive card using the beautiful Wood Reindeer as my focal image. The Reindeer is simply stunning with his stance and lovely detail - love it!

As you can see above, under the Wood Reindeer and embossed white circle, I have used the Swirling Heart. I applied Versa-Mark to the top and sprinkled with gold glitter embossing powder. Heat set and adhered it on top of the Kraft doily circle. The swirls add so much dimension to my card.

I really like how versatile all the embellishment are. You would typically not use a Heart/Love embellishment on a Christmas themed card yet it works so well. Would you guess that there is a heart under those layers?!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Product Used:

- Wood Small Marked Reindeer

- Swirling Heart

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!

Jingle All The Way Christmas Decoration with Deb Riddell

Hello and welcome! It’s Deb here today with a tutorial to share with you on how I made my Jingle All The Way Christmas wall hanging decoration.

I used Southern Ridge’s Jingle All The Way chipboard sentiment, Small Primitive Stars and Holly Berry Assembly. This would make a wonderful Christmas gift for someone special in your life, so read on for the how to.

I started out by painting the medium sized Jingle All The Way chipboard sentiment (it comes in three different sizes) with DecoArt Americana Acrylic paints and embossed parts of the sentiment with embossing powders.  I sprinkled the embossing powders over the acrylic paint while it was still wet, working on one section at a time, and then heated the embossing powder after the acrylic paint was nearly dry.

I used Titanium White paint with Fresh Fallen Snow embossing powder on the snowflakes; Gold Metallic paint with Christmas Gold embossing powder on the bells; Hauser Medium Green for the holly leaves on the bells with Sterling Pine embossing powder; Santa Red paint with Candy Red embossing powder on the holly berries on the bells and Dark Chocolate Brown paint on the sled with Silver embossing powder on the runners.  The lettering itself was painted with Hauser Dark green, shaded with Black Green and then highlighted with Hauser Light Green.  The lettering was then sealed with gloss acrylic varnish once the paint had dried.

Three Small Primitive Stars in varying sizes were embossed with Christmas Gold embossing powder and the Holly Berry Assembly leaves were embossed with Sterling Pine embossing powder and the berries with Candy Red embossing powder.  I didn’t paint these chipboard pieces, just coated them with clear embossing ink to get the powders to adhere to them.

A piece of sheet music paper (8” x 8”) from Tim Holtz’s Tidings Paper Stash was finger painted here and there with diluted white gesso.  Once the gesso was dry, snowflakes were stenciled randomly with Ranger Transparent Gloss texture paste through the Tim Holtz Snowflakes layering stencil.

After the texture paste had dried, the sheet music paper was trimmed down to about 7 ½” square and the edges were distressed and inked with Frayed Burlap Distress ink.

A spattering of diluted white acrylic paint and a fine spritz of Brushed Pewter Distress Mica spray finished off the sheet music background paper.

A piece of 110lb white cardstock was cut to 8 ¼” square and stamped repeatedly with Tim Holtz’s Birch background stamp and Tree Branch Archival ink.  The cardstock was then dragged through some Antique Linen and Hickory Smoke Distress stains and sprays on my craft sheet and dried with a heat gun, repeating as necessary until the colour I was looking for was achieved.  The edges of this piece of cardstock were then distressed and inked with Frayed Burlap Distress ink as well.

A piece of chipboard packaging was cut to 8 ½” square and covered front and back with damask scrapbook paper from the My Mind’s Eye Holiday Cheer paper pad, green damask on the front and red damask on the back.

The edges were distressed and inked with Frayed Burlap Distress ink and the Birch background paper and sheet music background paper were layered on top and adhered into place.

Three silver jingle bells from my stash were coloured with Gold Mixative alcohol ink and pieces of jute twine were tied onto each bell.

I used my Ranger Clear Embossing Pen to add some Fresh Fallen Snow embossing powder to the top of each jingle bell.

And then it was time to assemble the wall hanging.  I punched ⅛” holes into the top of the chipboard plaque and tied on two lengths of jute twine.  The three gold jingle bells were tied into place at the top of the plaque with the jute twine hangers.

Clear embossing ink and the clear embossing pen were used to add more Fresh Fallen Snow Embossing powder to the top of the plaque and also to the ‘Jingle All The Way’ sentiment.

The ‘Jingle All The Way’ sentiment was mounted onto pieces of black fun foam and positioned in the center of the plaque.  You can see the dimension and also catch a glimpse of the glossy texture paste snowflakes in the photo below.

The Holly Berry Assembly was added to the left upper corner.

And the Small Primitive Stars were added to the three remaining corners.

And that was it, I hope that you have enjoyed seeing how I constructed my Jingle All The Way Christmas decoration and that you have been inspired to make one of your own!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Jingle All The Way Sentiment

- Small Primitive Stars

- Holly Berry Assembly

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink: Distress ink, Distress stain, Distress spray stain, Alcohol ink and Distress Mica spray

- Ranger Ink: Transparent Gloss Texture paste, Archival ink and Clear Embossing pen

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Pine background stamp and Snowflakes layering stencil

- Tim Holtz/Advantus: Tidings Paper Stash

- My Mind’s Eye: Holiday Cheer paper pad

- DecoArt: Americana acrylic paint and Gloss varnish

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Soft Fallen Snow and Candy Red embossing powder

- Miscellaneous: Sterling Pine, Christmas Gold, Silver embossing powders, 110lb cardstock, jute twine and string, silver jingle bells, chipboard packaging, black fun foam, white gesso, liquid adhesive, double sided tape, scissors, paper trimmer and paint brush

I hope that you will join in our current challenge, Christmas, by linking up a project you’ve been working on for the holidays.  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 and as always, happy creating!

Deb xo