Vintage Happy Birthday Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. This week I visited one of our local scrapbook stores and found a couple of pieces of vintage looking paper. By using the vintage paper I picked up and some of the newly released chipboard pieces, I was able to create this beautiful Vintage Happy Birthday Card. Read below as I share with you how I created my Vintage Happy Birthday Card.

To start, pull out two of the Mini Dress Form Charms. Apply two coats of Antique Linen Distress Ink to each dress form. Once the paint has dried, apply Vintage Photo Distress Crayon to the sides of each dress form, rub the crayon wax in with your finger. After the Vintage Photo Distress Crayon has been applied, apply Walnut Stain Distress Crayon to the sides of each dress form, rub the crayon wax in with your finger. Set the dress forms aside.

Take out one of the small flowers from the package. Apply two coats of Antique Linen Distress Paint to the flower. Once the paint has dried, apply Vintage Photo Distress Crayon to the sides of the flower, rub the crayon wax in with your finger. After the Vintage Photo Distress Crayon has been applied, apply Walnut Stain Distress Crayon to the sides of the flower, rub the crayon wax in with your finger. Set the flower aside.

Apply two coats of Vintage Photo Distress Stain to the Happy Birthday sentiment. After the Distress Stain has dried, apply Walnut Stain Distress Crayon to the sides of the Happy Birthday Sentiment,  rub the crayon wax in with your finger. Set the Happy Birthday sentiment aside.

With a Blending Tool, blend Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Ground Espresso Distress Ink onto the Drifting Feather.  Apply Walnut Stain Distress Crayon to the sides of the feather and rub the crayon wax in with your finger. Set the feather aside.

Apply two coats of Walnut Stain Distress Stain to two of the Delicate Lace Bars. Once the bars have dried, trim the scroll part off to fit the film strip frame. Set the bars aside. 

Cut the Delicate Lace Doily in half and then into two quarters. Apply Emboss It Ink to each doily piece and sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder over each doily. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. 

The last chipboard piece you'll need is the Film Strip Section Frame.  Apply Emboss It Ink to the film strip frame and sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder over it. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. 

Trim your Found Relative to 3" x 4". Once the Found Relative has been cut down, take the Spun Sugar Distress Crayon and apply a bit to her cheeks. Rub the crayon wax with your fingers.

Before assembling your card front, you'll need to cut one piece of patterned paper that measures 4" x 5 1/4" and cut a second piece of patterned paper that measures 3 3/4" x 5". Distress the edges of each patterned paper piece with an edge distressor. Once the edges have been distressed, ink the edges of the patterned pieces using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a Blending Tool.

Adhere one of the doily pieces in the top left hand corner of the 4" x 5 1/4" piece of patterned paper, making sure the doily sits 1/4" from the top of the patterned paper. Adhere the second doily piece in the bottom right hand corner of the 4" x 5 1/4" piece of patterned paper, making sure the doily sits 1/4" from the bottom of the patterned paper. Once the doilies have been adhered in the corners, adhere the 3 3/4" x 5" piece of patterned paper overtop of the 4" x 5 1/4". To finish the 3 3/4" x 5" patterned paper, roll the top left hand corner down slightly and the bottom right hand corner up slightly to expose part of the doily.

Adhere the Found Relative to the back of the Film Strip Frame. Adhere one of the delicate lace bars to the top of the film strip frame, showing half of the lace bar. Adhere the second delicate lace bar to the bottom of the film strip frame, showing half of the lace bar. 

Add foam squares to the back of the film strip frame. Adhere the film strip frame to the middle of the 3 3/4" x 5" piece of patterned paper.

In the bottom right hand corner of the film strip frame, adhere the drifting feather, the flower and a mini dress form charm. 

With the elements adhered on the right hand side of the film strip frame, adhere the Happy Birthday sentiment to the bottom middle of the film strip frame. You'll need to add foam squares to the left hand side of the sentiment in order to make it the same height as the right hand side.

To add some interest in the top left hand corner of the film strip frame, adhere the other mini dress form charm, one white carnation, two white roses and four brown roses. Once the flowers have adhered, to add some extra interest to them, apply Vintage Silk Opal Magic Wax with your finger to each flower.

Cut a cardbase out of Super Stock that measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", score at 4 1/4". You'll want to cut a piece of patterned paper that measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Distress the edges of the patterned paper with an edge distressor. Once the edges have been distressed, ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a Blending Tool. Adhere the 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" patterned paper piece to your cardbase. Adhere the cardfront to the 

4 1/4" x 5 1/2" patterned paper piece. 

Here are a some close ups of the finished Vintage Happy Birthday Card.

Here's the finished Vintage Happy Birthday Card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Happy Birthday 

- Drifting Feathers

- Flowers (coming soon)

- Mini Dress Form Charms

- Film Strip Section Frame

- Delicate Lace Doily

- Delicate Lace Bar

- Flowers: White Carnations, 15mm White Roses and 10mm Brown Roses

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso, Distress Paint - Antique Linen, Distress Stain - Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo and Distress Crayons - Spun Sugar, Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo and Antique Linen

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink - Clear (dabber)

- Prima Marketing: Art Alchemy Opal Magic Wax - Vintage Silk

- Stamperia: Vintage Patterned Paper

- Tim Holtz/Idea-ology: Found Relatives

- Creative Scrapbooker/Cathie Allan: Super Stock

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

- Misc: Heat Tool 

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn 

Spring Has Sprung Mini Album with Ava Gavloski

Hello and Welcome to Southern Ridge Trading Co.

Ava here and wanted to share with you a album in progress….

Let’s celebrate Spring.

Spring is here in various degrees of temperature, so let promote flowers, cool breezes and lots of sunshine.

This album cover is my delicate vision of new beginnings in Spring Time.  This album cover has been retired from the store and you can now find new designs in the store.

Here is one cover that would be great to design with.

So, let’s get started with the supplies to gather in preparation for applying many treatments to his album cover.

A wide range of stencils can be found in the Stencil tab of the store.

Apply gesso to the chipboard as a base treatment to lighten up the chipboard and have the mist mediums to have nice absorption.

A little Glam painting and then of course some glimmer painting.

Remember the modeling paste to add texture to your project.  

You can see on page 2 I used the small stencil.

Tip:  DecoArt Media Modeling paste will mix well with your glimmer mist as in this project  to colour the paste from white to your desired colour.  I added a small amount of green glimmer mist to the paste, mixed well and stippled the front cover outer edges of the album.

Add a few embellishment to my pages and my album is ready for photos.

Here are the 2 pages side by side.

Once I placed the album cover and page 1 back onto the rings, I wanted to create some fullness to the front cover and I achieved this with beautiful ribbons to cover the metal rings.

So, here is your look at the front cover.  I think this will be a continuous work of art as I continue to create pages throughout the next few months.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- My Beautiful Life Chipboard Album

- Fern Leaf Foliage

- Fishnet Stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist, Glam and Architextures

- DecoArt Modeling Paste

- May Arts Ribbon

- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Thanks for stopping by.

Ava

Jane Austen Card with Corina Finley

Hello Fellow Crafters!

This card all started three days ago when I cleaned up a spill of coffee I had on my studio counter with paper towel, was distracted by my boys and forgot to throw it in the garbage can.

Today, when I came in to create my DT project with no ideas, I found myself cleaning up! Procrastinating! Then I grabbed the dried up ball of coffee tinted paper towel..............ding, ding, ding!

I gently smoothed out the paper towel, and loved the look and texture. I decided to use it as I would use cardstock in my card. I collected a few Jane Austen Kit images that I purchased from Calico Collage and layered each to the paper towel and brown cardstock. I added stitching detail around the perimeter with my sewing machine. 

I applied a thin coat of Antique Bronze Distress Paint to the Delicate Lace Element. Once it was dry, I added multi medium to a few places and sprinkled with Crushed Glass Glitter.

I placed the Delicate Lace Element to the left side of the card front, atop of a scrap of Tea-Dyed Cheesecloth. I glued the Vintage Pocket Watch to the sentiment of Jane Austen's quote and added the Mini Wood Key to the top right.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Mini Wood Key

- Delicate Lace Element

- Wood Pocket Watch

Remember to take a look at the Southern Ridge Trading Company website - Chipboard.ca for great Chipboard designs for your next card or project!

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Captured Scrapbook Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello Bloggers!

Charlene here! Thanks for joining me today! My hubby and I just returned from an amazing trip to Mexico with 2 of our very dear friends.  I love travelling in April (well actually I just love travelling anytime) but I love it because when I return home I know that spring is right around the corner! You may still need hats and mittens for those cool spring days but the warmth is right around the corner.

This is my adorable niece Renna. She is the sweetest little girl with the biggest, brightest smile and the most adorable curls! She definitely makes the life more beautiful just by being in it!

For this layout I used Southern Ridge Queen Anne’s Drop Doily.  The package comes with 4 chipboard pieces so I used 2 of them to decorate, balance and anchor the left side of my layout. I love this page because you can quickly put it together using some of your paper scraps, a bit of lace, add some beautiful chipboard pieces and voila…perfection!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Queen Anne’s Drop

Other Products Used:

- Teresa Collins Paper and Diecuts

- Lace

- Brads

- Paper Doily

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you have a fabulous day!

- Charlene

Love Heart & Soul Mixed Media Canvas with Deb Riddell

Hello everyone, thank you for stopping by.  It’s Deb here today to share a mixed media canvas with you that I made using Southern Ridge’s Mare and Foal, Taneesha Heart and Heart Filigree Border chipboard pieces and Heart stencil.

This canvas would be a lovely gift for any Mom on Mother’s Day and all the horse lovers in your life would appreciate it too I think.  I’ve a few step out photos for you on how I created it, hope you will enjoy seeing them.

I started out with 6” x 8” flat artists canvas and added the word ‘love’ to the left side before coating it with gesso.  The letters for the word love were die cut with Tim Holtz’s Alpha Numeric ¾” dies, I layered four of each letter together for some dimension.

I then stenciled some hearts here and there onto the canvas through Southern Ridge’s Heart stencil with Ranger Opaque Texture paste.

After the texture paste dried, I added repeated washes of DecoArt Media fluid acrylics in Cobalt Turquoise Hue and Green Gold, spritzing with water for some drips and runs and drying in between.  A final wash of Golden Titan Buff and DecoArt Media Titanium White was followed with stamping with a fine script stamp and Distress Vintage Photo Archival ink and some spatters of diluted Titanium white.

The canvas was then given a coat of Distress Vintage Collage medium and the edges shaded with Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress crayons.

The Mare and Foal chipboard pieces were painted with Distress Brushed Corduroy paint.

The horses were then stenciled with the Flourish layering stencil and Gloss Transparent Texture paste.  Once the paste had dried, the horses were coloured with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and the ink was rubbed off of the gloss texture medium with a soft cloth. I ended up darkening the horses slightly with some Walnut Stain Distress ink in the same manner before adding them to the canvas.

The Taneesha Heart and Heart Filigree Border were painted with Brushed Corduroy Distress paint and then stamped with Tim Holtz’s Ledger Script stamp and Distress Vintage Photo Archival ink.  They were given a coat of satin varnish and slightly shaded with Walnut Stain Distress crayon.

And finally, one of Tim Holtz’s Quote Chips was coloured with Old Paper and Shabby Shutters Distress crayons and edged with Walnut Stain crayon.

To assemble the canvas, the Taneesha Heart and Heart Filigree Border were centered top and bottom.

And the Quote Chip adhered to the right side of the canvas.

The Mare and Foal chipboard pieces were popped up on some small pieces of black fun foam and adhered overtop of the Taneesha Heart, perched on top of the Heart Filigree Border.

You can see the dimension in the picture below and also see some of the sheen from the gloss texture paste embossing on the horses.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed seeing my Love Heart & Soul mixed media canvas, I had a lot of fun creating it to share with you!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Mare and Foal

- Taneesha Heart

- Heart Filigree Border

- Heart stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz - Distress Ink, Distress Paint, Distress Collage Medium, Distress Crayons and Distress Archival Ink

- Ranger Ink: Gloss Transparent Texture paste and Opaque Texture paste

- Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz: Ledger Script stamp and Flourish layering stencil

- Sizzix/Tim Holtz: Alpha Numeric ¾” dies

- Advantus/Tim Holtz: Quote Chips

- DecoArt: Media Fluid Acrylics and Satin Varnish

- Golden: Artists Colors High Flow Acrylic Paint

- Miscellaneous: 6” x 8” flat artists canvas, black fun foam, wet adhesive and gesso

Thank you so much for stopping by today and as always, happy creating!

Deb xo