Shine Wall Hanging with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Some of the chipboard pieces I've had waiting to be used on a project are a little bigger than what would fit nicely on a card, so today, I've created a feminine wall hanging featuring one of the larger frames along with a variety of other chipboard pieces. Read below and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces for my Shine Wall Hanging.

To start, you'll need to take the Circle Lace Frame. Apply two coats of Vintage Lace Paint from Paper Artsy to 3/4" around the frame. Set the frame aside to dry. Once the front side of the frame has dried, paint the entire backside of the frame with two coats of Vintage Lace Paint. Let the frame dry. Once the frame has dried, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the frame.

While you still have the Vintage Lace paint out, paint three floral banners with two coats of paint. Let the banners dry. After the banners have dried, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the banners.

Next you'll need the Shine Word. Apply two coats of Victorian Velvet Distress Paint to the word. Once the word has dried, apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the entire word. With the word covered in ink, sprinkle Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder over the entire word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. With a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the word.

While you still have the Victorian Velvet Distress Paint out, apply two coats of paint to three plain banners. Once the banners have dried, apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the entire word. With the banners covered in ink, sprinkle Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder over all three banners. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. With a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the banners.

The last chipboard piece that needs to be painted is the floral frame. Apply two coats of Carbon Black paint to the frame. Set the frame aside to dry.

With all the the chipboard pieces decorated, next you'll need to take a bowl that fits the inside the Circle Lace Frame. Once you have the right size bowl, trace around the bowl onto a piece of patterned paper. Cut out your circle and then edge distress the edges. After the edges have distressed, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the circle.

Die cut a 3" circle out of patterned paper. After the circle has been die cut, use an edge distressor and distress the edges of the circle. Once the edges have been distressed, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the circle. Die cut your picture using a  2 1/2" circle. 

When starting to adhere your elements onto the Circle Lace Frame, start by adhering the large patterned paper circle to the chipboard piece. Once that patterned paper circle has been adhered, then you can adhere the black floral frame as well as the 3" circle and your 2 1/2" photo circle. After the circles have been adhered, adhere your shine word slightly overtop of your photo.

For the banners in the top right hand corner, adhere the floral banners onto the regular banners. After the banners have been adhered together, string them onto a piece of black twine and adhere them in the top right corner. To finish the banners, adhere a cream or black rose to each banner.

In both the top left and bottom right hand corner of the frame, add a variety of cream, black and pink roses in varying 10, 15 and 20mm sizes.

To finish your wall hanging, add a piece of cream ribbon to the back of the frame which will act as the hanger part at the top of the wall hanging.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Circle Lace Frame

- Small Floral Frame

- Floral Banners

- Plain Banners

- Shine Word

- 10mm Roses: Cream and Pink

- 15mm Roses: Black

- 20mm Roses: Cream

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot and Distress Paint - Victorian Velvet

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

- Tim Holtz Ideaology: Found Relatives

- DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics: Carbon Black

- Paper Artsy: Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics - Vintage Lace

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

- Prima Marketing: Wild & Free - Let's Be Adventurers and Love Clippings - All of Me Loves All of You

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Circles

- Hug N' Snug Seam Binding Ribbon: Cream

- Misc: Heat Tool and Ribbon

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn 

Thank You Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here and I'm on the blog today sharing with you a  Thank you card using some of the new products that we've just pre-released in our store. You'll want to make sure to head over and check them all out, you can find them all here. Stay tuned this weekend as we will be showing off the new CHA releases on Facebook. Today's Thank You card  will be sure to inspire you to recreate it at home. Read below and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create my Thank You card.

To start, you'll need the Victorian Circle Square Frame. Apply a coat of Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber to the entire piece. Once the ink has been applied, sprinkle Dusk Stone Violet embossing powder over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the frame aside to allow the powder to cool. If there isn't enough embossing powder on the frame, reapply the Emboss It Ink to the frame and sprinkle Dusk Stone Violet embossing powder over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the piece aside to cool.

Next you'll need the Berry Branch Set. Cut two berry branches to fit at the bottom right hand side of the frame and cut one berry branch to fit at the bottom of the frame. Once the pieces have been cut, apply two coats of Victorian Velvet Distress Paint to each piece. Set the berry branches aside to dry.

With the Victorian Velvet Distress Paint still out, paint three floral banners. You'll want to apply another coat of paint, once the first coat has dried. Set the banners aside to dry.

With the banners painted, take the Wild Flower Bouquet and trim to fit as desired in the bottom right hand corner. Once the bouquet has been trimmed, apply one coat of Dusty Concord Distress Paint to the bouquet. With the first coat of Dusty Concord paint applied, lightly paint a coat of white gesso over top. While the white gesso is still wet, apply a coat of Dusty Concord Distress Paint to the bouquet. Once the paint has dried, ink the edges of the bouquet with Dusty Concord Distress Ink.

Cut the Thank You Flourish to fit in the middle of the frame. Once it's cut apply Abandoned Coral Distress Ink to the "Thank You" sentiment. 

With the chipboard pieces being covered, now it's time to move onto cutting your patterned paper. Cut a piece of patterned paper that measures 5 3/4" x 5 3/4".  Make sure to distress the edges of the papers and then ink the edges using Dusty Concord Distress Ink.

The last piece of patterned paper that you need to cut, will measure 5 7/8" x 5 7/8". Make sure to distress the edges of the papers and then ink the edges using Dusty Concord Distress Ink.

Adhere the floral patterned paper to the wood patterned paper.

Adhere the frame to the middle of the floral paper.

Adhere the "Thank You" sentiment to the middle of the frame.

Adhere two shorter berry branches on the right hand side of the frame. Once the berry branches have been adhered, adhere the wild flower bouquet slightly overtop of the berry branches.

String the three banners onto a piece of white ribbon. Once the banners have been strung, adhere the banners to the top left hand side of the frame.

Next, you'll want to wrap a piece of white ribbon along the bottom of the card, making sure to tie a bow on the right hand side, covering the bottoms of the berry branches and bouquet.

You'll want to add a variety of pink, and purple roses in the bottom right hand corner by the bow. Add as many or as little flowers as you want.

Add two pink roses and one purple rose to the banner.

The last finishing touch to add to the card is adding the longer of the three berry branches at the bottom of the frame. Once the branch has been added, adhere the card front to the card a 6" x 6" cardbase.

Here are some close up shots of my card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Victorian Circle Square Frame

- Wild Flower Bouquet

- Thank You Flourish

- Berry Branch Set

- Floral Banners 

-  10mm pink and purple roses

- 15mm pink and purple roses

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Dusk Stone Violet Embossing Powder 

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Abandoned Coral and Dusty Concord, Distress Paint - Victorian Velvet and Dusty Concord 

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

- Prima Marketing: Heavy White Gesso

- 49 and Market: Heirloom Botanicals - Conservatory and Sanctuary

- Bo Bunny Vintage Double Dot: Coffee

- Ribbon:  White

- 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