Wild Scrapbook Layout with Gloria Lee

Hello everyone!

Happy Friday!!!

Gloria here today and happy to share of my project.

 I made a scrapbooking layout using Retro bike, Gears Corners chipboard die cut and mini wood gears from Southern Ridge Trading Company Shop.

I made a 12 x 12" layout with a my son's photo.

First, I choose chipboards and coloured them with paint using paint brush.

I choose Lake Life kit from wild whispers.

I blended the background paper and cut papers with distress inks using mini blending tools.

And I adhere the papers as shown with double-sided tape.

I adhere the coloured chipboards with wood glue.

I fussy cut some flowers from designer papers using my Cutter Bee scissors.   

I adhere all the elements using glue tape and adhere a flair.

  

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Retro Bike 

- Gears Corners 

- Mini Wood Gears 

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Happy crafting!

- Gloria

Happy Birthday Steampunk Tag with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here and I'm back on the blog today to share another project using inspiration from our current monthly challenge which is "Your Favourites".  For me, I will share with you today my favourite chipboard and embossing powder that I love to use, plus my love for creating birthday cards and tags as you always need them.  Today I've got a steampunk birthday tag for you that will be sure to inspire you to create. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create the perfect additions to my steampunk birthday tag.

To start, you'll want to place the fence stencil in the top right hand portion of your patterned paper. With the stencil down, take a palette knife and apply Texture Paste - Transparent Matte through the stencil, making sure you apply a thin layer. I used a 1/4 of the stencil in the top right corner. Clean your stencil. Place the fence stencil in the bottom left hand portion of your patterned paper. With the stencil down, take a palette knife and apply Texture Paste - Transparent Matte through the stencil, make sure you apply a thin layer. I used a 1/4 of the stencil in the bottom left hand corner. Set your patterned piece paper piece with the texture paste on it aside. Clean your stencil and palette knife.

With the patterned paper set aside, it's time to move on to the large Chain Frames and four Mini Wood Gears. Apply VersaMark ink to all five pieces and cover them with Slicked Smoke Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Let each piece cool for a minute. After the pieces have cooled down, with a blending tool, add Gold Mixative Alcohol ink to the top of each embossed piece. If you get too much ink on each piece, take a piece of paper towel and take off the excess. Set these pieces aside.

Next, you'll need a Happy Birthday from Birthday Greetings, three Mini Wood Gears and three Med. Gears. Cover each piece with VersaMark ink and cover with Slicked Smoke Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set pieces aside to cool. 

The next set of chipboard you'll need is five Mini Wood Gears and cut apart both Gears Corners so that you end up with six small gears and one medium gear. Cover each gear VersaMark ink and cover them with Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the gears aside so they can cool.

Next you'll need the small Roman Clock face and five Mini Wood Gears. Cover all six pieces with VersaMark Ink and cover each chipboard piece with Hammered Metal Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the gears aside so they can cool. 

Next you'll need two small pieces cut from the Fence Pattern, five Med. Gears and four Mini Wood Gears. Cover all eleven pieces with VersaMark Ink and cover them with Hammered Metal Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Let the chipboard pieces cool for a minute. After the pieces have cooled down, with a blending tool, add Pitch Black Alcohol ink to each embossed piece. If you get too much ink on each piece, take a piece of paper towel and take off the excess. Set these pieces aside.

The last piece you'll want to use is the clipboard. Cover the front and back of it in a layer of Vintage Photo Distress Stain. Use a paper towel to wipe off some of the excess stain. Set aside to dry.

When placing the fence patterned pieces, make sure to adhere one piece in the top left and one piece in the bottom right hand corner before adhering the patterned piece of paper that has the texture paste on it.

Once the patterned paper with the texture paste has been adhered to the tag, start adhering the pieces for the middle of the tag onto the tag. With foam squares, adhere the large chain frame to the centre of the tag. Once the large chain frame is adhere, with foam squares adhere the small roman clock in the middle of the large chain frame. To finish the small roman clock adhere the clipboard in the middle of it. To finish the clipboard, adhere the Happy Birthday sentiment to the middle of it. To finish off the large chain frame and small roman clock, added three different gears. 

For decorating the bottom right hand side of the large chain frame, use a variety of the chipboard pieces that you've embossed. I also added in some of Tim Holtz's mini gears in with the rest of the gears to give some different texture.

For decorating the top left hand side of the large chain frame, use a variety of the chipboard pieces that you've embossed. I also added in some of Tim Holtz's mini gears in with the rest of the gears to give some different texture.

Here's my steampunk Happy Birthday Tag finished.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Roman Clock Face - Small (coming soon)

- Med. Gears

- Mini Wood Gears

- Gears Corners

- Chain Frames

- Birthday Greetings

- Clipboard (coming soon)

- Fence Pattern

- Fence Stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder, Slicked Smoke Embossing Powder and Hammered Metal Embossing Powder

- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Distress Ink - Black Soot, Distress Stain - Vintage Photo and Alcohol Ink - Pitch Black & Gold Mixative

- Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Mini Gears

- Ranger Ink: Texture Paste - Transparent Matte & #12 Kraft Tag

- Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts: VersaMark

- Prima Marketing: Vintage Emporium- Verona & Maestro

- Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Cream & Black

- 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  

Masculine Happy Birthday Card by Katelyn Grosart

Katelyn here, and I'm back on the blog today to share with you some inspiration for our current monthly challenge which is "Anything Masculine". With this month's challenge in mind, I created a masculine Happy Birthday card. I will show you below how I transformed my chipboard pieces into grungy masculine masterpieces.

To start, I cut apart all the gears found on one of the Gears Corners so that you end up having a variety of sizes for the corners behind your stamped image. Once all the gears have been cut, select six of your favourites. 

For the first two gears that you want done in the metal finish, apply VersaMark to both of them and then cover each gear in a layer of Hammered Metal Embossing Powder. When embossing the gears with the heat tool, make sure that you keep some of the bubbles formed in the embossing powder, that will give them more of a textured look. Once both gears have been embossed and have cooled, with a blending felt, apply randomly on the two gears some Adirondack Alcohol ink in Gold. Set both gears aside to dry.

For the other four gears, cover each gear in a layer of VersaMark. Once each give has been covered with VersaMark, cover each gear in a layer of Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder. When embossing with the heat tool, make sure that you keep some of the bubbles formed in the embossing powder,  that will give the gears more of a textured look. Set aside all fours gears to cool down.

The last set of chipboard you will work with is the Honeycomb Pattern. For this card, just randomly cut off pieces from the honeycomb pattern, they don't have to be the same size. Once the two pieces of honeycomb have been cut, apply a layer of VersaMark to them. After the VersaMark has been applied, cover each piece in a layer of Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder. When heat embossing them with the heat tool, make sure that the embossing powder goes smooth on them. Set the pieces aside for a few minutes to cool. Once the pieces are cool, with a blending felt, randomly apply Adirondack Alcohol Ink in Gold to the honeycomb pieces. Set aside to dry.

When assembling the card, make sure to place the gears underneath and around the top right and bottom left hand corners of the stamped image.

To show the honeycomb pattern, rip the top two layers of the top and bottom of the paper, so that you have two spots to showcase your honeycomb pattern. Adhere the honeycomb pattern to the first bottom layer of patterned paper.

The finishing touches that I added my card was the "Happy Birthday To You" at the bottom right side of the card as well as adding the film strip ribbon and the little memo pin above the stamped image.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Gears Corners

- Honeycomb Pattern

Other Products Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Hammered Metal Embossing Powder and Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder

- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Distress Collage Medium - Crazing, Vintage Photo & Antique Linen Distress Ink, Distress Markers - Black Soot, Rusty Hinge & Gathered Twigs , Distress Crayons #3 - Walnut Stain, Picket Fence & Vintage Photo, and Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Gold Mixative

- Ranger Ink: Black Archival Ink

- Tim Holtz/ Ideaology: Small Talk - Occasions, Memo Pins, Film Strip Ribbon and Paper Stash 12x12 - Dapper

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Industrial Blueprints Stamp

- Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts: VersaMark

- Prima Marketing: Water brush

- Bazzill Cardstock: Brown Cardstock

- Crafters Companion: Watercolour Paper

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