Blessed Wall Hanging with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Fall has arrived and I'm loving the cooler weather that comes with it. I've been busy thinking about starting to decorate my home for Fall,  so I've created this Blessed Wall Hanging that is perfect to add to any place in my home. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to embellish the chipboard pieces for my Blessed Wall Hanging at home.

To start, you'll need the Blessed Fun Word. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the word. Sprinkle Weathered Wood Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Next, you'll need the Summer Frame. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the frame. Sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the frame. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. 

You'll need two Tribal Feathers and one Skeleton Leaf. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the skeleton leaf and both tribal feathers. Sprinkle Baked Texture - Taos Sunset Embossing Powder over top of the leaf and feathers. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

The last pieces you'll need are two pumpkin leaves and one Mini Wood Maple Leaf. Apply two coats of Peeled Paint Distress Paint to each pumpkin leaves and the mini wood maple leaf. Rub Peeled Paint Distress Crayon along the middle of the pumpkin leaves and the edges of the maple leaf.

Once your patterned paper is adhere to the base of your wall hanging, you'll adhere the frame.

In the bottom right side of the frame, adhere the skeleton leaf and the two pumpkin leaves. Adhere three cream roses, two white roses and four brown roses in amongst the leaves. Use adhesive and foam squares to adhere the Blessed word in the middle of the frame.

In the top left side of the frame, adhere the maple leaf and the two tribal feathers. Adhere three cream roses, four brown roses and one white rose in amongst the leaf and feathers.

To finish the wall hanging, create a hanger out of a piece of white twine at the top of the wall hanging.

Here is the finished Blessed Wall Hanging.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Summer Frame

- Blessed Fun Word

- Mini Wood Maple Leaf

- Skeleton Leaves

- Pumpkin Leaves

- Tribal Feathers

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Baked Texture - Taos Sunset Embossing Powder, Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder and Weathered Wood Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Peeled Paint Distress Ink, Peeled Paint Distress Crayon, Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and a Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Prima Marketing Inc: Autumn Sunset Collection

- Misc: White Twine and Bingo Card

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

Happy Fall Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. For today's post, I'm excited to share with you this Happy Fall Card. To embellish my card, I featured one of our popular frames as well as our fall chipboard pieces. You'll want to read below as I share with you how I embellished the chipboard pieces for my card.

To start, take out two of the Wood Mini Maple Leaves from the package. Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Stain to one of the leaves. Apply two coats of Carved Pumpkin Distress Stain to the other leaf. Once the stain has dried on both leaves, rub Walnut Stain Distress Crayon along the edges of the leaves.

Take two Mini Wood Pumpkins out of the package. Apply two coats of Carved Pumpkin Distress Stain to the bottom portion of both pumpkins. Apply two coats of Pine Needles Distress Stain to the top portion of both pumpkins.

You'll need to take one Skeleton Leaf out of the package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the leaf. Sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder over top of the leaf. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool.

Take two Pumpkin Leaves out of the package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to each pumpkin leaf. Sprinkle Forest Foliage Embossing Powder over each pumpkin leaf. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. You may need to reapply emboss it ink to the leaves and sprinkle Forest Foliage Embossing Powder over top. Tap off the excess powder and re-emboss with a heat tool.

The last piece of chipboard you need to embellish is the Tribal Feather Frame. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Ground Espresso Distress Ink over the entire surface of the frame.

Once all the patterned papers have been layered together and the oval has been foam squared to the middle of the 4 1/4" piece of patterned paper, adhere the frame over top of the patterned paper oval. Adhere the two pumpkin leaves in the bottom left hand side of the frame. Adhere the skeleton leaf over top of the pumpkin leaves. To finish off the corner, adhere the two pumpkins at the bottom of the skeleton leaf. 

At the top of the frame, foam square the two maple leaves as desired.

To finish off the cardfront, use foam squares to adhere the fall saying. To finish off the card, cut a cardbase that measures 6" x 9", score at 4 1/2". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here's the finished Happy Fall Card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Tribal Feather Frame

- Skeleton Leaf

- Mini Wood Maple Leaf

- Pumpkin Leaves

- Mini Wood Pumpkins

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder and Forest Foliage Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Ground Espresso, Distress Crayon - Walnut Stain, Distress Stain - Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin & Pine Needles and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink Dabber

- Carta Bella: Fall Break - Pumpkin Plaid, Brisk Leaves, Border Strips and Gord Variety

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Ovals

- Tombow: Mono Multi Liquid Glue

- Creative Scrapbooker Magazine/Cathie Allan: Superstock Cardstock

- Misc: Heat Tool

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

Hooray It's Autumn Time Tag with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. For today's post, I was inspired by the weather change here on Vancouver Island. The rain is in full swing now and it feels like Autumn is here, even though Fall hasn't officially started. With Fall on my mind, this Hooray It's Autumn Time Tag.  To embellish my tag, I featured a variety of our popular fall themed chipboard pieces. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to recreate my tag at home.

To start, choose a feather that looks as close to a leaf out of the Tribal Feather Mix. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the feather. Sprinkle Vintage Ivy Embossing Powder overtop of the feather. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Take one of the Skeleton Leaf out of the package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the leaf. Sprinkle Weathered Wood Embossing Powder overtop of the leaf. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

From the Skeleton Maple Leaf package, take one out of the package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the leaf. Sprinkle Baked Texture - Chunky Rust Embossing Powder overtop of the leaf. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Take a Fine Clock Face out of the package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the leaf. Sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder overtop of the leaf. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

From the Pumpkin Leaves, take two out of the package. Apply two coats of Peeled Paint Distress Paint to each pumpkin leaf. Once the paint has fried, rub Forest Moss Distress Crayon along the edges of the leaves using your finger.

Take three Mini Wood Maple Leaves out of the package. Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Stain to two of the leaves. Apply two coats of Spiced Marmalade Distress Stain on one of the leaves. Once the stain has dried on all three leaves, rub Walnut Stain Distress Ink along the edges of the leaves using your finger.

Trace the Chipboard Tag onto a piece of patterned paper. Cut the patterned paper tag out. Ink the edges of the chipboard tag and patterned paper tag using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From a second piece of patterned paper, cut a piece that measures 2 3/4" x 3 5/8". Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the same collection, fussy cut the Hooray It's Autumn Time out of the border strip. Cut the words apart. Ink the edges of the words using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Adhere the patterned paper tag to the chipboard tag. Adhere the 2 3/4" patterned paper piece to the patterned paper tag.

Adhere the Fine Clock Face to the middle of the tag. Adhere one of the pumpkin leaves to the top right side of the clock face. Adhere the other pumpkin leaf to the middle left side of the clock. Punch a hole at the top of the tag.

Adhere the Vintage Ivy Feather 1" from the left and 1 1/8" from the bottom of the tag. Adhere the weathered wood leaf to the left side of the Vintage Ivy Feather. Adhere the Chunky Rust wood leaf slightly overtop of the weathered wood leaf and partly overtop of the pumpkin leaf.

Adhere on of the red maple leaves in the top right corner of the tag. Adhere the other red leaf and orange leaf to the bottom left corner of the tag.

Adhere the Hooray It's Autumn Time sentiment  onto your tag. To finish off your tag, tie a piece of dark orange seam binding ribbon to the top of the tag.

Here are a few close up photos of the Tag.

Here's the finished Hooray It's Autumn Time tag.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Pumpkin Leaves

- Skeleton Maple Leaf

- Skeleton Leaf

- Mini Wood Maple Leaf

- Fine Clock Face

- Tribal Feather Mix

- Chipboard Tag

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Vintage Ivy Embossing Powder, Weathered Wood Embossing Powder and Baked Texture - Chunky Rust Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Ground Espresso, Distress Crayon - Forest Moss & Walnut Stain, Distress Stain - Candied Apple & Spiced Marmalade, Distress Paint - Peeled Paint and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink Dabber

- Carta Bella: Fall Break - Harvest Town and Border Strips

- Misc: Dark Orange Seam Binding Ribbon and Heat Tool

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

There is Beauty in Simplicity ATC with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. I've started playing around with ATC cards and they are now one of my new favourite things to create with. I find that when I have smaller chipboard pieces left over, using them on an ATC card is a better alternative then having them sitting in the bin with my other chipboard pieces. So today, I've created for you a beautiful fall ATC card, that's perfect to give to that special someone in your life. You'll want to read below as I share with you how I created my There is Beauty in Simplicity ATC card.

To start, take the Skeleton Maple Leaf out of the package. Apply Emboss It Ink to the entire surface of the maple leaf. Sprinkle Weathered Wood Embossing Powder over top of the maple leaf. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. Set the maple leaf aside to cool.

Next, you'll need one of the Barbed Wire Circle Frames - Small.  Apply Emboss It Ink to the entire surface of the frame. Sprinkle Vintage Ivy Embossing Powder over top of the frame. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. Set the frame aside to cool.

Take out the small Abstract Frame.  Apply Emboss It Ink to the entire surface of the frame. Sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder over top of the frame. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. Set the frame aside to cool.

Pull out two Mini Wood Maple Leaves. Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Stain to each maple leaf. Let the stain dry. Once the stain has dried on both maple leaves, go over each piece with  the Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. Rub the crayon in with your finger.

Choose two Mini Wood Feathers from the package. Stain one of the feathers with Spiced Marmalade Distress Stain and stain the other feather with Pine Needles Distress Stain. Let the stain dry. Once the stain has dried on both feathers, go over each piece with the Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. Rub the crayon in with your finger.

Apply two coats of Spiced Marmalade Distress Paint to one of the Skeleton Leaves.  Once the paint has dried on the leaf, go over the leaf with the Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. Rub the crayon in with your finger.

Cut one piece of patterned paper that measures 2 1/2" x 3 5/8". Cut a second piece of patterned paper that measures 2 3/8" x 3 3/8". On the smaller piece of patterned paper, tear the top left hand side of the paper down and roll the edges over. On the bottom right hand side, tear the paper up and roll the edges over. Distress the edges of each piece of patterned paper. Ink the edges of the patterned paper pieces using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a Blending Tool with Foam.

Cut a piece of kraft cardstock that measures 2 1/2" x 3 5/8". Distress the edges of the cardstock piece. Ink the edges of the cardstock piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a Blending Tool with Foam.

Adhere the plaid piece of patterned paper to the brown damask piece of patterned paper. Adhere the brown damask piece of patterned paper to the piece of kraft cardstock.

Adhere the Abstract Frame to the plaid piece of patterned paper. Adhere the Barbed Wire Circle Frame to the middle of the Abstract Frame.

Adhere the orange skeleton leaf to the left hand side of the barbed wire frame. Adhere the weather wood skeleton leaf to the right of the orange skeleton leaf. 

Adhere a maple leaf and a feather in the bottom left hand corner of the ATC card. Adhere the other maple leaf and a feather in the top middle of the ATC card. 

Using glossy accents, adhere a Golden Tiger's Eye and two Carnelian gemstones in the top left and bottom right hand corners of the Abstract Frame. Stick the "there is beauty in simplicity" sentiment to the bottom portion of the two skeleton leaves. To finish off the bottom of the ATC card, wrap some twine four times at the bottom. 

Here are a few closeup shots of the finished There is Beauty in Simplicty ATC Card.

Here's my finished There is Beauty in Simplicity ATC card. I hope that I've inspired you to recreate my ATC card at home.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Abstract Frame Set

- Mini Wood Feathers

- Skeleton Maple Leaf

- Skeleton Leaves

- Mini Wood Maple Leaf

- Barbed Wire Circle Frames - Small

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves, Vintage Ivy and Weathered Wood Embossing Powders & Golden Tiger's Eye and Carnelian Gemstones

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Distress Paint -  Spiced Marmalade, Distress Stain - Spiced Marmalade, Candied Apple and Pine Needles and Distress Crayon - Walnut Stain

- Ranger Ink: Glossy Accents and Emboss It Ink - Dabber

- Idea-ology: Small Talk

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

- Authentique: Bountiful - Bountiful One and Boutniful Seven

- Misc: Twine and Kraft Cardstock

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn