Love Wall Hanging with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Valentine's Day is only 17 days away and thought now is the time to start making some decor pieces to add in areas of my home, so today, I'm excited to share with you my Love Wall Hanging. To create my wall hanging, I've used a variety of our popular frames and Love themed chipboard pieces. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to recreate my Love Wall Hanging at home.

To start, you'll need to take the largest heart out of the Plain Heart Mix Package. Ink the edges of the heart using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From a piece of Valentine's themed paper, traced the chipboard heart onto the paper. Cut the paper heart out. Ink the edges of the paper heart using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Love & Hearts set, you'll need the love word and three hearts. Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Paint to the Love word and one of the hearts. Apply two coats of Carnation Dina Wakley paint to the other two hearts. Once the paint has dried, rub Black Soot Distress Crayon along the edges of the word and hearts.

Next, you'll need the Shrubbery Heart Frame. Apply two coats of Blush PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint to the frame.

From the Abstract Circle Frames, you'll need the small circle frame. Apply a coat of VersaMark Ink over the entire surface of the frame. Sprinkle Molten Dimensions - Black Magic Embossing Powder over the entire frame. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Pull together a variety of flowers in red, pink, black and white.

Adhere the paper heart to the chipboard heart.

Adhere the shrubbery frame to the middle of the paper heart. Adhere the circle frame to the middle of the shrubbery heart frame.

Adhere the Love word to the middle of the circle frame.

In the bottom right hand side of the frames, adhere fifteen flowers in a variety of colours as well as a red heart and pink heart as desired. 

In the bottom left hand side of the frames, adhere fourteen flowers in a variety of colours as well as a pink heart as desired. 

In amongst the flowers in both the top left and bottom right sides place black and white pearls as desired. To finish the wall hanging, punch two holes at the top of the heart and tie ribbon through the two holes.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished wall hanging.

Here is the finished Love Wall Hanging.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Abstract Circle Frames

- Shrubbery Heart Frame

- Plain Heart Mix Package

- Love & Hearts

- Pink Large Flowers

- Roses: Red, White and Black

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Molten Dimensions - Black Magic Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot, Distress Paint - Candied Apple, Distress Crayon - Black Soot and Blending Tool with Foam

- Dina Wakley for Ranger Ink: Acrylic Paint - Carnation

- PaperArtsy: Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Blush

- Imagine Crafts: VersaMark Ink

- Simple Stories: Kissing Booth - Love & Adore

- Eyelet Outlet: Black Pearls and White Pearls

- Misc: Ribbon

Thanks so much for joining my today!

- Katelyn

Christmas Ornaments with Karla Yungwirth

Well, we are definitely getting close to the big day, and I’m so excited!! Karla here today with some pretty ornaments created with the Southern Ridge Ornament Chipboard Set, Snowflakes 712 and Mini Sleighs wood veneer. I’ve even created a video for you below showing how I layered on some pretty paints, embossing powders and mists to customize them.

Here’s a link to the video where you can see my process. 

I had so much fun with these ornaments. They are quick and easy to decorate and would be great as package toppers, perfect to embellish a Christmas scrapbook page, as an ornament gift set, or even on your own tree! I’ll bet the kids would even love to help and it would be a lovely Christmas activity.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Christmas Ornaments
- Snowflakes 712
- Mini Wood Sleighs 

Other Supplies Used: 

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder, Hammered Metal Embossing Powder, Doubloon Embossing Powder and Rita Barakat: Magical Mysteries - Mermaid Fin Embossing Powder

- Ranger Ink: Matte Medium and Snow Cap Paint Dabber
- Paper Artsy Paints: Steele Grey, Buff, Glacier Ice, Magic Moss, Venice Blue, Butter, Mahogany and Terracotta
- Tattered Angels Mists: Dark Vintage Green, Iridescent Gold, Splash, Sterling, Woven Burlap and Lobster
- Kaisercraft: First Noel

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful and Happy New Year!

Hugs, Karla

All You Need is Love with Emma Ivemey

Hello there Southern Ridge fans! Emma here to share with you a fun art piece I’ve created with the oh-so-versatile chipboard pieces we all love.

I’ve used canvas paper for my base this time; if you haven’t tried it out I would highly recommend it. It’s very heavy weight (180lb / 296 gsm), which means you can use all kinds of liquid media on it. Plus, it has the texture of a real canvas that gives a little more interest to your art than a simple plain piece of paper.

This background colour happened by accident, as I was experimenting with colours for another project. This scheme didn’t suit the other project, so I put it aside. (There’s quite a few layers of colour on that paper.. I’m not sure I could recreate it again exactly, but that’s the fun of experimenting).

I felt that the kind of fantasy twilight glow would perfectly suit black silhouettes, so that inspired me to use the fairy and butterfly pieces. To create the black sparkle on the chipboard, I used Emerald Creek Onyx Frost Allure embossing powder. I then added some stamps on the background in white, grey, brown and black to enhance the twilight atmosphere. Some sequins gave the finishing touches here and there.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Lil Faries

- Butterfly Mix

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Onyx Frost Embossing Powder

- Bienfang Canvas Paper

- Paper Artsy / Seth Apter Fresco Finish Paint: Snowflake, Spanish Mulberry, Glacier Ice, Steel Grey and Venice Blue

- Crafter’s Companion: Stamps

- Imagine Crafts: Versamark Watermark Ink, Versafine Ink - Black Onyx and Memento Ink - London Fog

- Wild Whisper Designs: Wood Heart and Sequins

- Close to my Heart Ink: White Daisy and Slate

- Ranger Ink:  Archival Ink - Coffee

Thanks for visiting Southern Ridge today, I hope you are inspired to create something with silhouettes.

~~ Emma ~~

Adore Valentine's Day Card with Deb Riddell

Hello everyone and thank you for stopping by, it’s Deb Riddell here with you today to share a quick and easy Valentine’s Day card created with Southern Ridge Trading Company’s Heart stencil, Taneesha Heart and Love and Hearts Banner chipboard and Wood Adore Tags.

I was inspired by Julia Chupik of Paradise Lost who made a beautiful card with water based pigment ink (click here to see her process video).  I admired her use of white space on her card which I always struggle with so decided to give it a go myself.

I started with a piece of plain old white copy paper, spritzed some Frankly Scarlet and Raspberry Infusions with water  and dipped and dragged the copy paper through it.  Once dried, I randomly stamped the paper with the Ledger Script stamp and Vintage Photo Distress Archival ink and then stenciled hearts onto the background with Southern Ridge’s Heart stencil and Ranger Transparent Gloss Texture Paste.

The Taneesha Heart chipboard was covered with white gesso and then dipped repeatedly into diluted Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress inks on my craft mat.  The edges were inked with Ground Espresso Distress ink and then some Indian Gold Nuvo Mousse was diluted with more water and randomly applied to the heart with my finger.

I forgot to take a picture of the Hearts Banner before I put it onto the card, sorry about that!  The Hearts Banner chipboard was also covered with white gesso and this time I coloured it with Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks and more diluted Indian Gold Nuvo Mousse.  As you can see, the stenciled Heart background was adhered to a kraft cardstock card blank.

The Wood Adore Tag was first coloured with Vintage Photo Distress Stain and once it had dried, Tarnished Brass Distress Crayon was rubbed over the surface and then quickly removed to only leave it in the recessed ‘adore’ word.

And then the card was assembled, the Hearts Banner was adhered along the top edge.

And the Taneesha Heart nestled on an angle below the banner with the Wood Adore Tag added to the center of the heart with a brad coloured with Gold Mixative.

You can see the texture and shine from the stenciled hearts and the Nuvo Mousse in the picture below.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed seeing how my Adore Valentine’s Day card came together, I haven’t quite mastered the use of white space as expertly as Julia but I do like the way it turned out.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Taneesha Heart

- Love and Hearts Banner

- Wood Adore Tags

- Heart Stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Paper Artsy: Infusions Coloured Stains

- Ranger Ink: Distress Oxide Ink, Distress Ink, Distress Stain, Distress Crayon, Gold Mixative, Distress Archival Ink and Transparent Gloss Texture Paste

- Stampers Anonymous: Ledger Script stamp

- Tonic Studios: Nuvo Mousse

- Miscellaneous: Copy Paper, Kraft Cardstock, Brad and White Gesso

Thanks as always for stopping by today and hope that you’ve been inspired to make a Valentine’s Day card for your sweetie too, happy creating!

Deb Riddell ~ Paxton Valley Folk Art

Love Tag with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Today, I've created for you a shabby chic Love Tag, that's perfect for Valentine's Day as it's only a few weeks away. You'll want to read below as I share with you how I created my Love Tag so that you can recreate it at home.

To start, trace the Chipboard Tag around a piece of book page. Use Distress Collage Medium - Matte to decoupage the book page onto the chipboard tag. Set aside to dry.

Once the book page has dried, place the Heart Stencil overtop of the bookpage. Using a palette knife, spread Embossing Paste over top of the stencil. Set the tag aside to dry.

With the embossing paste dry, apply a coat of Vintage Lace and Blush Paint to the entire surface of the tag.

Once the paint has dried on the tag, rub Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo Distress Crayon on the edges of the tag.

Take the Love Word out of the package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the word. Sprinkle Burnt Copper Leaves embossing powder over the entire surface of the word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. 

Take one Vintage Scroll Key out of the package. Apply Vintage Photo Distress Ink to the entire surface of the key using a blending tool with foam.

Next, you'll need the Barbed Wire Heart Frame. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the heart. Sprinkle Pastel Pink embossing powder over the entire surface of the heart. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. Once the Pastel Pink embossing powder has dried, apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the now pink heart. Sprinkle Fractured Ice embossing powder over the entire surface of the pink heart. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool.     

Take the small heart out of the Abstract Heart Frames package. Apply a coat of Mixed Media Medium to the heart. Quickly place the Mixed Media Transfer Foil in Patina overtop of the heart and rub the foil onto the heart. In the areas that didn't get foil, apply Black Soot Distress Ink using a blending tool and foam. 

Take out the small Doily Frame and apply two coats of Snowflake paint to the frame. Once the paint has dried, lightly rub Vintage Photo Distress Crayon randomly onto the frame.

Adhere a piece of lace to the bottom of the tag.

Adhere the doily frame to the middle of the tag. Adhere the abstract heart to the middle of the doily frame.

Adhere the barbed wire heart to the middle of the abstract heart. Adhere the key to the middle of the barbed wire heart.

Adhere the love word to the bottom of the hearts. To add some extra detail to the love, add three rhinestones. In the bottom right hand side of the hearts, adhere two cream roses and three pink roses. In the top left hand side of the hearts, adhere two cream roses and three pink roses.

To finish the Love Tag, tie a pink bow at the top of the tag.

Here are a few close up shots of my tag.

Here's the finished tag.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Chipboard Tag

- Abstract Heart Frames

- Barbed Wire Heart Frame

- Vintage Scroll Keys

- Love Word

- Heart Stencil

- Doily Circle Frame

- 10mm Roses: Cream and Pink

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder, Fractured Ice Embossing Powder and Pastel Pink Embossing Powder

- Paper Artsy: Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics - Snowflake Vintage Lace and Blush 

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink Dabber

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo & Black Soot, Distress Crayon - Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain, Distress Collage Medium - Matte, Distress Collage Brush and Blending Tool with Foam

- Stampendous: Dreamweaver Stencil - Regular Embossing Paste

- Therm o web: Rebekah Meier - Mixed Media Medium and Mixed Media Transfer Foil - Patina

- Want 2 Scrap: Rhinestones

- Tombow: Mono Multi Liquid Glue

- Misc: Book Page and Light Pink Ribbon

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn