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

Altered Hat with Tracy Sagriff

Today's project is a little bit steampunk and a whole lot of shabby chic. The pretty colours and fun diecuts make this project come to life.

Begin by painting the entire hat with rose gold. Be sure to get the bottom of the brim.

Once dry paint use white paint from the brim of the hat to the edge of the faux hat band. Then paint the uppermost part of the brim white.

Distress  the paint using sandpaper or wire brushes. 

Use the rose gold paint and the stencil to create a pattern over the white paint.

Apply dollar store gems around the top and bottom of the faux hat band.

Paint the bird and pocketwatch pieces bronze.

Paint the leaves and flourish with green and turquoise.

Arrange rolled paper flowers and adhere to hat. 

Adhere the remaining pieces as desired.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Swooping Birds

- Fine Clock Face

- Scroll Borders

- Pumpkin Leaves

Other Supplies Used:

- Plastic fedora or decoupage hat

- Rose Gold and White Acrylic Paint

- Stencil with desired pattern

- Cardstock

- Lace

- Homemade hatpins (optional)

- Bling

- Tracy S

Hello Autumn Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. It's hard to believe that Fall will soon be here and hopefully the weather will start to cool down a bit because on the west coast of Canada the weather has been super hot. So today, I've created for you a beautiful Fall "Hello Autumn"  card, that's perfect to give to a lover of fall. You'll want to read below as I share with you how I embellished the chipboard elements on my "Hello Autumn" card.

For the middle of the card I used the Small Vintage Oval Mirror Plan and the Horizontal Filigree Frame. To embellish the small vintage oval mirror plain, I applied two coats of Walnut Stain Distress Paint to the frame. For the Horizontal Filigree Frame, I applied Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder to the entire frame and then embossed with a heat tool.

In the bottom left hand corner of the frame, I used a couple of Fall Leaves, a Pumpkin Leaf and two Fern Leaf Foliage. The Pumpkin leaf was painted with two coats of Walnut Stain Distress Paint and one of the fall leaves was painted with Evergreen Acrylic Paint from Dina Wakley.  To embellish both of the Fern Leaf Foliage pieces, I embossed them with Copper embossing powder. For the other Fall leaf, apply two coats of Cheddar Acrylic Paint from Dina Wakley and then once the paint has dried, emboss the leaf with Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.

In the top right hand corner of the frame, I used three Fall Leaves and a  Pumpkin Leaf. The Pumpkin leaf was painted with two coats of Walnut Stain Distress Paint. Two of the fall leaves were painted with Evergreen Acrylic Paint from Dina Wakley. To embellish the other Fall leaf, apply two coats of Cheddar Acrylic Paint from Dina Wakley and then once the paint has dried, emboss the leaf with Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.

To finish the card adhere flowers to the top right hand corner by the chipboard pieces as well as to the left hand corner beside the chipboard pieces. 

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Fall Leaves

- Pumpkin Leaves

- Fern Leaf Foliage

- Vintage Oval Mirror Plan

- Horizontal Filigree Frame

- 10mm Roses: Orange and Brown

- 15mm Roses: Cream

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves, Copper and Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Distress Paint -  Walnut Stain, and Distress Crayons - Gathered Twigs and Peeled Paint

- Dina Wakley for Ranger Ink: Acrylic Paint - Cheddar & Evergreen

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink - Dabber

- Prima Marketing: Amber Moon - Pumpkin Season, Thankful & Humble

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

- Creative Scrapbooker: Super Stock

- Misc: Heat Tool

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn 

Falling Leaves Mixed media Plaque with Deb Riddell

Hello and happy fall!  It’s Deb here today to share with you my falling leaves mixed media plaque that I made for our current Fall challenge.  I used the cover from Southern Ridge Trading Company’s Fall Album along with some Pumpkin Leaves and Fall Leaves.

I’ve a few step out pictures on how I made it so grab a cup of your favourite fall beverage and read on.

I started by filling in the ring binding holes on the album cover with paper clay.  Once it had dried, I stippled the edges of the Fall Album frame with Americana acrylic paints in Dark Chocolate, Heritage Brick and a touch of Ebony Black with a stiff stencil brush.

Ranger Transparent Texture Paste was then applied to the unpainted areas of the album cover and to the chipboard leaves as I wanted to use Distress Crayons on these elements.  The Distress Crayons blend easier on surfaces that have been prepared with gesso or collage mediums and the transparent texture paste worked well also.

I coloured the prepared leaves and unpainted album areas with various colours of Distress Crayons, layering and blending the colours as I went.

After I was happy with the depth of colour, I sealed all of the chipboard elements with Satin varnish and then added a bit of silver and black embossing powder to the wheelbarrow and rake on the Fall album cover.

I backed the album cover with a piece of pale blue cardstock that I lightly stenciled with Tumbled Glass Distress ink through Southern Ridge’s Intersecting Circles stencil.

It’s very subtle and hard to see in the pictures but the swirls remind me of mare’s tail clouds that you often see high in the sky on a cool fall day!

More leaves were then die cut and punched from cardstock that I coloured with various shades of Distress inks in the colours of fall leaves.

I used a Recollections Oak Leaf punch and the leaf dies from the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Tiny Tattered Florals set.

The four chipboard leaves were adhered to the corners of the fall album cover and the cardstock leaves were scattered around all four sides.

I love the touch of metallic embossing on the wheelbarrow and rake.  I used Ranger’s Clear Embossing Ink pen, it allowed me to add the ink and embossing powder lightly to specific areas on the plaque.

You can also see some scratched lines on the tree in the picture above, I used a pin to add some ‘bark’ texture by lightly scratching through the layers of Distress Crayon, worked like a charm!

I hope that you’ve enjoyed seeing a new way to use the wonderful chipboard albums available from Southern Ridge Trading Company.  I still have 9 more album pages left that I can use for other projects so it’s an amazing value for the money and who knows, I might even use some of them to make an actual album!

Southern Ridge Trading Co. Supplies Used:

- Fall Album

- Pumpkin Leaves

- Fall Leaves

- Intersecting Circles stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink: Distress Crayons; Distress Ink; Transparent Matte Texture Paste; Clear Embossing Pen

- Tim Holtz/Sizzix: Tiny Tattered Florals die

- Recollections: Oak Leaf punch

- Deco Art: Americana Acrylic paint; Satin varnish

I hope you will join in our Fall Challenge.  You have a chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca - a $20.00 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!  Can’t wait to see what you link up, happy creating!

Deb xo