Beautiful Day Altered Spool with Karen Jiles

Hi there, 

It’s Karen sharing a “Beautiful Day” Altered Spool that I created with the Retro Bike and Birds and Branches Chipboard sets.  The chipboard sets were so easy to coordinate with this altered spool. This altered project is a great keepsake. The patterned paper and embellishments used were perfect. Take a peek at my tutorial below.

Step 1: Trim patterned paper down to the width of the core of the ribbon spool. I trimmed my paper down to 3x12.

Step 2: Reinforce edges of the patterned paper with coordinated stickers and distress edges with coordinated distress ink.

Step 3: Add 2 eyelets to each reinforced edge using a Cropadile.

Step 4: Attach patterned paper to spool using ribbon. Add metal Pull to patterned paper to securely wrap the patterned paper around the base of the spool.

Step 5: Adhere Vignette Finial pieces together and then adhere onto spool. Adhere flowers and leaves to the vignette finial pieces.

Step 6: Cut a bird from the Birds and Branches Chipboard set. Cut swirly pieces from the Border chipboard.

Step 7: Adhere the Retro Bike, Bird and Swirly chipboard to the spool using E6000.

Step 8: Add sentiment stickers to each wheel of the Retro Bike using 3D Tape.

Step 9: Tap on some gesso using a paintbrush and continue embellishing as desired.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Retro Bike

- Birds on Branches

- Chipboard Border

Other Supplies Used:

- Vintage Ribbon Spool

- Patterned Paper & Coordinating Stickers

- Eyelets

- Vignette Finial Pieces

- Flowers and Leaves

- Dyed Ribbon

- Time Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink

- Foambrush

- Paintbrush

- Scissors

- Gesso (White)

- Paintbrush

- E6000

- 3D Tape

- Hot Glue

- Heat Gun

- Cropadile

Thanks so much for visiting today!

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

You Make Me Happy Card with Tracy Sagriff

Directions:

1. Adhere design paper to card base

2. Paint chipboard pieces using acrylic paint and allow to dry

3. Use strong adhesive to adhere the dried pieces to the cardbase.

4. Before attaching the bicycle carefully roll the basket of the bike inward to create a 3d effect.

5. Fill the basket with flowers.

6. Attach pearls and sentiment.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Retro Bike

- Double Swirl Frame

Other Supplies Used:

- 5x7 white card base

- 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 design paper

- Flatback pearls

- Sentiment sticker or stamped image

- Small mulberry flowers

- Acrylic paint

- Tracy S

Vintage Bicycles with Deb Antonick

I just fell in love with these new Stamperia Rice papers.

I chose to make 2 canvases so as not to waste any of this gorgeous paper.

To start, I applied a coat of Gesso to chipboard bikes and the 2 wood canvases.

Cut the paper to fit the larger wood canvas keeping to the upper right of the paper so as to utilize the flowers. Apply with Matte Medium.

Use a palette knife and a brick look stencil and apply modelling paste to the smaller Wood Canvas, and the upper right and lower left of the larger canvas over the paper. Let dry.

Emboss the chipboard Bicycles and the branches with the Emerald Creek Allure Burnt Copper Leaves embossing powder.

Paint over the texture with Razzleberry. Let dry.

Drybrush over the pink with Light Buttermilk. Let dry.

Adhere the remaining paper to a piece of Cardstock with Matte Medium. Let dry, then cut to create the upper right and lower left corners.

Adhere the paper with glue.

Shade around the edges on both of the wood canvases with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Burnt Umber.

Stamp a piece of cardstock with the Dream stamp and trim to size. Adhere with Matte Medium. Outline with the Stabilo pencil or permanent marker.

Add brads to the wheels.

Adhere all the chipboard pieces with Pop Up Glue Dots.

Adhere flowers with Glue.

Finish the sides of the wood canvas with Razzleberry.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Retro Bike – Med

- Penny Farthing Bike – Med 

- Leafy Branches

Other Supplies Used:

- 8x8 Wood Canvas

- 6x6 Wood Canvas

- Stamperia Paper: Peach Blossoms

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder

- DecoArt Acrylics: Razzleberry and Light Buttermilk

- DecoArt Media: Gesso, Burnt Umber and Matte Medium

- Stencil: TCW 6x6 Brick Stencil

- Stamp: Dream Forever CRV219 - Stampendous

- Imagine Crafts: StazOn Jet Black Permanent Ink Pad

- Aleene's Tacky Glue

- Stabilo pencil or permanent black marker

- Small flowers and four brads

- Palette Knife, Scissors and Heat Tool

By Deb Antonick

www.paintingwithdeb.com

Country Window with Deb Antonick

As a decorative painter, I took this months project as a bit of a challenge. I loved the stencil to decided to play with some texture techniques.

I started with the stencil and DecoArt Crackle Paste applied with a palette knife.  It is important to let the Paste air dry to get the nice cracks. 

When dry, apply a coat of Gesso. 

I then brushed some random patches of Cobalt Teal Hue and Transparent Red Iron Oxide. And let dry.

I then brushed on a coat of Carbon Black Antiquing Cream.  Let sit for a minute the wipe off with a damp cloth or baby wipe. Antiquing Medium never really dries or cures so needs to be sealed with a coat of DecoArt Matte Medium to deactivate.

I love this technique, there are so May possibilities.

Apply a thin coat of the Crackle Paste to the base and allow to dry. Paint with Sap Green. Then apply the Antiquing Cream as above.

I painted the shutters and window crown with Cobalt Teal Hue, shaded with Prussian Blue Hue, then tinted with a bit of Transparent Red Iron Oxide.

I painted the window frame with White and shaded with Transparent Red Iron Oxide.

I found a vintage look flower picture from my stash and adhered with Matte Medium.

I carried all the colours into the bicycle along with Carbon Black and White to make a Grey from the tires.

I glued everything into place and added a tin heart, some flowers to the basket and flat back crystals to the bike tires.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Stand Up Window Kit

- Retro Bike

DecoArt Media:

- Gesso

- Matte Medium

- Crackle Paste

- Carbon Black Antiquing Cream

- Cobalt Teal Hue

- Transparent Red Iron Oxide

- Prussian Blue Hue

- Sap Green

- Titanium White

- Carbon Black

Additional Supplies:

- Palette knife

- Glue

- Tin heart, small flowers

- Vintage floral picture

- 2 x flat back crystals

By Deb Antonick

Www.paintingwithdeb.com