Mixed Media Tag - Grow with Ruchi

Hello friends!! Ruchi here from Ruchi's Crafeteria and I'm back with my inspirational project.

Today I've created a simple mixed media tag.

I picked a piece of cardboard  and applied cotton gauge using Prima Clear Gesso. Sprayed immix Fuchsia Pink sprinkle mist from Expressions Craft.

Picked SRTC Heart Scroll Cage and SRTC Vintage Scroll Key chipboards, and applied Prima White gesso all over them. Once it dried, applied Colorbox- White Chalk ink and heat embossed it with WOW clear embossing powder.

Arranged all the elements like SRTC chipboards, Prima flowers, stamped and coloured leaves, butterfly and washi tape. Glued them on my tag base. For completing the look, added half pearls and glitter here n there on elements.

That’s it for today!! Hope you like my today's project. Don’t forget to check SRTC shop for these chipboards and some other awesome designs.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Heart Scroll Cages

- Vintage Scroll Keys

Other Supplies Used:

- Prima Marketing:  Heavy Gesso White, Gesso- Clear and flowers

- Wow: Clear Embossing Powder

- Colorbox: White Chalk Ink

- Honey Bee stamp: Hello Gorgeous stamp set

- Concord & 9th: Hello Lovely stamp set

- Expressions Craft: Immix Fuchsia Pink Sprinkle Mist 

- Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Big Chat Stickers  

Cardboard, half pearls, butterfly, twine, glue, cotton gauge are from my stash.

See ya next time.

Till then happy crafting!!

Ruchi

Traveler's Journal with Cathy Potosky

Happy September everyone! I'm not saying fall yet, a few more days of summer is okay with me now that it's not 35 degrees here.

My project is a travelers journal, using the Eileen Hull die. This one is going to a friend with some inserts I created.

I started by spraying my cover (and my desk, phone etc) with Dylusions sprays and a Prima Bloom colour for the shimmer. When that was dry I stenciled in white and hickory smoke using a couple of TH stencils. I found a piece of canvas in my stash, stenciled that in Dylusions paint to add a pocket on the inside of my cover. I moved all those aside to dry.

I pulled out my SRTC chipboard pieces and got them ready for the cover. I used the small and medium size from the  Dandelion Seed Stems set. I embossed the flower part with Emerald Creek Soft Fallen Snow and did the stems with Finnabair Wax in Emerald.

Using the Dylusions Calypso Teal I painted my Barbed Wire Heart Frame and prepped my butterfly from the Butterfly Swirl Combo and covered it with mixed media medium, waited for it to be tacky then foiled it in blue.

Now that all my pieces were ready and dry, I could put all my items on my journal.

I attached my dandelion pieces first because I wanted them to be my focal point. I then added a few rub ons, a couple of stamped images and I set a little brad into melted embossing powder.

I love the dandelions. And the sparkle from the Soft Fallen Snow was just the right touch. On my inside pocket I attached my barbed wire heart with Glossy Accents so it would hold well on the fabric.

On the back cover I attached a glassine envelope to hold little bits in. I wanted the tab to stay "closed" so I attached my foiled butterfly to it. Pretty touch and just enough to keep the flap down.

And one last close up, my dandelions! 

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Dandelion Seed Stems

- Barbed Wire Heart Frame

- Butterfly Swirl Combo

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Embossing Powder: Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder, Baked Texture - Patina Oxide Embossing Powder and Brads

- Dylusions: Dylusions Spray - Lemon Zest, Pure Sunshine, Squeezed Orange, Vibrant Turquoise & Fresh Lime and Dylusions Paint - Calypso Teal

- Rebekah Meier Mixed Media Medium and Three Tags Stencil

- Artful Maven November Stamp Set

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Paint - Hickory Smoke and Picket Fence

- Tim Holtz Ideaology: Glassine Envelopes, Canvas Substrate, Quote Chips, Mini Motivational Stamp Set and Rub Ons

- Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous: Wildflowers Layering Stencil and Swirls Layering Stencil

- Ranger Ink: Foil - Vintage

Thank you all for stopping by and make sure you head over to get your chipboard pieces for your next project!

- Cathy

Top Hat with Cathy Potosky

Happy June everyone! Hope the month has been treating you all well and you're ready for the summer. And in the summer, it's a good idea to wear a hat to keep that sun off your head.

With that in mind, my project this month features the Top Hat as the base. It's one of my favourite pieces and you can dress it up in so many ways.

I used collage medium and TH Correspondence paper as my base layer and then embossed the whole hat with the Baked Texture Vintage Beeswax. I then went back over it with different Baked Texture Embossing Powders for some more layers. After it was completely cooled, I added mixed media medium with a stencil and once it was tacky, I foiled it with Champagne foil from DecoArt.

Once I had my base ready I started adding my colour to my other pieces. I used 1 of the Butterfly Mix and 2 pieces from the Butterfly Swirl Combo

On one butterfly I covered it with white gesso before I added Ken Oliver's Liquid Metals for colour, on the second butterfly I used the Liquid Metals straight on the chipboard and I love the bit more muted colour I got. 

Another one of my favourite pieces is the butterfly swirl. This piece was painted with Dylusions, Finnabair Wax and Liquid Metals.

I used Glossy Accents to attach my butterflies. Once they were in place I added the TH quote chip and a few TH Baubles that I dyed with alcohol ink.

Here are a few close ups of the finished project. I love the shimmer.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Top Hat

- Butterfly Mix

- Butterfly Swirl Combo

Other Supplies Used:

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Baked Texture Embossing Powders by Seth Apter in Vintage Beeswax, Chunky Rust, Patina Oxide and Ancient Amber

- Ken Oliver Liquid Metals: Emerald, Coral, Peridot, Quartz and Turquoise

- Dylusions Paint: Laidback Lilac and Dylusions Mica Spray - Crushed Grape

- Finnabair Antique Brilliance Wax: Amethyst Magic and Aged Bronze

- Rebekah Meier Mixed Media Medium

- TCW Rebekah Meier Mini three Tags Stencil

- DecoArt Foil: Champagne

- Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Quote Chips and Baubles 

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Alcohol Ink - Amethyst and Turquoise

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to come back to see what the DT has to share with you. And don't forget to get your favorite pieces from Southern Ridge Trading Company, you can never have enough chipboard!

Cathy

Season's Greetings Christmas Tree Trio Decoration with Deb Riddell

Hello everyone, Deb Riddell here with you today to share a Christmas decoration that I made with lots of Southern Ridge Trading Company’s wonderful Christmas chipboard and wood veneers.

I used Southern Ridge’s Scribble Triangle Tree Set, Wood Small Marked Deer (love that wee guy!), Small Primitive Stars, Snowflakes 712 and Star stencil in the making of my Season’s Greetings Christmas Tree Trio decoration.  I have a few step out photos on how I made it, hope you will enjoy seeing them.

I started out with a piece of ¼” MDF cut to about 5” x 7” (it was in my stash and I haven’t a clue where it came from but it was the perfect size so I decided to use it.  You could also use a flat artist’s canvas or even just cover a piece of chipboard with scrapbook paper to make yours).  I covered the MDF front and back with paper from Tim Holtz’s Tidings Paper Stash and wrapped the edges with some red glitter tape from his Tidings Design Tape set.

I then stenciled Ranger Clear Gloss Texture Paste through Southern Ridge’s Star stencil, repeating the pattern as necessary to cover the entire front side of the panel, and set it aside to dry.

The three Christmas trees from the Scribble Triangle Tree Set were painted with Hauser Dark Green Americana acrylic paint and once the paint had dried, Deco Foil Adhesive was applied over all of the trees with the Deco Foil Adhesive pen.  Once the adhesive had dried clear and tacky, Emerald Watercolour Deco Foil was burnished over top.  I love the variegation of colour you achieve with the watercolour Deco Foils!

The Wood Small Marked Deer is so beautiful all on it’s own that you don’t have to much to enhance it. I just gave him a coat of DecoArt Gloss Varnish and once it had dried, added more Gloss Varnish to his antlers and sprinkled them with Distress Vintage Platinum Glitter Dust, perfection!

One of the Small Primitive Stars was painted with DecoArt Emperor’s Gold Dazzling Metallics paint and once dry, the Deco Foil Adhesive pen was used to apply adhesive before applying Rebekah Meier Design Mixed Media Transfer Foil in Old Gold over top.

Three of the snowflakes from the Snowflakes 712 set were painted with Americana Titanium White acrylic paint and once it had dried, Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Soft Fallen Snow embossing powder was applied to all of them.

A flat back pearl was adhered onto the centers of all of the embossed snowflakes.  Some of Tim Holtz’s gold Deco Sheet was adhered onto white cardstock and tiny stars were die cut with Simon Says Stamp’s Large Holiday Shapes and Holiday Shapes Hearts Stars Craft dies.

The Season’s Greetings sentiment was stamped onto white cardstock with a Crafty Secrets Vintage Christmas stamp with Black Soot Distress Archival ink, clear embossed and then cut into a banner shape.  The whole banner was lightly inked with Old Paper Distress Ink and the edges inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Here are a few close ups, the foiled Scribble Triangle Trees were added along the bottom edge of the prepared MDF plaque and one of the embossed snowflakes was added to the top of each tree.  That wonderful deer was adhered overtop of the trees on the left hand side of the panel.

The gold Deco Sheet stars were added here and there to the panel and you can see the shine from the Gloss Texture Paste stenciled stars in the background, another layer of shine to glow in the light of the Christmas candles!

I hope that you’ve enjoyed seeing how my Season’s Greetings Christmas Tree Trio decoration came together and that you’ve been inspired to make one of your own!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Scribble Triangle Tree Set

- Wood Small Marked Reindeer

- Small Primitive Stars

- Snowflakes 712

- Star Stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Therm O Web: Deco Foil, Deco Foil Adhesive Pen and Rebekah Meier Designs Mixed Media Transfer Foil

- DecoArt: Americana Acrylic Paint, Dazzling Metallics Paint and Gloss Varnish

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz / Advantus: Tidings Paper Stash, Tidings Design Tape and Deco Sheets

- Tim Holtz / Ranger Ink: Clear Gloss Texture Paste, Distress Vintage Platinum Glitter Dust, Distress Ink and Distress Archival Ink

- Simon Says Stamp: Large Holiday Shapes Craft Dies and Holiday Shapes Hearts Stars Craft Dies

- Miscellaneous: MDF 5” x7” panel, white cardstock, clear embossing powder, flat back pearls, scissors, adhesive and Christmas sentiment stamp

Thanks again for stopping by today and as always, happy creating!

Deb Riddell ~ Paxton Valley Folk Art

Halloween Scrapbook Album with Karen Bearse

Before Karen Bearse takes you through her fabulously spooky Halloween project, Karen and I would like to thank Karen for all of her fabulous and inspiring work during her time on our Design Team. It has been a true pleasure working with you and we wish you all the best on your future successes! You'll want to make sure to follow Karen on her blog to see what she is up to. Now back to Karen and her spooky Halloween project.

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Karen Bearse here today with my last post for Southern Ridge Trading Co. I have loved being on this team!! I want to thank my team mates especially Katelyn Grosart the DT lead & Karen Beaupre the very generous owner. I will miss these talented ladies but will check in from time to time. I feel the need to focus on other endeavours, but you will still see me around the block!

First I have a creepy Halloween Scrapbook Album for you. I made a similar book way back in 2001 or so. The idea was to do a scrapbook spread every year chronicling our Halloween costumes. This book starts in 1996 with my oldest son’s first Halloween. I have the years up to 2010 where my book kind of stalled out. Time to create part 2 the sequel. The goal is to play with this book and fill in the missing years & carry on from there.

I decided to once again use Eileen Hull’s Journal die but this time in a different way. As most of our Halloween pics tend to be landscape, it will give me room to use bigger photos. First I cut out 2 journal pieces from mat board, lined up & punched the middle hole. Next I cut off the top spine piece leaving me with only 1 row of holes. I used these to add rings so I can add pages as the years go by.

The top pieces were decorated using Distress Oxide, stamped then heat embossed. I have years of Halloween paper hoarded so I brought a bunch out to use on this project. I went with this black & silver spider web paper as the background.

Placing dies & the chipboard piece gave me an idea of how much room I had & where my embellishments should go. I took a photo so I could re-assemble after the pieces were cut & coloured.

Placing dies & the chipboard piece gave me an idea of how much room I had & where my embellishments should go. I took a photo so I could re-assemble after the pieces were cut & coloured.

The cool raven was cut out twice and layered to give him some strength then doodled on. He was adhered with pop dots to give a bit of depth. My ghost was cut out of a piece of white embossed on white paper, misted with Glimmer Mist in Silver for a bit of shimmer.

The cool chippie title was painted using Finnabair art alchemy acrylic paint. Hard to see in photos but in real life there is a great shimmer & metallic finish. Once it was dry the title was a bit dark & did not show up well so I doodled that as well with a white paint pen.

Time for finishing touches! I took my word band and added paint so the letters would show up better, and some hemp. I added orange rings now all I need is to add some pages. I hope you enjoyed my Halloween tutorial & I encourage you to make a book, it is a lot of fun to look back on all the years of Halloween! Thanks again for all the fun playing with Southern Ridge Trading Co.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Halloween Header

Other Supplies Used:

- Eileen Hull by Sizzix: Journal Die

- Tattered Angels: Tinsel Town (G.Glam) and Silver (G.Mist)

- Tombow: Mono Liquid Glue

- Tim Holtz by Sizzix: Feather & Ravens and Village Graveyard

- Tim Holtz Stamps by Stampers Anonymous

- Tim Holtz Idea-ology by Advantus: Word Band 

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Onyx Frost Embossing Powder

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Finnabair Acrylic Paint by Prima Marketing: Metallic - Dark Forest, Fresh Orange and Silver Spoon, Opal Magic - Pink, Blue and Sparks: Iris Potion

- Karen