Monthly Archives: August 2008

Good morning! Happy Thursday! Another Ways to Use it Challenge day and I hope you’ll have fun with this challenge. I was thinking of techniques and ideas that I used to use the other day. It’s always fun to go back and revisit ideas and give them a fresh updated look. It’s been a while since I’ve torn anything but I love the added look of texture it brings to a design. Whether you add just a little touch or a lot…my challenge for you today is to find ways to incorporate paper tearing in your project. There are some great tools on the market for this such as the Tearing Edge ruler or those torn shapes templates and you can also just use your hands and tear that way. Here’s the challenge!

Snowy Christmas

My new Thomas Kinkade papers came in this week and I just can’t put them down! So beautiful and elegant…these papers are a dream to work with and I love the colors and images. To create this design, I cut out my 4×4 TK image and layered it behind my patterned paper. Using a ruler and pencil, I marked out where I wanted my stitching and where I wanted to tear back from. After tearing my window and curling the edges with my finger, I adhered the image patterned paper behind and then stitching my frame. To add a sentiment right on top of the image, stamp in Versamark ink and then emboss to get enough definition.

Quick Tip: Leave 1/4″ – 1/2″ edge when tearing so that you have room to curl back your edges.

To embellish my design, I simply covered a chipboard star with my Pearl Adirondack Paint Dabber for a beautiful pearl white look. A little Melissa Frances Vintage Ribbon and a Fancy Pants pin finish it off simply.

Have a fabulous day!
Julia

Supply List:

Stamps:
A Merry Little Christmas (Thomas Kinkade line) by Cornish Heritage FArms

Ink: Versamark by Tsukineko

Paper:
Thomas Kinkade Christmas Series paper pack by Cornish Heritage Farms
-blue paper from Thomas Kinkade Masculine Series paper pack by Cornish Heritage Farms

Other:
-sewing machine,
-chipboard snowflake
-Vintage Trim by Melissa Frances
-pin by Fancy Pants Designs
-black embossing powder
-pearl paint dabber

Everyone has their favorite products…ones they go to time and time again. I have a lot of favorites that I like to use but one of my favorites from Cornish Heritage Farms is the CHF Clear Card Sheets. I’ve always loved clear cards, stamping on transparencies but I was so excited when CHF started carrying this product. The Clear Card Sheets are super heavy and make super crisp clear cards and I’ll never go back to those office store flimsy transparencies.

Ideas for using Clear Card Sheets

• stamp your own custom transparencies
• create a clear card or tag
• create clear layers on a scrapbook page
• die-cut your own clear shapes
• Make a window card
• Create a shaker
• make a clear pocket
• stamp them with Stazon Solvent inks
• stamp with paint
• emboss with an embossing folder
• stitch on the sewing machine

Today’s CHF Challenge is to feature your favorite CHF product in a design. Check out what some of the other CHF designers have created with their favorite products….

Alli, Kristine, Michele, Kim, Joanne, Dawn, Lori, Sherrie, Carole, Becky, Val, Julie
To play along with this challenge…just follow this link. We’d love to have you join us!
On Your Wedding Day

Clear cards can be super simple to make and lots of fun. For this design I simply stamped my 5.25″ square clear card front with my Aged Sheet Music Scrapblock™ in Timber Brown Stazon ink. A little stitching to frame the design and some embellishments make this a quick scrappy card design.

Quick Tip: To adhere items to your Clear Card Sheets, use an extra sticky adhesive such as glue dots or Sticky Strip tape.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Julia