Beba Layouts: February 2010

I made for the first time a layout with only one photo! As you've probably noticed by now, I tend to cram many photos on a 12x12 page, but this time I wanted to focus on just one (it's me with my niece to a relative's christening).  I also didn't embellish it that much, I just used a Sizzix die to cut two swirls (I also used the negative of the cut in order to make the journaling, cool huh?) and the only real embellishment is the flower I made using grungeboard and some leftover petals from the flowers of the mini book cover.
In the end, I couldn't limit myself to just one photo so I kind of cheated (LOL) and added a couple of photos on two tags and inserted them on the back of the large photo.
Oh, and I love these classic Basic Grey distressed papers!

Card Making: Easter Card #5

This time I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder after inking it with distress ink. Then I stamped with Stazon on a thin transparent plastic sheet and colored the butterflies with my copics.
For the card base, I covered it with a piece of tulle and then inked it with distress inks. Then I removed the tulle and stamped on the card base with the Hero Arts Old Letter stamp using the same distress ink.
Finally  I cut the colored image and adhered it on foam squares and then added the Happy Easter I did with my Dymo on a cardstock strip and...ready!

Card Making: Easter Card #4

Well, this started not as a card but as an experiment in Claudine Hellmuth's products, in particular I bought the Mat Medium and the white color. So I mixed them and added a drop of Ranger Broken China and started playing with the brush. Then I added some strokes of brown and some greens, and I liked the impromptu sky view so I stamped a little bird and adhered it on a foam square.
Then I added some Crackle Accents on the corners, I must confess that this is my least favorite Ranger product, I can't make it work the way I want.
I finished the "experiment" and didn't want to waste it, so I adhered it on cardstock and made this card, I also accented the edges with the Pumice Stone distress ink. Then I thought to experiment a little more and did some machine stitching for the first time!
A not so ordinary easter card, maybe I should add a flying chicken!LOL!!!

Card Making: Easter Card #3

In this card I ventured a bold color for the card base, that is a dark but vibrant red. Then I thought to combine it with green, so I used distress inks on a piece of white cardstock and then stamped on it with a Hero Arts Designblock stamp and cut the edges with a round punch.
When I mounted it on the red card, the contrast was too much for me, so I stamped on it with white ink and the Hero Arts Old Letter background stamp (on second thought I should probably have used ivory and not white...)
The combination was perfect for mounting the image, it is a freebie that I colored with my copics. Then I faced the dilemma: how do I adhere it to the card??? So I had the idea to use the tulle I recently purchased from Jumbo, so I colored it first with distress inks, then adhered the image on top with foam squares and...ready!

Card Making: Flowers for U

I made this card for the name day of a friend of mine. After stamping and coloring the Tilda with my copics, I stamped again but this time I colored only a few roses and the tiny butterfly, I cut them and adhered on top of the colored image with tiny foam squares.
Then I had the idea to do a little something on the lower left corner of the pp (K & Co), that is to do some stitching with green twine, but the result wasn't to my liking and this part of the pp was a disaster. So I thought to try something else prior to tossing it in the garbage: I cut the lower left corner with a round nestabillities die and guess what, it worked! I also cut a smaller circle and when I positioned everything in place it came out so cute!
The detail I like the most is the button, I glued a Basic Grey alpha sticker underneath a clear button and adhered the lot on tulle that I had already cut with a nestabillities die.
I think my friend will love it!

Card Making: Easter Card #2 and Shaker Box Tutorial

I liked my first shaker card so much that I decided to make another one, I'm so glad you liked it too girls!
Here's the finished card:

And the little bunny in the spotlight! (LOL)

So let's start:
1) I prepared the parts of the card, that is I cut a window in my card (after coloring it with distress inks, stamping on the inside and spraying the front with the water-Perfect Pearls mix, you know, the works). I also cut an oval shape about 1/4 of an inch larger than my focal image (freeby bunny that I printed and colored with my copics) and cut the acetate piece also at 1/4 of an inch larger than my focal image. I also cut a scallop frame.

2) Tip #1: I found this mesh like thing at Jumbo and I tried to use it with distress inks (on a piece of pattern cardstock I had already cut with the MS Trellis border punch) in order to make a pattern, really cool result!

 3) Then I cut tiny thick foam pads in half and adhered them around the acetate piece, thank god I remembered to remove the protective sheet first! (LOL)

4) Tip #2. Do you like chunky glitter? I do nowdays but don't have any. So I made some!!! This is how:
I used two small leftovers from the acetate piece I had cut and covered them with Ranger's Glossy Accents. Then I covered the one with green Flowersoft and the other with glitter and did the same on the other side too. I left them to dry for half and hour and then cut them randomly in tiny pieces. How cool is that??? Especially the gliter ones are awesome in real life!

5) I put them inside the acetate frame and then adhered on top the colored image facing down, sealing the tiny pieces inside the shaker box.

6) Next step, I adhered it on the card window using Ranger's Glossy Accents on the perimeter and I colored the back so as to be more uniform with the inside of the card.

Finally I adhered the borders and the flowery Happy Easter and...ready!

Layouts: February 2010

This layout is about a masquerade party that took place in February and I chose the backround paper because it matched perfectly my costume! The frame in the middle was cut with a sizzix die on a pink cardstock piece that I accented with distress inks and sprayed with the Perfect Pearls water mix for some shine.

I made this little book for my journaling, I had so much fun making it!
I cut a piece of pink cardstock, used distress inks and also frayed the edges with the Tim Holtz distress tool (I finally got one) and then sprayed it with the Perfect Pearls water mix.
Then I stamped on a white glossy paper with the Hero Arts Old Leter ruber stamp using red distress ink.I also used distress inks for the edges and a brown copic.
For the corners I used a round punch, I just eyeballed the piece I would cut.
Then I added the labels, I got myself two Dymo labelers from Plaisio, one in greek and one in english, this one cost me 11 euros, and guess what, you can use plain cardstock strips as long as you cut them at 9mm width, you just sand them lightly after the punching of the letters.
And that's what I did,  and if you use white core cardstock the contrast is more intense! You can also use the Dymo 3d tapes, unfortunately the color range is restricted to black, red, yellow, orange, green and blue.
My favorite element is the butterfly, I stamped it with Stazon on a piece of acetate and then colored it with my copics, I also added some stickles underneath it for some shine.
I also hid a secret photo behind it, I always like such elements on layouts.

And I enjoyed so much being a queen for a night!LOL!!!