Color Inspiration Challenge #49

I LOVE, I mean LOVE these color challenges on the KWernerDesignBlog. Here's my take on this week's challenge:


I made a bio page for the wall at Pink Pineapple (woohoo, so excited to have made their Design Team!):

Supplies:

Paper - SEI, Bella Blvd, Webster's Pages
Buttons, Sticker Alphas - American Crafts
Ribbon, Punches - Stampin' Up!
Cardstock - Bazzill (black), Stampin' Up! (white)
Journal Spots - Jenni Bowlin
Diecut - Quickutz
Pen - Copic
Flowers - Prima

Thanks for looking & Happy Creating!!
~Jennifer

Five Fridays #23 - Doodley-do's

Since I posted my page for the PageMaps challenge, I've gotten alot of questions about how I did that doodled frame around my journaling. Here are five doodley tips & ideas along the same lines, plus the tutorial on how to doodle a frame by hand:

1. Always draw more than one line. I can't draw a straight line--very few people can without a ruler or some kind of aid. So when you are doodling, draw several lines at a time. That way if you make a boo-boo or waver, no one will really notice.

2. When doodling fancy corners or flourishes, doodle the fancy stuff first to make sure it is centered. Then doodle the lines that connect the pieces.

3. Use a "template". To create a frame or shape, use a template--this can be a scrap of cardstock or chipboard, a plate, whatever you have that is the shape you want your frame to be. Here I traced a dinner plate:

Then I doodled a scalloped edge on it:

And cut it out with pinking shears on the inside and just around the scallop on the outside.


Instead of paying money for this look you can make it yourself! Here's the finished page, using this week's sketch from 52 Sketches:


Here's my page:


4. Doodle everything! You don't have to doodle just on paper. Doodle on top of an existing design. Or on top of flowers, like on this page:


If your sticker letters don't stand out on your page, doodle/outline around them in black pen:



5. Vary pen thickness & type. I like to keep on hand a 0.7mm black pen, a 0.5mm black pen, and a 0.35mm black pen. Use the thicker pen for the bolder parts and then the thin pen for the detail work Once you have it right, go over the detail parts with a thicker pen. Consider using Copic markers AND souffle markers. Add accents with colored pens. The sky is the limit!

How to doodle a frame:

I created this Easter page of my nephew (yeah, it is already Easter--whoa!). I used souffle pens for the doodling but you can use whatever you want--I just liked the colors for the theme of the page.
1. Cut a piece of chipboard or cardstock the size you want for the mat of your pics.


Trace that onto a piece of patterned paper or cardstock-- you don't want a super busy pattern because then you won't be able to see all the hardwork you just did.

Remove the template after tracing. Draw a few more lines along those you just did--it is okay if they are crooked.

Draw in corners and fancy flourishes on your frame. Just draw those parts first. Once you are done with all the decorative parts, connect the parts with straight lines.

After everything is connected, make sure you go over all the lines a couple of times with the pen. This will hide any imperfections. Add photos and enjoy!

Happy Creating!

Binding Like A Pro!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Bind It All Basics + Bonus classes tonight!!

Hopefully you'll continue binding like pros after this!!

Want to take this same class? I'm teaching it at the following locations:

Pink Pineapple Scrapbooks
April 11, 1009

The Scrappin' Table
May 13, 2009

Collective Journey
TBA (June 2009)

I posted my first page for the Lucky Thirteen Circle Journal Project!!!

It includes a covered button tutorial in case you want to get into those--they are 50% off this week at Joann's so now is the time! This site also has them for a good price. Check out my page on the Lucky Thirteen blog. And here is the tutorial (get ready to see some of these in classes!!):

Covered Button Tutorial:

You can get button cover kits at any crafts store and sometimes even at garage sales and thrift stores. They come in a little kit for under $3 and in all different sizes. They don't look like much in the package but you can cover them with anything to make them spectacular -- if you can bend it, you can cover the button with it. Think fabric, felt, paper, crepe paper, tulle, canvas...

To get started you'll need the button kit, scissors, and some material to cover the button with. Here I am using yellow crepe paper and some pink tulle.

Set up the button tool (pretty simple, just put it on the table).

The layer you want on top you'll need to lay down first. I wanted the tulle on top so I put that down first:

Then put down the next layer (if any). If you're using just fabric, then you can skip this step. Since crepe paper is thin, I used four layers of it.

After you have you fabric laid out, press the button into the tool.

This is what it should look like after you have pressed the button into the tool:

You can trim the excess fabric away with some scissors but leave enough to be tucked into the back of the button, about 1/4" all the way around.

Stuff all the excess fabric that is hanging over the edges into the back of the button - make sure you catch all the edges otherwise they will poke out on the front:

Press the button back into the button tool , using the blue part of the tool to press it in all the way.

To get the button out, press on the bottom of the tool until the button pops out (ignore my inky, glimmer misted fingers - hehe).

Here's what the finished product looks like:

Until tomorrow, Happy Creating!

On My Mind

I created this page using this month's Page Maps Challenge sketch to create a layout about "what's on your mind":

Here is the sketch:


We also used it in Book Club as our inspiration because I used alot of text on it. I had everyone make a layout using the same sketch so we could all enter the contest. Wish me luck on the contest. And it would be awesome if someone from Book Club won too!

Support A Wonderful Charity & Take A Class!

It's another Royalty On the Road event!!!

The lovely owners of Scrappin' In The Hills chose to have their Royalty On the Road event benefit the worthy cause, Life 4 Paws, an animal rescue charity based out of the San Fernando Valley.

Stop on by Scrappin' In The Hills in Anaheim Hills, CA on April 18th to get a free Fairy Fly-By and to enter raffles to benefit Life 4 Paws. Better yet, sign up for the class offered during the event and receive a Goodie Bag AND a Fairy Fly By!

"Princess" Crown Book

Join Jennifer Priest for a wonderful * Prima Certified * class! We'll be creating a Princess-themed, crown-shaped, mini book with acetate covers using the Zutter Bind It All and Prima's yummy Morning Song paper line. The book is filled with glittery details such as Prima's Say It In Crystals, Center Kisses, of course, flowers! Jennifer will have a Prima Festive Flower and Glimmer Mist bar set up to customize your blooms in the class. You'll also receive an entire set of Prima chipboard alphabets in the class!

April 18, 2009
Scrappin' In The Hills
Anaheim Hills, CA
Ph: 714-998-8855
$40

Raffles to benefitLife4Paws

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE HERE

Here's what the raffle basket looks like:


It is filled with TONS of spring themed Jolee's, stickers, stamps, a mini book kit in a box, a Spring wall hanging, and more! Definitely over $100 value!!

The class fee will benefit Scrapbook Royalty:


To sign up for the event, contact the store at the number listed above.

Lucky Sneak

I have been working hard on getting my sample ready for my Twenty Pages In One Day classes coming up next month. Think Prima!

I've also been working on my pages for our Lucky 13 Circle Journal Project. We are using canvas books from C&T Publishing which we cut apart to create 12 pages, one for each month of the year until we all meet again at CHA Winter 2010 (yikes, what a concept!).

I prepped my pages by ironing fusible interfacing on the backs of each piece of canvas. You don't have to prep your pages, I just wanted mine to have a little more stiffness because one layer of canvas on its own can be a little flimsy (this is after we cut the books apart). The books were actually really nice before we cut them up! LOL Anyways, I am a paper person, not really a fabric person so I prepped my pages to be more like paper. I am picking up my serger from the shop this weekend so I'll be putting the finishing touches on my first pages then.

My very first page is about Michelle Van Etten's Trip to Miami. I wanted to include "the colors of Miami" on the page so I knew Glimmer Mist would be perfect! I did this little job in my kitchen -- GM cleans up from the tile really nice.

What you'll need to do this is a heat gun, nonstick craft mat, some Glimmer Mist, paint, and a foam paint brush. Later in the month I will show you how to do this same thing on paper (cuz I am a paper girl at heart).


First I sprayed two opposite corners of the page with a yellow Glimmer Mist (lemon something, it is late and I cannot remember the name exactly).


I used some paint from Making Memories to paint the corners I did not Glimmer Mist. What is nice about paint is that Glimmer Mist sticks to it so you can get a rich, deep color from the paint and a nice shimmer from the Mist. Love it!


Working in from the edges, I sprayed some a green Glimmer Mist on the canvas. Then I added some splatters of Tiger Lily GM here and there. If your GM looks too dark when it goes on (like Tiger Lily can) just blot it up with a paper towel really quick. You'll get some color but not as much as if you let it all soak in. After I was done I added some Jazz Blue Glimmer Mist just over the painted parts to really make them shine.

Dry the canvas overnight or with a heat (that's what I did because I wanted to get tot he next step). That's all for now! Gotta go catch some ZzzzZzzzZzz's.

I'm a bad blogger but hey, come check out my garden!

These past two weekends have been so fun-filled and crazy I have been passing out ont he couch every night before my regular blogging. Sorry! I have techinques to share but those can wait until this Friday, when I plan to truly surely blog.

On Friday I cropped at The Scrappin' Table with some friends and had a blast! And then if that was not enough, a few of the gal cropping talked me into going to a crop at Scrapbook Oasis the next day for even more scrapping. Super fun times!

I finally finished up my "Walk In My Garden" book for my class at Collective Journey later this month:

"Walk In My Garden"
4x4 Mini Book
April 19, 2009
@ Collective Journey
Redlands, CA
909-793-2200

There are tons of buttons, glimmer mist, and some really fun techniques to make this book special. I used Cosmo Cricket's Ever After paper line, lots of Quickutz flowers, and some Prima fibers and flowers to decorate the book. Each page contains quotes and poems all about children and gardens--perfect for a Mother's Day gift for mom or grandma (or even your daughter if she has lots of little ones). See you there!

ALSO, my fellow Zutter Zister Julie Kelley is in the running to win a ScrapBox organizational system for her stuff-she has no room is a totally mobile scrapper. She needs your vote to win! You can vote once a day until the contest ends. So please help out a fellow scrapper!! Her room is #36 of the rooms pictured so please vote for her HERE.

I hear sounds of the kids enjoying the new Wii games we got. They are on sale at Target, buy 2 get 1 free so we got 3 of course. So I'm off to play.

Happy Crafting!!