Hello everyone!
This is Monique, posting for Sharon today! This week’s tutorial comes from Your Memories Canada. Enjoy!
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Supplies: cardstock, Bazzill, Prism; patterned paper, Bo Bunny; stamps, Flourishes; bingo card, Jennie Bowlin; inks, Copic, Versamark, Ranger, Stampin’ Up!; buttons, Jennie Bowlin, BasicGrey; pearls, Kaisercraft; edge punch, EK Success; brad, BasicGrey; twine, Stampin’ Up!; glitter, Ranger; tool, Klic N’Kut machine; embossing powder, Ranger; other, tissue paper, thread.

Here’s the inside…

Here’s a close up of the front panel. I stamped and coloured in my pansy image by Flourishes using Copics and then I inked up the panel. Then I sponged on a layer of Versamark ink and sprinkled a layer of UTEE. Once I heated the UTEE, I pressed a layer of crinkled tissue into the hot UTEE and then carefully added another layer of UTEE over top of the whole thing again. This gave my image a vintage and distressed feel…

One piece of our mission this week was to make a homemade flower so this is how I made my own pansy.

Pansy Tutorial

Step 1: Cut or punch 3 butterflies shapes and one circle with a small hole (approximately 1.5 inches in diameter) punched in the center. Cut 2 smaller petal shapes from one of the butterfly shapes, one from each wing.

Step 2: Cut your other 2 whole butterflies in half. You will only need 3 large halves for your flower.

Step 3: Ink up your individual petals, concentrating your ink towards the bottom of the “V” of each petal.

Step 4: Distress the edges of all of your petals. I used my Tim Holtz distress tool for this.

Step 5: Apply Scor-Tape (or another strong adhesive) to the backs of each petal, right down the center.

Step 6: Adhere 2 of your 3 larger petals over lapping to your circle. Use the hole in the center as your guide to glue them down.

Step 7: Adhere your 2 smaller petals at the 3 and 9 o’clock positions; overlapping the 2 large petals at the top.

Step 8: Adhere your final large petal at the bottom of the circle. You should have this configuration when you are complete:

Step 9: Add fine, detailed lines using a fine tipped pen to each petal randomly. Add glitter to the top 2 petals. Add a coloured brad to the center and your homemade pansy flower is complete and ready to adhere to your next project!

so my daughter wanted a project to do this past week, so we went to michael’s and found these cute piggies and houses.  my daughter decided she wanted to paint it.  so we did a coat of primer and let it dry over night.  

the next morning (bright and early!!) she decided she wanted most of it to be purple, and off she went.

day 3 was a doozie!!!! she went crazy with colors!!! and when the painting frenzy ended, i could tell she was very unhappy

day 4 came and went, and she never asked to finish up her house
day 5 my sweet little grl said “mommy i think we need to fix it with scrapbook paper!” yay!!! we all know imlove to stick papern on things!!! so she and i picked out paper and ribbon and got to work!
here is out finished project!

Ruffles are definitely “in” — just look at the Summer CHA sneak peeks from Maya Road, Bo Bunny, and other manufacturers, all releasing ruffled ribbons. You can achieve a similar look to ruffles by just using paper. I like to call this little technique the “waterfall ruffle” because it looks like falling water if you adhere the ruffle across the middle of the page.

All you need is a scrap of paper about 3″ x 12″ (or whatever length you want your ruffle to be), scissors, and a project to use it on.

I’ve cut my scrap into a curve on one edge so that my final ruffle will be along a curved edge.

You can also just cut along a straight edge. Snip into the edge of the paper, about 1″ to 2″ long cuts, all along the edge of the paper. The cuts should make sections of paper that are between 1/2″ to 1.5″ wide.

Curl the cut strips up. The gently roll the strips into little tubes.

After the strips have all been rolled up as desired, attach the ruffle to your layout. I like to use it under photos so that it peeks out a little. Here’s my finished layout with the ruffle attached and some yellow fabric trim and aqua pearl trim tucked under the waterfall ruffle.

On the “Guitar” layout below, I used a straight strip of patterned paper, about 4″ x 12″, to create the waterfall ruffle instead of a curved strip.

And here’s another sample. I cut into the edges of a 12×12 Donna Salazar Artistic Paper and curled the edges up. Then I attached some of the Donna Salazar “Kiss the Cook” paper to the edges I had rolled into a ruffle to make the page 12×12 again. I then inked the ruffles and the edges of the papers with chalk ink to pull it all together.

Hope you’re into the mood to start ruffling This technique would be really fun to make waves on a beach page, perfect for summer!

Posted by Jennifer Priest
The Everyday Scrapper Contributor

Happy Monday!

I always love to try new things, hence the reason I LOVE The Everyday Scrapper!  I learn something new every week here & can’t wait to see what everyone is doing.

Something that I have always seen people do, but have never tried myself, is flocking.  I received, as a RAK, some Sparkly Fluff, which is in the same family as flock.  I had never used it before, & didn’t even really know where to start. Well, I did some research, & tried my hand it.  I used it on one of TES’s Sketchy Sunday sketches, on the hanging hearts, & here is how it turned out:

They are fuzzy & sparkly & gave the layout a cute, fun effect.

Do you use flock or sparkly fluff?  What are your techniques in using it?  We would love to see your projects using these items.  Please feel free to share with us, in the forum, your ideas & finished projects. 

Thanks for looking!  Have a wonderful week!

Here we go again!!! Woooot, Sketch Sunday is here! This sketch was created by ME exclusively for TES

This week the TWIST is to use some MIST, PAINT or INK!!!! Let’s get down and dirty, are you ready?!!!

The sketch:

My LO:

I hope you had fun joining us in July for our Sketch Sundays with a TWIST!!!!!
Join us on the forum, link up your LO in our Sketch Sunday thread and have a chance to win too!!
XO ~ Mia