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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Prompt 17 favorites

We just loved seeing all your adorable babies getting fresh and clean! Here are our favorites for Prompt 17

Renee F

Lyla



Vicky Alberto

Grace Lauer

Awesome job ladies!! These ladies are all in the running to win that fabulous kit from Tidbitz in Time (along with the favorites from prompt 16) Check the blog in the next week or two for the winner of the prize (the design team needs time to vote) and as always.... thank you for scrapping that baby!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

11/23 Heather's rockin spiral flower technique

I'm obsessed with spiral roses. Seriously. I love how easy they are to make and how you can make them small or big, with glitter or without. The possibilities are endless!
So today, I will show you how to make them!
1. First, you will need to trace and cut a circle from your paper.  I just used a tin to draw my circle. Double sided paper works best for these, but one sided paper (like I used) works okay, too.

2. Now you need to cut a spiral into the circle. It doesn't have to be perfect. Make sure when you get to the center of the circle that you leave a big enough piece left. That piece will be the base that you glue your flower to.

3. Cut off the funky piece to make your spiral look more uniformed.


 4. Starting from the outside, roll the paper as tight as you can.  Continue to roll until you come to the base. Once again, the roll doesn't have to be perfect either.

 5. Before you glue your flower to the base, carefully let go of the spiral so that it kind of fans out. You can adjust your flower to be as tight or as open as you want it to be.

6. Glue the spiral to the base. Make sure you use a heavy duty glue. (I like Beacons.) After you glue it together, hold it together for a few seconds to help it adhere. Set it aside for a couple minutes to dry.


7. Now is the fun part! You can paint, glitter, ink or distress the flower. Or just leave plain!!
On this flower, I used a glue pen to disperse glue on random parts of the flower. Then I poured glitter over it.



I hope you enjoyed learning how to make your own spiral roses! They are very addicting to make!


Happy Scrapping,
Heather Gerrits

Monday, November 15, 2010

Prompt 17: Splish Splash

Splish Splash I was takin a bath....
long about a saturday night....
Rub dub just relaxin in the tub
thinkin everything is alright....

Some babies HATE the bath and cry the minute they hit the water. Some babies just LOVE bath time and cry when its time it get out. Either way there is almost nothing cuter than watching a little one splash around in the water.

Your challenge today is to scrap about getting baby fresh and clean. Is he a sink bather or do you scrub her chub in the tub? Does he love to shower with dad? Is her bath not complete without bubble bath and toys?

Scrap the bath time fun and you can win a prize from our fabulous sponsor TIDBITZ IN TIME kit club.

One lucky winner from either prompt 16 or prompt 17 in November will win a kit!!

Tidbitz In Time is a monthly scrapbook kit club designed to bring you the latest papers and embellishments every month -- right to your mailbox.  In addition, we are committed to teaching you new techniques using the coordinated products which will be included in your kit. Your pages will go together easily but your creative opportunities will be endless! Our goal is to make each and every kit an incredible value jam packed full of new products and wonderful ideas. Remember to check back every month for new tutorials using our latest kits.
Tidbitz in Time has donated the fabulous October kit to the winner of this challenge. This kit is packed with the brand spankin new Boo-Ville line from Little Yellow Bicycle, a spooky mini album, fabulous trims, feathers, and Hambly embellishments. Its a MUST HAVE (trust me, I have it)


Check out these splish splash layouts from our fabulous design team:


Jenny Dziekan

Sara Robison

Maya Oren-dahan

Jennifer Matott

Gracie Ann David Tan

Renee Kelso

Sarah Rice

Now show us your bathing beauties!! Layouts/projects are due November 29th. On November 30th we will post our fabulous favorites and one of those lucky gals (along with the favorites for prompt 16) will have a chance to win October kit from TIDBITZ IN TIME kit club. If you entered prompt 16 you can play again for another shot at winning as our design team will be voting for their favorite layout from both prompts! Just add your link to the comments or the Mr Linky below to enter!!


Prompt 16 favorites!

We are so lovin everyone's baby gear! Here are our favorites from Prompt 16

 

Heather Landry



These lucky ladies (along with our favorites from Prompt 17) are in the running to win the fabulous October kit from Tidbitz in Time. If you want another shot at the kit.... check out prompt 17 coming up tomorrow!

Monday, November 8, 2010

11/08 Melanie's dimension trtechnique

Today I will be doing a tutorial on adding dimension to hand-cut paper flowers.
This can also be used for store bought paper flowers and light chipboard flowers.
Step 1.
Firstly hand cut the flower from your patterned paper.
Using a sharp craft knife and sheet of glass for best results.
If you desire, you can ink the flower before curling to achieve the all over inked edges.

Step 2.
You will be using a kebab skewer, awl or other sharp pointed tool to curl the edges.
Place the sharp end of the tool on the tip of the flower petal

Step 3.
With your finger on the flower tip, lightly turn the skewer and push with your finger to assist the paper to roll up. Move on to all petals until they are curled in.

Step 4.
All petals will be curled in now, you can lightly pull out the curls until you are happy with how they look and depending on how tight you want the flower to be.

Step 5.
Your flower will now be raised and have dimension yet not be overly bulky for your albums.

The flower is best stacked using different sized paper flowers. Embellish with brads, pearls or any other embellishment you have on hand.

This is a card I created using this technique. I left the bottom flower flat so the top layer looked more 3-dimensional.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Prompt 16: Useful baby gear and scrapstreet feature

To start we have some happy news along with this prompt!! This month we are featured in Scrapstreet ezine!! Head on over and check out Melissa's awesome article all about us  in their Blog Bay section

There are so many things out there for baby. Just step into a babies r us and you will be confronted with at least a million different things your baby has to have. Some are so silly you wonder "who buys this stuff?" and some end up being the thing you couldnt live without.

This prompt is all about that useful baby gear. Is the swing your thing? Do you love the bouncy seat? The bumbo chair? Do you love that toy that always calms him down? The medicine that helps her belly? The thing that occupies your toddler so you dont go INSANE?!!

Scrap that gear and you can win a prize from our fabulous sponsor TIDBITZ IN TIME kit club.

One lucky winner from either prompt 16 or prompt 17 in November will win a kit!!

Tidbitz In Time is a monthly scrapbook kit club designed to bring you the latest papers and embellishments every month -- right to your mailbox.  In addition, we are committed to teaching you new techniques using the coordinated products which will be included in your kit. Your pages will go together easily but your creative opportunities will be endless! Our goal is to make each and every kit an incredible value jam packed full of new products and wonderful ideas. Remember to check back every month for new tutorials using our latest kits.
Tidbitz in Time has donated the fabulous October kit to the winner of this challenge. This kit is packed with the brand spankin new Boo-Ville line from Little Yellow Bicycle, a spooky mini album, fabulous trims, feathers, and Hambly embellishments. Its a MUST HAVE (trust me, I have it)


 DONT YA WANNA WIN THAT?? hecks yeah you do!

Now check out what the design team did:


By Heather Gerritis

By Jennifer Mattot

By Dani Smith

By Sarah Rice

By Brandi Pitts

By Ann-Katrin Torenson

By Jess Mutty

By Sara Robinson

By Renee Kelso

By Maya Oren-dahan

By Kristin Powell

By Michelle Fowler

By Sarah Rice

By Gracie Ann David Tan

By Jenny Dziekan

By Tracey Campbell

By Kelly Haugen

By Melanie Harris

Now we want to see the thing you couldnt live without! Show us that baby gear!! Layouts/projects are due November 13th. On November 14th we will post our 10 fabulous favorites and one of those lucky gals (along with the favorites for prompt 17) will have a chance to win October kit from TIDBITZ IN TIME kit club. Just add your link to the comments or the Mr Linky below to enter!!