Crafters Corner

Friday, 31 July 2015

Using tiny stamps from a set

Hello crafty friends,

Neha here. How are you all? Hope you are enjoying the rain. I love this weather.

Some coffee and lots of crafting...heaven.

Today, I am focusing on those small neglected stamps which comes in a set. Many times we get tiny stamps like heart, stars, dots or small sentiments along with our main focal point stamp in a set. These are the one which stays mostly unused. Let's ink those side kicks and create some beauties.

For the first card, I am using those three tiny arrows and a sentiment from Penny black Set.

Here is the card.

Pretty simple, isn't it? I stamped those arrows multiple times, in different directions to translate the 'lost' part of the sentiment. Love how it came together.

For the second card, I have used Loving Words by Ali Edward.

I cut a circle with a die from copy paper and used it as a stencil to stamp those tiny flowers. I also masked ,shaded and stamped a strip at the bottom. I used a sentiment from the same set. Such stamps are great to create your own pattern paper or backgrounds.

For the next two cards, I used tiny lanterns and circle(meant for balloon).

I draw those black strings with black pen and emboss lanterns in gold. Coloured them with different distress inks and added sentiment to finish it.

For the card below, I stamped and embossed that circle on white CS with clear embossing powder. Added Ken Oliver Colour bursts with lots of water. Allowed it to dry and fussy cut the cluster.

Mount on sea green CS with foam tape & finish it off with some die cut sentiment.

For the next one I masked and colored top of the folded card & added 'thank you' stamp

multiple times to create some interest, focal point and to emphasise the main sentiment.

For the tag i have used small heart stamp multiple times to form a square pattern.

So, how was that? Hope you enjoyed it and you will love those tiny ones from your stash.

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Monday, 27 July 2015

Burlap Mini Album

Hi friends,

This is Arjita and today I will be working on the newly launched scrapbooking jute sleeves/pockets which I received few days back. Initially I was sceptical about the project but then finally decided to go ahead with a Burlap mini album and use the sleeves as ready made pages and pockets where I can insert few tags/photomats.

These burlap sleeves measure 8 1/4 inches L by 4 1/2 W inches . I think its a pretty decent size for a mini album and we can stick some good sized photos. Each sleeve comes with a stitched pocket and a beautiful lace is already added which make s it look all the more pretty. Since these pockets are attached with laces I wanted to carry this shabby chic look in my entire mini.

I used a very simple binding system and poked the two binder rings through all the six sleeves. This immediately gave it the look of a mini album and I was ready to start embellishing it:)

I decided to use some shabby chic papers I had in my stash and luckily I found the flowers and other elements of the same collection in our store .

The collection is called "Prima coffee break" which is so pretty and perfect for this album.

I have tonns of picture for u so that u can have a good look at the album from all sides and do check out the video tutorial for all the detailed instructions.

I used lots of pretty laces , trims and some seam binding to give it extra glamour .

This is the front page of the mini and it's so romantic and chic 😍

I love the tag which says " oh darling , it's coffee time !" So cute ....

I like to colour coordinate my album pages and I put in a lot of effort to select the papers and embelishments . This gives it a good visual treat and makes the album well planned :)