New Year, New DT Kit....

Hello and welcome back to a New Year of DT posts. I hope you are all dry, not too blown about after the very stormy start to the New Year, and ready for some great new projects from our wonderful Design Team.

To business, here is the first Snazzy DT Kit of 2014.

At it's core are some wonderful papers from Jilly Bean Soup's latest collection Heart Healthy Red Bean Soup together with the Bite Size Pieces, Label Stickers and co-ordinating stamps. To this we added some Bright White Embossing Powder from WOW - the best white out there IMHO - a Versafine Satin Red Inkpad, and some embellishments including a papier mache hanging heart which I forgot to include in the photo.

The first workshop project I have to show you is a mini book just 3" x 3". Each page is a 4"x 3" piece scored at 1" to create the page with a little pocket on one side secured with contrasting grograin ribbon. I used a mix of white, red and deep pink cardstock all from Bazzill's Smoothie range and the lighter weight version of Bazzill's Plastic Paper for two of the pages with the heavier version for the transparent covers. I used a piece of each of the papers from the collection to make mini photo mats and to line the pockets of each page, except the transparent ones.

 

There are 10 pages in all and each pocket has a little numbered card tucked in ready for Valentine's day and which are going to detail the 10 reasons why I love the Headmaster, once I figure that out - some days that's still a puzzle, even after nearly 35 years lol! 

 

Here's how each facing looks with a mini photo mat on the left and a pocket on the right...

 

 

and you will also see it is bound using my Zutter.

 

I also made a little box for my book - just 8" x 8" scored on all four edges at 2" for the base, and 5 1/8" x 5 1/8" scored on each side at 1/2" with an image cut from the Bite Size sheet and some ribbon to finish.

 

 

 

That's all for today but I will be back later in the week with a layout and some cards from the same kit when hopefully Mr Blogger will be more co-operative and it won't take forever to load.

Meantime our teamies work very hard creating interesting and inspiring projects each cycle and do very much appreciate you stopping by and leaving a comment. To thank you, all followers who leave comments will be entered into a draw by Mr Random at the end of the cycle, and someone will win the stamps, ink and embossing powder the teamies have been working with.

Hope to see you again soon.
Val xx

A winner.....

Oh I feel so much better about all the scraps I hoard, turns out I am not alone, and people do get very creative when using them up. Have a look at these.....



This journal page is from Stamping by H and if you pop over to her blog
http://stampingbyh.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/time-to-use-up-leftovers.html she has provided a very clear and simple step by step to how she achieved this look. Love those sliced up stamped images!

This card is by Craftyfield.....



I hadn't thought of using scraps of shirt fabric on a card but it is ideal for stamping on, not too heavy to attach to a card and I just love her intaglio UTEE embellishment. Again you will find all the details of how this card was constructed over at http://craftyfield.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/pocket-valentine.html



 Finally, this journal page from Shilpa over at http://nagaonkarshilpa.blogspot.in/2014/01/silence-art-journal-page.html features a really interesting technique to simply create a negative image on the patterned paper layers using masks and black acrylic paint. Gives a great sense of depth doesn't it.

All three would be worthy winners and have blogs which are well worth a visit over a cuppa too and do leave a comment to let them know you stopped by - it's what makes the blogging world go around you know!

My favourite, for three reasons is Helen's monochromatic journal page, firstly because it is monochromatic which I love, secondly as an enthusiastic keeper of Art Journals myself, I think her really clear step by step might just encourage other stampers to start a journal of their own, and thirdly, as I often stamp the same image in different inks before selecting one to add to a project, I now know what to do with all those leftover images lol.

Helen, huge congratulations, email over your details and a paper collection from Kaisercraft's stunning Art of Life will be winging it's way to you. Many thanks to those who took the time to enter our challenge and shared their wonderful work with us.

Back on Monday with the newest DT kit and a couple of workshop projects using it.

Thanks for stopping by xx

A Snazzy little challenge....

Hello, and a very Happy Hew Year to all.

This is traditionally the time of year when leftovers feature. Following last week's 100 ways with leftover Christmas turkey and stuffing, almost all papercrafters now move along to resolving not to buy any more stash until they have used up all the crafty stuff they already have hoarded in every nook and cranny.

Does this sound like you?

Most resolve weakens almost as soon as the new CHA Sneak Peeks appear, meantime..........

I'd like to challenge you to share what you make with your leftovers.

I am reknowned for not being able to throw the smallest scrap of paper away, even the gutters showing the revese side of double sided cardstock find themselves stashed away.

So, to start us off, here is what I made from my leftovers from the last DT kit.

I started by jazzing up a blue inked background in my journal that had been blank for too long with some Perfect Pearl Mist through a Dylusions stencil.

 

I had been playing with some small scraps plus the borders I had removed from the paper sheets I used to line the Christmas House project to create a Christmas tree shape and then paper pieced some stamps from the Dylusions Couture release. An old sticker alphabet came to the rescue for the sentiment. Not at all my usual sort of thing but my scrap box is a tad lighter lol!

 

More my style is the second piece I'd like to share, again all made from scraps of paper, washi tape, vellum, Kaisercraft background stamps and a fair bit of ink and paint with just a smidge of embossing powder.

  

 

This graffiti style piece started as something to console myself with on a rainy afternoon when my mojo had left the premises in a sulk, and blow me over it turned itself into a workshop project somewhere along the way lol!

 

So, share with us what you make with your leftovers in the comments below, with a link to a project made with same, and you could win the paper collection from the Snazzy DTeamies next kit - it's a goodie but I'm not telling you any more just yet.

 

Entries by midnight GMT on 9 January and I will pick my favourite and announce the winner on January 10.

 

Look forward to hearing from you. Happy crafting.

Val xx

 

 

From all of us here on the Snazzy blog we wish you all a very

graphic 45 prize winners!!!

hi everyone!! thanks for stopping by and commenting on all the fantastic art work created to hopefully inspire you and yours using the Graphic 45 12 Days of Christmas line.

as promised a draw has been done and the two winners are Maryann Laursen and Ricky LeBlanc. Ladies you have 10 days to send me your addresses and i will be sure to send out your prizes!!

Merry Christmas and a Joyous Happy Holidays to you all!!!

graphic 45 scraps & give a way

hi everyone.. here is my last posting from the wonderful design team kit that was sent to me.

as always i have the most difficult time throwing scraps out smaller than a pencil so what did i do with them
well first you cut them up, add a bit of stickles ad you get a tree!!

 have you run out of scraps.. well no problem how about layering your stamps. i started with stamping the '12 days' in the background with a light archival ink and kept layering ending with "The Twelve Days of Christmas' stamped in black archival ink. oh and to finish it off i add a spritz of glimmer mist in frost.

 and finally ended with a waterfall card using both paper, stamps and a bit of glossy accents

so... have you followed through this week and seen all my winks!!! yes there is indeed a give a way at the end of the tunnel.. how would you like one of your very own Graphic 45 design team paper kits or the set of stamps we all used ... you can see it here!

all you need to do is go back and visit all the design teams posts, leave a comment so we know you were there, and we will do a draw on Christmas Eve for a winner of the paper parcel and a winner of the stamp set!!

i'll chat with you on the 24th!!

diana

graphic 45 and me take 2

hi again. i am back to show you the second project i completed using my graphic 45 papers and embellies.
first i start off with some claudine helmet multi-medium and i attached all my papers to the chipboard

 for the gate portion i covered it with a layer of black distress paint followed by silver distress paint and once dried cover both gate portions with a layer of clear rock candy distress crackle paint

 i love how it turned out!

 next it was just a matter of assembling the book. i added a bit of shimmer spray to each page to make it pop and more festive.

 and this is the whole book put together and displayed open on my table. it really shimmers at night by candle light.

 once again, thanks for dropping buy and please do leave a comment and let me know what you think!

i will be back on Friday with my final post showing you what i created with the left overs as well as posting why it is good to leave comments on peoples posts!!! (wink wink)

diana