The Red Viper

This is for all the Game of Thrones fans out there...

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 I am loving the distressed style right now so you might see it on a lot of my layouts in the future. This combines a bunch of different paper brands, some inking with stamp pads and acrylic paint, and then lots of fun embellishments. I hope you like it.

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Here is a close up of one of the embellishment areas. I tend to always buy my flowers in white so that I can dye them any color I want using Glimmer Mists, Dylusions, or any other spray I might have.

Paper:
Reminisce - "World Map"
Creative Imaginations
S.E.I - "delicacy"
DCWV - "Tradewinds"
Cardstock - Bazzil

Inks:
Ranger Distress Ink
Stampin Up

Other:
Prima flowers
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
Studio18 - Chipboard accents
Spellbinders shapeabilities - Heraldry
Acrylic paints - black, dark chocolate, bronze and pure gold
EK Success gems
Mosaic Tiles
Jewelry bits
Fabric Trim - unknown

If you cannot find any of the products listed in our online store, please email Kristy directly at scrapbookingcafe@aol.com. She can usually track down and order anything you might be in search of.

Hexagon Gift Bag!

Hello Scrapbooking Cafe Friends!  It's Anita!  Hope your having a great week!  A few of the other girls on the blog here have shared about there beautiful weather.  Well my friends that is not the case for me!  Here in Winnipeg we had a huge snowfall this past weekend!  They actually had called for a blizzard but luckily that didn't happen but we did get so much snow!  We are into winter here for sure!  But I am thankful that the sun is shining, it had been such a dreary fall!  

Today I have a gift bag to share!  I love making gift bags!  It's a such a great touch when you give a gift that you decorated the gift bag!  You can find plain kraft gift bags anywhere and than decorate it yourself!  Today I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Hexagon dies along with Echo Parks Everyday Eclectric 6  by 6 pad!

Pretty simple I just die cut the hexagons from the pp and found a place for them and adhered it to the bag!  Added a pretty ribbon bow and there you go!  Fun to make and fun to give!  

I hope I've inspired you to decorate a gift bag when you give a gift too!

Bird Cage gift tags

The minute I saw the bird cage die from Poppy Stamps Dies I knew I had to have it.  I wasn't sure what I was going to do when I got it but I just had have it.  So today I was inspired to use the die and make some Christmas tags with it.  So I die cut and inked them with Antique Linen by Ranger and started decorating with the Winter Wonderland paper pad by My Mind's Eye.  I had some left over Poinsettia pieces (Spellbinders) and some snowflakes (Martha Stewart).

Materials

Paper-Winter Wonderland-My Mind's Eye

Ink-Antique Linen-Ranger

Dies-Carousel Bird Cage-Poppy Stamps Dies, Poinsettia-Spellbinders

Punches-Snowflakes-Martha Stewart

count your blessings

Happy Monday friends! Welcome to a new week. Becky here from Scrap Circus to share a little card with you.

Now, I am not quite as keen as my fellow DT members to break into the Christmas and Winter projects so here is a fall themed card.

The green gingham background paper and the 'count your blessings' tag are from the Harvest Lane 6x6 pad. The dark wood grain paper is from the Take a Hike Journal Inserts.

The jar sticker comes from the 12x12 Fundamental sticker sheet from Harvest Lane.  I finished off the card by attaching some cream coloured lace ribbon with my Tiny Attacher and wrapping the whole card with some hemp twine that I finished off with a bow and a cute button.

As a final touch I punched out some hearts using my Spellbinders dies and lined them up along the side of the dark wood grain paper.

Scrapbooking Cafe supplies used:
Harvest Lane 6x6 pad-Simple Stories
Harvest Lane 12x12 Fundamentals Stickers-Simple Stories
Take a Hike Journal Inserts-Simple Stories
Heart Die-Spellbinders
Tiny Attacher-Tim Holtz
Apple Cider button-Bo Bunny
Glue Dots
Foam Adhesive-Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
other supplies used:
hemp twine
photo corners

Thanks for stopping by today, Don't forget to keep checking back to see what's new at Scrapbooking Cafe and if there is something you want that you don't see on the site make sure you let Kristy know.

Have a great day!
~Becky

Scrap Circus

Happy Leaping Deer Card!

Hello Scrapbooking Cafe friends!  Hope your having a terrific day!  It's Anita here today and I have a Holiday card to share today!  My card features a whole lotta Scrapbooking Cafe's products, and hot ones at that!  Hexagons are all the rage and I love the Spellbinder Nestabilities ones!  I die cut them with paper from Simple Stories Handmade Holiday pad!  And I used a great Holiday die Leaping Deer by Memory Box!

I added ribbon and a bow and a sentiment from Hero Arts Happy Holidays set.  Turned the deer into rudolf with a red gem! :>

Well that's it from me!  Hope you've been inspired!  And that you have a great weekend!

so thankful

Hello friends!

It is now officially fall, although it is a bit hard to tell with the weather being so hot here in BC. Our Canadian Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away so I figured what better time to make a Thankful card.

I just got  the Harvest Lane 6x6 pad from Simple Stories. I just looooove this collection! The colors are absolutely gorgeous! Fall is definitely my favorite season; I love the cool, sunny days and the crisp leaves, pumpkins, halloween, all of it!

I made this card with my new goodies...

I was so excited to dive in and use this beautiful collection that I think I got overwhelmed and hit a design road block. Does that ever happen to you? You love something so much that you don't know where to start?

Eventually I was able to come up with something, but for as simple as this card is, it sure did take me a loooong time to make! LOL

Scrapbooking Cafe goodies:

Harvest Lane 6x6 paper pack-Simple Stories

Woodgrain Embossing Folder-Darice

Harvest Lane 12x12 sticker sheet-Simple Stories
Lacey Circle die-Spellbinders

dimensional adhesive-Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

other goodies:

photo corners

buttons

hemp twine

lace ribbon

And don't forget! Tomorrow is the last day to link up your projects for our "Fall Along with Us" challenge! There is still time to link up your projects HERE for your chance to win a great prize!!!!!

Enjoy your day!

~Becky

Scrap Circus



Summer papers for Christmas cards

Well it's another hump day and I thought it might be......well I hope it will be fun to see some Christmas cards.  I know it's waaaaaay to early BUT if your someone who likes to make their own cards to send to family and friends then it's never to early to start.  Unfortunately I'm not one of those people.  I tried to keep them simple (thinking I may just make them this year) and quick.

 Pointsettia Die-Spellbinders

Paper-Tea for Two-Cosmo Cricket

Elegant Reindeer Die-Cottage Cutz

Paper-Tea for Two-Cosmo Cricket

And for some reason last week Blogger would not let me upload my cards so I missed my post.  Sorry about that.  I thought I'd share my cards now since you didn't get to see them.

Did you ever buy something you just had to have and then bring it home and forget about it?  Well today's cards feature a stamp set I just couldn't wait to get my hands on it's from Dear Lizzy and it's called Mason Jar, now skip ahead about a month and I finally got around to using the "must have" stamps. :)

Cut, Colour,Foiled!

Hi everyone, happy hump day!! Today I have just one card to show you using one of my most favorite paper collections called Lost & Found Blush by My Mind's Eye.  I was almost afraid to use it the paper was so pretty then I went out on  limb and distressed and stained it to give it a more vintage look and I'm glad I took the plunge.  The ink I used is a Distress Ink by Ranger called Vintage Photo.
To make the flowers I die cut paper using Spellbinders Blossom dies, used the edge of my scissors to distress, inked then squished them in my hand to crumple them.  Glue the centers and embellish with a brad and poof a flower!!

Once the card was assembled I thought it might be neat if I could add foils to this girl's hair.  So keeping my fingers crossed and cutting tiny strips of tin foil I began "foiling" her hair.  Here's the result

Have a great day!

As easy as Riding a bike

Today I wanted to share with you a page I made using some inspiration from Pinterest. I saw this cute DYI frame and a light bulb lite on top of my head!

Isn't it awesome? So, I ordered some amazing Spellbinder circles from Scrapbooking Cafe Online and here is what I did:

I've used a 8x10 print from Costco and cut it into pieces so I could run it through my cuttlebug. Then, it was just a matter of putting the "puzzle" back together. With the Spellbinder's dies, I out this page together as easy as riding a bike! ;)

Supplies list!

Bazzil cardstock
Acrylic Paint - White
My Mind's Eye - Wood Banner
October Afternoon - Washi tape 9 to 5
Studio Calico - bicycle wood veneer
American Crafts - Foam Thickers
October Afternoon - Cake Walk Buttons

Have a great week!!

Dani

Butterfly Tags

Hi everyone Melyssa here with my first post of the month.  I'll taking the Wednesday spot for the next 6 months. To start off how about a little about me.  I live in Truro, NS with my son and husband of 19 years and I started scrapbooking about 11 years ago then turned to card crafting for the last 4 years.

Today's card features the Darla Butterfly die from Memory Box and Tear Drop circles from Spellbinders. Paper-Miss Caroline-My Mind's Eye

Thankings for stopping by!