Requirements:

Organza Ribbon, Satin, chiffon, (material or ribbon that is soft and fluffy)

Decorative Brads

Cotton and Thread

Cardboard & circle punch

Instructions:

1. Cut a strip of ribbon, satin or chiffon approx 30cm by 6cm.

2. Fold over the end of the material, then fold in half lengthways.

3. Then using a running stitch, go along the bottom of the material till you get to the other end.

4.  Then carefully fold in the end and stitch right to edge.

5. Now carefully pull stitch and gather material to form a circle.

6.     When gathered up, slightly overlap ends and stitch together.

7.     Now punch a circle from cardstock, a bit smaller than your flower.

8.     Place the circle on the back of your flower, and add a decorative Brad through the front and through the cardstock. 

Notes:  If using satin, you may want to overlock along raw edges before using.

You can use this method on different widths and material to achieve different size flowers. Finer materials give a fluffy looking flower.

You may want to put a bit of glue, like scrapdots on your card circle to hold the flower in place. This also makes the flower a bit flatter.

A big thanks to Tracey Manderson for her write up!

Now - we want to see you put this to good use so have a go and post on your blog then leave a comment here with a link to your so we can see all the different ones you come up with.  If you don’t have a blog you could put it up in the gallery on our forum.

TECHNIQUE TIME:

HomeMade Flowers

By Kim Jeffress

Materials and tools

2 different sized flower shapes

Scissors

Ink

Glue dots or glue

Small button

Water mister

Double sided pattern paper

Tuelle

Instructions

Cut out two small and two large flower shapes from the pattern paper and ink the edges.

Cut two curved shapes about the same size as the large flowers from the tuelle

Glue flowers together using a glue dot in the centre- starting with a large one then a piece of tuelle, another large flower, tuelle, then the two smaller flowers, making sure you have the petals alternating around .

Spray the top and bottom of the flower with two or three sprays of water

While the flower is still wet starting from the bottom flower-curl the petals under using a pencil or small paintbrush. Continue until all petals are curled.

When dry glue a button threaded with embroidery floss onto the top of the flower and puff the petals up until you are happy with the luck.

Enjoy

Kim Jeffress

Do you like a challenge?

You do!!  Then check out Kim Kendell’s Sketch Challenge on the forum

Technique Time with Tarrah McLean

A mask is a stencil like tool used to apply a design to a surface using different types of mediums.

Examples of different mediums you can use for masking but not limited to are paints, inks, chalks, texture paste and Glimmermist.

While there are plenty of manufactured masks around now you can easily make your own masks from things in your stash. Materials like lace cardstock, paper doilies, flowers, chipboard alphas and shapes, die-cuts, wire and mesh can all be used for making inexpensive masks.

I will show you how to get a few different masked looks using different mediums and different masks.

Below I have used a chipboard shape with some acrylic paint

Gently remove the shape to reveal the masked shape underneath

Below I have used a Heidi Swapp Mini Mask with acrylic paint. The Heidi Swapp masks are slightly sticky on one side so it adheres a little to your project and allows for no movement when applying the medium, it then comes off very easily and you just wash and re-use. The butterfly one below is an example of using the mask first with the paint and then I turned the actual mask over and stamped the mask down as it had some left over paint still usable on it. 

Here I have used a paper doily with Tattered Angels Glimmermist, it is a good idea when doing this one to have a little double sided tape stuck under the doily and on to your project as these will move when you mist.

You can then gently lift off the doily to reveal the pretty effect the doily leaves

On this next one I have Glimmermist again with a Tim Holtz mask. These masks are the same as the Heidi Swapp ones being slightly sticky on one side…much easier to use. Gently lift to reveal your mask shape.

Again I had left over Glimmermist so I stamped the opposite side of the image with the remaining Glimmermist. Wash mask with water and re-use when dry.

This time I have used a chipboard shape with ink.

If you plan to use the chipboard piece on your project then choose a colour to suit your project because when you mask with the raw chipboard you essentially are colouring your chipboard piece as well. You can see below that I have used a raw shape, masked with it and coloured it at the same time. I have used this shape on a layout below.

So you can see how easy it is to do masking…it gets a little messy at times but is well worth the effort.

Here are my layouts that I have used masking on. ’Paris’ is using the paper doily and Glimmermist technique. Very effective on black cardstock.

‘Precious Memories’ is the layout I added the chipboard shape that I used earlier on.

I have masked the shape again and then adhered it slightly covering the masking.

I hope I have given you a little insight as to how to do masking…it really is quite simple when you get going with it. You can get some great results as well. Happy masking!!

From Tracey Manderson -

My turn to come up with something for you guys to do. Ok, seeing as i am the queen of Frugal, I want to see you use
* 3 different patterned papers
* Some altered chipboard, - painted, inked, be it a title, embellishment - whatever
* And Bling (gotta have Bling!) lolThis is a great way to use up some scraps, if you are like me you have a big stash of pp, just waiting to be used up.
Thats what i did for my layout.Here is my layout for the challengeFor my altered chipboard title - i inked the letters, then applied some rub-ons (some that didn’t come off the backing sheet properly - dont you hate that!) then i used glossy accents on it. 

TECHNIQUE TIME: With Kim Jeffress

This week I’m going to be talking about the Colour wheel and in particular complementary colours.
You probably remember painting a colour wheel at school, mixing paint to fill the little pieces of the pie, Colour wheels are basically an organization of colour hues around a circle. Here is an example of a colour wheel, this is a fairly basic example and there are hundreds on the net for you to choose from.

Lets start with the Primary colours (red, blue, yellow) 3 colours that cannot be made from other colours.

Secondary colours are formed by mixing primary colours (green, orange, purple).

Tertiary colours are made by mixing a primary colour with its adjacent secondary colour.

In Scrapbooking or art and design certain colour schemes are pleasing to the eye, they create balance, harmony and order. For example Analagous colours- 3 colours which sit side by side on a colour wheel. Complementary colours -Any 2 colours that sit opposite each other on a colour wheel(blue/orange - green/pink - purple/yellow). These colours when put side by side contrast with each other.

When creating layouts with complementary colours you can choose to use either coloured photos if the colours fit or black and white photos.
                    

I hope you have learnt a little bit more about colour schemes and utilise these when creating your next layout or when you want to try something a little bit different.

Kim J

Challenges

 Monochromatic challenge – Tarrah McLean

 would like you to do a monochromatic layout of any colour-your choice and I would also like you to think of a song title as your title.

Dr Suess – Kim Jeffress

I would like you to use a DR SEUSS quote on your layout either as a title or in the journalling. Thats it , no other criteria just a Dr Seuss quote.

Layout of the Week  - Mel

Check out these and more layouts in the ScrapAWhile Forum

Forum News

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Question of the Week & Daily Questions

Check out the latest challenge from the ScrapAWhile Design Team!!

Kim Jeffress has given us a fun challenge and wants us to use a DR SEUSS quote on your layout either as a title or in the journalling. Thats it , no other criteria just a Dr Seuss quote.  What fun!!!!

So come on over and join in!  We’ d love to see your creations!

Here are some of the Design Teams

The lovely Tarrah has started our challenges off with a bang this month

 Check it out

I would like you to do a monochromatic layout of any colour-your choice and I would also like you to think of a song title as your title.

This is my example for you below. I have used all plum/deep pink colours as my mono colour and I have used the song title ‘All You Need Is Love’ for my title.

Now you are allowed to use small amounts of a neutral colour such as white or black but it should mostly be your main colour.
If you are unsure of what ‘monochromatic’ is, it means the one colour but with varying shades of that one colour.

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with, you have until the end of March to complete and don’t forget to upload to the gallery and pop a link to it here so we can all see each others and leave some love for you.
Have fun with it and happy scrapping

And check out the lovely layouts from the rest of the Design Team