Butterfly Greeting Card

Hello there friends and crafty peeps! Ginny here to share a greeting card I created with some beautiful GSL chippies.

Lately I've been enjoying creating cards without specific greetings. This makes them super practical to use for just about any occasion. 

 Those butterflies are a great focal point and the chicken wire chippie makes for a lovely textural backdround and helps to fill in the space.

I think the wood grain patterned paper creates a nature inspired look.

Flowers layered with die cut leaves and a few berry picks help to fill in this corner.

To carry the theme up to the top of the card I added a few butterfly charms and an additional flower.

I chose the chipboards I wanted to work with and wiped them to down to prepare them for altering.

Flat white acrylic works great on the chicken wire. Don't worry about getting it perfectly coated the mottled effect makes it look extra vintagy. The butterflies were finished simply with embossing powder then heat set for a nice shiny surface.

Wishing everyone a happy and productive day : ) G

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts: Chicken Wire, Butterflies and Dragonflies.

New Fall Mini Book to share today

I love Fall and have been super busy this year picking apples and pumpkins and doing all those fun things you get to do at this time of year.  So-- I thought I better get to work on a new mini book to put all my fun pictures that I have into.  I chose some fun papers from Echo park and lots of chippies.

Creating this book was really fun because there are so many pieces that Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts creates to use for it.  There are pumpkins, chicken wire, corners, lots of vintage stuff and so much more.  On the cover I used the Wrought iron shape set corners and inked them just a little bit to go with the country feel of my kraft covered book I got from Michaels.

And on the inside I kept it really easy by just layering all the printed papers and then adding chipboard pieces like this one from the Chevron words set.  It has 4 super cute pieces and they fit perfectly on each of the pages I did.

I just loved all the stickers in this Echo Park paper set called Perfect Autumn.  The colors are so pretty and remind me of all those pretty colors when the leaves change for fall.

And these little beauties are from the  Feathers shape set and come in a nice assortment of sizes and worked really cute with my stickers.  Who doesn't love pretty feathers and inking them or embossing them is easy.

And then I found this cute chicken wire in my stash and thought how fun to use it to frame up a few pictures on.  I love that the chipboard adds a little dimension to an otherwise flat page and you could also use it to stencil on your book it you wanted to. I still have to get the pictures all printed but I think all of them will fit quite nicely in my new fall book.

And lastly here is another one of those cute Chevron words.  Perfect pretty much says it all.

Thanks so much for stopping over and below is my supply list just in case:

Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC Chicken Wire

GSLC Wrought Iron set

GSLC Chevron Words

GSLC Feathers shape set

Paper and Stickers: Echo Park Perfect Autumn Collection

Inks: Versamagic Inks in orange, brown, blue and green

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 

Memo Board for Mum

Hi folks, its Angela here with a memo board that I made for my Mum.

I took the GSL Cuts Memo board and covered it with gesso and I took a cheap dry wipe board from somewhere like the dollar store (ensure it is metal so magnets will stick) and stuck it on using Beacon 3 in 1.

 

I used the Chicken Wire 6 inch panel to spread some texture paste through.

 I also used Tim Holtz stencil on the other corners and then applied gesso to the metal sheet to ensure the paint had a surface to stick to.

 I painted with various shades of blue and I used other stencils to apply some yellow and orange colours through. I painted the Leafy Corners before adhearing to the board.

I used the Birds on a Wire 2 in order to hide the line of the metal dry wipe board

 then I added various embelishments. My dry wipe board came with a couple of magnets so I decorated these with some flowers so they matched the rest of the project.

Supplies:
GSL Cuts
Memo Board
Birds on a Wire 2
Leafy Corners
Chicken Wire 6 inch panel

Others
Tim Holtz stencils and embelishments
Distress paints
Prima flowers and pegs
Sweet Lilac Flowers
White paper clay bird
Dutch Doobadoo stencil
Luminarte Paints

Altered Butterfly Tag

Hello Chipboard Fans! It's Gloria with you today! I have created an altered butterfly tag as my project this week.

I have used one of the tags from the Tags in a Box Extra Tag Set for the tag base. The tag is large, 8' tall by 4" wide! The show-stopper is the beautiful Butterfly of Gears! I used several kinds of embossing powder and enamel to create this vintage gem!

I used more embossing powder to age the wrought iron border piece from the Wrought Iron Set. I used some rusty-looking embossing powder to give the gears a metallic shine (Gears Shape Set). I finished off the piece by adding flowers and some steampunk embellishments.

To see how to make this project, see the Snapguide below.

Check out How to Create an Altered Butterfly Tag by Gloria Stengel on Snapguide.

Thanks for looking!

~ Gloria Stengel: Scraps of Life Blog

Supplies Used:
Gyspy Soul Laser Cuts:
Tags in a Box Extra Tag Set
Butterfly of Gears
Wrought Iron Set
Gears Shape Set
Chickenwire
Honeycomb and Bees - Medium (only a bee is used)

Other:
paint, ink, embossing powder and enamel, flowers, steampunk embellishments, decorative paper, seam binding, double-sided tape, multi-medium, hot glue

Time Flies Card by Gloria

Good morning! It's Gloria and I decided to share a card today, rather than a 3D project. Don't despair, I will be back in two weeks with something dimensional. {wink}

I created a fun birthday card, with the theme "time flies." I really like orange, purple, and green color combinations, so using the Graphic 45 Rare Oddities paper, along with some matching flowers, hit the perfect note for me! We have some amazing partners who have supplied the DT with product so I tried to highlight those as well (see the supply list below). 

The centerpiece of the card is this pocket watch that I created from several GSLCuts shapes and the Altered Pages stamp set Muse Time. Around the face of the clock are words, such as Marriage, 1st Day of School, 1st Kiss, etc. I thought it was a fun way to show the passage of time for a birthday card!

I added lots of little details to the card with lots of Steampunk shapes.

Thanks for looking! Find all these wonderful chipboard items at the GSLCuts Store! Find amazing Graphic 45 papers HERE.

For the step-by-step tutorial, visit my Snapguide below.

Check out How to Create a Steampunk Card by Gloria Stengel on Snapguide.

~ Gloria Stengel: Scraps of Life

Supplies:

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts: 

Chicken Wire 6-inch panel

Steampunk Shape Set

Steampumk 2 Shape Set

Waterworks Shape Set

Partner Products:
Altered Pages: Mailbox Muse Stamps (Muse Time)
ColourArte Radiant Rain Daubers: Nutmeg, Copper

Graphic 45 Rare Oddities Collection

Xyron: 1.5-inch Sticker Maker, 3-inch Sticker Maker, 9" Creative Station (older model)

Other: 
Ink: Ranger Distress (Gathered Twigs, Old Paper), Colorbox Pigment (Black, Bronze, Copper, Burnt Copper, Gold, Silver, Gold Brocade, Verdigris, Pheasant Gold), Versafine Onyx Black
Mini brads: craft supply
Gesso: Liquitex
Twine and Flowers: Really Reasonable Ribbon
Cardstock: black, ivory
Tools: Circle punches, Crop-a-Dile, bone folder, sponge dauber
Adhesive: ATG tape, hot glue, white glue