Scrap Tiffany - Tuesday Tutorial

Shrink Plastic Is Back!

That’s right, Shrink Plastic is back... do you remember sitting in front of the oven... waiting for seemed forever... just waiting for your artwork to shrink! Well, wait no more, your handy craft heat gun has slashed the shrinking time.... how much fun and it’s just another way to use your favourite stamps.

Step by step:

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  Gather your supplies.




• Stamp your image onto the Shrink Plastic.

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  Cut out the stamped image.

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  If you would like to turn your image into jellewry, use a Crop-A-Dile to punch a large hole (remembering, every part of the shrinkie will shrink!).

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  If you plan to colour, I would suggest that you use the Clear Shrink Plastic so that you have stamp on one side and colour on the other. When colouring the shrink plastic, ensure that you sand the plastic in a criss cross action – remember to stamp one side and sand/colour the other. Time to colour your shrink plastic.



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  Ensure you have an acrylic block handy and start to heat you shrink plastic with your heat gun. You will find that the plastic will curl up on itself and then start to flatten. To help flatten the shrinkie, work quickly and turn over the plastic and stamp down hard with your acrylic block. This will help to get rid of any air pockets.
  


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  Add a jump ring and the twine/ribbon.

I just love to make my own presents or embellishments for my layouts and this product is a fantastic way to add your own style to your artwork. Below, I have made a tile to add to a future layout!

Well that’s it for another Tuesday Tutorial, hope you enjoyed and why not give it a go and send it through to Tiffany - we love to see you work!

Till next time, Krischelle

Scrap Tiffany - Fabulous Friday Finds

Hello to all the Scrap Tiffany followers, it's that time of the week again - Fabulous Friday Finds! There is no better way to get just a little bit of inspiration, or perhaps a nudge to try something completely different!

So I wanted to share some of my favourite creative individuals and their musings (blogs).

Make It and Love It - There is a little bit of everything on this blog, sewing, crafting, baking... everything I love! Thank you Ashley for sharing your creative talent and ideas!

Sewing in No Mans Land - Kelly is just so very creative, I love to sew when I have time and the pieces she comes up with are just adorable... and the patterns are free to download!

The Girl Who Ate Everything - And I think there is nothing better than crafting with some delicious goodies... and perhaps a great coffee (if I actually drank coffee!). I just love cheesecake desserts, make sure you check out the Caramel Apple Cheesecake... yummmmm!!!!

An Embellished Life - And this is one of my favourite gal pal blogs, the very talented Barbara Shepherd. Barbara is amazing with her card and layout creations... and wicked sense of humor!

Polkadot Prints - If you love parties... well Jordan is your girl. She has an amazing amount of party wares, printables and idea's! Oh my goodness, it just blows my mind how talented some people can be!

Well I hope you enjoyed your journey to some of my favourite blogs and perhaps got some inspiration for your next project!

Have a great weekend, till next time.
Krischelle

Scrap Tiffany - June Sketch Challenge

Hello Fellow Bloggers!

Well I have just spent 16 hours on a flight from Dallas to Brisbane, and I am feeling just a little on the tired side of life. Luckily I had this challenge done before we headed off on our holiday, so I hope you enjoy.


It is time for another Scrap Tiffany challenge and I just love sketches, especially if you want to get a creative hit without hitting a creative block!

Here is what I came up with the sketch from Sophie - thanks Sophie, great sketch!

And here a few close ups... not sure if you have noticed but I do like to work with accertate and have used it again in this layout as the background for the flower. I used alcohol inks and a heat gun to curl the edges of the accertate, giving it a little dimension.

Make sure you check out the creations from the very talented Design Team.

Chat soon, Krischelle

Scrap Tiffany - Favourite Manufacturer

Hello Bloggers,

I just love this challenge, just something about using your fav's on a layout... so what is my favourite, I have a few...and for this layout it's My Minds Eye and a little bit of Tim Holtz!
I actually created this layout for one of my closest friends, Miche! We have been friends since high school and after seeing some of my layouts when the family were back in Australia for Christmas, she asked me to create a layout for her mum for Mothers Day. I must admit, I was terrified... I love creating memories through scrapbooking, but they are for me... not someone else. But after fretting for a good while, I came up with the layout below and I just love how it turned out.

Isn't he a such a gorgeous little boy, as you know I don't have a boy and although I was worried about the finished project... I just loved the creative process and producing a layout about Saxon. The My Mind's Eye papers, as choosen by my girlfriend, worked so beautifully with the portraits taken by Luke Willey of Voice Photography.

Here is a close up of the layered flowers I created from the My Minds Eye pattern paper and used some Rock Candy to give them a little something.

I hope you liked my layout as much as I do, why not pop over to Scrap Tiffany to check out what the design team have created.

Take care, Krischelle

Scrap Tiffany - May Challenge - Friendship

Well it is time for another challenge with Scrap Tiffany and this challenge is about friendship. I am not sure why, but I find it hard to scrap about myself... (and just so easy scrapping my girls...) but I enjoy trying to stretch myself and so we have my layout for this challenge.

As my journalling states, I found it hard to find true friends younger in life... until I met Kenyon and as I sat watchng the Royal Wedding and thinking about the challenge, it gave me time to reflect on the vows of my wedding day and the commitment we made to each other. Our friendship is just so important to me that I commit to those vows each and everytime I hear them.

Why not try one of Scrap Tiffany's challenge, check out all of the talented Design Team's work and send yours in to Tiffany.

Scrap Tiffany - April Sketch Challenge

I am very late is popping up my sketch challenge for Scrap Tiffany, apologies but we had a big end of the week by travelling to Melbourne to see a specialist for the girls.

But better late than ever and I really love the way this one turn out! I have two of the most beautiful girls in the world! Check our everyone's talent at the Scrap Tiffany blog.

Scrap Tiffany - Sports Challenge

Hello Bloggers, It is that time of the month again and below is my twist on the latest Scrap Tiffany challenge... its a twist on the sports theme... as we are really not a sports family - we don't watch sports... we don't play sports... we just don't do sports, unless you call playing the Wii sports! LOL! The one thing we do in sunny Queensland is..... swim!





...unfortunately I missed the cut to get it on the Scrap Tiffany blog, but head over and check out all the talented artists and their work this month.

Scrap Tiffany - Colour Challenge

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

It is challenge time again at Scrap Tiffany and this time round we were looking at a Colour Challenge! Yellow and Grey... beautiful! This is what we had to go on...

And this is what I came up with...

My castle didn't come out they way I wanted but I think it works anyway! Why not give the challenge a go and send it into Tiffany for your chance to win!

Well keep safe, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is about to encounter the 'Monster' storm in North Queensland.

Until next time, Krischelle

Scrap Tiffany - Sketch Challenge

Hello Bloggers,

Well as some of you would be aware, Brisbane and most of the state of Queensland has an issue with excess water this week/month! And in all seriousness, it has been an overwhelming and devasting week and my heart and prayers go out to all who has been affected by the floods. All my family and friends are high and dry and we are very thankful to all who are assisting in getting the people of Queensland back on their feet!

On another note, it is challenge time over at Scrap Tiffany and this time was a sketch challenge. I love boundries and rules, so a layout/card sketch is the perfect interpretation of boundries to me! Here is the sketch, by the very talented Bev:

And here is my interpretation, I am very literal when it comes to sketches and I love the way this one turned out.

Check out the many talented designs from our Design team at Scrap Tiffany and why not have a go yourself!

Till next time, stay safe.... Krischelle

Tuesday Tutorial with Krischelle

Hello Everyone, I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are into the swing of your daily routine - I know I am! My name is Krischelle and I am bringing you this week's Tuesday Tutorial!

I am just in love with doilies at the moment, so I am going to show you what you can do with grandma's old doilies!

If you don't have any doilies at home, head on down to your local thrift store and grab your self a bag of doilies at a bargain price - I think I picked up 20 doilies for about $8. I personally like the handcrafted doilies, but commercially produced ones will also work.

You can then go one of two ways to recreate your doily, either water die your doily or alternatively you can paint your doily. I like the depth of colour that fabric paint creates so I have used Pebeo Setacolor Opaque metalic fabric paint.

Apply paint liberally with a foam brush, using a dabbing action.

Set the doily aside to dry.

Just to ensure that the paint is entirely set, make sure you follow the instructions for the fabric paint and this fabric paint require you to set the colour by ironing (no steam) for 5 minutes.

TIP: Just because you are using a doily in a layout, doesn't mean that the layout needs to be girlie! Check out the layout I created of my Dad!

So look out for some old doilies and colour your layouts with this popular trend!

Thought I would show you how to take this concept one step further - I took some of the doilies I painted and attached to some white t-shirts - in fact I gave these away as Christmas presents!

Stamp & Scrapbook Madness - January Kit

Hello Fellow Bloggers! Thought I would share some layouts I have done recently, as I had the privledge to use the Stamp & Scrapbook Madness January scrapbook kit... take a look and let me know what you think!

So if you want to get you hands on this kit, check out the online store at http://www.stampandscrapbookmadness.com.au/.

Make sure you come back next week, I am up for a Tuesday Tutorial at Scrap Tiffany... very exciting! Have a great week. KP

Scrap Tiffany Challenge

Just a quick note to keep a look out for the January 2011 Challenge for Scrap Tiffany. It will be my first as a part of this Design Team and I am very excited! Why not join us for the challenge!

Scrap Tiffany Design Team

Well it is official and I am very excited to announce that I have been invited to join the Scrap Tiffany design team! Wahoo! So keep a look out here and at the Scrap Tiffany blog for exciting challenges and amazing inspiration from designers from around the world. Check out the blog at http://www.scraptiffany.com/blog_tiffany/.