C75 TRANQUILITY COLLECTION | Tutorial by Tanya Cloete

C75 TRANQUILITY COLLECTION

Page Layout – Life is Beautiful

-Tanya Cloete-

For This Layout You Will Need:

·      FabScraps Tranquility Collection paper range : C75 003, C75 005 & C75 007

·      Chipboard Pieces : DC75 003 & DC75 008           

·      Grey & Black Cardstock

·      Silhouette Cameo

·      Distress Tool

·      Dala Coarse Texture Paste

·      Mother of Pearl Blue Acrylic Paint & White Acrylic Paint

·      Flourish Stencil

·      Chipboard Frame

·      Tattered Lace Olivia DIE

·      Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pumice Stone

·      Ranger Embossing Powder Turquoise Glitter

·      Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder Desert Moon Turquoise and Silver Moon Sapphire

·      Metal Embellishments, Flowers, Trims and Lace

Instructions:

1.     Silhouette Cameo :

·      Cut a small corset from black cardstock and the inner piece from sheet 005. Ink the edges with pumice stone and emboss with top section with silver moon sapphire.

2.     Trim edges of sheet 003 & 005 (distress the edges with your distressing tool and ink with pumice stone). Adhere sheet 003 to the grey cardstock.  Tear a rather large piece of sheet 005 in the corner to form corset type of look.  Add the eyelets, flowers and trims as per the picture and adhere to sheet 003.

3.     Trim edges of sheet 007 and fold in half (triangular) and cut the other half off.  Ink the edges with pumice stone.

4.     Emboss chipboard piece 003 with desert moon turquoise.

5.     Emboss chipboard piece 008 with silver moon sapphire (except the flowers, emboss these with the turquoise glitter and add the pearls as per the picture)

6.     Cut the Olivia Die from black cardstock and emboss the dress, hair, and heart with turquoise glitter.

7.     Mix some texture paste with the mother of pearl blue paint. Place the flourish stencil underneath sheet 007 and smear.  Leave to dry. Adhere sheet 007 to sheet 005.

8.     Paint the chipboard frame with white paint.  Matt photo onto white cardstock.

9.     Arrange the rest of the embellishments as per the picture and glue!

10.  All Done! Just frame and hang!

C77 SERENITY COLLECTION | Tutorial by Michelle Frisby

Collection: C77 SERENITY

Name of Project:  Circle flip card card - cherish

Fabulicious Design Team Member: Michelle Frisby

For This Project You Will Need:

•               FabScraps Cherished C77 001

•               Muslin [cheesecloth]

•               Large flower

•               Stamens

•               Leaf die

•               White cardstock

•               Scrap pieces of corrugated cardboard [ex packaging]

Instructions:

1.     Cut a piece of white cardstock 8” x 5 1/2” as the base of your card.

2.     Score in half.

3.    Score the front half in half again, folding it back.  Use your circle clip card die to create circle flip.

4.     Your front piece of card is now a skinny panel 2” with the circle to the right hand side when opened.

5.     Cut a piece of patterned paper C77 001, 1 and 3/4” by 5 ¼” and adhere to the front panel of the cardstock.

6.     Cut a piece of patterned paper C77 001, 3 ¾” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the inside panel of your card.

7.     Using the circle die from the circle flip card die set cut three circles – one using corrugated cardboard packaging, one white cardstock and one patterned paper circle.

8.    Layer and adhere on top of one and another.

9.     Cut a small piece of corrugated cardboard [from your packaging – use your pizza box that has come in the mail].

10.  Cut a variety of leaves using a metal die.

Build your embellishment cluster by layering leaves, muslin and stamens.  Adhere to one and other on top of the corrugated cardboard – this gives a little bit of height in case you 

C75 TRANQUILITY COLLECTION | Tutorial by Ada Nicholls

C75 TRANQUILITY COLLECTION

SERENITY ALBUM

BY ADA NICHOLLS

Front page

Front page front/back: Use the chipboard page and cover it using a pattern sheet. Use craft knife to cut out the detail of the chipboard. Add embellishments such as flowers, ribbon and a resin angel.

 First page front.

  

Use any pattern sheet and cover the chipboard page. Use plain turquoise cardstock and cut a 4” diameter circle. Stick on the pattern (see picture) add a journal die cut.

First page back.

Cover the chipboard using a dark turquoise cardstock. Use an pattern paper and cut a piece 6 ¼ x 5 ¼”.

Use a border punch and punch at random on the page. Stick on the chipboard at an angle.  Use 2 plain colours I used grey and turquoise. Cut each piece to 4 ¼” square and stick on the  pattern at an angle. Add a photo on the cardstock. Embellish by adding journal cards, flowers and ribbon.

Second page front:

Cover the chipboard page using a pattern sheet. Matt 3 x 2 x 2” photos on plain turquoise cardstock. Stick on the page. Use chipboard flower flourish and cover. Add embellishments.

Second page back:

Cover the chipboard page using plain cardstock. Use the mask and white texture paste and mask the motif on the page. Add embellishments.

 Back page front

Cove the chipboard page using a plain cardstock.  Use any pattern sheet and cut a piece 5 ½ x 4 ½”. Stick on the page. Use a fold over envelope and add on the pattern sheet. Matt a 3 x 4” photo on turquoise and then on grey. Stick in the folded envelope and add ribbon. Make flags for the bottom. Mask the butterfly as explained before.

Add flowers.

Back page back. 

Asemble the booklet by adding rings. Add ribbon on the rings.

C76 COUNTRY KITCHEN COLLECTION | Tutorial by Lisa Marie Watling

C76 COUNTRY KITCHEN 

 OTP WALL HANGING

By Lisa Marie Watling

You will need:

Fabscraps Recipe Book – back page

Fabscraps Master Chef Two C76 004

Fabscraps Food & Friends C76 002

Fabscraps Master Chef C76 003

Fabscraps Chippie : What’s cooking good looking

Fabscraps Chippie : knife, fork and spoon

Embroidery thread

Twine / string

Selection of flowers

Lace

Tombow Glue or double sided tape

Foam Tape

Glue Gun

Modge Podge

Navy chalk

Chocolate brown mist

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Instructions:

1.          Cut your Master Chef slightly larger than the back page of your recipe book so that all edges overlap by about 0.5 inches.  Adhere with Modge Podge and once dried, sand the edges off and then chalk.  Punch through the holes and attach a piece of string or twine

2.          Cut a piece of Food and Friends down to 5 x 6 inches.  Distress the edges and then stitch a border all around the piece using a contrasting colour embroidery silk of your choice.  Adhere it to the right hand side of the board using foam tape

3.          Grab all your chippies and give them a liberal coating of chocolate brown mist.  Apply glossy accents to just the title.  Enhance the cutlery set with a little glossy accents in your colour choice.  Set aside to dry

4.          Cut a strip of Masterchef paper measuring 1 x 12 inches.  Scrunch it up and then lay it flat.  Brush with blue chalk to enhance all the folds and creases.

5.          Cut a strip of lace to fit the page – 8 inches.  Adhere the lace to the bottom using a glue gun.  Adhere the scrunched strip of Masterchef to the lace (so that the lace peeks out) – you may need to trim it down to fit if it’s too long

6.          Adhere your photograph to the Food and Friends piece using either Tombow or Double Sided Tape

7.          Grab your prepared chippies, flowers and lace and embellish  your piece.  Adhere using a glue gun and Tombow

8.          You’re done!

C77 COUNTRY KITCHEN COLLECTION | Tutorial by Denise van Deventer

C77 COUNTRY KITCHEN COLLECTION

With Love Tag 

Denise van Deventer

Supplies List:

Patterned Paper: FabScraps C76 002, C76 005, C76 008

Stencils:  FabScraps DS35 005 Jungle Twine

Chipboard: FabScraps DC76 002

Blooms: 2 red and 2 cream small Petaloo blooms

Watercolour paper

Die-Cuts: Leaf and small ornate circular die-cuts

Pearls

Tim Holtz Distress Stain Walnut Stain

White Acrylic Paint

Forest Green & Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

Gesso

Double sided Tape

Spray bottle and water

Pens: White Gel

3D Adhesive Foam Tape

White Lace

White embossing powder

Brown Pearl brad

Instructions:

1

.     Cut a piece of watercolour paper 11.5cm x 16.5cm and distress the edges and ink with Walnut Stain.

2.     Cut a rectangle 13cm x 18cm of C76 005 and distress the edges and ink with Walnut Stain.

3.     Place the stencil over the entire watercolour paper and secure with small bits of sticky tape.   Use an old credit card or spatula to spoon and smooth some gesso over the entire tag. Remove your stencil and allow the gesso to dry completely.

4.     Using your spray bottle, spray liberal amounts of water over your gesso areas.  Add little drops of Forest Green Distress Ink and Gathered Twigs onto these wet areas.  Now spritz more water into these little drops of paint, so that it starts to run.  Pick up your tag and move the paint and water around, so that it runs in between your gesso stencilled area. Allow this to dry

5.     Cut a 5,5cm x 16.5 cm piece of C76 002.  Using the wood grain side, distress the edges and ink with Walnut Stain. Stick this 3.5cm from the left edge of the watercolour paper.

6.     Now stick the watercolour paper down onto the C76 005 background.

7.     Cut an ornate circular die-cut, approx. 6cm across, from the C76 008 block side. Ink the edges of this circle with Walnut stain and stick, with foam tape 3cm down, from the top of the tag and just overlapping the left hand side of the tag.

8.     Fussy cut some blooms from C76 008 and arrange as per the photo.

9.     Cut out the “with Love” piece from the chipboard and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

10.  Cut leaves with die-cut machine from the 2 green cardstock.  Add details with white gel pen and grey pen.

11.  Arrange all elements as per the photo and stick down with glue and 3D foam tape.

Raised elements with 3D foam – circle die-cut, fussy cut blooms and “with Love” chipboard.

12.  Lastly add highlights with a paintbrush and white acrylic paint.

C77 SERENITY COLLECTION | Tutorial by Michelle Frisby

Collection: C77 SERENITY

Name of Project:  Tags – trio of tags

Fabulicious Design Team Member: Michelle Frisby

For This Project You Will Need:

•               FabScraps Cherished C77 001

•               Muslin [cheesecloth]

•               Various flowers

•               Acetate clock

•               Leaf die and punch

•               Scroll die

•               Stamens

•               Hemp twine

•               Florist wire

•               White cardstock

•               Scrap pieces of corrugated cardboard [ex packaging]

•               Mini alphas stickers

•               Gesso

•               Album ring

•               Lace doily punch

Instructions:

1.     Cut a piece of white cardstock 4 1/4” x 2 1/4” as the base of your tag.

2.     Cut a piece of patterned paper C77 001 into the same size as your cardstock base and adhere to the top of the cardstock.

3.    Cut an acetate clock in half and adhere to the left hand side of the tag.

4.     Cut a small piece of corrugated cardboard [from your packaging – use your pizza box that has come in the mail].

5.     Cut a variety of scrolls using a scroll metal die.

6.     Build your embellishment cluster by layering pieces of scroll, leaves, muslin, string, stamens.  Adhere to one and other on top of the corrugated cardboard – this gives a little bit of height in case you want to tuck another layer or two under your flower as you are building it up.

7.     Cut out some of the butterflies using C77 001 paper and adhere.

8.    Cut a thin strip of the patterned paper, reverse side of C77 001, ink around the edges with black Staz on ink and add mini alpha stickers for your sentiment.  Tag 1 – smile.

9.     Grab a paintbrush and randomly apply a little gesso.

10.  Congratulations, you’re done.

Tags – Laugh and Cherish are very similar and a wee tip – I’ve cut the name of the paper ‘Cherished’ – removed the ‘ed’ from the word to use as my sentiment on my wee cut out banner.