Recipe Card Tag - Scrap for Help and Scraps of Darkness

This month at Scrap for Help the challenge is to use a soda can clip on your project. Be sure to pop over to the Scrap for Help blog to see all the neat ways the Design Team has completed this challenge!

Here is my project, created with the Scraps of Darkness August Kit ~ Rustic ~. A 'Recipe Card Tag' with lots of fussy cut elements from The Farmhouse Paper Company "Country Kitchen" papers, some texture paste used with the awesome stencil included in the SOD kit and some misting (Lindy's Stamp Gang), distressing and fun embellishments! I used the Soda Can Clip as the tag's hanger - it was the perfect finishing touch to go with these papers!

That's it for today - a short post for a fun little project! Hope you liked my tag!

You're My Treasure Layout and Mixed Media Recipe Book ~ Scraps of Darkness Rustic Kit ~

Today, I am sharing two more projects created with the Scraps of Darkness August 2013 Rustic Kit. This kit is so fantastic to work with and I especially loved this month's creativity add-on!

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First up is the second layout I have created with this kit, entitled "You're My Treasure". I just love this sweet picture of my son - and the Kaisercraft "Basecoat" papers were perfect foundation to create a masculine, mixed media layout to showcase the picture. 

I started off by doing some masking with a stencil from my stash and some modeling paste. Then I misted the layout with the Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst mist included in the Main Kit and some blue mist I made using Luminarte Primary Elements Artist Pigments. I then did some stamping with two of the new Prima Clear Stamps from Finnabair's Elementals collection and some Memento Dye Ink in Rich Cocoa.

Once I had finished creating the background, I layered some strips of paper and added the photo, which I wrapped with twine and added two mini-paper clips to (from the Creativity Add-On). I had a few 'bare spots' so I went back and did a little bit more stamping before adding the final embellishments.

For the embellishment cluster, I used Petaloo flowers (Flower Add-on), burlap butterflies and Mandy's Signature Stick-Pin (Embellishment Add-On) and some Prima Metal pieces ('Special Screws' from the Main Kit and the key from my stash). I spritzed the butterflies with the Lindy's Starburst Mist and then stamped them with one of the Prima stamps I had used to create the background. The title was created with Authentique 'Natural Elements' stickers (Main Kit). 

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Next, I have a Recipe Book created using this month's Creativity Add-On and using techniques I learned in one of the classes I was lucky enough to take with Finnabair in July. I used Luminarte Silks Acrylic Glaze for the paint colours on this layout and a combination of embellishments from the Creativity Add-On and from my stash to create the collage. The chain on the 'spine' of the book is saved from a purse I had that I used until it fell apart - but I saved this gorgeous chain as I knew I'd find a use for it!

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That's it for me today - I'll have a few more projects made with this kit to share over the next couple of weeks. It is such fun to create with! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today - I appreciate your visits and comments so much!

it's a Sweet Life ~ Scraps of Darkness August Kit Reveal ~ Rustic

Scraps Of Darkness has just released it's August Kit ~ Rustic, and it is utterly fantastic! This kit features perfectly coordinating papers by Farmhouse Paper Company, Authentique and Kaisercraft and outstanding complementary embellishments - Melinda has outdone herself in putting this kit together!

This month's sketch was created by new Design Team Member Laura Gilhuly. Here is Laura's sketch:

And here is my take on the sketch! We celebrated my son's third birthday recently and I took this photo of him 'helping' make some birthday cupcakes. I converted the photo to sepia (heavy on the red tones) to coordinate with the layout (since my son had a very bright red Spiderman shirt on that totally clashed with the red on the layout). I used one of the Authentique stickers from the kit as the title for this layout - "it's a Sweet Life".

 

I used the Farmhouse Paper Company papers and flowers from the kit and added some burlap and twine from my stash! I did some stamping and paint splattering too! I used a Kaisercraft Distressed Clear Stamp and brown ink to stamp the top right and bottom left corners and used a Bo Bunny Stained Textures Clear Stamp with the same ink (but sprayed with water to lighten it slightly) for the rings and splats. Once I had finished layering the papers, I added a really fine splatter with watered-down acrylic paint in Antique White to make it look as if the LO had been dusted with baking flour. 

The Farmhouse papers are a nice heavy weight and were perfect for tearing/distressing to create the layers for this layout! And, I just loved the recipe cards - they were perfect for this fun picture! The Farmhouse flowers in the Flower Add-On are perfectly coordinated with these papers, and I also added a couple of Petaloo butterflies (from the July SOD Embellishment Add-On) to my flower cluster.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today to see my first layout with the AMAZING Scraps of Darkness August Kit! I'll have some more projects with this kit to share with you later in the month - so be sure to come back for another visit!