Falling for Handmade Paper Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the Falling for Handmade Paper blog hop! Today we have a dozen talented bloggers sharing projects featuring handmade paper paired with Club Scrap's Falling Leaves collection.

Supplies:

AG Paper Making Kit

AG Skeleton Leaves

AG Brilliants for Paper

Club Scrap Falling Leaves Kit:  Beige textured 12x12 Paper, brown paper with metallic leaves, Leaf stamps, Brown ribbon with gold edges, solid brown cardstock,

Palette inks: Landscape, Haystack, Moulin Rouge, red mini-brad, a real Maine oak leaf, computer, adhesives and cutting tools.

Instructions:

1. Create a 12x12 document on your PC for the title, print directly onto background paper.  

2. Cut 4" x 12" piece of the brown paper with metallic leaves, adhere to the bottom of the background paper.

3. Use a dry adhesive like tape runner to adhere the ribbon where the two papers meet, wrap edges around the back.

4. Mat the photo on brown cardstock (the sheets that come in the Club Scrap Kit are the perfect size to mat a 4x6" photo!) Attach the photo with adhesive on 3 sides only, to create a pocket for the journaling tag.

5. Cut a rectangle of hand made green paper approx 3" x 5", use a corner rounding punch on the top two corners, attach a 3" piece of ribbon at the top with a red mini-brad. Ink the edges of the tag (Palette-Landscape)

6. Cut an apple shape from hand made red paper, ink edges with Palette Moulin Rouge. Cut a little stem from brown paper. Ink a skeleton leaf with Palette Landscape. Assemble and adhere to the page.

7. Rub stamp pad directly to the edges of the background paper. (Palette Landscape) Stamp falling leaves in 2 shades of green.

8. Use liquid glue to adhere the leaf.

Lisa Dolezal at Rockin Paper Scissors and Glue is your next stop. As you explore the hop today, we encourage you to leave each blogger a few kind words in the form of a comment. Those who leave a comment on every participating blog will be entered into a random drawing for a prize. Good luck!

Autumn Centerpiece with Purple Cows, Inc

Autumn in the air, the Maine foliage is becoming brilliant and the air is cool even under the shine of the sun. Today I've brought the brilliance of fall into my home wit this table centerpiece.

PURPLE COWS SUPPLIES:

13" Hot and Cold Laminator  #3027

Hot Pockets Scrapbook 12" x 12" #4050

Pin It!  #7000

Pin It! Pin Set-Laurel Leaf #7008

OTHER SUPPLIES:

Branches and leaves gathered from outside, faux berry sprigs and glittery curly Qs, small scissors, ribbon, glass container, rocks, and hot glue gun. 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Gather branches and leaves.

2. Arrange rocks and branches in the glass container, add the sprig of faux berries and glitter curls.

3.  Place leaves inside (2) 12" x 12" laminating sheets and laminate. 

 

4. Cut out the laminated leaves, leaving approximately 1/8" to 1/4" around the edges. 

5. Hot glue the leaves to the branches using one small dab of glue near the base of the stem.

6. Use the Pin It!  #7000  to attach 2 copper leaves from the Pin It! Pin Set-Laurel Leaf #7008 to the ribbon and tie the ribbon into a bow around the glass container.

*NOTES:  

1. I did not dry and press the leaves before laminating them.

2.  I used to think laminating was expensive, but looking at the Purple Cows website to create the links for this post, I saw the generous amount of laminating sheets in each pack with such a reasonable price, I am thrilled!  I'll be laminating much more :o)

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog, please visit the Purple Cows, Inc BLOG for more great project ideas and watch some MOO TUBE to view tutorials and see how easy it is to create with their tools. 

Craft on!

Becky

 

Robin's Nest: "Dresden" Scrapbook Page

In 2003 I took a girl trip with a group of wonderful lady friends to Dresden, OH to visit the Longaberger Homestead! Good times. In this layout, I made my very first basket inside the Longaberger factory (with lots of assistance from this nice gentleman employee and tour guide). I was so proud of myself :o)

SUPPLIES:
Robin's Nest Papers: (YES! I USED 6 PAPERS ON THIS LAYOUT!) Olive Stripe, Black and White Pine (back-hunter green), Girl Swirl Stripe (back beige w/ copper swirls), Autumn Leaf, Daisy Stripe Rain Forest, Brown cardstock w/ copper Flourishes,
Other Robin's Nest items: Dew Drops, Copper Glitter Alpha, Dragonfly rub ons, dew dew glue

Other: EK Success corner punch, corner rounder punch, Green ink, dimensional foam adhesive,
PC to print journaling block.

I used green ink to alter the background color of the copper flourish paper and on the left upper side as well as the alpha letters. I glued a small piece of the hunter green cardstock from the back of the Black and White Pine paper behind the punched area of the title block. The large dragonfly was rubbed onto a beige scrap from Girl Swirl Stripe paper then cut out and adhered with foam adhesive.

I think that's all my tricks for this layout :o) Feel free to ask questions, I'm always open to chatting about being crafty LOL.

Be sure to follow the Chattering Robins Blog for more inspiration throughout each month.