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Cover a Card: scrapbooking

Hello everyone, 
As Isa'sArt is taking a little break, I will be the one contributing to this week Cover-a-Card with this scrapbook page. 
This is not something which happens very often as I am mainly a digital scrapbooker (because it's quicker and I have tons of pictures and very little time), but I really enjoyed making this page. 
Here's how I made it. 

 1/ Take any plain scrapbook page. I think this one was Basic Grey, but it does not matter. You can even use a plain 12x12 card which you ink up with Distress inks. Using the BG one meant that I did not have to ink it up (told you I was short on time lol). Stamp the background randomly with the Woodgrain Cover-a-Card stamp and Sepia Versafine ink. 

2/ Stamp Cover-a-Card newsprint using Smokey Grey Versafine. 

Tip of the day

Only ink up the centre part of your stamp to avoid the straight edges. You will get a more "natural" look

3/ Spritz your background (lightly) with Cosmic Shimmer Bronze mister

4/ Ink up the edges of the page to match some colours of your pictures (used Versamagic Oasis Green) and stamp Newsprint again in the corners in black this time for a better contrast.

5/ Add your pictures (I used double sided tape for the 1st one, 1mm foam squares for the second and 2 mm for the third picture).

6/ Cut the TH Caged Bird from recycled cardboard (keep those boxes from  the famous online book store starting with A. They are perfect). Ink it up with the Oasis Green Versamagic and stamp it with the Newsprint stamp.

6/ Die-cut branches with TH Festive greenery in colours that match your pictures and add them to your page.

Details:

Self-adhesive pearl added for the eye

Newsprint stamped on the chipboard letters

"A gift from" attached with 3D foam squares

Distress Stickles added to the bird cage

Material used:

Impression Obsession Cover-a-card stamps Woodgrain and Newsprint

Inks: Distress inks, Versafine and Versamagic

Cosmic Shimmer Bronze Blush mister 

Die: TH Caged bird & Festive Greenery

Self-adhesive pearl

foam squares

Distress Stickles

Hope you enjoyed this. 

See you tomorrow

Cover a Card: Wrapping and AJ

Hi,
How about some wrapping and Art Journaling for today with our Italian inspirational  Gio. Lovely idea to make your own wrapping paper. Always better than Thomas the Tank engine when you realise you have run out of wrapping paper for the last minute present... 
Let's see how Gio mastered that one... 

I cut out some simple shapes from a piece of acetate, a circle and a diamond. 
I start to stamp a sheet of newsprint using the stencil and a IO Cover a card -swirls and flourishes, using different mediums.
I even cut out from a sheet of acetate an high heel shoe and I stamped the newsprint with TH Distress ink . I outlined the shoes with the help of the stencil, with a black permanent pen.

This is the template I used:

You can use these newsprint to wrap gifts, make background for scrapbooking pages, cards or AJ.

I used mine to wrap some presents

and to make an AJ page:

I covered the page with Claudine Hellmuth Multi medium Matte , I glued a piece of newsprint paying attention to create some wrinkles, to add texture to the background. 

I even highlighted the wrinkles with TH Distress ink Worn Lipstick.

I cut out a shoe from another piece of stamped newsprint and I traced out the silhouette with Claudine Hellmuth gesso. I glued it to the page.

I stamped and cut out the sentiment with the Crafty Secrets Alphabet stamp and TH Distress Ink. 

Material used:

Impression Obsession Cover a card Swirls , Flourishes

Artcoe Blue bell spiral cartrige book: short edge A5 

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Haystack - Guacamole - Orchid 

Archival Ink Coffee, Crimson

Acetate

TH Distress Stains Peeled Paint, Dusty Concord and Wild Honey

TH Distress ink WornLipstick- Broken China - DustyConcord - Aged Mahogany- Mustard Seed

Claudine Hellmuth Multimedium Matte

Claudine Hellmuth gesso

Crafty Secret Alphabet stamp

See you tomorrow