TSO December Technique Challenge

This month I am lucky to be able to choose the Technique Challenge for The Scrappers Outlet.

Here's what I have chosen for the technique - Herringbone Technique
(might I say it was so much fun creating a sample card that I have also created a whole layout using this technique! Very fiddly but well worth it I think!)

Here's how you do it...

Step 1
Trim a piece of card stock to the desired size of your background. Run through Xyron® with a permanent adhesive cartridge.


Alternative:
If you don't have a Xyron, cover the card stock with any strong double-sided adhesive or glue.


Step 2
Cut three or more different patterned paper pieces into thin strips of equal widths - the pattern looks best with widths between 1/8" and 3/8".

Step 3
Pick one of the darker paper strips and adhere it to the cardstock base diagonally. It will divide the cardstock piece into two triangular sections


Step 4
Adhere another strip from the same patterned paper across one of the two sections, forming a T
Take a third strip from that paper and adhere it diagonally across the other section. You now have four triangular spaces on the card base.

 Step 5
Roughly trim the paper strips. It will make the next steps a bit easier.


Step 6
Pick one section of the cardstock and start filling it in.
Take a different patterned paper strip and adhere it next to one of the main strips.
Take another strip from the same pattern and adhere to the opposite side of the triangle.
Step 7
Repeat Step 6 with strips of a different paper pattern.
Continue to add paper strip pairs until the first section is filled.


Step 8
Flip cardstock and trim paper strips. Don't trim all the way to the cardstock just yet.


Step 9
Fill in the second triangle with paper strips.
Fill in the the third section.
Trim the strips between each section. You can use the longer leftovers to fill in the next triangle.


Step 10
Fill in the last section.


Step 11
Burnish the background before cutting it to the size of your cardstock. This will prevent smaller strips from falling off.


Step 12
Use the finished background on project.

Here's the card  I created using this technique.. such a great way to use up your scraps too!

Head over to The Scrappers Outlet to check out the other challenges for this month.

TFL, M x

TSO November Kit

I received lots of bright and bubbly stuff to create with in last months kit from The Scrappers Outlet.

I had such a great time creating away and getting very messy in the process.

Here's the end results...

Can you spot the Fiskars Punches that got a work out for my first layout ... Yep.. my favourite punches.. Fiskars squeeze punches.. XL Tag Punch and L/ M Round and Round Punch!

TFL, M x

SWV December Sketch Challenge

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Scrapping with V...

Seriously, only 20 days until Santa arrives.

For those of you who need a distraction from the Holiday Season craziness we present

"The December Sketch Challenge"!!!

Here's my take on this sketch

This competition closes at midnight 31st December 2011.

The winner will receive a kit from Scrapbook Kits with V store.

Please email your entries to scrapbookkitswithjules@gmail.com.
 
Winners will be announced early January 2012.

Helmar Holiday Hop

It’s that time of year where we all start thinking of the holidays so what better way to get your Holiday spirit than a great Helmar Holiday Hop?

Filled with so much Holiday cheer and some amazing projects featuring all the different Helmar Adhesives.

Hello everyone and welcome to my stop on the Helmar Holiday Hop.

If you have been following along, you should have hopped here from L. Grace Lauer’s blog.

If not, you just have to stop at the Helmar Blog and start from the beginning.

There are goodies along the way and we don’t want you to miss a thing.

Getting ready for the festive season has been lots of fun in our household. With four children, everyone is eager to be involved and get busy creating for Christmas.

This year however there has been one change in our household in the countdown for Christmas. We have discovered that our youngest child is unable to eat chocolate (quite a hard thing when she lives in a house of Chocoholics... hehehehehe). Do you think I could find an advent calendar anywhere that doesn't have chocolate but still lets my kids satisfy their sweet tooth !!!!! NOPE !!!!

So this year, we I had to get creative with a little help from Helmar. I decided to make our own advent calendar that the kids can change around the days easily and have popped a bowl of jelly bean next to the calendar for the little sweet tooth's!

Was quite an easy task with a little help from a child's paint by numbers mini canvas and easel and some of my favourite Helmar adhesives

and here's my calendar

Make sure you leave a comment at every stop because the elves of Helmar will be giving away prizes to some lucky Helmar fans.

Now hop on over to Angie Blom's Blog to see another amazing Helmar Holiday project.

The Holiday Hop will be open for comments until 11:59P.S.T December 4th , so take a look and enjoy a little holiday spirit from all of us on the Helmar Team.

Thanks again for stopping by today and Happy Holidays.

TFL, M x

MAS November Challenge

Better late than never.... haven't had a change to post this challnege form last month after having been flat out with placement for my course.

This was the challenge for last month at Mad about Scrappin....

We were challenged to create a layout using three stamps...

My stamps used were .. the paper lace created by stamping then handcut, flourishes stamped onto acetate and then lastly the flowers which I stamped several times onto water colour paper, water coloured then layers with Helmar Liquid Scrapdots.

Loved this challenge.. though the real challenge for me was trying to pick which THREE stamps to use... I may have just a few stamps... hehehehehe.

TFL, M x

TSO Teaser for December Kit

Just a little to wet your taste buds....

If you want to see more you'll have to grab the kit...

Head over to The Scrappers Outlet to check it out!

Full instructions included too so that you can get creating just like me!

TFL, M x

Guess what is ALMOST here !!!!!!