Hostess Scrapbook Club Vintage Layout

Here's our layout from this week's Hostess Scrapbook Club.

We used Beau Chateau DSP on a Marina Mist background for our layout.  We stamped a little on the left side, using the Elements of Style stamp set.  The 'Remember When' is from the Word Play stamp set.

The hearts are cut using the Framelits.

My daughter has named the technique for getting the vintage look to the seam binding.  She calls it the 'wet and wad'  technique.  I love it!  It is just exactly that.  We spritzed the seam binding with water (I also added a little Stiffen Quick to it.) and then wadded it up to dry.  After a while, I laid the ribbon in an old cake pan and heated it with my heat tool to speed up the drying process.

Pearl accents add a little bling to the flowers and to the smaller hearts.  The flower are created using an embosslit.  I tied a 'spring' of crochet lace trim into the seam binding and cut the leaves with a sizzlit.

All in all, we had a wonderful evening --- again.  I just love my scrapbook club girls.  We have so much fun!  I'm already advertising that, if you sign up on or before May 7 for the next round of Hostess Scrapbook Club, you will get to make TWO layouts at our May crop.  May is National Scrapbooking Month, so I can't think of a better time to make an extra layout.

If you aren't in the current club, but would like to sign up for the next round, do so on or before May 7 and you may join us for making the 2 layouts on May 7!
We're going to kick off our first crop of the new round --- July 2 --- with a party!!!  At every crop, we share our completed projects with each other, show 'works in progress' to get ideas, inspiration and suggestions from each other and then we enjoy creating one complete layout + a project, just for fun.

Lately, I've been adding an extra bit of fun to our evenings by giving out some sort of a challenge item.  They are to bring it back finished to the next crop.  It's so much fun to see what different ideas people can come up with starting with the same item and then taking off with their creativity.  I hope you'll consider joining our group.  It's more fun than you can imagine!!!

Hearts, Flowers, Ribbons and More!

Here's the layout we made at our Scraps and Prayers class this week.  Everyone really liked it.  I used a lot of Soft Suede, to prevent it from looking too 'pink' for the overall look.  This layout would lend itself well to old, sepia toned photos.

I've used layers of DSP from the Neutrals pack, Newsprint, Beau Chateau and Mocha Morning.  They all work together beautifully because I chose the patterns that had Soft Suede in them.  The Soft Suede heart is from textured CS and the Pink Pirouette heart is embossed with the dotted embossing folder, to give lots of texture.  All the punched hearts are attached with dimensionals.

I cut the fabric flowers with the Fun Flowers die.  Each flower has 3 layers, is spritzed with a spray product to stiffen it, and then crumpled up to give it a shabby, chic look.  I let it dry overnight, to be sure it was ready for our class.  I added an antique brad to the center of each flower, layered it over a piece of crochet lace trim and attached it with Liquid Tombow adhesive.

A super easy way to attach the pleated ribbon is to use an 18" long ruler as a guide.  Line it up with the lines on your grid paper and 'draw' a thin line of Liquid Tombow adhesive parallel to the ruler.  Remove the ruler, lay the ribbon onto the line of adhesive, and gently press it into place.

So here you have it, a great layout for Vintage photos.

Using so many layers and texture really adds a lot to a layout.  We finished it off with two little mini library clips.

TIME FOR ANOTHER VINTAGE LAYOUT

This is the layout we made at our Hostess Scrapbook Club this week.  For the Vintage look, I used Beau Chateau DSP with a Marina Mist CS for the background.

I tore a strip of our coordinating Beau Chateau fabric and tied it into a knotted bow, around a looped strip of crochet lace trim.  I added a stick pin to the knot.  The 'Remember When' text is stamped from the Word Play stamp set.  The mats for the photos are cut from Soft Suede CS.  This color is perfect for working with Vintage photos!
Tip:
If you cut your photo mats to 4 X 5 1/2," you can get 4 photo mats from one (8 1/2 X 11") piece of CS.  Since you'd need to crop your photos a bit anyway, before using them in your layout, this works out quite well for layouts that have several photos.

The Marina Mist flower was created by punching 3 layers from the Blossom punch and then crumpling them.  I added a Very Vanilla center punched from the triple layer Blossom Bouquet punch and then placed a brad in the center.  The brad is actually from the S-A-B Everyday Enchantment brads -- the only one that would match this layout.  The butterfly in the center of the brad is in Soft Suede, so it's a perfect match. 

I hope this gets you in the mood to do some scrapbooking.  Hopefully, I'll add the photos soon that I want to use for my layout.

Beautiful Wings

Today, I'm back with trying another sketch challenge.  This one is for a new blog I discovered that looks like a lot of fun.  I missed the deadline to link it, but had fun trying the sketch anyway.  Here's my creation:

I used Marina Mist for my card base, added a torn layer of textured Soft Suede CS and topped that with a layer of Beau Chateau DSP, trimmed out with pleated satin ribbon.  The butterflies are from the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  I love that it cuts and embosses, all in one easy step.  I mounted them on punched pieces of Soft Suede, punched with the Modern Label punch.  The text, from the Heaven Blessed stamp set is also punch with the Modern Label punch.  My color story is based on the colors in the Beau Chateau DSP, an easy way to plan out your project.

Here's a little close-up.  I tied two pieces of ribbon into a knot and attached it to the corner of the card.

I hope this inspires you to try some spring projects.  Spring is in the air!

Beau Chateau Mini Album

This is a project we started at our last Scrapbook Club crop.  We're going to add more to it at our Feb. crop.  We used Beau Chateau DSP.  I added Chantilly Crochet Trim + Blushing Bride ribbons.  The front and back covers are chipboard covered with DSP.  The pages are coordinating colors of CS to match the covers.  I stamped on the pages and the front cover with our Creative Elements stamp set.  After punching the holes for the album (crop-A-dile) I used binder rings to hold the album together.  These can be easily removed so you can add more pages any time you'd like.

I stamped a lot of extra flowers, so I could cut out portions of them and layer them with Stampin' Dimensionals.  I added a tiny dot of Dazzling Details (clear) to the center of each flower.  Mini albums are so much fun to make.  You can use them as a mini scrapbook, an extra special card with multiple pages or, as I'm planning, for a special Valentine for my sweetheart.  Happy Stamping!

Vintage Layout with Soft Suede

Here's one of our scrapbook club layouts.  We used the Beau Chateau DSP,  the Designer Frames embossing folders, soft suede taffeta ribbon, 1 of the tags from the 2 Tags die, and stamped with the Creative Elements stamp set.  To make it look like a little picture frame hanging up, I used part of the stamped image on end and added the ribbon behind each of the embossed frames.  I highlighted the frames by sponging over them lightly with soft suede ink.  I plan to use these in my Heritage Album and possibly try some sepia toned photos for the layout.  I'll post again when I add the photos.  So many stamps, so little time!!!

Close-ups of left and right sides of layout:

Close-ups of stamping:

Close-up of tag:

Close-up of frames:

Using DSP

Here's another lesson in using your DSP -- even the little scraps.

This DSP is Pick Your Poison, from the current Holiday Mini.  Now, you may not want to make enough Halloween cards to purchase an entire package of this paper, but think again.  They don't have to be just Halloween cards!  Look again at the 2 cards shown above.  Remove the Halloween stamps and use other text and image stamps and you could have an entirely new look.

Here are some cards made with the same papers, but NOT for Halloween:

Of course, I added some of our rhinestones for some special bling.

A Layout with Beau Chateau DSP

This is a little lesson in getting the most out of your DSP.  For this layout, I used just 2 sheets of DSP from Beau Chateau and 1 sheet of Marina Mist CS.  I used Marina Mist and Crumb Cake seam binding, along with some crochet lace trim -- tied together.  I added a tiny touch of bling to the oval frames with our pearls.  My thinking on the DSP was that you could actually do your journaling on the lines of the DSP on the left hand page.  The little label on the right hand page can have a date or other pertinent info for the photos.  The stamping was done with the 'Daring Adventure' stamp set.
Other ideas:
I created this layout for my Hostess Scrapbook Club and plan to use it for my Heritage Album.  Others are using it for family photos and one scrapper plans to use it for her wedding photos.
Now picture this same layout with pink pirouette or marina mist CS on the scallop oval frames and you could have a gorgeous layout for a new baby. 
When you get to thinking, a DSP design can be more versatile than you'd first imagine it could be.

Here's a close-up of the stamping.

Tips:  When attaching the scallop ovals, just add a tiny touch of adhesive to the top of each one and leave the rest unattached until you get your photos inside the frames.
Save the ovals from the centers of the scallop ovals you cut on the Big Shot.  Use them to draw around your photos.

Another Vintage Layout

Here's a layout we did at our Hostess Scrapbook Club.  I went back and added some extra touches with the Beau Chateau Side Notes.  They're found on page 190 in the Idea Book and Catalog.  They're just $5.95 and can be used on cards, projects or scrapbook pages for a quick touch of elegance.  The papers are Beau Chateau, found on page 184 in the Idea Book and Catalog.  Our Hostess Scrapbook Club is going to make a series of layouts using these papers.  I love the colors and the way they all coordinate.  You can look forward to seeing more layout ideas with these beautiful papers.