May | 2016 | Papercrafting with Kelly Janes

I’m back again with another card for Atlantic Hearts.

My son’s last day of school is Thursday and I wanted to send the teacher a thank you & a little gift.

I started with a top folding white cardstock card base and added a layer of gingham patterned paper from my stash. I then used Cricut Design Space & an image from the CTMH Artbooking Cricut® Cartridge to create the rectangular background with the triangles cut on vellum. Knowing this was a card for my son’s teacher I wanted to keep is school themed so I cut an apple using the Artbooking Cricut® Cartridge on Heidi Swapp toner paper and ran it through my Minc using Rose Gold Foil. I’m not sure why an apple is considered the universal symbol for a teacher?!? I added a banner using CTMH’s Black Glitter Paper behind the foiled apple. {I want to take a moment to talk about CTMH’s glitter paper! This is the only glitter paper I’ve found that I can run through my Cricut or through my Big Shot & not have the glitter flake off! It really is super high quality & cuts so beautifully!!! There is quite a selection of colors so check them out if you haven’t already!!} I then heat embossed the sentiment from the Teacher Appreciation Stamp Set in Zing Black Glitter Embossing Powder. I don’t own vellum tape runner adhesive so I added hand stitching around the border of the vellum. CTMH’s Stitch Guide really helps in getting the holes spaced evenly & straight! To add another element of white to the card I scattered a few White Enamel Stars.

I hope you’ll head over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and enter your papercrafting project based off sketch #162!

Thanks for stopping by!
-Kelly

Hey everyone!! I have another layout and process video to share with you today!

I started with a white/green patterned paper from Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss Paper Pad. I applied a layer of clear gesso & added No Yoking Coloringz from Shimmerz using a brayer and the packaging technique. The brayer inspiration came after seeing a process video by Kim Watson on the Hip Kit Club Instagram feed. Using a brayer is a great way to get mixed media onto your layout in a controlled way, but I got slightly impatient and ended up using the packaging technique towards the end!!

Once the color had dried I moved onto my photo mat. Now this layout is a true “scrap your stash” layout because every single piece of paper used has been in my stash for over a year! YAY! There is something about using products from your stash…like it’s accomplishment! ha! Now because so much of this has been in my stash for so long I don’t remember all of the manufacturers. I do know that a couple of the pieces are from Amy Tangerine’s Finders Keepers Grab Bag Kit, a Heidi Swapp frame that I Minc’d using Mint Foil, Tim Holtz ticket tags, and a doily from my stash. I matted my photo on a scrap piece of white cardstock to give a little separation from the layering.

The title comes from a cut file from the Hip Kit Club & is cut on two different patterned papers. The orange paper is from Pink Paislee’s Citrus Bliss collection & the wood grain paper is from my stash.

I have an Iris container full of paper that I can use portions of for cut files or photo mats. This particular wood grain patterened paper had a doily & florals printed in one of the corners and it just wasn’t my style, but ¾ of it was just woodgrain. I know I would never use the paper as a whole sheet because the doily/florals are not my style, but I knew I could get good use out of the woodgrain!

I layered the two cut files together and by using the “contour” feature in Cricut Design Space I cut out the negative pieces of the h, e, l’s, & o. I’ve layered my titles together previously to create a bit of a shadow & was inspired by a recent Missy Whidden process video to give this technique another go!! By layering the two papers & filling in the negative spaces of the letters it draws more attention to the title and helps keep it from fading into the background patterned paper.

I added a lot of embellishments using My Mind’s Eye enamel dots & Chalk Studio chipboard pieces, Teresa Collins-He Said, She Said brads, a Prima burlap flower & stickers from a random sticker sheet from my stash. I added a small piece of woodgrain patterned paper in the upper right hand corner and also random stitching in both corners of the layout.

Here’s a YouTube process video showing how all of this came together!!