The 4th Flopsey Class card

Here is the 4th card we will be making in my Flopsey Cards class on Saturday 2/9/13 from 12 - 3 pm.  This class is going to be a lot of fun with plenty of Copic coloring.  You will need sharp scissors, but don't be intimidated, most of the Flopsey's will already be cut out for you!

Here is the list of Copics we will be using - please bring your own markers if you have them:

E31
E33
E35
E37
E57
E81
YR04
G000
G43
RV00
RV02
RV55
W1
BG000
BG53
R29
R83
YG13

I look forward to seeing you soon!
Cindy

Check Out Lisa Hetrick's New Facebook Page

Hi Everyone,

We have had a lot of new customers lately and I wanted to let you know about our wonderful Copic instructor, Lisa Hetrick.   Lisa is a true artist and designs all the stamps for one our favorite stamp companies, Avocado Arts. It had been a dream of Lisa's to launch a clear stamp company with a bit of a different vision: stamping is for everyone! She is an illustrator who stamps (and I think that's important), so she has a vision to create coordinating images that have endless possibilities. 

Lisa Hetrick is a full-service graphic designer and illustrator who has actively worked within many industries for 20+ years. Her career has lead her down many design paths holding designer, art director, design director, and creative director roles within the advertising, education, health care and papercrafting/art industries. She launched Lisa Hetrick Design in August 2003. 

Lisa Hetrick is taking advantage of the new year to revamp her website.  She has uploaded all her Copic Class Downloads for your convenience.  These have the marker colors suggested for each class.  Click Here.

Click Here for Lisa Hetrick Design Facebook Page

Dare to Share from Alice I.

Hi Everyone,

When we come up with the idea for the Dare to Share, we just never know what sort of projects your creative minds will come up with. Many of you know Alice from making her great cards on Demo Day.  Alice went way out of the box with this puzzle piece inspiration.  Her project has so many techniques that I know I will miss listing some of them.

Alice took a patterned paper and added a few different colors of spray over a couple of different stencils.  She also stamped some subtle images on the background paper.   My favorite details on the paper were her use of a paper towel roll as a stamp to get the paint circle rings and her sewn paper edges.  

Alice combined all sorts of different elements to create this collage of texture and color.  Notice the snap and the tab from a soda can.  She used different shades of Tattered Angels spray on her flowers to get that rich color with a great shimmer.  

Alice combined Tim Holtz tags with the spray inks.  Attached the lace ribbon with the Tiny Attacher.  She also got nice color on the doily and it adds some shape and texture to the base.  I love how she combined so many objects like buttons, bling, paper clips, charms, chipboard, lace pins, brads and everything else she had on hand.

When you are in the store be sure to see this layout in person.  Also, let us know if you would be interested in taking a class to make a similar layout.   I think I may be able to twist her arm a bit to teach this class.

Kaisercraft Pickled Pear Cigar Box

This Christmas I transferred my childhood Super 8mm home movies to dvd for my two sisters. It was an emotional project as my parents have been gone for a very long time. To say I was excited is an understatment!  As the holiday drew nearer I decided I wanted a special presentation for the gift so I stepped out of my "box" to alter cigar boxes.

I chose Kaisercraft's Pickled Pear collection because its soft shade of blue was my mother's favorite color and the vintage icons were images that suited the nature of my project.  To diffuse the yellow-ish green in the paper (just didn't love that color in this particular project) I used Stampendous Embossing Enamel in Shabby White and Frantage Mica that I melted onto the paper with a heat gun.  Using Mod Podge I decoupaged the paper to the box - even covering the insides. Next I added a lace trim to the lid's edge.  Then the fun really began!  I cut out a vintage camera and clock face from the paper to decorate the lid; applying Glossy Accents to the clock face to create a slick-looking finish.  Flowers from Petaloo and a paper doily also served as accents.  For the title I printed "Gundersdorff Family Movies" on printer paper so I could mark where it printed.  Then taking the actual Pickled Pear decorative paper I used a removable adhesive to line it up over the printer paper then re-ran it through the printer. Next I adhered it to a chipboard bracket shape from my stash and filed the edges to a smooth finish.

For the inside of the lid I layered several old family photos with more Pickled Pear journal cards cut from one of the papers, more flowers, leftover lace trim, and pearls.  The inside bottom of the box was only layered with a few journal cards to keep the base flat for housing the dvds.

 Christmas night is an evening I think we will all remember.  My sisters and I all cried and hugged while our children and husbands looked on.  Then we enjoyed viewing some of the movies together reliving the love and happiness of our childhood.

Customer Share from Mara Adkins

Hi Everyone,

We have a great customer share from Mara Adkins.  She bought this kit online and had a fun time putting it together.   This Graphic 45 Place in Time line is so versatile.  I love how it looks so different in every project I see.  Mara's project is a clear plastic base filled with 12 pockets and tags.  She can add photos on all the tags to finish it off.

January's Demo Day card

Join the Photo Scraps team on Saturday January 19th from 11- 4 pm for our famous and fabulous Demo Day. 

My first Demo Day card of 2013 will feature my all-time-favorite, cutest-bunny-in-the-stamping-world, Flopsey from MFT. 

Have a safe & Happy New Year.  I look forward to seeing you soon!

Cindy

NEW CLASS: Flopsey Cards

Join me for my first class of the New Year on Saturday February 9th from 12 - 3 pm for an all new card class featuring the absolutely adorable Flopsey from My Favorite Things.  Flopsey is the cutest bunny around and in this class we will be making 8 great cards (2 of each of the 4 designs).  4th design and supply list coming soon.

I look forward to seeing you in 2013!
Cindy

Photo Scraps will be Closed Today December 26th

Hi Everyone, Due to the crazy weather and bad road conditions, we will be closed for the rest of the day today. We hope to reopen at 10:00 AM on Thursday December 27th. Be Safe and enjoy some craft time today.

One of Our Customers was featured today on the LYB Blog

Little Yellow Bicycle

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Winter is Finally Here with Cycling Team Member Kate Blue Today we share some wonderful Winterings projects from new Cycling Team Member Kate Blue. She has some icy delights that will have you looking at winter and ordinary household items in a brand new light.  But, let's have Kate tell you all about it... As a scrapper who actually likes to reuse things, I decided to do an upcycled project that was more "holiday" themed.  My kids cannot be trusted with my glass cookie jars, so I upcycled them their own Wintering treat container! I loved the white, blues and browns combinations of the whole collection and immediately fell in love with by the snowflakes in the Paper Crafting Kit and the Winterings Chipboard Shapes, so I thought a classic snow/snowflake theme would be nice! I started off by painting an old coffee can with gesso to make it look like snow. I used the Cardstock Stickers to circle around the center of the can and then added the lovely chipboard. I started with the large circle piece and built a large layered snowflake as the focal point. I embellished it with Vellum Tape Strips, the long chipboard piece (wrapped it with some wire silver balls that I recycled from an old wreath) and, a lot of the Clear Cuts tucked into the nooks and crannies. Next came the top.  Again I painted it with gesso, added glitter and let it dry.  There were pieces  of gesso that wouldn't adhere, so I left it since it looked distressed...added a plastic ornament as the bottom layer then starting building more visual layers with a Journaling Card (yup, it's in there!), the adorable banner, more snowflakes and icicles from the Paper Crafting Kit and the Clear Cuts Shapes pack. The last step was to add Vellum Tape strips, Cardstock stickers around the bottom and back, bits of clear beads for interest.  I left the back somewhat unadorned to keep the back of it uncluttered & simple so that the snowflakes stayed as my main focal point. Winterings Products: WI-134 Journaling Cards with foil accents WI-135 Cardstock Stickers WI-140 Cardstock Stickers WI-160 Vellum Tape Strips WI-230 Clear Cuts WI-279 Chipboard Shapes WI-304 6 x 6 Paper Pad WI-305 Paper Crafting Kit Other Supplies: Coffee can, Glue gun, Gesso, Glitter, Christmas decorative spray, Plastic snowflake ornaments, Plastic beads For my second project, I decided to do a quick and snowy winter layout.  Since I am always sticker challenged, I dove in and took the plunge to use more than one!  For the background, I chose the Dark Denim Brocade paper for the dark pop of gorgeous blue color.  I used the fab Winterings 6 x 6 paper to cut out a HUGE snowflake-no machine involved, just some simple freestyle handcutting! I added some gesso on it to give the appearance of snow.  Then, it was all about the stickers and the layering of snowflakes from the Paper Crafting kit, Winterings Chipboard and Clear Cuts for dimension.  Title work was stickers layered with the Clear Cuts and again, I handcut the JOY subtitle and embellished it with snowflake stickers and more Clear Cut elements...can you see the pattern here? What I love about this Winterings collection is that the stickers have a lot of fine lines along with embossed and debossed style details on them.  And, they are thick and heavy so they actually have the appearance of chipboard!  For those of us who are squeezing in some "CRAFTY TIME, this collection takes out all the extra punching and embellishing so you can put together great projects in less time. The shaped burlap stickers already come with their own texture and bling; all I had to do was peel and stick! The last thing was adding hidden journaling using the Journaling cards along with touches of gems and beads and you got a 30 minute layout! Hope you will be inspired to use the Winterings chipboard and stickers on your next project! Winterings Products: WI-107 Winterings Stripe/Dark Denim Brocade 12 x 12 WI-134 Journaling Cards with Foil Accents WI-135 Cardstock Stickers WI-140 Cardstock Stickers WI-222 Layered Burlap WI-230 Clear Cuts WI-279 Chipboard Shapes WI-304 6 x 6 Paper Pad WI-305-Paper Crafting Kit Other Supplies: Glue, Jewelry making beads and gems, Gesso, Floral pic, Fabric Favorite from Christmas Delight LYB collection (CD-220) Please visit Kate's blog Queen Kat for more of her inspiring work.  And remember - you can purchase the entire Winterings collection directly from us HERE. Happy Monday!

12 Days of Christmas Deals are Here!

Sale prices from December 8th thru December 24th.  While Supplies Last, in stock merchandise only. Prices do not apply to previous purchases.  No other discounts apply.   

No Two Alike

BoBunny's new winter line, Powder Mountain, is the perfect colors to set off your snow pictures.  The combination of grey, white, navy, and other shades of blue will make any snow day look like fun.  I started with a sheet of bazzil's admiral, since it is a very dark shade of blue, as my base for this page.  I took a sheet of powder mountain scarf and trimmed 1/4 inch off of two sides and mounted it to the cardstock.  I then did a little fussy cutting with a sheet of powder mountain memories to get some interesting shaped elements for my page.  This sheet is a cut  apart with many titles and journal blocks to choose from.  After double mounting my photos on white and admiral cardstock, I arranged them with my cut outs around the snowflakes and snowman on the sheet of scarf paper.  It was easy to design a layout on the already decorated paper, the hard part was knowing when to stop adding snowflakes to my page!  I cut apart, mounted on admiral, and poped up my title from words on the memories sheet.  I also made a tag with a glitter brad from another cut out on the memories sheet and added that to a white area on my snow photo.  After adding some chipboard embelishments to my page, I could not stop adding snowflakes to the design.  I put clear bling jewels on the chipboard ones to make them sparkle.  I also had some Queen and Co. snowflake brads that matched so I added them to the centers of a couple snowflakes on the scarf paper.  I also used one of the snowflake buttons from this line, but it was hard not to add more!  Now was my favorite part, I added stardust stickles and glossy accents to everything on the page!  This really makes your page sparkle and shine but needs to bet set aside over night to dry.  With BoBunny's coordinating embelishments and their cut apart sheets, you will have more than enough products to make lots of layout all winter long!  Happy Scrapbooking!

Hi Everyone,

Alice has been having fun creating snowman cards.  This adorable card has so many fun 3D details.  She used a swirl embossing folder for the snow drifts and highlighted each swirl with Stickles.  The penguin is hanging on to some twine and dangling from the peppermint lolly pops.

Photo Freedom: Happy Little Moments

Echo Park has just introduced  a very versatile collection called Photo Freedom.  A revolutionary new way to scrapbook, easily and affordably! Simply buy a photo freedom kit, add photos and complete 10 pages in minutes... this is great for beginners and highly relevant for long-time scrappers that are looking to get memories scrapped faster.

Or you can do as I did and simply create beautiful layouts.  The layout I created was about my teenage daughter's love for Young Life, a Christian youth group.  The soft, serene colors and catchy journaling spots  were perfect for the topic and made this layout a breeze to put together. The yellow-green and pale turquoise were not color combinations I have used before and I loved the results.  The 12x12 sticker elements added the extra embellishments and the alphabet stickers I used for the title in the journaling box.  I added a Dew Drop and a pearl flourish from my stash to finish off this sweet layout.

Photo Scraps carries the full line of Happy Little Moments and Dear Santa from the Photo Freedom collection.  The page protectors work with most scrapbook albums, such as We R Memory Keepers.

Halloween Project share from Pat Carmondy

Hi Everyone,

One of our creative customers, Pat Carmondy, was making a fun Halloween paper bag album for her nephew and got carried away in a great direction.   She didn't realize until she was done that she had crated a spider like album.  Her vision as she was creating was to use the paper bags as pockets to hide money and candy.

I adore how she has the skeleton holding the cash.

Who thinks this would be a fun class next year?

NEW CLASS: Penny Black Christmas Cards

Join me for a new Christmas Card class on Saturday 12/1/12.  Class will run from 11:30 - 2:30.  We will be making a total of 8 cards (2 each of 4 designs) using some of Penny Black's newly released holiday stamps.  Here is a sneak peek of one of the cards.  I wish you could see the beauty of the red embossing powder on the photo.  More designs to come soon...

Cindy

P.S. This class will repeat on Saturday 12/8/12 from 11:30 - 2:30 pm.