Simple Vintage Essential Cards for Tres Jolie

 Hi everybody,

I hope you all are doing good this Sunday Morning. Today I am happy to share with some easy cards but with some really fun techniques you can do that make your cards look fantastic. 

Here is the step-by-step video tutorial I did in case you want to follow along and see more details.

To create these cards I used scraps from the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Essential Collection along with the some of of the elements inside the Scrapbooking Kit Club for July.

I did 2 cards for you today so let's start with the beautiful Celebrate card. The first card you will need a piece of your pattern paper measuring at 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches and your second piece of pattern pattern paper measures at 3 3/4 x 41/2 inches. Below is a photo of what you'll to create this card. 

Next you're gonna fold the large piece measuring 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches in half this is your base card. I distressed the light light brown piece of paper and inked the edges of all my pieces for this card using black ink and vintage photo distress ink. For the book page piece I tore the edges, lightly sprayed with water and crumpled up and inked with vintage photo ink. Once you adhere down you use your fingers to rub off some of the paper on the right side edges and down at the bottom to create a worn look. Take your ink and rub some ink on the edges lightly. 

Next we use our rub on numbers on the right hand side.

Next we peel off the numbers carefully and add adhere an ephemera piece from the paper collection kit. 

Next we add our flowers and layer them one on top of the other one. I did cut the leaves off and adhered them around the flowers. I added the sentiment across the top of the flowers. 

Card #2. 

We start off with black cardstock measuring 8 1/2 x 7 inches fold in half. The pattern paper is from the scrap pile and measures 4 x 6 3/4 inches. In the photo below I am distressing the sides and inked the edges with black ink.

After inking the edges fold pattern paper in half and in the middle where the fold is cut down 2 1/4 inches. I also added doily that is cut in half and inked. 

Once this is cut roll the flaps down ( as shown below) you can use a pencil or pen to help get the paper started to roll. 

Next adhere the pattern paper down to card base. Place the doily inside the card on the left side. Adhere down the flaps. (as shown below)

We are gonna start on our chipboard clock found inside the July Scrapbook Kit. First we gesso the clock with clear gesso. Let dry for a bit.

Next I added a few drops of the Botanical Stain Woad Blue to the chipboard clock, then added Tumble Glass Distress Ink and added more of the Woad Blue on top of that. I mixed around with the fingers and added some the Marigold Botanical Stain and last added just a few tiny drops of the Black Bean. These Botanical Stains can be found in the Mixed Media Kit for July. I really like how the clock turned out it had a bit of a green blue tint which was so pretty. 

Applied Marigold Botanical Stain.

Applied Black Bean Botanical Stain 

Here is the finished clock. I did go around the numerals with a black pen to make them a little darker. I added a clock arm from my stash. 

Next I placed the clock inside the card added the flower in the middle. 

I added the rest of the flowers and some ephemera pieces behind the flowers. The black piece from the ephemera packet I placed foam tape behind so it would add bit of a lift so it wouldn't look so flat. I then found an ephemera piece and stamped "To Someone Special" on it. 

Placed some foam tape on this sentiment I stamped and adhered down. 

Here are both cards we created using the July Scrapbook Kit. I just love how they turned out. 

Thank you all for joining me today. Please take a look at the video tutorial above for any further instructions. Head over to the Tres Jolie Store to look at this months Kits. I have all of the information below for you to join us on our social media. 

Take care

~ Debbie

 

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Simple Vintage Purse with Mini Photo Booklets

 Hi everyone, Today I'm sharing a cute Purse I created to hold some 4x4 photo-booklets. I really like how this turned out. This little project can be created to hold special memories for those special occasions birthdays, weddings, anniversary's retirement party and so on.

To create this Vintage Purse and the mini photo booklets I used the July 2023 Scrapbooking kit filled with new papers from Simple Stories with Simple Vintage Essentials Captured Bits & Ephemera pieces, including the Typeset Rub-ons. The Scrapbooking kit also comes with Tres Jolie clock & film strip chipboard plus beautiful flowers from Little Birdie. I have all the links below for the items I used.

Here is a video tutorial for you to view that contains all the details on I created this Vintage Purse with Mini Photo Booklets. https://youtu.be/JtkPOg-zPIQ

 Here are a few photos that share I created this beautiful Simple Vintage Purse. To start off I did use a metal die purse and cut out all my pieces including the pattern paper pieces and adhered everything together.  If you do not have this die you can create a box or use a cutting machine to create a purse.

Here are all the pieces that were cut out from the die. 

Next I adhered everything together and here is the finished purse

Now we just need to add our handles and decorate the front. I did use a small broach I had in stash that is adhered to the front flap. I used the pretty flowers that came in the scrapbook kit on the front of the purse. I added one of the sentiments from the captured bits package - Lovely, along with some of the hearts popped up with foam tape. 

Next we're gonna create our photo booklets. 

You will create 6 of these mini photo booklets using which ever cardstock you'd like. I am using black. You are going to cut your cardstock at 4x8 3/4 inches. Next lay your cardstock lengthwise in your scoreboard with the 8 3/4 inches across the top and score at 4 1/4 and 4 1/2 inches. I have a photo here showing the length of the cardstock on the left and in my hand I have the little booklet once its been scored. 

 

Next I cut 24 pieces of the pattern paper measuring at 3 7/8 x 4 1/8 inches. In the video I share some tips and tricks on decorating these little booklets in case you would like a bit more details. 

Now I am going to share step by step instructions on how I decorated a few of these photo booklets. 

From the paper collection there is a ruler pattern paper I used this to create a pocket. I really like creating pockets this way with lined pattern paper.

 Turn the pattern paper over and place double back tape around the edges of the square.

Next turn the square back over to the front. Leaving about a 1/4 inch space from the left & right edges use your x-acto knife to follow the line down to other end. 

Now you have created a simple pocket.

Next place glue or adhesive on the back top of the pocket as shown below.

Now you can adhere the square down to the base photo booklet. 

You can add a little tag or other ephemera inside.

Here is a photo of the finished pocket decorated 

 For the inside. I just added a little tuck spot with one of the captured pieces from the package in the kit, it says "my favorite". I added some foam tape to the back for a raised look. 

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 On the back I added another piece from the Captured Bit pieces that says, "You & Me. I a little bit of glue behind the left and right ends, I didn't add glue to the middle so that way a photo could slide up underneath it. I added a some foam tape to the back of the heart. 

 So for the next photo booklet I wanted to share I put the inside of this one together using the chipboard film strip and the little square pieces.  First I placed my pattern paper down then I cut off two of squares at the end of the chipboard filmstrip, so you should have three squares.

Next I added some foam strips to each side of the film strip and adhered down.

Once I adhered the filmstrip on I used the little squares from the filmstrip as an embellishment and added words on top (word stickers from my stash).

I finished it off with some of the Captured Bits from the scrapbook kit. 

Here is a photo of the inside of the finished Photo Booklet 

Here is a photo of the Photo Booklets completed using some of the flowers from the kit including the ephemera pieces and Captured Bits. You can check out the video for more details on how I put all the booklets together or you can put your own twist on your booklets. 

I hope you enjoyed this project and have a chance to create one. I think its a great little memory keeper for special those special photos that you can display on your mantel or on shelf someplace. It definitely makes a great gift. 

Thanks for joining me and have a great day. 

Here are the links for you -

July 2023 Scrapbook Kit - https://tresjoliekits.com/collections/scrapbook-kits/products/scrapbook-kits-2023

July Cardmaking Kit - https://tresjoliekits.com/collections/card-kit/products/cards-tags-and-more-kits-2023?variant=42493031252154 July

Mixed Media Kit - https://tresjoliekits.com/collections/mixed-media/products/mixed-media-2023 Chipboards - https://tresjoliekits.com/collections/chipboard

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Tim Holtz - March - 12 Tags of 2015

Hi all,

Some of you know that I am doing the 12 Tags of 2015 with Tim Holtz Blog. I decided to do this so I can learn new tip and tricks and new techniques using all of the fantastic TH/Ranger products I own. So each month you create a tag with instructions from Tim on how to achieve the same tag or a tag using the same technique that he has created with TH products, all year long.

So my tag did not quit turn out like I wanted, it's actually kind of plain but I did use the techniques he instructed on the blog for the March 2015 Tag. I wanted to give a different look to the tag and used a colored embossing powder with the Rays stencil (love that stencil) especially with Easter upon us, I wanted some bright color in it.

Well here it is:  Since I didn't have the products he used with his tag, I used what I had on hand.

First I applied inks broken china, seedless preserve, evergreen bough, spun sugar, spiced marmalade on top of the tissue tape. Tissue tape used was butterflies and dictionary words.

I used the #3 to symbolize March with the little March calendar popped up next it from the ephemera package.

Used a metal rose painted with spun sugar and a metal tag with twine.

The stamp is the Tim Holtz - French Flight it comes with the die cuts by sizzix.  Used the butterfly stamp and embossed with black embossing powder. I cut out a mask to place over the stamp image to apply the texture paste. (as Tim did in the tutorial on the blog)

The stencil I used is Rays along with the texture paste, applied cayenne embossing powder on top of the texture paste then used the heat gun to achieve the technique Tim used on his tag. (Tim used a gold embossing powder with his texture paste)

Well entering my March 2015 Tag into the challenge. 

If you get a chance to go by Tim's blog you should definitely stop by there is so much Inspiration, I am not even kidding. I love looking at all the tags that people do so many creative and talented people there. :D

Thanks for visiting. Hugs ~ Deborah