A New Ink on Life

Be Inspired Blog Hop - Sweet Treats

Hi everyone and welcome to the Be Inspired Blog Hop! I am so excited to be joining some of my very talented stamping friends on this international blog hop. You are currently visiting Jennifer Picard in British Columbia, Canada! If you have been hopping along, you most likely arrived here via the insanely creative Emma Goddard.

This month's theme is all about Sweet Treats! Now I know Halloween is just around the corner, but to be honest now that my kids are all older I really do not do much in the way creating special treats for the occasion. I instead decided to focus on Christmas sweets and lately I have been getting back to scrapbooking, my first papercrafting love, so I decided to create a scrapbook page documenting our yearly tradition of baking ginger molasses cookies. These photos are from 2019 and wow has my youngest daughter ever changed since then, looking forward to documenting this years Christmas baking and comparing the two!

As I have mentioned many times before I am a lover of pretty patterned paper, but also a hoarder of them. So, what better way to start using them up than to use a full sheet for the foundation of this page? The 12x12 Designer Series Paper is from Painted Christmas and creates a beautiful frame for my Basic White Cardstock base. This page easily came together with the help of the Gingerbread & Peppermint Memories & More Card Pack. I just love how versatile these cards are, here I fussy cut, die cut and chopped up several different cards to create the main elements of my page. The word strip title was cut out from one of the 3x4 cards. 

The tag hidden behind the photo was cut from one of the cards and acts as a hidden journaling spot. It can easily pull in and out from behind the picture. To add some interest and texture to the stark white background I pulled out a Blending Brush, Old Olive Classic Ink and one of the Stencils from the Adorning Decorative Masks. I then also repeatedly stamped one of the phrases from the What's Cookin' Stamp Set.

When making a layout I like to create little clusters of elements to tie everything together and give areas for the eye to focus. This little corner works perfectly with the theme of my photos. From the die cut cooling cookie rack to the oven mitt and metal spatula, this Memories & More kit is full of perfect little die cut elements and stickers.

 

Next up on the hop is the fabulously talented Tanya Rees, I just know you will love what she has to share!

Be sure to check out the full Blog Hop Line up

Tanya Rees

Janneke Dijkstra - de Jong

Carolynn Sander

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Jennifer Picard (That's me!)

 

All products I have used for today's project are listed below with a direct link to my online store for easy shopping and as always feel free to contact me if you have any questions about today's project.

TGIF Challenges #339 - Technique Challenge Alcohol Blending

It's Friday and that means another great challenge on the TGIF Challenges Blog. We LOVE bringing you weekly paper-crafting inspiration, and are so excited to have you join us. This week we decided to feature a technique that has been quite popular the last few months and this challenge finally pushed me to give it a try. We are talking about Alcohol Ink Blending!

Now there are a few things that you will need for this challenge; 99% Isopropyl Alcohol (rubbing alcohol that is found in the first aid aisle of your local pharmacy or grocery store), alcohol inks/markers, paint brush or spritzer bottle, vellum cardstock and heat tool. But don't fret if you don't have the supplies or the time to create your own alcohol ink blending, Stampin' Up! has the gorgeous Expressions In Ink Designer Series Paper that has alcohol ink background patterns that are perfect for this challenge too!

I started with a piece of Vellum Cardstock and "scribbled" several different shades of green (shades listed below) Stampin' Blends Markers randomly all over the vellum. Next I took a Stampin' Spritzer that was filled with alcohol and spritzed it several times. Using my Heat Tool I then pushed the pooling ink around to help blend and dry it. I then layered on a bit more colour and repeated this process until I had my desired result. It was so fun to watch the pattern emerge and one of the cool things about this technique is that no two patterns will ever be the same. I then flicked on several splatters of Wink of Stella to give it some shimmer. Note, the vellum is not very porous so I again used the Heat Tool to help dry it. Once I had my little piece of art completed, I attached it to an Adhesive Sheet and die cut it using a Rectangle Stitched Die then mounted it on a piece of Basic White Cardstock.

I wanted the alcohol background to be the main focus, but still wanted to add some elements to complement it as well as bring some contrast. So I decided to add some texture by adding the pretty die cut trees that were die cut from the stunning Rose Gold Metallic Specialty Paper. The sentiment was stamped using Versamark Ink on Basic Black Cardstock then heat embossed with white embossing powder from the Stampin' Emboss Powders Basics. I then die cut it using the fabulous Tailor Made Tags Die. A few sequins and some bakers' twine ties it all together. 

I hope you can join us this week and make sure to check out the TGIF challenge blog for some more awesome inspiration!

All products I have used for today's project are listed below with a direct link to my online store for easy shopping.