Complete Paper Bag Album

I have completed my Paper Bag Album...it took me a while to figure out a way to do the cover and add some form of closure to it. So here is what I managed to come up with..

Once I had decorated the cover I then set about working out how I was going to have it close. I used buttons and cotton twine. You have no idea how many "extra" hole this cover has! Lets just say next time I am testing something for the first time I will put the kids to bed before I do it! I have just covered them so no one will ever know (only you and I). The base for the cover was a 12" X 12" piece of core'dinations cardstock cut to size, then a piece of one of the inside pages. When I was laying it on it was blending in with the base colour a bit too much so I added a strip of the Canvas Bazzill Basics. To attach the buttons I used my silent setter to punch the holes then the cotton twine, to close you simply wrap the long twine round the larger button a few times.

The completed album open.

Another view with a peek at the pages inside. If you would like to view the earlier post I did on the unfinished album you can do so here.

The paper range used was Kaisercraft Duchess Collection and can be purchased from Art And Craft Supplies.

I hope you have enjoying viewing my latest "complete" project, free to leave a comment.

Brandon's Card

8 year old Son # 2 could not be out done by 5 year old younger brother with the card making. This week Brandon's teacher had the sad news her sister had passed away. When he came home from school and asked to make her a card... well how could I say no to that request? The teachers at our school were wonderful with the boys at the start of the year when our nephew and cousin passed away. The following few pictures are of the card Brandon made to give his teacher. Please feel free to leave a comment for the boys, I am sure they will love it.

The front of the card, quite plain, the colour on the Lillis is the Faber castell water pencils, this time with water added to blend the colours.(white and orange)

The centre of the card. The greeting he used would have to be one of my favourite's. The butterfly stamps are a two step stamp, with the outline one he added some colour with the water colour pencils.

We hope you enjoyed viewing what an 8 year old can create.

 

Ryan's Card

My 5 year old Son went to a Birthday party today, so this morning out came the stamping gear, pencils, inks and cardstock.
I stamped the image on the front for him. I used StazOn in jet black as we were using Faber castell water colour pencils, not that we added the water but it is a good fast drying ink, so no smudging.

Ryan then set to work doing the colouring. The space at the bottom was left for the "Happy Birthday" but when I came inside from hanging out the washing....he had stamped the inside himself! He didn't do too bad a job I think, Ok well not lined up and a real mixed up card...but he is only 5!

The end results, front and inside. He was quite pleased with how it turned out, and pleased he had done some stamping himself.

If you would like to know any information regarding the products used please let me know and will pass them on.

Now if a 5 year old can create a card like this anyone can.

paper Bag Mini Album

I have almost finished my paperbag album I have been working on amongst other projects! It has 12 pages in total, 6 of each size plus 4 pull out pages. The large page is 12.5cm X 20cm while the smaller pages are 10cm X 20cm. I used 4 paper bags which started out at 20cm X 25cm. I then scored, folded and trimmed the bags, glued together, painted the edges gold then added the cardstock. The cardstock I used was the Duchess Collection by Kaisercraft. I then cut it to 12cm X 19.5cm and 9.5cm X 19.5cm, this allows you to show off a little of the paint.

Pages 1 and 2.

Pages 3 and 4. Page 4 has the pullout page, note the small notch cut out so you can pull out the pullout page.

Pages 5 and 6.

These are two of the pullout pages which I thought I would enter for a challenge for GPP Street Team, Crusade No 41 on Gridlock. I prefer the one on the left with the gaps.

Pages 7 and 8.

Pages 9 and 10.

Pages 11 and 12.

One of the other pullout pages.

The finished mini. Once i had uploaded these photos I realised my camera battery must have been a little flat and the flash had not been working too well. All I have to do now to complete it is add my photos and embellishments. Once all that is done I can then do the cover. I leave that till last so I know how wide to make the spine.

Edit; I have now completed the Paper bag album, to view the finished project click here.

Support a WAHP interview

I am very excited about the interview that We won for referring the 3700th fan for Support a WAHP, they ran a competition on their facebook fan page, and I referred that magical number fan. So the result of that was a free interview that Katie and I did. If you would like to learn a little more about Art and Craft Supplies and the two great WAHP'S behind it you can read all about it here. While there you may also wish to check out loads of other great WAHP'S. Some of them are creating some stunning items.
Until next time Happy Papercrafting.

Loire Valley BTP Kit

I just listed some new BTP (beyond the page) kits online

Over the long weekend I plan to start working on the Loire Valley kit. It contains a BTP bird house, 6 X 3 double sided pages 18 pages in total, that should keep me busy for a while! The kit also contains Alpha stickers, Die cuts, Epoxy brads, Embroidered badges, Rubons in colour and black & white and a clear stamp set. All of these products each come packaged in the new style zip lock packaging Kaisercraft recently released. They are each designed to suit the Scrapbook paper storage unit. There is also a 12 X 12 size zip lock bag to store your papers in...no more dog ear corners. Now you can store your papers and embellishments from each release in one place. I will post photos and steps at a later date to show the completed project.

Name Plaques

Recently some friends moved into their new home and I made some name plaques to go on the children's bedroom doors.

There are several steps to a project like this, first I painted the edges of the wooden plaques and the large letters, after giving them a light sand. If you need to add more than one coat of paint you may need to sand between coats. I then cut out the paper, added the embellishments and letters. The letters are inked onto card stock on the first one and painted on the second and third. I then cut each letter out by hand and mounted with magic mount.

As the first one had quite a short name i though I would add a flower, and as I didn't have one the right size or colour I inked a white one and added some watered down gold paint then folded in half with the yellow one and attached them with a 2cm brad. The gold paint also helped blend it in to the pink and gold wash...read on.

Originally I had decided i was going to give the crackle paint one more go...i don't have any luck with it!  And nor did I this time, so in the end when it didn't "crackle" I made a paint wash if you like, watered down gold paint over the top of the pink and black paints. In the end I was quite happy with the result. The last step is to glue or stick it all together. Doing this step last allows you to use brads or other types of embellishments that need to go through the printed paper or card stock base.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my blog, My name is Tracy Rullo and as the name suggests I have a passion 4 papercrafting.
The aim of my blog is to keep you all up to date with my latest crafting.
But first a little about myself and my craft. I began scrap booking around 7 years ago after being invited to a creative memories party. From there i played for around 6 months, the opportunity then came up for me to become a consultant with "crafty kids" now know as Kaszazz. While with Kaszazz my craft goodies stash and tools grew and I caught the bug for Stamping and Card making. I would say i now stamp and make cards more than i do scrap. I like to do beyond the page projects and mini books, but really should get back to the scrapbooking...I have lots of photos printed and waiting to be put in to scrapbooks. A friend once joked with me and said "you have so much stuff you should start a shop" well guess what i did just that!  I now run an online store in partnership with Katie. We are Art and Craft Supplies
We have been operating for two years and just finished up our storewide sale. Not only do we sell online but we also attend local markets such as the Barmera Main Street Markets, and last weekend we were at the Mammoth Monash Market. The Barmera Markets are on this weekend from 9am to 2pm and will be the last for a few months. They have a break over the winter months and return in October.