Today I'm sharing some lovely canvas projects from Laura Fulcher. She made a beautiful wall hanging and a really neat tote bag using a canvas/paper transfer method. Really genius I think!
Here is the first project - such a good idea! You could make a few of these and hang them in a grouping in your home - totally customized decor. Love how she popped the butterflies for added depth and texture. Great project Laura!
Here's a close up so you can really see the canvas texture in the background.
The second project Laura made is a tote bag! She took a basic black tote and jazzed it up with flowers and fabric. I think her color choices pop against that black.
Some soft pastel colored buttons make for nice flower centers. Didn't she do a nice job?
I hope this has inspired you to look at your stamps and papers in a different way. There is no end to the creativity... Have a crafty day!
Have you ever tried to create the look of frost onto a greeting card? I have a video today that shows you just how to do that - plus, I am using several dies to create a fun scene full of polar bears, snowglobes and stars. I created a fun video - it's a long one, so take a look at it with a plate of some turkey and stuffing during the Thanksgiving weekend! I hope you like it!
It's been such a busy week here at Memory Box - we stayed busy with the launch of our new poppystamps site and got ready for our School Paper donation (more details at the bottom of this post). If I hadn't had the distraction of making a video of the Frosted Bear Card, I might have gotten overwhelmed!
I can't get enough of the snow globes - creating a scene with them is so much fun! I have designed a lot of snowglobe stamps over the years - and without a doubt, using dies is the best! Being able to make layers that fit together - and then position little bears or trees inside is just too easy!
Here is an up close picture of the Medium Snowglobe (Medium Snowglobe die 98229) with the Holiday Spirit Bear stamp C1818 (cut out with the Holiday Spirit Bear die 98248). As you can see in the video - it's easy to line up the layers of the snowglobe - I used Water cardstock for the snowglobe circle, and then White card stock for the "snow mound" within the globe. The Holiday Spirit bear cuts out super easy (for those of you wondering what those little "holes" are on the sides of some of the dies, watch the video to show how they can help you with positioning!).
And the frost on the edges of the card? Quick and easy! I thought the Star of Wonder die (98167) would look perfect near the frosted edge.
I'm not sure what it was about this video, but I had so much fun making and editing it, that I even added a bonus project on at the end! I had some leftover materials from the Frosted Bear Card, so I put together a tag using the Museum Tag die (98145) and the Pop Up Thanks die (98241).
As you can see, the bottoms of the letters in "thanks" stay attached to your cardstock, so you gently bend each letter up to make them "pop" off the surface.
And here's the front of the tag - the 12x12 Beary Good paper from the Yuletide collection is cut into a tag shape with the Museum tag die - and then the edges are "frosted". Interested in more Memory Box videos? Just go to our Youtube channel by clicking here, where you can watch the videos you want, or subscribe and get notified each time there's a new Memory Box video!
And now, for the big announcement!
Think that your school deserves some paper? Tell us why your school should receive a BIG shipment of Memory Box cardstock for their art program! Every year, we donate our overstock to schools in need (sorry, no international requests). We box up our extra cardstock, and leftover studio materials, and send it to a school that could really use it. Last year, we had 600 pounds of paper to donate and teachers could use that paper however they wanted in their classrooms.
Simply email us at info@memoryboxco.com to tell us about your nomination (please include the subject line "Paper for Schools"). Your message should include the name of your school and why you think your school should get some Memory Box paper.
So if you are a teacher or have a child, grandchild, niece or nephew at a great school that needs some materials to help foster kid creativity let us know! We will announce the winners December 1 on our blog and Facebook page! (please submit your nomination by November 30 midnight PST).
When I first saw this masterpiece, all I could say was "wow!" This project today comes from our Anne Thompson. She created an amazing wall hanging using all kinds of Memory Box goodies. I can tell she must have had a blast making this one! Her creativity comes through in every last little detail...
Here is a wide shot of the entire piece:
So much care went into each and every layer, every piece of paper and each image.
Don't you love how she used different elements to add levels to her project?
Here are some little love birds!
One final close up. This makes me long for Spring...but Winter just started! Have a creative day everyone.
Stay tuned this week - remember that donation event we did last fall to help schools in need? Well, it's fall again...(smile). Details soon!
Now and then, I notice that I still have a little bit of my engineering degree left in me. I tried to plan out ways to use the dies that I made interchangeably - so that they would be more versatile.
So I designed the snowglobe dies with the idea in mind that the circles that they cut out should work with other shapes - namely, our scalloped circles! So in this video, I wanted to show how the 98109 Scalloped Circle works with the circle in the 98228 Grand Snow Globe. Just watch:
Making the branch appear to float through the frame is a fun look - and if you took your time you could probably bend some of the twigs on the branch to pop in front of the frame.
Layering is the key here - there's a layer of patterned paper, there are 2 layers of color for the center circular element, the branch is "sandwiched" between layers - and even the bird adds yet another layer!
Notice how the branch is tucked under the scalloped white ring...and the dark brown branch has a dusting of "snow" on it (courtesy of some Diamond Glitter Glue and Stampendous Pearl Glitter).
I had a blast making this video - hope you enjoyed it!
Greetings! Today I have a neat banner to share, made by the talented Laura Fisher from Stamp Addict! It uses a multitude of our stamps and papers in a great project. The base is made from Chipboard rectangles and then each panel is embellished on it's own. I think this would make a great idea for a baby's room, or a holiday saying...so many fun things you could make!
Laura made sure that the color scheme was bright and fun - and I put it up above my desk for awhile because it was just fun to look at (too bad the store wants it back!).
I think I'll make something like this for Christmas!
Here's a video that shows how you can embrace imperfection when making card projects! When I first began stamping back in the early 90's, I remember carefully brushing away stray particles of embossing powder with a dry paintbrush, so that I would get a nice crisp image. But here I show you how cool it can be to get all of those stray particles stuck onto the paper, so that you can rub the area with different shades of ink for a beautiful effect.
You'll get a different look each time you make a tag like this - depending on the amount of ink that you rub onto the tag and also by how much powder sticks to the paper when you emboss.
You can see in this close up of the tag that there is an interesting speckled pattern that develops when layering ink and embossing powder. It is so striking and beautiful! And the bright white deer that lays on top of the complex background is a stark contrast.
So start cutting out some homemade tags using the Distressed Tag die, get out your ink and clear embossing powder - and start an assemble line of tags!
Today I'm featuring a lovely Autumn butterfly...courtesy of our Design Team coordinator Laura Fulcher. Laura works hard behind the scenes to keep all the schedules and blog posts up to date for Memory Box - without her I don't know what I'd do!
In addition to helping me stay organized - she's super talented! She teaches lots of classes at Angela's Happy Stamper and she writes the Color Whimsy blog for Memory box. She's one of those people that can come up with a good idea in a second - and seems to be an endless source of creative inspiration! I wanted to share with you a beautiful butterfly card that she made.
Isn't it great how she took a typically Spring thing - a butterfly - and made it just right for Fall? She created her own background paper using the E996 Alpha Background, C1390 Elemental Damask (stamped in Black) and pretty inks. The focal image is our popular Cocoa Bean Butterfly (C1714).
Isn't that pop of yellow (our Sunflower) paper against the black wonderful?
The 98109 Scalloped Die makes a coordinated black layer over the circle (the circle was punched out using the circle from our 98230 Grand Snowglobe die!). These two dies work great together!
For those of you who are lucky enough to live in the Washington, DC/Virginia area - try taking one of Laura's classes! You won't be disappointed - she is super skilled in colored pencil, water color, die cutting, stamping,...you name it, she knows how to do it!
