Wedding Card by Tracey Sabella for Helmar

Hi everyone!! I have a new project up on the Helmar blog today with a wedding card featuring Helmar Fabric Glue.

My dear scrapbooking friend, Mandy was married last month. We've been friends for many years and have spent many an hour creating together, so I wanted to create something extra special for her. The focal piece of my card is a chipboard mannequin I dressed up with eyelash yarn and feathers. Helmar Fabric Glue is the perfect adhesive for this task.

Tips and Techniques

I started by painting the chipboard with a pearlescent medium. It's not shown here, but I precut the yarn pieces a little longer than the distance between the waist and the hem.

I squeezed out a line of Helmar Fabric Glue across the waist,

and placed the yarn and feathers into this bead of glue.

I covered the glued area by adhering a strip of ribbon across the waist, over the edge of the yarn pieces. I finished it off with a strip of pearls and tiny rose buds. These are all adhered with Helmar Fabric Glue as well.

I painted this delightful chipboard corner flourish and added half pearls to embellish. Because the background is uneven from the stenciling, I needed a strong adhesive to hold it in place. Of course I grabbed my Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive for this job.

I stamped the love sentiment on a scrap of cardstock. I wanted it to lay flat, so I used Helmar Clear Zapdots where there was no stenciling and a dab of Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

on the stenciled areas. Because the clear Zapdots are so thin, they gave just the right amount of dimension to help my sentiment to sit evenly on the card.

I brushed little dabs of Helmar Super-Tac EVA Glue below the

sentiment and sprinkle with iridescent shaved ice flakes. 

Here I used more Helmar Fabric Glue to adhere burlap and hand dyed lace to the bottom of the card.

I hope you've been inspired to grab your Helmar Fabric Glue to adhere

the fiber elements to your next shabby chic project.

Helmar Products

Fabric Glue

450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Zapdots - Clear, Square, 1/2"

Super-Tac EVA Glue

Other Products

Maja ~ Vintage Summer Basics 1934

White Cardstock ~ Stash

Dusty Attic ~ Corner Flourish #4 DA0873

Dusty Attic ~ Mini Vine DA0370

Leaky Shed Studio ~ Dress Form 

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ 4mm Rosebuds, Pastel Tone

Midwest Design ~ Touch of Nature - Feathers, white

Fused Pearls ~ iridescent - stash

Beaded Lace ~ Stash

Organza Ribbon ~ Stash

Adhesive Backed Half Pearls ~ Stash

Lion Brand Yarn ~ Romance, Silky White

Hug Snug ~ Seam Binding, white

Burlap - Stash

DecoArt ~ Texture Crackle

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix’d Media Inx ~ Chiffon, Patina, Pewter, Denim

Clearsnap ~ Top Boss - Embossing Powder, clear

Ranger ~ Archival Ink, Jet Black

Viva ~ Pearl Pen, cream

Liquitex ~ Gesso - clear, white

Caran D’ache ~ Neocolor II - Watersoluble Wax Pastels, turquoise blue, cobalt blue, prussian blue

Sparkle N Sprinkle ~ Embossing Powder - Opaline

Stampendous ~ Fran-tage - Shaved Ice

Tim Holtz ~ Stampers Anonymous - Vistual Artistry Clear Stamps, Urban Grunge

Inky Antics ~ Clear Sets - Guided Path

Stampendous ~ Rubber Stamps - Cling Dreams Come True

Tim Holtz ~ Stampers Anonymous - Flourish; Speckles

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessing ~

Days to Remember for Once Upon A...Sketch

I always enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. It's a time to reflect on the many blessings of the year and give thanks to our Lord. I also enjoy the fellowship with family and wonderful food!!

It's reveal day at Once Upon A...Sketch and Nadia has delivered with another fabulous sketch and journaling theme. Here is my take on this month's challenge:

"Days to Remember"

Journaling Theme ~ My Favorite Month

You are free to interpret our theme any way you like, but please make sure your layout is based on the sketch below and includes some journaling (hidden journaling is fine - please tell us where it is located).

Tips and Techniques

Here you can see my handwritten journaling. It says, "Songbirds return to fill the air with lovely melodies. Warm Breezes waft sweet fragrances. Flowers and blossom laden boughs dot the landscape with gorgeous color. This is April, my favorite month."

The title, cards, and calendar were cut from the gorgeous Maja Spring Vintage Basics collection, with inked and lightly distressed edges. Helmar Zapdots were used to help layer at different heights. 

Another angle of the lovely Prima and Wild Orchid Craft flowers. The ironwork piece is cut with the a Spellbinders die and the stone pathway inked using a Prima Stencil. 

I layered and tucked the fussy cut pieces to frame my photo. The lovely chipboard from Gina's designs was inked, then dry brushed with gesso. The splatter was created with glimmer mist and a stiff paint brush. 

The floral image was stamped, colored with Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils, then brushed with water for the lovely watercolor effect. 

I found this charming pendant in my jewelry findings collection and backed it with an image from the Maja paper. The BoBunny crocheted flower was cut in half to tuck in above and below the photo. 

Products Used

Maja Design ~ Vintage Spring Basics ~ 1st of March, 2nd of April, 1st of May, 2nd of May, Days to Remember

Prima Flowers ~ Caboodles A, Perle Bebe, Orange Bouquet

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ Cherry Blossoms - Mixed Pinks; 20mm Open Roses - Ivory, Pale Pink; Sweetheart Blossoms - White, 2-Tone Baby Pink

Gina's Designs - Delicate Frames

Distress Ink

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar ~ Mix'd Media Inx

Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist ~ Cork

Golden ~ Light Molding Paste

Liquitex ~ Gesso

The Crafter's Workshop ~ Tile Texture

Prima ~ Stencils - Lace Doily #3; Pathway

Glitz ~ Clear Stamps - Distressing

Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamps - Jumbo Zinnia

Spellbinders ~ Garden Weave

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive; Zapdots 1/2" Round, White

Ranger ~ Inkssentials Fine Detail Waterbrush

Tonic ~ Tim Holtz - Paper Distresser

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to seeing your projects

inspired by the December OUAS Challenge! 

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"Contentment" Canvas for Leaky Shed Studio

I'm excited to be sharing my first design team project using gorgeous Leaky Shed Studio chipboard. I have a lovely gift idea for you. Who doesn't love to receive a handcrafted decor piece? I used the Julie Nutting 4" Classy Doll as my focal piece on this sweet mixed media canvas for my niece.

"Contentment"

Tips and Techniques:

I cut two different patterns of coordinating paper to dress the doll skirt and painted the top in a coordinating color. To give dimension and depth, I added highlights with gesso in the folds of the skirt. Her hair is colored with a Vintage Photo Distress marker, and I swirled two shades of gold metallic paint together to color her belt. I used flesh tone acrylic paint for her skin and added a touch of color to her cheeks with distress ink. 

Here's a side view of the canvas focusing on the girl. You can see how the metallic paint on her belt shimmers in the light! 

I adore texture and dimension and enjoyed getting messy fingers creating this textured canvas. I started by adhering gorgeous Maja paper to the canvas with matte gel medium, then brushed the gel medium across the top of the paper so it would hold up to my mixed media techniques. I stamped script, grid marks, and music notes in brown. When that ink was dry, I stamped with more script and bubble wrap in white, sprinkled with white embossing powder and heat embossed. I cut a couple small pieces of sheet rock mesh for the corners, then used a doily stencil with light molding paste over top of everything else. The sides of the canvas were painted in a coordinating color swirled with gesso. When dry, I spritzed the entire canvas with a gold mica laden mist allowing it to drip over and color the sides of the canvas as well. The mica adds such a wonderful, glowing shimmer. 

The sentiment, from Word Art Wednesday was sized and printed on white cardstock. I tore it out, rubbed on Distress Ink to color, then glued in place. 

Here's an angle that shows all the lovely texture.

Leaky Shed Studio Products:

Classy 4"

Other Products:
Maja Designs ~ Vintage Spring Basics - 1st of March, 3rd of March
Word Art Wednesday ~ Verse for sentiment
Prima ~ Stencil - Doily 1
Stampers Anonymous ~ Tim Holtz - Playful Journey, Urban Grunge
Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Stanza, Bubble Wrap, Dear Sir
Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx: Jasmine, Leather
Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx CHOX - Sparrow
Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder: Jasmine
Ranger ~ Distress Ink - Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen
Ranger ~ Distress Marker - Vintage Photo
Pigma ~ Micron - 05 Black
Golden ~ Light Molding Paste, Regular Matte Gel
Liquitex ~ White Gesso
Various Acrylic Paints by DecoArt, Folk Art, Making Memories
Sheetrock Mesh (Hardware Store)
Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Helmar ~ Acid Free Glue

I hope you've been inspired to grab one of these sweet chipboard dolls and created a canvas for that special gal in your life!! 

I invite you to stop by my blog on Thursday for a full listing of other supplies used to create this canvas.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"The Journey" Once Upon A...Sketch October Challenge

Hello everyone!! This is my second post of the day. If you would like to view my Grungy Jute Rope and Burlap Ribbon Flower Tutorials for Really Reasonable Ribbon go here.

Today I'm here to share my first layout for Once Upon A...Sketch. What a delight to be working on Nadia's team. This month's sketch and journaling challenge gave me the opportunity to create a page I've been wanting to put together for a couple years now. I knew what photos I wanted to use, but locating them was quite a challenge since they are from 2000 to 2008. One of them had been mailed to me and misplaced 5 years ago. I'm so excited that I was able to locate it. Do I have your curiosity up? Here's my page about our daughter, Grace, and her dog, Ellie.

"The Journey"

Journaling theme: "The Journey . . ."

You are free to interpret our theme ANY WAY you like. It is for your inspiration and this theme word DOES NOT need to be part of your title or journaling. But please make sure your layout is based on the sketch below and includes journaling (hidden journaling is fine). Acceptable journaling is MORE than just a sentence, or generic writing such as date/place etc. It need to be present and at least 3 lines long. Remember, hidden journaling is perfectly fine but please DO let us know in your post where your journaling is! 

The Once Upon A...Sketch Challenges are designed to encourage us to journal. Sometimes the most important pages we create are not those with the most beautiful photos, but those that document important life events. That's the case for the page I created this month. I shed tears as I wrote up my memories of the amazing journey traveled by Grace and Ellie, reflecting on their special relationship as they achieved some pretty remarkable accomplishments together. Since I provided transportation, I was there for much of the training and all the dog shows. Ellie is no longer with us, and Grace now has a new Border Collie pup, Breezy. God has given her an amazing gift to read and train dogs. She will be teaching her first dog obedience classed this fall. Those who take her classes are fortunate indeed. I can't wait to see the journey you document in your scrapbooking this month for Once Upon A...Sketch.

Tips and Techniques:

My journaling says: "What started as a dream turned into an amazing journey just because you believed that you could accomplish great things with Ellie"

I have included this small amount of journaling below the photos, and wrote a "book" to include on the back:

I didn't include a close-up but the stamping in the corner says: To be all that is possible we must attempt the impossible. To be all that we can be we must dream of being more. A subtle reverence to this journey. 

A mix of Prima and Really Reasonable Ribbon Wild Orchid Crafts flowers. They were misted with glimmery lavender and gold. 

The clock in the background is a Tim Holtz, Sizzix die cut from chipboard. It was dry embossed with a crackle design, then painted and inked. 

I enjoy using jewelry findings on my LO's. This sweet butterfly charm was gessoed and then misted.

You can see some of the mixed media texture below the butterfly with sheetrock mesh, molding paste, and drippy mist. 

I laid out and penciled in my design, then stamped around the design as seen here. This prima clock face was gessoed and inked. 

A close-up of he prima Typo Bulb, flower and Dusty Attic chipboard border. You can also see a hint of the washi tape I layered onto the page. 

More stamping around these Prima metal findings. I applied gesso, mists, and rhinestones to these lovely pieces!

Here you can see more of my mixed medial texture achieved with Golden Glass Bead Gel applied through a Prima stencil. The Dusty Attic border was dabbed and painted with a mix of metallic paints using an ombre effect. 

I hope you'll play along with the OUAS October sketch challenge and create a page about a special journey in your life and document that journey in your journaling. Don't forget to share your layout on the OUAS Facebook Page.

Product List:

Paper

Maja Vintage Spring Basics ~ 1st of March, 2nd of April, 9th of April

Chipboard

Dusty Attic ~ French Garden Border 

Flowers

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: 25mm Cottage Rose - Mixed Purple/Lilac

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: Cosmos Daisy Stem Flowers - Purple/White

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: Sweatheart Blossoms - White

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: 20mm Open Roses ~ White

Prima ~ Troika, White #566869

Embellishments

Prima ~ Sunrise Sunset Vintage Trinkets #960278

Prima ~ Sunrise Sunset Vintage Trinkets #960346

Prima ~ Pebbles #655350

Recollections Resin #205888

Tim Holtz ~ Tissue Tape

K & Company ~ BW Neopolitan Adhesive Rhinestones

Butterfly Charm ~ Stash

Inks/Mists/Embossing Powder

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx: Berries

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx CHOX: Driftwood, Sparrow

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Shaded LIlac, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Dusty Concord

Heidi Swapp ~ Color Shine: Gold

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist ~ Purple Pansy, Blackberry Cordial

Zing ~ Clear Embossing Powder

Mixed Media

Golden ~ Light Molding Paste

Liquitex ~ Gesso

Liquitex ~ Glass Bead Gel

Lumiere Metallic Paint ~ Halo Violet Gold, Pearlescent White

DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics Paint: Splendid Gold

Stamps

Tim Holtz ~ Purely Random, Lost and Found, Flights of Fancy, Nature's Elements, Life's Possibilties

Stencils

Prima ~ Lattice #564766

The Crafter's Workshop ~ Ledger

Dies/Embossing Folders

Sizzix ~ Tim Holtz Clock Die, Gear

Darice ~ Crackle Embossing Folder

Adhesives

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ~ Zap Dots: 1/2" Square White

Helmar ~ Zap Dots: 1/4" Clear Square

Tools

Tim Holtz ~ Grid Blocks

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Love Sweet Elizabeth details for ScrapThat!

It was a sad day when I received the news that Kaitlyn had created her final kit for ScrapThat! I've had an amazing time creating with these lovely kits and the creative, talented, and sweet Design Team there. Each of you ladies will always have a special place in my heart!! 

The ScrapThat! Store is open, so you can purchase this kit and all available retired kits here. 

I took a step back in time to create this page featuring a baby photo of our daughter, Elizabeth. Isn't her spiky hair adorable!! Yes, she is the one I've been scrapping all the wedding photos of. Boy oh boy the time flies by so quickly. Enjoy every moment you can with your children as they grow up, because they will find their way to adulthood and be on their own all too soon!! 

"Love Sweet Elizabeth"

MK

Tips and Techniques:

The August kit includes a handful of white rose petals. I melted the edges with a candle flame to curl them in, then glued them to a circle of paper to create this white focal flower. I put a small paper rose in the center cut with Donna Salazar's Bitty Blossoms Spellbinder dies. I clustered some of the pink and purple kit flowers with it around the edge of my photo. 

Here's a close-up of the cluster below the white rose. I dry brushed the kit flowers with white gesso. You can see here how I fussy cut the frame from this gorgeous Maja Paper. I cut around the flowers to include them in the frame. I glued microbeads to the cherry blossom centers for added dimension. Spanish moss is included in the kit which I tucked in around the flowers. 

I wanted to do something creative with the Pink Paislee circle mat, so I pulled out my crocheting skills from my crafty days. I cut off one strip of the circles, dry brushed them with white gesso, then crocheted this lace onto the rings using ivory cotton crochet thread, then embellished with the Want2Scrap pearls included in the MK. Each of these gorgeous Maja papers has a decorative strip at the bottom. The butterfly paper below the rings is one of those strips layered with more strips cut from these gorgeous papers. 

To stretch the pink flowers I pulled some of them apart giving me a tiny rose bud and small open rose. I added a pearl to finish off the center of the small open blossom. I love how the crystal pieces add subtle sparkle. I just glued them down around the clusters. 

I am always keeping my eyes open for clearanced jewelry findings and have an entire drawer of odds and ends to incorporate into my pages. This scrolled metal piece is a jewelry link. I pulled an organza ribbon through each end and tied the ends of the ribbon with loose knots. 

You can see more of my fussy cut frame here. The background of this paper had been a beige calendar, and I thought this yellow dot paper would be a perfect background to pick up the yellows in my photo. 

This corner needed something so I pulled out another jewelry link, this time square. I cut up scraps of my kit paper into these little banner flags. I layered the flags, metal piece tied with more organza ribbon, and a couple rose medallions cut from the kit ribbon topped with pearls. 

I used several stencils with gesso to add subtle design to my background. Here you can see the chevrons, and at the bottom I've used Donna Salazar's Want2Scrap Alphabet and Heart Stencils. 

I have a small collection of Fran-tage embossing powders, micas and glitters. I combined several of them to heat emboss on the Maya Road butterfly included in the kit. I topped it with a metal butterfly from my jewelry finding stash that I drybrushed and rubbed with white gesso. The white medallion and Prima resin corner are also from my stash. 

The layered photo frame is a mix of papers distressed with my Donna Salazar Distrezz-It-All and others punched and embellished with the lavender kit pearls. 

I stitched this border around the page and just adore the gorgeous rose lace included in the main kit. 

Just a reminder that our mid-month challenge has been posted at Really Reasonable Ribbon. Challenge #78 is to create a project using the colors pink and brown along with ribbon. I hope you'll join us for the challenge. You can link up your project here. You can purchase beautiful white organza like I used on my page here.

I have entered this page at:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Challenge #93 - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~