Creative Team Weekly Digest

 

 

Hi there!

The weather is cooling, the leaves are falling, PSL is back and we all are looking for our cozy sweaters… It is Fall, y’all!!   What a great time to enjoy nature, and all its splendor; this was the inspiration for this week’s projects from our design team,  “Fall Colors”.  So, let’s see what they created, first up is Mari.

 

For fall colors week, Mari created an 8 1/2 x 11 Scrapbook layout using the Vicki Boutin Field Notes collection. Using the Art Crayons and Vicki Boutin stencils, Mari added some color to the white card stock. Some Irridescent Glaze was added through a stencil to create some texture on the layout.

Other stickers and die cuts from Field Notes have been added, as well as a strip of patterned paper to the top 1/4 of the layout. The black title piece has been added using the gorgeous phrase sticker sheets in black.

What a beautiful color combination and all the mixed media on the background.   Gorgeous layout, Mari.  Now let’s see Milena’s project.

 

Milena was up on the blog this week with her take on this week’ s sketch.   She also chose to work with VIcki Boutin’s Field Notes collection and multiple Pictures.

 

You can find all the details of her page on the Sunday blog post.  What a great sketch, and Oh, the possibilities!  Thanks, Milena; and now let’s see what Nathalie created.

 

 

Nathalie was up on the blog’s Tuesday Tutorial spot.  She chose to showcase how to create a color family for a multicolor background using Vicki Boutin’s Acrylic Pop Paints.  You can find all the details and process video in the previous blog post.

 

The color combo, all the stamped images, and the vellum leaves are the perfect canvas for the sweet picture of her niece.  Great layout, Nathalie.

Well, now it is time to use some of this inspiration on your projects.  Remember to check Scrapbook Nerd store for all the materials used in these projects.  There are so many new products arriving at the store, so make sure to stop by to check them all!

Thank you so much for visiting!

Creating with a Fall Color Palette | Nathalie DeSousa

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to bring you a new project inspired by the colors of Fall.  This week we will be creating projects inspired by color, and i wanted to show you how to build a color family background using acrylic paints.

 

The colors used here are the ones in a Fall sunset (i found the colors by doing a Pinterest search, “Fall color palette”), and were replicated using Acrylic pop paints    The key to having a cohesive look to the background -not harsh transitions between the color stripes- is to build the colors using a same color base.  This means you start with the lightest color, in this case yellow, and create the colors using this as a base.  The background color will be the one that softnes the transitions and help create a cohesive color family.   The following video will show you how this page was put together:

 

How simple and colorful is that background?!  The color stripes are the perfect base to bring the rest of the layout to live.   The simple stenciled details are just subtle enough to add interest to the stripes

 

 

The leaf cut outs and stamped flowers are a great way to create clusters in this page without losing a large part of the background.

 

 

The smalls pop of gold complement all those ephemera pieces and stickers from Vicki Boutin Field Notes and All The Good Things collection.

 

 

The title brings the warm tones of Fall into this page, and complete the golden look of a modern Fall layout.

 

Remember to stop by Scrapbook Nerd to check all the materials used in this page, and all the new goodies that are always arriving at the store.   As always please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions on how this came together.

XO,

 

Marshmallow Cardstock, vellum  – Bazzill

Gesso; Acrylic pop paint in White, Crushed Pineapple, Sugar Strawberry, Coral Macaroon, Plum Pudding, Orange Slice, Cherry Tart, Cotton Candy and Black; Art Crayons – warm , neutral sets;  Stencil Brushes  – Vicki Boutin

Shine – Stamp and Die Set – Vicki Boutin

Stamp and Die set #2 – VIcki Boutin v

Field Notes collection – Collect and Document paper, Chipboard stickers, Watercolor Stickers, Ephemera Pieces – VIcki Boutin – American Crafts

All The Good Things collection – Cardstock Stickers – Vicki Boutin – American Crafts

Gold Puffy Thickers – Sweet & SImple collection – Pinkfresh Studio

Gold Puffy Thickers – Flourish collection – Maggie Holmes- Crate Paper

 

 

THIS WEEK … DAILY ROUTINE/DAILY LIFE

Hello, Gisele here bringing you the design team’s projects for this week. Lots going on this week, but our theme was daily routine/daily life. So let’s check it out shall we.

Mari’s everyday life thematic layout is about time she spends with family! Mari applied some Vicki Boutin Gesso to some patterned paper. Then she tore the paper in half and adhered it to some Bazzil Marshmallow card stock. Just under the torn paper, Mari added some texture paste through a Crafter’s Workshop stencil. Using a dry, flat paint brush, she dry brushed some Vicki Boutin acrylic paint in blue, pink and yellow onto the paper. Mari chose a Crate Paper collection from Maggie Holmes to embellish her layout. If you want to try this, there are so many beautiful mediums, paper and embellishments in the shop for this project! Mari has a video of this project on her YouTube channel if you would like to see all of the details.

A little closer look to her page:

A peak at her texture and mixed media:

Nathalie created this project that celebrates an everyday moment of her son’s life. She used a combination of Paige Evans collections ( Turn the Page, Pick Me Up, Take Me Away, Oh My Heart) to create this page. The title was created using a cut file from JustNick Studio. The background was built using Distress Oxides, a Kaisercraft stencil and Pink Paislee’s Turn the Page collection stamp. All the embellishments come from all the collections and also the Paige Evans sticker book. Love the color blocking in this starry page.

Mixed media is beautiful:

Closer look at the title backed with the pattern papers:

This week’s sketch features a single 2×3 photo. Milena’s page example uses Bella Blvd’s Pop Quiz collection. Such a fun sketch. Maybe you could try it in our online crop this weekend in our Facebook group.

Yup, school has started up again, great way to showcase that.

A closer look of the layering:

Everyday life sometimes is when Gisele ends up in a thrift store and finding a new bracelet. She has a big collection. This was her latest find recently. She used a free cut file from the store called “Spring Things”. She also used a punch from her stash to add some more flowers in white to add around the photos. Pattern papers used are from the “Have Faith” from 6×6 paper pad by Echo Park. These papers were also used to back photos and cut file.

Also used on this page are puffy stickers from Pink Fresh, some chipboard embellishments from Thickers “Pick Me Up”, some Heidi Swapp in navy and gold colour shine and some gold floss from her stash. The title is from Pink Fresh, the LOVE is from the Pick Me Up collection as well. The background and frame are papers from the coordinating solids paper pack from Echo Park “have Faith”. The large cluster cut file of flowers is from the Scrapbook Nerd shop and it is free!! You can find it here. It’s called “Spring Things”.

 

A closer look at title and white flowers:

The cut file and the papers used to back the flowers and leaves:

Well there you have it, such wonderful projects from the design team. We hope we have inspired you again this week.  If you have not checked this weeks tutorial on creating your own embellishments you can find that here.

Also this weekend, we are having an online crop in our Facebook group. Lots of challenges and fun. Prizes too!! Check it out here.

Lots of fall, Christmas and other scrappy goodies have come into the shop, so why not stop by and check it out here.

Have a wonderful scrappy week,

Gisele

 

Silhouette Savvy Series – Back to Basics

 

Hello everyone!

How is your Summer going?   We hope you are relaxing and enjoying the  wonderful weather.   Today’s tutorial is a bit of a  refresher / learning on a few basics on the Silhouette Software basics. The new updates to the Silhouette Software have made it easier to import and design cut files in their platform.

 

 

Just in case you missed any of the commands, here is small list of them:

To import cut files into the Silhouette Library

• Import and open the zipfile containing the cut file
• open your Silhouette Software, and set it on the Library tab ( you can easily create a new  file by right clicking  your mouse on the library file, under your user name account)
• open your recently unzipped cut file (you will have three images to chose from)
• click on the image that does not have a watermark on it, and use your mouse to drag it to the Silhouette library.   The software will automatically make a copy of the cut file in their library

To trace cut files in the Silhouette Software

• Open the cut file you want to use in the Silhouette Design window
• click on the Trace menu in the Design window (fifth image on the right hand side pannel)
• select trace an image on the menu
• use your mouse to select the are of the cut file you want to use
• on the trace menu click on “trace”,  the red lines will show behind the cut file once you have properly traced it.
• If there are part of another image you do not want to use, then highlight the entire image, right click on the mouse, and chose “release path” on the menu.   Delete all the unwanted lines  in the cut file, and then highlight all the image you want to cut (make sure you highlight all the little details inside the cut), right click on the mouse and select “create compound path”
• send to the Silhouette software to cut.

 

Once you have seen the video, you will realize how easy you can import and trace a cut file in the SIlhouette Software.  The one that was used for the tutorial comes from the Let Sunshine in and it  is featured in this Traveler’s Notebook along with  Doodlebug Designs’ Hello Collection.

 

As always please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions related to this tutorial.  I will be more than happy to walk you through the steps.

Take care,

 

Doodlebug Design – Hello Collection kit, Chit chat die cuts, cardstock stickers

Pinkfresh Studio – The Mix 1 collection – Gold shapes foam stickers

Simple Stories – Hello Summer Collection – Cardstock Stickers, collection kit

Webster’s Pages – Traveler’s Notebook insert

 

Let The Sunshine in Cut file

 

 

 

 

Creative Team Weekly Digest

 

Hi there!

Another week is just finishing. Time to relax, and recharge before Monday comes by.   It is amazing how fast time is running, we are headed to the middle of Summer (here in Canada) and finally the weather has cooled off a  bit, and we are enjoying beautiful Summer days.  How about a bit of inspiration for the weekend, maybe this will be your starting point for a new project!

This week, we asked the Nerd Girls to showcase out free cut files in their projects, and we are floored by what each of them shared on social media.  First up is Mari.

 

Mari chose the Stellar Shapes cut file to create this gorgeous page about her daughter and soon -to-be Son-in-law.

 

Mari used a bit of Distress Oxides to create the soft mixed media behind each of the shapes.  The colors in the background bring the detail of the cut outs, and match all the embellishments from Pebbles’ Patio Party collection.

 

 

The soft background contrasts and complements the picture beautifully.   The well placed cut outs just frame the picture nicely.  SUch a beautiful layout, Mari!

Next is Gisele and a gorgeous double page layout

Gisele chose the Together Hearts cut filel to create the two pages of her layout.   She backed each of the hearts with papers from Simple Stories’ “Hello Summer” collection, and framed each of ther grand-nieces pictures with the cut out.

 

Gisele used papers from the Hello Summer collection to form the background of the layout, as well as to layer the pictures of her grand-nieces.  She added lots of details using the stickers that come included in the collection, as well as some puffy hearts from Pinkfresh Studio.

 

 

She also combined some fussy cut florals from the Hello Summer collection withe chipboard stickers from Crate Paper’s Wild Heart collection, and stickers from Photoplay’s Stuck on You collection.   Such a beautiful and very colorful double page, Gisele.

Last is Nathalie with a light take on this week’s focus.

Nathalie used the Let The Sunshine In cut file to create a large focused title/background for her page.     She used Vicki Boutin’s Art Crayons to create a soft mixed media look for this page, using the colors of Simple Stories’s  “Hello Summer” collection as inspiration.

 

She backed the cut out with papers from the Hello Summer collection.  A bit of foam adhesive creates that soft shadow in the page and behind the cut-out.

 

 

So many fun elements and beautiful florals  in the Hello Summer collection!  Nathalie combined both to create clusters around the picture and layout.  Beautiful work, Nathalie

Well that is all for us this week.  We hope that you are inspired to visit the Scrapbook Nerd online store and download a few of our free cut files, and also check all the new collections arriving at the store.

Til next time.

 

THIS WEEK, our Nerd Team’s Projects and …

Hey everyone, it’s Gisele again bringing you our latest design team work plus a new cut file we showcased earlier  this week. We have been busy creating again and have some wonderful projects for you. Happy belated 4th of July to our neighbours to the south. We celebrated Canada day earlier this month. so now, lets get to it shall we?

First up is Mari. She is getting ready for her daughter’s wedding and so her design project reflects that. She created this gift card idea using the MFT Gift Card Pouches and matching Die-Namics/Greetings. The Doodle Bug patterned paper sets off the front of the card.

Such a wonderful idea. Gift cards are great, but the embellishing brings the presentation to a whole new level. 

Inside:

Back:

Next up for the love of summer! Nathalie created this Traveler’s notebook layout all about her baby’s love for ice cream using the new Time To Shine cut file.
She paired elements from Doodlebug’s Cream & Sugar and So Punny collections to back the cut out, and embellish the page. The background paper comes from Fancy Pants’ Joy Parade collection. She combined stickers from Doodlebug collections with Pinkfresh Studio’s The Mix 2 alphas to complete her title, and added a few stickers from Paige Evans sticker tablet behind the top cormer of her picture.

Who knew that her baby would be her sweet dog! LOL

A closeup, don’t you love those speech bubbles? :

And another, lots of layers:

This is my creation for this week, a LO showcasing my grandniece with her horse. I created this page using Bazzill cardstock and the Crate paper collection “Wild Heart” papers and chipboard. My title is made of AC Thickers “Charming” and AC Thickers “Happy Life”. The pink bow is from Doodlebug from the Odds and Ends of the “Hello” collection. The added pink puffy hearts are Pink Fresh. XO are also Thickers from AC “Sweetest”. I punched a few circles and tags. Gold floss was added to tags and attached with the Tim Holtz tiny attacher.The journaling words are Simple Stories “Hello Summer”. The Love You chipboard piece is from AC THickers “Pick Me Up” collection. To repeat the gold  and black elements I used splatters of black and gold Heidi Swapp colour shine and a small ribbon from my stash. I sure black card stock to back the whole LO.

Had fun creating the title using several pieces and a couple of different fonts. I am in love with pompoms right now and found the perfect ribbon in my stash to go under the picture.

A closeup of the tags and embellishments :

And the small cluster in upper left hand corner. The gold Heidi Swapp colour shine left a ring, but I am ok with that.

Last but not least, we have a free new cut file in our shop. Woohoo, just right for summer and all the heat waves we have been experiencing in Canada this week. Such a fantastic cut file for all your summer projects. It’s called Time to Shine.

Nathalie has used it here:

 She also created this card with that fun flamingo: 

We had such fun this week and we hope we have inspired you to create with some great products from the Scrapbook Nerd store. You can find these and much more. Don’t forget the free cut file and while there we have a great selection of free cut files there to grab. We would love to see your creations on our Facebook group. 

Until next time, have fun scrapbooking 🙂 

 

Free Cut File | TIME TO SHINE

Hi there!

We hope you had a fabulous Canada Day! ( July 1st is Canada Day, and since we are a proudly Canadian store, we hope you got to celebrate our country), and to celebrate (and because it is the beginning of the month)  we are releasing a new cut file,  Time To Shine. Our friends at The Cut Shoppe have designed this fun and summer filled cut file for us, and now it is available to download for free in the store.

Isn’t the cut file so much fun and filled with possibilities.   Well, then let’s see how some of our Creative Team has used the cut file in their projects.  First up is Nathalie.

Hi there!

Oh, the glorious days of summer are well spent at the pool!  well, at least my littles love to come over and spent their days at our pool, so the new Time to Shine cut file is perfect to document these precious memories.

I chose to use the large title in the cut file to express the sentiment of the page.  I made sure to enlarge the title so that it covers a large portion of this page, thus become the focal point of this page.

A few Distress Oxides and a stencil, the watery background was created on Marshmallow Cardstock from Bazzil.  While this dried, the title was backed with papers from the Poolside collection from Fancy Pants Designs.

To add dimension on the page, the title was attached with some foam adhesive, then it was all about embellishing the page!    The Poolside collection is filled with lots of die cuts and ephemera pieces that are perfect to document those pool memories, so it was a breeze to create clusters on the page.

This page was so much fun to create, but now I will pass it onto Joy so she can show you how she was inspired to use the cut file in one of her projects.

This card was fun & easy to create. Joy loves using Distress Oxide Inks to make blended backgrounds for cards. Inks used; Peacock Feathers, Fossilized Amber, and Worn Lipstick.

Joy then simply cut the Flamingo and the Sun tab from the Time To Shine cut file with black cardstock for some high contrast with her ink choices. The bold black on those colours looks awesome.  Joy typed out the sentiment on some white cardstock using her vintage typewriter and then glued all the pieces to the background.

This card is so fun and just screams summer. 🙂

Now Nathalie is back with you with a bit more inspiration using the Time to Shine cut file.  This time, I chose to show you how the designs can be used in a different format such as a Traveler’s Notebook.

 

For this spread, the ice cream cone of the design was cut so that it fits within the limits of a page of the TN.   The shape was then backed with papers from Doodlebug designs Cream & Sugar and So Punny collections.

 

 

To make the details of the cut-out pop, a piece of paper from Fancy Pants Joy Parade collection.  I chose to add the title of the page right onto the cut out using a combination of stickers and die cuts from both Doodlebug collections, and Pinkfresh Studio’s The Mix 2

 

 

In order to balance the spread, I chose to layer pieces from the Chit Chat ephemera pack from the So PUnny collection from Doodlebug, and use some of the papers to back the picture.   To ground the picture, I added a strip of the Fancy Pants design and a few more details from Paige Evans Stickers tablet.

 

I love how this turned out, and now it is your turn to put the cut file to work in a project of your choice.  Remember to tag @scrapbooknerdca whenever you are sharing projects created with the digital cut files on social media,  We would love to see what you do with the cut files.

Until next time,

Nathalie

Nerd Girls Weekly Digest

 

HI there!

It is Summer!!!  yay!!!

finally warmer and longer days are here, kids are finishing school, and many have already left for their cottages and vacations, I think after our long winter we were more than ready to start Summer.    Thankfully this was the inspiration for this week’s projects for our DT, so let’s see what they created:

First up is Gisele with this beautiful layout that showcases Simple Stories’ Bliss collection.   All the purple hues in this collection are beautiful.  Gisele  uses a combination of the collection’s embellishments in this 8.5×11 creation.

She used a mixture of fussy cut elements from the collection as well as some pieces from Pinkfresh Studio (The Mix2 collection ) to complete the look of this page.   Simply gorgeous, Gisele!

Next up is Mari with a supper summery page:

Mari combined some mixed media (Vicki Boutin iridescent glaze, and DIna Wakely paints) to create the water scene of this page.   She then used the Splash cut file (free at the Scrapbook Nerd store) to add a colorful title to this page.

All the embellishments from Dear Lizzy’s Stay colorful collection just add the perfet touch to this super fun page of her family enjoying a summer day.   Beautiful page, Mari!

This week’s Tuesday Tutorial focuses on using patterns in the paper to create a focal point for your background.

 

Nathalie showed us this week how she transformed one of the papers in the Wander collection from My Mind’s Eye to create the focal point of this page.   Isn’t that picture of her baby just too funny for words!!

 

She used a bit of hand stitching to bring texture and a bit of interest to a rather simple layout. Such a clever idea!

It is always fun to see what the DT has been creating and inspiring us with each week. Now it is your turn to enjoy your Summer, create memories, and then take the time to document them. Remember that Scrapbook Nerd has lots of new collections available (many are perfect for all those summer memories), so stop by the store to check all the new goodies available.

Thank you for stopping by!

 

THIS WEEK’S DESIGN TEAM PROJECTS…

Hey scrappy nerds, Gisele again bringing you what we have been working on for you. Lots to share, so let’s get to it 🙂

On my tutorial this week, I talked about the rule of 3 and the visual triangle. Just to refresh, here are a couple of examples.

The visual triangle makes your eye go around the page, my yellow tags  in this layout form a triangle. I also repeated the enamel white stars, that is also a triangle. Now to show the rule of 3, I have the 3 plus signs grouped together.  You can check other examples of my tutorial by reading the previous post. 

Nathalie has this gorgeous page. She created this layout using 1 Canoe 2 Twilight collection and a modified Ina Moreva cut file. All the color of the collection’s papers behind each flower are accented by the dimension created with the addition of foam adhesive. The stitched details on each of the butterflies brings the eye to the picture in this page!

How beautiful, looking so much like spring  and I love the title: Her Time.

The next design is mine, for this LO I am using Echo Park “I’d Rather Be Crafting” collection by Lori Whitlock. I am always in love with Lori’s collections. The reverse side of the cameras was brown and that is what I use for matting the photos as well as the camera strip. Notice the camera has been cut from the papers and added partly over the picture and the pattern papers. The butterfly chipboard piece is One Canoe Two. Alphas are AC Thickers “Lullaby” from my stash. The words on the top were cut from one of the 4×6 cut apart cards from the collection, I wanted them to look like a news strip like on tv. At the top I added jute and stapled with my tiny attacher from Tim Holtz, love that tool! The cute white love overlay, unknown, from my stash. The enamel dots are by MME. A tiny star from Studio Calico, the cork pieces are Crate paper, ‘Good Vibes”. I punched the yellow X tab from a scrap from the patterned background paper.

So in this view, you can see the matting of the pictures with the reverse side of the camera pattern paper. I added a tab from a punch I have. I stapled the overlay on the part of the photo I wanted to highlight. And in the next view, you can see I fussy cute a camera from the papers and put part of it over the picture by using some foam behind it.

 

And if you learned anything from my tutorial earlier this week, you will notice that each of my clusters have cork for your visual triangle 🙂

Milena has given us a new sketch:

We have a new cut file in the shop on Friday, yes, that’s today and you can find it here: cut file. Here is a peek at it.

We will be celebrating International Scrapbooking day on Saturday, Hope you can join us. We have some challenges for you. Hope you can join us on our Scrapbook Nerd Friends Group on Facebook too. Lots of inspiration for you. You can check our Facebook group here. 

Saying until  the next time, and if you have not checked the store please do, lots of scrappy goodies await you. All for now, Gisele 🙂

 

 

APRIL 6TH DESIGN TEAM PROJECTS: Spring is in the air !

Hey scrappy nerds, Gisele here with a look at what the design team has been working on. Lots to take in, even an exclusive new cut file! So let’s jump in shall we?

First up is Mari with her TN(Travellers Notebook). Mari created this TN layout in a Simple Stories insert/TN. She has used the Pink Paislee “Pick-me-up” collection to create the layout. Mixing some texture paste with Distress Oxide ink is a great way to personalize the paste to the color you need. This “colorized” paste has been applied to the layout using a palette knife and TCW “Botanical Dream” stencil. There is a YouTube process video for this layout.

How gorgeous is that?

A close-up: note the texture and layering.

Repeating some texture and gold.

Now Nathalie has this Lo for you using a heart cut file.  Nathalie used Paige Evans Pick Me up collection to bring color to each of the hearts in the cut out used in this page (from the Silhouette Store). The background was created using Bazzill embossed cardstock (her stash) and some Vicki Boutin art crayons to match the color of each of the hearts in the cut out.

A close-up seeing how she backed some parts of the hearts and seeing also her background mixed media.

Splatters of gold and some layering:

Our brand new exclusive free cut file at the store. Find it here.

Our talented Nathalie has produced this LO using the cut file. So yummy and spring time.

Next up is me with Simple Stories “Bliss”. I used some coordinating cardstock in lilac and soft green, some jute, a mini clothes pin, my tiny attacher by Tim Holtz (one of my fav tools), and some Pink Fresh puffy sticker hearts as well as puffy alphas by Pink Fresh. I used a 5×7 black and white picture as this picture is circa 1950(a picture of my mom we did not know existed until this past summer). Of course the added ephemera is from the collection also.

A better view of the jute here for some added texture. I wrapped it around the picture after I double matted it with 2 coloured cardstocks. Added the tiny clothespin a friend gave me to the bow, just adds that extra something. You also see where I stapled the puffy heart. Some ephemera is uplifted with foam to give more of a 3D effect.

Th left hand corner of the LO, you can see more ephemera and another puffy heart. The puffies and the alphas are Pink Fresh. They come in many colours, check out the store. I also added some Nuvo Crystals in Crushed Grape from my stash in some of the flowers. Not sure if you noticed but the mats behind the picture are the reverse of the back of LO.

Hope you have been inspired by our team this week and that you pick up our new exclusive cut file in the store. Lots of new things are arriving so check often so you do not miss out. Have a great scrappy week, all for now 🙂