All Glittered Up Stash Favs

Today's Stash Favs was kind of a no brainer you see it everywhere flashy, a little, alot, oohing at the pretties GLITTER glitter is on everything these days. I didn't really think I was much of a glitter girl but then I got my DT package this month and it had some cute papers with critters and glitter you just can't go wrong with that combo. So I did a little search and here are a few of the things I found available in the Stash Store so head over there and check out the rest. For my search i used key words like Glitter or Glittered.

Crate Paper Mia Glitter Borders
Making Memories Glitter mini alphas

Making Memories Shimmer BradsPrima Mommy and Me Pattern Papers

KI Memories Glitter Lace Paper

SEI Mimosa Chipboard

Prima Glitter Transparency

Don't forget about the Giveaway make sure you comment on THIS POST to be entered. Have a great day go search for some pretty glittery stuff!

Wednesday, Giveaway, Floatin on a Boat

So as the title of this post hints we have a few things to chat about. Lets start with it being Wednesday yep hump day, the middle of the week do ya love it or hate it? I kinda love it not just because of the funny nickname for the middle of the week either I love that it's only 2 more days till the weekend starts and well the boss is away so Wednesdays here at the Stash blog mean giveaways woot woot. That's right the wonderful owner of YSS/my friend Erica and the fam are on vacation for the next 2 weeks so what are we to do? Give some goodies away I love giveaways and I know you all love the YSS giveaways they are the best! Here's what you have to do to get in on the giveaway leave a comment here on this post and Erica will pick a winner when she gets back. Just to make it a little more fun if ya want to when you comment let me know have you been on a cruise? Where to? If not is there a place you would love to cruise to?Ok go comment get in on this giveaway!!

May Guest Designers

After hours of looking through the Gallery, we made our choice.

Congratulations to Gayle and Cori!

Since Wendy is taking May off to complete her home renovations and move, we had an extra spot.

So we chose 2 lucky ladies!

You can see all of their amazing projects in their special galleries.  Look for more from them later this month!

*** NOTE - Because of the vacation, we will be back later this month with their Bios and more projects from them!  ***

See posts below for Newsletter links and more important SALE information.

Monday Markdown and a Sale!

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We will be on vacation from 4/27-5/11.  All orders placed during this time will be filled and shipped when we return.  If you need to place an order, please use coupon code VACATION during checkout to receive 20% off  your entire order.  More details are in the Newsletter.

Monday Markdown:

Websters Pages Trims and Hello Beautiful

Guest Designer for May to be announced soon!

Weekend sketch

How about a simple card sketch to get you inspired for the weekend. Use it to make a card for a friend or make a Mother's Day card ahead of time. We would love to see what you can do. Upload your finished project/layout to your gallery and post a comment here so we can be sure to check it out. Happy scrapping this weekend!

The sketch:



Here are two cards that I made with the sketch:





I changed the shape of the base where the sentiments are placed. You can flip the sketch as well to give it a different spin. Go have fun.

Cheers,
June

Jumpin' in real quick!

To let you know that another shipment came today from Maya Road.

It includes Maya Mists, more chipboard and some of those really cute leaf pins!

Stash Faves for this week is posted below.

Stash Faves

Hi, Mandy here I am taking over the Thursday Stash faves post for the next few weeks.Lets have some fun and see what I can find for you all.As I was searching what to focus on for this post today I found something that caught my eye they are small, beautiful, and they flutter. Yep Butterflies everywhere I saw alot of layouts in the galley with butterflies little ones, big ones, one here and one there or a whole group in flight on a layout. They seem to be a fav of everyone lately!I went to the store to search for some butterflies and found the following I don't know about you but I'm going to add a few of these to my next shopping cart at the Stash. You find can more Butterflies HERE & HERE in the store.

Maya Road Chipboard Key Chain- Butterfly Coaster

Making Memories Just Chillin Girl-Orange Butterfly Twill

Jenni Bowlin Chipboard Butterflies

Maya Roads Butterflies Rubons

Graphic 45 Botanicabella- Ode to the Butterfly

Have a wonderful day!

Buried Alive.....

Someone help me!

I'm not sure who was more surprised today - me, the UPS guy or the Fedex guy. Rascal is pretty overwhelmed too but now he's enjoying himself by playing in all the empty boxes.

Here is a quick recap of what showed up today:

Lily Bee - 2 new lines from a BRAND new company. And their rubons are 12x12! Oh, and their little diecut frames - yummy!

Basic Grey - Lime Rickey and Wisteria - Basic Grey never needs an introduction but if you haven't seen Lime Rickey, head over to the NEW section to catch a glimpse!

Fancy Pants - All the new papers, rubons, stamps and diecut journaling books!

OKay, off to take a break and then I'll be back with pictures!

If you need some instant gratification, check out the NEW section or the gallery from CHA:

Basic Grey
Fancy Pants

ETA: Our April Guest Designer, Chris Penaflor, has uploaded severalnew projects to her Gallery. I sent her some of the new Prima papers to work with.

Take a look......

Technique - altering Prima flower

Today I am showing you how to alter a Prima Fiesta flower. Love these flowers.

Here's what you need:

1) a plain colour flower

2) inks (whatever colour you like)

3) Sponge

4) Stickles

Let's begin. Dab your sponge on the ink pad and rub it onto the flower. Try to work with little ink first.... build up from there. We want nice layers of ink... not patches... rub it gently... this will spread the ink better... and gives it a better overall look. Imagine we are applying blusher on our face. We dont want sudden patches... we want subtle build up of colours. LOL!

I only apply 1 layer of petals.... not every petal. This is really up to you. Cos I want some white (from the flower) to show.

Then I squeeze some stickles onto my fingers.

And I apply it to the edges. Again... very little. I dont want blobs of stickles on my flower.

Here is the close up shot. You get a subtle glittery effect.

Another look at the flower. See the purple inks showing and the subtle bits of stickles.

Tomorrow I will load in the gallery my LO with this flower.

Hope you enjoy this!

New product and restock

Just a quick note to let you know that Sassafras is back in stock and we have some of the new stamps and chipboard.

Happy Stashing!

Monday Markdown is below.

Monday Markdown

Monday Markdown for 4/20:

Making Memories Fa La La - 40%

Making Memories Noteworthy - 40%

Making Memories Paperie - 30%

Making Memories Passport - 50%

Maya Road Rubons - 40%

Maya Road Valentines Stamps - 25%

October Afternoon Stamps - 30%

October Afternoon County Fair - 40%

October Afternoon Detours - 60%

October Afternoon Daydreams - 60%

Pageframes - 50%

Pink Paislee Office Lingo - 60%

Pink Paislee Pop Fashion - 50%

Pink Paislee Tinsel Town - 40%

Prima Morning Song - 60%

Prima Dude - 60%

Prima Paintables - 50%

Prima Peaches - 60%

Prima Rubons - 60%

Rose Moka - 50%

Teresa Collins Boardwalk - 60%

Teresa Collins Crush - 25%

Teresa Collins Stamps - 25%

Click HERE for this weeks Newsletter.

New Product and some announcements

Happy Sunday everyone!  My parents took my son to New York with them this week so I am baby free for 8 days!  I wish I could say I was enjoying it, but so far, I miss him.  I miss him bugging me while I fill orders.  I miss the fact that he isn't here to pull my mouse out of the PC so I can't reply to emails.  And its quiet.  No one giggling or playing with the dog.

I wish I could say I was being productive.  I'm trying.  Really I am.

Anyway, on to the new product.  I saved my favorite Cosmo Cricket line from CHA for last.  The Snorkel Line.  I already hoarded a few sheets of this line for myself and started working on a mini album for my dad.  He likes the mini albums for his desk at work.  When he gets bored or frustrated, he likes to look at them.  And trust me, he's been frustrated lately.  

BEACH TOWEL	SCHOOL'S OUT	CURRENT
BOARDWALK	UMBRELLAS	CARBONATION
SNORKEL RIBBON	SNORKEL PAPER CRAFTING KIT	SNORKEL BORDERS
SNORKEL STICKERS	SNORKEL ELEMENTS

So I created an album for him that will get added on to over the summer.  I started out with some recent photos from our backyard fun a few weeks ago. The weather has been pretty warm here lately so we've been able to use the little pool a lot.  I left enough blank pages in this album to add photos as the summer progresses.  You can see more pages here.

Next week is going to be pretty exciting around here.  More details on that later.  

Right now, some contests.

We have a Prima contest running now.  Make sure you visit the Gallery or the new Scrapbook Calls (formerly Pub Calls blog) to get all of the information.

Lily Bee Designs.  We should have our order from LB this week.  They are running a small contest and the winner will be their July Guest Designer!  How fun!  When they sent me the email for their new paper lines, I immediately had to have their diecut papers.  Unlike the other paper lines, these measure smaller and you get 4 different shapes on one sheet of 12x12 paper.  I can't wait for these to come in.

Guest Design Search for May/June - make sure you get your projects uploaded this week.  I will be making my decision early.  I'm leaving on vacation and won't be here on the 30th to chose the winner, so I'm picking them on the 26th.  This ensures that the winner will get their product to work with on time. 

Quick Flower Tutorial

Here's a quick and simple way to create a flower that will match your pattern paper. All you need is a little scrap of the paper you wish to make the flower with.



Cut a circle out. A rough circular shape is fine, it does not have to be a perfect circle. Ink the edges of the circle after you cut it out.



Next, crumple the circle. You can further ink the edges of the crumpled circle to give it more depth.



Flatten the circle.



Pinch the middle portion of the circle as shown to give it some texture.



Finally, add either a button or a chipboard as the flower center.



Here is an example of the finished product. I used a small chipboard left over from my stash as the flower center to match my papers.

Easter Basket

Supply List to create:
An empty Basket
Paper Easter Grass
Styrofoam Eggs
Pink Paislee Pixie Sticks Glitter
Pink Paislee Chipboard Accents
Bazzill Flowers and other misc flowers
Buttons and Kaiser rhinestones
Chipboard letters
Misc Ribbon
1 sheet patterned Paper
Mod Podge and foam brush
Hot glue gun

Steps to Create:

1. First cut your patterned paper into even strips the size of the edge of your basket. My basket was 3" inches so I cut 3 3" strips. Then I adhered them together to make one long strip. Attach to your basket using a hot glue gun. Cut the excess off in the back and glue the seam together.

2. Coat your eggs lightly with Mod Podge. Cover in glitter. If you know a good way to do this without getting glitter everywhere, awesome. I used small tuperwares and poured the glitter in them. It worked ok. Remove eggs and set aside to dry.



3. Attach chipboard pieces to front and add flowers over them. Adhere a tied button with glue dot for center. Add Chipboard title and a Rhinestone for decoration.

4. Wrap handle with ribbon and tie off at ends. Add 2 more strips of ribbon on both sides. Hot glue a flower over knot and add Rhinestones for centers.


5. Fill basket with paper grass and add dried eggs. Enjoy your new decoration!

New Maya Road and a restock

More new Maya Road products from CHA.

More Pom Pom ribbon is some FABulous colors. I love that orange color!

New blossoms:


Chipboard:

Restock on the cute little chipboard trees, flowers and mini alphas!

Tuesday Technique - Using Decorative Tape

Recently YSS brought in some cool products - decorative tape. Today I am going to show you 1 way to use it. I made a card with it.

You will need:

1) Decorative tape

2) Heat gun

3) a sheet of paper

4) Felt (optional) or another white paper

1) First, you place your decorative tape over the sheet of paper. I am making a card here so I cut it to size. I place it across the paper. Press down.

2) Next place your heatgun near the edge of the decorative tape. Let the heat comes to the sides, not over it. (hope I make sense...:)

3) You will notice the decorative tape curl up a little. Now, be careful with your heatgun. The decorative tape will curl VERY fast. Move your heatgun away, if needed.

If you want more curls, heat more..... you will notice the image from the decorative tape stays on the paper. I love this.... it looked like I have stamped on it. That's the beauty! And the curl part gives it some interesting texture.

4) Next, I cut a little cirle out from a white felt. You can use cardstock too. Then I cut a little bit of the decorative tape.

5) I place it over the white felt circle.

6) Next, I heat it. Again it curled up. And now I use my hands to manipulate it so it looks like a curl up circle. Heat till you are happy with the overall look/shape.

Then I assemble this onto a card:

I placed a die cut butterfly onto the circle, to make it pop-up.

Hope you had fun with this!

Monday Markdown

Here we are again - another Monday.

We've added some new items to the SALE section as well as marked down items further. You can now find products from your favorite companies 25-75% off in the SALE section.

7 Gypsies
Collage Press
Cosmo Cricket
Crate Paper
Elles Studio
Fancy Pants
Fontwerks
Glitz Designs
KI Memories
Lil Davis Designs
Luxe Designs

Happy Stashing!

Happy Easter!

We hope everyone is enjoying or has enjoyed a weekend full of family, food and fun!

Don't forget that today is the last day to use the EASTER20 discount.

Easter Weekend SALE

Saturday and Sunday only - save 20% off your entire order.

Enter EASTER20 during checkout.

April Guest Designer - Chris Penaflor

1. A little about Chris: I'm a stay-at-home-mom to five children, and have been married to my high school sweetheart for 18 years. I grew up in San Diego after moving here from the Philippines with my family when I was two. I began papercrafting after being introduced to rubber stamping by a relative about five years ago. One of my first scrapbooking layouts was created for a stamping call from Memory Makers Books. I gave it a try, and it was published in their stamping idea book. After going to a local scrapbooking store and seeing all of the patterned papers available, I stopped stamping my own backgrounds and started scrapbooking with all the pretty papers! Now I am an official patterned paper, Prima flower, and ribbon and lace hoarder, and couldn't be happier! :-D

2. Contests Won/Publications
I have been published in Memory Makers, Memory Makers Stamping Idea Book, Scrapbook Trends, CARDS, Simply Handmade (formerly Paper Crafts), the Stamping Idea Book (by Scrapbook Trends), You're Invited Idea Book (by Scrapbook Trends).

3. One product you can't live without
I would have to say it's a tie between my Tonic guillotine paper trimmer and my 3M ATG adhesive gun. I use these tools everytime I create a project, and couldn't be without either of them!

4. When are you most creative and why?
I'm most creative in the late night hours. It's the time that I usually have all to myself after having spent the evening with my husband and putting our children to bed. It's also the most quite time of the day in our house!

5. Any other hobbies besides scrapbooking?
I love to ribbon embroider, but haven't had much time to do that much lately. I also enjoy reading non-fiction books that encourage a closer relationship with God.

6. Describe your scrapbook style
I have an eclectic style which depends upon the materials with which I'm working. However, I usually gravitate towards elegant, classic styles with lots of floral, glitter, and bling-y accents.

7. Messy scrapper or organized room?
Definitely messy! I love having a variety of materials and supplies around me when I create. Unfortunately, I also end up creating a messy environment when I'm done!

8. If you could be anywhere right now?
On a Mediterranean cruise with my husband finally being able to visit places like Venice, Rome, Nice, and Barcelona.

9. 3 Random Things about you
1. Except for a year when I taught at a private school, I have not worked outside of our home since our oldest child was four months old!2. If I had a choice to live anywhere, I would choose to have a home in the mountains near a lake. Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of living off the land so there would have to be a grocery store nearby or a way for me to order things online and have them delievered to me! LOL!3. I cry easily when I watch touching movies, and my kids know that I need to have tissues nearby when watching them!

You can see more of Chris' work in her gallery here at the Stash or on her blog.
Blog
Gallery
Chris is also lucky enough to own her very own Scrapbook Retreat house!
Scrap Retreat House

Stash Favorites

As I work on my pages lately, I notice that I'm drawn to clocks.

They can be a great way to display the time a baby was born on your layout, stamp a background - the possibilities are endless. While everyone else is using animals, I'm turning to clocks.

Check out these products from Maya Road.

Rubons:

Stamps:

Sheers:

Triangular candy box tutorial

Here's a simple way to make use of those paper scraps you have at home. A quick and easy candy container for a thank you gift or even to hold a love note for that lucky someone.

Here is what you need:

1) one piece of paper at least 4 by 6 inches.
2) Double sided tape

Start by measuring and cutting out a piece of paper 4 by 6 inches. Single sided paper is fine. If you don't have a whole piece that size, you can join 2 pieces of paper to form a 4 by 6 inch paper.

Add a thin strip of double sided tape to one end of the short side. Add 2 more strips of double sided tape on the long side as shown in the picture below.



Remove the backing for the tape on the short side and join the short edges together as shown. You should get a paper tube.



Notice that the 2 strips of double tape will be on each end of the tube. Now remove the backing from one of the tape at the tube end and press down the end to seal it.



You will end up with something like a toothpaste tube.



Now is the time to start stuffing the tube with some lovely candy, chocolates or even a little note.



Remove the last piece of tape backing and seal the edge.



Make sure you seal the last edge in the opposite direction from the first edge so you get the tube to form a triangle. Just like the one in the p



Now all you have to do is to add some embellishments to personalize it. Have fun.



If you have any questions, please post a comment here.

Monday Markdown

Cats Life Press stamps are now 25% off.

There is a new Newsletter going out today filled with information. If you aren't currently signed up, make sure you do that today!

Newsletter Signup

The winner of the April Guest Designer Spot will be announced in this newsletter.

And the winner from the comments on this post is: #29

RobinV said...
I would love to see tutorials on stamping or inking.
March 30, 2009 9:22 PM

Robin - email me at admin@yourscrapbookstash.com.

Its not too late to add your comment here. We have a lot of great suggestions and some we've already started working on. The incredible design team has also come up with some cool techniques to show you. Keep checking back each week to see the tutorials we have planned.

New Product Alert!

Since I have a boy, I usually snap up any papers geared towards boys. I know a lot of you do the same.

So, when I saw the new Just Chillin' line from Making Memories, my mouth dropped. Not to mention they had guitars in this set! Guitars!! My husband is a guitar junkie (yes, he has a guitar 'stash') so of course we're teaching the little man to play guitar.

On to the good stuff! They coordinated this line for both boys AND girls. Glitter for the girls and foil for the boys. So many great papers in this set - you'll find something you just can't live without!

I'm almost done entering the product so you can shop and I'll be back later to upload pictures. You can see the CHA pictures in the MM Gallery.

Enjoy!

Oh, almost forgot - along with this order, we managed to get some really cool 'vintage' Making Memories papers. An older release of theirs but one I still love to hoard. Their Ledger Papers. We have just a few of these in stock so if you love the ledger paper look, grab them while they're still here!

Cool *NEW* Product

Okay, when I saw this, I knew I had to have it. Something to add to my stash. And hopefully you'll want to add it to yours!

Decorative tapes by Tape Swell. I carry them on the roll and by the yard. Rolls measure either 2 inches x 30 yards or 4 inches x 15 yards depending on what kind of tape it is.

Or you can get it by the yard - much cheaper!

Seriously! How cute is this tape?!?!?

We also have 2 great tutorials this week that I don't want to bury under this post.

See how Wendy came up with a cool way to distress chipboard.

And I posted a bunch of ideas for using Glossy Accents!

Glossy Accents Tutorial

One of my favorite products is Glossy Accents (now known as GA) by Ranger. My husband jokes that I would GA the entire house if I wasn't monitored closely.

If you're familiar with this product, you may know the many ways this product can function for you. Here are just a few techniques - some I tend to use on a regular basis.

Covering chipboard.

GA dries clear and soft - almost like an epoxy covering. Here I took 2 pieces of chipboard. Each one will show a different technique. I use the Cats Eye chalks for this. You can use regular stamp/ink pads but make sure you give the ink time to dry. GA will soak up the ink if its still wet and you'll get a marbelized look.

So, ink your chipboard.

Next, decorate it. For the holly, I just drew some accent lines. The Christmas Ornament is coated with a thin layer of GA and then I sprinkled some Pink Paislee Pixie Stix lose glitter.

Set your holly aside to dry. When its dry, you have your embellishment. I'm really bad about bubbles. Use a straight pin to pop them before they dry.

Your Christmas Ornament can be left alone to dry or you can add another coat of GA to seal the glitter and give it a finished look.

Rubons:

Rubons and chipboard - two staples in scrapping right? Want to make them pop off your page?

Take your rubon and rub it on to the paper you want to use. I tend to use a light colored cardstock so my colors come through.

I used a regular colored pencil to color in the leaves. Again, you can use watercolor pens, paint etc to color in your rubon. Just make sure it dries.

Apply your GA and let dry. Don't worry about staying in the lines because you're going to trim the excess cardstock away.

Making your own embellishment:

Sometimes you need a little extra something on your page right? I was using up all of my chipboard trees from Maya Road too quickly and it was getting costly. I love the way they look, but I tried something new.

Here are two different versions of a tree trunk.

Version 1:

I stamped the tree trunk and then coated in GA. Let dry. Again, don't worry about the GA and staying within the lines. You're going to trim it away.

Version 2:

Ink a section of paper with whatever color you need. I used brown for the tree trunk. I quickly cut out a trunk shape with my craft knife and coated with GA. You can draw freehand any design you want. I needed trees for a layout so this is what you're seeing.

Here are my three different trees all dry:

The best thing about GA is when its applied to paper, the paper curls up just enough to give you the dimension. You also don't have the bulk of chipboard. I like to cut things from patterned papers like flowers. Add GA to them and you have just a little something special on your layout.

Here are some links to more Glossy Accents samples. I hope you take the time to try at least one of these techniques.

Together Layout - coated the chipboard after inking it

Where did the Time go layout - here I stamped the clock image on the kraft cardstock. Next, I stamped the same clock image on another sheet of kraft cardstock. Each clock was cut out and then coated in GA. The GA clocks were then adhered over the stamped image with pop dots to give it more dimension. I used the Tim Holtz distress inks and put the GA on before it dried to get the vintage look.

Back 2 School card - October Afternoon journaling card with the apple printed on it. To make the apple stand out, I put a thin layer of GA on it.

Best Wishes card - coated chipboard stars with ink and then added GA.

Tree Card - I used the same trunk idea as I did above just skinnier trunks.

Chipboard heart pendant - Maya Road chipboard heart. This comes from the Love keychain set. I painted the entire heart red and then coated with GA. While GA is still wet on one side, drop a small crystal in there so it sets. Make sure you coat the sides with GA too so you have a ready to wear necklace.

Home Sweet Home layout - Butterflies are cut from Websters Pages paper and then GA added. It makes the paper curl up just a little to give these butterflies some dimension on the page.

If you have any questions, please post a comment here or you can email me at admin@yourscrapbookstash.com.