Inspiration on Thursday

Hi there!

It's time for our weekly inspiration! We have a trio of cards from Eileen, while these are everyday cards they just might give you some ideas to get started on holiday cards.

We would love to share what you are creating, email me to get some details.

Thanks for visiting!
Your Friends at ScrapMuch?!

Embellishing your backgrounds Tutorial

Hi there,

I have a new tutorial to share today. When I am teaching classes or doing demos, I often get asked just how I know where to add products like, paint, mist and texture medium to my page, so I thought I would share this little tip on what I often do.

 First I gather up my basic elements, cutting papers and photos to size.  I do not worry about embellishments or titles at this point.

 Then I adhere them together with a minimal of adhesive.  I usually go back and add more adhesive later, but at this stage I just add a bit to the centre so that I can go in and tuck in bits of tags, embellishments of other papers as I desire.

You will notice in this case, as I often do, I just stapled everything together by placing a single staple underneath where I know a photo will sit.  This allows me all the flexibility I desire for add more to my page later on.

Now I lay this stack of papers onto my base page to get a visual of where it will sit.

And then I can move it aside and add the desired mediums to my background, which is paint in this case, stamped with a recycled margarine tub to make it the size I needed.

I now lay my papers over top and see how it looks.

I decided to add a bit more paint, this time using a mask, so I pulled my papers away and did just that.

The paint dries really quick so I was immediately able to build up my page by adding back the papers, photos and then embellishing.

Thanks for visiting!
Laura
xoxo

Kit Club Tuesday

Hello!

Happy Tuesday to you, isn't it just a much smoother day than Monday? hehe

We have some more amazing Kit Club inspiration for you from the incredible Eileen....

How are you doing with your kit?  Are you loving what you are creating?

You know we would love to see them and share them with our readers.  Leave us a comment with a link to your blog so we can come and leave you some love, or email Laura your layouts here to have them featured on our blog.

Thanks for visiting!
Your friends at ScrapMuch?!

November Colour Challenge and new Kits for Sale

Hi there!

We had updated our Kits for Sale Page, check it out here to see all of the newly created kits for you!

And now it is time for a new colour challenge for November, but before we do that let's pick a winner for October, with a little help from Random.org!

Which means Kerry is our winner!  Congratulations Kerry!  Contact us via email at scrapmuch@rogers.com to claim your prize.  Thank you to everyone that played along, we hope you will join us again this month!

Now let's get started with a new challenge.

 

To play along, all you have to do is create a new paper crafted project, of any type, that uses the colours from the challenge and post it on your blog or any other online forum  (ie. your Flickr Account) that you can link us up to, by our deadline.  Then link it using the Inlinkz tool in our sidebar.

Please share the challenge colours on your blog (just copy and paste them) and show a link back to this site to encourage your readers to play along, as well.  You can link up your projects here for about 3 weeks following the challenge.

One lucky participant will be winning a prize, drawn randomly!! It doesn't get much better than that!  Everyone is welcome to play, though there may be some shipping charges to our international winners.

The deadline for linking to this challenge is November 29th, 2013 at midnight.  

Thanks for visiting!
Your friends at ScrapMuch?
 * you can link up your creations in our left hand side bar

Manufacturer Spotlight

Hi there!

If you recall we featured My Mind's Eye with our designer reveal this month, so we thought you should know what they are up to right now.  They have a 'Grateful" challenge going on for a chance at a prize (any MME collection of your choice, WOW).  You can find all the details here on the My Mind's Eye blog.  If you play along please let them know ScrapMuch? sent you!  and leave a comment with a link to your project here too so we can come and leave you some love!

Thanks for visiting!
Laura
xoxo