Team You Tube Challenge.

Hello again.  This months challenge was to find a You Tube video on Club Scrap YouTube Channel and make a project from it.  Of course we needed to add our own flair.  There are many to chose from, but I spied this one:  Stacked Book Box Project.  Take a look.  A fabulous video and great project.

Before I start, lets get some housekeeping out of the way.  You should have arrived from  Debbie.  To start at the beginning, Click Here.

My Project:

The first box, while a different size, was made exactly like the video.  I am not very handy with wet glue, but played the video, followed each step, exactly.  Had a few goofs, but fixed easily and went together like a dream.  I was happy.

I started with a "real book", took the measurements and created my work sheet with all the measurements.  Once I had the pieces cut, I started on the assembly.

Step one

step 2

and so on, just like the video.

This step was almost my undoing.  I had not calculated the paper size correctly, but I pressed on and did some camo work.  Thanks to the washi tape from the kit and some extra paper.  

A ribbon helped with the camo as well, and a little charm.  This box I left plain.  I did not photograph the inside, but I have photos of box 2 and they are similar.  .

Box 2:

Took what I learned from book one, and moved away from wet glue to scor-tape and zyron.  Worked great.  But I needed to follow the assembly instructions and it helped to have a box finished.  

Once again I calculated my sizes, and cut paper and board.  Then I ran everything through the Zyron.

Trick with this technique, is you need to run the bone folder around the edges before removing the top sheet.  This breaks the adhesive at the edges and ensures better coverage.  Also all the papers and steps, need burnished well with the bone folder or a brayer. 

here they all are attached to the paper and score tape added to the flaps. corners are cut the same way.  I did remove the backing strips on the just the ends, while prepping the corners.  And proceeded as in the video, minus the glue.  

The inside covered.  Lovely!!

Finished the inside, just as  in the video.  But here I encountered a problem.  The glue moistens the paper and makes it easier to mold.  On the outside, when folded the paper pulled away and left a crack that showed the backerboard.  Fixed by adding a ribbon over the outside seam with score tape.  This was done on both sides.  Where the ribbon overlapped on the front, I added flowers.  The ends of the ribbon, on the bottom, is covered by the box.  I added the ribbon on the front of the box to give focal interest on the front but to also cover a seam.  

Another view.  

All that was left was to add some embellishments.  I added a few to the spines.  Decorated the top of the smaller box with flowers I made from Glassine paper and liquid sprays.  

A bow and done!!!.  These will be stacked and used as bedside decoration.  Love how they came out.

Well that is all for today.  Your next stop is Jennifer.

Happy Crafting,

Josette

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Club Scrap Blog Hop: Scandanavia

Time for another hop.  Are you ready?  You should have arrived from : Jennifer or if you want to start at the beginning, Click Here!  Also, I spelled Scandinavia wrong in the title. but could not change it without messing up the link, sorry!!

For this hop, I created 3 cards.   I had many challenges with these 3 cards, but I got the job done.

Lets Start with a look:

Card 1

Card 2

Card 3

Very simple this month and not complicated.  Just need to understand your products!!!

Lets start with the first one.  

Using a piece of water color paper, I laid down the wood element in the kit.  To make sure it did not move I used a glue dot in the center.  And misted away.  After dry, I added more spray to the wood element.  

Next step was to cut it down and adhered the wood element to the paper.  I used glossy accents for this.    I slightly offset the element so that that white outlined added as another feature.  

I digress.  Check out this bottle!!!  it was in my kit.  I quickly filled it with my glossy accents that was unusable because the nozzle was glued closed with my pin attached.  Love this bottle.  There was a red top one as well, my book binding glue went into that one.  Once of projects was saved by this bottle!!  But we will talk about that at another time, LOL. 

 Ok, I just cut it down added a mat, a sentiment, popped it onto a card, Voila Done!!

I wished I had a better picture of this.  The spray was a teal blue, metallic and a Gold metallic by Heidi Swapp.  It just shimmers.  Used a Pink from her line and another brand of gold.  All of this blended to form these varied colors.  And it just shimmers.  I used the pick from the kit for the mat and added a white card base.  This is slightly bigger than A2.  

Card 2:  The Beast!!

I wanted to emboss the stamp and color the back ground but how to do that.  Well I start with white card stock, embossed in clear with versa mark and then blended Distress Oxides into the card stock.  

to my horror, the embossing disappeared!!

Ok, well I restamped it in versa mark, and embossed with clear again, but used Watercolor Paper.  Rather than blend, I used three different colors and dipped the paper into the ink.  Did not work!!!

Re did the stamping, same paper and this time used Each of the inks separate and used both the oxide and the regular.  

Oxide is on the left and regular distress on the right.  This is peeled paint.  I repeated this with Broken china and Worn lipstick.  Let dry and then added more in the areas that needed it.  

This is the most accurate for colors.  I blended regular distress in to brighten the colors more in some areas.  Then I ran it through the MINC and removed all the embossing. 

The critters are more prominent and crisper.  Again this is a better depiction of the the colors.  

Inked up the edges with Ground Espresso, Now it really pops.  

Close up shows the crispness, looks washed out, but it is the lighting.  It is darker and more dramatic like the samples above.  

Added a ribbon, mounted it on a pink mat and a tiny fox charm finishes the card.  The sentiment was saved for the inside of the card.  

Card #3

Ok, that mess from the first trial.  Was trimmed down and stamped, added a fox and heat embossed his cute little face.  Trimmed down the panel.  From the Kit was a pre printed piece in smaller detail, i trimmed this down for the background.  Added a doily a flower and ribbon.  Finished as a 6X6 square card.  Perfect. 

Simple and a good use of a background that might have ended in the trash.  

That is it for me, thanks for stopping by.  Your next stop is Cheryl

Happy crafting,

Josette

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