Cape Cod Memory Box Part 2 - Mini Album

 Good Monday Morning Everyone!

I am so happy that you have joined me for Part 2 of my Cape Cod Memory Box Project.
You can find Part 1 HERE!

I created an album that fits nicely into my Memory Box using book board and 2 small rings from the office supply store. This idea came from Laura at Following the Paper Trail. Please click the link for a helpful how to video. I used papers from the Cape Cod kit to cover my book and to create the inside pages. This album holds 74 photos taken when my brother Jeff and his family were visiting our family here on Cape Cod for a week in July. It feels good to get these photos printed and into an album only a week after they returned home.

Here is how the album came together.

Cut book board into a spine and 2 cover pieces.

Cover book board with Cape Cod kit papers using this Club Scrap video as a guide.

Cut inside pages to fit into your album.

Create a template using a punch tool to act as a guide to where the holes will be punched on the spine. 

Holes punched in spine and in all pages.

Outside of spine.

All pages added and ready for photos.

Tie fibers and ribbons around the rings on outside of spine.

Add photos to inside pages.

The album fits nicely inside box.

Hope you have a great week!

Julie

Cape Cod Memory Box - Part 1

Good Monday Morning everyone!

Cape Cod Memory Box

My family and I had such a wonderful week chock full of fun times spent with my brother Jeff and his wife and kids! They were only here for 6 days, but we filled every day with lots of fun activities. We spent time at the beach, played tourists at the Cape Cod Canal visitor center, took a tour of the Cape Cod Potato Chip factory, had a barbecue, ate ice cream, and played lots of games.

While sharing some of my family photos on Facebook, I noticed a post by my good Club Scrap friend Marsha Petty. It turns out, she was also making some family summertime memories this week too. A family reunion at the beach, what fun!  Her grandchildren had created mementos of their time at the beach by decorating cigar boxes with seashells that they had collected. I was totally inspired by their idea and recreated a version of their memory boxes for my blog post today.

Marsha's grandkids' seashell covered cigar boxes

I just happened to have a couple of antique cigar boxes from my dad waiting to be altered.

paint the perimeters of all sides of the box with Dick Blick matte black paint

close up of 1/4 paint line on inside of box

Allow paint to dry for 15 minutes. Choose papers from the Cape Cod kit.
Carefully measure all sides surfaces and then cut papers to fit. For example, the cover of the box was 5.5x8 inches and the paper was trimmed to 5.25x7.75 inches.

measure and trim papers selecting artwork from prints as focal images

adhere paper to inside lid of cigar box using Club Scrap Book Binding Glue

repeat for remaining sides including the bottom of the cigar box

inside of box covered in the Cape Cod dark gray print and plain cardstock

Cape Cod kit embellishments and "beach grass" made from the green cardstock

Cape Cod Thickers matted on light gray and red cardstock

seashells and embellishments adhered to cover using hot glue

completed memory box

I hope you will join me next week when I share Part 2 of this project, a mini album full of photos from my brothers visit.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful week!

Julie

Cape Cod Glow Lamp Project

Good Monday Morning Everyone!

The ProScrapbook's League (PSL) Summer Camp has been in full swing the past few weeks and I am the proud Counselor of the Jewel Beetles Project Cabin. This was the first time Club Scrap has formed Project making teams. It has been a great motivation for members to take out all of their Club Scrap projects and complete them for points during Camp. Kay's Lacewings Project Cabin has been giving us a run for our money. Everyone agrees, it has been a welcome addition to the PSL lineup of team choices.

As a Counselor,  I am not allowed to submit projects to my team's gallery for points, but it didn't stop me from creating a project this week. When I first received my Cape Cod kit back in May, I knew I wanted to use it to make one of Kay's Holiday Glow Lamps. We were introduced to that project during the Holiday WOW 2010.

here is my Cape Cod version

stamped translucent paper with Cape Cod UM stamps and colored with markers

glued torn strips of tan cardstock to the exposed book board base to mimic sand

hot glued shells, beach glass and beach grass to base

Supplies used:

Club Scrap UM stamps - Cape Cod

Club Scrap Ink - Black India Ink 

Club Scrap - Scholarship Tan HPOPs
Club Scrap - Memoirs Green cardstock inked with Distress Peeled Paint ink for beach grass
Club Scrap Bookbinding Glue
markers for coloring
shells and beach glass from my stash

Hope you enjoyed this beachy version of a fun Club Scrap project.

Have a fantastic week!

Julie

Happy Fourth of July!

To celebrate our nation’s birthday, I’ve created a couple of digital layouts…

This first layout was created with the American Flag Digital Collection:

For the title “Old Glory,” I used a Digital “Punch” technique that I'll show you how to do in an upcoming blog.

Next up, I combined the American Flag Collection with the Cape Cod Digital Kit:

Just perfect for a beach photo, don’cha think?

Special thanks to my dear friend, and fellow CS-er, Julie Heyer for the wonderful flag and beach photographs taken at the Gurnet. I couldn’t have done this without her!

However you celebrate today, stay safe, have fun, and take lots of photos that you can scrap!

Until next time,

-Ron

Cape Cod Blog Hop Time!

Today's hop is all about May's Cape Cod collection. This kit couldn't be MORE perfect for the project I wanted to make my dad for Father's Day. Dad and Mom LOVE lighthouses. Their family room is lighthouse-themed, and whenever they travel, they visit as many lighthouses as they can. This altered mirror will be a great addition to their home!

I started out with a MALMA Framed Mirror from Ikea. (Don't you just love Ikea? So many fun things at such good prices! Each visit results in a few "extra" items in my cart that I just KNOW will come in handy "some day".) The patchwork design covering the raw wood frame was created using the same technique I used to make the photo album cover in a previous post. Before gluing the pieces to the frame with Bookbinding Glue, I inked the edges with India ink. Finally, a few final touches: a handful of mini seashells, a small corked bottle (love those!) and a few other doo-dads from my stash.

(Sorry for the not-so-great picture...have you ever tried to photograph a mirror? It ain't easy.)

The "Father" quote from the Cape Cod Greeting UM stamp sheet is the perfect sentiment for Father's Day. Do you think he'll like it?

So, that's enough about me, because there's a whole lot more creativity for you to explore! Here's a list of all today's hoppers, just in case you get lost:

Club Scrap Creates (you are here)

Pat Huntoon: The Technique Trail

Julie Heyer: Cape Cod Scrapper

Roni Johnson: Ink Stains with Roni

Deb Charlesworth Lift Bridge Cards andCrafts

Deb Weller: Deb Duz Scrappin

Jill Pechauer: Jill P's Place

Tricia Morris The Efficient Crafter

Hetty Sanders: Craft Chaos

Kay Williamson: Kay's Keepsakes

Cathy Gray: The Artful Gamut

Anne Marie Healey: Artfully Balanced

Anne Hunter: Crzymom's Tidbits

Jen Rodgers: Scrap Happy Sisters

Debby Hernandez: Masculine Inspirations

Janet Moran: Dishing with Janet

Your first stop is Pat Huntoon's blog. I just know she'll have something awesome to show us...enjoy!

Creatively yours,
Karen

Triple Message Shadowbox

Pat Huntoon here, pleased to be a guest blogger for the Club Scrap Blog! I have been having a blast playing with the Cape Cod kit this month. My family and I have spent quite a bit of time on Cape Cod, so this kit is close to my heart. And since I spent quite a bit of time on the Cape over many Memorial Day weekends, it is like coming home to be sharing this with you today.

The project above is a Triple Message Shadowbox from the Technique Junkie Newsletter Move It CD. This is such a fun card  - each of the sides slide out to display a different message. and then it can be closed again (like I show on the side and below) for totally different looks.

There were so many great stamps and cut-outs included with this kit that I had a hard time deciding what to include! I think the whole thing captures the feel of the beach, though. The "sand in the front (under the chair) was made with texture paste that was sponged over with light brown ink (make sure the texture paste is completely dry - its the hardest part!). All of the elements were colored with Pastel Chalk Pencils.

Since it is a holiday weekend, I would love to give away a Move It CD. If you would like to enter the drawing, simply leave a comment on this post. On Thursday, my random number generator will select a winner, and I will amend this post with the winner's name. Check back after Thursday to see if you were selected!

Don't forget -- we have the hop on Wednesday, too, and I am so happy to be part of it again, See you then!
Pat Huntoon

The Winner of this CD is VERONICA, who said:

"Great technique and lovely card. Thanks for the opportunity to win one of your CDs."

Email me with your name and address, Veronica, and I will get the CD right out to you!

Editor's Note: link to the kit added 6/13/13 jmh**

What Inspires You?

Do you ever get into a digi-slump? Ya know, you want to make a digital layout, but nothing seems to work?

To help me get through times like this, I’ve started keeping a notebook for inspiration. After all, there are lots of amazing layouts and cards out there, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Whenever I see a layout (either paper or digital), card, ad in a magazine, etc. that appeals to me, I’ll draw a quick sketch in my notebook - nothing fancy, just a simple line drawing to help me remember the overall design. If I’m out and about, I’ll grab a photo of something inspiring with my phone and print it out and later glue it down into the notebook, too.

So this week, I thought I’d use a paper layout from Cape Cod’s ALSB instructions. Even though paper scrapping and digital scrapping are quite different in many ways, the goal isn’t to re-create the paper layout exactly, but rather to use it as a starting point and then let the inspiration take over.

Here’s the ALSB layout I selected:

ALSB Inspiration

And here’s what I ended up with:

My Digital Result

Sure, there are a few similarities, but a few differences as well. I used the Cape Cod Digital kit, but I could have easily used another kit - but Cape Cod is such a gorgeous kit, don'cha think? Sometimes my finished layout doesn’t resemble the original at all, sometimes they’re very similar - but it doesn’t matter either way. The point is you were in a slump and your worked through it.

Now pick a layout - or a card, or a page from that magazine on the coffee table - and let it inspire you to create something wonderful.

-Ron







Editor's note: link to Cape Cod ALSB instructions added 6/13/13 jmh**

What’s an Overlay?

One of the comments that I received on last week’s blog, was from Jen - she asked if I had ever explained how to use digital overlays. I hadn’t so that’s this week’s topic (and thanks, Jen, for giving me a blog post idea!!).

Overlays are ‘transparent’ PNG files that you can simply ‘lay over’ a digital background to give it a new/different look - they add some visual texture to your backgrounds. Overlays can be black & white, or full color - and you can use them in a couple of different ways. Let’s take a look…

 For my first example, I started with a fairly plain background from Club Scrap’s Cape Cod Digital kit:

And added a black & white overlay:

As simple as that you have a new background! Neat, huh? You can reduce the opacity if you want, or further change it up by adding a layer style like ‘Overlay’:

Or the ‘Divide’ layer style:

Different combinations/colors of overlays, backgrounds, and layer styles will produce different effects - don’t be afraid to try various combinations until you find something you like.

Okay, time for another example. this time with a color overlay from Club Scrap’s Bookshelves Digital kit. First, 3 I chose 3 different backgrounds:

And added the same overlay to each one (with 85% opacity):

To change it up a bit, I added the ‘Overlay’ layer style (and brought the overlay layer back to 100% opacity) - very different looks, but all quite cool:

So there you have it - a quick look at what you can do with overlays - alone and in conjunction with layer styles and opacity settings. But that’s just the beginning! Don’t be afraid to experiment (and remember, you can mix kits for even more varied looks!) and you’re sure to create something wonderful!

Thanks for stopping by!

-Ron