Shop, share, review and pin: How rewarding!

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Are you familiar with our loyalty Reward Points?  Did you know you can EARN FREE STUFF just by shopping our online store? Really! But that's not the "new" news, because that's been happening all along. Maybe you didn't even realize it. But if you've been shopping at clubscrapshop.com, you've been earning reward points.

The NEW news is that now there are even more ways for you to earn Reward Points. Yep. It all happens in our online store. 

Here are three new ways you can earn extra Reward Points:

1. Write a review of one of our products. (Limit one per day.) Writing a review is easy! Just click on the text below the product image(s), as seen in the screen shot below, and share your feedback, earning yourself 50 reward points.

2. "Share" a product from our online store on Facebook. (Limit one per day.) Sharing on Facebook is easy, too, assuming you have a Facebook account. Just click on the Facebook icon above the product photo, like shown below, to share with your Facebook friends and get 50 points!

3. "Pin" a product from our online store on Pinterest. If you have a Pinterest account, you can pin as many products from our online store as you like and get 10 points per pin! (Unlimited.) Just be sure to click on the Pinterest icon above the product images in the online store, as shown below.

So, how ya like them apples? Pretty cool, eh? Not sure how to use all the fabulous reward points you've been accumulating? We created a special FAQ page with answers to all your shopping and reward point-related questions.

Just a couple of things to note: 

• Please be sure to sign into your account in our online store. You must be signed in (you'll see "Welcome, your name" in the upper right corner of the screen) for the system to correctly monitor your shopping, sharing, reviewing and pinning activities. 
• There is a one day "lag time" before points earned can be redeemed. 
• You'll need a minimum of 1,000 points to start redeeming, and 1,000 points is worth 10 bucks in the store!

So that's it . . . easy peasy. We invite you to get started right away.

Oh, and don't forget . . . this week you can earn double points for all of your online shopping in our store, too. You'll be earning free stuff in no time flat!

Happy shopping, sharing, reviewing and pinning!
Karen

Bloom Boldly!

Good Monday Morning Everyone!

And Happy Labor Day too...

Whenever I am on Pinterest I am always looking for new and exciting layout designs and when I came across this one I really thought I was going to use my Cape Cod kit papers to recreate it. That was until the new Pattern Basics were released last month! The Brights set of papers have so much visual texture and color they make me happy. So I set out to recreate a layout based on this DESIGN.

Remember the layouts from last week? I used some of the leftovers for this page.

Use the 8x8 grid ruler to make an angled cut on the 6x12" striped paper.

Use the 3x14" acrylic ruler to make this angled cut on the 4x9.5" brocade paper.

Mark the midpoint on the back of the 1.25x10" pink dotted paper.

Use a square punch and line up the bottom edge and the dot to make the angled cut.
Use the same technique when punching the .5x8.75" notebook print paper.

And PUNCH! 

Use 2 plain white cardstock photo mats cut at 4.25x6.25".

Embellish with assorted items from Bold Blooms kit and paper flowers made from HPOPs.

Add two 4x6" photos to the photo mats.

I added extra dimension to my layout by simply inking the edges of all the Pattern Basic papers, the Fossils (Club Scrap 2004) orange paper flower, photo mats and my photos.

The photos are of my daughter, mother in-law and niece standing in front of a Fringe Tree at Heritage Museum and Gardens. If you have never seen this tree in bloom it is truly a sight to behold.  Uncommon and Blooming Boldly!

Have a fantastic week and thanks so much for stopping by.

Julie



*other products used in this layout

-Club Scrap 2009 Solstice White cardstock layout base
-Club Scrap Black India Ink 
-Studio G red glitter glue in center of orange Bold Blooms brad
-Tim Holtz tiny attacher staples on pink ribbon loop embellishments
-Club Scrap 2011 Versailles blue paper punched daisy flower with white brad center from stash

-hot pink bling (courtesy of a Rainbow Swap with my Club Scrap friends Retreat 2013)

-hot pink ribbon (confiscated from certain doom into the circular file at Retreat 2013)

Hopespiration Rubber Stamped Card

I always hesitate to visit Pinterest. I'm sure you know why. It sucks you in like a hook-up on a central vacuum system. I gave myself a five-minute time limit to find an idea to inspire a card. This is what happened . . .

Inspiration arrived:

I really liked the balance of this card, the white space, the lines with the dotties and dimension, and the simple greeting. I found this image within 30 seconds of arriving in the time warp. Here's my version:

So . . . off to my drawer of Hopes supplies where I found some scraps. A few trims, and here we are:

I decided to re-create the lines 1/8" apart with a marker and grid ruler.

But I needed a small round stamp to make the dots. I supposed I could have just added some dots by drawing small circles. Hindsight. Anyway . . . I punched two circles of UM rubber from an image that had already been treated with Mount-It Adhesive. The Cropadile worked like a charm, and I punched from an area that did not contain the actual image. See the little circle on my acrylic block?

I brushed color onto the "stamp" with the Stamper's Big Brush Pens from the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft line. Those neutral tones are da bomb.

Next, I colored one of the flowers from the Hopes UM Collection image with the same markers and stamped it onto the panel along with that sweet little "thanks" from the UM Greeting sheet.

In my effort to use stuff I have, I added the sweet gold ribbon from the Hopes Fiber selection and the little gold sticky ball thingies pilfered from my sweet mom's stash.

Wanna try it? What will you use for your little dots? Oh, and be sure to follow us on Pinterest!

Have a creative week . . . 

Tricia

Pinspired...again!

Happy Monday! I sure hope you folks aren't sick of me/us talking about Pinterest yet! I just love challenging myself to re-create some of the awesome artwork I've pinned...with my own twist  and using CS materials, of course. It's a no-fail formula for when my muse is illuding me.

Card inspiration #1

Source

I found the above card by Jennae on Splitcoast stampers. It struck me as nice and masculine...and with 5 brothers-in-law...I need masculine cards. Here's my version:

I had a similar "label" die and embossing folder. Stamps from the Wild Flowers  (script) and Nature's Wonders (stems) UMs worked well for the background on the label. My Come Sail Away stencil made easy work of the greeting banner, too.

Card inspiration #2

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 This is another great SCS entry by fionna51. I really liked the tone on tone look of stamping with Versamark ink and I LOVED the color combo. Here's my version:

Again, I made use of the UMs from Wild Flowers, Just Dandy and Nature's Wonders, along with Versamark ink. The greeting is from a Henna UM from YEARS ago...stamped with our new Ash Hybrid ink. (My scanner didn't pick up the contrast as nicely as I would have liked, but I think you get the idea.)

Card inspiration #3

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Sometimes the inspiration isn't quite so literal...sometimes I'm just inspired by the overall feel of the card. I really liked the color wash/watercolor blending effect of the above card. So I grabbed my metallic gelatos and Bon Appetit Unmounted Stamps and this is what I came up with:

Finally, I have a whole board on Pinterest dedicated to papercrafting techniques. When I did the Bold Blooms Greetings to Go cards back in August, I was inspired to try a technique called Acrylic Resist...where you use white acrylic paint to stamp your image, and then use your Ink Applicator tool to color the entire background. The paint "resists" the ink...so cool!

Here are 2 of the cards I created using this technique:

So, there you have it! If you're interested, Club Scrap is on Pinterest, too, where you can find all kinds of inspiration and ideas. I invite you to "follow" Club Scrap's Pinterest account so you can be "Pinspired", too!

Creatively yours, 

Karen

Peacock Pinspiration

So. I went to Pinterest to check an image on one of my boards. . .

An hour later.

Grrrr!

I can't say my visit was entirely unproductive. I found a cute and simple card by Beate Johns that uses a scoring tool to make a pretty border. . .

And then this nifty pop-up card posted by an innovative gal from Norway. . .

Idea #1 + Idea #2 = this fun card made with Club Scrap's colorful Peacock collection.

For the font of the card, I stamped a 4x5.25" white panel and then scored the perimeter at 1/4" and 3/8".

The cutting diagram for the inner pop-up was shared on Bente Arstad's blog, but it was in centimeters. (If only we used centimeters in America---so much easier to do things in multiples of ten, but I digress.) I used a metric to inches conversion chart to figure out how to do the cutting and scoring and spent a few wasted moments trying to decide if I really should put 1-37/64" on my new diagram. Uh, no.

Here's my Americanized convoluted version:

After cutting and scoring, I figured out the folds. Go ahead and do that.

You'll need a 5-1/2x8-1/2" piece for the base of your card. If you nest the pop-up mechanism into the folded card base, you'll find that the mechanism is just a little too big. So, here's what I did to solve that. I put that puppy into the trimmer and shaved off 1/8" from all four sides. I would have started out that way and changed the diagram, but I didn't want to take away from the experience.

Finally, I measured all of the flat surfaces of the pop-up and cut panels to fit. These were the measurements of those panels, in case you were wondering.

(2) 1-1/8x5" Green Panels
(4) 1-1/4x5/8" Purple Panels
(4) 1-1/4x5/8" Blue Panels
(2) 2x3-1/4" White Panels

Stamp and decorate those panels before you install them on the pop-up mechanism. Then, attach only the outer edges of the mechanism to the edges of the card.

Open. Close. Open. Close. Go show someone the awesome card you just made!